athabaskar
Smoking Fanatic
I like your enthusiasm BCFishMan. The best way to garden is to jump right in. You will have some great success as well as some total failures. Just like actual farming. Beware though, it is damn addictive. I till more and more turf every year. Soon I'm going to have to move into the front yard.
I'm negotiating with my neighbor about doing some sharecropping.
My potatoes went in a week and 1/2 ago. Peas the same day, and onions went in about a month ago. The last of the turnip and mustard greens came out just before the taters were planted. Cabbage too. We've been having some really tasty slaws for a couple of months now. I cut the first two asparagus spears for a salad the other day, and swiss chard and arugula have lasted all winter for salads. This weekend radishes and mesclun will be seeded directly.
I have two main garden areas both about 25' x 25'. I do a four year rotation to keep down diseases. Fertilizer is organic only and is usually limited to what we produce in our compost piles, heaps, bins and tumbler. My wife is the Queen of Compost (and proud of it). She used a rare day off last week to fill my pickup truck with horse manure - the bed of the truck, that is...
Anyway, good luck to all noob gardeners, and BCFishMan please update us ocassionally. I'm interested in how your venture comes out. I'm thinking you're going to have your hands full with some of those melons and indeterminite tomato varities. Florida spring time is vegetable heaven.
I'm negotiating with my neighbor about doing some sharecropping.
My potatoes went in a week and 1/2 ago. Peas the same day, and onions went in about a month ago. The last of the turnip and mustard greens came out just before the taters were planted. Cabbage too. We've been having some really tasty slaws for a couple of months now. I cut the first two asparagus spears for a salad the other day, and swiss chard and arugula have lasted all winter for salads. This weekend radishes and mesclun will be seeded directly.
I have two main garden areas both about 25' x 25'. I do a four year rotation to keep down diseases. Fertilizer is organic only and is usually limited to what we produce in our compost piles, heaps, bins and tumbler. My wife is the Queen of Compost (and proud of it). She used a rare day off last week to fill my pickup truck with horse manure - the bed of the truck, that is...
Anyway, good luck to all noob gardeners, and BCFishMan please update us ocassionally. I'm interested in how your venture comes out. I'm thinking you're going to have your hands full with some of those melons and indeterminite tomato varities. Florida spring time is vegetable heaven.
