Gardening 2011

[TanksHill]

My dh says were going to have to go after it with shovels. Won't hat be fun. It did produce berries lat year. But has now gotten out of hand. I'm gona have to grin and bear it!!

 

[savingdogs]

Wear thick jeans and long sleeves and gloves and seriously, can you rent a goat? Borrow one from a friend? Goats can eat a huge blackberry bush down to a nub in one day.

 

[TanksHill]

My sil does have two pygmies. But they are known for escaping and standing on the hoods of cars.

I wonder if that mobile goat herder for weeds is still in business?

hummmm?????

 

[savingdogs]

Yes, goats do that......

You are listening to advice from someone whose three goats ate a whole baby apple tree orchard in one day.

and four asian pears.

 

[Henrietta23]

Yikes! The first thing I'm planting this year for the new garden is fence posts!!
I just read on TEG that Comstock, Ferre & Co. has been bought out by Baker Creek and is reopened. We used to buy all our seeds there when I was a kid.
On a side note, I couldn't remember if my first ancestor in the US was from Wethersfield (where C&F is located) or Windsor, I looked it up. I ended up finding my family back 4 more generations that my father even knew about!!!! Back to about 1438! Holy cow....
Back to your gardening....
ETA: I just called them, they're open, they have seeds. I have Thursday OFF. I'm goin' seed shoppin'!!!! <list, must make list.....>

 

[Bettacreek]

*Sigh* In fact... *Double sigh* Last year my gardening efforts paid off in the ex-boyfriend getting something like sixty some quarts of peppers and whatever he got of the corn, tomatoes and beans. I saw none of the harvest .
This year, I have no garden. I plan to use a few pots (or hell, icecream buckets or icing buckets from the bakerys) this year to do a few herbs and a few pepper plants. MIGHT do some tomato plants if I have the space and ambition, lol.

 

[Henrietta23]

*Sigh* In fact... *Double sigh* Last year my gardening efforts paid off in the ex-boyfriend getting something like sixty some quarts of peppers and whatever he got of the corn, tomatoes and beans. I saw none of the harvest .
This year, I have no garden. I plan to use a few pots (or hell, icecream buckets or icing buckets from the bakerys) this year to do a few herbs and a few pepper plants. MIGHT do some tomato plants if I have the space and ambition, lol.

I did quite a bit of container gardening last summer. I didn't do great keeping things watered so it wasn't the most successful venture for me. I used whatever I could find for containers too. The plants aren't all that fussy

 

[flossy]

Denim Deb, I live in New Zealand.

I forgot to add I planted 80 aspargus seeds in spring too. I know 80, that's gona be a lot of asparagus in 3 years, good thing even the kids like it!!!

Where about? I'd love to visit NZ some day.

We are from otago, about 2/3 of the way down the south island. It's really nice here, not too cold, not too hot. Pretty good for growing most things.

 

[flossy]

*Sigh* In fact... *Double sigh* Last year my gardening efforts paid off in the ex-boyfriend getting something like sixty some quarts of peppers and whatever he got of the corn, tomatoes and beans. I saw none of the harvest .
This year, I have no garden. I plan to use a few pots (or hell, icecream buckets or icing buckets from the bakerys) this year to do a few herbs and a few pepper plants. MIGHT do some tomato plants if I have the space and ambition, lol.

I did quite a bit of container gardening last summer. I didn't do great keeping things watered so it wasn't the most successful venture for me. I used whatever I could find for containers too. The plants aren't all that fussy

I even have raspberries, stawberries and boysenberries growing in containers, they are growing berries like crazy. I agree that plants don't really care all that much. In the past I have grown peas and beans, espacially dwarf ones grow really well, and who doens't like fresh peas?!

 

[aggieterpkatie]

I'm a little hesitant to start planning this year. I need a major overhaul because I tend to get impatient and want to just plant stuff wherever it's easy. I need to actually sit down with paper and a pencil and PLAN exactly where I'm going to put stuff. It's overwhelming.