GLC, please explain about the hoophouse. It somehow protects the plants from excessive heat?
I am a gardening addict--it is an expensive, time-consuming monkey to have on my back. But I love it.
I am a gardening addict--it is an expensive, time-consuming monkey to have on my back. But I love it.
GLC, please explain about the hoophouse. It somehow protects the plants from excessive heat?
Thanks GLC. Very interesting. I'm impressed with 21C under double white in 38C weather. I wonder if there is an application for outdoor eating.
I had never really thought much about too much heat for plants in NA, not enough water yes, too much heat not so much.
Frank Z, if you think gardening is about saving money, you are doing it WRONG!!!
Gardening is about new tools, and new varieties of plants, and fruit trees, and berry bushes, and copper trellises, and hoses, and fencing, and, and, and!!!!
It is also about big bottles of naprosyn, knee braces and cold packs, come to think of it!!
Add the chicken fertilizer and the new rototiller and .... and I think the tomatoes are up to about $50.Oh yeah.. what was I thinking? $40 tomatoes are the best...
Frank Z, if you think gardening is about saving money, you are doing it WRONG!!!
Gardening is about new tools, and new varieties of plants, and fruit trees, and berry bushes, and copper trellises, and hoses, and fencing, and, and, and!!!!
It is also about big bottles of naprosyn, knee braces and cold packs, come to think of it!!
Do you have a machine? The weather is really strange here, yesterday was sunny and 17c and last week we had about 3 days the same.
I finished tilling the compost into the specialist veg patch in the paddock last week and my wife planted her pots yesterday.I tilled the main veg patch and I will spread the compost on it today.
I have a 1968 Merry Tiller that I bought some time ago.America may not be able to make a good car or bike but the Tiller is as good as new and that is better than the modern Japanese stuff.
Here are some pics from last year
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sparrowgrass said:Frank Z, if you think gardening is about saving money, you are doing it WRONG!!!
Gardening is about new tools, and new varieties of plants, and fruit trees, and berry bushes, and copper trellises, and hoses, and fencing, and, and, and!!!!
It is also about big bottles of naprosyn, knee braces and cold packs, come to think of it!!
Yes, yes, and YES!
Mmmm, $40 tomatoes...
FrankZ said:Kathleen seemed to enjoy her $4(ea.) green beans too...
I wonder if she is getting ready to sell stuff to the military.
Kathleen seemed to enjoy her $4(ea.) green beans too...
I wonder if she is getting ready to sell stuff to the military.
My parents have a huge John Deer tractor/ tiller thingie but I don't believe it would even fit into my squatty little piece of land that Im going to grow in this year! and I haven't started yet although the weather has been fabulous!