Working in dirt

right now all the stuff is growing in my house but my husband uses landscaping timbers to make our beds then we fill them with soil and plant there he is going to put fence around it so the animals dont get to it, we are doing a lot of growing this year to save on money, its a lot cheaper this way, pkus i know whats going in them , i also have a compost pile hat i will add to the dirt when its ready.

I have to ask, what are cinders? Another American word I don't understand! I'm guessing they're some sory of building block? We've had some lovely weather these last few weeks and quite a few guests willing to help out so our veg garden has been coming on really well. We're starting completely from scratch this year, in what was a field previously used for a wheat type crop nd full of brambles and weeds. So far we have tramosas, peas, broad beans, cabbage, leaf beet, lettuce, radish, Jerusalem artichoke, onions and garlic all growing nicely. Pumkin has been seeded, and we've got about one third of the potatoes in already. We'd be further ahead already, but we stopped to plant a huge number of fruit trees and vines. They are all in now though as well, so I'm really pleased about that. I don't use raised beds, as they dry out too quickly here. We make troughs, and plant in the troughs. I do like them though and I think they look really great in the garden when they're brimming with veggies.

I got manure and need to put it in the ground and wait for the next rain storm to come though. I got fresh stuff from a friends horse. I hope the dogs do not roll in it. that is why I am going to do it between rain storms.

Hey sweet! I have been wondering how I could possibly figure out a way to possibly plant a garden of some sort where I live! But, even if I did try to plant a raised garden I still don't think that it would work! I don't think that my landlord would allow me to have tires or cinderblocks on the property! I so much want to try to plant some vegetables even if they are just planted in some pots. But, there doesn't seem to be any way that this can be done in a way that they will be able to get enough sun! I am so upset!

Hi, I'm glad you posted this discussion. It just occurred to me that I could make plenty of raised beds with some old cinder blocks laying around. As of right now, I've planted everything directly in the earth with some organic mulch. I'm really getting serious about growing some food this year. Romaine lettuce, peas, green beans, corn, strawberries and a few other munchies will take up most of my garden. Trying my hand at grafting azalea plants as well. Good luck in your garden!

I love to see other planting things that can be eaten. We do this at my house a lot. Right now we have two types of squash, two types of tomatoes, corn, lettuce and we just planted some green beans. I might not eat it all, but its fun to grow it and then picking git off the plant. We plant everything in pots here and so far its been doing good, we started doing it in January since it was starting to get a little cooler outside (Florida). We have had a lot of luck with the tomatoes and we also have eggplant and peppers and we have had some really good luck with those two. Enjoy your garden.

A little bit of both, actually. A quarter of our garden will be raised beds...some of it will be container gardening, and the rest will be straight in the ground. Most of it may turn out to be peppers and tomatoes, if we can't sell/give away most of them ones that came up in the seed starter boxes (one packet of each kind of tomato and peppers, small amount of seeds, EVERY SINGLE ONE CAME UP! lmao, xD). We've already went out and marked most of where things go. Dug up the perimeter for the raised bed portion, and marked where it's not gonna be tilled, etc. It's been pretty crazy busy. We started in March, heh. We've only three things left to start indoors, and mostly we're just waiting for May, now. And the last few things to arrive.

I had hoped to get my window boxes this weekend and put out some tomato plants, and perhaps some zucchini. but we had another cold front come through. The temperatures barely made it out of the 40's and the wind is blowing 15-20 miles and hour. It was simply too cold to work outside! I'm so ready for warm weather!

I do alot of container growing and straight into the soil as well. I like to be able to move things around as I like. I have herbals in several different containers. I have several different types of tomatoes in others. I like different kinds of lettuce and put those in another. I find I get less bugs and can control things better if I plant in containers.

Straight in the earth. Not that it does much good. We have good red clay. I suppose we could make bricks, but plants don't do so hot. Cherry tomatoes grow like weeds, regular tomato plants just die. Don't understand that! I suspect some of the other plants problems are from the wildlife. Nothing can keep out a deer or rabbit, and they're hungry! Sigh.

I have started off some tomato and pepper seeds. These will be planted in pots in the greenhouse. The tomatoes have already come up. Next week I will plant some courgette seeds, these we will have in containers outside. It's still too cold in the UK to do much outside, we are still having frosts. I'm not sure about doing much in the garden anyway, as we are house-hunting at the moment.

It's ok every job give exaiting experience. I'm also work dirt in my factory. I cleaned the "abu" after factory has been stop production. It's fun for me

Last year I tried to do a garden from seeds. I tried about ten different vegetables. I think I did do it to early because by the time they needed to go out side it was still to cold so I was forced to keep them inside. They did grow but not strong enough to hold them selves up. They eventually fell over and them stems got pinched. This year I do plan on trying to do raised bed but this time I will start from plants until I understand the germinating and seeding process.

Growing my own food is something I have been trying to find the space and time to do for a long time now, I really like the idea of not having to rely on the shops for my food. At the moment it looks like I am going to be using grow-bags for the tubers and then deep pots for other root veg and pods. Hopefully I will get round to it this year and have a good harvest to look forwards to :)