Posted on 03/08/2022 8:46:33 AM PST by orsonwb
Time to plan and buy seeds and supplies.
Sounds like a good set up.
Indeed. Won’t be growing those in the garden.
Absolutely. If possible, buy non-GMO organic seeds. That way you can collect and save some of the seeds from your crop to use as seed for next season. Seeds from the GMO ones may or may not produce.
Tractor supply sells the spring door type, works beautifully
Saves my back...and they sit on concrete..so less weeds.
This will be my 4th or 5th year...and I'm happy....
I only grow tom's, onion's, garlic, asparagus, and hot peppers.
Might do a compact yellow squash this year...also.
I want a coyote squash...I have a fence that would do well for that....
Cold here today...40F...Winter isn't done here in OK
Squirrels are tasty.
Maybe the best gravy ever.
I still have collards, spinach and Swiss chard galore in my fall garden that made it through the winter.
Nice!!!
.I have 24 old cow / horse mineral heavy plastic buckets 2 ft tall...by 24 in wide.
We have stacks of those!
Our neighbor, who also repairs our tractor, grows his entire annual produce consumption in these mineral buckets. He drills small holes, near the bottom of each.
I may try a few, but, my latest thing to try are cloth Smart Pots. Just something different to try. We’re on acreage, too, but I love being able to set it up in different areas and start with my own soil mixes.
LOL...do you fry them up in your Presto pop corn popper?
I do Bonsai also...so some of the tubs are for that.
All are welcome to our Weekly Garden Thread. Posted every Saturday morning, after I’ve had enough coffee. ;)
A HUGE Brain Trust of experience there, so join in!
One of the top requirements is to ensure your water supply. Without that, you are toast!
While that is laudable, I am cynical in such severe times, where even your friends would/could be forced to raid gardens to survive.
Do they still taste good? we used to do brussel sprouts over the winter-
Get a couple of cats. They’ll take care of ANY rat problem, bushy or baldtail. The ASPCA is overflowing with squirrel control officers.
I have bought a lot of canned green beans from walmart.
They ship them free to the house, it’s hard to beat..I don’t care for tomatoes, which make me a bit odd as everyone, save me, likes them.
I have stocked up on lots of stuff, the garden would be for when this stored food runs out.
What I need is seeds, I have ordered some seed catalogs.
I’m going to download a bunch of DIY gardening vids and put them on SSD drives in my secure storage boxes..
Just ordered more cat food for my kitty, it seems to be in short supply.
Also been ordering lots of medical stuff.. potassium iodide tablets are scarce.
Been trying to order two hospital-grade O2 generators but they won’t sell them to me... they only sell them to hospitals and clinics. odd that they would turn down a 7200.00 purchase. I can buy cheap 5LPM home type units but I want really good units that do 10 or 15LPM and are more robust.
I need to trade some my local wildlife for yours. It seems that every bug, bird, and little mammal (except maybe skunks), and my dogs pick the raspberries first...well, often not the whole thing, just 1 to 3 quarters then leave the rest hang to taunt you.
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