Have you started your Garden yet?

[rebelcowboysnb]

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What are those? I am thinking of a thousand and one uses in this constantly churning brain of mine...I wish it would quit.
I bet they would be perfect trellis' for mums and asters. Stacked, they be perfect for peas... humm.

They are 275 gallon liquid bulk tanks. They replaced 55 gallon drums for shipping. They take the same space is a pallet with 4 drums but hold as much as 5 drums. New they are about $300 but I sell them used for $50 an if you live by big factorys you can get them pretty cheep. Food grade one are hard to get an cost alot when you do find them. They claim that they can be stacked 4 high when full....

 

[Bleenie]

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My mothers boyfriend grew a couple Orange Trees from seeds. They are still very tiny(about 4") but I am hoping to get one later on to plant, or start some of my own. My Uncle, a few miles away grew Peach Trees that produced like Pros, he was giving them away to everyone

My mother grew Sunflowers last year with excellent luck. She has really sandy, kinda crappy soil too...everything else didn't do very well but the sunflowers got huge.

 

[cybercat]

We are waiting to get our tilled. Hubby cant do it so neibor is with tractor.

What we plan on plating:

tomatoes
sweet corn
lima beans
bush green, purple and yellow beans
potatoes ?
pumpkin later for chickens
typical salad stuff

not sure what else at this stage. Most will be the top 3 due to cost. We have a good farmers market here so we can buy alot we do not grow or use much like cabbage.

 

[Sissy]

Started a few things but the rain today is drowning us out.
Getting tired of it, had to much this year.
Garlic chives and onions are doing great
but the peppers are slow. maybe I planted to early.
I want tomatoes...
lots of different ones so i can can ..Iam ready..
if rain stops and it drys a little.
do want to get in carrots and lettece ,tomatoes, parsley
celery,
last year bought a lot of soil but never again a waste of
money too many weeds almost gave up. but DH
was able to help.
and we have been adding our flocks contribution.
it does do wonders..

 

[3goodeggs]

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What are those? I am thinking of a thousand and one uses in this constantly churning brain of mine...I wish it would quit.
I bet they would be perfect trellis' for mums and asters. Stacked, they be perfect for peas... humm.

They are 275 gallon liquid bulk tanks. They replaced 55 gallon drums for shipping. They take the same space is a pallet with 4 drums but hold as much as 5 drums. New they are about $300 but I sell them used for $50 an if you live by big factorys you can get them pretty cheep. Food grade one are hard to get an cost alot when you do find them. They claim that they can be stacked 4 high when full....

Dang, they are bigger than they look! Stainless?
now I have MORE ideas! you could make a kennel or a coop..., you could cut with a torch and weld them into anything!
I need some...they won't fit in the back of a jeep though.
.... four high is a two story house.
hummmm.....

 

[chooniecat]

oooo-yeah-started the middle of march and have (planted 20' yesterday)40' of romaines, appx 160 bulbs of garlic planted last fall thats 1' tall, radishes, beets, red onion, red potato,parsley,thyme,dill and the rest will have to wait until may. my newer chickens haven't figured out whats up(its a raised garden fortunately) so may get to keep the short fence down around it.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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There aluminum, thats why I question the 4 high thing. I hall 6 on my 20 foot car trailer. I know one will fit between the fenders of a full sized truck so 2 should fit in an 8 foot bed but not sure about closing the tailgate.

Heres one being used as a water catcher somewhere. Shows scale.

Thought of making a water tower with 4 if I could get a food grade one.

 

[Bleenie]

Does anyone use other types of fertilizer?(not chicken poo)

Last year I just got store bougth tomato plants and Had to use fertilizer because they just didnt wanna grow. I used a fish fertilizer i got from Wal-Mart and they got HUGE, like over 3' wide & 4' tall. I wasn't expecting that and they ended up choking out a couple other tomato plants.

I plan to space my tomatoes better this year but still nto sure if i wanna use the fertilizer again, lol.

 

[phoenixmama]

Here in the low desert...we are already in our second growing season of the year. LOL

My peas, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and green onions have been in for a LOOOOONG time. I got most of my summer plants in last month...beans, cucumbers, winter and summer squash (March is the time of year that you can plant both), corn, sunflowers. I'm giving Luffa squash a try this year, to give away as Christmas presents.

 

[jettgirl24]

Most of my stuff is still in starter pots... I've got about 200 seed pots going right now, all sprouted. My herbs are doing ok but my tomatoes look AWESOME. I've never grown tomatoes from seed before so I'm happy to see how well they're doing!

I need to dig out my new veggie bed this weekend, fingers crossed for nice weather

I've got a bunch of stuff to direct sow as soon as I get that done.

I do have a strip of bed dug and planted in the front yard and I've got two kinds of peas and two kinds of beans direct sown at this point. All the peas have sprouted, no beans yet though

I also planted the broccoli, lettuce, spinach, dill, and cilantro in my terraces. Nothing sprouted in there yet either.

I'm so excited this year because I went 100% heirloom and I think I got some super interesting varieties. I'm especially looking forward to the yard long asparagus beans. I haven't planted those yet though because the bush gets so big (10+ feet I hear!) I have no idea where to put it. I'm actually thinking of planting it along the wall of my coop that isn't inside of their run. Can't wait for harvest time!!!