Gardening

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Originally Posted by 410001661

Due to being in sand I use raised beds and they work pretty well - mostly tomatoes, lettuce, hot peppers, kale, and cucc's. I made this one a couple of years back U shape and a smaller rectangle off to the side of my deck for herbs and spices. I grow my hot peppers from seed - germinate in moist paper towel in zip lock bags then plant in soil.

Every fall I bring home a couple of garbage bins of manure from the farm and spread on the top of the soil after the gardens are cleared out. In the spring I turn over the soil mixing it and then plant.

https://i.imgur.com/0gmZVdT.jpg

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Wow, that looks very nice

Nice work there 4100

My dad has a large garden (Italian) ... and swears it costs way more to make his own vegatables than to buy at the grocery store ... so I'm not sure it's about saving money, lol.

We have a small garden ... we like growing different leaves for salads, spring onions, cherry tomatoes and jalapeno peppers. We also grow a few herbs like rosemary and oregano.

The trick is to find out what works in your area, given the amount of sun, rain, etc. Some plants take to long to produce ... for example, we tried growing Habanero pepper last year ... it just didn't grow fast enough ... but the Jalapeno's took off like crazy.

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Originally Posted by MarkB

My dad has a large garden (Italian) ... and swears it costs way more to make his own vegatables than to buy at the grocery store ... so I'm not sure it's about saving money, lol.

We have a small garden ... we like growing different leaves for salads, spring onions, cherry tomatoes and jalapeno peppers. We also grow a few herbs like rosemary and oregano.

The trick is to find out what works in your area, given the amount of sun, rain, etc. Some plants take to long to produce ... for example, we tried growing Habanero pepper last year ... it just didn't grow fast enough ... but the Jalapeno's took off like crazy.

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I make my own dry rub and hot sauce so I grow a variety of different peppers, onions and tomatoes for it. Either I have to week and water it or cut it with a lawn mower.

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Originally Posted by MarkB

My dad has a large garden (Italian) ... and swears it costs way more to make his own vegatables than to buy at the grocery store ... so I'm not sure it's about saving money, lol.

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Your dad is a wise man...and he's right. Self sustainability cost way more in the long run, people forget to add things like plot preparation costs, soil prep, water bills, electric bill, etc etc and time to the equation. Then again, like you suspect, it's isn't about the money :)

I gave it up after about 10yrs.... easier and cheaper to buy other peoples surplus. :)

I think most people garden, hunt, fish, because of the love of-for it. Not necessarily for what you consume, price wise. Fresher yes. How much is that pound of venison, when you figure in all the costs. I went perch fishing on Simcoe this past season, only brought home a dozen. Between the son and I, we could have kept 100. How much did those 12 perch cost? Hate to tell you by the pound!

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Originally Posted by 410001661

Due to being in sand I use raised beds and they work pretty well - mostly tomatoes, lettuce, hot peppers, kale, and cucc's. I made this one a couple of years back U shape and a smaller rectangle off to the side of my deck for herbs and spices. I grow my hot peppers from seed - germinate in moist paper towel in zip lock bags then plant in soil.

Every fall I bring home a couple of garbage bins of manure from the farm and spread on the top of the soil after the gardens are cleared out. In the spring I turn over the soil mixing it and then plant.

https://i.imgur.com/0gmZVdT.jpg

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Nice looking garden pal...I've been using pots the last couple of years, but I'm hoping to make a raised this year. I do hot peppers as well, then into jellies. I still have a bag in the freezer of ghosts/habenero and reapers. How well do your cuc'z do? I'd like to plant a bunch of pickling cuc'z for dills...

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Originally Posted by fishermccann

I think most people garden, hunt, fish, because of the love of-for it. Not necessarily for what you consume, price wise. Fresher yes. How much is that pound of venison, when you figure in all the costs. I went perch fishing on Simcoe this past season, only brought home a dozen. Between the son and I, we could have kept 100. How much did those 12 perch cost? Hate to tell you by the pound!

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My fun comes with delivering stuff to friend's and maybe swapping stuff with them I did not grow, my big crop is potatoes for give away stuff, probably cost more to buy the seed potatoes in the first place, but like guys have said very satisfactory watching the garden progress and thing's changing. There is a world of difference between eating a store bought one and a home grown one.

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Originally Posted by MikePal

Your dad is a wise man...and he's right. Self sustainability cost way more in the long run, people forget to add things like plot preparation costs, soil prep, water bills, electric bill, etc etc and time to the equation. Then again, like you suspect, it's isn't about the money :)

I gave it up after about 10yrs.... easier and cheaper to buy other peoples surplus. :)

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Yet if you turn it into things and sell it as locally grown and produced consumer good then it can be profitable. I just did my taxes, I know.

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

My fun comes with delivering stuff to friend's and maybe swapping stuff with them I did not grow, my big crop is potatoes for give away stuff, probably cost more to buy the seed potatoes in the first place, but like guys have said very satisfactory watching the garden progress and thing's changing. There is a world of difference between eating a store bought one and a home grown one.

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Sounds like you do a fair size potato plot . I tried a small area it was ok got a few meals out of it. Have been thinking about doing a 45 gallon barrel to save the space and trying it that way. You can apparently get some decent yields from the space used .

I tried 3 or 4 year's for a corn plot finally got it and the corn sucked lol. Always trying to figure out what goes best where and what does well.


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