Ruth asks…
Growing organic vegetables…HELP?
Alright so I want to start growing my own fruits and vegetables. There’s one problem though. I don’t anything about gardening!! lol which could prove to be more than one problem.
I have a few seeds right now. They are:
-Turnips
-Cauliflower
-Pumpkin
-Lettuce
-Carrot
-Broccoli
These are the vegetable seeds that I found around the house. My mom planned on planting them but she’s been busy. She told me to give it a whirl. I told her that I could plant them just without her help. haha! though she’s never planted vegetables before herself. She’s more into flowers.
I mention in my question that I want an organic garden. I do plan on consuming these and I want them to be organic. So does it matter if my seeds are organic or not? Could I just grow them to be organic? even if the seeds may not be organic?
I was thinking about planting the Carrot seeds. Is this a wise choice? Should I plant another seed? Also how do I plant carrots? how do I care for them? What does thinning the carrots mean?
It’s obvious that I am an absolute novice but I am willing to learn. So please any help is required!!
GardenersCardiff answers:
Hello Justin,
My name is Gardengail and I work for the home depot in the garden center.
It takes a few generations for the seeds to become truly organic, however you can grow them organically using fertilizers like blood and bone meal, chicken manure, and /or fish emulsion.
This time of year I would try to grow cauliflower, lettuce and broccoli.
Make sure you don’t use chemical fertilizers or bug sprays.
An organic bug spray would be labeled organic, one is insecticidal soap, just a kind of soap that will kill your bugs and not harm your plants.
You can also plant plants that will help bring the good guys like ladybugs into your garden so you will be spraying less, plant dill and fennel for them and don’t harvest them, let them go to seed.
If it is warm where you are, like Florida or California, you can grow these plant in cooler weather, however the best time is early spring or start them indoors.
Hope this helps,
Gardengail
Betty asks…
I’m thinking of growing vegetables from my home in orange county ca. Where would I be able to sell them?
I want to grow and sell vegetables from my garden in orange county Ca. All the farmers markets I have looked at are for certified farmers. How could I sell my produce with out being a certified farmer?
GardenersCardiff answers:
Why not grow them for your own use and just sell any extras to friends and co-workers? Or set up a farm stand in your yard.
Market farming, if you want to make any money takes a lot of time to do it right. You need to learn how to both grow for market (very different than growing a home garden) and how to market because just because you grew produce does not mean anyone will buy it. You have to make sure you have enough produce to make it worth going to market and that means having on hand at least $200 worth of stuff to sell (and never expect to sell out, that happens rarely) so you can cover the costs of market fees, fuel to get to market and your time at around $5 an hour (not to mention all the time it took to grow and maintain those crops)
If you have never grown a large garden (say 1/4 acre or better) than perhaps you need to work on that first.
Nancy asks…
What produce can be grown in a Boston apartment?
I’d really like to start growing my own produce, but I live in an apartment with no actual garden. I’m limited to container gardening on my balcony, or anything that can be grown indoors. (A lot of the lighting inside is artificial.) I’d love to grow vegetables, herbs, and even fruits if there are any fruit trees that can thrive in a pot. I don’t have much gardening experience, so anything easy-to-grow would be a plus. If anyone can recommend some good plants or resources (websites, books, etc.) on the subject that would be great. Thanks!
GardenersCardiff answers:
Check out the grow systems at Spray-N-Grow Hydroponics – perfect for starting a few vegetables indoors
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Mark asks…
About Auatralia’s major gardening supplies retailer(10 m)?
Does anyone have the name of Auatralia’s major gardening supplies retailer?
I mean it sells garening products(eg. seeds, fertilizer, etc) and have many shops in australia?
i need to do a marketing assignment,URGENT!!
GardenersCardiff answers:
Bunnings? Or Mitre10. Though I think the later is more home improvement.
Lizzie asks…
What is the best organic gardening supply company?
I would love to start to organic garden but I cannot find the supplies in my local garden supply stores. Any catalog suggestions would be great. Thank you.
GardenersCardiff answers:
Avant-Gardening is highly recommended.
Http://www.avant-gardening.com/
Ruth asks…
Gardening/Growing supplies in Aberdeen UK (house plant potting mix, plant food, plat pots etc)?
Gardening/Growing supplies in Aberdeen UK (house plant potting mix, plant food, plat pots etc) can’t find any such shops in google or yahoo, help please
GardenersCardiff answers:
Really?
Walmart
Kmart
Home Depot
Lowes
or similar store.
Or one of these: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=garden+center+aberdeen+uk&fr=ush-ans
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Mary asks…
Why is composting so hard? (gardening)?
We have tons of kitchen scraps and I’m going nuts looking at everything from turning to bokashi to tumblers to holes. Does this really have to be so complicated? Then I read blogs online of failures, too much work, smell, etc. What really is the right way to do this in a smallish but not miniscule home flower/veggies organic garden?
GardenersCardiff answers:
Just pile your grass, leaves and other plant material in one place. Put a few branches around it. Don’t add any meat or other items that might smell. Water whenever you feel like it.
Put fencing around it if you want. Even plant morning glories to grow over it. Just don’t worry.
Paul asks…
I need help with blogs name?
I am thinking of creating a blog for myself and am stuck for a name. I want the blog to be about my chickens, gardening and parenting, so the name needs to be something to do with them. I only suggestions at the minute are Feathering Your Nest, or Freerange Mama, what do you think to those?
GardenersCardiff answers:
Feathering your nest is very catchy. I like it.
Laura asks…
why is america so cullable to believe what they post on the internet?
I see it time after time people post links to sites that aren’t news sites, just opinion sites. People even post links to blogs like its fact.
I’m not saying the news always gets it right, but anybody can put up a site and misquote, or post left/right views. When did the majority start believing, if its on the internet it must be true.
The lastest example is this “illegal gardening thing” I went to the bill on the government website and it only applies to the purchase and sale of food, not growing and consuming in your home.
GardenersCardiff answers:
Typos happen people.
People believe things that they want to believe. Example – the whole Obama birth certificate thing … The people that believe that show their desperation.
Currently there is a mass hysteria that anything that the government is doing is somehow an evil plot of some sort because the democrats are in control of it.
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