BYC gardening thread!!

[TheCrazyClucker]

Thas good, do you have any special soil or peat moss that you use for your garden?

Organic soil (of course

), organic & all-natural pesticides (of course

), compost, chicken and pig poop (

). As you can see, my mom is an organic and all-natural freak!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Organic soil (of course

), organic & all-natural pesticides (of course

), compost, chicken and pig poop (

). As you can see, my mom is an organic and all-natural freak!

hehe!! Cool. Chicken poop and compost is what we use. Sometimes mushroom manure. lol

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

MKK, I thought you only had chickens and a rabbit? Why do you have a lot of pictures of goats? Just interested, I know this thread isn't the best place for it...

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

MKK, I thought you only had chickens and a rabbit? Why do you have a lot of pictures of goats? Just interested, I know this thread isn't the best place for it...

I LOVE goats, though, I can't have any. (

)

 

[MrsRobinson]

We went with raised beds last year to. And plan on making 2 more. We used the soil mixture that Mel Bartholomew explains in his book "The New Square Foot Garden". And we had the best crop with the least amount of weeds in all the years we have been gardening.

 

[Cam-n-Sara]

Anyone grow raspberries? We did, but they never really grew very well. /:

We grow them and they do really well once established. They looked punky for the first year or two but since then they have taken off. Just remember a few simple things when dealing with them. First, never compost the old canes. It wreaks havoc on the garden. Burn the old ones or take them to the dump. Second, the canes that grow in a year bear fruit the following year. Cutting them back severely limits the fruit bearing. Instead, only cut the canes that bore fruit the previous year. Most of all you have to be very patient with them because it can take three to five years even for them to start really bearing fruit. At the three to five year point you will also notice they will put up shoots quite a distance from the main thicket. Just mow them or if you desire cut them at or below ground level. It wont stop them but it can slow them down. Final thought, try to find thorn-less canes or you will regret it.

Cam

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

We're going to try peaches and plums this year to! They won't bloom this year, though.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

We grow them and they do really well once established. They looked punky for the first year or two but since then they have taken off. Just remember a few simple things when dealing with them. First, never compost the old canes. It wreaks havoc on the garden. Burn the old ones or take them to the dump. Second, the canes that grow in a year bear fruit the following year. Cutting them back severely limits the fruit bearing. Instead, only cut the canes that bore fruit the previous year. Most of all you have to be very patient with them because it can take three to five years even for them to start really bearing fruit. At the three to five year point you will also notice they will put up shoots quite a distance from the main thicket. Just mow them or if you desire cut them at or below ground level. It wont stop them but it can slow them down. Final thought, try to find thorn-less canes or you will regret it.

Cam

Thanks, thats helpful. I think we'll have raspberries one more years then cut em' down.

We're going to try peaches and plums this year to! They won't bloom this year, though.

oh cool

 

[Featherwrangler]

Well, We had an awesome garden two years ago, still eating canned tomatoes from that one. Last year we were not home most of the summer. The prognosis this year is bleak at best as we are still in a drought.

BUT!! I can't help it. I have heirloom seeds and sandy loam ( a 40 x 60 deerterrent fenced area ) so let the planting begin. I have 3 varieties of tomatoes, peppers, cabbage (2 varieties), cauliflower, eggplants,broccoli, onions and all 9 of the herbs started indoors. Trying a new seed company so I am hoping for the best.
We will turn part of one of the paddocks into another garden plot for corn, drying beans, vine plants( squash, melons,small pie pumpkins, zucchini) They were all outside the fence before and the Mullies left them alone.
We converted a large stock tank into a strawberry bed and covered it with chicken wire. 3 Mulberry trees and 3 wild plum trees.

We are also back into feather wrangling, 4 BA and 11 EE six week old little girls in the brooder, with 1 BA roo + 5 more BA girls on the way.

. Upgrades on the coop are almost finished.
Isn't retirement Grand

 

[eggorthechicken]

i have some tomato and peppers started inside. im growing giant pumpkins for the 3rd year. you can see me nealed besided my 650lber from last year as my avatar.

holy moly send me some of those seeds....and soil! I'm in WV too! Lol