Gardening?

jwill10
jwill10 Posts: 30 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I am just wondering if anyone else is attempting a garden for more clean eating?? Last year I harvested eggplant, and peppers. I just sowed seeds for broccoli, onions, and squash. I also have carrots but need to plant those directly into the ground. I also just put an order in for some chicks so I can have fresh eggs from free range chickens :) Hopefully if this goes well, next year I will add on a couple more, like potatos.
If anyone else is attempting this maybe we can bounce Ideas off each other or just check in to see how everything is growing!

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  • halphord
    halphord Posts: 379 Member
    I want to grow a garden so bad...but I have no idea how. I don't have a green thumb, and I have a hard time even keeping flowers in my flower bed alive....any tips would be great. I'd LOVE to have homegrown veggies.
  • bettyboop573
    bettyboop573 Posts: 610 Member
    Hi!!! I ateempted to dig out a veggie garden this year but then just ran out of time to actually get everything in the ground! lol this year I have 4 days on and 4 days off work schedule....so I hope to get lots more done. Have most of the seeds ready to start and just picked up a magazine from Chapters yesterday all with veggie garden tips. Hope I am good to go :) trying to talk my hubby into chickens hehe
  • jwill10
    jwill10 Posts: 30 Member
    I want to grow a garden so bad...but I have no idea how. I don't have a green thumb, and I have a hard time even keeping flowers in my flower bed alive....any tips would be great. I'd LOVE to have homegrown veggies.
  • jwill10
    jwill10 Posts: 30 Member
    I want to grow a garden so bad...but I have no idea how. I don't have a green thumb, and I have a hard time even keeping flowers in my flower bed alive....any tips would be great. I'd LOVE to have homegrown veggies.

    Lets see if I did this right!!! Where is it that you are having trouble?? Sowing the seeds? Thats usually the hardest part and tedious. Try purchasing seedlings, they are a little expensive but well worth it if you can't start them.
  • atsteele
    atsteele Posts: 1,358 Member
    I think that's an awesome idea. I also want to plant a garden this year. We've had one since we bought our house but for various reasons, including one hurricane floyd, we dont seem to have the best of luck with it. We had birds eat up the seedlings, we've had a groundhog and deer get into it, oh, it's been a struggle. But I have to tell you, I love gardening so much. So I want to give it another whirl this year. Your post has re-inspired me to get on top of it and plan what I want to put into it. Thank you!!
  • cindaroses
    cindaroses Posts: 117 Member
    I am growing a garden and also have brown egg layer chickens. It really does help you eat cleaner and you know where your vegetables are coming from. You can give your vegetable scraps to your chickens..they give you fertilizer, eggs, and meat. It is a great system.
  • bettyboop573
    bettyboop573 Posts: 610 Member
    tried talkng the hubby into chickens hehe no go yet!
  • jwill10
    jwill10 Posts: 30 Member
    Hi!!! I ateempted to dig out a veggie garden this year but then just ran out of time to actually get everything in the ground! lol this year I have 4 days on and 4 days off work schedule....so I hope to get lots more done. Have most of the seeds ready to start and just picked up a magazine from Chapters yesterday all with veggie garden tips. Hope I am good to go :) trying to talk my hubby into chickens hehe
    What are you planting?? I know it took months for me to convince my husband too...lol! I took him to look at someone elses coop and he talked to them, now he seems on board..he's even building the coop!!
  • perrytyra
    perrytyra Posts: 357 Member
    My yard is way to small. But I plan to do some container gardening. I bought some strawberry seeds to start with.

