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Offline JohnyMac

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Time to Start Planning Your Garden
« on: January 08, 2013, 06:45:18 PM »
I got a lot of books on gardening and small farming this past Christmas.

Friends and family kept saying before Christmas, "You are so hard to buy for what do you want for Christmas?" Which is really a stupid question because everyone who knows me, would know I would LOVE a M203 grenade launcher or Simple TAC 338 McMillan Tactical Rifle.

Figuring that they just didn't want to dish out the bucks for what I REALLY WANTED (Cheap family and friends) for Christmas I suggested that they go to used  book stores and buy the oldest books on gardening & small farming that they could find. Well I received a 'shit-ton' of books on gardening and farming but there was no TAC 338 under the tree!

Well I am in the process of planning for this years haul of veggies. That planning process involves:

> Square footage,
> Site of garden,
> Phase 1 and then phase 2 planting's, and
> Etcetera.

This year I am going to buy my seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds http://rareseeds.com/ I bought some last year from them and was impressed with their prices, customer service and...well..the final product.

As I progress I will post here. PLEASE start thinking of your 2013 gardens and post your idea's and results here so we can all learn from everyone's successes.

Now my B-day is towards the end of February; and I know that my family wouldn't let me down BECAUSE THEY ALL KNOW WHAT I WANT AS A B-DAY PRESENT....Mmmm just need to find out where I can pick up some M406 High Explosive rounds???



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Re: Time to Start Planning Your Garden
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2013, 10:32:45 AM »
Great post JM!  I'm glad to know there's someone else using their house as a museum for old gardening books  :))

We never start planning early enough, we're always trying to get everything in the ground two weeks too late, and my tomatoes end up paying the price for my procrastination.  This will be the first year that I'm not taking classes in the spring, so I'm hoping this year will be fruitful.

TG and I (mostly TG) built a cold frame for one of our raised beds with the intention of growing lettuce in the winter, but life happens and it's sitting in the yard providing rolly polly habitat.  We took pictures to put a DIY tutorial together, which we will probably get posted just in time for spring  ;D

We're also hoping to get a greenhouse up soon to start seeds in it this spring, but that depends on whether we prioritize building a house ahead of the greenhouse.

I'll work on getting a fire lit under our asses to get some of our gardening stuff posted.  I've been toying with the idea of grafting heirloom tomatoes onto hardier root stalks of plants with resistance to the wilt fungus.  If I get around to it, that will be another video or set of pics I'll threaten to post...

I'm excited to see your verdent thumb in action, JM!  [URL=http://www.smileyvault.co
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Re: Time to Start Planning Your Garden
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2013, 08:02:22 PM »
Wow TGrl, grafting at the moment is way above my pay grade! With that said a nifty idea though.

I realize I may be way ahead but my plan is to start my seedling's next week. Last year I didn't start till February which meant I didn't have tomatoes till mid August. Usually I get my first tomatoes 2 - 3 weeks earlier if I start now.

My plan is to try a 2 phase garden this year. Hopefully, God willing, I will harvest early veggies then follow up with some fall veggies. I had great results this year with turnips and carrots planted in July and harvested right up to Thanksgiving. I also want to try potatoes this year. The farmer across the way has great results with potatoes with the soil we have up here. I have been reading that cabbage is a good cool weather veggie too. My sister in law has a great kimchi recipe that she got from one of her Korean friends I want to try.

My wife keeps asking me to tone it down a bit as my farming eyes are bigger than my stomach.

Oh I also got my chicken mail order book in yesterday. I am thinking of raising some Bourbon Reds turkeys for next this year. My sister in law wants me to order some ducks up as she loves duck eggs. I told her O-Kay but if she wasn't going to pickle and then bury 'em  I wasn't interested!

Hopefully a few others will start to plan this years vegetable garden and share with us there thoughts, failures and successes.
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Re: Time to Start Planning Your Garden
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2013, 08:19:56 PM »
I'm going to be dabbling in indoor wheatgrass cultivation/juicing very soon.  I'll post more once I get it up and going.
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