when are you sowing your garden this year?

[cofi]

simple one for a 1st timer. Doing them out of 5 gal buckets, with lots of drain holes. Basil, oregano, few pepper plants.

You can get away with way smaller pots for the herbs

[cofi]

I just planted my hops rhizomes this weekend. I'll add a pic later tonight.

Started the seeds this weekend indoors as well.

Your doing beer from homegrown hops???

I don't start out indoors out by me it's impossible to harden them off from the wind out here

[rbeau30]

Your doing beer from homegrown hops???

I don't start out indoors out by me it's impossible to harden them off from the wind out here

I'm going to attempt it. I got the rhizomes from a hops farm in Colorado.

Hops is one of the most expensive ingredients, especially when i do an IPA. The first year I am anticipating a very small harvest of hops while the plants get established, but I have a really sunny side of my house that I think they will like. I was able to get 11 and a half feet of hops twine from the ground to the eave of my house. Hopefully I don't have any neighbors that turn me into the HoA.. HA!

[Great-Kazoo]

You can get away with way smaller pots for the herbs

want space for 2-3 per and ability to germinate.

[TFOGGER]

We already have a lot of stuff going in the greenhouse, lettuce and spinach in coldframes, and bucket potatoes going. the wife's corn is already over a foot tall in the greenhouse. We had fresh tomatoes all winter long this year.

[rbeau30]

Bucket potatoes? Tell me more!

This sounds like fun, are you growing them like this?

[TFOGGER]

Bucket potatoes? Tell me more!

This sounds like fun, are you growing them like this?

Yeah, same basic deal. 5 gallon bucket with drain holes, gravel, weed barrier, 4 inches of soil, plant 2 or 3 seed chunks, keep adding dirt as the shoots start to peek through to keep the potatoes from turning green. Should yield about 40 lbs per bucket by the time the dirt gets to the top.

[rbeau30]

Yeah, same basic deal. 5 gallon bucket with drain holes, gravel, weed barrier, 4 inches of soil, plant 2 or 3 seed chunks, keep adding dirt as the shoots start to peek through to keep the potatoes from turning green. Should yield about 40 lbs per bucket by the time the dirt gets to the top.

THAT looks like fun! I have a project for the weekend thanks!

[earplug]

We have good luck with Green Peppers, Tomatoes and Egg Plants the past couple of years. Beans are always working.

[cofi]

Yeah, same basic deal. 5 gallon bucket with drain holes, gravel, weed barrier, 4 inches of soil, plant 2 or 3 seed chunks, keep adding dirt as the shoots start to peek through to keep the potatoes from turning green. Should yield about 40 lbs per bucket by the time the dirt gets to the top.

How much dirt are you putting on top of the shoots? When do you harvest?