Plant a Garden!

My little plants are coming along nicely, and I have all my flower beds cleaned out and the lawn rolled. I planted some sweet pepper seeds over the weekend. I am going to hand spade up a little bit to put in early lettuce and onions. My winter onions will be ready to eat soon. My 20 new little chicks came in yesterday, and they are in hubbies garage under their heat lamp. They will be our source of eggs this coming fall and winter. My old hens are still laying also. The hay is starting to grow, and summer will stop the big heat bills for people. That is good!! Have a good day !!

Wow this alll sounds so exciting! I usually grow tomatoes and some herbs in pots on my deck but am thinking about putting them in the ground this year and trying my hand at a couple other things like cabbage and some sweet peppers!

Best of luck to us all!

TJ

I did get in some early lettuce, spinach, cabbage, onions, and radishes in a little kitchen garden. We will plant the rest later on when the weather is better for the warm weather plants and seeds. I am hungry for that good garden food! The chicks are 1 1/2 weeks old and are getting little wing feathers. I found some baby ducks at Tractor Supply and got 3 Mallards and 3 that will be big white ducks. I will give the Mallards to some friends who have a nice pond when they grow big enough. Ducks are so much fun to watch! Laying down black plastic, anchoring it, and planting your tomatoes and peppers in holes that you make in the plastic can save a lot of weeding. You just need to take out occasional weeds that grow right around the plants. Make sure to anchor the plastic real good with rocks or bricks or dirt around the edges. Makes gardening much easier! Have fun!!

How is your garden doing with the cold snap we are have C?

The cabbage etc should be okay. I didn't bothe to cover anything up last night but I don't have veggies, just the perrenial flowers.

I'm going to get a grape tomato plant this year and put it in along the flower bed. It is the only sunny location I have. Plus I'm thinking of getting 3 fruit trees. I'll need to keep them in large pots and place them in front of my garage door that we don't ever open. I'm going to state doing some research on what dwarf types are best for my location.

Anyone out there plant fruit trees? In the southern part of Ohio? What are good choices? How about potting them and keeping them in pots? Any advise?

I checked out my table garden yesterday, and the lettuce, radishes, spinach, and onions are starting through the ground. My six cabbage plants in the milk carton greenhouses are doing good and growing. I started some more pepper plants yesterday in my sun room. My chicks are really growing and starting to get their feathers. This is when they really eat a lot and are really awkward looking.We caught a raccoon in a live trap that has been dumping our garbage can and getting into our cat food in the barn. It has really become a nuisance. We are going to turn it loose farther away from home in a larger wooded area. It had figured out how to take the lid off of the cat food, and got really upset when we hid the food away. It made a real mess turning things over trying to find that food. We will find an area far away from houses where it can live. My winter onions are almost ready to eat, and I am going to start some flower seeds next. I need to start some hot pepper plants, also. Now, I see that we may have some snow coming next week, but we got through the last cold o.k. I don't know if you can grow fruit trees in pots, but I guess it would depend on the size of the tree. They might freeze out in the winter above the ground unless you have a protected spot to put them. Good luck!!

Thanks on the good luck with potted fruit trees. I've decided not to buy them this year. I've got sooooo much t do to "restore order" to my landscape for this year already. Any extra money has to go into that project first. Plus right now I have company and there are other things that come before gardening.

I"ll do some research on potted fruit trees anyway before I purchase. No sense in throwing my money away just to watch them die.

weather here in our area is going to be wonderful all weekend. The 2 youngest grandchildren (11-12) are here during the day time hours while parents are at a homeschool convention. We are going to go roller skating!

I may need more luck with that than the fruit trees in pots!

On Saturday, my hubby hooked up the plow, and plowed our big garden, my brothers, and the new neighbors. My chicks and the two ducks are growing fast, and will need a larger pen soon. My window plants are doing good and I am ready to plant some things when the garden is disced and tilled. Maybe this cold snap coming through here in Ohio will be the last. I sure hope so anyway.

What a great thread!! I didn't even realize this was here!

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I was into eatting flowers and that sort of thing about 20 years ago. If any of you have daylilies, they are very tasty. I picked the buds only, early as possible in the morning, and fried them bare naked or breaded in some breadcrumbs in butter. Bare they taste a lot like chicken....no, just kidding, they taste like asperagus, but cheaper.

I also made rose petal jam with some old fashioned, very fragrant deep pink roses. Rogosa variety, they don't need chemicals like hybrid teas. You need the fragrance to have the taste. It's okay, but i didn't make more that the one batch. that year I also did sugared petals from large roses, way too sugary for my tastes, and from some johnny jump-up! (violets)

Nastrisiums (spelling???) are nice to add to a green salad and the stems from the plant chopped up into strips add a hot peppery taste. That experienment went well, until my H found a little black bug. Then he said no more with the flower eatting. Hey at least it was just a small bug, not a squiggly worm!

Any of you gardeners out there try that sort of stuff.

People have eaten watercress that grows in the streams, dandelion leaves and even the flowers, wild chives, horseradish, etc. for years and years. I have heard of garnishing salads with the lilies and I know they are eaten. Lots of ways to get fresh foods, all from the pioneers.There are many others, just not on top of my head right now. Cattail? My plants are really growing now, and I have started flower seeds. The windows in my sunroom are full of plants.

By the way, for those who live in apartment buildings in the city and stuff, you could also make a hydroponic garden that doesn't need soil. The only problem with it is that the humidity and fertilizer (nutrient rich water) can stimulate salmonella growth so you have to make sure you prepare it well to kill it off if by chance they do get infected with it. But on the upside it doesn't need soil: and all it uses is nutrient filled water that is recycled so the plants only get what they need and as a result they grow really fast. They aren't too terribly hard to make or maintain because my chemistry teacher said that her class made them back in the day when she taught nutrition. I was thinking that it was a really cool idea (I'm a science geek ) so I thought I'd have to make one of those one day.

Apparently though that's how people grow pot in their houses o__o...
But it words for a lot of different plants too...it's how NASA likes to grow veggies!

Some of my tomatoes have blossoms on them. Everything is doing good! The sweet corn is coming up, and I am looking forward to all the goodies in cans and the freezer.