Gardening ..again

[snakebit]

Didn't read the whole 28 pages, but can I ask about the "food grade buckets" mentioned on the first page? Do regular plastic buckets, like those orange home depot buckets, leach out chemicals or something?

Food grade buckets are typically white and a bit thicker than ordinary buckets. Most are marked something like USDA and the likes. Hope that helps a bit Hammer. Most restaurants will give them to you if you ask. A lot of them are square also.

 

[Trigger]

Didn't read the whole 28 pages, but can I ask about the "food grade buckets" mentioned on the first page? Do regular plastic buckets, like those orange home depot buckets, leach out chemicals or something?

To grow in? I think there fine I never checked.

I've seen allot of people use them and an equal amount want food grade.

I'll say I started this with the home depot. Everything home depot.

There all in a home depot buckets.

 

[Trigger]

The grow bags might be better for you outside.. you can hammer the water on in there and it bleeds the excess better.
Get bigger sizes.
Looks nicer I think.

The buckets you need holes and I'd be careful on how much water you water can drown them.

 

[Trigger]

The kid at the grow store does laufe when I walk in.

People are "organic heads"..

I've no problem re-using soil and the Jack's feed nutrients to save money. It comes out just as good.

They buy fancy stuff and most are following you tubes.

I use red solo cups to start anything everything. Ounce the plants to big for that cup. It's perfect size to plant.

 

[Trigger]

What are you using for bucket. Potting soil.

I've tried both. Cheap ands expensive.

Mine need a little more drainage I get a drainage mix now too cut it with.

My cheap was miracle grow organic home depot. They will need food.

Better.. coast or Maine.

 

[Trigger]

For an ideas to save maybe.. it will be a little work and tea..

Pro_mix.. I'd cut that with coast of Maine stuff. and then feed tea when needed.

 

[Trigger]

some mix of all this.

 

[Trigger]

50/50 pro mix and Maine potting soil

a good scoop of lobster compost. And I like the cow a litte bit I don't know I add it.

Then feed tea if when needed..

 

[Trigger]

I was looking at those large raised bed grow bags last year.

 

[sheriff john]

Rained out camping, back home, so transplanted six chestnut seedlings into larger pots. @#$%!! MUD is keeping us out of the garden plots. Drought is broken Planted things are coming up ,but so are weeds that cannot be tilled. Afraid some will be very late, maybe too late.

 

[pilot]

Go out of town a week and have ten pages to catch up with.

Anyway, about tillers. I bought a Troybilt Horse in the 1970s. The Tecumseh engine finally gave up five or six years back and I bought a 6hp Honda that bolted right up, perfect match. If anyone needs to do that and needs the engine info, please feel free to PM me and I'll go look at it.

 

[Eutycus]

I’d spray mine with sevin water.

Starts with an “s”!

Mix a little soap in with the Sevin dust. The soap is an astringent and make it stick to the plants and bugs. It don't take much.

 

[Eutycus]

Mix a little soap in with the Sevin dust. The soap is an astringent and make it stick to the plants and bugs. It don't take much.

If Sevin is the main "killing" ingredient in this mix it won't take but a few drops of soap (Dish Detergent). Some leaves can get burnt with a heavy dose of soap. But soapy water in itself is a pretty good insecticide. I don't have the measurements, I usually just "eyeball" it.

 

[Trigger]

The mix sound good..

I to be honest. My old bug problem was fungus Nats..

I can't use stuff like sevin.

But I'll say what worked.. cups of regular coffee milk and sugar.. they all end up drowned in the coffee.

Anyway...

 

[Trigger]

It was mentioned some bugs are good I think?

 

[Trigger]

Flowers?... there's flowers that help with bugs.

 

[TDM]

Back at the camp after a week at home. Don’t think it rained a drop here while I was gone so I went to water the beans and okra. Was very surprised to find the beans loaded. But turns out I planted bush beans instead of pole beans!!! I keep a couple of containers in the freezer packed with seeds and I obviously grabbed the wrong bag. I prefer to plant pole beans because they’re easier to pick and produce longer. I had been wondering why they hadn’t run up the poles yet. Too late now, and my back was screaming at me. But thankfull for the harvest.

 

[Trigger]

Back at the camp after a week at home. Don’t think it rained a drop here while I was gone so I went to water the beans and okra. Was very surprised to find the beans loaded. But turns out I planted bush beans instead of pile beans!!! I keep a couple of containers in the freezer packed with seeds and I obviously grabbed the wrong bag. I prefer to plant pole beans because they’re easier to pick and produce longer. I had been wondering why they hadn’t run up the poles yet. Too late now, and my back was screaming at me. But thankfull for the harvest.

I liked these.. but I got them from someone. Pole beans.

I guessed at butter beans because that's what I thought maybe.. I don't know?

 

[snakebit]

Back at the camp after a week at home. Don’t think it rained a drop here while I was gone so I went to water the beans and okra. Was very surprised to find the beans loaded. But turns out I planted bush beans instead of pile beans!!! I keep a couple of containers in the freezer packed with seeds and I obviously grabbed the wrong bag. I prefer to plant pole beans because they’re easier to pick and produce longer. I had been wondering why they hadn’t run up the poles yet. Too late now, and my back was screaming at me. But thankfull for the harvest.

Simmer them in a pot with some chopped up bacon, onion and chicken broth they'll be tasty.

 

[TDM]

Simmer them in a pot with some chopped up bacon, onion and chicken broth they'll be tasty.

Already brought cooked beans with me from home. Trying to finish eating last year’s harvest from the freezer. But that’s pretty much how we cook it. My Wife uses Andouille sausage or Taso instead of beacon, but it’s all good and yes, you got to have onions. I’ve already snapped, blanched, and vacuumed sealed todays harvest. They’re in the freezer now.