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LOL, in the late fall / winter my dining room is not useable for eating meals, there are incubators and plants all over the place. No one complains about having to eat in the living room.
My DH is just as bad as I am about the plants and incubators.
Some great ideas, I'll definately have to try the tomato thing, I have a couple of young ones I put out late, but they are healthy, hoping they get a growth spurt as it cools, and of course hoping for some tomatoes since I haven't got any off my plants this year (partially my fault for getting them in late).
I use my chickens for gardening too, I have 2 coops/ 8 garden/runs each, that I plant or allow chickens in to clean up / weed/ eat insects etc.. but this is my first year and the plan needs a little tweaking, but it is working well so far. Linda Woodrow's mandalla gardening was my inspiration, but I have altered it to fit OK and me. I am really excited about next years garden season b/c all the fencing and chickens are in place so I can hit the ground running next year w/ early stuff so maybe I can get a lot of harvest before the bad heat and drought hit.
I have putzed w/ gardening most of my life, but this year I decided to get serious about it and not just rely on what my Gma knew or did, but to actually research other methods it has been very interesting, so many ideas, so many varieties of fruits and veggies, so little time!!! lol
About the tomato thing, when you say cut it back just how drastically? please explain this further.
On the tomatoes I usually cut them back to the main stalks around the first part of September, water them well and give them a week or so to recover from the pruning, then dig them up and re plant in a 5 gallon bucket with holes drilled in the bottom for drainage, set that in a old dishpan, water from the bottom or top. It takes them a bit to regrow leaves and to start to bloom they need it to be fairly warm wherever you put them, I either wack them with a rolled up newspaper or use a feather duster on them to get the blooms going. My granny used to take a broom to hers in the garden, we always thought she was crazy looking doing that.
This year was my first year to try trellis gardening, using hog panels and t post, it worked well, took up a lot less space for vining crops. We arched them over, kinda looked odd to have butternuts and melons hanging from the panels, made picking easy, but did require more water.
LOL, in the late fall / winter my dining room is not useable for eating meals, there are incubators and plants all over the place. No one complains about having to eat in the living room.
Some great ideas, I'll definately have to try the tomato thing, I have a couple of young ones I put out late, but they are healthy, hoping they get a growth spurt as it cools, and of course hoping for some tomatoes since I haven't got any off my plants this year (partially my fault for getting them in late).
I use my chickens for gardening too, I have 2 coops/ 8 garden/runs each, that I plant or allow chickens in to clean up / weed/ eat insects etc.. but this is my first year and the plan needs a little tweaking, but it is working well so far. Linda Woodrow's mandalla gardening was my inspiration, but I have altered it to fit OK and me. I am really excited about next years garden season b/c all the fencing and chickens are in place so I can hit the ground running next year w/ early stuff so maybe I can get a lot of harvest before the bad heat and drought hit.
I have putzed w/ gardening most of my life, but this year I decided to get serious about it and not just rely on what my Gma knew or did, but to actually research other methods it has been very interesting, so many ideas, so many varieties of fruits and veggies, so little time!!! lol
About the tomato thing, when you say cut it back just how drastically? please explain this further.
On the tomatoes I usually cut them back to the main stalks around the first part of September, water them well and give them a week or so to recover from the pruning, then dig them up and re plant in a 5 gallon bucket with holes drilled in the bottom for drainage, set that in a old dishpan, water from the bottom or top. It takes them a bit to regrow leaves and to start to bloom they need it to be fairly warm wherever you put them, I either wack them with a rolled up newspaper or use a feather duster on them to get the blooms going. My granny used to take a broom to hers in the garden, we always thought she was crazy looking doing that.
This year was my first year to try trellis gardening, using hog panels and t post, it worked well, took up a lot less space for vining crops. We arched them over, kinda looked odd to have butternuts and melons hanging from the panels, made picking easy, but did require more water.
