I want to see everyone who wants it be able to acquire land, build, and grow their own food. The more people can do for themselves, the more confident and content. And ripped.
i tried several types of seeds, nothing really took except the green beans which were delicious. got a couple tomatoes out of it too, certainly didnt even makeup the cost of the water, but i learned alot and we'll try again next year
Keep trying and watch lots of vidya from people that garden in your growing zone. Seeds are tough and work best when directly sown into the ground and not containers. Tomatoes or any nightshade are exceptions. They do well being transplanted from a seed tray or some such. Radishes are also super easy from seed and do ok in containers. I like radishes because they are a quick turn around at < 45 days from seed to table.
Keep trying and watch lots of vidya from people that garden in your growing zone. Seeds are tough and work best when directly sown into the ground and not containers. Tomatoes or any nightshade are exceptions. They do well being transplanted from a seed tray or some such. Radishes are also super easy from seed and do ok in containers. I like radishes because they are a quick turn around at < 45 days from seed to table.
I did not just start, lol, but I can tell you that you cannot buy that taste from fresh picked produce, even at a local farmstand.Best time to pick is morning, before the dew dries, the moisture and sugars are at their peak then. Soil soil soil soil, you must amend your soil with organic material, manure, compost, shavings, get balesl of something called Pro Mix, add it in. Your garden is nothing if you are not making soil. Once my garden is cleaned up, before the hard frost, I often plant oats as a cover , or "green manure". This can be dug back into the soil before it reaches maturity. Marigolds do deter cabbage loopers, but wood ash does too. Test your soil for ph balance, and amedn accordingly.Lime gets the acidity down, manure brings it up. I used reflective "survival blankets" made out of that silver reflective material around my established plants, it provides more light, and most importantly, confuses predator insects, as they think its the sky and will not land on the plants. You should see my butternut squash harvest this year, first time I came up with the idea and I will continue to do so. Dig deep, the more room the roots have, the closer the plants can be grown together, and they will form a canopy so that there is little room for weeds. I do not grow in row beds, I have deep dug beds with some clover in between for paths, white dutch clover, some of the beds are 30 years old and I can stick my arm in up till my elbow, hardly any work come spring.
It takes at least a year before the soil in a new raised bed to create its underground ecosystem. You can grow ok, but as the bed ages it will get better - especially if you mulch and compost and mulch and compost.
Garden carrots are so much better than store bought. Same for tomatoes.
We make pickles and salsa that usually lasts thru most of the winter. We pickled a few green beans also. Haven't got a lot of space so we're nowhere near self-sufficient, but I figure we're gaining knowledge in case self-sufficiency becomes necessary.
Grew a few dozen onions which we took straight from the ground to the kitchen when we needed one.
Also grew about 50 pounds of potatoes this last season. The potatoes seem to last a lot better than store bought, I think this is because the ones from the store have already been in storage for a while when they are sent to the store.
Tomatoes are awesome, peppers are amazing, grew some red Serranos that were so freaking good! Collard greens are great, carrots are really good. Broccoli was excelent. Lettuce is about the only thing that tastes the same. Anyone got tips for keeping cilantro from going to seed? I got tons of seed (pastrami time!), but didn't get much leafy greens out of it.
For all you gardeners you should read about Viktor Schauberger he came up with theories on how to grow food without dumping nitrogen fertilizers, also using copper plated implements for digging and plowing created something nicknamed the golden plow which massively increased output of farms and they did a series of scientific studies in 1948 about different farming and his farms using his methods and the copper plow particularly grew much higher quality produce and also were much larger like 450g potatoes.
Its hard to explain all in a small post and its been a while since i read it all.
Living Energies
Link to the book, in the chapter AGRICULTURE AND SOIL FERTILITY explains things better than i can.
I don't grow much now as my health is bad but used to like to grow a few things which always tasted better than store bought stuff, have a couple of apple trees and grew potatoes and strawberries, brussel sprouts etc.
Found Victors work really interesting but never been able to try the things out but would love to see someone else make use of the information.
This is the truth. Last night we finally tried some of the butternut squash we grew this year... amazingly good. Tomatoes, tomatillos, potatoes, beets, carrots, tree fruits - all so, so good.
Just for my wife and myself, but we just got started... We live in a rented house so growing in pots and buckets. We are still buying produce for ourselves, but hope to decrease as time goes by. I want to grow some to sell or trade, but that's a bit down the road.
Just got chickens for the first time and yolks from their eggs are much darker orange than even the priciest ones in stores. I guess diversity really does fulfill them! But only when it comes to their diet of course lol
Love me my garden tomatoes and those things they sell in a store they call tomatoes are neither visually appealing or in any way tasty.
You are so right!
Once you have a tomato you grew yourself you just can’t bother with store bought, they literally have no flavor.
They seem like softballs, not food.