    When I had lots of acres I had a garden a few years in a row. I didn't really know what I was doing. My husband tilled a big plot for me. I looked up a bit of info, and just sowed the seeds and hoped for the best. Keeping the weeds pulled was the hardest part for me. I was amazed when some of produce started to grow.
  • bettyboop573
    bettyboop573 Posts: 610 Member
    beans, peppers, carrotts , onions....prob have a spot for some herbs being a huge cook!!
  • nickyevans
    nickyevans Posts: 216 Member
    We turned our tiny little back garden into a veggie patch last year, there are pictures here:
    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=280747&id=551018552&l=bf1b6c0809 - last year
    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=280740&id=551018552&l=88acb8a877 - the garden so far this year

    We grew lots of runner beans and carrots, we also had a good supply of salad leaves. All our tomatoes got blight though :sad: . This year we are growing full size beans - fine beans and runner beans, peas, carrots, spinach, salad leaves,broad beans, spring onions, radishes and sprouts. We have a two mini greenhouses to grow peppers and chillis and we are making use of the space at the side of the house to put some tomato greenhouses which should help to protect them from blight. We also have 4 blueberry bushes, 6 raspberry canes and strawberries - all grown in pots. We grow basil in the kitchen and rosemary, chives, oregano, thyme and mint in pots and small spaces in the garden. :smile:
  • Bootzey
    Bootzey Posts: 274 Member
    I garden. Not just because it's a source of clean eating. But because it's good to know how to do it.
  • Gwooh
    Gwooh Posts: 80 Member
    We had over an acre to garden on last year...we moved now only live on an acre...so we will be doing plants in pots. We go to lowes, walmart, or our local nursery and pick up plants. We LOVE tomatoes (maters is what we called them in ENC), bell peppers, and some jalapenos. I will miss my squash and okra and running beans this year. Gardening in pots is really easy, get some vegetable potting soil from lowes or walmart, place it in the pot with your plant and water. Place the pots in the sun and water daily. Gardening is that simple!
  • pyro13g
    pyro13g Posts: 1,127 Member
    I've done gardens from the small side of the garage type to half acre(current plot size). The deer have been bad by me so this year is the start of putting up a barrier. I put in grapes last year so they are a priority to be fenced. The deer really like 'em plus the farmer behind usually puts in corn which they really like.

    No green thumbs needed for produce gardens. It's all soil, water, and pest control. Bedding mix from a soil company to make beds, or, like I do in my heavily clay soil, dig hole for plant, fill with cheap potting soil, put your transplants or seeds in the potting soil. Put a stake in that hole so you know where it is for next year. Some things I've grown and of all types of variety. Tomatoes, beans, corn, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, kale, Bok Choy, beets, potatoes, carrots, squash, pumpkins, herbs, lettuce, spinach, onions.... A friend said I should put stuff in the fair. So I did on a whim. Figured the farmers would take all the ribbons but came home with some of each place.
  • atsteele
    atsteele Posts: 1,358 Member
    I've done gardens from the small side of the garage type to half acre(current plot size). The deer have been bad by me so this year is the start of putting up a barrier. I put in grapes last year so they are a priority to be fenced. The deer really like 'em plus the farmer behind usually puts in corn which they really like.

    No green thumbs needed for produce gardens. It's all soil, water, and pest control. Bedding mix from a soil company to make beds, or, like I do in my heavily clay soil, dig hole for plant, fill with cheap potting soil, put your transplants or seeds in the potting soil. Put a stake in that hole so you know where it is for next year. Some things I've grown and of all types of variety. Tomatoes, beans, corn, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, kale, Bok Choy, beets, potatoes, carrots, squash, pumpkins, herbs, lettuce, spinach, onions.... A friend said I should put stuff in the fair. So I did on a whim. Figured the farmers would take all the ribbons but came home with some of each place.

    I grew up on a farm and gardened since I can remember. I've never seen so many problems with gardening as I have here on this property! But I'm undaunted. We made the garden smaller so that we could raise it up, surround it with railroad ties and fence and add in enough dirt to keep it drier. I think that this property must have been swampland at one point. (LOL) The problem is that the fence has created it's own maintenance program and now needs to be taken down and replaced. Translation: More money I dont wish to spend. (Ugh.) Im actually thinking of going to two strands of electric fence instead... which is also easier to week around than the ties.

