Who is gardening? It is very therapeutic!

I already have parrots, so raising chickens can't possibly be more difficult, right? Plus you have all the fertilizer you need right there!

Getting out in the dirt like that can bring out the toddler. Id be out there for hours, running to and fro in a happy delirium, took me years to get calm enough to plan and make it look not crazed.

No. Chickens smell bad. Get quail. The eggs are better and the birds are easier.

They can fit into a rabbit pen.

Hmmm... I think raising chickens is easier than taking care parrots.

Yeah, the chicken coop is next to my vegetable garden... the chicks will help me with the bugs...

I bought something to make them smell good...

My mom's chickens never smelled bad. They were fed better than most humans, though. They got scraps from their meals that came mostly out of the garden. She swore that if you feed your chickens only good, nutrient-dense food, they won't smell bad. Neither will their poo.

That could just be her though.

hmmm quail eggs. I've never had one, but I heard they're yummy!

We garden here. There’s even a tv show we watch (plus the gnome who hosts it is cool)

Oh, my... my husband feeds our chicks strawberries...


We do have an organic diet, so our little chicks eat organic chicken feed too.

she right

Just planted potatoes. First time. They say it's easy. Just sit back and watch 'em grow.

Last year I planted about 120 cloves of garlic. I got a good crop. i just love garlic.

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I put garlic in almost everything I cook. I really should get some planted.

Chicken fertilizer is too hot for veggies. Cow manure is the best. i go to the farm and pay the farmer per bushel. Farmers are not too crazy about selling their cow manure. They'd rather spread it on their own land. So, cow manure is at a premium here in the city.

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Once fall hits, this thread will turn into food storage and preservation...another thing I'm new to.

Welp...better late than never! I'm fortunate that I grew up around gardeners, so I don't feel totally lost. I keep remembering little tidbits of wisdom from my Nannie. This will go well, I think.

Even if it doesn't, there is nothing wrong with trying.

I've been using cow manure. My mom used chicken poo and it worked. I keep running into contradicting advice :(

That's the part that gets my nerves going....not knowing who is right. What works for one spot doesn't work elsewhere and so on.

I love working in the yard. I am out there almost every day. Today I did a stone path from the back porch to the grille gazebo. I am exhausted but happy.

I was thinking the same thing.

Stick to your video games. Adults are talking here.


Bit too early for me to plant tomatoes, peppers etc., but I put in peas, potatoes, spinach, kale and lettuce a few weeks ago, and their going nuts. If I can just keep the squirrels from digging everything up....

A bunch of the kale and collards I planted last fall survived the winter, so I'll be harvesting that this week. Fall garlic and onions will be ready here in a month or so.

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I am also a gamer. I wear many hats, but they are all threadbare.

I'm glad you found a good outlet! It is fine and you can start with a garden and end with a jungle. I've always appreciated the sites where someone spent a significant part of their life on landscaping improvements, it can be your oasis! Best to you!!!

Been weeding my seedum patch that partially lays in the street. Lots of wild strawberries and clover took over. Seedum is so fun, grows easy, easy to take out if you change your mind and don't want it. It's covering most of the front of my garden, blending with other seedum varities. I call it street scaping.

That, my cats and good food are the only reason to live anymore. I barely get through the day.

I love my garden. Although we had snow here in eastern Washington a week ago, I put my potatoes in the ground tonight. Nothing tastes better than freshly grown food. I grew up on a farm, so growing things is in my blood! I get a real sense of accomplishment.

Gardening is the best hobby anyone could take up, especially now. Not only a vegetable garden.. but just create a garden of small trees, bushes, flowers in your yard. Turn your yard from bland grass to a small slice of paradise in a couple of years. Excellent way to spend time. Relaxing to your core and greatly enhances your property.

Vegetable gardens are very beneficial on many levels as well of course.

Sounds like we have some seasoned gardeners around. Not surprising on GLP!

I really think that this is THE time to start learning these things if we haven't already. We are just about careening toward doom, so we need to at least be able to eat well, dammit.

F-you, world! I'll be in my garden.

Agreed - I have an English garden with tons of perennials and fruit trees, a pond and pergola covered in grape vines. Spent half my life working on it.

I only do vegetable gardens every few years, Have to be in the mood, cause I am like screw it, it so much easier to buy them from the stands and farmers market, also I grew up on a farm, so yeah Livestock and gardens lost their appeal long ago.

My best friend's wife wanted that rural experience and she bought miniature goats. Great, but I had to deliver a breach birth two summers ago, cause the vet got nervous after a 6 hr. labor and he could not get it out. I was up to my elbow and turned the first one, and the Nany was screaming. but It was too late, the kid had been suffocated inside the womb with the pushing from the long labor. None of the 4 kids made it, but the mom at least lived. It was a freaking horrifying day and I have seen a lot, but that was the worst. And That is why I like my simple English Garden. LOL

I'm 7b also and I have my tomato and ranunculus seedlings outside now under a row cover hardening off. I love gardening also. I tried tomatilla tomatoes and cucamelons last year. Did so well im doubling them up this year.

This year I am trying asparagus beans a vine type and and tons of different flowers I winter sowed in jugs outside. I have chamomile, zinnias, morning glory, pansy, snapdragon and butterfly weed all looking really good for planting soon.

Its my happy place. I like to bust it all apart, dig it up, than put it back together. Later enjoy a nice evening stroll thru my hard work.