Got all my stuff in yesterday. 8 tomato plants, 2 rows of okra, 2 rows of string beans ,2 yellow crook neck squash, 2 arugula, and various herbs. this is a totally organic garden using our rain water barrel and our compost pile for fertilizer. Our garden is rather small....It's about 11 x 16 sq ft. I dig gardening :)
I've got into it in the last few years and I'm very gradually learning what it's all about. I wish I had more time though. I don't think I'll be able to do more than dabble till I retire.
My garden was virtually empty when I moved in 3½ years ago. I've loved seeing the trees and bushes I've planted grow and mature.
I love to get more serious about gardening. I'm thinking about starting an organic garden at school and maybe I could get some help with it. I have experience, know-how and space, I need to start gardening. I was going to start making my own compost soon. How do you make yours? I don't want to shell out 100+ bucks for a composter.
I just tilled half my garden today. Lettuce in the garden this week and we are planting our tomato and chili seeds in peat pods later this week. It's about 75 today in St Louis, but snow and ice Monday and Tuesday. We also have a ton of flowers coming in.
QuoteI love to get more serious about gardening. I'm thinking about starting an organic garden at school and maybe I could get some help with it. I have experience, know-how and space, I need to start gardening. I was going to start making my own compost soon. How do you make yours? I don't want to shell out 100+ bucks for a composter.
No need for a composter. We start with dirt and only add vegetable scraps and egg shells. No meat or dairy. Try to post a pic soon.
I love to garden, though I can't right now, as I live in a tiny apartment. My wife is actually really into plants (she's a landscape architect), so having some land to play with is pretty high on our list for our future home.
I also had a pretty successful garden in the basement of a house I lived in during college. ;)
QuoteQuoteI love to get more serious about gardening. I'm thinking about starting an organic garden at school and maybe I could get some help with it. I have experience, know-how and space, I need to start gardening. I was going to start making my own compost soon. How do you make yours? I don't want to shell out 100+ bucks for a composter.
No need for a composter. We start with dirt and only add vegetable scraps and egg shells. No meat or dairy. Try to post a pic soon.
Do you need to house or cover it in some way? how long does it take for the egg shells to decompose?
not really a gardening question, but close enough...
anyone know the perfect time to sow grass seed?
best time to sow grass seed in these parts is in late summer/ early fall. Sometime in September is probably the best. If you have a project you're wanting to get done before the summer, I would sow it sometime this month or early April.
Quotebest time to sow grass seed in these parts is in late summer/ early fall. Sometime in September is probably the best. If you have a project you're wanting to get done before the summer, I would sow it sometime this month or early April.
yeah...i wanted to sow it before summer.
i was wanting to get it down this month. my dad told me a good time was to catch a March snow (predicted for Friday) and sow it then. he said when the snow melts and the ground thaws the seeds "ride" the water down into the soil.
thanks Dylan! now i just have to rake up leaves from last fall!!!
Just sowed most of our veggie seeds into peat pods to get them started since we will not be able to plant stuff into the garden for a while yet. 72 tomato plants, 12 Cucumber, 10 bell pepper plants, 30 chili plants, and about 15 tomatillos. :o
Some of those are bound to make it right?
QuoteJust sowed most of our veggie seeds into peat pods to get them started since we will not be able to plant stuff into the garden for a while yet. 72 tomato plants, 12 Cucumber, 10 bell pepper plants, 30 chili plants, and about 15 tomatillos. :o
Some of those are bound to make it right?
Yes...you must have a nice size grow area...I'm envious..I could garden for a living and surely enjoy it...Chilling on my tractor with some MMJ on my head set :)
QuoteQuoteJust sowed most of our veggie seeds into peat pods to get them started since we will not be able to plant stuff into the garden for a while yet. 72 tomato plants, 12 Cucumber, 10 bell pepper plants, 30 chili plants, and about 15 tomatillos. :o
Some of those are bound to make it right?
Yes...you must have a nice size grow area...I'm envious..I could garden for a living and surely enjoy it...Chilling on my tractor with some MMJ on my head set :)
Nice...Yeah our house is on 2 oversized lots so we have a ginormous garden area [size=8](secretly I have it that large so there is less I have to mow)[/size]. The beauty of living in a small town, LAND.
one time i tried to garden in my closet it didnt work out to good ;D