Quarantine Vegetable Gardens

[PayrollNerd]

I can’t wait to see some pictures!

I just uploaded them! Lanie needed a potty break so I was interrupted. Now that it’s bedtime, she decided to eat. LOL!

 

[Coppertop15]

Friend and I bought packets of tarragon seeds, and they were both empty!

 

[PayrollNerd]

Friend and I bought packets of tarragon seeds, and they were both empty!

Well that’s weird! One seed packet I got was open as if the glue used to seal it wasn’t enough. It wasn’t tarragon tho.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Lots of progress in the garden this weekend. My oldest was a huge help. All the garden soil went in Saturday before the rain storm. Sunday we broke up the big chunks of soil with the hoe and rake, smoothed it out and then put a thin layer of compost on top, spread that out.

Kiddo pounded in all the rebar and we put the PVC pipes on it. Now I have arches which is very cool. We took 1 piece of 10' x 15' garden fabric and laid it over one big bed and clamped it to hold it in place. I tied one corner initially but just rolled the other corners. I'm not sure if that is how I want to do it or not.

Anyway, we got the bag set up I want to put corn in. I think it's overfilled. I'm going to see if I can find a another used kiddie pool, make a second bag and put some of the dirt in it. I want more corn that what one bag will be able to accommodate.

All the extra bags of soil are stacked for future use. I ordered too much PVC or too little rebar. One or the other. I can get more rebar and add a third hoop to the bigger beds if I think I'll need it.

I am going to take my little gardening guru, Lanie the foster furbaby to the vet tomorrow. Then I'll be ready to mark off the 12" sections for square foot gardening!!

ETA: uploaded pictures.

Loving seeing your progress, thanks for sharing!

 

[mickey2942]

Next weekend we will be doing our starts in the house. Last year our cat decimated them. We are putting them in plastic crates this year.

She loves the garden, we have her own little garden box, with cat greens and catnip. She runs out to it immediately. She also stalks grasshoppers.

This year my husband wants more flowers to attract hummingbirds and butterflies.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Next weekend we will be doing our starts in the house. Last year our cat decimated them. We are putting them in plastic crates this year.

She loves the garden, we have her own little garden box, with cat greens and catnip. She runs out to it immediately. She also stalks grasshoppers.

This year my husband wants more flowers to attract hummingbirds and butterflies.

I’ve bought lots of flower seeds for the same reason (well bees, no hummingbirds here sadly). We had some new fencing put in and I need to properly plant the structural planting in front of it - rather than my usual see it, buy it, hope it works... So in the meantime, I thought flowers would be a really nice stop gap. And v inexpensive.

 

[PayrollNerd]

I am almost ready to plant! I am still waiting on mini cucumber seeds and acorn squash seeds. I did a diagram based on square foot gardening and then tweaked it a 100 times. LOL!

I found 3 more kiddie pools that are 4' round. I need to make 3 more bags, probably tonight. Then I can set them up tomorrow. I read about the "three sisters" process with corn, beans and squash. Half of an 8' bed will have those three in it. I have 6 bamboo stakes in case I need to make climbing tripods. Then 2 kiddie pools will have corn and 1 kiddie pool with butternut squash and 1 with acorn squash.

Hopefully, I don't irritate the lawn guy. He will not be able to get his monster stand up ride on mower thing in this corner. He will have to adjust.

Along the fence near my A/C will be this section. The big square on the right are the kiddie pools with grow bags.

The smaller middle bed is this:

Along the fence near the big oak tree will be this section.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Well I made progress today on Bed 1 and Bed 2. My mistake on Bed 1 was I planted butternut squash in error where I wanted the yellow squash. It is my "3 sisters" area. So in the morning, I'm going to try to find the butternut squash seeds and take them out. If I can't find them, I'm literally going to plant yellow squash seeds in there anyway. I'll yank out the wrong ones when they come up. LOL!

I have Bed 3 ready for in the morning. Lay out my sticks and get the seeds in early. I was hoping to get all 3 done today but we had a heck of a storm go thru. A tornado even, just a few miles away. After the storm moved thru, I got the first two beds planted.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Bed #3 went in yesterday with the help of my trusty little gardening guru, foster furbaby, Lanie. This morning she crawled in one bed and sat down. I guess the damp dirt felt nice.

