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  1. Markymark

    Time for indoor plant starts?

    Was at walmart this morning and they've already got the tomatoes and mints out for sale. I'm wondering if I should start my plants as March 17 is the estimated date that I'm seeing. Wondering if starting them month and a ½ early is too soon (I haven't done starts before)?
  2. Markymark

    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    It's like $22 a ton, and my truck bed I think it's 8 ft holds 2300ish lbs of compost when about 90ish% full (it's the green waste from the cities composted). It's actually some good stuff, really nice and dark. Unfortunately it was still cooking, it was in the last phase of cooking. So it had...
  3. Markymark

    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    They are called Dog-eared redwood, each one cost $2.29 at my local Lowes, just bought 6 as I got another project for them. Just bought 2300 lbs of compost for $27, gotta love California (sometimes)!
  4. Markymark

    Paint or Stain a pergola

    I'll be honest I just enjoy wood working, and Aesthetics are important to me. Check out all this wood I just brought home! Courtesy of my uncle, gotta love free wood! Specially 4x4x12's and 4x6x12s! This a rare picture of California, it's mostly a nice golden brown. We got a nice rain the other...
  5. Markymark

    Paint or Stain a pergola

    So left picture hardware, right picture covering the hardware with redwood. Now this is ugly looking redwood, and it's not exactly cut perfectly it's just for deciding on going forward. I'll probably end up sanding it nicely (get it down to that nice looking redwood) and staining it so I can...
  6. Markymark

    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    So this is what I did so far just fiddling around with a trial planter. After thinking about it I decided to give the holes more of an organic look (plus it took less thinking). I gave it exactly 12 holes, and kept them above 2 feet. So if I plant a determinant tomato plant it wouldn't get to...
  7. Markymark

    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    I was thinking and I know how to do it! At lest provide water to all the plants in an interesting manner with spinning capability! So here is the top view, I cut the top board in half, so you can see it's empty inside. So to control the location of the pole you would make a lid with a hole cut...
  8. Markymark

    Grape Pruning questions assistance (pictures)

    I'm more on the food production side if I had a choice, but if I can get both that'd be fine.
  9. Markymark

    Grape Pruning questions assistance (pictures)

    Is it a bad idea to leave them? Or does it matter, I kinda like how it looks right now and it seems to me it'll have a nice full pergola, well roughly 1/4 full (which is what I'm going for. Cutting it back to a single stem and creating a head is cool though, but I'm wondering if it'll negatively...
  10. Markymark

    Grape Pruning questions assistance (pictures)

    I don't have a single stem coming out of the ground I have 3... Which is causing my headaches now as I'm wondering if that's gonna hurt fruit production in the long run.... The first youtube video I saw the 2nd one I had not and it was very informative. I'm pretty happy with how it is right now...
  11. Markymark

    Grape Pruning questions assistance (pictures)

    has it grown to far past the point of creating a head? You think I should remove some of the last years growth that'll give me grapes? You think I should train only one? I'm nervous about cutting too much off, I read that it can negatively affect the plant if TOO much is cut off during the fall...
  12. Markymark

    11.5 lb cauliflower - what do ya think?

    I had to use a hack saw to get it off the stem, and then it took me a good ten minutes to get rid of all the remaining leaves so I could get it trimmed all the way back to the cauliflower.
  13. Markymark

    Grape Pruning questions assistance (pictures)

    So I pruned my grape tree to go up my Pergola and I'm going to admit first hand that I AM NO EXPERT on pruning anything. I'm also aware that single stem pruning for a grape tree will give it the feel of a trunk, well after further investigation of my grape tree it has 3 trunks coming out of the...
  14. Markymark

    11.5 lb cauliflower - what do ya think?

    Yeah, I was looking on youtube and it's usually between 2-3lbs my question is ... do they only allow it to get to that size or do they get that size normally and have to be harvested? ALso does it hurt it any to break it up a bit as I don't got anything big enough so I can give it a saltwater...
  15. Markymark

    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    I was thinking the same thing but I don't like the concept of using a wood bottom, I think that is a fast way to rot it out lol. But one could do something like 2 inch pvc cut in half with a piece of smaller pvc in the middle or maybe a coupler etc. Or one could focus on planting things that...
  16. Markymark

    11.5 lb cauliflower - what do ya think?

    So my Cauliflower started looking like it was spreading out a bit so I went ahead and cut it off. I used a hack saw to remove it from the stem. Here's a picture for ya (comparison to that of a quarter)
  17. Markymark

    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    Well, I'm considering cost effectiveness, I think it's not worth putting all that money into a 10 dollar thing. it's just an IMO.
  18. Markymark

    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    One could use engineered wood etc. But I have redwood that's in direct contact with water and it's just fine (since last year), which is a raised bed. All raised beds are going to have direct contact with soil and water. I don't know how one could completely avoid direct contact with water and...
  19. Markymark

    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    That's why I made the choice of redwood because of its properties. If it takes a few years to rot and break down I'll just build a new one. To seal it with plastic would be pretty hard and sealing it completely would be near impossible if it's put in the ground (IMO). I see no reason not to use...
  20. Markymark

    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    To be honest I just thought of it a few days ago and just designed a model. I'll be making one in a few days. But for now I'm still in the planning process as to where I want to locate it on my yard.


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