    But as far as plans for actual plants, I took a vote from the kids and they suggested many of the following: watermelon, zucchini, squash, tomatoes, peas, beans, red and yellow peppers, lettuce and carrots. Maybe a pumpkin; pumpkins are fun. (I wont try potatoes again after they rotted post Hurricane Floyd.) I have a perennial flower garden that is not doing too well now that's it's a few years old so I think that Im considering converting it to a strawberry patch. At some point, I'd love to put some blueberry, raspberry and blackcap bushes in the backyard along the fence. With as wet as the back yard gets/stays, they should do really well.
  • atsteele
    atsteele Posts: 1,358 Member
    We turned our tiny little back garden into a veggie patch last year, there are pictures here:
    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=280747&id=551018552&l=bf1b6c0809 - last year
    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=280740&id=551018552&l=88acb8a877 - the garden so far this year

    We grew lots of runner beans and carrots, we also had a good supply of salad leaves. All our tomatoes got blight though :sad: . This year we are growing full size beans - fine beans and runner beans, peas, carrots, spinach, salad leaves,broad beans, spring onions, radishes and sprouts. We have a two mini greenhouses to grow peppers and chillis and we are making use of the space at the side of the house to put some tomato greenhouses which should help to protect them from blight. We also have 4 blueberry bushes, 6 raspberry canes and strawberries - all grown in pots. We grow basil in the kitchen and rosemary, chives, oregano, thyme and mint in pots and small spaces in the garden. :smile:

    Now THAT is gardening!! I'd LOVE to have some greenhouses for tomatoes and herbs!! How did you make them? Or where did you purchase them?
  • jwill10
    jwill10 Posts: 30 Member
    We turned our tiny little back garden into a veggie patch last year, there are pictures here:
    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=280747&id=551018552&l=bf1b6c0809 - last year
    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=280740&id=551018552&l=88acb8a877 - the garden so far this year

    We grew lots of runner beans and carrots, we also had a good supply of salad leaves. All our tomatoes got blight though :sad: . This year we are growing full size beans - fine beans and runner beans, peas, carrots, spinach, salad leaves,broad beans, spring onions, radishes and sprouts. We have a two mini greenhouses to grow peppers and chillis and we are making use of the space at the side of the house to put some tomato greenhouses which should help to protect them from blight. We also have 4 blueberry bushes, 6 raspberry canes and strawberries - all grown in pots. We grow basil in the kitchen and rosemary, chives, oregano, thyme and mint in pots and small spaces in the garden. :smile:
    Wow!! That is great you really utilized that space and got so much...Great Job:happy: We have 20 blueberry bushes, raspberrys and strawberry that were here with the house (bought from husbands grandparents) We found a small part of the Grape arbor that grew back the end of last year so we will be working on that as well. The blueberries are the best I make jam for gifts and freeze them for winter snacks as well. The strawberry patch is rather small and seems to dwindle every year :sad: I'm going to have to talk to someone to see what they say or maybe the chicken fertilizer will help. ( Not really looking forward to that part:wink: ) What soil did you use?
  • FitJ1210
    FitJ1210 Posts: 754 Member
    We turned our tiny little back garden into a veggie patch last year, there are pictures here:
    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=280747&id=551018552&l=bf1b6c0809 - last year
    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=280740&id=551018552&l=88acb8a877 - the garden so far this year

    We grew lots of runner beans and carrots, we also had a good supply of salad leaves. All our tomatoes got blight though :sad: . This year we are growing full size beans - fine beans and runner beans, peas, carrots, spinach, salad leaves,broad beans, spring onions, radishes and sprouts. We have a two mini greenhouses to grow peppers and chillis and we are making use of the space at the side of the house to put some tomato greenhouses which should help to protect them from blight. We also have 4 blueberry bushes, 6 raspberry canes and strawberries - all grown in pots. We grow basil in the kitchen and rosemary, chives, oregano, thyme and mint in pots and small spaces in the garden. :smile:

    I took a look from the other gardening thread. I really like the way you utilized your space, your very organized and the mini green house is great! Did you make it? You have given me the bug to go play in the dirt! :smile:
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