Back to Eden Gardening Thread~Note: pic heavy thread.

DebLewis said:

Question: ... can anyone point me to a poster/flyer that summarises BTE gardening? ... I am a visual person and would love to put something on my wall to keep reminding me what it's all about
Also ... in other places ... I have seen people refer to "the BTE website" ... but when I look for one I can find only YouTube videos. Have avidly watched the main video (several times), and a few of the others, but can't find a website per se ... can anyone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks
Deb

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Sure can...there's even a forum on there on which to discuss the garden, though it's not very active.

http://www.backtoedenfilm.com/

Beekissed said:

Sure can...there's even a forum on there on which to discuss the garden, though it's not very active.

http://www.backtoedenfilm.com/

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Many thanks ... I think I had seen that ... as you said does not appear to be very active ... and I can't see any sign of graphics. But this time I did at least find the forum, so more useful than last time
Many thanks
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I know you guys know this feeling...that mildly desperate feeling one gets when it's too wet to work in the garden but things are getting out of hand in there? I've had so many things going on for so many days now that I have several things in the garden needing immediate attention~ but I have the feeling it's much too late.... then have a faint hope I can salvage a situation? That feeling is creeping up my spine but today we'll have rain all day long, so it will have to wait another day.

Last year I had the opposite- no rain, and my well ran dry. Everything just sat there thirsty. It is a bad feeling!
Hope you get in there soon!

For me, it's often more than "mildly desperate" -- but, I am amazed at how resilient some of these plants can be. What is most often the case is that it is EVERYTHING that needs attention & that can be so very overwhelming. Naturally, the other things in our lives want to happen all at the same time.

Out working a few days ago it began to rain -- I was in it and too far to get to any shelter -- wasn't "bad" but, got me wet. Since it was tolerable, I went ahead and finished chores....soon I was dry and just a mess but, that's life. At least it was a clean smell, unlike sweating @100 degrees.

Look out there and tackle what will give the most results. Some can just wait! We do what we can...... I'm hoping to get some cardboard over a few sections today to help with weeds. Letting some mares graze a small area to help both cut & feed them, working weekend so won't get to mow for couple more days. It will be there when I get to it.

My garden is pitiful. I neglected it so we could finish fencing in our place. Then I ignored it while we slaughtered and processed hogs. At least I have a smashing crop of weeds! Rabbits got in and ate my beans and okra to stumps. I hate rabbits!

I hear rabbits are delicious though... Lol

We have one that spends a lot of time hopping around our yard but it hasn't found the garden... YET. It is fully fenced in thanks to the free range chicken destroyers but I don't know how sneaky rabbits are.

I ripped up the melons, the squash and the pumpkins. I left behind a few volunteer squash that look healthy enough. All had been damaged by squash borers and were just havens for squash bugs to lay eggs upon.

I also cleared out all the old pea vines and cut off the overgrown chives. Tied up some flowers~don't EVER plant bachelor's button flowers in the garden, they simply cannot stand up, lopping over and taking all the other flowers with them in a wet tangle of mess!

I'm glad I took the pumpkins, as they were eaten out at the base by the squash borers and they just came up in my hand as easy as can be...rotten to the core. I'll replant them all and hope for the best, as they were all pretty damaged. All the radishes I had planted in those hills were all extremely bug damaged also...worse I've ever seen...and they didn't seem to do anything to stave off the pest bugs like everyone says, so I'll not replant those.


Didn't remove the cukes...Mom says let them be and see how they go. I'm for taking out half of them and replanting, so I may still do that...just remove the smallest, scabbiest plants and let the bigger ones be.

Opened up that tunnel and removed everything but the broccoli....got a heaping wheelbarrow full of lettuce and pak choy that had gone to seed and the slugs had rendered rotten at the bases. Will remove that landscaping fabric this week, letting that area of the garden dry out and will redo that tunnel in another area. I left the broccoli in place, just in case it wants to form some heads and I put down some slug bait on that area.

I didn't place those greens in the coop, as I was afraid the slugs would just thrive up there and procreate into the compost. I took them over next to the woods and dumped them, where the dogs have been eating on them ever since. They LOVE lettuce and eat it with gusto every chance they get.

When next I do a tunnel, it will be on frames so I can easily check it, plant it, harvest it, etc. This tunnel fabric with a million pins is for the birds!

Here's a few pics of my son's tiny BTE in town..this is his second year and things are growing like crazy in his and no pests.

His squash, planted at the same time as mine that I had to rip out, is producing squash and he has a volunteer tomato with small fruit showing on it, is tall and lush with plenty of bloom. The tomatoes I planted in his garden at the same time as mine are also deeper green, thicker stalked, and more lush than those in mine...but he does water his garden and I cannot.



That volunteer tomato....looking lovely and lush!

The flowers are awesome -- great color! The entire garden looks very nice and very productive. Maybe we all just need a smaller plot.