BYC gardening thread!!

[hennible]

The sun shines! This has been a hard week spiritually, mentally, and garden-wise. It's been nothing but cold and rainy but the sun is finally shining and the temps are rising above 50 F. We just got out order of seed for the upcoming year, all organic heirloom. My standard storebought seeds had a really crummy germination rate and so I'm replacing a lot of it in 2016. I'm actually looking forward to this upcoming year. I'm getting more ambitious in my garden with more cultivars and meticulous planning. I'm doing a biointensive plan with space-saving being top priority. Companion planting is a must if I want to grow the amount of food I have planned.

Permaculture/polyculture style! Check out Stepp Holzer, he's in Austria, amazing farmer....

 

[hennible]

I too am looking for a new seed supplier, for the same reason. Collecting seeds from the better crops.

Gray weather seems to get most people down. It has been connecting to many things like alcohol and drug abuse sucide stress fatigue and others. I look at rainy days as a blessing, i refuse to cuss it or let it get me down. Make the best of it weather i watch Lonesome Dove for 200th time work in the shed or clean the house. The cooler weather is easier on my lungs. So it is a blessing from these 100 degree days. I know my god has blessed me and has better plans for me. I make the best of everyday i am above ground.

I like the seed savers exchange, based in Iowa, great germination rate, solid selection, good service and prices. Bulk stuff too... Next year I may stick to my side of the border and order from west coast seeds or salt spring island seeds... Trying to start a seed exchange here is not going well, it seems I know all the seed savers here already...

 

[Peep_Show]

A garden of earthly delights....

BEFORE

AFTER



Some produce from within.....


Black Beauty eggplant


Gypsy peppers


Sweet Banana Peppers



Pickles in the wild!


Red table grapes

 

[A-K-A]

Love the grapes

 

[A-K-A]

I like the seed savers exchange, based in Iowa, great germination rate, solid selection, good service and prices. Bulk stuff too... Next year I may stick to my side of the border and order from west coast seeds or salt spring island seeds... Trying to start a seed exchange here is not going well, it seems I know all the seed savers here already...

I had pur up a seed exchange pay forward whatever seed thread on our Homestead site. Couple people used it. Were starting to collect seeds now for next year.

 

[MeepBeep]

Good luck with those weeds!

We tired real fast from the weeds taking over every year, so this year we decided to invested in a 'container' garden, and let me say I'm not going back to in ground planting anytime soon... A little bit of time and investment this year but it will easily pay for itself over time... Our yields this year have been great (far in excess of previous years) and weeding it beyond painless now, so is watering... And we spaced out the containers so I can actually run the push mower through the garden to clean the paths...

It cost us a bit to setup, we had 15 yards of top soil delivered ($400) and I cut that with copious amounts of crushed straw bedding from the llama/goat barn as well as a good amount of llama and goat pellets... Not perfect soil but it has performed quite well in it's first year, next year will will amend it some more... All the containers were free, they are disposable aka nonreturnable fruit/vegetable containers that I haul away form a local grocery store to save them dumpster space... Spent all last year collecting them so we would have enough...

The tilled ground area was corn this year, but again the weeds took it over, going to revise the way we do that next year...

If you have weed issues, I recommend you at least look into container gardening, I'm sold on it... Another lower weed option is straw bale gardening, just Google it up...

 

[dan26552]

My wild moss rose bloomed!

 

[hennible]

Cool!

 

[hippiestink]

Lol I actually have both a container garden and an in-ground garden. Neither worked for us to keep back the weeds. The only thing we've found to work is the bio-intensive method of gardening. It's really for the best, as I honestly don't care about weeds. Only my father-in-law does.

 

[hippiestink]

A garden of earthly delights....

BEFORE

AFTER



Some produce from within.....


Black Beauty eggplant


Gypsy peppers


Sweet Banana Peppers



Pickles in the wild!


Red table grapes

What seed do you have for the table grapes? The only things I can find are for the very large ones with the large seed in the center and I would like to grow grapes one of these years.