Is there a gardening forum on SoWal.com?

To stop or slow the flow of blood from a wound. Probably an archaic term from some old herbal texts I've read.

Not archaic - still very common in First Aid instructions.

If anyone is looking for help with their edible garden, either getting started, design, or implementation, I can help.

CFH Design Studio can provide hourly consultation, design an overall plan, or build and maintain the garden for you. Specializing in small urban size lots and primarily edible, herbal, and medicinal gardens.

See my signature below or pm me.

gardening forum....I VOTE YES!

I made the garden group so it is open for anyone to join. Please feel free to do so. : )

Wow! Now I feel pretty clueless. I thought I had been all over this website. I had no idea there were social groups. Great, another time sucker. Maybe the social groups need a bit more prominence. Thanks AL for pointing that out.

You are welcome! I started it last year when the spring fever hit. I am looking forward to joining back in as soon as my house is finished(next week) and getting my hands dirty. I've got my seeds and am ready for some fresh veggies!

If anyone is looking for help with their edible garden, either getting started, design, or implementation, I can help.

CFH Design Studio can provide hourly consultation, design an overall plan, or build and maintain the garden for you. Specializing in small urban size lots and primarily edible, herbal, and medicinal gardens.

See my signature below or pm me.

Chandra is a terrific designer! She listens well to what the client wants, draws up a lovely plan accordingly, then revises as needed according to client's needs. Very creative, great understanding of design, use of space, form, color...and expert in sustainability/green/restorative materials and methods.

Now I need to go find this garden group.

Thanks Susan.

Be sure to check out my latest blog entry. The Seaside Neighborhood School Garden Class stopped by last week for a field trip to see the micro-farm.

http://www.sowal.com/bb/blogs/chandra/362-field-trip-seaside-garden-class.html

My latest gardening whim is to plant food past its prime - partial onions that have sprouted, potatoes that sprout etc.

So now I've got a bunch of potato plants and the question is - how do I know when they're really to harvest - what with them being underground and all. ;-)

My latest gardening whim is to plant food past its prime - partial onions that have sprouted, potatoes that sprout etc.

So now I've got a bunch of potato plants and the question is - how do I know when they're really to harvest - what with them being underground and all. ;-)

When the tops (plant) has turned brown.
Keep soil mounded over the potatoes as they grow and start to push up toward the surface, so they don't get sunburned. (or They might look like that girl in SJs photo)


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My latest gardening whim is to plant food past its prime - partial onions that have sprouted, potatoes that sprout etc.

So now I've got a bunch of potato plants and the question is - how do I know when they're really to harvest - what with them being underground and all. ;-)

Well, now I know how to plant a potato. No wonder I couldn't find the potato seeds at Wal Mart or Home Depot

When the tops (plant) has turned brown.
Keep soil mounded over the potatoes as they grow and start to push up toward the surface, so they don't get sunburned. (or They might look like that girl in SJs photo)


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Do you know if it's the same ripened premise for carrots? I planted a seed pack and it looks like every single one started.

Do you know if it's the same ripened premise for carrots? I planted a seed pack and it looks like every single one started.

We used to just check them off and on. You'll see the "shoulders" (?) start to push above ground when they get bigger. Pull them at whatever stage/size you like. If they need thinning and you fail to do that, they won't have room to make decent-sized carrots. They'll likely need thinned as it is hard to plant carrot seeds without some clumping.

Glad to see you doing this! ...I gave up vegetable gardening in hot climates years back - for the most part anyway. I really shouldn't be so lazy.... :roll:

Happy Gardening!..
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We used to just check them off and on. You'll see the "shoulders" (?) start to push above ground when they get bigger. Pull them at whatever stage/size you like. If they need thinning and you fail to do that, they won't have room to make decent-sized carrots. They'll likely need thinned as it is hard to plant carrot seeds without some clumping.

