How Does Your Garden Grow??????
- Thread starter Larry {the} Gardener
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too larry
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Since I grow outdoors, I don't think about things like that. A friend of mine in South Florida lost a perpetual Honey Bee grow to the big hurricane last year. She is having to start over searching for a mother. Lost 2-3 months of income. Not able to ask FEMA for help with that.i shouldn't have said ice storm. the streets were fine, but the trees/powerlines, not so much. i was without power for about 8 hours. lights were late coming on that evening
too larry
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Those are doing real good. I am yet to plant tomato seeds
Sour Wreck
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that's what i am waiting for the last few predicted nights in the 30's then my peppers and strawberries are going outside.
Sour Wreck
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what breeder/seedbank?
blake9999
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I got them on sale for their Black /friday sale.... $29 from $55. It's going to be my 'early' crop this year. I am hoping on making some seeds from them. I have some Tiresas Mist ( damn that shit is expensive) and in the works on building a CS generator. I ordered the silver today.
Sour Wreck
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i made CS and didn't have as much success as i did with STS. i prefer STS cuz its just easier. 1 or 2 sprays max.
GDP is on my list of seeds to get !!!
GreenHighlander
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I am always envious of you folks in the lower latitudes lol
On that note I did just receive my produce seed order from Heritage Harvest Seed.
This is the beginning of my self sufficient journey. Or at least growing as much of what I eat as possible. Will have a few high tunnels and have spent almost a year building up my compost to help build the soil.
I already have 23 producing fruit trees, apple, plum, and cherry.
Also have a 100ftx 40ft x avg 7ft deep pond that raises trout with ease. Currently stock with fish last may at 10" and now average 17".
I have 3 floating beds of 30ft x 6ft that will help keep the pond cool this summer and grow food.
Cheers
On that note I did just receive my produce seed order from Heritage Harvest Seed.
This is the beginning of my self sufficient journey. Or at least growing as much of what I eat as possible. Will have a few high tunnels and have spent almost a year building up my compost to help build the soil.
I already have 23 producing fruit trees, apple, plum, and cherry.
Also have a 100ftx 40ft x avg 7ft deep pond that raises trout with ease. Currently stock with fish last may at 10" and now average 17".
I have 3 floating beds of 30ft x 6ft that will help keep the pond cool this summer and grow food.
Cheers
too larry
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Sounds like you have it going on. Just a tip on the fish ponds. Get some sort of otter fencing up before they find it. We lost 4-5 ponds of catfish to otters. The fuckers would only eat the tail fin and let the fish die.I am always envious of you folks in the lower latitudes lol
On that note I did just receive my produce seed order from Heritage Harvest Seed.
This is the beginning of my self sufficient journey. Or at least growing as much of what I eat as possible. Will have a few high tunnels and have spent almost a year building up my compost to help build the soil.
I already have 23 producing fruit trees, apple, plum, and cherry.
Also have a 100ftx 40ft x avg 7ft deep pond that raises trout with ease. Currently stock with fish last may at 10" and now average 17".
I have 3 floating beds of 30ft x 6ft that will help keep the pond cool this summer and grow food.
Cheers
I have a floating dock in a pond that is dry at the moment. Have often thought of growing weed on it. Have seen really ingenious setups doing this in cypress swamps.
GreenHighlander
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Otters aren't an issue here. In fact sadly most wildlife does not exist anymore. Hence why I have to have a stalked pond for fish. Worst part is where I live is still marketed to suckers as a wilderness destination. Yet our ecosystem is deader then dead lol
Cheers
Cheers
too larry
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Sorry to hear that. I guess we are lucky in Florida. Other than tearing up every acre they can to put in condo's, we do try to look out for the environment. Even started some restoration on the Everglades, without Big Sugar killing us all.Otters aren't an issue here. In fact sadly most wildlife does not exist anymore. Hence why I have to have a stalked pond for fish. Worst part is where I live is still marketed to suckers as a wilderness destination. Yet our ecosystem is deader then dead lol
Cheers
GreenHighlander
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We do the same here in Cape Breton Nova Scotia Canada, it is just for a mill destroying everything for biomass and some bullshit golf course resort.
Use to be one of the most beautiful places you could ever see. Now it is just an eye sore.
too larry
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Back when I was writing, one of my stories took place in Saint Johns in 1718. None of The Bankers thought you could catch all the cod. They were wrong.
GreenHighlander
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LOL all the cod and everything else in the ocean, in the rivers, in the lakes, and on the land. It has all been destroyed.
GreenHighlander
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It has all been destroyed in my lifetime. I am only 37 ....
Sour Wreck
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I am always envious of you folks in the lower latitudes lol
On that note I did just receive my produce seed order from Heritage Harvest Seed.
This is the beginning of my self sufficient journey. Or at least growing as much of what I eat as possible. Will have a few high tunnels and have spent almost a year building up my compost to help build the soil.
I already have 23 producing fruit trees, apple, plum, and cherry.
Also have a 100ftx 40ft x avg 7ft deep pond that raises trout with ease. Currently stock with fish last may at 10" and now average 17".
I have 3 floating beds of 30ft x 6ft that will help keep the pond cool this summer and grow food.
Cheers
damn man, get some solar panels and go off the grid !!!!
sounds awesome...
GreenHighlander
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We actually do not have enough sun for that to be a year round option. It isn't uncommon to go many weeks if not months with barely seeing the sun. Jan-April/May it is not uncommon to not see for 2-3 weeks at all.
Will be a combo of solar wind and hydro. Just the wind is a hard because it is common to have hurricane force winds here all year lol
Cheers