Start Your Own Garden! It is Spring Time! >>Pics of Last Sping's Garden inside!<<

ruin their appetite with candy. They will eat the candy and like any kid, they will think vegetable are gross.

you can buy a giant tray of those cheap brand lemon cookies for $2, put a pile of those out and the animals will eat all those and never want vegetables again until they are really hungry.

If you have a chipmunk problem, cats will take care of it, in my experience with cats, chipmunks are their favorite prey, and a few cats around = no chipmunks.

Do you dig a hole and bury the earthworms?? Or do you just "sprinkle" them on your garden.

The Spinosad works on leaf rollers very well I think it will take care of the hornworms also. BT works on them also.

When I put them in, around 4 years ago, I had 3 buckets BIG buckets full, I tilled the ground, then took a handful at a time and dropped them in small holes and lightly filled them with dirt.I then I took a lawn chair and sat in front of the garden all day (keep the birds away)

Introduce braconid wasp's to your garden, they will clear them out.

ok cool. where can you get earthworms for cheap?

It depends on where you are, I got mine at an earthworm farm. They are the best place to get bulk worms. Its like 40 bucks for a couple thousand.

What a beautiful garden!

We started fairly small last year with tomatoes, pattypan squash, jalapenos, bell peppers, cabbage, and corn (heritage seeds, no hybrids or GMO crap). I put up about 55 pints of various tomato recipes and froze a bunch, too. We're still working on them - and that's NOT a complaint!

This year we're adding some herbs, different corn variety, and basically more of everything. Alas, they're all still inside sprouting. I don't think it will ever warm up here.

I aspire to do what you've done with your garden. Thanks for the inspiration!

Here's mine in no particular order from last year. Going a little bigger this year.

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Great garden, beautiful.
We use the Back to Eden method, our soil is clay loam, its working out great, seriously saves on water too, the sun and wind really bake everything here.

What can you do to deter Japanese Beatles, man they will destroy a garden and I cannot figure out how to get rid of them.

I'll have to wait another month still snowing here.

I will be planting many healing herbs for myself and neighbors.

This spring too unpredictable

Wait longer

Planted heirloom Brandywine Pink Tomato seeds in the heated starter trays last Saturday. The package said they should germinate in 2-3 WEEKS.

Five days later every stinkin' seed germinated and the plants are an inch tall already. What the hell. I can't put them in the ground in CT until last week of May.

You will have to transplant them into a bigger container, but it's not a problem to have bigger tomato plants. Especially Brandywine, since they take so long to make tomatoes.

Gorgeous Garden!

We can't plant outside here ti' June 1st - but we can get some seeds started indoors now.

Like what herbs??? I want to GROW SOME!

bump. Such a great thread idea. And on my mind already.

green, five, bump.

That's gorgeous OP.

Don't have a yard here, condo living. I started some things in pots and under a grow light, and the only surviving thing was green pepper plants.

I think I pay too much attention to the veg. plants. I am very good with house plants, but I water them when I think about it and fertilize a couple of times a year. I also have a perfect lighting situation for the house plants.

I really wonder what I'm doing wrong.

5 stars.

Maybe transplant them outdoors sooner and use those "Wall o'Water" things, those are really supposed to work.

Here's a question. Along with expanding my garden to double it's size from last season, I have access to a large, non-working hot tub. Should I take the hot tub, and if so what should I do with it?

I was leaning toward possibly setting up and attempting to farm some trout. Does anyone know much about doing so? I've been trying to browse the web for information but really haven't found much luck on details.

If not the fish farm idea, what else could I make use of the tub, or should I just take it to the dump?

You're not doing anything wrong, people on here are always saying how easy it is to grow a bunch of vegetables indoors, and how everyone should do it, but who do you know that is doing it? It's too warm in the house, that's the biggest problem, anyplace outdoors has a big drop in nighttime temperature that you never get inside the house.

Also unless you have super high powered intense grow lights you are never going to get any kind of dependable yield indoors. you can start seeds under fluorescents and regular grow lights, and they'll grow for a few weeks, but it's not enough to get them to flower and set fruit.

I suppose if you have unobstructed full floor to ceiling south facing windows you could grow a couple of things for fun, but it isn't ever going to be like having a real outdoor garden, it would just be a hobby.

Things like lettuce and most herbs really like cool weather and lower temperatures and won't go anywhere in the house. And if they do they'll break out in whitefly and you won't be able to get rid of it.

A balcony on the other hand could produce something if you have big pots on a good exposure and feed it, and you will probably have to water everything every single day and not miss a day and on hot windy days you will have to water twice a day. Nothing is going to bear anything if it's stressed out and wilting half the time.

OP.. just looked at your photos.. I don't have garden envy, I have back yard envy!! Beautiful yard!

It's funny looking back to when I was young. When my Dad got out of the Air Force (early 70's) he wanted to move back home to N.C. from MO. which is where he was stationed and really the only place I knew as home. So we did and he bought 5 acres. 1 1/2 he made into a garden. Talk about culture shock! My sister and I hated having to go out and pull/hoe weeds, pic butter-beans, peas etc. Now look at me! Granted, it not big but I just got an interest after becoming more aware, dare I say awake, that things could happen (pick one) and well, I like to eat!

Why isn't it working? Is it cracked? If you're going to try trout you need to have really good, vigorous water circulation and the water needs to be fairly cold. If it is cracked (and it's mendable), maybe you could bury it and make a pond out of it. Goldfish will do nicely and will even survive the winter if the pond is deep enough.

Otherwise, maybe you could fill it with really good dirt for a little garden, or a worm farm.

One word.... Aquaponics

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