Gardens!
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I absolutely loved your pictures! It inspired to make a garden gallery. I sort of had one going on flickr, but I tried one there.
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@misterboring They make grow bags that are fairly inexpensive that do the same thing as the raised beds! The grow bag is only $19-$20 on Amazon. The one I got this year is this model:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CYMWQFJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It is 4 ft round, which means you're not really missing a lot of space out of the grow box that was in my earlier pictures. I wanted more boxes, but my brother-in-law who made it for me passed away last year. It would have only cost me the materials, but the bag makes up for it, kind of.
I grew tomatoes in grow bags last year, and they did very well. You can find the 10 gallon bags for pretty cheaply too. This is my garden from last year which show beans and tomatoes grown in bags.
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I kinda bombard folk in the MUSH with my gardening enthusiasm. It's a great way to take my mind off of other things. I had such pretty, pretty seedlings this year that died because my kitty got sick and died.
I was taking care of her, so I've had to source some plants and some are being started from seed directly in the garden. -
I'm sorry about your kitty still.
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It looks wonderful!
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Welp, it was in the 90s day.
We are predicted to get a foot of snow tomorrow and temps n the 20s!
My plants!!!!!
I am going to do what I can to protect them, we will see, it will be an epic battle to save plants.
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Welp, it was in the 90s day.
We are predicted to get a foot of snow tomorrow and temps n the 20s!
My plants!!!!!
I am going to do what I can to protect them, we will see, it will be an epic battle to save plants.
Buckets! The big 5 gallon kind if you can find them, or like -- whatever size buckets you have in the Euro-zone. Just put them right over them to try and help protect them from wind and frost.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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I have a lot of planting buckets that are about 5 gallons - they do have wholes in the top for drainage, but I have so many I can cover most plants that they will fit over, I think.
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Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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Thanks! I am making my plan now. I am lucky that I don't work fri and sat - and it will warm up on sunday by time I go back to work which should allow me to prep and do what I can. And I am lucky in that I have a billion plant pots which I can cover with.
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Over this already. Now we got hail before I got all/most covered. Because I was toooooo cold and hoping it would warm up a bit before the storm like it predicted, a tiny bit, just to above 40!!!!!
Will what makes it, but I might be basically starting over.
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Plants made it!!!!
I might take post pictures of the efforts to save them - if I get unlazy, but i might not get unlazy, but yay!
I got neat pictures over winter snow over spring flowers which was kind of neat.
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garden that survived the storm!
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@kk I'm envious! My garden still lives in the realm of "maybe one of these days I'll...".
This looks like it took so much hard work!
He/Him
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It is a lot of work ,but good work that de-stresses and gets me outside. That isn't even all of it, its a crazy epic undertaking. Most is from seed.
I got three giant raised beds made of old wood someone was giving away, then I got a garden by the fence for pole beans and stuff to grow up the fence which is lined in cinder blocks and in the blocks are herbs planted. Then I got a shade in ground garden behind the raised beds. And I got another garden along another fence that I am doing the three sisters on. I have a smaller raised bed with a bean trellis that I don't think I got in the pictures. I have a container garden in front.
When I get time..we will see if it happens for reals!
I am will plant on the side of the house and out in the public owned alleyway hehe. People do that here for corn and stuff. Then I have all this stone and want to build some new raised beds, but it is a lot of work and I work a lot. I collected the stone from peeps who didn't want it for free, since stone and stuff is so expensive, but I got mixmatched stone around my yard in wild profusion, allegedly going to be part of future projects. If I lived an HOA I would be kicked out.
I am harvesting from it daily now - and getting daily veggies! Right now just cool weather things like radishes, peas (I planted so many peas I had to buy seeds from farm supply cause the little packets wouldn't cut it!), lettuce, spinach, brocolli it.
I planted so many peas to help renew the soil for whatever I put there next, but I got like wild tangles of peas
Then I sort of hate to weed and I have lots of plants that reseeded from last year and I massive intrecrop, so it is total chaos but more food productive than the more orderly gardens.
It is organic and I do pest control with companion planting and etc, so the chaos actually helps it, confuses the pests and mixes up the plants.
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Oh and I am attracting lots of bees, which makes me happy, I have little houses for them and stuff too.
