Hello from Northern Nevada

[Smart Red]

Celery. That's another plant I've never had success with. But, wow to the sweet spuds I planted last year. They were monsters.

 

[pippomky75]

Welcome from Texas! We moved 3 years ago to 8 acres of pure sand. They call it sugar sand. So while I get a lot more rain than you do, I can commiserate with the sand. I have gardened all my life, but our first year here, everything died. Glad you joined, post pictures!

the sand is tough! But with blood sweat and tears, you can make it work! The first photo is my garden plot 26'x56' last year-the first year before the tilling. the second is seedlings coming up in the same spot. The third is this past spring, from the other end of the "old garden". you can se the expansion we did this year.the next is from the other side of the expansion everything in full bloom. We also added the bee hive this year, I think it aided my success. The whole garden was 56x56 this year. Next year we will expand the irrigation in order to plant the corn, and squash in a 1/2 acre outside the garden, and dedicate the fenced in to roots and leafy veg. That's the plan on paper-we'll see how it goes!

 

[valley ranch]

You have that place looking fine``` And bees as well```
How about rabbits~ got many of them coming around```

 

[pippomky75]

You have that place looking fine``` And bees as well```
How about rabbits~ got many of them coming around```

so many rabbits! We will have to redo the fence in the spring they have quite a few tunnels dug under it. Next year we are moving to horizontal bee hives0 no heavy lifting. Who knew bees and honey could be so heavy!

 

[valley ranch]

All the rest of the rabbits are here

 

[pippomky75]

All the rest of the rabbits are here

please keep them!

 

[baymule]

Your garden is looking good! All your hard work is showing. Do you start seeds inside, then plant or do you plant seeds direct in the garden? I do about half and half. Just ordered a plastic covered contraption, tower greenhouse to put on the porch to start my seeds in. It will beat the heck out of flats of seedlings in the bathtub and on the table. LOL

 

[pippomky75]

Your garden is looking good! All your hard work is showing. Do you start seeds inside, then plant or do you plant seeds direct in the garden? I do about half and half. Just ordered a plastic covered contraption, tower greenhouse to put on the porch to start my seeds in. It will beat the heck out of flats of seedlings in the bathtub and on the table. LOL

I direct planted beets, carrots, turnips, spinach, squash, and melons. broccoli and brussles were about 1/2&1/2, cabbage and eggplant were all started indoors. Tomatoes I started indoors, then my husband built a greenhouse in the spring. They have been such snarky plants to grow so I put them right into the greenhouse along with the peppers. Both did great and are still pumping out fruit. I would be interested in seeing pics of this thing you bought- even with the greenhouse flat surface space is an issue. (I never thought of using the tub... hmmm....)

 

[baymule]

The bathtub is huge--it's a garden tub. A couple of 4' shop lights and i'm in business! How do you grow Brussel sprouts? When do you start seed, transplant and harvest. I'm going to start some seed as soon as I get my seed order and get my new greenhouse tower set up. for $60 how could I go wrong? It gets so hot here that I don't know if the plants would live through the summer, so I plan on starting seed right away and hope I get some sprouts!

https://www.overstock.com/Home-Gard...le-Greenhouse-w-Shelves/17990841/product.html

I'm going to do a hack and lay something across the back from shelf to shelf for more room.

 

[pippomky75]

The bathtub is huge--it's a garden tub. A couple of 4' shop lights and i'm in business! How do you grow Brussel sprouts? When do you start seed, transplant and harvest. I'm going to start some seed as soon as I get my seed order and get my new greenhouse tower set up. for $60 how could I go wrong? It gets so hot here that I don't know if the plants would live through the summer, so I plan on starting seed right away and hope I get some sprouts!

https://www.overstock.com/Home-Gard...le-Greenhouse-w-Shelves/17990841/product.html

I'm going to do a hack and lay something across the back from shelf to shelf for more room.

LOL!!! Right after our last frost I direct planted on mounded rows. water 3x daily keeping mounds moist. Once they sprout 2x daily. thinned them out at 3" high, then pretty much ignored them other than watering. They grew like weeds! I got about 15 pounds of nice tight sprouts. Unfortunately every leaf of every sprout had grey aphids, but that's a challenge for nest year. To harvest we hacked the plants down and cut the sprouts off. then I tried taking the paring knife out and popping the sprouts off leaving the plant intact. It was a good experiment, they put out more sprouts! we have had two freezes so far (got to about 10 degrees) and it didn't faze them. They are still producing sprouts. I might leave that row be, see if they act as perennials- if so I'll plant a bed of those near my asparagus. I'm lazy when I can be, I don't mind letting them call the shots.