Thread: It's gardening time!

I love to garden. and raise chickens, rabbits, growing strawberries, peaches, blackberries, apples, grapes,and cherries, all the vegtables that my fammily and friends love.

Glen your garden looks great! I love all of the nitrogen releasing snow you have, I am jealous! I myself have finished digging the trenches for potatoes and looking forward to some aged manure and the planting of the potato buds.

I think I will go nuts on tomatoes again this year, I never seem to have enough, far too many never make it back to the house. Favorites include The Mortgage lifter, German Strawberry, Cherokee Purple and this years tomato experiment is the Riesentraube, a cherry type German tomato. I have started them as seeds and cant wait to stick them into the warm earth. All of these are heirlooms by the way and quite good!

For you watermelon lovers, I tried the Sun, Moon and Stars variety last year and was absolutely amazed! Hadnt had melon like that since I was a kid.

Heres to a great spring and a bountiful summer!

Pulled out our little gas tiller yesterday!! Woot! Think I'll focus in herbs this year while the wife gets into everything else.

I mean have you ever cooked with fresh basil???!!! Oh man! Heaven !!

Herb Gardens are a must have,In my local we can grow most year round,we grow Chives,All types of parsley,Cilantro,Oregano, basil. rosemary and many others.Nothing better than picking fresh herbs for dinner.

Man - that's a nicely thought out garden brother!

Thx,come about may it will be overgrown with herbs,most of which Freeze very well,wife also de-hydrates alot of stuff.

I have a 30' x 40' area fenced in for a garden. I usually used 3/4's of it for a garden, the other quarter was for 12 chickens. if Nobody has thought about it, the chickens make quick work of weeds and bugs, plus manure. I kept them separated from the garden and when it was time I would let them in and within 2 weeks they would have it all cleaned up for me, with very little left to do. I threw a bunch of leaves the garden this year, waiting to till it in. Not sure how much I'll get into the garden this year probably will be my last year at this house. Plus all my workers were killed off (chickens) possum or raccoon....

The "taters" are in! Just in time for a late winter rain/snow last nite. Things are looking up, I will be spreading more manure and getting the onions and garlic ready this week if all goes well and then it will be time to convert some 12" pipe into garden towers and see what the "vertical gardening" craze is all about.

I am going to be digging up some of my yard this year and put in a small garden. I say small because I have a feeling a 15x25 plot might not be enough room for what I will eventually want to have. I will be doing tomatoes, habeneros, banana peppers, jalepenos, sweet bell peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, summer squash, onion, green bush beans, cantaloupe, and a few jack-o-lantern pumpkins. Maybe put in a tiny herb garden just to see if I will use more fresh herbs if I have them on hand.

Any tips or suggestions on turning sod into a garden besides adding compost and tilling? Does the grass need to be killed with an herbicide first or just till it in?

Just till the sod until the until you have the desired effect, then take a rake a rake up the clumps of sod left over, throw these into the compost bin. Pulling weeds the first year is a primary task throughout the season, be prepared. I use very little in the chemical dept. As a matter of fact most pests can be dealt with using a soap and water mix sprayed.