Anyone doing a garden this year (Preppers, I'm looking at you).



If you want to split test with Roundup then devote a little 5x5 section to a couple plants of each variety you want to test. Don't sacrifice half of your plot to that crap.

Bro do you even weed or mulch?
 
I move to a place that has some space finally to make a container garden, still trying to figure out what will do well in all-day sun. Hopefully peppers (bells, serranos, ghost), maybe some broccoli, tomatoes, spinach, celery, basil, cilantro…the stuff I use every day. Need to figure out a DIY rapid composter though, the soil here sucks.
 
Hmm..

Now that the snow's (almost) fully melted, this makes me want to start a garden this year. Only concern is that the city randomly sprays malathion up and down the streets to kill mosquitoes, mind you it's probably not any worse than the stuff that gets sprayed on produce from the grocery store.
 
pdxdvr said:
I move to a place that has some space finally to make a container garden, still trying to figure out what will do well in all-day sun. Hopefully peppers (bells, serranos, ghost), maybe some broccoli, tomatoes, spinach, celery, basil, cilantro…the stuff I use every day. Need to figure out a DIY rapid composter though, the soil here sucks.
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Peppers and tomatoes need all day sun. Broccoli and tomatoes are cool weather vegetables that may do better in part shade. I'd keep the herbs out of the hot sun also.

I used to throw coffee grinds outside into the garden as quick compost. You can also bury banana peels and egg shells, both high in nitrogen. Don't bury any animal products or things with seeds.

I think you'd have to buy some topsoil in bags if your soil is really bad. There needs to be plenty of organic matter.

I heard that celery is very difficult to grow, and I'd not bother. I don't like it all that much.
 
Coincidence that you should mention it as I was outside in the sun today clearing & cleaning the patio and setting up the furniture, lawn to tidy up tomorrow - all ready for summer. :)
I live in London
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pdxdvr said:
Need to figure out a DIY rapid composter though, the soil here sucks.
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Build the soil up until it's fertile. It's not that difficult. Hit the yellow pages, call the closest horse farm and ask them if you can stop by and pillage their aged shit pit. Make sure you get the old poop, new will burn your crops. Failing that buy compost but nothing beats aged shit.

Poop/compost + peat + vermiculite/perlite + some native soil + a good organic time release fertilizer and you're in business. Mix together and plant away.
 
MSTeacher said:
Build the soil up until it's fertile. It's not that difficult. Hit the yellow pages, call the closest horse farm and ask them if you can stop by and pillage their aged shit pit. Make sure you get the old poop, new will burn your crops. Failing that buy compost but nothing beats aged shit.
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This sounds almost like a coded message on how to rank sites.
 
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Peppers and tomatoes need all day sun. Broccoli and tomatoes are cool weather vegetables that may do better in part shade. I'd keep the herbs out of the hot sun also.

I used to throw coffee grinds outside into the garden as quick compost. You can also bury banana peels and egg shells, both high in nitrogen. Don't bury any animal products or things with seeds.

I think you'd have to buy some topsoil in bags if your soil is really bad. There needs to be plenty of organic matter.

I heard that celery is very difficult to grow, and I'd not bother. I don't like it all that much.
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Yeah, I bought topsoil for some potted plants, it was really bad too. Thanks for the tips on the tomatoes and broccoli.

MSTeacher said:
Build the soil up until it's fertile. It's not that difficult. Hit the yellow pages, call the closest horse farm and ask them if you can stop by and pillage their aged shit pit. Make sure you get the old poop, new will burn your crops. Failing that buy compost but nothing beats aged shit.

Poop/compost + peat + vermiculite/perlite + some native soil + a good organic time release fertilizer and you're in business. Mix together and plant away.
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Your tips may work well in the US, try any of that in the Yucatan, especially as a barely Spanish speaking gringo and your luck may not be so good.
 
From the local gardeners I've talked to, glyposphate lasts about 3 hours in the ground before the effect dissipates. Even according to the biologists at the OSU AG extension are using roundup as a seedbed pre-treatment for land that hasn't been utilized for gardening before. So I'm not too overly worried about it impacting the health of the food (I could see problems however if it was constantly applied, after seeds being planted, but then they don't make many roundup-ready vegetables, so it'd be pointless to use outside of seed bed treatment.

I sort of lucked out on the part of ground that will be used as the non-chemical seedbed. There's about 4 or 5 inches of composted material as from what I can tell they cut down a ton of trees years and years ago and just let them lay there and rot. The ground is dark black and very, very easy to work.

I just planted a few rows of corn, then a row of squash, chard, zukes, summer squash, 1 row of sugar snap peas , 2 broccoli and 3 rows of beans.

Tomorrow I'll be getting some heirlooms off the local Amish, they have the best prices by far and the yields their plants get are amazing.
 
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