Thread: In the Garden 2016

One word "Compost".

Wow Glen. Early to be thinking about the garden. Cabin fever already? Actually you got me thinking too. What a beautiful winter morning. Snow covered here too. We use a compost box you can see in the right rear corner just outside the fence. Don't add much to it in the winter though. I think I remember from last years post you said you took down your fence because of the snow. Last year the snow was up over the top of the posts here and it didn't seem to bother it at all. The top and bottom rails give the plastic coated wire plenty of support.
The shed I built last year has a clear poly roof on the 12/12 pitch side with a southern exposure. Looking forward to getting things started earlier this year. Planting most things up here before Memorial day usually results in a frost kill.

We are expanding the strawberry patch a bit.
I'm putting some tomatoes in the flower beds. No sense in not using the available area.
No more bell peppers, We have never had any luck with them. The jalapenos did well so they will be back.
Green onions will be added this year.

All in all, we will about double our garden size which is still very small. This will be our second garden at the new house so we are finding out what works and doesn't work.

We are in the same boat Dave, second year and still figuring out what will work best, plus I,m adding more boxes, also looking into , wire covers to protect more of the vegetables, we fed a lot of critters last year, but got some good ideas from the book, "square foot gardening". I like fence around your garden karleg, maybe do that then put up a couple of poles with a netting hung over the sides! Tc

Definition of a good day -

When I drive the UTV down the road 5 minutes ago and find a 100' roll of brandy new 1" Polypipe that obviously flew off a truck going down the Highway over the Wintertime...

The early Breakup uncovered it from under the snow

This will now become the new irrigation system for the Garden this Summer


BooooYaahhhhh !!!!! Can you say SCORE !!!!!!!

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Definition of a good day -

When I drive the UTV down the road 5 minutes ago and find a 100' roll of brandy new 1" Polypipe that obviously flew off a truck going down the Highway over the Wintertime...

The early Breakup uncovered it from under the snow

This will now become the new irrigation system for the Garden this Summer


BooooYaahhhhh !!!!! Can you say SCORE !!!!!!!

Only you Glen, Only You!

I could drive Forever and Never run across Anything that I could use/Let along Brand New!



Yes I can say SCORE!!!!!!!!!!

I officially have gone slightly over the edge

Scooping up piles of Moose Drops and tossing them onto the garden

Originally Posted by karlej

Wow Glen. Early to be thinking about the garden. Cabin fever already? Actually you got me thinking too.

Yours is looking great Karl

Was just filling potholes out on the road with my neighbor, and the Garden Goddess at the front of the road was out starting to putt around in her's..
The early thaw and break up has us all thinking about it here LOL

Probably will sucker us all in with the warm weather and then snow on June 1st

Have you considered vermicomposting?

For a while i had a small garden with my ex. We kept a large tupperware bin tucked away in a closet full of dirt and worms. Yes, dirt and worms. It just needed a few small holes drilled in the top for air. The Tiger Worms, or Red Worms (they have different names depending on where you look) will eat just about anything organic you toss in the bin, and pretty quickly so nothing ever starts to rot or smell.

Over the winter you can build up a nice amount of highly nutrient soil depending on how much organic material you feed them. In the spring the box can go outside (as long as its above freezing at night) and you can either spread the soil around, or as i did you can use a ball of it around each seed before planting. The worms can live in the soil in the garden over the growing season and wont harm any growing plants. You can add them to an outdoor compost box as well once the weather turns.

The only drawback is having a box of worms in your house during the colder months, but like i said it doesn't smell, they turn everything organic into dirt, and when people ask if you compost you can say.. well i have a bunch of pet worms that are working on that right now.

Of course they do multiply, so every once and a while you have to set some free, or start another box. I used to release about half of them into the soil every spring. The same box kept me going for about 3 years until someone borrowed it and left it outside on a really cold night. All my little dudes froze.

I know there are many internet sources for these, but i cant attest to any as they were given to me by an old co-worker at IBM. Here's a link though of what you would be looking for, in case your'e interested.

Redworms Eisenia Fetida From The Worm Farm

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Only you Glen, Only You!

I could drive Forever and Never run across Anything that I could use/Let along Brand New!

Ran over a dead skunk in Texas. I have a neighbor I could have used it on.