when are you sowing your garden this year?

[Jonsey]

I buy a lot of my seeds from this company. They have a great variety of non GMO seeds.

http://www.rareseeds.com/

[Jonsey]

Researching for my garden next year and how to improve.
I need to use techniques for window planter gardens and not regular gardens. Need better quality seeds and start earlier, and start with pregrown tomato plants as from seed did not grow fruit until first freeze. Probably need to add some clay or other moisture retaining device so soil stays wet longer. The green onions never grew beyond 4" tall, should have been the star of the garden. Need different carrots. Cucumbers may need more sun than the planter location provides. Mo more cabage, the caterpillars killed it.


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These cucumbers grew great for me several years. They are sweet if they get enough water and also make great pickles.

http://www.rareseeds.com/delikatesse-cucumber/

http://www.rareseeds.com/muscade-carrot/

These carrots grew well for us and are tasty. Cover the seeds with a piece of cardboard until they sprout to keep them from washing away.

For tomatoes, choose a plum or cherry variety to get earlier fruit. As far as nice big tomatoes go, I have grown Brandywine and Cour do Bue with lots of success, and they get pretty big but I can harvest them Sept-early October.

My cabbage got eaten too. I do better with kale and mustard greens.

Much luck to you this year!

[Jonsey]

I got to use my little power mate cultivater today. It made fast work of some big old piles of compost and is light enough for me to lift it from level to level.

[earplug]

Have been harvesting my Asparagus, Spinach, Parsnips..
Kiwi and Artichokes came back from the winter, Planted more this year.
Planted more Artichokes.
Have Tomatoes, Peppers, Squash, Beans, more Parsnips in the ground.

[Hummer]

I planted four rhubarb today, just off the edge of our septic field. They will have full sun most all day. I have another that I planted about 6 years ago where it gets plenty of ground water but it doesn't get enough sun. I might transplant it tomorrow.

In prepping the holes for the rhubarb I fertilized with organic moose berries gathered from the yard. So I'll call it moose rhubarb, and later this summer I'll make moose rhubarb pie and moose rhubarb cordial.

[William]

We have 3 small lemons, 2 small limes, and a significantly larger lime tree in the greenhouse. The little ones are ~2-3 feet tall, the big lime is around 6 feet tall. They all came from local greenhouses, except one of the lemon trees which my wife started from a seed. With our setup, they bear fruit pretty much year round. Watch what type of lime tree you get, as our big one has some wicked sharp 3 inch thorns.

Sounds awesome. Are the one's that are not in the greenhouse planted or in pots?

[TFOGGER]

Sounds awesome. Are the one's that are not in the greenhouse planted or in pots?

They're all potted, the smaller ones in about 5 gallon pots, and the big lime tree in about a 15 gallon one. We move them in during the colder part of the year, and outside from about mid-May to mid-September.

I also just ordered her some Cavendish dwarf banana trees, so we'll see how that works out.

[William]

They're all potted, the smaller ones in about 5 gallon pots, and the big lime tree in about a 15 gallon one. We move them in during the colder part of the year, and outside from about mid-May to mid-September.

I also just ordered her some Cavendish dwarf banana trees, so we'll see how that works out.

Thanks, I'll have to give that a try.

[CS1983]

So we just bought a house and were going to do raised beds. After calculating cost of materials, I asked the wife how much it would be to simply buy the projected yield at the grocery store. Guess what? Not worth it.

Reminds me of reloading. Sounds great until you test theory against excel numbers

[Irving]

There is nothing cathartic about maintaining groceries. Also, the upfront cost of the garden should be a first year thing. You're still most likely right though.