BYC gardening thread!!

[City farm]

Everyone looks like they are getting a great start. We pruned out fruit trees about 6 weeks ago, got the new garden plot tilled, and getting ready to plant a garden and flowers for the bees.

Oh how I love that you mentioned the bee's.. They are such a vital part in our ecosystem!!

 

[dan26552]

I will have to catch up on that article you posted..
Did you put anything on the cutting?

I did not, I just stuck them in a pot that already had a few other plants in it (parsley and a strawberry) what surprised me was they'd only been in the dirt about two and a half weeks. I did think of trying honey as a rooting hormone as I've read that works but the only honey we have is expansive stuff from farmers markets.

 

[City farm]

 
Yay! Another thread for garden fun and advice!

So I have a question for all you multi-year gardeners out there. We're in zone 8b (Texas) and just got our garden started this last weekend. We'd wanted lettuce, spinach, cauliflower, broccoli and a Swiss chard or two but were unable to find plants, only seeds. We have been told that those plants won't grow during the summer here but I remember my grandmother growing lettuce, spinach, cauliflower and broccoli and everything else she wanted all year long out by the lake house. We have seeds for the above mentioned plants so we can start them in the house and run them out to the AP system once they are about 4 inches tall. By that time they'll be partially shaded by the taller pepper and tomato plants that are already growing.

Any real reason not to try it? As additional information the water in our AP system is 15-20 degrees cooler than the outside air so our grow beds remain cooler than the surrounding soil.

Thanks bunches!

RichnSteph.

I'm in 8b or 9a depending on what site you're looking in.  I can start cole crops & lettuce in the 100+ temps of August & Sept if I only allow them morning sun then put em in the ground as the weather is beginning to cool, but if I tried to grow them now they would bolt.  I direct seed very little!  Hey, if your Grandmother did it, give it a shot, California Master Gardeners has a Veggie planting schedule for each of our zones I looked around & found this for Texas http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/organic/files/2011/03/E-502_home_vegetable_guide.pdf

Great advice from everyone.. Plus this bonus website.. Thanks!
I just tried to post a photo with no luck, AGAIN.. I hope to figure out why it does not work every so often..

 

[City farm]

Can you find one for Southern Finland? 

 

[dan26552]

http://preparednessmama.com/natural-rooting-hormone/

 

[vehve]

Haha, you found one on Finnish stuff, I tip my hat to you. (I don't actually usually wear hats, but the expression seemed suitable.)

 

[City farm]

 
Can you find one for Southern Finland? 

http://www.finlandforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=35910 

What,
Some people are just a wiz on the computer.. I just happy to be able to post a photo.. That is success for me.. No really..

 

[City farm]

Haha, you found one on Finnish stuff, I tip my hat to you. (I don't actually usually wear hats, but the expression seemed suitable.)

X2!!!! Well I do wear a large hat outside in the garden..

 

[dan26552]

http://rsandss.blogspot.com/2014/01/propagation-alternatives-to-artificial.html?m=1

 

[vehve]

Cityfarm, to post a photo, click on the button above the text editing window that shows a landscape (left of the piece of film), the wizard should be pretty straight forward from there.