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Bucket Garden with tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and herbs.
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Has anyone ever use just spent grains as potting soil?
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I think you’d probably want to compost them first. Then you could use 100% fully composted spent grains for potting but I’m still not sure how balanced and nutritious a growing medium might be.
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I had two lavender plants in my veggie garden that I lost over the winter. I was hoping to do some more essential oils but now only have my mint to distill.
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16 bucket garden on the patio with various herbs, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. Started a 42 site hydro lettuce garden in the basement this spring.

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jonnys_spirit wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:37 am 16 bucket garden on the patio with various herbs, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. Started a 42 site hydro lettuce garden in the basement this spring.

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Always wanted to try doing a hydro garden for my tomato’s.
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Lettuce works well with flourescents. I think tomato's would require a stronger LED panel or something. I might do those too later.

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This is a time lapse of our garden through the growing season. The hops get in the way of the camera mid-july but clears out again by mid-september.

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GreenEnvy22 wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 8:52 pm This is a time lapse of our garden through the growing season. The hops get in the way of the camera mid-july but clears out again by mid-september.
Wow! That is really cool!
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Love that time lapse only wish that my garden did so good.

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What's the purpose of the PVC pipes down into the buckets?
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Had a heap of wet humid weather lately....garden is producing more than I can eat.
Snake beans are prolific....3 plants produce this many every second day.
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Ginger and asparagus doing well
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Plenty of chillis to
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BoomTown wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:09 am Has anyone ever use just spent grains as potting soil?
I mix them in with the regular compost and let nature do the work.
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Made some additions to the old garden boxes. Mid morning today the temp outside was 60 degrees. I stuck a garden thermo in there, it was nearly a 100 degrees with a closed box! Jiminy, it's insane. It's been said to raise you 1.5 garden zones per layer (i got 2 on there). I'm growing broccoli in the dead of winter this year. :ebiggrin: got at least 1 more to do.
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BoomTown wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:36 pm What's the purpose of the PVC pipes down into the buckets?
Allows water to the bottom of the bucket a lot faster than soaking from the top. Keeps the roots deep.
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Pulled one garlic plant to see how it was going, another week and the rest will come out of the ground.
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Picked n pickled beetroot
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Planted some tomatoes.....
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That grew into these....lots of tomatoes
Then these bastards arrived on the scene.
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Scotch Bonnets, the last veggies of the year.
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Oh man! I had some scotch bonnet seeds that I didn’t germinate early enough this year. I’ll make a go next spring. I really wanted to use them in a big batch of Jamaican pasties. I did do chowhound, jalapeño, shishito, and arabella peppers plus a bunch of herbs and some ‘maters for the squirrels. Got a squirrel hunter now though so all bets are off next year!

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Stonecutter wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 8:32 pm Scotch Bonnets, the last veggies of the year.

Those are my favorite peppers :thumbup: :thumbup:

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Spring has sprung and the garden is producing even more.
Rhubarb, Asparagus ,silver beet, snow peas, green peas 🫛.
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I just got off the tractor after bush hogging and turning under an acre of Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) There's around 4 acres left, that's inter planted with peas and other stuff.
I'll leave it for my deer hunting kinfolks. I had a bumper crop of fawns this year.
The deer hid their youngens from coyotes in the Sunn hemp and my dog guards the fawns .

In the next couple days, I'll be planting an assortment of different turnips, radishes, carrots, parsnips and winter greens to feed an army and have enough left for the critters to eat.
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our garden did terrible this year, actually the worst year ever. :evil: We had so much rain, and bad storms. The first storm took out 1/2 my bush beans, all the swiss chard and the giant spinach. The second storm took out 1/2 the bean plants that made it through the first storm. I was able to pick 20 bean pods from my bush beans. :cry: usually I make 4-5 batches of dilly beans, not to mention using them for supper and snacks.

We did end up getting some cucumbers and squash, but not enough to can. I was able to slice up the cucumbers and do fridge pickles with vinegar and water, some sugar and salt and pepper. Those are good.

We only started to get tomatoes in Sept. but there aren't many. Usually we are picking them in Aug.

Today was the first time I canned anything, and that was apple sauce, nothing from the garden. :esad:
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This year's garlic crop harvested , plaited and hung.
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Looks like a good crop. Garlic goes in everything around here
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My first dig of potatoes. About 50lbs. Got 5 more plots to dig. If I get a year worth I'll be happy
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Nice one Bradster .
I remember when we dug up paddock and hit our first crop of spuds . Man we got fat real quick. Was having Chips with everything .

How will you store them ?
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Yummyrum wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:24 pm Nice one Bradster .
I remember when we dug up paddock and hit our first crop of spuds . Man we got fat real quick. Was having Chips with everything .

How will you store them ?
Let them dry till all the dirt is free of moisture. Pretty simple really. Usually 5 days. My woodstoves are going, getting cold here now so should not take long. Then store at 50ish till needed. And oh yeah I'm a fryguy. Even with steak,it's fries for me.

Paddock? Is that an enclosure for horses? How did spuds grow there?
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Bradster68 wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:53 pm
Paddock? Is that an enclosure for horses? How did spuds grow there?
Pretty much Bradster . Had to dig up some pics from a while back , but we added a few buckets of compost to the soil after breaking up with the tractor . Considering it was a clay soil , they didn’t grow to bad . Was more of an experiment .
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50°F storage . That was something we never had . That explains how you can keep them all year . :thumbup:
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