BYC gardening thread!!

[EmSteele]

My garden is SO late but finally got it in last weekend! Tomatoes, green onions, corn, 5 different types of hot peppers, assorted color bell pepper, banana pepper, melons of all kinds, zucchini, cucumber, egg plant, strawberries, spearmint and chocolate mint, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few!

 

[LOVEMYCHICKS03]

We don't have ours YET! We found another turtle!

 

[Penny Hen]

I am going to start mtfirst garden this year..now actually... It'll be a raised bed garden. I am looking into Square Foot Gardening, but I was wondering whether to start my seeds in an egg carton with organic soil..or something else. I've seen them started in eggs and in newspaper "pots". Wanted to start them in an egg crate but I was afraid it would grow moldy or something. Read somewhere that someone's did. I am just very apprehensive about starting the seeds and getting that part right so they'll thrive. Any advice?
Thanks

I use egg shells. Don't bother to start the beans this way they will only grow too fast. Soak them over night and plant them direct. If you are planting corn or peas soak them overnight too and plant direct.
This works very good on tomatoes. When they are about 5 inches you brake the bottom of the egg and plant the whole thing. Squash and watermelon need larger containers because if you cramp their roots you can dwarf the plant.

 

[Penny Hen]

And on other note...yesterday a mole wrecked HAVOC on my small garden. I am beyond furious. I tried to drown/flush it out only to find it mist have been there a lil while...tunnels everywhere, plants were uprooted this morning. Ug. The dog will NOT dig in the gardens. I begged. She will dig basketball size holes ALL over to hunt a mole. She's great at it! But she refuses to do anything but sniff in the beds lol

Plant daffodil bulbs on the edges of your garden. They are poisonous and moles wont burrow past them. Also are you having dry weather? I had problems with moles eating my garden a few years ago and during a very dry summer. I discovered if I poured water in their tunnels in the lawn that they quit coming down to the garden to drink and staying for lunch.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Anyone ever tried making your own hay?

 

[Peaches Lee]

Anyone ever tried making your own hay?

Would love, love, love to make our own hay. Just need the equipment...

I'd feel like a true farmer then.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Would love, love, love to make our own hay. Just need the equipment...

I'd feel like a true farmer then.

Haha! I tried by hand... FAIL!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=26563

 

[Tiller]

My garden is 90% planted. Ended up with 40 + tomato plants, 16 + cucumbers, lettuce, alll sorts of peppers (hots, regular, etc), 10 + squash, zuchini, cantelope, watermellon, pumpkins, 4 kinds of peas, 3 kinds of beans, lima's, onions, cabbage, sunflowers, I'm sure I'm forgetting some, along with all sorts of herbs. I'm also experimentign with vertical trellises for my cucumbers this year, along with building my own tomato trellis's
I started most of my tomatoes, squash, cucs, zucs, cabbage and peppers in my basement from seeds this year and have had great sucess so far with then

 

[EmSteele]

My garden is 90% planted.   Ended up with 40 + tomato plants, 16 + cucumbers, lettuce, alll sorts of peppers (hots, regular, etc), 10 + squash, zuchini, cantelope, watermellon, pumpkins, 4 kinds of peas, 3 kinds of beans, lima's, onions, cabbage, sunflowers, I'm sure I'm forgetting some, along with all sorts of herbs.   I'm also experimentign with vertical trellises for my cucumbers this year, along with building my own tomato trellis's
I started most of my tomatoes, squash, cucs, zucs, cabbage and peppers in my basement from seeds this year and have had great sucess so far with then

WOW! Feel like a total under achiever now!