Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Garden Tour #1




Today I'm going to take you on the first tour of the garden. As you can tell from the pictures, I'm growing a lot of plants in containers. The number one reason that I am doing this is because its a lot easier than tilling. Now I didn't say cheaper. But, there are still costs either way. I will reuse this soil next year and I will show you how. I will admit, I tried container gardening last year and I didn't do good at all. I did aa lot of research over the winter and I feel that I will be far more successful this year. So far I have tomatoes, peppers, and squash in containers. Yes, the grow bags count as containers. To each container I have added one tablespoon of an insoluble fertilizer. Its something like 12-10-10. So if you use 5-5-5 go to two tablespoons. Then every other week, use a soluble fertilizer organic or not. I would go with a quarter strength fertilizer at first. You don't want to burn your plant. So far I have bought all of these plants at work. That doesn't mean that I won't grow some of my own. These plants just gave me a head start. I just noticed that I didn't include pictures from my earth garden. I will make a separate post on it. Don't let having no space stand in your way of gardening. This season I do plan  on doing videos. First off, I don't have nerves of steel. So I need to get over that.

I hope that you will follow me through this gardening season.


Sunday, April 16, 2017

It's been awhile....

It's been a long time since I have posted on here. I'm going to do a better job at blogging going forward. Not only will I post about gardening. I'm also going to post about other stuff such as fishing. I've got a big fishing trip coming up this next weekend. I'm going to blog all about it.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Cucumber Cages Build

Today I went and found some old tomato cages and stakes. I flipped them upside down and planted three cucumber seeds in each one.

Then I went to the back garden beds and used three cages for acorn winter squash.

I'll keep everyone update on how they grow. Have a good one!

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Cucumber Cages

I saw something online today that I am going to try. I have been going onto for sale sites on facebook looking for wire fencing to make cage for cucumbers.  A guy on youtube named Donald (webcajun) uses cages for cucumbers and has great results. What I saw today was to use a tomato cage and flip it upside down and stake it to the ground and plant my cucumbers in it. I will post pics of the cages tomorrow and show the progress.

Friday, June 26, 2015

Back At It

I got a head start and planted many of my tomato plants in April. I had surgery twice in May and that put me behind. Now I am back on track. I've got corn, okra, cucumbers, watermelons, and squash all in the ground now. I'm not going big on the planting. Just sticking to the basics. We did manage to harvest a few small potatoes today. I am gambling by planting pepper seeds in the ground along with a few tomato seeds and see what they do. You should not be afraid to try new things in the garden.





Thursday, July 31, 2014

Sorta Square Foot

When we moved in, we had a bunch of these tiles. So we decided to build a square foot garden out of them. We used pvc for the grid and as you can tell, the squash love it!