Why bother with a garden box in this case, just use the bathtub for the catch of the day and grow kelp. You can even market it to health conscious individuals as sea kale
Thanks for the advice! The good news a is I am expanding our outdoor spicket to stretch down to where i want to put the boxes, so I'm hooping to be able to just install a sprinkler timer and adjust as needed to keep things watered pretty consistently.
This is weird. A new study finds urban home gardens have a carbon footprint 6 times larger than conventionally grown fruits and veggies. https://news.umich.edu/food-from-urban-agriculture-has-carbon-footprint-6-times-larger-than-conventional-produce-study-shows/#:~:text=A new University of Michigan,greater than conventionally grown produce
Yo foo! Its all about birthin Fentanyl now. Get with the times yo! (Sorry. Rocking Ice cube lethal injection at the moment.)
I grow catnip outdoors. Lucia was one of the minority of cats not susceptible but Lashanna has definitely gotten high.
So I decided to completely tear down my old large garden beds and level the earth to put in some grass. I moved the dirt to another area of my yard where I will then compact, lay down weed paper, gravel and a 4-6 smaller boxes, 4x8. I did this in the last day or two(tearing down and leveling) with an excavator I rented. Nothing like playing with adult toys, but man i'm beat! lol. Ill add a few picks once complete. Need to get done soon so we can get ready to plant things.
Been clearing cover crop and see overwinter vegetables growing. Kale, lettuce, bok choy, scallions, chard. Artichoke plant starting to make artichokes, still no sign of asparagus.
Cleared a lot of ground, no easy task. Hands and shoulders are aching. Put in peas, carrots, celery, parsley, cauliflower, beets, chard, lettuce, kale, bok choy.
It is snowing now. It has snowed almost everyday this month. Not enough snow to cause problems, but. My gardem will get a late start. Ground is still very frozen. Starter plants doing well under grow lights. But, they get in the way inside the cave.
I've let my chickens clean up my garden recently and I'm probably going to let my old beds be their foraging yard and plant in their old foraging yard where they've been pooping for 3 years. I'm going to plant lots of peas and beans along the fence lines which surround about a qtr acre ...time to do crop rotation. I find you don't need big beds to grow most veggies....you can selectively grow them in smaller areas . The large beds are for squash now of tubers like potatoes garlic and onions and radishes or beets. Now that it's just the wife and I we don't plant as much as we used to...also now only keep 6 laying hens instead of the dozen we used to keep. Chicken food went up another @ bucks today....it used to be 12 bucks a bag and now it's 22 bucks a bag.
