80 days ago
by rramos50361 |
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Ok I need some help from you guys at there in garden land. I have taken the first steps to start a CSA. In south texas we are able to grow all year long. If you wanted 12 veggies, what would it be? Take into consideration both fall and spring. Don’t be afraid to suggest weird ones. And what would you be willing to pay weekly for your share of the crop? I want to be fair to people. I don’t want to take their money and then a storm destroys everything. Once everything grows back I w...
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102 days ago
by Dom C |
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In the previous part, we tackled the preparation of the box. Some great points and ideas came from the community, specifically the type of polyurethane I used. The recommendation of using Marine Varnish for a long lasting seal as opposed to typical polyurethane, which is not very (or at all, in most cases) UV resistant, is one that I want to talk a bit about.
First, what exactly is Marine Varnish, and why would it be better? Marine Varnish, also called Spar Varnish, was made to address the...
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108 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
10 comments »
May 18/10.
With the weather prediction to be nice for the next week or so, I spent the day planting, planting, and planting. I am about half done (Planting was only part of my day) – but oh my body… it says, “what were you thinking?”
I was going to take pictures but I ran out of steam. Maybe tomorrow or the next day I’ll post some photos.
The apple tree guild is done and now just needs to grow and “do its thing”. I dug up the grass around t...
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109 days ago
by Dom C |
7 comments »
In order to take advantage of all of my growing space, I decided pretty early on that a container garden or three would be how I could expand my garden without more digging than my back can handle right now. Since the point of having a garden in the first place was to reduce costs in food shopping and provide better tasting ingredients for cooking, herbs were always going to be part of the plan. The question was how to make it look attractive on my porch or wherever they ended up.
Browsing...
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148 days ago
by Roostermiester |
4 comments »
I haven’t gardened since I think I was 8 years old. Soon after that we moved to Arizona and my family never bothered to try anything there and once I had my own place, neither did I. So, now that we’re in Colorado, it’s high time to get gardening. I love plants and have fond childhood memories of my grandmother’s garden and uncle’s rasberry bushes.I’m currently in the process of building raised garden beds on the South side of our house, which gets the m...
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149 days ago
by Al_PG |
10 comments »
Hi all. I thought I would share my home work for Landscape Design 2. The home work for this class draw a plot plan of any property we wanted. The plan had to be to scale and realistic (plants that grow in our zone) but we didn’t have any type of budget to work within so we were free to design anything we wanted. So this was a good opportunity for me to draw out some plans for my yard. Sorry the scanned image is so poor and you have to turn you screen sideways.
E – Existing Tree ...
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166 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
8 comments »
March 21/10
Last year I talked about organizing my seeds by “weeks before frost date”. I started a box with alphabetical card dividers and sorted out my seeds. At that point it was a little time consuming and it crossed my mind that maybe it was just as easy to toss the seeds in a bag and sort them out when the time came.
But, as my seeds arrived these past few months I slipped the individual packets into their appropriate section.
Today I went to plant my pepper seeds. I...
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167 days ago
by StarrsWife |
3 comments »
So I know I haven’t posted pics, but I really am so darn busy! I do want to say that my fishtank/xmas light idea worked BEAUTIFULLY! Hubby has been working my beds, and we bought 400lbs of manure and 15 bags of the mulch I failed to use any of last year…hence my failed garden. I also bought Ozmocote and more seeds, lol!I have about 61 pepper plants (100% germination with almost everything), 30 or so tomatos, cantaloupe, watermelon, zuchinni, yellow squash, basil, marigolds, swiss ...
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186 days ago
by rramos50361 |
5 comments »
I have not posted in a few days. There really wasn’t much going on yesterday and today. We have rain forecasted for tomorrow. Tuesday I will more than likely plant my cukes and even more onions. People at church today have given me the idea of setting up after service to allow them to buy the veggies or to do a community sponsored agriculture. I have brainstormed the idea already. We’ll see where that goes.
Hopefully by the end of next week, I will have my chicken pens built. I...
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190 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
9 comments »
Feb 25/10
After having completed plan A and plan B I think I have settled on my final (oh that’s funny) plan for 2010.
Plants ordered include:
honeyberry bushes (my blog)
goji berry
cranberry
seabuckthorn
persimmon tree
I currently have a stretch of blueberry bushes that require acidic soil and the cranberries require the same type. Although I think I’ll just continue the line down along a path I might decide at the last minute to plant them “side by si...
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