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Who are you people who have been gardening already! :D

The snow finally just left my house here in MA - up to a week and a half ago my gardens weren't even exposed. Only today I've just turned...

Raised beds? Yes.
Rocky thin soil? Yes.
Many rocks? Yes.
Truckloads of topsoil? No.
My own composted soil annually? Yes.

Here's my garden.

By the way, a couple of months ago,...

As I said in the previous response is that you can grow just about any vegetable in a container. However what might be the driver for you over anything else is how much dedicated space you have. How...

Well, I've made some adjustments and pretty much finalized the main unit. I don't think I'm going to get to finishing the fruit bin part for a while now. My farm apples have been in the kitchen...

You want big pots, or those sizes that will accomodate the full grown vegetable. I like plastic because a) they're lighter and since they're above ground, less apt for moisture loss than clay...

Well, it's funny how life gets in the way of finishing things. Here's the latest on the root cellar, which has been extremely fun to make. It's so liberating being handy. I would have finished...

Life is good.

Bottled my mead. Drinking my mead. It's been getting in the low 20's where I am. Today November 12 - pulled the last 2 cabbages and grabbed some chard I still have going in the...

Well, I know this is a vegetable gardening thread ....is mead a vegetable? Chuckle :D But I am at least using local produce.

Here are some pictures of my latest batch of mead, 2 yrs old, vintage...

I made a little more progress on my root cellar (see post #442). Haven't had too much time. Basically cut the rigid foam insulation, made the fruit/apple bin, put the vapor barrier on, and cut the...

This is my new project. I am making a passive root cellar for my vegetables. Well, all root cellars are passive but this one's in the basement. I don't have enough refrigerator space for some of...

I've been doing red clover and radish sprouts for a while now. I like them better than alfalfa. There's a natural foods shop a few towns over so I get my sprouting seeds there.

I'll check out that book by Eliot Coleman. I have some other bibles I use that I bought in the 80's, so I have heard of the "hot frame" with the hot unripe horse manure. Interestingly, there is a...

Most of my property is wooded and extremely rocky so the soil is thin and not very fertile. I have to really amend the soil every year so I have large compost piles I keep going. The grass doesn't...

Hmm, 3 in a row. Not consolidating well.

Gee everyone is showing pictures. Here's a link to some garden photos I already have set up elsewhere. It is stuff from last year but the garden set-up...

Another woohoo!

I just found out my town will have a Farmer's Market on the common every Saturday. I am so excited. Now I don't have to bike 40 miles to the nearest Farmer's Market. I only have...

Woohoo! Dance. Dance. My cherry tomatoes are turning and will be ripe by late this week. These are the ones I started from seed under the grow lights. I'm woo-hooing because and despite lack of...