Glad to see you doing this! ...I gave up vegetable gardening in hot climates years back - for the most part anyway. I really shouldn't be so lazy.... :roll:

Happy Gardening!..
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One more question about thinning. I speant about 50 bucks on seeds thinking that was about right. I didn't expect the thousands of seedlings I have now. My rows are about 4 feet apart. Do you know if it's possible to pull up seedlings and put them in new rows? I just hate to kill off so many plants.

Thinning

Yes you can, just make sure you take out soil around the roots of the seedlings. So dig deep and wide around the seedlings and water well for the first couple of days.

One more question about thinning. I speant about 50 bucks on seeds thinking that was about right. I didn't expect the thousands of seedlings I have now. My rows are about 4 feet apart. Do you know if it's possible to pull up seedlings and put them in new rows? I just hate to kill off so many plants.

One more question about thinning. I speant about 50 bucks on seeds thinking that was about right. I didn't expect the thousands of seedlings I have now. My rows are about 4 feet apart. Do you know if it's possible to pull up seedlings and put them in new rows? I just hate to kill off so many plants.

I have done that and it is tedious babying them to get them to survive. .


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I scooped up and relocated about 200 of them. We had a lot of rain today, maybe they'll live..?? I guess if I can stick with the gardening for a couple years I'll probably be a heartless thinner, but now they're my babies.

Nope, but I think you just started one.

Anyone know what the germination for mint is?

Don't grow it from seed...the stuff is basically and invasive weed if you don't contain it! Ask jdarg for some of her grandmother's mint from Kentucky. It smells so incredibly good.

Votes for gardening forum?

Um...yes, please! Maybe gardening and locavore info combined?

Some good child labor, er uh, family time.

We all need some therapy after thinning so many of our babies.

Some good child labor, er uh, family time.

We all need some therapy after thinning so many of our babies.

AAbsolute is a jerk. Please don't attribute that to his children. They are innocent and they are angels. AAbsolute has lost his way.

living mulch question

Was there ever a gardening forum started? If so, I am not clever enough to find it so I will just ask my questino here.

Anyone have any experience using clover or perennial peanut (or other low growing, nitrogen-fixing ground cover) as living mulch for vegetable and herb gardens? Got any advice to share on pros, cons, how-to, what to avoid? Thanks!

Aleo made the gardening social group open to everyone, you can join it/subscribe to it. I don't think there is a dedicated gardening forum yet.

I am SO proud - I have a little green tomato (about the size of a cherry tomato). This is an unprecedented event in my years of attempting to grow tomatoes! Thank goodness for Toni's!

I've used red clover, although it's been a while since I had the space for the huge garden I used it in. As I recall, I didn't do anything special, just tossed it out where I wanted it, and it grew really well in the sand and looked pretty when it bloomed.
I also used peanut hay for non-living mulch , got a whole bunch of it from some farmer in NoWal.
Both of these worked well. The clover, however, does need water.
I could use plans for an inexpensive rain collection system, if anyone has any ideas on this. I think I'll need that before I do much more gardening - drinking water is too expensive, and too precious, for anything more than a few pots, imho. When I had a big garden I used drip irrigation and all the mulch and compost I could get my hands on to hold some water in our porous "soil."

I love people that garden and cook- I'm hungry now and I just ate.

Not Dead Yet,

Thanks. You might contact Chandra Hartman. She has a rain barrel that she uses to water her garden, and also knows how to design site-specific berms and swales in order to make the best use of rainwater. It also matters which plants you put where. I am still trying to get the hang of it... Grouping plants with similar water needs together also helps -- I'm on a learning curve with that too.

I think I will try some clover and some perennial peanut. Apparently,once established, perennial peanuts are drought-, heat-, and foot-traffic tolerant, and also help build the soil and prevent erosion by developing a thick root mat. Need very little fertilizer (just at first, the kind that makes strong roots, I forget which mineral that is), and actually puts nitrogen into the soil for neighbor plants to feed on. Said to be an ideal groundcover for this climate. This is what I've read, mind you, not what I've actually lived. But given my repeated failure with managing grass, and the ugly barren look of vast expanses of pinestraw placed in avoidance of grass, I am ready to try something new.