BYC gardening thread!!

[A-K-A]

Pretty dang cool! Mushroom used as pesticide! I want some...
http://www.ewao.com/a/1-he-holds-the-patent-that-could-destroy-monsanto-and-change-the-world

Me too.


I shared this at my Homestead also. Too good to leave to go dead

 

[hennible]

yup
Shared it everywhere I could

 

[bwalden]

Welcome, bwalden!   

Nice plums you've got there!
Isn't it convenient how chickens and gardening just naturally seem to go together?  

Thanks! Yeah they do go great together. Can't beat the free fertilizer either!

 

[bwalden]

Does anyone recognize this plant? It grows all over the place in the woods on my property. Very lovely spring blooms and glossy green leaves. In the fall all those blooms are bright red berries. It's not a vine. Tree or bush like. Almost reminds me of ficus tree

 

[dan26552]

Does anyone recognize this plant? It grows all over the place in the woods on my property. Very lovely spring blooms and glossy green leaves. In the fall all those blooms are bright red berries.

Well I'm 95% sure I know what that is, if its new growth is red then its heavenly bamboo, it grows wild where I live too

 

[whoop whoop]

looks like wild indigo we have very similar but blue

 

[hippiestink]

Does anyone recognize this plant? It grows all over the place in the woods on my property. Very lovely spring blooms and glossy green leaves. In the fall all those blooms are bright red berries. It's not a vine. Tree or bush like. Almost reminds me of ficus tree

I dunno, looks like it could be a holly variant that we have around here. We grow it as a hedge or shrub in Belgium, the birds love the berries.

 

[Bugseye]

Can't get that mushroom link to load on my iPad. I'll get out the laptop in a bit. I've just been doing some routine weeding, fertilizing, reseeding, etc. I'll plan next year's garden differently. I don't like the way this one looks. I'll scale it back some and lay out the planting differently, with better access to the plants. I got too many starts going, beyond my ability to get them planted timely. This season I have to walk on the beds to get to the plants on the far side of the bed; and I think I was too concerned about the microbial life and didn't till as thoroughly as the plants might have liked. It's a let-down, but I am journaling my ideas and hoping to do better. Maybe the book Teaming with Microbes will enlighten me. We'll see.

 

[roseyred]

Getting bigger!!

Tomatoes are doing sooo much better after pruning. Finally flowering

Purple sweet potatoe plant is kicking butt!!! Lol I just keep re burying it but im running outa room to add dirt

The piece of broken off pumpkin plant is growing strong! Hopefully it produces before it gets too cold

Had to cover the basil cause me and this rude caterpillar keep snacking at it

Cucumber!!!!

And these lil things of course.

 

[TheMallons]

Anybody else trying straw bale gardening? We have planted five. Tomatoes, zukes, cukes, peppers and various herbs, so far.