BYC gardening thread!!

[dan26552]

I have not yet tried corn. But after some reading on this site, I have the courage to do so, next year. Read a piece about planting rows two weeks apart with marigolds. I am all over that next year.

Glad yours is up!

This is my pretty much first year growing corn

I grew some when I was about 4 but it never really did anything. I'm trying the 3 sisters. What do the marigolds do? Keep nematodes at bay? I have a ton of marigold seeds, I've saved at least 400 over the last 3 years and last fall my mom bought an ounce of them

which on average is like 8500 seeds.

 

[Wendy High]

Wendy I hope you get enough of all you planted to store them all up. 

I froze mine in a light syrup and they were delish even a year later just like the day I froze them. 

That is good to know.

We share amongst a small group that gardens, the church and can mostly. My sister freezes a lot of her goods. But she has ample room to do so.

 

[dan26552]

A wild patunia




Holy basil.


My pride and joy, a pineapple guava seedling I started form a fruit off my tree.


I started some more artichokes.

 

[Wendy High]

This is my pretty much first year growing corn   I grew some when I was about 4 but it never really did anything. I'm trying the 3 sisters. What do the marigolds do? Keep nematodes at bay? I have a ton of marigold seeds, I've saved at least 400 over the last 3 years and last fall my mom bought an ounce of them   which on average is like 8500 seeds.

Marigolds are a natural pesticide. But I think they make the corn rows pretty. There is a short thread about marigolds on site. Very educational and interesting. At end of corn season, marigolds bloom till frost. Also, you can pull the marigolds at end of season and feed to chickens. Helps yolk color among other things.

I plant the marigolds here mostly bc the seeds I started came from my moms flowers. I gather a couple gallon ziplock baggies worth and replant every year and share locally.

 

[Wendy High]

A wild patunia Holy basil. My pride and joy, a pineapple guava seedling I started form a fruit off my tree. I started some more artichokes.

Very nice petunia! Gotta love it when wild flowers come up. And the pineapple guava is really cool!!! Never heard of it. Goggling to see. I am sooo wanting a green house to grow fruit producing trees like oranges, avacado, lemon. And a pineapple guava tree would be really cool. Your little sprout looks very healthy. I would be interested in purchasing or bartering for some of the pineapple guava seeds. ) I planted warm basil. Two whole flats. Going to spread it out everywhere. Smells good, looks good and cook with it. Going to start finding out what all deer eat, I guess. Thanks for pics!

 

[dan26552]

Marigolds are a natural pesticide. But I think they make the corn rows pretty. There is a short thread about marigolds on site. Very educational and interesting. At end of corn season, marigolds bloom till frost. Also, you can pull the marigolds at end of season and feed to chickens. Helps yolk color among other things.

I plant the marigolds here mostly bc the seeds I started came from my moms flowers. I gather a couple gallon ziplock baggies worth and replant every year and share locally.

Oh, interesting.

Very nice petunia! Gotta love it when wild flowers come up. And the pineapple guava is really cool!!! Never heard of it. Goggling to see. I am sooo wanting a green house to grow fruit producing trees like oranges, avacado, lemon. And a pineapple guava tree would be really cool. Your little sprout looks very healthy. I would be interested in purchasing or bartering for some of the pineapple guava seeds.

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I planted warm basil. Two whole flats. Going to spread it out everywhere. Smells good, looks good and cook with it. Going to start finding out what all deer eat, I guess.
Thanks for pics!

Thanks, me too. Thank you. They're not too common out of the tropics though they are pretty cold hardy. They make great hedges I've heard. That would be cool. I'll let you know when I have seeds. Wow, thats a lot of basil!

Here's my parent tree.

And the flower, the petals are edible.

 

[dan26552]

 

[wabbit1964]

Marigolds are a natural pesticide. But I think they make the corn rows pretty. There is a short thread about marigolds on site. Very educational and interesting. At end of corn season, marigolds bloom till frost. Also, you can pull the marigolds at end of season and feed to chickens. Helps yolk color among other things.

I plant the marigolds here mostly bc the seeds I started came from my moms flowers. I gather a couple gallon ziplock baggies worth and replant every year and share locally.

Thanks for the great info. That reminds me I did not buy any marigold seeds yet, that is what I am missing!

 

[lazy gardener]

My garden MUST have flowers. Nasturtiums are great row markers. Love the marigolds and the calendula also. When the chickens come in to harvest the garden, they clean up all of the calendula seeds, so it no longer re-seeds for me. But, I collect enough seeds before the chickens get to them!

 

[jerryse]

Rain finally got here . It was getting dry . The Bluebells are blooming plus the woodland Phlox / sweet Williams . Rain should help the Morel mushrooms . Had to come in out of the rain .