SEEDS, FRUIT TREES, GARDENING SUPPLIES, AND EQUIPTMENT (A very limited list!)
ARBICO Organics
Almost Eden
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Edible Landscape
Grow Organic / Peaceful Valley
Gurney’s Seed & Nursery Co
Johnnies Seeds
Jung seeds & Plants
One Green World
Prairie Moon Nursery Raintree Nurseries
Seed Savers Exchange
Stark Brothers Nurseries
Territorial Seeds
Thompson and Morgan
GREENHOUSES
(A Small sample…check online for other sources! May want to ask for other FR gardener input and experiences before you commit a substantial amount of money to purchasing a greenhouse! )
FarmTek
Home Depot
Lowes
Shelterlogic
Walmart (online)
Note To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
“buy the polycarbonate panels” I bought the much cheaper “clear” ( but you can’t see clearly through it) 4 year greenhouse film. Has lasted 8 years and still doing fine. Ha! Still have the link:https://www.growerssolution.com/PROD/4-year-6-mil-clear-greenhouse-film/G4Y6MGF If making one for occupation T recommend getting clear vinyl for some clear windows. The vinyl will have to be replaced every year so don’t overdo it’s use..
IRRIGATION
(Again, a very limited list. Search online for other sources! Lots out there because of hydroponics cannabis growing operations. )
Drip Works
Home Depot
Lowes
Peaceful Valley
Rainbird
Check your local hardware, farming, and gardening centers!
BOOKS ON GARDENING AND ONLINE ARTICLES
(Check your library or local bookstore or order online.)
For New Gardeners and beginners!
https://www.almanac.com/vegetable-gardening-for-beginners
YouTube Search “ Beginning Gardening” and do a serial review of offerings! Video is an extremely helpful learning tool and there is a lot of gardening videos available. When you are ready to move on to more advanced books and subjects:
"Gardening When it Counts. Growing Food in Hard Times"
Steven Soloman.
Founder of Territorial Seeds. Feels that If you have the space and fertilizer to garden and farm use it.
"How to Grow More Vegetables (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land with Less Water Than You Can Imagine, Ninth Edition"
John Jeavons
I have this book. Book for people gardening in limited space with limited resources. It does teach you a lot about growing vegetables and composting organically. Good to know but I think If you have space and fertilizer, use it you will get larger vegetables and yields
"Whizbang Gardening!"
Herrick Kimball
A “DownEaster” who offers interesting ideas on gardening. He also has a website and a few you tube videos.
Whizbang Gardening - Home | Facebook
Minibed Gardening Videos | Planet Whizbang https://www.planetwhizbang.com/minibedgardeningvideos
Minibed Gardening Videos In 2016, after decades of gardening by other people's methods, and experiencing the shortcomings of each different approach, Herrick Kimball developed Minibed Gardening. It's a comprehensive new system of gardening that is manageable, productive, and profoundly satisfying.
"The New Organic Grower"
Elliot Coleman
If you have or want to have a Greenhouse!
"Four Season Harvest"
Elliot Coleman.
"Straw Bale Gardens Complete"
Joel Karsten
"The Resiliant Gardener"
Carol Deppe
"How to Breed You Own Vegetable Varieties"
Carol Deppe
Even if you don’t intend to take up plant-breeding, she has excellent advice about how to save seeds in a way that minimizes inbreeding depression, and how to select for plants that do well in your particular area.
Ellendra
"The Modern Farmer ... Or, Home in the Country; Designed for Instruction and Amusement on Rainy Days and Winter Evenings"
REV. John L. Blake.
"Weekend Garden Projects"
By Nancy Bubel
"The Founding Gardeners"
by Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf's fine story of how gardening and farming shaped the thinking of Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison … One of Wulf's most luxurious and sharp-witted chapters concerns the matter that would fertilize a new nation: 'Mundane as it seems,' she writes, 'manure was of the greatest concern to all four of them." San Francisco Chronicle
Diana in Wisconsin
Permaculture and Disguised Vegetable Gardening Secret Garden of Survival How to Grow a Camouflaged Food Forest
Rick Austin
Edible Landscaping / Prepper Gardening
Rosalind Creasy
“Edible Landscaping” by Rosalind Creasy is an excellent book. ALL of her books are terrific!”
