organic gardening

[stilleto]

blueta asked me how I have herbs growing in my garden large enough to cook with already. She knows what part of the country I'm in and it's barely been warm here at all.

I grow things organically.

like... (this will sound gross)... I have 2 horses who make a LOT of manure. it's great fertilizer! we make a "tea" out of it in a bucket and water with that once in a while. My dirt is a mixture of topsoil and horse errr... poop. There's NO smell at all, and my things grow like crazy.

If you don't have horses, find a farm (cow or horse) and just go in with a bucket and ask if you can have some manure. They wont' laugh and won't mind either.

for bugs, I use an organic oil spray, but you can also look for "neem oil" and just spray lightly once a week, making sure you get under the leaves. You can also use very mildly soapy water.

I also spread hay around the plants to keep pests away, but it serves as mulch too.

when you use eggs, wash the shells, crush them, and sprinkle in the dirt. it nourishes the plants.

 

[biggernu]

are organic eggs worth the higher price?

 

[fistfullofsteel]

orgasmic gardening???? ewwww, you have sex with the vegetables now.

 

[stilleto]

are organic eggs worth the higher price?

i don't know. i get my eggs from the chickens across the street.
they are blue btw. so cool.

 

[stilleto]

orgasmic gardening???? ewwww, you have sex with the vegetables now.

you have no idea how big my cucumbers are.

 

[swole]

pics of the tea

 

[fistfullofsteel]

you have no idea how big my cucumbers are.

alot bigger than my penis freakin asshole dad

 

[BlueBird]

I'd marry you if we lived in California.

 

[mountain muscle]

Lol, I start all my plants indoors here. Manure is great, but you can use too much. Lime at the end of the season works well too to get the ph correct. Egg shells, orange, banana, lemon peels help too. I use lawn clippings to mulch. I am behind this year though because I am moving around my garden. Wish I could have chickens and fresh eggs ooh and cows and fresh milk too! Damnit, I am a hick. A city hick!

 

[ceo]

blueta asked me how I have herbs growing in my garden large enough to cook with already.

So...your herbs grow chronically?

 

[stilleto]

I'd marry you if we lived in California.

i wonder who's name we'd take?

 

[BlueBird]

i wonder who's name we'd take?

There's gotta be an online generator for figuring that out.

 

[blueta2]

blueta asked me how I have herbs growing in my garden large enough to cook with already. She knows what part of the country I'm in and it's barely been warm here at all.

I grow things organically.

like... (this will sound gross)... I have 2 horses who make a LOT of manure. it's great fertilizer! we make a "tea" out of it in a bucket and water with that once in a while. My dirt is a mixture of topsoil and horse errr... poop. There's NO smell at all, and my things grow like crazy.

If you don't have horses, find a farm (cow or horse) and just go in with a bucket and ask if you can have some manure. They wont' laugh and won't mind either.

for bugs, I use an organic oil spray, but you can also look for "neem oil" and just spray lightly once a week, making sure you get under the leaves. You can also use very mildly soapy water.

I also spread hay around the plants to keep pests away, but it serves as mulch too.

when you use eggs, wash the shells, crush them, and sprinkle in the dirt. it nourishes the plants.

I would think hay would breed mold no?
Eggs are a great way to add calcium to the soil.

Another good way to provide nutrience to the plants organically is by diluting epson salts and spraying the plants with that. Most soil is lacking magnesium

http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/tips/1998032240021107.html

 

[stilleto]

I would think hay would breed mold no?
Eggs are a great way to add calcium to the soil.

Another good way to provide nutrience to the plants organically is by diluting epson salts and spraying the plants with that. Most soil is lacking magnesium

http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/tips/1998032240021107.html

oh, cool, thanks.

and here. no mold on the hay that i've noticed:
http://www.hvtd.com/?q=node/565

 

[blueta2]

oh, cool, thanks.

and here. no mold on the hay that i've noticed:
http://www.hvtd.com/?q=node/565

then send me some hay hey ;-)

I need to use some sort of mulch, but always worry about mold.

 

[mountain muscle]

I might know someone who sells hay covers.

 

[blueta2]

I just found this wise pc of advice
This is a great site

http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-5-16-193,00.html

They talk about mulch using straw (straw=hey right)

Pluck the first flowers.
Growing deep, extensive roots and a full leaf canopy will help establish newly transplanted tomatoes. Many experienced tomato growers pull off the first flowers, so the plant does not devote energy to forming fruit before its roots and foliage have filled out. Amy Goldman, who grows hundreds of heirloom tomatoes in her Rhinebeck, New York, garden each season, reports, "I pull off all the flowers until the plants reach at least 1 foot tall." She also pulls off all the suckers (shoots that emerge from the main stem below the first fruiting branch

 

[stilleto]

I just found this wise pc of advice
This is a great site

http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-5-16-193,00.html

They talk about mulch using straw (straw=hey right)

Pluck the first flowers.
Growing deep, extensive roots and a full leaf canopy will help establish newly transplanted tomatoes. Many experienced tomato growers pull off the first flowers, so the plant does not devote energy to forming fruit before its roots and foliage have filled out. Amy Goldman, who grows hundreds of heirloom tomatoes in her Rhinebeck, New York, garden each season, reports, "I pull off all the flowers until the plants reach at least 1 foot tall." She also pulls off all the suckers (shoots that emerge from the main stem below the first fruiting branch

oh, cool. i'll check it out. and yes, straw=hay.

(not "hey". that's what you say to your cabana boy just as you drop your sunglasses and make him bend over)

 

[blueta2]

I just fired my cabana boy ;-)

I'm very excited that you love to garden. I didn't know that about you.
Love that!

 

[stilleto]

I just fired my cabana boy ;-)

I'm very excited that you love to garden. I didn't know that about you.
Love that!

i'm multi orgasmic.

I mean, faceted.

multi faceted.

 

[blueta2]

i'm multi orgasmic.

I mean, faceted.

multi faceted.

I had a leaky faceted once ;-)

well we're going to keep each other up to date all summer because I need to talk about gardening and I'm not going to join a gardening msg board because that would just make me old and queer ;-)

 

[stilleto]

I had a leaky faceted once ;-)

well we're going to keep each other up to date all summer because I need to talk about gardening and I'm not going to join a gardening msg board because that would just make me old and queer ;-)

okay, cool.
I'll take some pics tomorrow and show you.

oh, and you are already old and queer.

 

[blueta2]

okay, cool.
I'll take some pics tomorrow and show you.

oh, and you are already old and queer.

I would love that

I feel old and queer.....hahaha!