Homesteaders

[Loc20chick]

don't plant them too deep. I was told to simply throw them in some upturned soil and cover with mulch.

Thanks, will be covering with dry leaves since they are abundant at this time.

 

[KlopKlop]

don't plant them too deep. I was told to simply throw them in some upturned soil and cover with mulch.

Not sure exactly where you live, but isn't it crazy you can still be planting at this time of year? My Facebook time hop keeps showing me photos I shared from a snowmobile trip I did this week last year and there was many inches of snowpack built already. The grass here is still green and the ground hasn't even froze! The wildlife is confused and I'm afraid my plants are doing to start coming up again!

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Not sure exactly where you live, but isn't it crazy you can still be planting at this time of year? My Facebook time hop keeps showing me photos I shared from a snowmobile trip I did this week last year and there was many inches of snowpack built already. The grass here is still green and the ground hasn't even froze! The wildlife is confused and I'm afraid my plants are doing to start coming up again!

Yes, It did freeze the ground here for a few weeks, but we have had warm weather, 40's to 60s, this week. So The ground is thawed. I am enjoying it, I am sure it will get bitter cold again soon.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Not sure exactly where you live, but isn't it crazy you can still be planting at this time of year? My Facebook time hop keeps showing me photos I shared from a snowmobile trip I did this week last year and there was many inches of snowpack built already. The grass here is still green and the ground hasn't even froze! The wildlife is confused and I'm afraid my plants are doing to start coming up again!

Well I'm in NYS and it's 42° this morning. This is insane. It needs to freeze and snow so my yard can restart in spring. Much longer and we will have to get the mower back out. My kids want to sled and build igloo but cant.

 

[KlopKlop]

Yes, It did freeze the ground here for a few weeks, but we have had warm weather, 40's to 60s, this week. So The ground is thawed. I am enjoying it, I am sure it will get bitter cold again soon.

Our top inch or two froze for a week or so but has since thawed. I am enjoying not having to do chicken chores in a polar vortex but on the other side of the coin, everything is wet and muddy. The chickens are so dirty!! I need to haul in some dry sand so they can dust bathe

 

[Loc20chick]

Not sure exactly where you live, but isn't it crazy you can still be planting at this time of year? My Facebook time hop keeps showing me photos I shared from a snowmobile trip I did this week last year and there was many inches of snowpack built already. The grass here is still green and the ground hasn't even froze! The wildlife is confused and I'm afraid my plants are doing to start coming up again!

Eastern shore MD has been pretty warm too, right now 61 and sunny. my daughter has woken up disappointed two days in a row asking for snow.

 

[Woodsdweller]

I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in on winter gardening. I have a small 6'x6'x8' "greenhouse" set up in the basement where I grow tomatoes, green peppers, onions, squash, beans, carrots, cabbage, strawberries, herbs and other stuffies. It's a fairly inexpensive setup using concrete blocks, planking and grow lights. It's also useful for starting seeds for planting outdoors in the spring. I will be expanding the area sometime in the near future to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins.

Here is a quick peek at last year's crops.





I have info on DIY earthboxes and container gardening if anyone is interested.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in on winter gardening. I have a small 6'x6'x8' "greenhouse" set up in the basement where I grow tomatoes, green peppers, onions, squash, beans, carrots, cabbage, strawberries, herbs and other stuffies. It's a fairly inexpensive setup using concrete blocks, planking and grow lights. It's also useful for starting seeds for planting outdoors in the spring. I will be expanding the area sometime in the near future to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins. Here is a quick peek at last year's crops. I have info on DIY earthboxes and container gardening if anyone is interested.

yes share your info please.

 

[KlopKlop]

I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in on winter gardening. I have a small 6'x6'x8' "greenhouse" set up in the basement where I grow tomatoes, green peppers, onions, squash, beans, carrots, cabbage, strawberries, herbs and other stuffies. It's a fairly inexpensive setup using concrete blocks, planking and grow lights. It's also useful for starting seeds for planting outdoors in the spring. I will be expanding the area sometime in the near future to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins. Here is a quick peek at last year's crops. I have info on DIY earthboxes and container gardening if anyone is interested.

Very cool! I use racks and fluorescent lights for seed starting in my house, but never have I done full plant growth

 

[rancher hicks]

I mowed grass a couple of days ago. Just to use up the gas in the mower.

I have considered a basement set up for starting seeds. I'm torn between selling and moving into an apt. Then we could move south for winter or go north for a couple weeks in the summer. Old age makes so hard to decide.

DD wants us to come for Christmas next year, as if at our age we know if we'll be alive. DW and her health though she tells the doc she feels fine, getting her to go to church isn't easy. Where we go church is four times a week. Though we don't go four times a week.

Anyhow I'm still looking at seed catalogues and feeding the chickens and collecting eggs. I guess if we were making some money. Being retired isn't all it's cracked up to be. No one want to hire part timers at our age.

In other news, Readers Digest story.

Mom to riding instructor, "do you have an smaller horses, these seem big for my daughter? "

Instructor: Our horses are very gentle.

Mom: How about that one over there, it looks to be the right size.

Instructor: That's a goat!

If I didn't know people I would not believe it.