Gardening

[zelix]

Anyone else here do any gardening? I have taken this up to relieve my grocery bill. I've had pretty good success.

It's finally cooled off a bit here. Which is good. I can finally put my garden to bed over the winter. I've had a nice crop this summer.

Here's the next to the last crop. I picked this all a few weeks ago. I'll have this much more by the weekend.



I'll pull one more batch off before it turns cold. I also have planted some multiplying onions.

[NightCap]

Good job!
The year after I took the Master Gardener training I planted almost one of everything. We would go in the back yard with a big salad bowl and have one of the freshest salads I have ever had. It is a gas eating what you grow. Keep it up.

[jhjspecks]

I was, but Ike took out just about everything i had in mine. I am even missing 8 tomato baskets.

[Eunice]

Kenny and I had a garden for a couple of years but stopped for some reason. We talk about putting in another garden (also to relieve our grocery bill) but the cost of water here makes it very expensive to have a garden.

[zelix]

Good job!
The year after I took the Master Gardener training I planted almost one of everything. We would go in the back yard with a big salad bowl and have one of the freshest salads I have ever had. It is a gas eating what you grow. Keep it up.

I think we saved a ton on tomatoes. I had some serious tomatos until the end of august.

It seems to taste better and healthier as well.

[zelix]

I was, but Ike took out just about everything i had in mine. I am even missing 8 tomato baskets.

Sorry to hear. If you and yours got out alive.. then you can always replant.

Good luck to ya.

[zelix]

Kenny and I had a garden for a couple of years but stopped for some reason. We talk about putting in another garden (also to relieve our grocery bill) but the cost of water here makes it very expensive to have a garden.

I'm lucky to be on a well.


Have you looked into making a rainwater collection system? check it out:
http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Rainwate ... ion-System

[Eunice]

my mom has a well. It is all she used in her garden for years. She always had a huge garden. Here in Fortuna the city owns all the water rights and you are not allowed to dig a well. At the edge of our property there is an underground spring which would be wonderful but we cant do anything with it. It keeps the weeping willow beautiful.
Next year we are going to do a small (salad) garden, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers etc in spite of the price of water.
Just read in the paper where garbage prices are going up again. Things are getting rather scary!

[zelix]

my mom has a well. It is all she used in her garden for years. She always had a huge garden. Here in Fortuna the city owns all the water rights and you are not allowed to dig a well. At the edge of our property there is an underground spring which would be wonderful but we cant do anything with it. It keeps the weeping willow beautiful.
Next year we are going to do a small (salad) garden, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers etc in spite of the price of water.
Just read in the paper where garbage prices are going up again. Things are getting rather scary!

One of my pals made a rain water collection system. He uses it strictly for gardening. It rains pretty good here so he always has a couple of 55 gallon drums full of water. So basically he doesn't use a drop of city water for his garden.

[Mary K]

Yup, I started a small one and over planted.



Looks like you got a good harvest.

Mk

[zelix]

Yup, I started a small one and over planted.


Looks like you got a good harvest.

Mk

Looks like everything is green and healthy. I have a couple areas I plant. here's when I started in april:

[Eunice]

nice looking garden. Kenny and I have been looking into the rainwater systems. thanks. It is a great idea.

[Mary K]

Thanks zelix, It did great for 3 months, and then we had way to much rain and I couldn't keep up with the weeds. It got really hot too. I am thinking of planting in containers next year. I had some Peppers that did really well in a container. And I could move it out of the rain if needed.



So, how did mulching with pine straw work out? I used Oak leaves and the Maters and peppers loved it.

Nice garden BTW.

Mk

[tinksdad]

One of my pals made a rain water collection system. He uses it strictly for gardening. It rains pretty good here so he always has a couple of 55 gallon drums full of water. So basically he doesn't use a drop of city water for his garden.

My water is un-metered. The city is going to charge me for it whether I use it or not!! But rain water would be better for a garden... NO added chemicals.

I spent a month in the Pahoa district on the Big Island of Hawaii about 6 years ago. The cottage I rented had an above ground swimming pool. Not for swimming though. It was the cistern for the rain water collected off the roof of the cottage. There were no wells, no piped in water.... everybody had a cistern. I'm not saying it was remote; but I had to drive 10 minutes to get cell phone reception at the time!! (40 minute drive to Hilo.) I'd do it again in a heart beat!!

[Mary K]

Oh you poor thang!! You had to live in Hawaii. How awful.



Mk