French frogs

[Tumbling K]

I'm going to hay bale garden this year.......

wet the bales down for a few weeks, then plant the seedlings in the bales, with some compost.......

be like having a 24" raised bed.......much easier than fighting the dirt with a tiller.......

 

[dan26552]

Even the cold weather ones? I plan on getting my Swiss chard and potatoes in by late March.

My potatoes are already in.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

El Nino has made our soil plyable, but we'd probably get a 2 week spell of below freezing and kill everything off until about May. But, I'm stoked about growing my pumpkins from the gourd again this year, I've stored that nasty thing for months and can't wait to bury it!

 

[dan26552]

You will have bad knees one day. I gave up fun for efficient
True. I used to have a huge garden and 4 chickens. Now I have huge pens and a small garden

Poor you

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

I can plant my entire garden in potted plants for under $100

It all depends on the size of

got phone call
the size 9f your garden

 

[scflock]

Poor you

It's more than me and Mrs. Flock can eat

got phone call
the size 9f your garden

Are you eating the FUNgus again?

 

[Tumbling K]

It's more than me and Mrs. Flock can eat

Are you eating the FUNgus again?

I think she steeped a tea.......

 

[Cockatrice6420]

Yeah. I haven't seen the real list yet but I do know theres gonna be Chickasaw plums, yellow pawpaws, red buds, dog woods, [COLOR=333333]green ash, American snowbell, sassafras, baldcypress, red maple, river birch, persimmon, chinquapin, Eastern mayhaw, sycamore, live oak, yellow poplar, fringetree (Grancy greybeard), white oak, Florida maple, mackernut hickory, crabapple and sawtooth oak. Mostly I'm looking at the fruit trees. Maybe a redbud.[/COLOR]

I'm giving paw paws a go, I bought saplings a couple years ago and have kept them alive so far. We're also trying the strawberry fruit tree and that's a couple years in the ground. Persimmon is one I've been wondering about for here too. I only have a little over an acre so I have to do a tree culling before I get anything else. I love perinial food sources.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I can plant my entire garden in potted plants for under $100

my garden is pretty big. I have over 40 tomato plants alone. Just as many peppers. One of the variety of peppers I grow the seeds are about a buck a piece.
My garden is 2500 square feet. Plus I have other small plots. And a green house. And I give dozens of plants away to friends every year. Every year I say I'm gonna downsize....never do...I guess it's tomato math.

 

[WVduckchick]

I'm giving paw paws a go, I bought saplings a couple years ago and have kept them alive so far. We're also trying the strawberry fruit tree and that's a couple years in the ground. Persimmon is one I've been wondering about for here too. I only have a little over an acre so I have to do a tree culling before I get anything else. I love perinial food sources.

I started some persimmons from seed. They grew really well to start with, I think I had about 10 plants... then they slowly died on me. They do NOT like to be over-watered. But I'm going to try to start more of them soon.