Monthly Archives: May 2010

Growing Tomatoes in Short Season and pollinating tomatoes by hand

I got this information from Home Grown Landscapes on Facebook:   http://www.facebook.com/album.php?profile=1&id=110118672106#!/myhgel Its from the University of Idaho:   http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/edcomm/pdf/BUL/BUL0864.pdf I have probably about 14 or more tomatoes growing indoors and I was concerned about when they’re finally grown enough … Continue reading

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Recycling Garbage for use in the garden

Yesterday there was a storm that blew a few of my bush cucumbers down and so I used some old hangers to stake them. To tie them I cut up some freezer bags into strips and loosely tied them. At … Continue reading

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Sleep Deprived Solution to my Problem

Okay in August we are going to move up to Fort Wayne, IN closer to family in Michigan and we’re gonna be cutting our lease short earlier than expected because our landlord wants to get someone in here for the … Continue reading

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Spreading Information

If I find a good website, product, video or idea, believe me I will share it with you. I think the only way we can grow as gardeners or homesteaders whether we are raising animals which I used to do … Continue reading

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Vertical Gardening videos from the Garden Girl and Updates on Watermelons

I took my watermelon plants outside and they seem to have stopped growing, I don’t know why but they were doing much better indoors, I can’t explain it. I will have to research how to pollinate them I’m guessing. But … Continue reading

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Window Farms

*Photo is from  Another thing John Cole of Growing Your Greens.Com on Youtube mentioned in his videos was Window Farms-(http://www.windowfarms.org) which has instructions and photos showing you how to recycle soda bottles into a hydroponic garden indoors growing in your … Continue reading

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Garden on a Wall

I was watching John Cole or Coller, I have no ideal what his last name is, so I’ll stick with Cole, from Growing Your Greens.com on Youtube: (  ) and I saw that he visited a Gardening type of fair in … Continue reading

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Balcony Vegetable Gardening

This is a good article and I love the photo showing what you can do in an apartment if you have a balcony or patio. Learn More About Balcony Vegetable Gardening http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/urban/balcony-vegetable-garden.htm By: Kathleen Mierzejewski Today, more and more people … Continue reading

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Growing Watermelons Hanging From a Container??

Okay, I brought my watermelon plants in, they weren’t doing so well outside in the other container I had. I transplanted them into a smaller container and put them with the other veggies I have growing and they are doing … Continue reading

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Indian Mock Strawberries

I went outside this morning to check on the garden and I saw something that looked like little strawberries growing and I remembered watching a video on Youtube from Growing Your Greens about Strawberry Spinach so I looked up the … Continue reading

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