Nevadans?

[SunnyDawn]

Wow, hi all! I can't believe how wise so many of you are. Gosh you just seem to know exactly what I need to hear right now! Again you have me bawling like a baby. I appreciate you all so much! I'm also enjoying the normal day to day posts. Helps take my mind off stuff.

Elizabeth, thank you so much for the offer of food but we haven't really got a way to sit down and enjoy a meal right now. Such a sweet offer though!

VegasChick I am planning on trying pole beans on corn stalks this year. I read that they are very simpatico. Something about fixing nitrogen. Brain is foggy right now but I'm pretty sure the beans fix nitrogen in the soil which the corn needs and the corn provides the perfect amount of shade for the roots of the pole beans as well as giving them something to climb on. I also read that pumpkins do well with corn.

Aubrey, I would love some of those grounds. Won't need them for another month or so though. Coffee grounds are some of the best soil conditioners around. Garden gold! So are crushed egg shells by the way.

I wish I had the time to respond to every one of your heartfelt posts! Hugs to you all. Thank you so much!!!

 

[NevadaRon]

Wow, hi all! I can't believe how wise so many of you are. Gosh you just seem to know exactly what I need to hear right now! Again you have me bawling like a baby. I appreciate you all so much! I'm also enjoying the normal day to day posts. Helps take my mind off stuff.

Elizabeth, thank you so much for the offer of food but we haven't really got a way to sit down and enjoy a meal right now. Such a sweet offer though!

VegasChick I am planning on trying pole beans on corn stalks this year. I read that they are very simpatico. Something about fixing nitrogen. Brain is foggy right now but I'm pretty sure the beans fix nitrogen in the soil which the corn needs and the corn provides the perfect amount of shade for the roots of the pole beans as well as giving them something to climb on. I also read that pumpkins do well with corn.

Aubrey, I would love some of those grounds. Won't need them for another month or so though. Coffee grounds are some of the best soil conditioners around. Garden gold! So are crushed egg shells by the way.

I wish I had the time to respond to every one of your heartfelt posts! Hugs to you all. Thank you so much!!!

The Native Americans used to plant pole beans, squash, and corn together on mounds (I think pumpkin would qualify). Something about the symbiotic nature of the three plants- I don't remember exactly what it was now. But it's not just the nutrients, the combination would somehow ward off animals that would damage the crops, too.

Wish I was close enough to get in on some of those coffee grounds! I wonder if Starbucks gives them away too?

 

[vegaschick]

I had heard that about that planting technique of 3 in one. I kinda tried once but the beans were so slow germinating that the others over shaded them and they died. I am willing to try it again though. maybe I'll start them separately then combine. maybe it was the variety. ???

I have had great luck with chard too. I love that stuff! For me, I really struggle with tomatillos. I NEED them for my salsa garden and they grow and grow and spread all over the place and then I finally start getting some fruit of usable size and the frost hits. sigh. maybe I'll start those early too.

Anywho. I did make my first 3 buckets today (yay!) and after following up on some of the info and links provided on the global bucket website I am gonna make some denim bags (like the recycled grocery bags) outta old jeans and try growing in them too using ollas made from 2 clay pots for watering.

 

[laceynoelle]

I'm a horrible gardener, I try, and it never works out. I'm thinking I'll start up a ligitamate project when I've got my own place. Then I'll need loads of advice, hahaha..

I'm like borederline sick, but it wont go away or get full blown horrible. I just want to sleep. :/

 

[Peep_Show]

peep_show: Got the NYD hatch batch all worked out today. Last night my friends stopped by and took 3 SF girls, 1 SF boy, 1 Wheaten Marans boy and Token, the TJ leghorn which may yet be a girl. I sent 8 boys (3 WM and 5 SF) to St. George today and that leaves me with 1 SF girl, 2 WM girls and 1 WM male to grow out in UT for the summer. So glad that's done. I'll try to get some pics to share this week.

Ooooh! Pictures, YES!

I love that you're talking about summer camp in -what- January. Shoot, yours will be laying by that time and the St. George troop should be hunkered down at Freezer Camp by then.

Thank you again for your follow-up on my folly. I am so having to resist the urge to hatch again... Luckily work, travel and conferences have me tied up for the next couple of months that starting a new batch isn't feasible. I need to curb Hatch Fever. Thankfully it's out of remission every year or so. (I have no doubt that when I move to a chicken-friendly place I'll be a hatchin' fool...or just a normal BYCer, in other words.)

BTW, how did your sister take the dispersal off all the chicks? Hopefully with a big smiling "Bye-Bye" and not too upset.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I had heard that about that planting technique of 3 in one. I kinda tried once but the beans were so slow germinating that the others over shaded them and they died. I am willing to try it again though. maybe I'll start them separately then combine. maybe it was the variety. ???

