BYC gardening thread!!

[dan26552]

Nice vines. Good luck with your banana trees.

Thanks, all but two of those I put in this spring so I'm happy with how much they're growing. Thanks! I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Thanks.

 

[dan26552]

Thanks.

 

[dan26552]

Anyone grown sweet potatoes?

 

[Arielle]

Quote: lol spent the day looking at utube videos. THought I had an original idea...naught!!!! lol Will use traditional methods to grow tomatos a nd try mr wilburs method for tomatos.

Quote: I have satellite Internet, when there is clouds or storms my Internet will not work right. Sometimes I only get the words and no pics or videos.
Wild Blue Internet is not all that it is cracked up to be!
Here is the video on the kiddie pool garden that I am doing.

@Arielle this is it. The float is in the clear plastic container and the rocks cover the standing water. It's easy. I am going to do a couple of these for now.
I'm ok wiith leaving the floor bbare and letting the water go dry periodically. This will kill off the mosquito larve
and reduce the algae. though I see the algae as a healthy thing. This set up looks very attractive!!!

Anyone grown sweet potatoes?

Not yet.....but someday soooooon!!

 

[RustedOak]

Anyone grown sweet potatoes?

I've got slips growing now. This will be my first time though

 

[dan26552]

I've got slips growing now. This will be my first time though

Oh, nice.

 

[CherMoz]

This will be my sixth year growing sweet potatoes. I have to pre-warm the soil in the spring here in Wisconsin to get a head start on the growing season. I save several sweet potatoes from the prior year and set up row tunnels in mid April to encourage said saved sweet potatoes to sprout. I then plant the slips in mid May in the preheated ground.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: lol spent the day looking at utube videos. THought I had an original idea...naught!!!! lol Will use traditional methods to grow tomatos a nd try mr wilburs method for tomatos.

Quote: I have satellite Internet, when there is clouds or storms my Internet will not work right. Sometimes I only get the words and no pics or videos.
Wild Blue Internet is not all that it is cracked up to be!
Here is the video on the kiddie pool garden that I am doing.

@Arielle this is it. The float is in the clear plastic container and the rocks cover the standing water. It's easy. I am going to do a couple of these for now.
I'm ok wiith leaving the floor bbare and letting the water go dry periodically. This will kill off the mosquito larve
and reduce the algae. though I see the algae as a healthy thing. This set up looks very attractive!!!

Anyone grown sweet potatoes?

Not yet.....but someday soooooon!!
I have several kiddie pools left over from all the turkey pens that I am using for gardening this year. I had to buy an fake garden owl to keep the squirrels out of the beds! I am also ordering some rubber snakes to keep them out of some of my fruit trees so that I can have some fruit!

 

[dan26552]

This will be my sixth year growing sweet potatoes. I have to pre-warm the soil in the spring here in Wisconsin to get a head start on the growing season. I save several sweet potatoes from the prior year and set up row tunnels in mid April to encourage said saved sweet potatoes to sprout. I then plant the slips in mid May in the preheated ground.

Oh, nice. I'm going to grow them this year, though I don't think I'll need to warm up the soil, I already have tomatoes with tomatoes on them.