BYC gardening thread!!

[urbanchange90]

I picked up seeds for next year not all of them but about 75% I'm really excited and becoming impatient haha

 

[Bogtown Chick]

It's been a while since I've visited. We've been under the white stuff a couple months now. But saw the Gardening stuff and seeds replacing the Christmas items at Fleet Farm this past weekend and my mind has been wondering back to Gardening.

You know, Mark, I thought I was a good gardener...but I just went through the pictures on here that all of you have taken since I last visited. You all are PROFESSIONALS! LOL.

Anyways I've I got my Tyvek bags behind the coop filling up with frozen poo from the coop and we'll be spreading it before it thaws completely and dreaming of sweet corn, sweet peas, tomatoes and all that garden goodness.

I saw some cattle panels in action trellising some peas into quaint curvy paths in a friend's garden. I have to say they are on my "to buy list" this spring. Cant wait!

 

[lazy gardener]

Cattle panels... can't garden without them! You can also put them parallel to each other, about 15" apart and grow your tomatoes between them. Or curve them into an inverted U with plastic over the top, and minimal wood framing, for a grow tunnel or mini green house, or chicken coop or chicken tractor. Or lay them over a hay bale frame, supported by 2 x 4's for a cold frame.

Where do you get your Tyvec bags?

 

[marktoo]

It's been a while since I've visited. We've been under the white stuff a couple months now. But saw the Gardening stuff and seeds replacing the Christmas items at Fleet Farm this past weekend and my mind has been wondering back to Gardening.

You know, Mark, I thought I was a good gardener...but I just went through the pictures on here that all of you have taken since I last visited. You all are PROFESSIONALS! LOL.

Anyways I've I got my Tyvek bags behind the coop filling up with frozen poo from the coop and we'll be spreading it before it thaws completely and dreaming of sweet corn, sweet peas, tomatoes and all that garden goodness.

I saw some cattle panels in action trellising some peas into quaint curvy paths in a friend's garden. I have to say they are on my "to buy list" this spring. Cant wait!

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the photos. Retired empty nesters....makes a big difference.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Cattle panels... can't garden without them! You can also put them parallel to each other, about 15" apart and grow your tomatoes between them. Or curve them into an inverted U with plastic over the top, and minimal wood framing, for a grow tunnel or mini green house, or chicken coop or chicken tractor. Or lay them over a hay bale frame, supported by 2 x 4's for a cold frame.

Where do you get your Tyvec bags?

Such great ideas for the cattle panels!

My tyvec bags are my empty feed bags, dog food bags, etc.

 

[lazy gardener]

Don't have Tyvec bags here. Either paper or printed tarp like material.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I think those printed tarp like ones will work nice too. That's what I'm referring to... plastic-like...holds moisture a bit so it won't tear. those are the ones. I call it tyvek...because it's like it but maybe it's different...LOL.

Anyways...anything like that holds my droppings for me until I can get to the garden when the snow breaks.

 

[lazy gardener]

I just pile all of my bedding on a tarp and drag it across the snow to where I want to dump it. What ever works!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

That's how I get our straw and extra leaves off the septic mound (for insulation so we don't freeze up) and down to the compost pile in the spring. Those tarps work good that way.... That compost bin will be overflowing and then....by mid summer it's only a foot or less deep of black compost. Amazing...

 

[marktoo]

I use the cloth from broken folding chairs to haul vegetation from the garden to the compost pile.