What did you do in the garden today?

[lazy gardener]

Mulch, more mulch, and more mulch. Then, add some mulch! It takes time. If you like to read, check out Back to Eden, and for grins and giggles, read anything by Ruth Stout. IMO bare soil is never a good thing. It should either be growing a crop, or heavily mulched and growing a crop, or growing a cover or green manure crop.

 

[cutechick53]

I built my first greenhouse!!!

It is one of the groundwork greenhouses that have joints, so I don't have to use power tools, yay! My dad is a carpenter and doesn't trust me with power tools. So what if I cracked one of the main beams in the chicken tractor while putting a door on...

 

[hennible]

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First greenhouse awesome!! How big? What are you going to grow in it?!

 

[erinszoo]

Hi gardening folks.
We recently bought a new home. Our soil is super sandy. I am trying to come with ways to improve my soil for free. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

Leaves are a great source for improving the soil. We rake them up in fall and pile them on the beds, keep them wettish, and they will rot away and turn into a lovely loam. Chicken waste with bedding is good too, but don't use it fresh as it will burn plants. Rabbit manure is perfect. Egg shells. Veggie waste. Burn any plant matter that is weedy or small limbs that need trimmed back on your garden beds and rake out the ash. Pile everything on and stir together. It will take you years to probably get great soil but piling on any organic matter you can will make a great leap ahead for you.

 

[hennible]

I use fresh chicken manure in my garden, well fresh bedding with fresh manure in it and it doesn't burn my plants I think it's because it's heavily mixed with hay and wood shavings... Carbon seems to balance out the big nitrogen load...
Hey Bama are those ponds full of pond weeds? Lake weed, sea weed what ever... Piles some of that crap on your garden it'll be super nutrient packed and you can clean out some pond weeds (if you have them). I mean the loose weed types that stay completely submerged in the water ( they flower above water though ) not grasses, the stuff I'm talking about you can rake out with a gravel rake and it will just break off... if you have water plants like that, that is...
Like this stuff

 

[cutechick53]

First greenhouse awesome!! How big? What are you going to grow in it?!

A 5 foot by 4 foot. So far seed starting, then later in the season peppers and other heat lovers!

 

[hennible]

Nice start! I Love growing peppers!

 

[Amberjem]

if you have any trees down you could ditch dig put the logs into the ditch and then branchs loose mulchy matteril then cover with dirt and grow on the mound... it will help enrichen the soil as it breaks down compsoting will also help with reduction of need to water and such...

 

[Ethelsimmons]

Well, I've recently grown some interest in gardening after a trip of mine. I've started with a rose flower and bougainvillea. I've been watering them since 3 days. I'm pretty excited about it.

 

[cutechick53]

Well, I've recently grown some interest in gardening after a trip of mine. I've started with a rose flower and bougainvillea. I've been watering them since 3 days. I'm pretty excited about it.

Bougainvillea grow like CRAZY here! Gardening is a very worthwhile hobby. Happy gardening!