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    Starting peas

    I thought about this more and the egg carton and the egg shells are out because they're too shallow. I hate the peat pots now. I found one that survived at least three seasons in the garden soil. I still have a few left from that last purchase a few season ago. I'll try the newspaper pots I...
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    Starting peas

    For the last few years I have started my sugar-snap peas in the ground as all the American books say you have to. This tends to be slow and I lose several to chipmunks. This year I think I'll try starting them indoors and transplant to the garden. Which way do you think will work best...
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    Time for indoor plant starts?

    I'm jealous of the space you have for these planter beds. I'd have to get rid of a neighbor or move to get that much space. I save seeds but only grow three tomato types. I think this weekend it's time to start my tomatoes and peppers for the season.
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    Kitchen herbs

    On a different herb note garlic is great for a home garden. I just notced mine is pushing through the mulch from the winter. I brushed some mulch back and it is coming in strong. I need to get out and remove the mulch soon. I find garlic gave a great return. Just plant it around first frost...
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    Pumpkins, Watermelons: Containers or directly in the ground?

    This will work to contain the roots. Regardless of the space you have to allow the plant to ramble above ground the small size of the root system will restrict the size of the plant. If the roots are too contained the plant may not set fruit at all even if the roots are contained to perfect...
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    Kitchen herbs

    My mom and step dad had some nice large containers on their deck for kitchen herbs. Three or four pots each about 24" diameter. One dedicated to basil, one for thyme and chives, one with rosemary and something else, and one with sage. Those four pots more than kept up with my mom's gourmet...
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    Pumpkins, Watermelons: Containers or directly in the ground?

    I put at most two Walthum butternut squahes or two sugar baby watermelons in a 18 gallon earthtainer sub irrigated planter. Because of space restrictions these gat trained up trellises and or nets. Fruit has to be supported. Doing this will give a nice green wall by mid summer. Notice my plant...
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    Kitchen herbs

    Cool weater crops have elluded me thus far. We tend to swing from hard frosts to hot very quickly. That and I wiat too long to start fall crops. It's all a learning process right? Basil I can do. My plants had inch thick main stems last year and provided a few pounds of leafs.
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    Pumpkins, Watermelons: Containers or directly in the ground?

    I do my melons and squash in containers but no less than 18 gallons and using a self watering design like the earthtainer. I use icebox watermelons and butternut squash. Giant pumpkins and large watermelons need the volume of the ground. A good rule of thumb for plants is there are equal...
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    Kitchen herbs

    I have yet to be able to grow cilantro worth anything. We can't get enough basil for our pesto use. Last year we did about a gallon of pesto. Depending on your area look to sage too. Many people around here (midwest, southern border of Wisconsin) grow it as an ornamental with purple flowers in...
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    Defensive garden plants

    I have a privet hedge that bloodies me up each time I trim it. While it does not have true thorns it has died-back twigs that come off the branches which do the same job. The privet location does nothing to deter people. I also have some raspberry brambles along my garage. Again the location...
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    Defensive garden plants

    I ran across this while reading a blog and thought it appropriate to pass on - even if it is from the UK. (UK Daily Mail) The home guard: Police suggest 30 thorny bushes homeowners could plant to discourage 'lazy' garden thieves I've been thinking I should put something along some out of...
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    Cheap idea for a fun planter!

    So Mark how is this tower planter going?
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    Crop Rotation with moving containers

    I understand the idea of rotation because of soil depletion, subterranean pests, and disease harboring but with this I am actually moving the container and soil in which the plant is growing. With the size of a backyard garden does it really matter with above ground pests as we simply don't have...
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    Crop Rotation with moving containers

    Half of my veg garden space is made of 20 to 30 gallon containers. Small enough that I can and do move them around season to season. I am careful to rotate veg through the containers but is there a reason not to grow the same things in the same location but different container year to year...
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    Tomato blossom end rot

    I have seen some good youtube series on gardening. I think one was called The Garden Girl and it was pushed by the Fine Gardening mag vegetable garden website. She was out of Boston and had the guy who wrote the square foot garden book on as a regular guest. They were basic but got the point...
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    Tomato blossom end rot

    Ha, sorry, either I'm a blind reader or I was wrangling a toddler when I read that. I totally missed the mortar part. I'll be doing a tile counter top this spring so will try this with any left over mortar I have. This year I'm doing a grape type (never had problems with these as the fruit is...
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    Tomato blossom end rot

    I woke up to 6" of new snow. It was raining when we went to sleep yesterday. Anyway if BER is from lack of calcium how is it that epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) prevent it? I know that tomatoes and peppers like heavy sulfer and magnesium but this does not help with the calcium needed for cell...
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    When to build a new raised garden

    Bankysmith, are you looking for a step by step guide to building the box and or filling it? I think that The All New Square Foot Gardening book walks you through it rather well. I've built 4 wooden raised beds on the lawn in my backyard and one wooden raised bed on a concrete slab in my backyard...
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    Time for indoor plant starts?

    2200 gallon fish tank? Breaking into aquaculture? The 2x6's I use were scraps and didn't cost anything out of pocket. Standard grade pine has lasted several seasons for me. In the long run the OSB will get more expensive unless it is scrap and free out-of-pocket. I find that the OSB is one...


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