Posted on 03/21/2011 5:51:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Ping-worthy?
I support my local farmers. They have their job and I have my job...and it's not farming.
I put in flowers to make things pretty and to relieve stress.
Here ,in Central New York, planting a Memorial Day weekend garden is a tradition for at least 4 generations.
Gurney’s usually offers a a spend $50, get $25 off offer each spring and fall. I’ve had good luck with the plants I’ve ordered. Just put in another 100 strawberries.
The best veggie garden we ever had was when we lived in Minnesota. Short season but excellent soils.
Here in mid-Mizzou, I had to haul “river bottom” dirt in from 50 miles north of here to create raised beds...
Green beans going in today!
Take it from the experts...
I don’t know. I see a lot of people grow gardens that produce little more than few novelty fresh veggies. Gotta garden smart if you intend to have any real impact on your food costs.
We’re having passing thunderstorms right now and about 20 minutes a go we thought we were going to have a fried garden. Hubby was upstairs and saw the bolt of lightning strike in the center of the field. Lots of smoke immediately, but thankfully a deluge of rain came down almost immediately.
It’s still raining too hard to head out to see just how badly scorched it is.
Scary to say the least.
I love it!!!
There is nothing like walking onto my front porch, pulling some basil leaves, rosemary, and oregano- and then walking back into my kitchen to add to the homemade tomato sauce from my tomato plants.....
I support local farmers too!! I am in a co-op. I get a basket every week from them.
This gardening thing is very new for me though. This is only my third year. My first year I only did peppers, tomato, basil, and cilantro...
I am going to try brussel sprouts and cucumbers this year...
I only grow things in pots on my porch— but it brings me joy every single day....
Thanks for posting Di!!!!
I can’t say I’ve had really bad luck with any nursery. I DO plan to get some ‘mara des bois’ strawberries from Jungs the first of April, IF they still have them! Waiting for that April paycheck first, though. Also planning on getting their 2/1 European filbert offer, and a dwarf disease resistant apple tree collection.
Mmmmmaybe one of their razz blueberries too. Of course, Diana will accuse me of blueberricide for attempting to grow it down here.
I wonder at the amount of pass through stock between the nursery companies though. Last year I bought some Liberty apple trees from Gurneys. When I got them, the box was stamped and shipped from the same address of Stark Bros. nurseries. (different state than gurneys, altogether).
I ordered 3 tea camellias from Jungs last year. All arrived beautifully in pots even. 2 are still alive. I managed to kill one. Forgetting the water will do that :( If they’re still shipping when the May paycheck comes in I’ll order a couple more. The two I did manage to remember to water are doing splendidly.
My problem with Gurneys, right now, is that so little of their stock (trees, etc) are suitable for my particular area due to disease issues. Pears and fireblight are a biggie. They have one pear tree that’s resistant. I will have to get suitable ones from a local/regional nursery next year.
On a really GOOD note. Last week, my hubby went to the local nursery/garden center to get pinestraw bales. We get the free stuff on the street in the fall/winter but had run out. Nursery was out too, unfortunately. But he did manage to score 3 raspberry plants for me! ‘Dorman Red’. Good for canning, not for fresh eating though. But, supposedly the only variety that will live more than a year or two down here due to soil diseases and heat intolerance.
Oh yes you can. If you can sc**w up a potato or carrot crop, you should have to eat plastic bags.
Maybe we should set up a pool on when Michelle switches completely to burkha..
Recently picked up a 150 lb or so of my city’s free compost (from yard waste collected last fall). It generally looks good but came with a few plastic bits and a bonus free 1/2 in stainless steel sheet metal screw!:)
Thanks for posting Diana! This year, we are trying vertical gardening. Limited space so we thought going UP is the way to get more produce. This year, I will plant pole beans and sweet peas. Plus, some heirlooms and hybrid tomatoes. Does anything taste better than a fresh tomato picked right off the plant?!! YUM!
They left out Point 10:
10) Due to the democrat-created, democrat-sponsored, and Obama-supported Food Safety And Modernization Act of 2010, it is now a federal offense to sell, donate, or even give away any food that you produce on your own land.
Wrong, but don’t let facts stand in the way.
Some of the best gardeners I ever met not only could cultivate a fantastic vegetable garden but also were very good at ‘growing their own’ in their home closets.
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