((Serious Gardening))

[mtnkids]

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Been using facebook too much. Looking for a like button, this was funny! It hasn't been 30 years, but its been long enough I can laugh without looking over my shoulder!!

 

[galanie]

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Ummm... How is this thread not closed?

LOL

I think someone doesn't know what a Jiffy Pot is. Not a jiffy Pot Plant, seeds grown in a Jiffy Pot. It's a little thing of peat moss in a webbing that you start seeds in.

 

[Smittenroade]

Hydroponics does seem to have a marijuana stereotype around it. I was double checked many times while buying the supplies for my DWC (deep water culture) system. My favorite thing about it all is I can grow super fast, even in the winter. Not many people get two and a half harvests a year.

 

[Junkmanme]

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Another "funny story".....

When I lived in Colorado...a long while back...I had 2 porches and 2 front doors (odd-ball house). At Christmas, I put a red flood light on one porch-light and a green flood-light on the other porch-light...for decorations.

I didn't take them down after Christmas....just didn't bother with it.

Later I learned from a friendly neighbor...that some of the neighbors thought I was selling "dope". They had "speculated" that the red light was on when I didn't have any illegal drugs...but the green light was on when I DID have illegal drugs available.

People are very strange.

I just laughed and left the colored lights on the porches. But, surprisingly, no "eager rookie cops" bothered to RAID my house.
TODAY...I doubt that I would consider it funny. Too many CRAZY D.E.A. "swat-teams" looking for something to do.

Marlboros suit me fine.
-Junkmanme-

 

[Wildlife]

Prepared one of my raised beds just yesterday.Will be planting some stuff today,more next week.Posted my bed preparation on this forum.*PIC HEAVY* Check out my posting-"If you build it -They will come" (Earthworms)

HAPPY GARDENING CHICKEN-PEOPLE!

 

[cybercat]

How did I miss this thread.

I am an unoffical organic gardner. Always have been since dad taught me that way. I just had neibor turn our garden getting it ready to till. It is about 75 feet by 100 feet I think, can't remeber since its been 3 years. I used too have a compost pile but now with chickens I do not need one. Since they free range I just dump our veggi refuse ooutside for them to finish off. Their coop bedding goes in the garden all winter long and at the start of spring. We did not grow anything last year but will this year to restock.

One hald of garden will be corn and lima beans. The other half to be tomatoes, mangle beets, blacksunflower and salad stuff like carrots and radishes, also purple beans. After tomatoes and salad stuff is done then goes in kale. As you can see most of the garden this year is for the chickens not for us. I also have front of house garden where I will grow extra tomatoes like the cherry instead of the romas and more sunflowers for the chickens. I am hoping this year to be a good year since we took two years off and built the soil.

 

[galanie]

Yay! Our kids are listening after all

My daughter and son each have an organic garden as well. Me and their dad drilled that into them. Organic gardens was a new, kinda hippie thing to do when we started gardening and I'm so glad that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.

You feed your soil, and your soil will feed the plants. It's simple but takes a completely different mindset from the old "dump on the chemicals" way of doing things.

 

[little_chick]

I too can't wait to put in a garden...

 

[happyhensny]

My garden goes in on Mother's Day. Yes, I'm a Mom and yes, that is how I want to spend my day. My kids come in and out helping or just keeping me company or bringing a cold drink. Just getting it started by putting in those little plants makes summer seem all that closer. In my area that is early to start (In zone 5) but the past 5 years or so I've been lucky and no frost.

 

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

I'm on the plains of Colorado, also zone 5, and I usually put my garden in the weekend of Memorial Day. I probably could a bit earlier, but inevitably, when I do, it snows! I also jump start everything possible. Like 2 weeks before, I'll start peat-pellets with corn so they'll have sprouted. No transplanting shock because the peat pellet goes in as is.

I've already started most of my tomatoes and peppers, and have several other. I'm doing a lot of containers this year so it will just be a full front-room until May!

Can already taste the beans! Yum!