{home grown cauliflower soaking}
After doing the backyard farmer thing for one year, I have come up with lots of tips and advice. If you are thinking of doing a small scale garden in your backyard, this is for you. If not, you might want to move along.
What is super easy to grow?
-Lettuce*, tomatoes, radish, herbs, artichokes and zucchini.
These will all grow so well and without much effort you will be giving away extras to your neighbors and co-workers.*Be careful with the lettuce, if you don't pick it and eat it as it grows, it will start to taste bad and little bugs LOVE it, so cleaning it and prepping it is a pain in the ass.
What should I skip?
-Cauliflower, strawberries, onions
While the cauliflower and onions are easy to grow, the results are pretty lame. Say you get a 6-pack of each, say one dies, but 5 take, you water them all summer long to get..... 5 onions? Oh yeah, those things at the store for less than a dollar each? Yeah. It's just not really worth it. Same with cauliflower.
If you grow anything at all, tomatoes are where it's at. That is where you are saving money growing your own, hands down. Last year we went a little crazy with the tomatoes and over planted. Just because they are growing to be 6 feet and lush as a jungle doesn't mean that's a good thing. With heavy growth comes tomato bugs and spider webs, yuck. This year we will thin them out a lot.
Last summer, crouching under our tomato plants. Heaven.
Which is where I wanna be. I hate winter!
Last spring, setting up and building our garden.
BTW who's that blond?
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12 comments:
great tips! I need to get started on this!
I agree. We finally have our crap together this year, so I am so excited to finally plant my own beds this year.
awesome tips! i can't wait to have my own garden someday. thanks for sharing :)
and that blonde is pretty cute and so is the brunette :)
awesome tips! i can't wait to have my own garden someday. thanks for sharing :)
and that blonde is pretty cute and so is the brunette :)
Totally agree... tomatoes are TOTALLY where it's at. They're about the only thing that actually grow for me year over year.
I'm so jealous of your garden. We dont have a yard right now so I have resorted to growing plants in pots on our deck...not as much fun I'd have to say. But this year our tomatoes grew SO high they started hanging over the sides of our deck. It was nuts, but they were SO good.
ahhh, i am so looking forward to spending more time in my garden again. right now, everything is covered with snow but i am already planning what/when to plant in my mind.
Good to know! One of my resolutions is to have a little garden this year...
How interesting! I can't wait to have a yard of my own someday so I can do one :)
Uhh I hope we get something out of a garden this year. Last year M decided he didnt need to "feed" our clay dirt, hopefully this year he is a little wiser and will let me be.
I'm so awful about watering, but maybe someday, when we finish our yard, I can carve out a corner for a garden! I loved when my dad had a huge garden while I was growing up -- all the fresh veggies were awesome.
Oh i'm so jealous. I've been wanting to do a garden since we moved in and a year later I still haven't even begun.
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