Vegetable Gardens

[jrsavoie]

Stripped our garden last week and have a bunch of peppers to freeze this week and a half bushel of green tomatoes. All the plants are in the compost pile now and the garden will spend the winter under the remainder of the hay mulch. I stopped fall tillage a couple years ago and now just till the areas for potatoes and onions at planting time. The rest we just put more mulch on and plant seedlings through the freshened mulch.

What do you use for mulch?

 

[btfarm]

What do you use for mulch?

Grass hay

 

[Stoney]

Always Wonder if I could just put grass clippings right in our planter beds...need to stop at a farm and get some either cow manure or chicken..

 

[btfarm]

Always Wonder if I could just put grass clippings right in our planter beds...need to stop at a farm and get some either cow manure or chicken..

Grass Clippings are excellent for mulch but you have to lay them down thin and keep em an inch or so away from the plants because they get hot while decomposing. Especially from people that fertilize their lawn.

 

[jrsavoie]

Always Wonder if I could just put grass clippings right in our planter beds...need to stop at a farm and get some either cow manure or chicken..

Sheep rabbit or horse manure is good.

Rabbit is my favorite. No weed seeds to battle.

Sheep manure is my 2nd favorite

 

[jrsavoie]

Always Wonder if I could just put grass clippings right in our planter beds...need to stop at a farm and get some either cow manure or chicken..

Chicken manure can be hot.
Do a soil sample in the spring. Might need some lime.

 

[jrsavoie]

It's time again. Past time to get started.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ashleigh+Tomatoes&oq=Ashleigh+Tomatoes&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.5909j0j7&client=ms-android-tcl-rvo2b&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

 

[MrMarty51]

I know this is late, and, I dont know how I missed all of those posts from last fall.
Seems that someone pulled up their tomato plants and hung them upside down in their house. They ripened like they was still in the ground.
I used to do that with my pot, uhhhhhh, never mind.

 

[Diesel princess]

I know this is late, and, I dont know how I missed all of those posts from last fall.
Seems that someone pulled up their tomato plants and hung them upside down in their house. They ripened like they was still in the ground.
I used to do that with my pot, uhhhhhh, never mind.

Good lord at least have the decency to grow your cats their special herb too ( catnip ) ... Lol

 

[MrMarty51]

Good lord at least have the decency to grow your cats their special herb too ( catnip ) ... Lol

They get too weird on that stuff. I did too on pot so quit that too.

 

[SnowDrift]

It's not late. My bride just has been putting up tomatoes for a week - haven't seen our countertop in days.

 

[jrsavoie]

It's not late. My bride just has been putting up tomatoes for a week - haven't seen our countertop in days.

It's good to hear that. Those words, "I'm late". Always made me a little nervous.

Not that getting nervous did any good

 

[denata]

Do you grow seedlings? Do you use purple lights?

 

[jrsavoie]

Do you grow seedlings? Do you use purple lights?

We grow seedlings. Mostly for plants we can't buy. Like the Ashleigh Tomatoes

We use grow lights. Not sure about purple light.

 

[denata]

Purple lamps are also called red blue white led. Someone says that plants grow faster under them, someone does not see the difference.

 

[jrsavoie]

Purple lamps are also called red blue white led. Someone says that plants grow faster under them, someone does not see the difference.

That may be what we bought last. I forgot I had several of the florescent tube type until after we bought the small square grow light.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09D7XHZHL?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

 

[jrsavoie]

We would like a small green house or at least stairs going to our basement.
We grew in a little out building last year. Heating it to 70° was fairly expensive. Relatively speaking.
I forgot to get the propane tank filled this winter, so haven't been running the propane heater much.
The electric. Heater is set to come on just before the propane at about 40° F. All year.

We thought it was rather silly to grow there, when we could grow in the basement, which is already heated

 

[ak diesel driver]

Getting started on a green house

 

[SnowDrift]

Fence posts drive nicely like that, too.

 

[jrsavoie]

Where does ok be procure a pile driver.
I've looked into fence post drivers before