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I have been looking for a garden bedder and have had no luck finding one locally.
I have found them on line but the shipping is almost as much as the bedder.
What Has Everyone Been Planting Today ?.
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I have been looking for a garden bedder and have had no luck finding one locally.
I have found them on line but the shipping is almost as much as the bedder.
Did a mammoth session in the gardens today after we purchased some more seeds a couple of days ago.
DH & I planted a 7mt row of onions & capsicum seeds, a 5mt row of carrots, a 2mt row of silver beet and a 10mt row of bush bean seeds in the gardens and watered them in with rain water from our tanks. We also weeded 2 x 7mt and part of our 10 x 5mt vegetable gardens in the house paddock and back paddock gardens.
DH & I planted a 7mt row of onions & capsicum seeds, a 5mt row of carrots, a 2mt row of silver beet and a 10mt row of bush bean seeds in the gardens and watered them in with rain water from our tanks. We also weeded 2 x 7mt and part of our 10 x 5mt vegetable gardens in the house paddock and back paddock gardens.
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Our garden is plowed, but hubby will not plant until tomorrow....I have radishes, strawberries, basil, and lettuce planted....and I bought another fig tree yesterday. The blackberry bushes are here to be planted, and the onion sets.....so far, no frost to kill the fruit...maybe, for the first time in five years, we might have fruit this year. There are tiny peaches on the tree and tiny pears...maybe....maybe....
wish I could get in my garden lol its so wet ( between rain and then snow and then rain again *sigh*) theres no way to rototill it up its just mud. We haven't been getting big amounts of wetness just a large number of days of it. Like every 2-3 days its either snow or rain.
My chives have wintered over in the pots on the back deck so I have something fresh to use in my cooking lol
My chives have wintered over in the pots on the back deck so I have something fresh to use in my cooking lol
@GrannyG I think it is really time you had some fruit on those trees sending fruit growing vibes to your fruit trees to grow big and strong fruit.
@WVDragonlady with a bit of luck the snow and rain will go away so you can plant, in the meantime you can think happy thoughts about some green chives in your cooking.
@WVDragonlady with a bit of luck the snow and rain will go away so you can plant, in the meantime you can think happy thoughts about some green chives in your cooking.
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Here ya go...Free shipping within 1000 miles. They will do a garden bedder UPS as well since it can be sent in pieces
https://www.everythingattachments.com/
I have looked at them.
I am way outside their free shipping zone.
Their free shipping is to a business with a loading dock not to a residence.
I have 2 more places locally I need to check out.
Maybe before next garden season I will find one.
This year it looks like I'll be doing it the old fashion way.
Thanks for the link.
Yeah the only thing going in the ground around here is water. The ways things have been going it'll be May till the ground is workable.
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Sorry backlash. I didn't realize you were so far from them. I did see another one from TARTER on Amazon too. Might look......good luck. I don't know if you have a Tractor Supply up there either but they will bring it in if you want one. They have them on their website but not usually in store. They be won't charge anymore either. Made by King Kutter...
No TS close.
I did go to one last weekend and asked one of the guys if they had one.
He asked me if it was for a 2 point tractor.
I said no, a 3 point.
I knew at that point I was wasting my time.
I will call and ask if they can order one. It's only a 3 hour drive one way.
I did go to one last weekend and asked one of the guys if they had one.
He asked me if it was for a 2 point tractor.
I said no, a 3 point.
I knew at that point I was wasting my time.
I will call and ask if they can order one. It's only a 3 hour drive one way.
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Second season here in Delaware, BIG change from North Carolina! Last year I had minimal space and had to work around the required flowers. But, there was success with several harvests of string beans, carrots, peas and cucumbers. This year I am allowed to fully occupy a 12’ x 4’ space I created!… well… There has to be a double row of mammoth Sunflowers in the back, Marigolds and Pansies in the front, and a section of some other flowering non-edible thing… But otherwise mine to do with as I please! I end up with about half the space… maybe a little less.
Being as we rooted out several large old arborvitae last spring in the spot, I have another year of improving the soil. It is looking great so far and I manually tilled in a lot more organic material. I think I will be able to go no-till after this. The worms have found it to their liking and have been doing their job. I had been sneaking in compostable kitchen and yard scraps in all winter as well as the compost I created.
