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Post by busco on Mar 18, 2007 15:49:44 GMT -5
Many of yall do vegetable gardens every year.. Started my seeds Saturday night in an indoor green house thing.. This is only my second year hoping this year works better than last year....
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Mar 18, 2007 19:04:55 GMT -5
Funny you should mention this. I just bought like ten different fruit and vegetable seed packs. I havn't done a garden since I was a kid. Tried a few years a go but the goats and sheep ate everything down to the dirt before they were four inches high. I havn't started my seeds yet, have clay/gravel soil, and have no real idea of what to do. Should be fun. What were your results from last year?
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Post by busco on Mar 18, 2007 19:12:02 GMT -5
well my soil is the same.. got some squash and a good bit of tomatoes the worst thing for me is not enough sun..... finally opened up the barb wire and let the cows have a ball........ am going to build a big 8 inch deep box and bring in some top soil from maxi mulch and mix it with horse poop this year.......... and put it where the sun hits the yard pretty good. hopefully it will work..
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 18, 2007 19:15:26 GMT -5
My dad does a big garden every year. Not sure why he does one so big, but he does. More than he can even give away most times. Since my dad has his, I don't do one, since I can go by & ask him for whatever I want. I do grow some strawberries, but that's about it.
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Post by busco on Mar 18, 2007 19:23:36 GMT -5
we are gonna try to cheat and grow some Strawberies this year the wife bought a Bag O'Blooms Strawberry kit at Wal-Mart.. where you put 5 plants in a bag and hang it up kind of works like a self contained green house.. will be neat if it does actually work
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 18, 2007 19:31:18 GMT -5
All you had to do was ask me....I have about a thousand. Started last year with 40 & they multiplied - QUICK! Have to thin them out so they don't kill eachother. My dad took about 300 & I probably have double that left to get rid of. Good luck - maybe the hanging thing will keep the rabbits out, but then again, it is at easier access for birds. They got me for a couple last year.
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Post by busco on Mar 18, 2007 19:34:22 GMT -5
would still love to get some if you need to thin some more out ill take some... just let me know how where and when!! ;D
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Post by osprey on Mar 18, 2007 20:37:10 GMT -5
I do a few things here at the house, mainly stuff my Grandpop doesn't grow down in his garden. I've got the berries (blackberries and black raspberries), a few tomatoes (mainly cherry and roma), cilantro and a few herbs, last year some 'lopes and always a bunch of varietes of HOT peppers. I like to make my own salsa and dry bunches of them for shakers and for winter use in chili.
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Post by branson on Mar 21, 2007 10:32:28 GMT -5
I've been thinking about growing something this year. The only thing is I dont have much space at the condo, so it'd all be in flower pots. Anyone have recommendations for high-yield plants that I could grow easily with my set-up?
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 21, 2007 10:50:26 GMT -5
Tomatoes?
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Post by busco on Mar 21, 2007 13:30:25 GMT -5
know a lot of people that grow tomatoes in a 5 gallon bucket turn out better than mine usually..
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Post by branson on Mar 21, 2007 15:20:39 GMT -5
Anything other than tomatoes? I mean, they're good and all, but I was thinking some sort of bean or something. I just dont recall having a high yield from any of the beans we used to plant when I was a kid. Tomatoes and various peppers sounds good, though.
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Post by osprey on Mar 21, 2007 15:27:12 GMT -5
Plant habaneros - you won't NEED many!!!!
Actually, I just saw some neat cherry tomatoes in a seed catalong, a trailing variety specifically for hanging baskets.
Or try some herbs. One pot will last you all summer on most plants. I've grown oregano, cilantro, different sages - try whatever you like to cook with. They're great to pick fresh and use the same day. If they get too leggy or stemmy just shear 'em back and you'll have fresh shoots on most in a few days.
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Post by busco on Mar 21, 2007 15:45:49 GMT -5
like i said the wife found a thing at Walmart. to grow 5 strawberry plants in a bag of soil that you could hang outside or even hang it in a sunny window... it was called Bag Of Blooms
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 21, 2007 15:50:50 GMT -5
My dad plants beans, but he plants 4 or 5 rows of them about 30 yards long each. He gets plenty from that - bushel's; but I can't really think of any bean you could get much from on a porch. Osprey was right on the pepper thing - you'd be able to get plenty to eat, but you wouldn't eat very many.
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