Posted on 09/09/2013 7:55:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Do a soil pH test and you’ll know. Soak your seeds in hydrogen peroxide overnite before planting.
lol......
We put in a rasied-bed garden with garden soil and mushroom compost mixed in. Loose soil. Installed a drip system. Two tomato plants - both failed one never produced fruit, just flowered. The other had some fungus. We pulled both. One squash - did okay, but a lot of the squash apparently got no pollination and died on the vine without maturing. One zucchini plant - got lots of those. Two bean plants - still getting them by the handfull daily. Carrots - short, fat, not very good. Onions - nothing. Jalapeno, only 4 so far from one plant. And three peppers from another plant.
Too sum it up, we got about 3 gallon bags worth of beans, several zucchini and squash, and nary anything else. I could have driven to the nearest farm for fresh produce and paid less than I did putting in the garden and watering it.
It will put a nice edge on your knives and it is not hard to learn to use.
I really like their product. (In case you couldn't tell)
But people are in cities and they need to learn how to navigate.
greeneyes, please read post 57 and put Donnafrflorida on gardening list, thanks,
Marcella
Yup. Good advice about the celery and carrots, they will grow from the cut-off roots or tops.
Another thing I would stress to people is learning about what your veggies might look like when they are juvenile plants. Every year I have various renegade starter plants coming up from seeds or root segments that got distributed around the year before.
People will find that for their particular area, many plants will kind of fizzle and not do good.
But some will grow like weeds and have tremendous yields.
SAVE THE SEEDS FROM THE PLANTS THAT DO WELL!!! In general, save as many seeds as you can, but the plants that do well and thrive in your location are showing they have a good relationship with the temps, the soil, they have strong natural immunity to local fungi and rot, a couple generations of those and you should get excellent yields.
Here where I am, taters do good, lettuce and some greens also. Tomatoes are ok. But the biggest winner in my experience, hands down, are the cruciferous veggies, the cabbages, brussel sprouts, broccoli, kale. They all grow like weeds!
And the slugs pretty much ignore them.
Duct Tape!
Good for everything.
I have heard that this was one of its original uses during the Viet Nam war.
Could be, that was about the time I remember it coming on the market. Interesting.
Here where I am, taters do good, lettuce and some greens also. Tomatoes are ok. But the biggest winner in my experience, hands down, are the cruciferous veggies, the cabbages, brussel sprouts, broccoli, kale. They all grow like weeds!
And the slugs pretty much ignore them.
We grew some great tomatoes this year. How do you let the remaining tomatoes go to seed? Keep them on the vine? or scoop out the seeds and dry them somehow?
One thing you discover is for some plants, one of the best fertilizers and growth factors is the fruit itself. Tomatoes are like that. So are the gourds, like the pumpkins.
If you want to have pumpkin plants next year, simply smash up a pumpkin in your yard, garden, compost pile! Leave it there all smashed up, maybe work it into the ground a bit.
My biggest and best tomatoes this year are growing in my compost pile. They are all rogue plants that just took off from the seeds in there! My compost pile is probably 90% coffee grounds.
To save the seeds, you can scoop them out and dry them like on a paper towel. Then, after they are dry, save them in envelopes, write the plant type and year on the envelope.
I must have close to a five gallon buckets worth of various seeds from previous years in envelopes.
Just keep them cool and dry and in the dark and they should do fine when you replant them.
Note that some seeds do best if you soak them in water for like say 24 hours before you plant them. Peas like that.
My best advice is to play around with it! Have fun and see what works! And enjoy your harvest!
We only planted tomatoes, eggplant (yuk!) and onions this year.
I am going to try both methods with the tomatoes and eggplant. I think the onions ought to be OK left alone, they spread like wildfire.
I do not have a compost pile. Maybe I should experiment with one in an area near the garden.
Sarajevo used urban trapping to catch and eat rats for daily meat. Likewise, plants grow in ruins...knowing how to tell a poisonous mushroom can save lives.
Ooooh... dice up that eggplant into 3/4 inch cubes! Saute it in olive oil with a bit of garlic! Maybe toss in a couple sliced green or black olives...
Serve it over angel hair pasta with some prima-vera sauce!
To die for!
My husband loves eggplant Parmesan and plain old fried eggplant. I've always thought it tasted like erasers in tomato sauce or fried erasers.
I am so screwed.
I believe that the current politically correct term is "lady of the evening"
Is that the tactical version of the wrist rocket? I think Trijicon is making a sight for it.
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