This morning I started laying out the kiddie pool garden area. I ran out of landscape fabric for the ground. I need to make 3 more big grow bags too.

My acorn squash seeds should arrive today. The mini cucumber seeds will be here next week.

 

[Yesiamapirate]

Bed #3 went in yesterday with the help of my trusty little gardening guru, foster furbaby, Lanie. This morning she crawled in one bed and sat down. I guess the damp dirt felt nice.

This morning I started laying out the kiddie pool garden area. I ran out of landscape fabric for the ground. I need to make 3 more big grow bags too.

My acorn squash seeds should arrive today. The mini cucumber seeds will be here next week.

You are going to have an amazing garden. Thanks again for sharing your story and pictures!

 

[PayrollNerd]

Today I started on the kiddie pool garden bag area. I ran out of the gray landscape fabric and picked up a roll of the black type at Walmart. It’s useless in my opinion. It’s so thin you can see thru it. I can’t figure out why it has a 10 year warranty. I wrapped some cardboard with it and laid it down. My plan is to just buy another roll of the nice gray kind. I laid it out how I want it but ran out of cardboard too. I will figure it out tomorrow.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Much better! Got 3 more grow bags made. Had to 1/2 empty that one with dirt. Slid them all out of the way and covered the ground. Then slid them all in place. Tomorrow I’ll add dirt and seeds.

I’m uncertain where I’ll put the rain barrel but it’s assembled. It needs to be raised up on blocks.

I like this gray fabric. It holds the water for a bit before it drains. I could probably spray it clean from the pollen and oak tree debris.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Everything is planted. Finished up the grow bag area. The fabric to cover them will be here Thursday or Friday.

Today my mini cucumber seeds arrived and I planted them. I have little sprouts and it’s exciting to see things growing!

There were little gray mushrooms but they were gone after it warmed up. I’m not sure if they were eaten by birds or not. None of the soil seems disturbed.

 

[PayrollNerd]

I have plant babies! I have to water late in the afternoon. Then I put the covers back on at sunset. In the morning I've been noticing tiny gray mushrooms but they dissipate as the bed dries out. Today I noticed a different shaped tiny white mushroom. I've been reading that these are ok. I'm allergic to mushrooms so I'm hoping they won't continue as the plants grow. I will switch to morning watering soon. It is supposed to rain Thursday so tomorrow, I will not water at all so everything can dry out.

I found a 3rd bee. The 1st one was last week on the ground next to a bed. I thought it was odd and just stepped on it. The 2nd one was over the weekend. Then today, one was kinda strolling thru one bed. It dawned on me that they must have a nest nearby. However, I am allergic to bees and have an epi pen. Sooooo, an epi pen will go in my gardening basket tomorrow. I realize I need them for pollination. I just don't need to come in contact with any.

I also forgot to drill holes in my kiddie pools. I ran out there and poked holes with a big nail. Hopefully they'll finish draining by morning. I'll get some photos uploaded.

 

[honesty]

We are going big this year. My neighbor has a tractor and plow, we had him break up a acre of our ground for us. Usually we do half that, but with rising food costs and little babies growing bigger, we need to grow more than ever.

 

[MimosaMornings]

We are going big this year. My neighbor has a tractor and plow, we had him break up a acre of our ground for us. Usually we do half that, but with rising food costs and little babies growing bigger, we need to grow more than ever.

Wow! An acre!!
And I thought ours was big lol
Sounds awesome

 

[honesty]

Wow! An acre!!
And I thought ours was big lol
Sounds awesome

Thankfully we are blessed to have a nice amount of property. We normally would not take this much on, but we also want to help out this year. Last year, food boxes were being given to senior citizens, we now have no resources for food locally, my work is very slow due to the economy so it was just in my heart to grow more and take to the housing units I used to deliver the food boxes to so they can have at least a little something as their pocketbooks are stressed more than ever before and no local resources.

