"Truck Garden 2012" thread
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"Truck Garden 2012" thread
THIS IS A SAVE YOU ($) MONEY THREAD
~Sponsored by ME and my wild imagination...
Lookit - if you think like I do, you wonder where the next dimes in the bucket to be used for your hot wheels are going to come from... (that money vanishes quick, don't it?)
Logic says that money had is subject to money needing to be spent on other stuff - so if you don't need to spend some of that on other things -
You can have it for something ELSE, can't you?
And almost everything in a grocery store is some multiple of $1.49 or more... Like lettuce, celery, TOMATOS!!! (YEAH, I'm like that about tomato's) that you can grow just for fun...
HELLO
I'm talking about spending a small amount on seeds at the right time of year - so that you have FRESH food for a long time, AND CAN STICK PARTS MONEY BACK IN YOUR POCKETS!!!
YO! FTE? ~ are we together on this?
Why should you go to the store for what you can HAVE in your yard?
LETTUCE is the first idea, and a good one. Lettuce is an almost "Leave it alone and just pick it once in a while" plant that you can turn loose like a weed...
In fact - lettuce seeds are small, just like weed seeds. They can drift all over a garden, and you won't realise it until you spot an obvious lettuce or spinach plant where it shouldn't be... (but you can dig them up and move them)
RULE #1 for the second year of growing mixed varieties of lettuce:
If you see a plant that doesn't look like any native plant that grew where it is growing - BUT IT IS LEAFING OUT LIKE A LETTUCE OR SPINACH
Immediately transplant that sucker to a place where you can watch and cultivate it... (It may be something wonderful)
If you even have a five gallon bucket that you can put out on an apartment BALCONY - you can grow stuff to eat I guarantee ya!!!
And it is so much fun!!!!!!
*** I have an Orange tree growing in my living room, here in Memphis Tennessee
I am hereby formally inviting EVERYONE to drop their own $0.02 in this thread right here...
FTE helping all of FTE to keep cash in our very own group wallets...
~Sponsored by ME and my wild imagination...
Lookit - if you think like I do, you wonder where the next dimes in the bucket to be used for your hot wheels are going to come from... (that money vanishes quick, don't it?)
Logic says that money had is subject to money needing to be spent on other stuff - so if you don't need to spend some of that on other things -
You can have it for something ELSE, can't you?
And almost everything in a grocery store is some multiple of $1.49 or more... Like lettuce, celery, TOMATOS!!! (YEAH, I'm like that about tomato's) that you can grow just for fun...
HELLO
I'm talking about spending a small amount on seeds at the right time of year - so that you have FRESH food for a long time, AND CAN STICK PARTS MONEY BACK IN YOUR POCKETS!!!
YO! FTE? ~ are we together on this?
Why should you go to the store for what you can HAVE in your yard?
LETTUCE is the first idea, and a good one. Lettuce is an almost "Leave it alone and just pick it once in a while" plant that you can turn loose like a weed...
In fact - lettuce seeds are small, just like weed seeds. They can drift all over a garden, and you won't realise it until you spot an obvious lettuce or spinach plant where it shouldn't be... (but you can dig them up and move them)
RULE #1 for the second year of growing mixed varieties of lettuce:
If you see a plant that doesn't look like any native plant that grew where it is growing - BUT IT IS LEAFING OUT LIKE A LETTUCE OR SPINACH
Immediately transplant that sucker to a place where you can watch and cultivate it... (It may be something wonderful)
If you even have a five gallon bucket that you can put out on an apartment BALCONY - you can grow stuff to eat
I guarantee ya!!!*** I have an Orange tree growing in my living room, here in Memphis Tennessee
I am hereby formally inviting EVERYONE to drop their own $0.02 in this thread right here...
FTE helping all of FTE to keep cash in our very own group wallets...
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From: The Big, Oregon
My garden failed last year due to a severe lack of organic material in the soil. I fixed that for this year, turned in all my lawn clippings and leaves from the year, but unfortunately I'm moving.
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I feel your pain - and will drink a beer for ya!
DANG...
BUT THERE IS HOPE!
Instead of developing a big patch - start out by digging holes just big enough for what you want to grow there - and DO NOT fertilise the whole plot.
~Just the little plots and holes where you put plants in...
YES! Be STINGY...
*If you fertilise the rows between the plants that you want to grow, then you will propogate WEEDS IN YOUR WALKWAY...
WHY DO THAT?
* I have to admit this hier - that is the sense of humor I inherited from my Poppa
Mister Mel Bartholemew addressed that in his series "Square Foot Gardening" where you DON'T waste the money developing all of the soil in a huge area - but instead concentrate on the NON-WASTED areas wherein the plants actually grow...
Put your best soil in the places where it counts for the most
~GET THE MOST BANG FOR THE BUCK!
And the recommended "MEISTER SOIL"?
1/3 vermiculite (NOT PEARLITE!!!)
1/3 Sphagnum Peat Moss
1/3 Composted soil
Mix it together with a tarp to roll it around!
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From: Monmouth County, NJ
I do this. It's amazing how much, well, it's more fun to eat! if your vegetables are actually fresh.
Rabbits, woodchucks, raccoons, and deer, etc., will eat that meal you're growing unless you make them a part of it.