Diana in Wisconsin
(Related online links!)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secret-garden-of-survival-how-to-grow-a-camouflaged-food-forest-rick-austin/1114910772
https://www.thespruce.com/best-vegetables-and-fruits-for-edible-landscape-1403436
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/landscaping-with-vegetables.htm
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/rosalind-creasy/226104/
? “Are there any easy to maintain permanent plantings you can make? (Beside chives!!)”
https://www.smallfootprintfamily.com/20-perennial-vegetables
Prepper niche fruit: Fig Trees / Edible Landscaping
Fig trees grow quickly and are fairly easy to grow and maintain! If you live in a area with high summer temperatures they will grow and thrive when other fruit will not (Provided they are watered, although they do NOT like being in standing water!) There are figs that can grow in ground in zones 5 or 6 and higher. You can grow them in pots in winter areas and take them outside after last frost. If you relocate or move, you can take your orchard with you!
Peppers; If you need to quickly bug out you can cut off a branch or branches and take them with you to your bug out spot. Subject to the planting zone (6 ang higher) and time of year (Spring to early Autumn) you can find a suitable spot (no standing water, 6 or more hours of sun, some winter protection) and replant them directly in the ground. Using this “Old Italian guy” poke a hole in the ground and push it in planting method you may figs in 2-3 years! Note that you will need to defend them from Voles who eat the roots. (Sharp gravel a couple feet around the trunk hurts em’s lil’ paws)
FIG INFO
http://seattlegardenfruit.blogspot.com/p/2017-fig-taste.html
https://www.ourfigs.com/
https://www.figdatabase.com/
http://seattlegardenfruit.blogspot.com/p/2017-fig-taste.html
ONLINE VIDEOS AND ARTICLES / ODDS AND ENDS
The joe gardener Show with Joe Lamp: Top 10 uses of stock panels in the garden.
https://joegardener.com/podcast/livestock-panels-top-10-uses/
If you’re wanting free heated space for activity a low thermal mass attached greenhouse is great!
https://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Sunspace/sunspaces.htm
I can sit buck naked in mine after 2 - 3 hours of sunshine even when the outdoor temps are in the teens.
Not much good for plants though as they get too warm in the day and too cold at night.
(Notable posted by mrsmith!)
https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/seed-starting-faq/7882.html
ttps://www.almanac.com/extra/most-nutritious-vegetables-you-can-grow
https://squarefootgardening.org/2019/03/planting-chart-cheat-sheets/
These charts from Botanical Interests are also very helpful. Printable PDF Files:
https://www.botanicalinterests.com/product/Sowing-Guides
Diana in Wisconsin
Thank you for the Sweet Potato sprouting link. Bumping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35dp5iS8u7M
TianaHighrider
To: Grammy
Here’s some more good info, Grammy!
“How to Build a Straw Bale Garden” ~ Modern Farmer
https://modernfarmer.com/2013/07/straw-bale-gardening/?fbclid=IwAR3LMpf8e5n5z7jFR2l-ZEA7qIJS7cdi3sq_EwOotGUXHAqzNELAG1yZ1jc
(Encouragement from Diana in Wisconsin!)
“You’re NOT a ‘bad’ gardener! You’re just a novice - and I’ve been doing this for 50+ y
ears and I still learn something new nearly every day! :)
“Days 4-10: Feed the bales using a high-nitrogen organic liquid fertilizer – any standard vegetable and flower mix will be fine. Simply add it to your watering can as directed on the pack and pour onto the bales.”
https://sympathink.com/conditioning-fertilizing-straw-bales-for-gardening/
Look for a liquid fertilizer that has a high ‘N’ or FIRST number in the NPK rating. Bales need Nitrogen more so than a garden in the soil and a liquid will be the easiest way to apply it and get it to the plant roots.
They should give you some specific recommendations in any of those books suggested for Straw Bale Gardens.
'Land Girls' is a pretty good series to watch, too.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1449940/
https://www.createcraftlove.com/garden-hose-spring-wreath/?pp=0&fbclid=IwAR2Y6v7qoYAABrvg8hiL_gWFvToUFqxPOwDjCW-o_hkpZI06rXbmYasnzNM Diana in Wisconsin
MISCELLANOUS-- CALENDER DATES / PLANTING TIMES QUARTER DAYS AND CROSS-QUARTER DAYS
ApplegateRanch
But, Spring started nearly 3 weeks ago, Feb 2! Match 21, Spring Equinox, is Mid-Spring.
For the ancient Celts, Cross-Quarter days signaled the beginning if a season! For example, what is now Groundhog Day (Candlemas) would be considered the start of spring! Together, the Quarter Days and Cross-Quarter Days made an eight-part year that reflected the natural procession of the seasons.
That explains why June 21 is Mid Summers Day; and December 21 is Mid Winters Day.
Moon phase calendars!
https://earthskystore.org/
(Selections from first 3 months of 2021!) 
