I can understand your excitement!!! It always feels good to start the garden again.... started a few seeds last week and some Swiss chard are starting to sprout.
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Thanks for the info. I had read some of this in the cons of straw bale gardening.. I haven't had a problem with manure as the cow manure I got last year was from a friend who does everything organic (a bit to the extreme). By the time straw is ready from my trusted supplier it will be...
1. I was reading somewhere that if you use hay/straw that has been in a field where they used herbicides it destroys the plants have you seen this? I was going to get my straw from a farmer here I know but he is out of it now. I plan to only try one bale from the nursery here and see how it...
Has anyone here done the straw bale gardening? I'm contemplating doing some of my tomatoes that way, hopefully I can get some good (no herbicide) straw/hay. The one farmer I was getting from ran out early last year.
I love Zuccini too and my Hubby does too, I sautee them with spices and salt and they are delish. Amazingly this year mine are doing well I should have planted more.
This year is getting hard on my gardening, just came com outside and there was a freeze during the night, my young lettuce plants are covered in ice, I had 3 tomatoes plants tat survived a previous freeze not sure how they'll fair today. I'll keep trying.
Hi all, just found this thread, last year I planted tomatoes, bell peppers, squash, spinach, leeks and beans. This year I will plant the same plus, African herbs, lettuce, eggplant, broccoli and cauliflower and sunflower seeds for the chickens. Oh and clover n alfalfa