Forum: Gardening

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ 1st Excellent for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Good day for planting peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, Texas, and California. 2nd - 3rd Start seedbeds. Excellent time for...

The garden has really produced this year and the tomatoes are abundant and beautiful. I'm trying not to allow any of them to go to waste or rot. Besides giving many away I have found the best way to do that is to freeze them. Wash them load them up in plastic grocery sacks and put them in the...

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...

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...

Deer eating my garden nightly. Besides a fence does anyone have a remedy.

It is hard to express what I am trying to convey but I give it a try. In a survival situation, the critical thing one needs is a complete protein food intake. Very few vegetables provide much protein. Potatoes are not too bad but you need about 10 medium sized potatoes to get enough protein for 24...

Fall will soon be upon us. I live in Central Iowa, zone 5a(?) and would love to plant some garlic this fall for next summer's harvest. Suggestions on which varieties to consider, and just how do I plant it, and over winter it for a successful harvest? TIA

Yow! The cottonwood fluff flying around now is insane. I can’t really complain too much since when it is cottonwood time, the spruce pollen of death is about done and I can breathe again. I just can’t believe how heavy it is. Maybe I can get a pic for you...it’s really insane this year. ...

We're pickling beets today.The tough outer leaves and stems went to compost, after cooking, the skin, tops and bottom went to chickens, the greens went to freezer and the pickled beets went on a shelf. edit to add: 2 half gallon bags of greens and 7 pints of beets from 3' x 7' bed.

Planting timing can make a small garden space much more productive and insulate you a bit from the vulgarities of nature. There are 4 basic types of garden plants, Spring thriving, summer, fall thriving, and full season. I will describe the season and it's plants. You will need to fit it into your...

I have some heirloom onion plants in the garden and the aphids have just about finished them off. I haven't been sitting idly by watching this and I will share with you the homemade remedies that haven't worked and hopefully, lastly applied, the one that did work. The first failed remedy was...

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

Maggots and Chickens and Whatever. The need for protein for sustainability. Life is somewhat funny! I think life, as we know it in the West, is coming to an end. I have watched the life that is on hand for today's young people and unless one is very clever there is not much opportunity....

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ May 2019 Planting Guide 1st - 2nd Poor planting. Fine for cultivating or spraying. 3rd - 4th First day is a good day for transplanting. First day is also when planted root crops will yield well. Second day is favorable for planting...

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

I have no information to post. I usually check these "back page" forums on TB when sitting down to a meal or taking a snack break. I'm tired of seeing the word "maggot" big and bold every time I check this particular forum, so I thought I'd post something new that won't make me gag when I just...

While watering my orchids I snapped one of the stems. It's hanging on by a thread and is in bloom. Is there a way to graft it together or is it a lost cause? Thanks!

we've grown sweet potatoes (Beauregards) for 12-15 years with great success averaging harvests of 350 lbs with regularity. I always thought we were pretty good at it - UNTIL THIS YEAR. we planted our own slips in the same fashion as we always do - and at the same time (the last week of may) -...

I have been watching lots of Youtube on duckweed and Azolla. When one watches Asian Youtubes one can see any type of container used to support water where these floating plants can be grown. Both these water plants are fast to grow and are high in protein which are high in protein which...