Gardening Thread 2021

[PioneerChicks]

Who is excited for gardening season?

What are your plans? Are you trying anything new this year? Are you growing a garden for your chickens?

 

[lilmillefleur]

I hope indoor plants are allowed here...I've got my own little garden starting in my bedroom...hoping to move into my sisters' old bedroom soon, too, because it has a round turret in it with lovely south and east-facing windows!

Anyway, I got several new plants today!
Silver Sprinkles Pilea, Flaming Katy, String of Buttons, Easter Cactus, Tippy Echeveria, and Astridia velutina. <3 <3 I think I'm becoming an addict. Actually, I know I am. And I'm still a newbie...all of the ones I've had for a while are barely alive...lol. I'm learning a lot though and I got some watering apps that should definitely help!

I also came really close to buying another orchid. But like a more exotic kind, not just your run-of-the-mill Phalaenopsis. But since they are more difficult (and expensive!!) I thought it would be a good idea to get the hang of plant keeping a little while longer. My own Phalaenopsis still need more attention!

My freshly potted Katy! It's really tiny and cute!

Sorry for hijacking the thread. This is for FOOD gardening, isn't it I guess I just really wanted to share

 

[turkey girl 0964]

Yay! My honeydew finally came up after like 3 weeks!

 

[turkey girl 0964]

I love to garden and provide for my family. We have: tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, peppers, Okra, ground cherries, watermelon, honeydew, heat tolerant carrots, root vegetables, potatoes, lettuce, cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, onions and leeks, and herbs. Pretty much and herb.

 

[DucksAreBest]

I Will Plant:
Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Potatoes, Peas, Beans, Watermelons, Melons, Cabbages, Lettuce, Peppers, Green Onions, Purple Onions, Garlic, Carrots, Radishes, Beets, And Lots Of Herbs.

 

[Sally PB]

Mara des Bois

This is my second year with these. I can't wait to taste the strawberries.... !

The name means "Mara of the woods," which fits! My dog's name is Mara, and we live in the woods.

 

[Imse]

What an adventure! We seem to be such a large family that our produce is gone as soon as it comes

There is only one cure for that; grow even more and preserve even more Less grass, more veggie beds in the garden.

I really wish we had pressure canners here in Norway. There have not been a tradition for pressure canning in Scandinavia, we keep our potatoes in cellars which holds perfect temperature for potatoes, carrots, turnips, onions and cabbage. People have been preserving with water bathing... But that will not do for Carrots and beans.
And summer is rarely long and hot enough to dry beans so they need to be freezed.
But it would have been a dream just to take a jar of ready peeled, sliced Carrots and just heat for dinner. I do freeze some veggies., but I need the space for meat etc... and when the snow storms howl, there is always a risk of being without electricity for some hours or a day or two.

 

[riss]

That's how I'm feeling Sally. I want to start but it gets warm then super cold. Just want some consistent weather

 

[Percheron chick]

They will germinate faster. Your germination rate will also be higher because every seed is "watered".
Simple test to prove it. Soak 4 squash seeds. Plant. Plant another hill with 4 seeds. Which hill sprouts first?

 

[riss]

Clearing out a lot of area today so I can plant my pumpkins. Will be my first time with this plant so we will see how it goes