2011 Veggies

DST said:

At least you don't have to do it with a bike and cycle nearly 5 kilometres to the garden centre.....lol.

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no not any more but i do all my running around on bike cuz i cant and wont drive ATM.
i used to do huge bags of dirt on my shoulder while i road home about 5 miles away cuz its all i had and man did it suck biking with bags of dirt. good work out though

I may have destroyed my garden. i tryed using some mircal grow garden soil and it made my soil too hot all my plants are getting burned and i dont really know how to flush a garden bed.

Lots and lots of water should flush some of the top soil nutrients away.

RyanTheRhino said:

I may have destroyed my garden. i tryed using some mircal grow garden soil and it made my soil too hot all my plants are getting burned and i dont really know how to flush a garden bed.

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McP! A good work out it sure is!!!

if you just added it to the top layer of dirt i would try to remove as much MG soil as i could. and then flood with water preferably on a warmer day so it doesnt stay soaked to long

Nice tip Mcp, indeed, you certainly don't want the soil compact and the roots unable to do anything..

well got most of my dirt today.
it is 40% compost 40% top soil and 20% pumice.
this batch of dirt is much better then what they had last year and it is just so cheap.

i gave all the plants a feed yesterday. the beds are full of dirt and i added about 10 sample bags of vita earth powdered organic nutes cuz they sent me a sample pack so i split it up = between the 2 beds. they are such small packs that one plant could use a whole pack in a few days so i just added it in to the soil for fun.

the wood stakes in the middle is gonna be the natural wood bed i just havent finished it yet do to laziness.

i think i am gonna do my potatoes in old tires this way i can add levels as needed when the time comes.

also the hooka in the pic is my new 4 hose hooka, i dont like the sheesha cuz it gave me a sore throat but it works great with herb to. we won this hooka so it was free, we were hoping to win the glass on glass triple perk but we still got a ticket for the next drawing.
any way heres the pics.

theri is a few more pics i will add on here in a few

Garden beds are looking great and that hooka is freakin sweet!

can you see the pic of the hooka? i cant seem to see my own pics now

mcpurple said:

can you see the pic of the hooka? i cant seem to see my own pics now

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Not anymore. I did when it was first posted.

No hooka.. but the plants look nice ^^

i see them all MC, youngins are looking good and healthy! should be soon enough that theyre out in the sunshine.

Nice hookah mcpurple, I only have a 2 hose one.

Try putting ice cubes in the water when you use it, supposedly makes it smoother

bajafox said:

Nice hookah mcpurple, I only have a 2 hose one.

Try putting ice cubes in the water when you use it, supposedly makes it smoother

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very true! also have to plug the other hoses when theyre not being used. better to only have one being used per time to get the best hit. try playing hits of death haha!

Looking good mc purp

Wow very nice garden. Can't wait to see how well it does. I started my very first garden yesterday. Check out my journal that I have started. Its in my sig.

Hello fellow growers, allow me to introduce myself, im ozgirl, from australia, I have started reading this thread, still havn't made it through though. You all have some lovely plants going there. love all the pics too. Just wandering about your soil transport issues, dont the garden centres offer delivery where you are?

FrostickZero said:

Wow very nice garden. Can't wait to see how well it does. I started my very first garden yesterday. Check out my journal that I have started. Its in my sig.

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thanks for stopping in frost, i have been by your journal but will check in today to see if any updates are in. im subbed to every ones veggie garden i think on RIU

ozgirl said:

Hello fellow growers, allow me to introduce myself, im ozgirl, from australia, I have started reading this thread, still havn't made it through though. You all have some lovely plants going there. love all the pics too. Just wandering about your soil transport issues, dont the garden centres offer delivery where you are?

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whats up ozgirl, glad you stopped by the thread.

and as for my soil transport issues well alot of places will deliver for free but only if you order more then10 yards worth of dirt and i dont need near that much, and if under that amount they charge you out the ass. i live about a half mile down from copelands landscaping supply and they would have charged me about 15 bucks to deliver my soil half mile. I dont own a truck or know any one who was willing to let me use their truck, so i just said fuck it loaded my car up with a few 18 gallon storage bins and took them down and shoveled the dirt in and then out. i did this 2 times on thursday or friday and i am still going to make another load most likely.

i got 1/3 of a yard in bins in my car. it is alot of dirt for a car but it worked.

if i wasnt so broke all the time things might be a bit easier for me, but ey, if shit were easy it wouldnt be fun.

What a shame you dont have a trailor, yeah I know what you mean bout trying to do it on the cheap, its great your thoughtfull enough to come up with a free solution, even if it means a bit of extra work, I love that.
And lmao about the last comment, that is so true, a real challenge gives great rewards

I did some planting today. i put in lettuce ( variety pack) radishes,walla walla onions and carrots.
you can see where they are in the pics from the water lines. 1st row is lettuce,2nd is onion, 3 and 4 are radishes and the last 2 are carrots. the radishes are my own seeds from last years garden so i hope they all work ok.

i also got 2 more strawberry plants ( quinlet ) i planted them in a 3 1/2 gallon planter.
also the lone lip stick strawberry in its own pot. and then i decided to put some of my extras in the same pot so the last pic is of a 3 onions, 1 water melon,1 pepper, and one lettuce plant just to see how they do and for fun i guess. i didnt want to trash them so i just planted them in the same pot.
also a pic of my rose that has been growing alot, havent seen any aphids on it since i killed the last few, a few weeks ago with neem and my fingers so that is good.

Very Nice update McPurple. I hope you don't get any bad bugs in your garden for the yest of the crop.