I heard some where that tomatoes don't like ash. I had some planted last year over an old burn pile area, I didn't get any tomatoes all season.
I could be totally wrong, but that's what I've heard.
My tomato plants have TONS of tomatoes on them - but they're not ripening.......i saw my friends garden about 20 miles north of me & she's having the same problem. All of her plants are filled, but no red!
anyone know whats going on??
I personally let my chicken poo compost it least 4 months, if not longer. I don't use the deep litter method. I have straw that gets taken out to the compost pile every week or two.
I would recommend letting it compost in the pile for awhile. I would say it wouldn't be ready for that spring's...
I planted blue corn today. My friend gave me six that she had started. This weekend I planted white corn, I think it's 'Silver queen'
had quite the time finding corn seeds around here this time of year.
here's a little info about the companion planting of corn, squash & beans
it's called the 'three sisters'
The Three Sisters: Age-old Companions
One of the oldest and best-known examples of companion planting is the Three Sisters garden, planted by many Native American cultures. The sisters...
My best friend who is my main 'gardening' mentor - has told me in the past to use Osmacote plant food for everything.
It seems to work well. Is there something else I should be using? also is there a difference between plant 'food' and fertilizer?
i found this......
Laboratory analysis showed that raw poultry manure tea is not a complete fertilizer solution,
but that nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and zinc are at adequate levels in the solution
from this link - it goes into great detail about the 'tea'...
ok - so i def want to do the flood irrigation type system.....
i have a question ( i'm thinking its a dumb one! lol), can I still put mulch around the corn & pumpkins in the 'flood area' ??
would i still be able to irrigate if I were using straw as a weed mulch or would it just fill in my...
i just 'harvested' those 'seeds' from my garlic. I'm going to plant them & see what happens :)
I'd love to grow enough garlic to keep up with my consumption of it :)
be careful if you have dogs, the chocolate smell will attract some dogs to eat the cocoa hulls - there is a substance in the shells that are toxic to dogs.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoamulch.asp