Forum: Gardening

Tour a Thriving 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest - An Invitation for Wildness About 20 minutes long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GJFL0MD9fc Happen Films Published on Nov 24, 2016

You have to love her, I mean Routh Stout. However, for her method to work, you would want to have fertile soil to start with. Also reasonable rainfall. Crops grow small if there isn't enough rainfall. I grow some comfrey where I live. My chickens eat it. Some I have to water...

Very good to say the least. .................................................................................... A Simple Way To Root Plants From Cuttings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyXSNzywqvw

Rechsand-Turing sand into gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2DLQw1K9Ms Mingliang07 Published on Apr 11, 2013 Rechsand (仁创科技集团), a Chinese company, has developed some technologies that turn sand into industrial and agricultural use, with significant benefits for combating...

I was curious whether any one else had been seeing a large amount of worms this summer? They are everywhere in my yard, not just one or two places. My potato bed has so many that the dirt is mostly worm castings. I've been gathering them and putting them in the beds that need more work. Not...

Between drought, wind, odd ball freezes, flooding rains, etc., etc., all my 17 young fruit trees survived the winter, all the weird weather we've had and are flowering and setting fruit!! In their third year! WoooHOOO!! We have apples, peaches, apricot, more apples, nectarine, pears, cherries,...

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Anyone else dreaming of your Spring GARDEN??? Looking at the outrageous prices on line for vegetable seeds.....really SILLY!! I LOVE Starks for fruit trees and I see they are now carrying vegetable and herb seeds also. AND the prices are REASONABLE!! I must admit, I buy most of my seeds...

I kicked out a few of my young chickens for fighting about a week back and lost one of them to a Goanna ( a big lizard.) I have heaps of wildlife where I live. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Why I don't free range my chickens

My Chickens are an integral part of my garden as I feed them greens most days from the garden and collect the Chicken shit and put around my garden. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// What do Chickens Eat? A Complete Guide to Feeding Adult and Baby Chickens ...

How much weather data do you try to keep track of? Do you manually record it? or have a set up to transfer to computer?

Water conservation on farmland. Interesting stuff if you have a farm with some water draininng through it on the surface. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

They get into the side mirrors in/on my rig. About 5 of them in the afternoon when it's hot in there, I guess there must be some pro creation going on but they have stingers and I don't want to get stung just getting in and of the truck. My guess is wasp spray but I just want to leave them...

I'll start this off with chuck poop. I am finding that fresh Bantam poo is great for my garden. I get it out from where I keep them every day and spread it everywhere in the garden and pots. I find that I need to be doing this to keep many plants happy besides the worms. The poo that...

I did something different this year, I grew my blackeye peas on a trellis. I stretched netting down a row and I didn't go to too much trouble about putting it as low to the ground as I normally would with beans. I am so pleased with the results they grew like pole beans and I got a better yield and...

Top 3 Easiest Vegetables to Grow I Have Ever Found About 15 minutes long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJyp63PIQz8 Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens Published on Dec 22, 2017 John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shows you the top 3 easiest perennial vegetables you can...

www.noahhealth.org/top-10-natural-organic-fertilizers/2/ Top 10 Natural Organic Fertilizers 10 Natural Fertilizers to Replace Chemical Fertilizers These 10 fertilizers derive from natural sources and can enhance the fertility of the soil as well as the nutrition of the crops. Prior to add a...

Top 10 Foods to Grow for Survival Karen Hendry By Karen Hendry June 22, 2016 09:44 Top 10 Foods to Grow for Survival Photo on link: http://www.askaprepper.com/top-10-foods-grow-survival/ When the collapse happens and you are in survival mode, you need to consider your long-term food...

I realize others are getting it worse with the rain, but I am ever so happy that we have raised beds. 12 inches of rain in the last week or so and yet my plants are doing great. The excess is draining off and all is well with the plants. Granted, I can't walk in the yard without sinking, but...

It has rained here just about every other day for a month. It hasn't been unusual to get at least a half inch of rain or more in an afternoon. I thought for sure I was going to have a bunch of cat-faced cracked tomatoes. But no. I've got Rudgers the size of softballs. The kind of luscious, great...

good news is that tomatoes are off to a great start this year. I've already tied most of mine twice and have some small blossoms on the cherokees, amish paste and san marzanos. although I haven't seen any signs of it yet the "bad news" is that all this rain and cool temperatures in the SE are a...

So, after kickoff, this new room seems to be a good idea. Just remember, it's up to all of you to keep it going. You should periodically post a thread on Main referencing this room, as well as including a reference to the "prep rooms" master link. Please all do your part to keep it going. ...

More pictures than I've been through, but the collection of tools is huge! I have no connection to the sale other than wishing I had the time, $$ and a big trailer :-( https://www.estatesales.net/NC/Greensboro/27406/1975758

I don't have any experience with these cherries but thought the article was interesting. Anyone here have any experience with them? - OGM Fair use. BBC The secret cherry taking over Canada By Ryan MacDonald 22 March 2018 Able to survive temperatures as low as -40C, Saskatchewan’s...

https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelkultur The Many Benefits of Hugelkultur Inspiration Green and Permaculture magazine Thursday, 17th October 2013 Hugelkultur are no-dig raised beds with a difference. They hold moisture, build fertility, maximise surface volume and...

You may eat organic and never wish to use any sprays... However during a survival situation you cannot risk your crop and only food source on your whims. Gardening is hard enough with the weather, variable precipitation, and possible storms. A few Facts for those purchasing their produce from...

Summerthyme, a LONG time ago you posted instructions on starting carrot seeds with paper towels. I'm looking for that post and am just not finding it. We're dusting off the greenhouse a bit early, since all predictions are pointing to a chilly, wet summer in our neck of the woods. Limner (using...

So I would like to expand the patch this spring. I've had a variety before that are very tasty but only the size of a dime and very soft to the point of pulling them-they would break up. I only had 8 plants last year but would like to fill the whole bed this time. It's 6x5 foot and very good...

Has anyone tried it? Pros and cons? Thanks in advance.

I planted it in a terrarium, (one gallon pickle jar with lid). Did not over water. It caught some sort of mold/fungus and died within a week.

As soon as he gets my new shelf installed in the east kitchen window I plan to start some herbs. Aside from basil which herbs do really well in moderate to low light? I'd say this window gets about five to seven hours of sunlight a day depending on the time of the year, so about five and a half...

Well here I am hoping Stanb999 will show up to share his secrets! Anyone else?

I thought this was a good article. Loved the terraced boxes. Square Foot Gardening: Easy Peasy Organic, GMO-Free Food On Balconies, Roof Tops, Raised Beds And Acreage Posted by JB Bardot ...

I've read that the bulb of Spring Beauties are edible. Small pink and white flower that likes growing in wet shaded area. Plant may reach 6 inches tall. In some areas I've noticed Orange spots on the plants leaves that look like some sort of fungal(?) infection. Any one here ever eat these...