So far this spring; planted some carrots (Scarlet Nantes and Finger), Radishes (Cherry Belle) and Spinach (Bloomsdale). We received a few cherry tomato plants last year and there was one that was really to our liking. They were not in ‘acceptable’ spots last year, so I have to find new homes for them. I saved some seeds, hoping it is not a hybrid, and they sprouted so I put them in some small pots. We will see if they come out the same or were hybrids. I will be sneaking in one other cherry tomato, as a backup.
Fresh String Beans and Cukes were a big hit, and mostly the reason I get a larger space this year... So, we will expand on them. I was able to sneak a trellis behind one prized flower bed on the side of the house this year, promising the pole beans would grow up and NOT interfere with the flowers but would provide a very attractive backdrop for them! I got away with this technique last year and shaded a portion of the back porch with the beans, it went over well. I had to be careful NOT to block too much of the view, so she can enjoy the flowers, but the shade was welcome come mid-summer.
Second plantings of carrots, radishes and spinach going in in another week or so. First planting of peas will go in this afternoon. Beans and all are at least a month away.
Being as we rooted out several large old arborvitae last spring in the spot, I have another year of improving the soil. It is looking great so far and I manually tilled in a lot more organic material. I think I will be able to go no-till after this. The worms have found it to their liking and have been doing their job. I had been sneaking in compostable kitchen and yard scraps in all winter as well as the compost I created.
So far this spring; planted some carrots (Scarlet Nantes and Finger), Radishes (Cherry Belle) and Spinach (Bloomsdale). We received a few cherry tomato plants last year and there was one that was really to our liking. They were not in ‘acceptable’ spots last year, so I have to find new homes for them. I saved some seeds, hoping it is not a hybrid, and they sprouted so I put them in some small pots. We will see if they come out the same or were hybrids. I will be sneaking in one other cherry tomato, as a backup.
Fresh String Beans and Cukes were a big hit, and mostly the reason I get a larger space this year... So, we will expand on them. I was able to sneak a trellis behind one prized flower bed on the side of the house this year, promising the pole beans would grow up and NOT interfere with the flowers but would provide a very attractive backdrop for them! I got away with this technique last year and shaded a portion of the back porch with the beans, it went over well. I had to be careful NOT to block too much of the view, so she can enjoy the flowers, but the shade was welcome come mid-summer.
Second plantings of carrots, radishes and spinach going in in another week or so. First planting of peas will go in this afternoon. Beans and all are at least a month away.
There are several species of beautiful flowers that are powerful medicinals... just a thought. If you have to plant flowers why not plant useful ones. For instance lavender beebalm, scarlet beebalm, yarrow, catnip, echinacea just to name a few.
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I had medicinal plants at my place, “weeds” the neighbors all called them. I am just temporarily residing here so really do not have a permanent plan in mind. The bulbs, flowers, roses and all preceded me so take precedence! It is a residential neighborhood where ‘pretty’ matters more than functionality, unfortunately. I am just happy I have a little area, out back, I can garden in. I call it residential guerilla gardening. A big vegetable garden would not fit in, but scattered around, they are inconspicuous enough to be accepted.
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Oh My.....Been working my old fart butt off. Came in yesterday and finished my job stuff. Went out about 6:30 PM and got two Plum and Two Nectarine trees planted and all watered in with Mulching done. Crashed hard and was at it first light this morning. Got Cucumbers planted. Got 250 TX Supersweet onions in the ground. Got my Maximilian Sunflower plants all in the ground and as soon as I was done it started raining and has been since 11:00AM.... Not bad thing though. We needed this and it's not a Gully Washer....a good solid simple rain. PERFECT! Been in Making some separate packages for some Fungicide I use and bought to share with some other home Fruit growers. 8 16 or 8 oz. bottles and vacuum packed them all for shipping. VERY Constructive day! Hopefully everyone is having a GREAT day!!
@Woody sounds like a wonderful set up you have there and "sneaking" in vegetables amongst the pretty flowers sounds like it is working for you and providing you with some food at the same time
. It is a shame that the neighbours think "pretty" outweighs functionality and providing food but there are a lot of places and people like that unfortunately.
. It is a shame that the neighbours think "pretty" outweighs functionality and providing food but there are a lot of places and people like that unfortunately.
I got my jalapeno’s and Thai pepper plants to their final home. I thought I’d grow them in pots on the porch this year. Seems like every year I put them in the garden a drought happens.
