BYC gardening thread!!

[A-K-A]

I've grown potatoes from kitchen scrap right in the compost bin. A bed of clean straw works well also. If you know a cattle farmer, you might persuade them to give you a load of "punk" - the rotting hay from round bales that the cattle won't eat. Cover your seed potatoes with that. Weeds are easily plucked from it has are the tubers when they mature. Potatoes love loose ground. Compacted earth stuns the growth.

 

[Bugseye]

Okay, that reminds me I have to add more straw to the potatoes. Thought I was done for the day.

 

[Arielle]

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Quote:I have heard mixed things about root crops, and I would research that further if I were you. But I have back pain when I have to do constant bending, so having my garden at knee height is much better!

Potatos are very forgiving and flexible on the material they are grown in, based on a lot of reading I did on methods to grow potatoes. Basically whatever blocks the sunlight they are happy with. THank you for the link to that article. Going to go read it asap!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Great-- thanks for the details!!! WIll try for that set up next year! Um, what kind of bulb? Just a standard florecent bulb??? ( As for my bulbs, one doesnt work already, and the other isnt even close to the 20,000 hours it is rated for!!

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[lazy gardener]

Just plain old shop lights.

 

[dan26552]

Anyone grow Amaryllis?

 

[hennible]

I have... Inside
Think one of the house plants is a peach amaryllis... Not positive its amaryllis though... Lol

 

[hippiestink]

Anyone with tips on harvesting bread seed poppies? Got some wild ones (probably from a bird) that are a really nice cultivar that are in the pod stage, but so far all I've seen online is just to wait until the vents under the top open up and the pod dries out a little. We live in a really rainy area, so is there some way I can expedite the process or should I just wait?

 

[dan26552]

I have... Inside
Think one of the house plants is a peach amaryllis... Not positive its amaryllis though... Lol

Oh cool. mine are outside

 

[hennible]

Anyone with tips on harvesting bread seed poppies? Got some wild ones (probably from a bird) that are a really nice cultivar that are in the pod stage, but so far all I've seen online is just to wait until the vents under the top open up and the pod dries out a little. We live in a really rainy area, so is there some way I can expedite the process or should I just wait?

I'd try to wait, but if you think they are fully developed you could dry them in paper bags and then shake the seed out

Oh cool. mine are outside

Well my climate sucks so indoors it is