3 days ago
by rramos50361 |
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Hey everyone! I haven’t blogged in a few days so I figured that I might as well. A lot of stuff has come up in the garden already. I’m still waiting for the squash and cucumbers to come up. Yesterday I cut down a bunch of trees in my backyard. I would have cut more down, but the chain saw motor jammed. This morning I got up and burned the tree branches that I had cut and mowed the yard. I set the box up for the square foot garden this evening. I have to get peat moss and compost. ...
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4 days ago
by davidc61 |
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I seem to have accidently deleted my first entry in my relanscaping blog and replaced it with one about our rainfall. I have just discovered what I did wrong so hopefully it won’t happen again. I did read all the comments and do very much appreciate all the feedback, which is what makes this site so good. Unfortunately most of the plants that were removed from the garden were unsalvageable due to heat stress. Most that are left are natives and love the climate. We are still going to tr...
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5 days ago
by davidc61 |
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I do have 3 rainwater tanks wich collect about 6000 litres of water, one of which supplies water for a fish pond( which i am going to rebuild as has a leak a future project that will appear here) another that waters my rose garden ( again I will post here ) and the third which supplies water to my water gardens( water Hibiscus ).The rain fall in Adelaide ( dryest city in Australia ) average of 585 millilitres (100 millilitres is about 4 inches). Highest recorded is 882.4 milliltres lowest 257...
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9 days ago
by rramos50361 |
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I didn’t do any gardening today but I wanted to get everyone’s input on something. I’ve doing research on tractors. And I have gotten interested in two-wheel tractors. Earthtoolsbcs.com has these kinds of tractors and you can get all sorts of implements for it. If I bought a bunch of implements the total cost would be under $6000 and thats for a diesel. A regular tractor starts at $13,000 without any implements. I have been looking around for old antique two-wheel tractors. ...
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10 days ago
by LadyPantheress |
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Hello Everyone-
I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything. My seedlings were doing great until last week my tomatoes and basil started to die. The reason is because I put too much water in the pellet trays the last time I watered them. So, they dampened off and died. Sigh.
Time to start over on Tomatoes, Basil and Anise.
Surprisingly all the Peppers, Oregano, and Marjoram are doing GREAT. The Eggplant however looks very touchy as well. These may die too and will probabl...
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10 days ago
by rramos50361 |
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Hello everyone! The sugar snap peas are coming up in the garden. 74 tomatoes have been planted. Me and my wife planted 12 rows of corn on Friday. We have even planted flowers in the back of the garden. We also bought 4 chickens and 2 ducks Friday. As soon as my mom heard this, she wanted me to get 10 more of them for her, which she did pay for. Baby chicks are quite easy to take care of. I have to figure out how to put pictures on here so that I can take everyone on tours of my farm. We’...
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13 days ago
by rramos50361 |
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Well, another day has went today. Today we planted summer squash and a bunch of flowers. Yesterday I planted some Cream Peas (white cowpea) for my grandmother. Heck, I’ll try them. Today we also stopped and spoke with a chicken breader. I think we’re going to go with about 40 chickens and a couple of ducks. I like duck eggs for cooking. So tomorrow, I have to build chicken pens, which I have been putting off. I have 24 more tomatoes for planting tomorrow. So all in all, not an exc...
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20 days ago
by rramos50361 |
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Since its still a bit nippy to do anything outside today, I decided to blog about the project. Again, by no means is it scientific. I’m just taking different people’s gardening ideas and comparing them side by side so that a new gardener doesn’t have to read ten books just to decide how to do their garden.
Method #1- Jeff Ball’s 60 Minute Garden- In the book, Jeff takes you through how to build a garden that only takes 60 minutes a week to maintain. It has some good...
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41 days ago
by StarrsWife |
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No pics at this time, but al of my seeds germinated very well! I added another cake dome thing with some store bought flower seeds as a control cuz I wasn’t sure if my saved seeds from my pepper plants and store bought tomatoes were gonna work, and the ratio was definitely in favor of the flowers, but I did have a bunch of pepper/mater seeds sprout! Now I have to figure out which is pepper and which is mater, lol! Oh, I have also taken them out and put them into the sunshine, but still ...
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46 days ago
by walthree |
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Ok, this will be my first attemp at creating and maintaning a garden. I have done alot of reading and there is alot of infomation out there. At my last house I attempted a very small patch and learned that all the little critters would come and have a feast and everything would be gone. Then I tried a container (can’t remember what it was) One day it was tall and had big leaves and the next day something ate it and left me with a stub. I may scale down the size of the patch or perha...
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