Each January or February gardeners all over flock to their Burpee; Ferry Morse or other miscellaneous seed catalog and make up their lists of this years plants. Some may decide to purchase an actual plant or some might actually buy the seeds and start the seeds by themselves. Heck some would be gardeners out there might, on a nice, warm, Spring day get hit by the planting bug and head on over to
I recently noticed this on my unusual seed hunt. After all, hubby and I usually try to grow anything that is hard or even IMPOSSIBLE to find in grocery stores. It’s a very unusual looking broccoli. In fact I have never eaten anything like it before! Please, if you have, let me know how it tastes! I’m really curious! I actually contemplated planting this in my front as a decorative
Okay so these were the few extras I had: Tomato, Black Cherry Tomato, Amish Paste Tomato, Black Krim Tomato, Mortgage Lifter Melon, Twice as Nice Hybrid Turnip, Tokyo Hybrid Italian Rose Bean Next, here’s some extras that I have that I can share. Burpee Super Sugar Snap Super Snappy Oregon Sugar Pod Squash Sweet Gourmet Hybrid Squash Butterstick Squash Sweet Zuke Hybrid Squash Pic-N-Pic Hybrid Pepper, Carnival Mix Turnip Cross
Last year when we moved into our house we had massive issues when planting. Of course, first we really didn’t have the money to invest a whole lot in a garden. But also we knew the soil was pretty bad but we didn’t really know HOW BAD it was. I’ve been working with veggies, fruits and flowers for some time now but I don’t think I ever recall having the
This is something I just suddenly thought to write about simply because my Dad recently clued me in to the fact that he had no idea about this! How many actually knew that there are flowers you can eat? I’ve grown Nasturtiums just for the purpose of eating them but I didn’t know of some of the others. This is a list from About.com I really love combining plants that
Last night I planted two varieties of Swiss chard; Fordhook Giant and Organic Red & White. Two varieties of Spinach; Bloomsdale & Renegade Hybrid. I want to also start some seedlings of Arugula but I don’t know if I have the room!!! As it stands I need to start my herbs. I have Feverfew that I use to treat headaches and then my cooking herbs to get started. So far
LOL Just kidding! We started our seeds today! Only on the plants that will have to grow taller like the tomatoes, bell peppers, chili peppers, cucumbers, okra, sugar snap peas(3 different varieties), Italian Rose beans, annnnddd I cannot recall what else. I’ll see as they come up! By the way this is our improvised growing system/nursery thanks to CWTSatoTravel. This used to be a printer stand for old Sabre printers
Bad News, Burpee screwed up and sent me the same order, twice. So I called them and found out that yes, they screwed up and since it’s their error they’re allowing me to keep the seeds. I already have tons of these seeds so now I’m offering to do an exchange with anyone out there. Here is the list of seeds I now have to send out, thanks to Burpee.
Last year we had MASSIVE ISSUES with water retention so this year we plan to build raisedbeds(hence the boards at the front of the garden) Also last Autumn we took whatever leaves we could find and put them in the garden area in hopes they would break down and create a better soil. Now they’re still in the process but we’ll see what happens come summer time! This is what
PH Level is about 7.0/Nitrogen very low/Phosphorus Medium to High/Potash is Very Low to Low Game plan is to add some compost (with coffee in it), some commercial fertilizer, and bonemeal to add Potassium. Pictures following soon of the raised beds. We took some of the pallets apart. Well no, I shouldn’t say WE, I should say Edward did. As he did that I did the boring but energy saving
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