I don’t have the planter I need for my kitchen herbs. I need something 1ftx1ftx4ft long. I think I’ll make a run to lowes and wally world tonight to see if I can find something suitable.
I don’t have the planter I need for my kitchen herbs. I need something 1ftx1ftx4ft long. I think I’ll make a run to lowes and wally world tonight to see if I can find something suitable.
I had some cedar fence boards left over so I made a couple of herb planter boxes to hang on the fence.
They are 6"x6"x4'.
Quick to build, cheap, and they look good on the fence.
It is raining again today so I replanted some Aloe Vera that my Grandmother gave me sometime around 1980.
I don't know how old the plant really is but it could be older than I am.
If I kill it my wife is liable to kill me.
She could grow anything, her porch was overgrown with Aloe Vera.
All we have ever done to it is water when we think about it.
Sometimes it has gone several months between watering.
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The only spare lumber I have laying around is 10yr old red oak 2x10's rough cut at a saw mill down the road. It's so hard now I couldn't drive a railroad spike through it.
If I built a 4ft planter with it, it'd weigh 25 or 30lbs.The only long planters the box store had were 3ft. They were cheap... $7, so I got a couple.
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Okra, beets and onion sets planted ....have tomato plants to put in the containers today....yellow pear and red cherry..the radish container is doing well, have had several batches in salads.....frost got the rest last week.....
For $7 I would have just bought them also.The only spare lumber I have laying around is 10yr old red oak 2x10's rough cut at a saw mill down the road. It's so hard now I couldn't drive a railroad spike through it.
The only long planters the box store had were 3ft. They were cheap... $7, so I got a couple.
What are you going to do with that red oak?
I was having boards and timbers cut to build a small barn. The guy down the road shut down his sawmill for good in the middle of the job so I don't have enough wood for the barn. Since then I use it for what ever.
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I'll be planting very, very shortly.
It's finally getting cool enough to plant and my seedling trays are turning up in the post today!
Meanwhile I'm slowly....slowly shifting wood chips and sawdust to create more beds and walk ways.
It's finally getting cool enough to plant and my seedling trays are turning up in the post today!
Meanwhile I'm slowly....slowly shifting wood chips and sawdust to create more beds and walk ways.
roto-tilled the raised beds this morning. worked in manure too. next up are the containers.
So I finally planted my 14" tall pepper plants yesterday. The bells already had inch long fruit developing, and the pepperoncini were covered in dozens of white blossoms. They seem way too small to bear fruit but what the heck, we will see how it goes, I guess I could remove the fruit now.
Sheesh I have been carrying those plants in and out for sun for the last 6 weeks, next year I won't start peppers until mid February.
Also planted 3 cucumbers, one of which has a dozen blossoms on it. We are getting rain all day today so they should be happy.
I am clearing some wild grassy areas by hand (a bigger job than I anticipated...ugh) to make room for more transplants to go out. Bought a fork yesterday and hope that makes it a bit easier than using a shovel, some of the wild grass clumps are incredibly hard to dislodge.
Sheesh I have been carrying those plants in and out for sun for the last 6 weeks, next year I won't start peppers until mid February.
Also planted 3 cucumbers, one of which has a dozen blossoms on it. We are getting rain all day today so they should be happy.
I am clearing some wild grassy areas by hand (a bigger job than I anticipated...ugh) to make room for more transplants to go out. Bought a fork yesterday and hope that makes it a bit easier than using a shovel, some of the wild grass clumps are incredibly hard to dislodge.
First pic… Bottom left you have a vine… Parthenopids quinquefolia, also known as Virginia creeper. It’s the thing with 5 leaves in a whorl. It’s known to cause contact dermatitis in the fall of the year for lots of folks. It’s very astringent so in spring and summer it can be used to treat poison ivy.
The thing leafing out next to the post is beauty berry, Callicarpa americana. It makes a great bug spray.
Top right you have Sassafras sprouting or passion flower, too soon to tell, is it a vine or woody? I’d let it grow regardless. Both are great medicines.
Center, lower. You have another vine Cocculus carolinus aka Red-berried Moonseed, kill it, useless and annoying.
The two dark stems with what looks like red leaves coming out of it… no idea. I’ve never seen it before. I checked two plant data bases, it didn’t turn up. It looks tropical, probably an invasive. Sorry
