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**czygyny**

Omega Wrote:

NICE!!!! So organized...and perfect, DAMMIT!!!! ;>)

Now please post that pict of you with a buncha flowers and stuff around you to further demonstrate you are a hard core for real green thumb.

;>)

You mean this one? chuckle

**Tick Tock** lop guest User ID: 93527 04-29-2012 08:08 PM

I've been planting container gardens the past couple years and they are a great solution if you don't have a lot of space for a large garden.

I bought mini-greenhouses at Lowes. They look like 4-tier bookshelves and have a clear plastic cover that slides over them and unzips down the front. They have shelves that are heavy wire mesh which make watering the containers easy and the shelves can be removed as the plants grow taller.

Last year I planted tomatos, cucumbers, green peppers, zuchinni and lettuce......mostly "salad" stuff and they all did great. The plants grew so fast that I had to buy a couple additional greenhouses and keep the larger plants like zuchinni and tomatos mostly on the bottom shelf so they had lots of room. You can move the pots around easily and make the garden anywhere from one tier to 4 tier.

I planted two tomato plants in large pots and each grew to over 5 feet tall and produced over 100 tomatos (each). The eight green pepper plants produced about 20 peppers each. The cucumbers and zuchinni did well also, but need a very large pot.

The little greenhouses fit easily on a small deck and there is no weeding required. Frosty nights early or late in the year are no problem...just zip up the front panel and the plants stay nice and warm. As an added bonus, the critters can't get at them. Also, the mini-greenhouses are fairly inexpensive and have a nice appearance.

My garden was producing a month earlier than other gardens in the neighborhood and continued producing a month after all the other gardens were done. Only problem I ran into was that during the hottest months, the plastic covers needed to be removed as it got really hot inside. The plastic covers can also just be rolled up a foot or two to encourage insects to pollinate or to accommodate the weather.

For me, it is a great solution as I don't have a lot of space. Maintenance free is great, too....all you have to do is keep them watered every day.
Some of my neighbors are planning to buy greenhouses this year and do it the easy way. Not all plants do well in containers but a lot do pretty good. Very nice......if you want to have a smaller garden.

I had plenty of produce to make a few batches of salsa to freeze and to can some sweet pickles. What amazed me the most is the size of the zuchinni that were produced...I thought they might be small grown in containers but they were twice the size of the ones you can buy at a grocery store.

**Omega**

czygyny Wrote:

Omega Wrote:
NICE!!!! So organized...and perfect, DAMMIT!!!! ;>)

Now please post that pict of you with a buncha flowers and stuff around you to further demonstrate you are a hard core for real green thumb.

;>)

You mean this one?

You crazy gal!!!! Yeah that's the one, thanks!!!

S278

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 65684 04-29-2012 08:16 PM

Vegas Wrote:

Need to plant a smaller garden this year... Still trying to use up canned goods from last year...

link to image: http://imgupld.lunaticoutpost.com/graphi...90B756.jpg

Funny, I've been looking to help folks out in your situation.......great stuff for my vertigo/nausea. Can't plant a garden where I live....city....300 sq. ft. rent controlled....cheapest place to live at the moment. Now about your overstock problem.....?

**Vlad**

Omega Wrote:

Ok folks here's my annual Garden UP thread-2012. This means it may be the last year and we are fixin to die, lol, I dunno.

I cannot take credit this year-my back is jacked and I have been out on disability since early Jan. Thank goodness from help from my friends, one of which, who is seated in the chair is member on this board.

He also spruced up the chicken coop with scrap metal layin' around, lol.

So we have maters, beans, peas ,broccoli, peppers, melons, cantaloupe , squash, taters ( in another location I didn't take pictures), radish, onions, garlic, asparagus, and an herb garden, again at another location on this land.

You got picts-post em up!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIKBq9TeFlw

I Love your Garden and understand the cages Tissue

Like Mastiff´s have to be caged 2, can´t risk nature.

It worked out fine when I constantly around, but I was qa neavous wreck Srjceahd

**Psyconaut NLI** lop guest User ID: 85431 04-29-2012 08:50 PM

Guests and O, thanks for the inputs.

I'll have to experiment with it all a bit with some side by side comparisons.

This is my first season using a "brewed" tea as opposed to other methods, so I'm a complete rookie....

I work at an organic farm and the owners aren't fully on board with the "brewed" tea idea yet....horse and chicken manure has worked fine for their family for generations and they are rather stubborn about it.... I really want to get them on board with the results from my personal garden.

By the way, anyone ever tried this?:

Pure Rain Nanobuble Nozzle....

http://nectardesign.com/pure-rain-nanobu...ng-system/

**Omega**

Psyconaut NLI Wrote:

Guests and O, thanks for the inputs.

I'll have to experiment with it all a bit with some side by side comparisons.