I have had great luck with chard too. I love that stuff! For me, I really struggle with tomatillos. I NEED them for my salsa garden and they grow and grow and spread all over the place and then I finally start getting some fruit of usable size and the frost hits. sigh. maybe I'll start those early too.

Anywho. I did make my first 3 buckets today (yay!) and after following up on some of the info and links provided on the global bucket website I am gonna make some denim bags (like the recycled grocery bags) outta old jeans and try growing in them too using ollas made from 2 clay pots for watering.

I was going to do a 3 Sisters planting this year, but I chose a multi-purpose (fresh and dried) corn that only grows 5 feet tall, so it's not suitable for beans. I have a popup pavilion that I've never used, so I'm going to put that up without the shade, and string lines from it for the beans to climb up, then just plant the squash around the corn.

Have you tried presprouting the beans? A friend from Montana does that, to insure against cold, damp soil that just rots the beans. I did it last year, and it worked magically. Also, I've heard that you should wait until the corn is 12 inches high before planting the beans. They grow so fast, they catch up!

Once, my mom got hold of some old carpeting and she cut strips to use as walkways between rows in the garden. It cut down on the mud and weeds a lot. So when a client told me she was tearing out her carpet, I asked for it. We're going to use some of it to insulate the new coop, and the rest to go between garden rows. I'll probably go through 20 boxknife blades to cut it, though.

I would start tomatillos early. They're the same family as tomatoes and peppers, so I'm assuming the rule applies. Which reminds me... Russ wants tomatillos and I forgot to order some seeds. Does anyone have some that they'd like to swap with me?

 

[chicharomirinda]

I was going to do a 3 Sisters planting this year, but I chose a multi-purpose (fresh and dried) corn that only grows 5 feet tall, so it's not suitable for beans. I have a popup pavilion that I've never used, so I'm going to put that up without the shade, and string lines from it for the beans to climb up, then just plant the squash around the corn.

Have you tried presprouting the beans? A friend from Montana does that, to insure against cold, damp soil that just rots the beans. I did it last year, and it worked magically. Also, I've heard that you should wait until the corn is 12 inches high before planting the beans. They grow so fast, they catch up!

Once, my mom got hold of some old carpeting and she cut strips to use as walkways between rows in the garden. It cut down on the mud and weeds a lot. So when a client told me she was tearing out her carpet, I asked for it. We're going to use some of it to insulate the new coop, and the rest to go between garden rows. I'll probably go through 20 boxknife blades to cut it, though.

I would start tomatillos early. They're the same family as tomatoes and peppers, so I'm assuming the rule applies. Which reminds me... Russ wants tomatillos and I forgot to order some seeds. Does anyone have some that they'd like to swap with me?

Missy, I bought tomatillo seeds so we can certainly swap.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Missy, I bought tomatillo seeds so we can certainly swap.

SWEET! And my family is planning on building the new coop on Feb. 11th, so if you want to work out a massage trade, I can schedule it whenever is good for you.

 

[sherylreno]

I was going to do a 3 Sisters planting this year, but I chose a multi-purpose (fresh and dried) corn that only grows 5 feet tall, so it's not suitable for beans. I have a popup pavilion that I've never used, so I'm going to put that up without the shade, and string lines from it for the beans to climb up, then just plant the squash around the corn.

Have you tried presprouting the beans? A friend from Montana does that, to insure against cold, damp soil that just rots the beans. I did it last year, and it worked magically. Also, I've heard that you should wait until the corn is 12 inches high before planting the beans. They grow so fast, they catch up!

Once, my mom got hold of some old carpeting and she cut strips to use as walkways between rows in the garden. It cut down on the mud and weeds a lot. So when a client told me she was tearing out her carpet, I asked for it. We're going to use some of it to insulate the new coop, and the rest to go between garden rows. I'll probably go through 20 boxknife blades to cut it, though.

I would start tomatillos early. They're the same family as tomatoes and peppers, so I'm assuming the rule applies. Which reminds me... Russ wants tomatillos and I forgot to order some seeds. Does anyone have some that they'd like to swap with me?

What is presprouting? Is there where you sprout them in containers first and then plant them or the paper towel method of sprouting? I have tons of beans I dried and saved for this year's planting. These are the seeds John's great Uncle Leno gave him 2 years ago. A friend of his great Uncle gave them to him in the 40's and their still going. Leno ran out last year so I gave him some to start again this year.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

What is presprouting? Is there where you sprout them in containers first and then plant them or the paper towel method of sprouting? I have tons of beans I dried and saved for this year's planting. These are the seeds John's great Uncle Leno gave him 2 years ago. A friend of his great Uncle gave them to him in the 40's and their still going. Leno ran out last year so I gave him some to start again this year.

I sprouted mine in a paper towel. That way we knew which ones were going to grow, and tossed the non-sprouted ones.