Forum: Gardening

Duckweed Harvesting & Fish Feeding - Autopot Aquaponics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFgbji1oPBQPublished on Feb 3, 2012 Harvesting and feeding duckweed to Jade Perch - Autopot Aquaponics ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

So anyone here in Texas saving their seed from year to year? I ask because I am looking for some varieties (of vegetables and herbs) that have been climatize to the Texas weather through several generations of local breeding. I am curious to see how much (if at all) better they might grow...

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Planting Guide Dec 2017 www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ https://www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ December 2017 1st Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.

Hydrangea shrubs 3:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFKfWN68VQ 3:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUC4bIcI3g 23:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WeuewNwfeg

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ SEPTEMBER 2018 4th - 5th Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Fine planting days for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops. 6th - 9th Clear ground, turn sod, or kill plant pests.

November 2018 www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ 1st - 3rd Grub out weeds, briars, and other plant pests. 4th - 5th Favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and fodder crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.

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

Composting: Farming Microbes for Soil Health About an hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T2tFJK97G4 GMS Working Group on Agriculture

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

I am heading in my own way to being able to keep chickens without having to feed grain. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// How Karl Hammer Feeds 600 Chickens (Without Grains) About 40 minutes long

www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ MARCH 2019 2nd - 4th A barren period, best suited for killing plant pests. Do plowing and cultivating. 5th - 6th Good for planting cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, and other vine crops. Set strawberry plants. First day is a good day for...

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

https://farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ July 2017 27th-28th Sow grains and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable for planting peas, beans, tomatoes, and other fall crops bearing aboveground. 29th-31st Start seedbeds. Extra good for fall cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, mustard greens,...

Can we please move them to this forum (I"ll ask her too). Also whoever is moderator of this sub-forum, thanks for sticky-ing the dangerous plant thread.

This goes to the page you can plug in your zip code for the long-range forecast. Good resource when you want to check something quick and can't lay hands on the printed one. https://www.almanac.com/weather/longrange

www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ MARCH 2018 1st - 2nd A most barren period, best for killing plant pests or doing chores around the farm. 3rd - 4th Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for...

www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ APRIL 2018 1st - 3rd Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, radishes, turnips, peanuts, and other root crops. Also good for leafy vegetables. 4th - 5th Neither plant nor sow on these barren days. 6th...

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 ...

Have $25K, a back hoe and the ambition to grow fruit and vegetables year round? Maybe enough for a farmer's market? You might like this video. It is a work in progress. The newest design is looking to incorporate aquaponics. - OGM Fair use. Nebraska retiree uses Earth's heat to grow oranges in...

www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ JUNE 2018 1st Plant late beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, and other root crops. 2nd - 4th Poor days for planting. Kill plant pests, spray, fertilize, do general farm work.

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.

www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ JULY 2018 1st Good day for killing weeds, briars, and other plant pests. Poor for planting. 2nd-4th Set strawberry plants. Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, radishes, salsify, turnips, peanuts, and other root...

www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/ AUGUST 2018 1st - 2nd Neither plant nor sow on these barren days. 3rd - 4th Good days for transplanting. Root crops that can be planted now will yield well.

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'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...

This year I grew heirloom collards called Alabama Blue. It is a beautiful plant the stems and the veins in the leaves are purple. They grew well and the flavor was excellent. I have never tried to save collards seeds before and had no idea that the plants actually form seed pods. So I am going...

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...

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

Have any of you tried to direct seed collards in the garden? How do you do it? I tried starting some in seed starting pots and it didn't work. They got leggy and died. I always end up buying plants but I sure would like to grow my own from seed. It's August 1st so I think I still have...

In the garden today I: Stripped the Lazy Amish House beans from the vines. I'd just about run out of seed this spring and planted what I had. Maybe ten vines lived to become productive. They produced two shopping bags of pods for seed. I gave an envelope of seed to an Amish neighbor who'd helped...

Learning by experience. I don't usually buy pelleted seeds but I got some when my favorite carrot seeds weren't available locally one year so I tried something new. I got some pelleted carrot seeds, not my usual variety but they did great. They are a couple of years old now and I tried them...

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?

Molasses As Fertilizer: Information On Feeding Plants With Molasses Soil, Fixes & Fertilizers By: Susan Patterson, Master Gardener Printer Friendly Version Image by Marshall Looking for an easy, low cost way to feed your plants? Consider feeding plants with...

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...