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    Garden

    Well the risk of frost is pretty well over so I have begun planting and transplanting seedlings to the main garden. Hopefullyit will be a good year for the garden.

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    Sounds good. Hopefully in the future I am living somewhere where I can have a large garden.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Sounds good. Hopefully in the future I am living somewhere where I can have a large garden.

    You can do quite a bit with a raised bed garden and "home made" organic soil, similar to "Square foot gardening soil".
    I'm pretty sure in the good years I can produce a pound of usable produce per square foot. Partly because I grow tomatoes, squash,egg plants and other bulky vegitables more than I grow greens and herbs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    You can do quite a bit with a raised bed garden and "home made" organic soil, similar to "Square foot gardening soil".
    I'm pretty sure in the good years I can produce a pound of usable produce per square foot. Partly because I grow tomatoes, squash,egg plants and other bulky vegitables more than I grow greens and herbs.
    Do you do any canning?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Do you do any canning?

    Not much, we've used some alternative freezing methods with tomato sause and the wife makes tons of salsa and we give some stuff away. The produce comes in over a few months , so we don't really need to can. But in a good year it gets close, which is why I've switched to cherry toms of late. Cherry toms and secondary brocchli heads have a way of disppearing when I'm weeding for some reason. The cabbage keep quite a while so lots of boiled dinners in th fall. We probably should can but we work our way around it.

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    Need to get off my ass and plant one, I have a huge area of yard that gets sun all day, problem is, I would need to import soil. Dig about 6 inches down and hit pure sugar sand, even weeds have a hard time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    Need to get off my ass and plant one, I have a huge area of yard that gets sun all day, problem is, I would need to import soil. Dig about 6 inches down and hit pure sugar sand, even weeds have a hard time.
    Yup, for a brief time when I lived in Florida we didn't even need an extermintor becuase the house we rented was surrounded by that sugar sand. Apparently roaches don't even like to $#@! with it. Our neighbor got his truck stuck in the damned stuff too.
    You could build a small raised bed garden and "make your own soil" from potting soil, loam, vermiculite compost and manure. You can buy the book "Square Foot Gardening" which even claims you can have a great garden in less than a foot of soil , although I use a little more, I work with my own version of his soil . The peat and vermiculite can be expensive though. But maybe start with 50 square feet. Your growing season is what... 363 days a year? LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Yup, for a brief time when I lived in Florida we didn't even need an extermintor becuase the house we rented was surrounded by that sugar sand. Apparently roaches don't even like to $#@! with it. Our neighbor got his truck stuck in the damned stuff too.
    You could build a small raised bed garden and "make your own soil" from potting soil, loam, vermiculite compost and manure. You can buy the book "Square Foot Gardening" which even claims you can have a great garden in less than a foot of soil , although I use a little more, I work with my own version of his soil . The peat and vermiculite can be expensive though. But maybe start with 50 square feet. Your growing season is what... 363 days a year? LOL
    We did not have a freeze once, last year!
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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    We did not have a freeze once, last year!
    How did you survive? LOL Was the freeze over by sun up?

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    Florida has soil issues in certain areas, too much sand and many things dont grow well.
    A good friend has literally dozens of pot plants of various vegetables. WHy pots ? you control the soil and nutrients for each type of veggie.

    I am one happy recipient of these veggies and trust me they are better than anything in the store.
    He grows various peppers and his wife jars them so we have them all year round.

    He tells me its easier than a garden and the pots are reused year to year. In fla you are growing something all year round.
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