Green thumb

[Nurian]

These past weeks have shown I really need to do something constructive. Growing up, my father often grew tomatoes and my wife's uncle has a few plants growing in the summer months. Perhaps I can see about growing some things.

They sell small strawberry and cherry tomato plants at Walmart. It would be good to start with something small. My dad can also help me with tomatoes (Heirlooms and the like). Of course cherry tomatoes are just fun to much

Anyone here grow their own vegetables?

[Rapscallion]

About to plant some onions this morning, actually. Will let you know how it's gone in ... six months or so.

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[Rapscallion]

Couple of pictures of my new onion bed. Finished it off this morning with planting the onions in it etc. Easy to reach from the paved side of the wall, and if I really need to I can get to it from the untended lawn.

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[draggar]

I used to have a HUGE tomato plant in my patio - then the mice came and ate them all - and stayed around so whenever I grow tomatoes - they get eaten by the mice.

[taxguykarl]

Oh yes...I garden--plan to finalize my plans and seed/plant orders. That is also our main Xmas shopping vehicle, specifically my wife makes gift baskets of the home-canned production.

[pitmonkey]

Tomatoes and egg plant just started under lights. Fava beans and spinach in garden (spinach been going all winter), onion seedling going in this week along with lettuce and peas. Will start squash soon. hubby hasn't picked out what sweet corn he wants yet.
Raps, why do you have netting over your onions?

[Rapscallion]

Eazrly stages, they're vulnerable to anything coming along and being interested, or so I saw on one tutorial on the web. Woke up this morning to find about five had been uprooted. Not sure by what, or why, but they weren't eaten. Slipped them back in.

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[Magpie]

We got patio planters as a wedding gift, and we're still debating what to put in them I think we're going to do tomatoes and lettuce. We did some heritage beans last year at my inlaws place (this was before the wedding, so dh still lived there). He wants to do habaneros, but it's already March so we're far too late to do those (I see no point if they're not going to produce peppers).

We also do various herbs - there's parsley growing under our combination grow/room light (it's a grow light positioned to light the room), and there was supposed to be chives, thyme and cilantro, but the mold and lack of germination hurt the first two, and the lack of tropical light killed the last. Most recent acquisition is some tropical ginger (i.e. what you buy in the grocery store, not the native plant) that we saw was sprouting and planted.

[Rapscallion]

I think the uprooted onions are due to worms. With loads of raking and riddling, the soil's very loose. I think they're being pushed up from underneath.

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[Magpie]

I'd heard that they weren't getting pushed up from underneath, but that the worms would find a nice leaf to pull underground to eat, and not realise that it was connected to your onion. When they pull on the leaf the bulb gets pulled out of the soil.

[Rapscallion]

No leaves on them yet, so I think it's just down to them getting in the way. Been raining most of the afternoon so the soil should be getting more compacted when it dries now.

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[Rapscallion]

Another three uprooted. No idea what or who is doing it - several inches from the original holes in most cases, so it's not worms.

Suspect cats.

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