Spring is HERE!!! Time for a GUTTER GARDEN
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How to Make a Hanging Gutter Garden (http://thehomesteadsurvival.com/hanging-gutter-garden/#.URL8HUn5mSq)
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For watering the above setup you could have a reservoir up high and have gravity feed the trays, the access draining off below. A drip line would also work.
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How to Make a Hanging Gutter Garden (http://nestinstyle.com/garden/how-to-make-a-hanging-gutter-garden/)
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Materials
1 – 8? PVC white rain gutter cut into 3 32? sections
6 – PVC white gutter end caps
2 – 1/8?diameter steel cables cut to desired length
6 – Feeney Cross Clamps (see image below)
6 – 1/8? diameter Feeney steel rods
2 – Galvanized eye hooks
Potting soil and Plants
Tools
Cordless Drill with drill bit set
Hand saw or hack saw
T-square or straight edge
Tape measure
Permanent marker
Level
Eye protection
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ahh great container gardening
are those real strawberries?....what kind are they and what local are they growing in
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Not sure I can find out... might keep the rats away :D
here is a little thing I didn't know...
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QuoteI bet a lot of you throw out the stump at the end of the lettuce when you are done. Until recently, so did I! Then I came across this really interesting post online about regrowing from the remaining hunk. It is simple:
Save the end from your lettuce and put into a little water (about a half inch). Change out the water every day. The lettuce will grow back incredibly quick too.
The one on the left i cut today. The middle one yesterday and the one on the right, the day before. You can see how much it grows in just two days!!
But don't feel limited to romaine. This technique can also be used with green onions and celery
Onions I knew but I never tried lettuce
In America they call them Lettuce's Romaine !
The best way to harvest them is to plant quite a few and pick the leaves off from the outside so they keep growing !
I am about to harvest my seeds from them Gals soon !
The lettuce works well! Onions and garlic too! Every year I have unique plants growing in the post rainy season gutter goo...maybe some herbs are in line for this year?
Garden for Apartment Dwellers Fresh Herbs
A grow light is cheap, around 10.00
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QuoteTomatoes
Tomatoes are one of the best known upside down vegetables. There are hundreds of tutorials online on how to grow these plants upside down and you can even buy kits to help you with this.
While any size tomatoes can be grown upside down, but cherry tomatoes tend to be easier to manage when growing vegetables upside down.
More here..
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/vegetables-grown-upside-down.htm
I just found a plant website called ison nursery.
They specialize in muscadine grapes.really interesting site.
also look up oldest grape vine north carolina.blew my mind.
Didn't know about the lettuce/Celery trick...Going to try this right away...Still no spring joy-joy in upstate NY.
not here either but i had to start some seeds yesterday..hope i'm not too early
last year spring was late and i had to hold everything
but the vertical herbs and lettuces look great..neither need a lot of soil to grow
come'on spring :D
Sky Otter I love the word spring and all the wonderful images walt disney inspired in such wonderful scenes... truly do !
BUT
Its taken Two Years and Twenty Bucks to Finally have Flower Heads Develop on My Trinidad Scorpion (Worlds Hottest Chili)
Autumn is not what I want to hear in Oz, and travel for a month also Sucks. I don't trust people to look after my baby...They really wont understand my connection with that dang experiment ;D ;D ;D
Plum trees started blooming today.bees of all types flying around.
spring is here.
also planted some prickly pear.giant version.
we got 10 inches of snow yesterday.. it was beautiful in it's on way
but it wasn't SPRING
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but the lettuce/celery garden is really growing....thanks Zorg
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my cactus pads are budding .
the frost got half my fruit but the rest are growing fine.
tomatoes from seed are eight inches high and looking very healthy.
we have had rain almost every week.
i have iriss bigger than a fist and four feet high.
this spring weather is great fo my plants.
robo
great to hear that someone is getting lucky ...sorry about half your fruit..
you are way ahead on the tomatoes...
so far the blossoms on our fruit trees are just coming out so i'm holding my breath
that tonights hail hasn't finished them off
everything else is still underground..potatoes, garlic, peas, radishes and some grren onions
Quote from: robomont on April 17, 2013, 02:52:06 AM
i have iriss bigger than a fist and four feet high.
this spring weather is great fo my plants.
Same here its still cold today 60's and typhoon like winds but it is great for the garden. Last year we had 100F middle of April and it killed off things. The nursery did replace them and they are taking this year
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The Rose Arbor...
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Giant roses
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The Ivy League :P
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Strawberries are up so are the raspberries...
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Faerie Tree ring and Compost... the Wood Sorrels are wild
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That looks SO awesome mate! 8)
March came in like a snow leopard here. I got lucky and missed the 104 car pileup on I 25. I was through there about five minutes earlier.
Now that Wells Fargo has seen the light and modified our loan, I hope we can actually do some catching up on stuff inside and out. My daughter found instructions online for making stepping stones. I think I'll give that a try, and get some overgrown trees trimmed. One little bit at a time.
Shasta