This is my first season using a "brewed" tea as opposed to other methods, so I'm a complete rookie....

I work at an organic farm and the owners aren't fully on board with the "brewed" tea idea yet....horse and chicken manure has worked fine for their family for generations and they are rather stubborn about it.... I really want to get them on board with the results from my personal garden.

By the way, anyone ever tried this?:

Pure Rain Nanobuble Nozzle....

http://nectardesign.com/pure-rain-nanobu...ng-system/

Hey brother thanks for your input....never tried that nozzle at your link- is it expensive???

As for foliar feeding with tea I can absolutely guarantee ya it works wonders. My own recipe ( BTW I forgot to add a couple of tablespoons black strap molasses to my recipe I'll go fix my post) I've used for many years (actually haven't done it this year due to my back being out however will get one of the guys here to do it soon).

Anyways I'd go ahead and try out foliar feeding man....

**AVA**

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**Psychonaut** lop guest User ID: 85431 04-29-2012 10:17 PM

Omega Wrote:

Psyconaut NLI Wrote:
Guests and O, thanks for the inputs.

I'll have to experiment with it all a bit with some side by side comparisons.

This is my first season using a "brewed" tea as opposed to other methods, so I'm a complete rookie....

I work at an organic farm and the owners aren't fully on board with the "brewed" tea idea yet....horse and chicken manure has worked fine for their family for generations and they are rather stubborn about it.... I really want to get them on board with the results from my personal garden.

By the way, anyone ever tried this?:

Pure Rain Nanobuble Nozzle....

http://nectardesign.com/pure-rain-nanobu...ng-system/

Hey brother thanks for your input....never tried that nozzle at your link- is it expensive???

As for foliar feeding with tea I can absolutely guarantee ya it works wonders. My own recipe ( BTW I forgot to add a couple of tablespoons black strap molasses to my recipe I'll go fix my post) I've used for many years (actually haven't done it this year due to my back being out however will get one of the guys here to do it soon).

Anyways I'd go ahead and try out foliar feeding man....

I think that nozzle is @ $30 or so...They have it at Lowe's. Haven't bought one yet, kinda waiting of the real world verdict first.

Yeah the worm casting tea recipe that I'll start off using has a bit molasses in it too....they do warn about too much molasses can take the brew anaerobic tho.

I've been using a local version of "compost tea" for a few seasons now, but not the aerated brew...hopefully aerating it will take it all up a notch..

Cheers

**Nothing Is True**

I'm glad I kept the fish tank and bubble stones when my last goldfish passed away (RIP Miranda;)

Going to try the aerated tea thing. Thanks for the tips.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 93556 04-29-2012 11:56 PM

Hey OP more pictures

**Grendelmort**

I've been toying with the idea of underground cistern water storage. I have one 400 gal septic tank (new when buried of course) that I channel down spout water from the garage roof into, but that wasn't cheap. So, now I'm looking at adding capacity by getting some of those 3 foot diameter and 6 foot long concrete pipes they use for culverts and burying them standing on end and then pouring about 6 inches of cement in the bottom and then channeling roof runoff into them. It would be easy to make some covers for them from plywood covered with fiberglass.

**Betty F. Crocker**

Grendelmort Wrote:

I've been toying with the idea of underground cistern water storage. I have one 400 gal septic tank (new when buried of course) that I channel down spout water from the garage roof into, but that wasn't cheap. So, now I'm looking at adding capacity by getting some of those 3 foot diameter and 6 foot long concrete pipes they use for culverts and burying them standing on end and then pouring about 6 inches of cement in the bottom and then channeling roof runoff into them. It would be easy to make some covers for them from plywood covered with fiberglass.

We've been thinking about an underground cistern as well; combined with curb cutting, we could really harvest a lot of water at our location.

Hooray for the rain and the cooler weather in Austin this week - looks like we'll be getting a second fruit set on the tomato plants! Cheer

**Omega**

Betty F. Crocker Wrote:

Grendelmort Wrote:
I've been toying with the idea of underground cistern water storage. I have one 400 gal septic tank (new when buried of course) that I channel down spout water from the garage roof into, but that wasn't cheap. So, now I'm looking at adding capacity by getting some of those 3 foot diameter and 6 foot long concrete pipes they use for culverts and burying them standing on end and then pouring about 6 inches of cement in the bottom and then channeling roof runoff into them. It would be easy to make some covers for them from plywood covered with fiberglass.

We've been thinking about an underground cistern as well; combined with curb cutting, we could really harvest a lot of water at our location.

Hooray for the rain and the cooler weather in Austin this week - looks like we'll be getting a second fruit set on the tomato plants!

Indeed!!! And lookin' at the radar right now a bunch more rain coming!!

Cheer

**Average Housewife**

Lost my corn patch in last night's storms. Bah!