anyone grow their own veg? - Page 6

Very NICE garden area !!! 

(You are WELCOME to come HELP ME do some weeding !  I get "lazy" about it sometimes.....Ha-Ha !!! )

-Junkmanme-

2.) Chicken Manure is a LOT "hotter" than Horse Manure. You might consider "composting" it BEFORE you put it in the Garden....to avoid "burning" your seedlings.

I make a tea, with mine.....10 gal. of dry manure, to a 30 gal. trash can, and fill with water....Then, I can dilute it, as I choose.

We have already started on our spring garden, raked all the leaves out of the front yard and put them in it, last cleaning of all the poultry houses went in as well and ran the tiller thru it to get it started breaking down. I run the tiller thru about once a week and it's broken down in no time and ready to plant. We are still getting some greens from last years fall garden not alot but enough to hold us over.

Steve

Planting a BUNCH of tomatoes and peppers tomorrow to grow indoors for a bit this weekend (we have horribly short seasoned, mild climate) - Then we'll be moving on to continue working on the greenhouses, we're already working on getting our crop patches all nice and composted and covered with black plastic, etc.

I'm hoping this summer will be very dry and hot so I can get a good, successful, and plentiful harvest of Quinoa, possibly Amaranth, Tef, and various heirloom colored corn varieties. Plus of course I'll be greenhousing a lot of melons, squash, peppers, and tomatoes, and outside the greenhouses I'll be babying a lot of lettuce greens, broccoli, potatoes, chives, onions, etc.

We've got a few acres to fill with plants.

A lot of this stuff will be our second attempt but this time in greenhouses, which I REALLY hope will work. Normally this is not the climate for corn, melons, winter squash, ripe tomatoes, peppers, and even Quinoa needs a lot less rain than we have, so I'll need to be early and quick about harvesting it.

In past years I have had nice gardens. Last year was a disaster - I put my tomato seedlings out of the greenhouse into the ground. And then nothing but WET COLD for months. Even my lettuce which is usually so easy to grow didn't want to grow quickly. I let my chickens eat up the rest of the garden.

This year I have a new plan:

My cheapie greenhouse (80$ on Amazon.com) that I tucked away in a nearly wind-free zone!!!! Which is so important for those lightweight "disposable" greenhouses.

Those tomato plants are a going to STAY in there until June if they have to!!!!!!!!! I am getting ready to begin starting my seedlings indoors of tomatoes and maybe peppers.

I am also going to not plant anything in the ground until May at the earliest.

In the Pacific NW, I have heard that planting anything until May is a waste of time. Turns out they are right, in my experience.

Ahhhh- you are going greenhouse too!!

The trees are growing and we have to move it this year.  We are trading places with the 20x25 pond that gets too much sun.  I dread doing this.  We already moved the walkway in the fall for prep.  Soil and rocks are piled.  Problem is I normall grow 90% of my seedlings under lights in the basement.  There are 2 silky girls living there till we can build a silky coop.  So I will have to buy plants.  I love my garden, mini yellow plum tomatoes, black tomatoes, cilantro.  I also grow for co-workers.  It is amazing how many people think you are weird because you grow a garden.  Never had much luck with the asparagus.  This will be my first year with chicken poo, normally use cow or horse.

Yes, we have a full vegetable garden, not so good this year, due to 8 weeks rain, but we have lots and lots of courgettes, can i feed them to my chicks. ?  Thanks

I would love to have a garden again, but alas, the squirrels and chipmunks dig up and eat the seeds and sprouts faster than I can put them in the ground. I have a fenced area that was used by the previous owners for their dogs. Someday I am going to get ambitious and line it with wire and cover it with netting and plant a garden, just not today. LOL!
 

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Originally Posted by LegginMF12 

I would love to have a garden again, but alas, the squirrels and chipmunks dig up and eat the seeds and sprouts faster than I can put them in the ground. I have a fenced area that was used by the previous owners for their dogs. Someday I am going to get ambitious and line it with wire and cover it with netting and plant a garden, just not today. LOL!
 

We've had a real problem with squirrels and chipmunks too! They're taking over. They've eaten the tomatoes, the tops off the carrots, onions and garlic. We had a real problem with rabbits eating the sweet potato vines and the pole beans. An apron of hardware cloth stopped the rabbits, but if there's a way to keep the chipmunks and squirrels out I'm missing it.

Thankfully they're not interested in the peppers

One of our favorite parts of the garden is the accidental cucumber trellis