Homegrown is the way it should be.......Gardening!

[TheBigChicken]

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92869?fp=1    bummer :-[

[mjkoehler]

For those not on Facebook. Ummm help? I think we overdid it this year. This is crazy. This is what we've pulled in the last couple days. It's Salsa Time!

[aMillionDreams]

Wow, mike.  looks great. No one I know in Louisville has had an overly successful year with their maters, weird weather.  But my peppers, corn, zukes, and cukes are doing fine.  I'll have some pics to post soon. I pulled a 3 lb zucchini from my garden this morning and we have a 10 foot sunflower out front.  I also have some new raised beds that I built and mulched between for square foot gardening.  I already planted fall crops in half of them and I'm lasagna gardening or "composting in place" with the others getting ready for next spring already.

Happy Gardening!

[mjkoehler]

Totally doing this. Taters are a bitch to grow in the ground as they take up tons of space and you can never get them all out.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2222722_grow-potatoes-garbage-can.html

Mapped out most of the garden. Maters, Brussels Sprouts, a few chilies, Cali Wonders, and Green Beans. We will have a seperate thing for herbs. Still need to figure out where I'm growing hops I want to plant.

[aMillionDreams]

Yeah, I don't have the space for hops unfortunately.  I've heard of doing potato in those huge burlap coffee sacks before too.  I built a double high raised bed for my tubers, hopefully that works out for me.

[mjkoehler]

I want to try some Peruvian Blues and sweets.

[TheBigChicken]

Anyone here have a bee hive that they keep ? Me and the little lady are going to a bee class in Feb. and hope to start a hive this spring....fresh honey....bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :D

[TEO]

Anyone here have a bee hive that they keep ? Me and the little lady are going to a bee class in Feb. and hope to start a hive this spring....fresh honey....bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :D

mmmmmmm....... :)

[TheBigChicken]

bee class next weekend :)

[ALady]

That sounds so cool.   :)

[mjkoehler]

Bump

Dylan and Liz- I will get some seeds out to y'all this week (pole bean and Jalapenos).

Such a great weekend. Worked on the grapes as they are starting to bud. Getting ready to start podding our seeds. Will have to de-leaf the berry patch next weekend. Soon the tilling will start.

[TheBigChicken]

finished my greenhouse and will try to post some pics soon !

[aMillionDreams]

finished my greenhouse and will try to post some pics soon !

You live in Florida AND have a greenhouse! No fair!

Mike - let me know what you need, I have a ton of extra seed this year.

[mjkoehler]

Mike - let me know what you need, I have a ton of extra seed this year.

What ya got? Any bell peppers? What do have in the way of maters?

[aMillionDreams]

I have bell peppers, pimentos, jalpenos, anaheim chiles, tabasco chiles, and maybe some habenero.

As far as maters, I have:
Stupice
Sungold
Roma
Celebrity
Brandywine

[mjkoehler]

Brandywine

Very nice. Brandywine's would be great. love seed trading and urban farming. A few anaheims would be good too. ya da man.

[TheBigChicken]

finished my greenhouse and will try to post some pics soon !

You live in Florida AND have a greenhouse! No fair!

Mike - let me know what you need, I have a ton of extra seed this year.

my greenhouse is only 9 x 9...not really big....big enough to start seeds for the garden....Do you have a rainbarrell Dylan ?

[aMillionDreams]

mjk- nice choice.  Brandywine was my favorite that I grew last year.

RC- yes I do rock the rainbarrell.  I'm still trying to get it hooked up directly through the gutters, but it stays pretty full nonetheless.

[mjkoehler]

mjk- nice choice.  Brandywine was my favorite that I grew last year.

RC- yes I do rock the rainbarrell.  I'm still trying to get it hooked up directly through the gutters, but it stays pretty full nonetheless.

I'll post picks of my current design on the barrels. They are always full. However I have no water pressure as I need to get them up off the ground. My idea is to hook these up to soaker hoses and snake those around my rows of plants. I lucked out last year and only had to manually water a few times so I didnt get much of a chance to mess around with them.

Brandywines are excellent.

[dcdub]

Last year I did a small raised bed and filled her up with my compost. It did really well, and I'm hoping to have similar success this year. Do you guys think I should empty it out and put fresh compost in or will it be fine for another year?