How Does Your Garden Grow?

This is very disturbing, and i know it exists though and frogs coming out with two heads and no legs, etc.....etc.....

 

Remember the Gilligans Island epi with the nuclear seed.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2resD3ogxM

youtube sucks a cucumber with the bs fees for gilligans island ..

 

i use to have to till a huge garden...it was kind of fun because i love using machines

the planting weeding watering and crap was very annoying


i sure dont miss that but the owner paid me well for the work


tilled one recently for a customer ..i fix his cars but he asked me because he didnt know anyone else..it was a hell of a job because it was fresh ground never been farmed before....we rented a big honda tiller to get it done

 

The raccoon story made me laugh so hard. Those fuckers get into everything! I can just picture it.

I love square foot gardening because I find it easier to plan and use my yard space more efficiently.

 

Sorry the only thing I remember from Gilligan's Island was Dawn Wells




Hotwater

 

I learned from books,mainly the Yates Garden Guide.
This is the book for gardening in Australia. I used to grown many vegetables
but don't bother much these days as I am too busy with other things.
You have left things a bit late to grow tomatoes for this year. Maybe next year around March- April.

 

i'd call that pretty close to a replacement for the grocery store. depending on climate and a few other things.

 

It's woods, not farm land.

 

even better, actually. companion plantings, raised beds, mini greenhouses, between the trees and if there's a space around the house where the forest department won't let there be trees.
not even close to a complete replacement then, but everything that does grow itself, that is edible, is so much better then anything you can get at the store.
its only thinking in terms of money that makes people think food can only be grown in monocultures.

specifics depend on specifics, and i wouldn't be an expert anyway, but i do know, because we did it, growing up in the woods, that few years my folks had a place of our own, root crops like carrots and radishes and some kinds of fruit even. we have very acid soil because it was mixed forest with a majority of pine. wild blackberries were common, and mostly a neusance, but the fruit were wonderful. miner's lettice also grew wild and some kinds of fruit, cherries, apples, peaches, and appricots were grown in the area.

and of course the indiginous staple had been a kind of acorn grits, which of course required a huge amount of washing out of the tannen after they had been ground and before cooking.

and of course that also will vary with where you are.

 

Guess I didn't mention the deer that would eat anything I tried to grow... They also eat the acorns.


By the way, have you ever eaten acorns? Even properly prepared, they taste really nasty.


Forest department has no say on my land... I can do what I want, but growing enough food to feed myself for a year is not possible.

 

I miss my veggie garden but being in the city it was too difficult to maintain it at my country place. I will plant one again when I move back there.

For now it is only tomatoes and herbs in my back yard.


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yes i know. i'm amazed about the last though. every place i've lived they'd bitch about trees being too close to the house. deer can't get at things that are in cold frames or greenhouses.
companion planting with herbs. i've had more problems with snails. i'd have fun with 8.something acres. even if i couldn't grow enough to eat.

miniature plants in scale with large scale model trains. that was what i grew the last place where i could and did have a garden. there were just two little spaces. five by 16 feet was the larger one. lissoms and purples and mint, rosemarry and thyme, baby's breath and baby's tears. (the trains i scratch built, since g-scale is way to expensive to actually buy very much of it, just mostly wheels and couplers)

in my teens, when my folks had that half acre, only half of that being usable, the rest being easements for water and power, we grew carrots and turnups and radishes. runner beans and wild flowers, poison oak and kitkitdizz (a kind of prostrate ceder, wonderful smell to me, though some folks don't like it and call it tar weed) well of course we didn't plant the poison oak, nor the other trees and bushes nature had. there was manzanita too, though not as much as at lower elevations. and then wild blackberries, which the highway depertment were always trying to poison or burn along the roadways.

we had deer of course, but i don't recall a problem with they're eating everything.

8 acres would be just large enough for ride on type trains, and someplace to hide a collection of old appliances to salvage for parts to make them out of.
i know i look at things a little different then the dominant culture i'm surrounded by.

i could buy 8 acres of desert with just what i have, but then i'd need a car to survive, and then i wouldn't be able to afford anything else, if i could even afford both, which i kind of doubt.
anyway i'd rather have 8 acres of forest. plenty of things there to make things out of, even if most of them aren't edible.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKoFPCPIlZw

 

i totally don't understand putting songs on youtube without animation. animation without sound, yes, but songs without animation, i don't get.

as for marry marry, horrible thought, but; with broken glass, looted cars, and road kill all in a row.

well it isn't quite that bad, but where i am now IS surrounded by pavement. not even a pothole with volunteers growing in it.

not that its that far to the river or one of the parks or the arboretum up by the university.

the reserve and walking/biking path along the truckee river is only three or four blocks away.

 

I finally found a place (right under my nose) that sells purple flesh sweet potatoes that will sprout slips. I have ordered them from other places before, but they were irradiated when they come in to the u.s. and wouldn't sprout.

I cut a couple of the potatoes in half, and started them in water a few weeks ago. Now some of the slips are ready to be rooted on their own.

I'm pulling the slips off, as they get big enough, and putting them in water to root. I started the first few slips today. Hopefully I won't be paying an arm and a leg for purple flesh sweet potatoes from now on.




I also started some Japanese white flesh sweet potatoes, but the slips are pretty small still.

 

I can grow weeds!!!

 

Lol, those are my specialty