Author Topic: Gardeners (Read 32843 times)

TwoBigCats · « **Reply #150 on:** January 20, 2012, 05:22:44 PM »

Quote from: the technological J on December 17, 2011, 08:04:27 AM

Quote from: TwoBigCats on December 14, 2011, 07:45:17 PM
we're located in the silicon valley and have a bit of dirt that we grow veggies in. we also have 27 fruit trees that produce several thousand pounds of fruit. we donate much of the fruit to the homeless, but we do keep enough to make 50+ cases of jams, jellies and liquers for our family and friends.

i am also a hobbyist beekeeper and can heartily recommend it as a very interesting and tasty hobby
what kind of liquors do you make?

we make pomegranate, pear (with a bit of vanilla bean), limoncello, tangerine, blackberry and cherry liqueurs.

demon78 · « **Reply #151 on:** January 21, 2012, 04:55:25 AM »

Try using shower doors from the junk yard or the local "Restore" metal frames and some of them have hinges already on them so that you anchor one side and it lifts up so you can get in and plant things drop it down or stick a board under the moveable side for ventilation.
Bill the demon

78 k550 · « **Reply #152 on:** January 25, 2012, 05:23:00 PM »

Quote from: demon72 on January 21, 2012, 04:55:25 AM

Try using shower doors from the junk yard or the local "Restore" metal frames and some of them have hinges already on them so that you anchor one side and it lifts up so you can get in and plant things drop it down or stick a board under the moveable side for ventilation.
Bill the demon

I'll look around for some junk windows.
HaHa door bell ring its an Anderson window sales man. hehe as i'm typing this.

Paul

demon78 · « **Reply #153 on:** February 17, 2012, 04:45:11 AM »

Any one planting yet? We I think have all our seeds now and I think that it's going to be an early spring here (I'll probably regret saying that) and if my knee was better I'd be out driving stakes in the ground for the raised bed walls, sigh.
Bill the demon.

bender01 · « **Reply #154 on:** February 17, 2012, 08:24:51 PM »

Im close I think.

70CB750 · « **Reply #155 on:** February 18, 2012, 04:04:04 AM »

I have 80 grape wines I need to prune for the season. Already done with manure, the fun never stops:)

demon78 · « **Reply #156 on:** February 18, 2012, 11:13:35 AM »

Hah my limited number of vines can't be seen for snow.
Bill the demon.

Grnrngr · « **Reply #157 on:** February 19, 2012, 08:06:17 PM »

Getting ready to transplant some blueberry and raspberry plants, along with a bunch of ornamentals..

cookindaddy · « **Reply #158 on:** February 20, 2012, 09:20:25 AM »

I am thinking that i should get started with tomato seeds. We got a new cat a month ago. I read that tomato plants are poisonous to cats. She is a real climber so I don't think I'd be successful keeping her off a plant light stand that was anyway convenient to tend and water. What's your experience?

78 k550 · « **Reply #159 on:** February 20, 2012, 09:39:06 PM »

I have peppers started there about 1" to 1.5" tall it is going to be a good pepper year I hope.

Paul.

faux fiddy · « **Reply #160 on:** February 21, 2012, 02:44:13 AM »

I spread Kale seed a while back outside and realizing it would be winter again I dug some up and brought them inside. Maybe I will kill them inside, the ones that are outside seem to continue growong, adn strangely -warm winter points to all possibilities of a blissard in mid-March. still no freeze on the seven dau forecast, but we had a dry line with a few big drops of rain and associated dust storm today. Maybe a hundredth of an inch if it was a trace. Big winds and lots of clouds, no torrents of rain to help with drought but someone in Arkansas must have a rainguage...

demon78 · « **Reply #161 on:** February 26, 2012, 04:38:08 AM »

I thought for a brief time that I could get out and look at the garden last week. Hah that was until the foot of snow Friday night and now the weather report says cloud, messy and gray until at least Friday, the sow god is pissed again.
Any how, have any of you people been to a seed exchange? My wife went to one yesterday and had a good time checking out the seminars, the sellers and the free seed exchange where she scored a bunch of free seeds, there were tables set up that held packets of spares seeds and the protocol was pick up what you thought was interesting and if you had spare seeds put them on the table for others to try, so she came back with Jamaican pumpkin, Weird pumpkin, two type of Mohawk beans,Soy bean and some Bolivian chilli peppers, and Triticale so more magical mystery seeds this year now if it would only stop snowing and warm up.
Bill the demon.
Ps My sore leg and the unheated garage are holding me back from working on any thing useful as far as bikes go but we finally got our occupancy permit for the house now, which means that I can finish the work shop cause there's only 4 things to do for the final inspection.