I did inquire at the local county office if the income levels for food stamps have been updated with inflation and was told they have not been updated, so many do not qualify even for a small monthly amount of food stamps.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Thankfully we are blessed to have a nice amount of property. We normally would not take this much on, but we also want to help out this year. Last year, food boxes were being given to senior citizens, we now have no resources for food locally, my work is very slow due to the economy so it was just in my heart to grow more and take to the housing units I used to deliver the food boxes to so they can have at least a little something as their pocketbooks are stressed more than ever before and no local resources.

I did inquire at the local county office if the income levels for food stamps have been updated with inflation and was told they have not been updated, so many do not qualify even for a small monthly amount of food stamps.

This is one of my main reason for doing a garden. About 80% of my food comes from the food pantry. I’m disabled & low income. The produce they give me is usually beyond its prime. I’m very very grateful and I share with others.

But, the supply chain has me worried. The war has me worried. My kids have to be gluten free. We eat a lot of veggies. One of my grants gave me some funding. The rest went on a credit card. Those who rely on donors and volunteers will be very appreciative of your donations. Their health will benefit so much from fresh produce! Thank you for paying it forward and your kindness. (((Hugs)))

 

[honesty]

This is one of my main reason for doing a garden. About 80% of my food comes from the food pantry. I’m disabled & low income. The produce they give me is usually beyond its prime. I’m very very grateful and I share with others.

But, the supply chain has me worried. The war has me worried. My kids have to be gluten free. We eat a lot of veggies. One of my grants gave me some funding. The rest went on a credit card. Those who rely on donors and volunteers will be very appreciative of your donations. Their health will benefit so much from fresh produce! Thank you for paying it forward and your kindness. (((Hugs)))

I will certainly be praying for you. So many things have me worried.
We are an organic family, everyone knows that is not cheap. I save money back all year long and have a local farmer raise a beef and a pork for us fed the way I want it fed. That thankfully gives us the bulk of our meats. And we grow what we can, and I also get a box delivered weekly from a company in Florida. I also have a small greenhouse that we grow things in year round. Its not much but it does keep up going. And I shop grocery sales to help stretch the money. My business tanked recently due to the economy. It was the pandemic, then things got a little better, then it slowed down, but the last two months have been the worst ever for my small business. So I am working hard to be as creative as I can when stretching a dollar and still be able to give back like I always have. I have diesel powered vehicle, so I have been making sure that each and every time I crank the engine, I make where I go count. I cant afford to just drive around.

Do you have any dent and bent stores locally? I have one about a hour from me, I take a friend to cancer treatments in the town it is in, and we stop in there and are able to get some nice items. It seems a lot of those places have a lot of specialty items a lot like gluten free and organic.

 

[PayrollNerd]

I will certainly be praying for you. So many things have me worried.
We are an organic family, everyone knows that is not cheap. I save money back all year long and have a local farmer raise a beef and a pork for us fed the way I want it fed. That thankfully gives us the bulk of our meats. And we grow what we can, and I also get a box delivered weekly from a company in Florida. I also have a small greenhouse that we grow things in year round. Its not much but it does keep up going. And I shop grocery sales to help stretch the money. My business tanked recently due to the economy. It was the pandemic, then things got a little better, then it slowed down, but the last two months have been the worst ever for my small business. So I am working hard to be as creative as I can when stretching a dollar and still be able to give back like I always have. I have diesel powered vehicle, so I have been making sure that each and every time I crank the engine, I make where I go count. I cant afford to just drive around.

Do you have any dent and bent stores locally? I have one about a hour from me, I take a friend to cancer treatments in the town it is in, and we stop in there and are able to get some nice items. It seems a lot of those places have a lot of specialty items a lot like gluten free and organic.

My kids shop at Aldi’s a lot. They come to my place for whatever I get from the church and produce pickups. The food pickups are big sometimes. Meat, dry goods, dairy, veggies. I can’t use everything they give us. They ask us to distribute to the community. So I text my kids & friends.

Last weekend I sat cabbages, cayenne peppers and sweet potatoes on the curb. What was left at the end of the day wasn’t much but I threw it away since it was going bad.

My kids will buy a bag of gluten free flour for me. I’ll make them cookie dough and mini loaves of bread. Drop it all in my freezer for their next visit. I love doing it for them.