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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...
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.
Oh yes you can. If you can sc**w up a potato or carrot crop, you should have to eat plastic bags.
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.
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.
+ read instructions on bag of seeds.
Right on, and I will vouch for the part about the chickens too.
I’ve got some of the darkest, richest compost this year that is loaded with redworms, because they are drawn to the composting chicken manure in the compost bin. I’m working at double-digging a 100 sq. ft. raised bed right now, and the soil is going to be so rich my rake handle may well sprout roots.
We’ve had all kinds of herbs growing here in different places, and it’s great to harvest some fresh basil for grilled veggies in the summer....
My husband built me a lovely raised cedar bed and I am trying my very first garden right now. Got it planted a few days ago, too late for the cool season plants but in time for the hot season ones. I’m looking forward to seeing how they grow here!
Grew up in upstate NY and always had a huhe garden for canning and a basement full of canned goods.
Where I live now has underground critters, surface ctitters, and aerial critters that eat anything that humans eat.
Only solution is a garden raised on metal pipes and coverd with bird netting. Kinda expensive.
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We also bought seed starter trays, starting soil and seeds. She is putting them in today and I will rig the grow lights this evening.
We are also building raised beds for the garden and bringing in new soil as the old soil is worked out. I will build the bed out of 4 by 4 corner posts and 2-by sides, with a rabbet on two adjoining edges of each corner post and assemble using pocket screws.
She brought out her small, powered cultivator to use in the raised beds. Got to put in asparagus this spring as well. A tradition with my gardening!