Posted on 03/10/2021 4:30:33 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Thanks! At some point it might be worth posting recommended gardening books at the end of an old weekly thread for reference. Something to suggest to Diana maybe.
Fertilizer is a good thing to have for gardening, enough for several years.
Nitrogen encourages fast leafy growth. (For other things maybe ammonium nitrate And several bags of soil sulfur. You can manufacture charcoal.)
Also Phosphate based. 20 or 40 Lb bags of bird guano is good. 0-11-0. Encourages blooming in tomatoes for example. Potassium: Langbeineite (and mutate of potash if you are not strictly organic.) Potassium is needed to develop ridgidity and other things.
Micro-nutrients: 4-5 containers of Epsom salts—very cheap (magnesium sulfate). Magnesium is needed to produce chlorophyll which provides plants with energy.
Good to have several gallons of digested kelp and maybe several of liquid fish fertilizer, although the fish scent may attract things like raccoons I am told. Bag of humic acid.
A book on crypto gardening. Hiding your crop in plain sight.
“A book on crypto gardening. Hiding your crop in plain sight.”
Interesting! Never head of that. Would also he of interest to those that want to grow food but have strict HOA busy-bodies to contend with!
Great suggestion on the fertilizers!
My mule and steer give me plenty of fertilizer, and anyone that’s raised chickens has the same benefit, but their manure must be composted for at least a year before using it around plants; too acidic. :)
Since the advent of Crpto currency crypto gardening has also come to mean gardening crypto currency!.
This is more what I had in mind!
and
https://www.thespruce.com/best-vegetables-and-fruits-for-edible-landscape-1403436
and
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/landscaping-with-vegetables.htm
The links in Pete’s post, reminded me of you....jungle gardening how to! :)
That sounds perfect! I have very little land here for a garden, and I never really liked dealing with landscape plants anyway. I figured they weren’t very useful. So having my garden be the Shrubbery around the house, that’s perfect!
What is of value to neighbors in your community.
Stock up on non-perishable goods.
bttt
300 sq feet!
I would have to till up my zoysia lawn!
You however,could probably go to a nearby stream and pan for that gold.
300 sq feet!
I would have to till up my zoysia lawn!
You however,could probably go to a nearby stream and pan for that gold.
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I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean that you have so little yard, you would have to dig up some lawn to get 300 sq. ft. Or is it so little you would have to dig up some lawn to have more sq. ft. of garden?
Thanks for the links! :)
Debt, actually.
LOL - about the pink tools. I’ve always had my own tools since Dad bought them for me when I first moved out of the house.
Beau has bought me a number of things through the years - my own log-splitting maul (that I can actually LIFT) and he bought me an awesome Bosch set of rechargeable drills and such, but those and my electric screwdriver seem to have disappeared!
He thinks if he steals my tools and keeps me a little bit dependent upon him, I won’t make a run for it, LOL!
Come to think of it, my Porter-Cable air compressor seems to be ‘missing’ too! ;)
I like the small bottle of vodka idea! Use it for sterilizing wounds or for trading. :)
Feel free to add ANY book recommendations at any time to the Weekly Garden Thread.
We should be continually learning from books and from each others successes and failures, IMHO. :)
(I have PLENTY of gardening failures to add, LOL!)
‘Edible Landscaping’ by Rosalind Creasy is an excellent book. ALL of her books are terrific!
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/rosalind-creasy/226104/
I see that ‘Edible Landscaping’ is out of stock at this site, but you can find it elsewhere on line or at your library.
(I just hate linking to Amazon for anything these days!)
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