Ok, so I'm working out a list of supplies I'll need to get when I get home and those that my boyfriend can get from his grandfather (who's grown his own produce forever). It's still pretty hot in Oklahoma, but by late September it should be comfortably warm going into the cooler climate by October. I did a search and I live in zone 6B. Anyone have ( Read more... )

I have next week off work (YAAAAAAY!) so I'm going to get some stuff done around the garden ( Read more... )

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Potatos like low nitrogen, high everything else (6-24-24)

does anyone know of organic fertilizers with this ratio or similar?

I know people who just use Hollytone but I'm a little skeptical...

suggestions?
thx!

So, today I got some news that my roomates will be moving at the end of march! Although we will now have to pick up their half of the rent I recently got a decent paying job (start on monday!) and am wondering if anyone has any experience with indoor gardening ( Read more... )

You might remember that I planned to dig over an old strawberry bed, 8' x 20' with a lengthways path, this winter to make 2 new beds (each 8' x 9' with a crossways path) for my veg rotation. That was part of this winter's plan. What I didn't know was we'd have more snow than usual so the ground has been snow-covered, frozen, or waterlogged from ( Read more... )

Hello all - it's snowy and cold here in Michigan, and so of course I'm spending all my time daydreaming about what I want my garden to look like in, oh... 6 months (ugh, that's a long time). I was looking through various catalogs, and would really like to try planting some potatoes this summer, but have a very limited amount of gardening space ( Read more... )

how can I do this? I grew potatos this year and I have a couple of nice ones I forgot about, I just dug them up and I'd love to save them for next year

any tips?

thanks!

I'm on the border of zones 5 and 6

Its been a great year for potatoes for the most part yields of 5 or 6 to one for Red Norland, kuroka gold, and close to that for Yukon Gold. Except of course for today, the total yield for 15 pounds of Russet Burbank was not quite 10 pounds. What few potatoes their were, were quite small. I think it might be due to the heavy clay in the ( Read more... )

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