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Grow your own grub!
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:07 am
by Amzy84
I found this site and it has loads of ideas and pictures!
https://www.growinggrub.co.uk/container/container01_frameset.htm
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:10 am
by Amzy84
I think its aimed at teachers growing veg with school children but to be honest if you are new like I am its very useful! loL!
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:05 pm
by oldschoolvdub
Very nice for the people who have never gardened before. I am very new to the whole thing and am kind of jumping in head first, so its a neat site to find out the basics that I may have missed when first starting out. Thanks for the link...
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:23 pm
by The Helpful Gardener
It's a skill that SHOULD be taught in schools, as we need a few million more farmers in this country to assure good organic food done locally...
Nice post!
HG
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:25 pm
by marieloona
Thanks for the link! Its a great help for those who are beginning.
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:58 am
by Venomous_1
The Helpful Gardener wrote:It's a skill that SHOULD be taught in schools, as we need a few million more farmers in this country to assure good organic food done locally...
Nice post!
HG
DITTO!!! Young minds should be 'cultivated'.
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:56 pm
by The Helpful Gardener
We should keep in mind that in 1900, 40% of America was farmers...
In 2000 it was 1%...
In WWII, Victory Gardens fed 40% of America...
And right now more and more of us are out jobs...
We can do this...in the garden...farm what you got...
HG
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:36 pm
by applestar
Thanks for posting this website. It's adorable and I think my kids might enjoy the "cards." I've printed out all of them since we are already growing the 4 vegetables mentioned. The kids are growing peas and carrots in their own garden beds and their peas are already sprouting, but, if they want to, I'll let them plant more seeds of their choice (except the tomatoes) in egg cartons.
(*I'm* already growing more tomato seedlings than we have room for!
)
I learned something new too -- I didn't know you could plant clumps of carrots 9" apart! I'm using a similar technique with onions in which clumps of 3 or 4 seedlings per cell are planted 12" apart. I'm guessing that with these round carrots, they're able to push each other aside as they grow just like the onions.
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:04 pm
by The Helpful Gardener
Some lovely stuff here, although the growing in tires thing sort of threw me; with the arsenic, cadmium, and other garbage in vulcanized rubber, I don't recommend growing food crops in them...
HG