What will be growing in your garden this year?

[Hobbley_Farm]

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Can you explain Companion planting and also explain a little bit more about the hay. Did you just lay the have over the veggies or did you till it up and under before planting. We have red clay dirt here and it's awefull trying to get a garden worked up in the beginning.

 

[MrsSmitho]

HEHEHE, forgot

Mrs. Sunny Chook up here sounds like us!
We also put in blueberrys, muskberry trees, peaches, grapes and will do more orchard stuff this Spring...ah and my fav, Fig!!!!

I hadn't read ever post until I posted...Mrs. Pupsnpullets, try the hay mulch method in your area, the thicker the better!! It really does do wonders for holding in any moisture

Good luck

 

[English Chick]

pips&peeps :

Fluffy butts......

My garden has been seized by the authorities and has been renovated into a Chicken Daycare Facility.

Love it!"! ROFL....xxx​

 

[Kesta]

not sure yet. propably some veggies so the chooks can eat them

 

[MrsSmitho]

Morning

ew, clay...it is possible though!!

It seems to be easier to till and work when wet...add as muck sand and compost or any kind of fecal compost as possible. The hay breaking down over the growing season can then be tilled into the clay...in a few years, you will have a nice clay-dirt to grow in!

On the hay. I plant in raised beds in the Spring and Summer/ Make the rows, plant the rows and then hay. If they are started plants, you can hay immediately, if they are seed, I usually sprinkle the aged horse poo in the row and when the plants come up 2 to 3 inches, then i hav...or in the case of the squash, I hayed and then made little holes in it and planted...either way worked...the hole in the hay method is easier on things like cucks, peas, beans, melons and squash. I have put the horse poo under and on top of the hay, and both works. The poo (has shavings in it) is like dirt, but also acts as a water holder for the plants.

On the companion planting...it is a WAY less "orgonised" garden, but it sure does make more room for growing!
There are a ton of "companions" : pole beans and sweet peas in the corn. Beans pull up nutrients the corn uses from the deep. Bean roots go deeper and corn does not, so the beans help in not depleating the nutriensa. A lot of plants pull in flavor and nutrients for other plants, like radishes and carrots with tomatoes, tomatoes and peppers,

well, wah, I had a table, but it didn't come across very well...I will link to a few good websites with tables of what to plant with what

well...I have it, I am going to have to figure out how to post...

OR, I can e-mail it

[email protected] anybody interisted

holler if any other questions or if not clear on the hay...oh, sorry, ADD this morning with a chicken in my lap

(she has wet fowl pox and I am trying to save her

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on the thickness of hay...as think as possible, I start with maybe 3 inches, water it down and it will compact well. You can add as thick as desired. JUST BE SURE TO pull it about 2 to 4 inches away from the base of the plant!!!
It can heat up and damage the plant, or smother it...

I also use hay to completely cover some plants through winter...like cut back pepper plants for that wonderful 2nd year huge pepper tree

 

[MrsSmitho]

well, heck, uploaded a pic of my garden this last JUly...and can't figure out how to put on post

 

[Mahonri]

Didn't plant my winter garden this year.

I'll plant the second week of January.

Peas, tomatoes, zuchini, beans etc...