I want to see everyone who wants it be able to acquire land, build, and grow their own food. The more people can do for themselves, the more confident and content. And ripped.
i tried several types of seeds, nothing really took except the green beans which were delicious. got a couple tomatoes out of it too, certainly didnt even makeup the cost of the water, but i learned alot and we'll try again next year
Similar on water costs...
Keep trying and watch lots of vidya from people that garden in your growing zone. Seeds are tough and work best when directly sown into the ground and not containers. Tomatoes or any nightshade are exceptions. They do well being transplanted from a seed tray or some such. Radishes are also super easy from seed and do ok in containers. I like radishes because they are a quick turn around at < 45 days from seed to table.
Thanks, love radishes
Keep trying and watch lots of vidya from people that garden in your growing zone. Seeds are tough and work best when directly sown into the ground and not containers. Tomatoes or any nightshade are exceptions. They do well being transplanted from a seed tray or some such. Radishes are also super easy from seed and do ok in containers. I like radishes because they are a quick turn around at < 45 days from seed to table.
I did not just start, lol, but I can tell you that you cannot buy that taste from fresh picked produce, even at a local farmstand.Best time to pick is morning, before the dew dries, the moisture and sugars are at their peak then. Soil soil soil soil, you must amend your soil with organic material, manure, compost, shavings, get balesl of something called Pro Mix, add it in. Your garden is nothing if you are not making soil. Once my garden is cleaned up, before the hard frost, I often plant oats as a cover , or "green manure". This can be dug back into the soil before it reaches maturity. Marigolds do deter cabbage loopers, but wood ash does too. Test your soil for ph balance, and amedn accordingly.Lime gets the acidity down, manure brings it up. I used reflective "survival blankets" made out of that silver reflective material around my established plants, it provides more light, and most importantly, confuses predator insects, as they think its the sky and will not land on the plants. You should see my butternut squash harvest this year, first time I came up with the idea and I will continue to do so. Dig deep, the more room the roots have, the closer the plants can be grown together, and they will form a canopy so that there is little room for weeds. I do not grow in row beds, I have deep dug beds with some clover in between for paths, white dutch clover, some of the beds are 30 years old and I can stick my arm in up till my elbow, hardly any work come spring.
It takes at least a year before the soil in a new raised bed to create its underground ecosystem. You can grow ok, but as the bed ages it will get better - especially if you mulch and compost and mulch and compost.
Garden carrots are so much better than store bought. Same for tomatoes.
We make pickles and salsa that usually lasts thru most of the winter. We pickled a few green beans also. Haven't got a lot of space so we're nowhere near self-sufficient, but I figure we're gaining knowledge in case self-sufficiency becomes necessary.
Grew a few dozen onions which we took straight from the ground to the kitchen when we needed one.
Also grew about 50 pounds of potatoes this last season. The potatoes seem to last a lot better than store bought, I think this is because the ones from the store have already been in storage for a while when they are sent to the store.
Tomatoes are awesome, peppers are amazing, grew some red Serranos that were so freaking good! Collard greens are great, carrots are really good. Broccoli was excelent. Lettuce is about the only thing that tastes the same. Anyone got tips for keeping cilantro from going to seed? I got tons of seed (pastrami time!), but didn't get much leafy greens out of it.
Our tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant came out great! Our lettuce was sparse. We bought local soil for that and was poor quality and it showed.
For all you gardeners you should read about Viktor Schauberger he came up with theories on how to grow food without dumping nitrogen fertilizers, also using copper plated implements for digging and plowing created something nicknamed the golden plow which massively increased output of farms and they did a series of scientific studies in 1948 about different farming and his farms using his methods and the copper plow particularly grew much higher quality produce and also were much larger like 450g potatoes. Its hard to explain all in a small post and its been a while since i read it all. Living Energies
Link to the book, in the chapter AGRICULTURE AND SOIL FERTILITY explains things better than i can.
I don't grow much now as my health is bad but used to like to grow a few things which always tasted better than store bought stuff, have a couple of apple trees and grew potatoes and strawberries, brussel sprouts etc. Found Victors work really interesting but never been able to try the things out but would love to see someone else make use of the information.
Chop and drop here. I am going to check into the copper implements. Thank you.
This is the truth. Last night we finally tried some of the butternut squash we grew this year... amazingly good. Tomatoes, tomatillos, potatoes, beets, carrots, tree fruits - all so, so good.
Man... grew tomatillos this year ant the grew like weeds. We got tons of tomatillos. Will definitely grow more next year.
Are you subsistence farming or selling excess?
Just for my wife and myself, but we just got started... We live in a rented house so growing in pots and buckets. We are still buying produce for ourselves, but hope to decrease as time goes by. I want to grow some to sell or trade, but that's a bit down the road.
It's almost like unchecked globalist capitalism results in everything being worse for everyone but the very elites
Big anything becomes evil...
Ain't that the truth
Just got chickens for the first time and yolks from their eggs are much darker orange than even the priciest ones in stores. I guess diversity really does fulfill them! But only when it comes to their diet of course lol
I had adventures with turkeys and chickens in the Philippines heh.