Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[R2elk]

where in sw pa? we're in sw pa about 45 miles from pittsburgh toward morgantown wv

At the end it was between Jeannette and Greensburg in Westmoreland County. Used to be on a farm outside of West Newton. I know where Scottdale is and have been there.

 

[sharron]

how about that, yes, know it quite well, west newton is about ten miles away, my vet used to be in west newton and we go to greensburg all the time, jeannette, not so much

 

[Clrflowers]

This thread is a great idea, thanks. I'm 55 but have issues that make gardening difficult. I need/want to and am going to read through this when I Get a chance. One thing that I have done so far is use a turned up old refrigerator with the parts taken off of course as a planter it's not real high but it's not always down on the ground either. Of course I had To get somebody to bring it to me andTip it. But the sections make it into 3 separate beds I grow potatoes of a few varieties in there. Looking forward to more ideas. I've grown tomatoes and peppers and a lot of root vegetables in the past and would like to do it again I also have trouble with birds eating all my products

 

[sharron]

This thread is a great idea, thanks. I'm 55 but have issues that make gardening difficult. I need/want to and am going to read through this when I Get a chance. One thing that I have done so far is use a turned up old refrigerator with the parts taken off of course as a planter it's not real high but it's not always down on the ground either. Of course I had To get somebody to bring it to me andTip it. But the sections make it into 3 separate beds I grow potatoes of a few varieties in there. Looking forward to more ideas. I've grown tomatoes and peppers and a lot of root vegetables in the past and would like to do it again I also have trouble with birds eating all my products

welcome
i have one of the those too, when we bought this place there were two of them here, the man that owned it was a fisherman and put worms in them but i couldn't keep the worms in them so the one was taken to the dump and the "good"one has my flower bulbs in it and on the little side(freezer) has carrots now, i have some raised bed at home that i have flowers and mint in but most of the stuff goes into my garden, when i have to, have a chair to pick things

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

bob, may i ask you a question about onions?
i bought some candy onions from johnnys and of course they shipped them on 2/24, what i want to know is, do i go ahead and plant them in cups or will they be ok til we go back up north in april?

If you have somewhere that's 50-60 degrees that's also dark I would store them, and plant in April. As long as they aren't sprouting you are okay.

 

[R2elk]

If you have somewhere that's 50-60 degrees that's also dark I would store them, and plant in April. As long as they aren't sprouting you are okay.

I am assuming that she bought live plants and not bulbs.

 

[cmom]

thank you. that will make it much easier, in bunches, didn't even think of that but then this is the first time i've ordered onion plants never to old to learn, just learned i can start fruit from the seeds, the apple tree may not grow true but its an apple, the citrus should grow true, my orange trees came from a man who threw some seeds out by his house and they grew til now he has oranges out the ears lol, we will see if i'm lucky enough to live that long

More than likely if you are growing citrus from seeds the trees will have thorns on them. Grafted trees don't usually do this.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I am assuming that she bought live plants and not bulbs.

I thought about that after I posted it. We generally plant sets here, or seeds. I forgot they also come in started plants, so it does depend what they have. I assumed sets, so that's what my answer reflected.

 

[Molpet]

If you have somewhere that's 50-60 degrees that's also dark I would store them, and plant in April. As long as they aren't sprouting you are okay.

I have only seen"candy' as plants or seeds... Only sets I seen are yellow red or white with out names

 

[R2elk]

I thought about that after I posted it. We generally plant sets here, or seeds. I forgot they also come in started plants, so it does depend what they have. I assumed sets, so that's what my answer reflected.

I have found that live plants do much better for me than bulbs (sets). The sets often tended to grow into two bulbs while the plants just form one big beautiful bulb.

I just don't have the patience to deal with planting the seeds.