There are various tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers and lettuces growing from seed.
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I mixed mushroom soil and mulch for my garden beds. Now mushrooms are growing around the veggies, is that bad?
My first garden – help please!?
I am looking for help with my very first garden. I just rented an entire house in Northwestern NJ with a large property. I’ll be moving there in about a month but I will have full access so I can start as early as this week. There’s no garden currently established but I’m sure the soil will grow things just fine – the property is right in the middle of good ole Jersey farmland – I just need to dig up an area and get to work!
I’d like to plant some vegetables (thinking maybe tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, peppers and green beans), some herbs (rosemary, sage, thyme, basil, parsley), and I would love it if I could have flowers that attract butterflies and maybe even some hummingbirds.
What is the best and most cost efficient way to do this? Am I too late in the season to start? I’m so excited and really want to do this but unfortunately don’t know the first thing about it. Thanks in advance for any and all help – I really appreciate it!
We had nearly a week of colder weather. 40s at night. Will my garden survive?
I planted tomatoes, cucumbers, bush beans, peppers (bell), eggplant, onions, and strawberries along with a few herbs. I covered the eggplant and peppers on the coldest nights. But the cucumbers aren’t looking the greatest and the bean’s leaves look pale. The tomatoes are fine. They just seem to have not grown an inch. We had a really warm day yesterday and I noticed one of the tomato plants has flowers on it already! It’s only 10″ high! This can’t be good, can it? Should I fertilize everything? When I planted I added compost manure to the soil, but I’m not sure this was enough so seeing how stressed the plants were by the cold. I normally don’t fertilize until I start seeing the fruit forming. For the most part the onions look good and so do the strawberries and herbs.
What should I do about the rest? The weather looks warm for here on out. And what’s up with that tomato plant flowering so early?
Posted in Herb Gardening
Tagged 40s, bean, Bell, bush, bush beans, coldest, compost manure, eggplant, fertilize, flowers, herbs, look, night, onions, soil, strawberries, tomato plants, tomatoes, weather, week
I am planting a flower garden from seed in Yucca Valley CA, what flowers grow best in that desert area?
I am moving to Yucca Valley in Jan(from Ohio) and want to be prepared to plant the seeds in early spring. I want flowers that will grow in the natural desert soil without adding topsoil and ones that wont need much watering after they are established. I have a lot of area to work with so I want to do areas with wildflowers and also regular flowers. Ive been doing tons of searches but surprisingly enough cannot find any one book or source for desert flowers, so am trying to figure it out by searching :
arid soil, sandy soil, zone 9, full sun etc and then trying to pick out ones common to all the lists. Unfortunately, while I have found a lsome useful information about wild flowers, I’ve found very little on *regular* flowers.. So if anyone has experience with flower gardening in the Mojave/desert any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much . Mykiel
Posted in Flower Gardening
Tagged area, desert, desert area, desert flowers, desert soil, early spring, flower, flower garden, garden, Jan, natural desert, Ohio, seed, seeds, soil, spring, topsoil, watering, WILDFLOWERS, wont, Yucca Valley, yucca valley ca
When initially putting soil into a pot to grow herbs from seeds does it matter how tightly you pack the soil?
I just started to grow a variety of cooking herbs indoors and I’m wondering if I put the soil in the pots correctly. I put it in rather loosely, and I’m wondering if I was supposed to pack the soil tightly. Any suggestions would be great!
My herb plant soil has little jumpy bug things in it, can I kill the bugs without re-potting?
I am growing herbs. I have re-potted twice. I was told that the things are called springtails and are harmless and not going to harm you or your plant. They feed on minute bits of damp rotting vegetation and will probably die eventually. They will not be able to live outside your plant pot because they need damp leaf litter and forest floor detritus to survive.
If you do want to be without them then let the pot become dry and only water it when the soil has dried out.
If I let the soil dry out that will affect the herb plants. They need to be watered every few days.
IS THERE SOMETHING I CAN GIVE THE HERB PLANTS TO KILL THE BUGS, WITH OUT KILLING THE PLANTS?
Posted in Herb Gardening
Tagged bug, bugs, forest, forest floor, growing herbs, herb, herb plant, leaf, leaf litter, litter, minute, plant, plant pot, plant soil, pot, soil, vegetation
info about clear-cutting?
“Until observing the effectiveness of a clear cut strip in stopping a forest fire, I would have agreed that clear cut forest areas are bad, and still do, if the clear cut is a whole mountainside. However, one-fourth to one-half mile wide clear-cut bands, are beneficial to the forest and to wildlife. These clear-cut bands are the single most effective means of stopping a forest fire. Within a year after being clear cut, these clear cut areas have newly planted trees, grasses, abundant flowers, and are full of game signs. For several years after a ground-sterilizing forest fire there is nothing but black ground. Proper forest management, which includes letting some fires burn, prescribed burns, and areas of strip clear cuts, increases the habitat for all types of wildlife, whereas hot burning forest fires sterilizes the soil and nothing grows, or lives there, for many years.”
I found this on a website, makes sense.
your thoughts.
Posted in Flower Gardening
Tagged abundant flowers, Burns, clear cutting, cut, effectiveness, fire, forest, forest areas, forest fire, forest fires, game, grasses, info, mountainside, nothing, one-fourth, proper forest management, signs, soil, strip, trees, Wildlife
What is the best light to use for hydroponic marijuana?
I’m growing a few marijuana plants in my room. I planted them in small containers filled with potting soil. They are planted about 1/4″ to 1/2″ below the soil and the first one just sprouted and i need to know a good light to place over them. Currently I am using a 50 watt halogen spotlight. I don’t know if this is helping at all. Please help. Thank You.
so will my bulb work? at least until my plant is big enough for when i move it outdoors.
Posted in Hydroponics
Tagged containers, halogen, halogen spotlight, light, marijuana, marijuana plants, potting soil, room, soil, spotlight, watt, watt halogen
What is an good organic soil mix for growing flowers?
What is an good organic soil mix for growing flowers?
if herb seeds dont grow,does that mean they died?
i planted several different seed spaced them and good soil was added even plant food. why wont they grow? maybe i buried them to deep?
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Tagged dont, food, good soil, herb, herb seeds, plant, plant food, seed, soil, wont