Farming frenzy

[MagicManICT]

If you can start your tomato plants indoors, they'll grow great. When the weather warms enough the cold won't kill them or they start to flower, you can move them outside so bugs can pollinate them (or you can manually pollinate them). If you keep them in large planters, you can even move them inside where they get lots of sun and what fruit is on the vines will continue to ripen in the fall.

The same goes for pepper plants, too. My grandfather (who grows lots of different peppers) even did some experiments with keeping the plants alive through the winter. They wouldn't produce anything during the winter and didn't really produce any sooner than a young plant, but they did produce more over the season.

Don't forget the fresh herbs. You may never go back to the store-bought dried stuff again.

[Dallane]

Don't forget the fresh herbs. You may never go back to the store-bought dried stuff again.

oh god a 1000x this.

[dageir]

Will try tomatoes this year aswell, but not in the field. Will plant them in pots. Sunflowers worked out well, but arent very useful.
I will maybe try parsley and chives aswell. I read up on squash. Seems they take alot of place aswell. If the straweberries didnt make the winter I will maybe try some kind of squash.

[alloin]

I also grow stuff

[dageir]

Do tell! Is it a leafy growth?

[Gacrux]

this actually sounds pretty fun I wish that this had popped up sooner (when it was warm) since I had peppers, tomatoes, green onion and oregano planted this year D:

sadly the peppers (green bell and jalapeno) had some difficulty with them, not blooming in enough time before the frost

[dageir]

this actually sounds pretty fun I wish that this had popped up sooner (when it was warm) since I had peppers, tomatoes, green onion and oregano planted this year D:

sadly the peppers (green bell and jalapeno) had some difficulty with them, not blooming in enough time before the frost

Im just preparing for the coming season and hope to get people to join in.

[MagicManICT]

I moved a couple of years ago and still have major projects going on with landscaping and finishing rooms in a basement, so there's not much room in the back yard for a large garden (it's a small yard, anyway, given the design of the house and need for "flood protection"). I'll have some tomatoes and hopefully get a few herbs I can keep in pots, and maybe a couple of pepper plants (haven't decided if I just want bells or some mild chilis, too).

Hopefully the weather doesn't kill them off again this year. It's been so hot and dry the last couple of years, we get a small early summer crop, but they quit flowering by the first of July and are nearly dead by the first of September. By the time they can be coaxed back to life, it's nearly the first frost.

[dageir]

I moved a couple of years ago and still have major projects going on with landscaping and finishing rooms in a basement, so there's not much room in the back yard for a large garden (it's a small yard, anyway, given the design of the house and need for "flood protection"). I'll have some tomatoes and hopefully get a few herbs I can keep in pots, and maybe a couple of pepper plants (haven't decided if I just want bells or some mild chilis, too).

Hopefully the weather doesn't kill them off again this year. It's been so hot and dry the last couple of years, we get a small early summer crop, but they quit flowering by the first of July and are nearly dead by the first of September. By the time they can be coaxed back to life, it's nearly the first frost.

Keep us informed! And you know: Pics or it didnt happen!

[FearTheAmish]

one thing i found to really help if you like to fish....

When you catch trash fish (**** shiners, Blue Gills, etc.) keep them and take them home
-Cut fish open along belly
- Put seed in side of fishes chest
- bury fish
-???
- Profit

It provides a natural fertilizer and it cause's a great return on investment. Stole this from a book called The Frontiersmen when they were talking about how Native Americans planted corn. Tried it in my herb garden and i have never looked back works amazingly well.