I guess planning is as important as everything else. I've been keeping records of what was planted, and what did well, or didn't. So at least that helps me with a blueprint of what to do this year. It's definately too early to plant, aside from onions and carrots, but I did get rid of a mouse in the greenhouse with a little peanut butter on a trap! We got three inches of snow today, and are expecting another three tomorrow, so planting is still a ways off. I'm thinking about starting some tomatoes inside so they can get a jump start. Luckily I still have plenty of canned tomatoes, green beans, carrots, beets, corn, squash, zukes. I also have several freezer bags of corn on the cob, hot peppers, bell peppers and some zuke and yellow squash. All this stuff has been great over the winter, but I'm really missing a fresh tomatoe right now.
A friend of mine uses mostly horse manure, and last year he grew the best looking and tasting chives I have ever seen. Amazing what a pile of Sh-t can produce
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..im not sure i wanna go there with that one..lol..sounds like that your doing good with the grapes and vines..good luck with the asparagus and white onions
I should plant a flower someday, but so far have only played with things I can eat! Even in a small space you can produce alot more than most people think.
Im hoping I can find one to try this year! This weekend I'm going to try and till the garden and get the potatoes in. Ill do a little more research to see how cold hearty they are first though.a tomato plant that grows potatoes too.?..
. I learned something from a friend today. I've planted celery a couple times and never had any seeds germinate. My friend said take a bunch of store bought celery and cut it a couple inches above the base and bury it with 1/2 inch over the top. I had one bunch in the fridge, that I squeezed into the greenhouse. I'll let you know how well it goes. He said it will sprout in about three or four days, and keeps coming back year after year. I'm so glad to start growing again! I can't wait to get the regular garden going too.
I tilled in a bunch of leaves into the soil in both the greenhouse and garden. It probably would have been better to let them compost a year, but I figure they will break down in the soil as well. I really don't know crap about growing, but am having fun experimenting! Each year I am getting better though. I still have loads of green beans, tomatoes, okra, pickles, carrots, apples, zuccini, squash, and beets canned from last year. I also have bell and hot peppers, squash and zuccini and corn vaccum freezer bagged. Gardening really has helped me eat alot better. I rarely go out for fast food anymore.