I got sick of them nibbling one bite out of each tomato so a 6' mesh fence was erected. Buried 18" deep and, yes, also with a roof! No birds either!
Having ball jars can help to make this practice enjoyable in the winter months too. But they're so hard to find nowadays so I still use a lot of ones from the 40's and such. It can be cheaper to buy antique ones at flea markets than new ones at Walmart or Tractor Supply Co. Watch out for chips and suspicious films though.
Rabbits, woodchucks, raccoons, and deer, etc., will eat that meal you're growing unless you make them a part of it.
I got sick of them nibbling one bite out of each tomato so a 6' mesh fence was erected. Buried 18" deep and, yes, also with a roof! No birds either!
Having ball jars can help to make this practice enjoyable in the winter months too. But they're so hard to find nowadays so I still use a lot of ones from the 40's and such. It can be cheaper to buy antique ones at flea markets than new ones at Walmart or Tractor Supply Co. Watch out for chips and suspicious films though.
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Sounds like you have lots of wild company! I wonder how a garden with that much going on could be defended..
I have it good here, no such critters messin' with it all, except the occasional mountain lion
(I'm not funnin'... we have wild cats down around this part of TN. I saw one myself three years ago)
I have it good here, no such critters messin' with it all, except the occasional mountain lion
(I'm not funnin'... we have wild cats down around this part of TN. I saw one myself three years ago)
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From: Butler, IN
Been gardening for years.......I mainly planted peppers, tomatoes and onions for salsa last summer. Put up a bunch of it in the freezer so I gotta get ambitious and can up some more. Speaking of canning jars, here in Amish country, just about any garage sale or hardware store has 'em. Can't wait for warmer weather to get started!
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I think that if you have a place to plant it, it shouldn't go to waste...
ALWAYS try to compost anything leftover from a meal - it builds better plants!
"Waste NOTHING in this world, for it doesn't come often..."
ALWAYS try to compost anything leftover from a meal - it builds better plants!
"Waste NOTHING in this world, for it doesn't come often..."
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From: Coeur d alene, Id
Wolfie my wife and i garden every year...this year we are expanding our garden to 7000 sq feet...yes that is correct... oir goal is to can and have freah food to last a year round...
We grow your typical veggies and we are starting a berry patch as well as a small orchard in the uears to come..
I figured it out and i am growing 8 different peppers as well...
We grow all organic food and order organic heirloom seeds from baker creek..
We also have started saving our own seeds as well so after thus year it will be a very minimal cost after this...
We grow your typical veggies and we are starting a berry patch as well as a small orchard in the uears to come..
I figured it out and i am growing 8 different peppers as well...
We grow all organic food and order organic heirloom seeds from baker creek..
We also have started saving our own seeds as well so after thus year it will be a very minimal cost after this...
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From: The Big, Oregon
I feel your pain - and will drink a beer for ya!
DANG...
BUT THERE IS HOPE!
Instead of developing a big patch - start out by digging holes just big enough for what you want to grow there - and DO NOT fertilise the whole plot.
~Just the little plots and holes where you put plants in...
YES! Be STINGY...
*If you fertilise the rows between the plants that you want to grow, then you will propogate WEEDS IN YOUR WALKWAY...
WHY DO THAT?
* I have to admit this hier - that is the sense of humor I inherited from my Poppa
Mister Mel Bartholemew addressed that in his series "Square Foot Gardening" where you DON'T waste the money developing all of the soil in a huge area - but instead concentrate on the NON-WASTED areas wherein the plants actually grow...
Put your best soil in the places where it counts for the most
~GET THE MOST BANG FOR THE BUCK!
And the recommended "MEISTER SOIL"?
1/3 vermiculite (NOT PEARLITE!!!)
1/3 Sphagnum Peat Moss
1/3 Composted soil
Mix it together with a tarp to roll it around!
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I can say this - beware of adding leaves to your compost, because the PH can shoot sky high....
COFFEE GROUNDS can be an excellent material to scatter in the garden, once you discipline yourself never to waste them. (I usually just chuck them out a side door, I'm working on that)
Nothing recyclable or burnable goes into the regular trash. I have it down to glass bottles and tin cans - which I avoid buying anything in.
Ash from burnable garbage can go into the garden too!
Has anyone thought about starting and selling houseplants, like "Coleus" for sale at flea markets?
COFFEE GROUNDS can be an excellent material to scatter in the garden, once you discipline yourself never to waste them. (I usually just chuck them out a side door, I'm working on that)
Nothing recyclable or burnable goes into the regular trash. I have it down to glass bottles and tin cans - which I avoid buying anything in.
Ash from burnable garbage can go into the garden too!
Has anyone thought about starting and selling houseplants, like "Coleus" for sale at flea markets?
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From: Coeur d alene, Id
We are trying to open up a small farmers market in our home town that we are moving backto inmay... it could be fun....normally we dont sell our food or anything we give it to people we know are having a rough time
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I give a lot away to people I know doggone sure ain't having a hard time - but it all comes back, Y'know.
If my toms do right this year, I think I may have to sell a bunch of them!
But hell and be damned to taxes - this is my HOBBY!
If my toms do right this year, I think I may have to sell a bunch of them!
But hell and be damned to taxes - this is my HOBBY!
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