Posted on 05/21/2010 5:00:30 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
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Wow! Now I really feel like a slacker! :)
Very lovely.
Very nice!
Beautiful photos! Gardens come in all sizes on FRee Republic...
Oh, no ... don’t feel like that. Size doesn’t mean a thing because I see absolutely gorgeous small plots posted here that make me envious.
It’s small with a lot of variety.....Your garden in fantastic...Are you selling out of it? We’ve got a new farmers marget established in town...to go along with our larger farmer markets in the area.
We have some incredibly talented and amazingly hardworking gardeners here. I love seeing all of the photos every week. It’s inspiring!
Grow just a bit of a lot of things. It keeps variety in our diet and hopefully healthy, wealthy and (smaller) size!
I take more for next week since I figured out how to do it!
1.) What are the best types of Heritage Tomato plants to grow (?)I was at my local mega supermarket, called HEB here in my area, and in the produce dept they had a basket labeled "heirloom". I bought a tomato out of it and planted the seeds a few months ago. They are going crazy!
I value heirloom breeds because they breed true, in that you can take the seeds and plant next year's crop from them. A lot of other seeds are bred by the big companies specifically to not do that, thus assuring repeat business.
Your garden is incredibly lush and the earth is a rich, deep colour. Is it like that naturally, or did you apply a lot of amendments?
Girl, you blow my mind!
I can’t WAIT to be home full-time again so I can re-expand my gardens.
LOL! Stop! You’re scaring me! :)
Nicely done. :)
I can’t wait to have the time to make my beds ‘pretty.’ I have all kinds of cheap/recycled/repurposed item ideas knockin’ around in my head!
Great pics & beautiful gardens.
To reach that level, I’d be spending all my daylight hours inside the garden - not that there is anything wrong with that! It certainly would be fulfilling.
Beautiful garden & thanks for sharing the great pics.
LOL @ your dawg. She seems to be “tip-toeing” in.....
If I buy a horseradish root at the grocery and plant it, will it grow? The little dried-up twigs at Lowe’s didn’t look promising at all.
I found some long radish seeds at Lowe’s - does anybody know if it’s too late to plant them in VA? I didn’t buy them because I thought it probably was, and I don’t have any confidence in my ability to not lose the package before fall. But I really WANT them.
Have you ever measured/weighed how many beans you get off that tower? I’m planting beans this weekend on two little bitsy towers, but that thing’s impressive and I may want one.
The barn sits on good ole Indiana yellow clay with shale just a few feet beneath. We can’t even hit water here...(Thankfully county ran water to our area a few years back).....We already we in the habit: “harvest” it in rain barrels, pond etc.
As far as the soil goes...I have a couple of sand beds for root gardens (Sand pit is about four mile from house and cheap...BUt also augment.
Have augmented clay with pieces of dry wall, sawdust from local mills (One trades with horse farms in the area...So it comes three years old complete with manure.)
Yearly layer all with peat, (use hoomama’s version of lasagne gardening) newspapers to keep weeds out, straw, manure, grass clippings, compost, paper shreds or anything else we might come across.
Another week I’ll try taking pictures of the orchard and “new” green house....Still trying to learn new tricks.
If they brushed the snow away, it probably would.
It comes with the Programmer unit the four hose splitter and two control valves. My garden area is split into two sections and the two control valves is all I need. I have a regular hose hooked up to one of the free faucets so I can water manually when I need to do my watermelon patch and to clean up equipment.
They also have analog timers where you set times with a dial.
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