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I remember when I was growing up, we always grew them in tires. I don't remember how well they produced though, since we just gardened for fun and not to seriously produce food.

I just read that, I get the paper copy of the magazine. I'm trying the trash bag method, only I'm using empty chicken feed bags, since all our feed comes in plastic bags now. The plants are just getting going, so we will see how it works!

We must have especially bad birds here. They just perch on those owls, and they rip holes in the bird netting with their beaks and climb through. :rolleyes: As if that wasn't enough, the chipmunks chew through chicken wire and get into the vegetables.

Me too...I'm prone to checking several times a day. Starting the day I planted them. :lol:

My organic gardening magazine actually had a little article asking the same question this month. It says it really doesn't matter, but what does matter is to plant tall things/short things according to where the sun will be so your tall things don't shade the shorter ones too much. (Unless you...

It really depends on the seed. Things like carrots, lettuce, turnips, radishes, and beets are easiest planted by scattering them evenly over the area where you are going to grow them, then lightly covering them with some soil. Things like melons, squash, corn, beans, tomatoes, and peppers, 2-4...

Decorative AND useful! I like it.

I've done various beans and dried peas with success. Organic wheat and oats sprout well, I grow them into grass for my cats. (I buy bulk whole grains to make my own flour so I get it by the 50-pound sack, plenty to grow) I always grow potatoes and sweet potatoes from store bought ones. Also...

I don't know if the soil where you're at is better than mine, but I'm in Kingman (west of Flagstaff) and the soil is awful. Rocks and clay and sand. I do everything in raised beds now, it's not worth trying to dig and amend the dirt here. German irises ought to do well for you if you want a...

I'll take the calendula. I've been looking for that for a long time! Offer: Corn "Golden Bantam" Acorn Squash Butternut Squash Watermelon "Crimson Sweet" Pumpkin "Jack O Lantern" Pumpkin "Little Tiger Stripe" (ornamental) Pumpkin "Connecticut Field" Thai Basil Lettuce/Salad greens mix Arugula...

You can grow lettuce in anything that will hold dirt and water. I used to have it growing in my apartment in the kitchen in some plastic boxes.

Hopefully you'll be swimming in fruit in a few years! It sounds great, I wish I had time and space and money to get all that fruit! We can't get fruit trees by mail here though, Arizona is weird about that, and the ones in the local stores are $30 each and half dead.

I'm supposedly in 8A, but based on the description of that zone, and our wacky weather this spring, I think we're more like zone 7, even bordering on 6, now. I put the potatoes in the end of January, they got frozen six or seven times and snowed on twice, but I checked them today and they're...

I use it and it works ok for me. I have trouble getting things to germinate inside, but it's more from the cold/lack of consistent temperature because no one wants to turn any heat on but me/lack of light/super dry climate/ my cat eating anything green that shows up, I don't think the compost is...

It really depends on where you live. Do you expect any more snow or hard freezes?

I'll take the Farm Woman melon. Offer: Bell Peppers (red) Jalapeno Pepper mix Tomato mix Tomato "Roma" Salad Greens mix Zinnia mix Arugula Thai Basil Pumpkin "Connecticut Field" Pumpkin "Little Tiger Stripe" (ornamental) Pumpkin Jack O Lantern" Corn "Golden Bantam" Watermelon "Crimson Sweet"...

The train is still going, sunjoy. Someone (you, if you like) needs to choose something from wifezilla's list and then offer their own list.

I didn't like ours. When the tomato plants got heavy, the stems just broke. Also, after a few weeks in our intense sun, the paper cover of the pot got brittle and ripped if we touched it.

I was given a bee colony in a top bar hive by a friend. He really likes the top bars because they are easy to build and if he is giving bees to someone he can tell them how to build a hive exactly like what he has and he can just stick a bar of his with bees and comb in theirs and it fits...

They're really pricey for the products not being real organic stuff. I'd rather go to Trader Joe's.