bed plants, gardens & journals
bed gardening journals
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Lettuce 'Little Gem' - Another batch sown
Romaine lettuce 'Little Gem' , Romaine lettuce 'Little Gem' Transplanted, and Greenhouse 2013 gardenPartly Sunny 5°C / 41°FI’ve just sown another batch of Lettuce ‘Little Gem’ in a seedtray in the greenhouse on the allotment. The first batch I planted out into the greenhouse border, photo #3, & also some into a bed outside the GH but just in front of it. Photo #4. I took a photo of them in the s...
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2012
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I put my garden to bed Oct 22, 2012 by cover it up with leaves. I still have some things growing in pots. Happy Gardening (^_^)Indoors 3°C / 38°F -
Double 48x93 Raised "wicking" Bed garden , 6 Sub-Irrigated Planter Automatic Self Watering garden , and 5 ...
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2012
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Soil not snow. Finished emptying the soil in the west side of the double wicking bed. Removed the 3" slotted drainage pipe with sock. The next step is to lay down cardboard over the rock and line with 6 mil black poly. Again there were many worms in the bottom of the soil on top of the weed ...Light Snow 1°C / 34°F -
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2012
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Cloudy 17°C / 63°FSo, garden bed is finished and already taken some plants ^ We have nice weather and I was impatient to plant something. So i planted Tagetes, some radish (Raphanus sativus) and beets (Beta vulgaris) just for fun. Then i buy 2 small plants of Eggplants and 2 plants of Cherry tomatoes.Aso i pla...
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2012
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straw bales & aged horse manure/hay compost
2012 vegetable gardenYesterday we purchased 20 bales of straw from a dairy farmer out on Upper Ave near Hanna. Using those to outline a 35′ × 4′ bed on the east side of the backyard. 60 bucks total, 3 dollars a bale. Today we picked up a truckload of horse manure aged, watered and turned with hay fo...Cloudy 11°C / 52°F
bed group conversations
- 3 Ok, how to eradicate an existing garden of Cannas and rose bushes by fall planting time? in the General Chit Chat group Posted by JimMarconnet 11 months ago. Last reply by Carol 11 months ago.
- 5 Milk paint & raised beds in the General Chit Chat group Posted by nfiori over 1 year ago. Last reply by moneetsa over 1 year ago.
- 0 Salvaged and re-purposed waterbed wood. in the Creative Solutions group Posted by Mars23 almost 2 years ago.
- 8 Compost Only Vegetable Garden in the Composting group Posted by ejabbott almost 2 years ago. Last reply by TangoFlowers almost 2 years ago.
bed gardens
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Zone 4 This was a once prolific garden but sat ignored for almost 14 years. Now I’ve dug it up, sifted the weeds and grass out and in the fall of 20...
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Zone 8 We had some used wooden poles from a nice man’s farm. He said they weren’t building use anymore but if we want them we could have them....
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Zone 5a We use the hugelculture method of taking our deadfall, yard clean up, chicken coop, barn deep pack method and creating a closed small farm loop to...
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5 Sub-Irrigated Planter Automatic Self Watering garden garden
Zone 3b This was a double wicking bed garden that didn’t wick, so converted it to a SIP in 2012 after the squash was harvested
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Zone 9b Raised bed on the side of the house, I can view through the kitched window and easily go and gather my herbs and vegetables right out the back door...
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Zone 3b Started another Hugelkulter bed on the east side of the house. The bed runs north & south
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Zone 9b When we first moved into my current rental home, there was what looked to be some sort of raised bed in the backyard. I’m not sure if it was ...
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4 Sub-Irrigated Planter Automatic Self Watering garden
Zone 3b This is a new Sub-irrigated Self Watering Planter bed built for the steep slope with steps on both ends. It has a float valve container inside the ...
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2 Sub-Irrigated Planter Automatic Self Watering garden
Zone 3b Moved and modified douglas fir beds #3 & #4, which will we are converting to #2 & #3 Sub-Irrigated Planters (SIP)
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