78 k550 · « **Reply #162 on:** February 27, 2012, 11:42:41 AM »

good, good.

Paul

78 k550 · « **Reply #163 on:** February 27, 2012, 04:33:46 PM »

With March right around the corner. The snow will fall but this time of year it may only be here a day or 2 then warm up.

Paul

78 k550 · « **Reply #164 on:** February 27, 2012, 08:03:24 PM »

Just got back from the grow store.
I bought some Geopots has anyone used them yet?

Paul

78 k550 · « **Reply #165 on:** March 05, 2012, 07:42:16 PM »

whats up with this 70 tomorrow and 29 on wed.

Paul

demon78 · « **Reply #166 on:** March 08, 2012, 04:05:18 AM »

50 F here yesterday and sunny today rainy but dropping off to 32F this afternoon snow overnight and tomorrow but then warm for at least the next 5 day the snows going, the snows going.
Bill the demon.

the technological J · « **Reply #167 on:** April 20, 2012, 07:32:22 AM »

after much planning ive got some vines and some veggies im about to plant... prob gonna put up some deer fence also

78 k550 · « **Reply #168 on:** April 20, 2012, 11:20:40 AM »

Nice, wish I had that much space.

Paul

the technological J · « **Reply #169 on:** April 20, 2012, 06:51:52 PM »

ya im glad my parents went for it it would take up most of my yard

demon78 · « **Reply #170 on:** April 21, 2012, 07:29:57 AM »

We've got 4-5 rows of peas in, with 4 up, broccoli out and covered, and kale and spinach, now if only they would stop forecasting flurries, although we got some much needed rain yesterday and now the trees are beginning to green up nicely, tomato seedlings potted etc. Weather has been weird, one day lovely and sunny then next cloudy and cool, ah well, spring is sprunging in the "great white north".
Bill the demon.

KRONUS0100 · « **Reply #171 on:** April 21, 2012, 08:47:36 AM »

live out in country on small farm with goats, llamas,rabbits,and horses, and soon more chickens. broke ground on brand new garden in undisturbed clay soil in side yard. spread out layer of manure on it and tilled it under before first planting. veggies are now starting popup, so we see how it goes. may have a load of commercial compost brought in in the fall and till it in next spring with the winter's manure.

demon78 · « **Reply #172 on:** April 23, 2012, 07:08:28 AM »

Crap, supposedly major snow storm through here Mon-Tues we'll see how the veg we've got up survive.
Bill the demon.

jstfkndi · « **Reply #173 on:** April 23, 2012, 08:59:24 AM »

Man! I thought I had it bad with a little late frost! I have some romas, big boys, cucumbers, summer squash canteloupe and potatoes (in separate area) going this year. We also are going to start our peppers (banana and jalapeno) and some green beans. My new addition this year....hops! I have them in the back and wire run from garden to back of deck for the climb. This is the first year I am growing these and hear not to expect much from the yield, but second and third year, they take off

Have a buddy that brews, so I am growing centennial, magnum and cascade. The centennial is already up and through, but not seeing much action on the others yet. Pics always speak more, so I will try and post some soon.

faux fiddy · « **Reply #174 on:** May 04, 2012, 02:06:24 PM »

Quote from: demon72 on May 06, 2010, 04:06:46 AM

Gardeners Ok. People, who gardens out there, what's you're weather like, vegetables, flowers, trees, soil conditions, urban or rural, what works for you etc ?
Bill the demon.

Zinnias are the easiest for me, the first popped today. They come back every year and need little care to grow.

Any ideas on killing what eats my kale that won't poison me if I eat it?

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