Gerowen Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Does anybody here raise a garden? This is only the 2nd year we've tried raising one. Last year's didn't do so hot, and was a learning experience. This year's garden has exploded after applying lessons learned last year. I just posted a blog about it on my Wordpress page, you can check it out and see pictures here. https://gerowen.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/garden-update-18-june-2014/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizardslap Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 (edited) I do container gardening for the most part mostly because its not my house but I have had some great success your garden looks good but bean vines lol Have you been working on a good compost heap I raise rabbits and used a wormbed for some really good results this is spearmint from last year one is planted in strait worm poop/bunny poop the other is just some decent dirt however it roasted itself when it ran out of food in that pot got a little crazy last year lol this ones my favorite found it in the trash and its over 10ft now its about 6 almost 7 in the pic Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596459805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Yes, mainly fruit and veg such as strawberries and tomatoes (both much better home grown than you'll ever get in the shops). Very relaxing and brilliant when all the hard work put in yields good results :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596459813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 I do container gardening for the most part mostly because its not my house but I have had some great success your garden looks good but bean vines lol Have you been working on a good compost heap I raise rabbits and used a wormbed for some really good results this is spearmint from last year one is planted in strait worm poop/bunny poop the other is just some decent dirt however it roasted itself when it ran out of food in that pot got a little crazy last year lol this ones my favorite found it in the trash and its over 10ft now its about 6 almost 7 in the pic Yeah I planted my peas a bit too late, but if I can keep them alive until cold weather they should do much better once it cools off. I don't have a compost heap, but this fall I plan on going over to my neighbor's house down the road and loading my pickup with horse manure and tilling that into the garden plot and letting it sit over the course of the winter to enrich the soil for next year. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596460417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted June 23, 2014 MVC Share Posted June 23, 2014 The only thing I learned after trying some gardening is how incredibly inflexible I am, then proceeded to dislocate my shoulder pulling out some weeds. Gerowen 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596460437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizardslap Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Yeah I planted my peas a bit too late, but if I can keep them alive until cold weather they should do much better once it cools off. I don't have a compost heap, but this fall I plan on going over to my neighbor's house down the road and loading my pickup with horse manure and tilling that into the garden plot and letting it sit over the course of the winter to enrich the soil for next year. Looks good makes me jealous you have some decent looking dirt there way better than the sand I got down here in Florida Do you plan to grow some animals at any point? I would love to have a farm but I live in the city and I raise Rabbits cuz well thats close enough for me Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596460475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 Looks good makes me jealous you have some decent looking dirt there way better than the sand I got down here in Florida Do you plan to grow some animals at any point? I would love to have a farm but I live in the city and I raise Rabbits cuz well thats close enough for me I've thought about getting some chickens for fresh eggs. We had chickens when I was growing up. I can get them pretty cheap at one of the local stock yards, but haven't gotten around to building a chicken house/lot to keep them in yet. Don't have a huge need to raise a lot of animals here besides chickens because I hunt deer and squirrel every year and that keeps us stocked up with red meat for most of the year. We've even started seeing a population of wild hogs, so I won't even need to raise those now, just go out in the woods and find one, :P Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596460515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizardslap Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Chickens are great as long as there a good walk away from the house lol and they keep the bug population down Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596461211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Picked some more green beans today and got them on a string to dry out. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596466907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan R. Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I'm attempting to make my yard suitable. Like Lizardslap said, the soil is more like sand in Florida :p Gerowen 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596466957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I have cantalope in the corn field, tomatoes in a container, and flowers in a pot. :shifty: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596466965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 I'm attempting to make my yard suitable. Like Lizardslap said, the soil is more like sand in Florida :p Yeah I talk on the CB radio a lot, and lately I've been getting a lot of skip from Florida. It took me a little while to realize that when people say they are "in the sandpile" they're saying they're in Florida, :P I have cantalope in the corn field, tomatoes in a container, and flowers in a pot. :shifty: Part of my maintenance today involved tying up my tomato plants cause' they've gotten so big they out-grew the original ties I had holding them to their stakes. In the process of tying them up, found out I have about a dozen little green tomatoes about the size of my thumb-nail, :-) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596466975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Grew up on a farm and have gardened all my life. Much of what I learned was summarized in 1977 by James Crockett in this book Crockett's Victory Garden, based on his PBS series. A thick paperback. It's a guide to PRACTICAL gardening in a KISS (keep it simple stupid) manner. Lots of little tricks, and many big ones. If you could only have one gardening book this would be it. Crockett used more insecticides than we do today what with resistant hybrids and the like, but the book is organized as a gardening calendar, guiding you month by month as to what should be done to prepare for the next planting, caring for the garden, harvest etc. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316161209?pc_redir=1403681136&robot_redir=1 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596467265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrobwx71 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Does anybody here raise a garden? This is only the 2nd year we've tried raising one. Last year's didn't do so hot, and was a learning experience. This year's garden has exploded after applying lessons learned last year. I just posted a blog about it on my Wordpress page, you can check it out and see pictures here. https://gerowen.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/garden-update-18-june-2014/ This - http://www.mysquarefootgarden.net/create-garden-plan/ Is something my Wife, 2.5 year old, and I dabble in! Awesome fun, learning experience, and good eating to boot. We grow herbs (Mint,Cilantro,Rosemary,Lavender,etc) in one, veggies in another. We've grown and consumed Garlic, Tomatoes, Zucchini, Eggplant, Yellow Squash, watermelon, Pumpkin, Green Beans,Sunflower (seeds). Gerowen 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596467277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDJ Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 I love gardening. I have an avocado and mango growing from seed, along with papaya, banana, pineapple and chayote and tomatoes. I have horrible luck with store bought seeds, I started to dabble in propagation of bougainvillea and plumeria recently, with mixed success. Such a great hobby, but this south Florida humidity is brutal this time of year... Papaya and Banana https://www.dropbox.com/s/4zkwvarxux7warn/2014-07-05%2013.10.59.jpg Mango https://www.dropbox.com/s/ijqb60w1a5t48rh/2014-06-21%2010.06.31.jpg Avocado, tomato, pineapple, etc https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmnpnihox37qkd8/2014-07-05%2013.12.02.jpg Pineapple, tamarind, grapefruit https://www.dropbox.com/s/dtv6kz2xald8ohn/2014-07-05%2013.12.11.jpg Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596477855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted July 6, 2014 MVC Share Posted July 6, 2014 My garden was shown in his apparently not that much watched video. Thought now they are really big. I should make a new video :) https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1212963-25000-posts-yet-another-video-d/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596477877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted July 10, 2014 Author Share Posted July 10, 2014 Just picked a little over half of a 5 gallon bucket full of green beans today. I've been getting this many every 2 to 3 days. At least we won't run out of green beans this winter, :P Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596483641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deni88 Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 its that time of the year again # summer . where I showcase all my exquisite flowers and fruits that I have been growing since spring. Gardening is fun. The results is also a great achievement if a lot of effort is put into it. Gerowen 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596908584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 its that time of the year again # summer . where I showcase all my exquisite flowers and fruits that I have been growing since spring. Gardening is fun. The results is also a great achievement if a lot of effort is put into it. We've got corn, green beans, a little bit of everything, but I won't be showcasing the garden for a little while because it's also got a fair amount of weeds in it until I get some parts to fix my tiller with. Looking forward to seeing yours though if you've got any to share, :-) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596915292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MenOfLetters Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 I do container gardening for the most part mostly because its not my house but I have had some great success your garden looks good but bean vines lol Have you been working on a good compost heap I raise rabbits and used a wormbed for some really good results this is spearmint from last year one is planted in strait worm poop/bunny poop the other is just some decent dirt however it roasted itself when it ran out of food in that pot got a little crazy last year lol this ones my favorite found it in the trash and its over 10ft now its about 6 almost 7 in the pic Cool! Not everyone can do planting. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218527-gardening/#findComment-596967036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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