Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 181Jan 23, 2011 12:33 pm Well I am a bit slow but I think I will still post the following (2 DDs phoned & 45 mins later ) Just like anything worthwhile there are upfront costs(purchase) and follow on costs....(maintenance) Anything CHEAP upfront will cost you in the end with poor performance or high running costs. What Fu is telling everyone is that the store of energy is in the soil, not just as foliarfeed or fert. The real growth comes when the roots have available 'goodness', water and oxygen. Feeding the soil allows the soil to develop its own Bio dynamic diversity, where mini factories continually convert 'bulk' material into food :walksawayandwaitsforFutocorrectme: and when he does I say this to him... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BoDFAOhbbQ Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 183Jan 23, 2011 12:52 pm Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 184Jan 23, 2011 2:43 pm Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 185Jan 23, 2011 4:45 pm Deemaree :roll: Just like to mention an old trick we use when growing Leeks.Once your plants reach about 3 inches high place a piece of 30mm. p.v.c. pipe over them. Cut the pipe so that when you put it over the Leeks it stands about a foot high. The plant then goes into overdrive to get to the sun and when it reaches the top,lift off the pipe and you will have Leeks with a pure white stem which is over a foot long and so you get more meals. Topiarius Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 187Jan 28, 2011 8:26 am How do you know when carrots are ready to pick? "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 188Jan 29, 2011 2:00 pm I always look at the size of the "shoulder" of carrot that has formed around the base of the greenery Donuts. Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 189Jan 29, 2011 2:49 pm thanks Dee I pulled one up the other day but it was just a stump "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 190Feb 01, 2011 12:59 am If you grow carrots from seedlings they will grow all deformed and stumpy. Grow from seed at the right time of the month and shazam! Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 191Feb 01, 2011 12:30 pm oh ok so they will always be stumps? good to know. might pull them soon then. "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 192Feb 01, 2011 7:25 pm Also depends on the variety you plant-some are naturally "stumpier" than others-and carrots also like light, fluffy soil....if it's too heavy and/or rocky you will find that the roots don't grow as long and tapered. Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 193Feb 10, 2011 1:28 pm Thanks! Perfect timing. Just starting to think about planning and planting. I have a lot to learn... Would love a vegie and herb garden and some fruit trees. Lemon and lime for drinks is very important. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 195Feb 10, 2011 1:55 pm Has anyone done a no dig vegie garden,would love to see some pics Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 197Feb 11, 2011 8:31 pm Wow! Now this is a worm farm! Check this worm farm out? Complete with outdoor sink Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Thanks to Ben Mitchell of Growing Free Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 198Feb 17, 2011 8:49 pm Has anyone used mushroom compost in vegie garden Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 199Feb 17, 2011 8:57 pm Yep. You will get really good rapid growth for around 3-6months. Then when all the nitrogen runs out, you will spend years in some cases trying to get things to grow with out developing a chemistry lab in the garden shed of crap to use on it, which in the end will do little. Just such hard, expensive work long term. There's more to it but best I leave it at that. 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