Carol asks…
Is it a good idea to grow your own flowers for a wedding?
GardenersCardiff answers:
I wouldn’t recommend it unless you are a professional or very experienced gardener. I grow my own garden every years with both vegetables and flowers that I grow for the purpose of having fresh cut flowers in the house. But I know my limitations. I grow peonies, dhalias, roses, gladiolus, hydrangeas, and gerber daisies every summer. But I am no professional, and most of the flowers I grow are not perfect. And I don’t use pesticides or sprays, so the flowers I cut often have bugs in them that need to be knocked off (mostly earwigs), and sometimes have bug feces in them. They also tend to get a few wholes in some of the petals due to bugs eating them. As I said, I am no professional. My fiance and I are also on a budget. So the only product I use to care for my flowers is Miracle Grow. It can get mighty expensive and complicated buying all the right products to get perfect flowers.
In addition, at any one time I only have maybe three or four fresh new flowers that are in good enough condition to bring in the house in a vase. For wedding flowers, you probably want flowers in excellent condition – free from bugs, bug feces, bug bites, or wilting. In order to get enough flowers in good condition for your wedding, you would need to spend a ton of money on gardening products, plant a very large garden to get enough blooms at one time, and spend a lot of time caring for your garden. In the end, it’s worth the money to just buy fresh cut flowers from a florist for this one special day. Plant a garden for flowers in your home – but I wouldn’t do it for your wedding.
Paul asks…
Need help on starting my own organic vegetable garden to grow indoors! will give points to most helpful :D?
okay..so i’ve never grown anything before,complete noob at this stuff..but i really would like to live organically & get practice on growing my own foods for the sake of my familys health & for the money in my pocket. it’s going to be winter soon,so i need to start with simple things to grow indoors for practice & eventually get outside & start a bigger better garden.. i don’t know HOW to start,what vegetables grow well indoors,how to have my own organic compost (i’ve heard coffee grounds are good to use) what to grow my veggies in ect..i would like to grow tomatoes,carrots,potatoes,spinach,sugar snap peas,a variety of different herbs,maybe some berries etc etc….please help! i don’t know how to get started & need creative ideas to grow these things indoors for this winter!! any tips & advice? MUCH APPRICIATED!^_^
GardenersCardiff answers:
You need to get proper soil for inside. (:
You could try multipurpose compost but you can sprinkle gravel or sand over it. I’ve never really done this stuff before.
You need a grow light. Or jusst alot of light. Foil helps to reflect.
To start yur own compost make sure you have a place to compost it. In your garden preferably. Use browns and greens- leaves for browns and greeen leaves, weeds, old plants for greens. COFFFEE grounds are great.
I heard that pepper plants do very good inside. Pineapple plants, pomegranete. Coco bean. Herbs on the windowsill- basil, dill, oregano etc. Beans and peas. Basically tropical plants do welll. You can try tomatoes.
Root veg although it won’t look as impressive but you can grow radishes, beet. Potatoes.
Blackberries, and lycheeberries are brilliant.
Leafy plants are goos too.
You need to keep your grow room warm and full of light as winter will be very cold you need to feel the heat when you walk into the room.
GOOD LUCK. (:
David asks…
How many of you grow some or all of your own vegetables/fruit?
and what methods do you use?
acowen: they might think your grow light was for something else huh;)
Fabulous: if you’re in Indy like your name suggests, I’m about 40 minutes north of you…
I’m trying to make our garden completely sustainable but that’s a project in the making……last year was not real great (sweet corn was terrible but we had a ton of squash and tomatoes)
Fabulous….I’m not veggie now, just used to be and I love vegetarian meals (I’m just outside Lafayette and we have a couple of really good health food stores, Nature’s Pharm and Sunspot)
Harley, companion planting is great and it’s not as commonly used as it should be!
Mike: I find it very disturbing that people can’t do what they want in their own backyards, especially when it’s something so good as growing your own food……zoning laws don’t prevent me from it yet but boy if they ever try…..
Andro…..oh how I agree, there are alot of resources on using native plants instead of turf (more natural and don’t use as much water) you can’t go to your states’ d.n.r. (if you’re in the u.s.) for regional sales of native plants.
GardenersCardiff answers:
I used to garden when we lived in the Berkshires on 47 acres and our planting was done in raised beds with bio-dynamic consciousness and companion planting. We also had a fabulous organic garden and orchard at Koinonia in Stevenson, MD years ago before it was sold. And there was an organic garden at the Merciful Lion too.
My grandfather had an organic farm on sandy Rhode Island soil that had never seen a chemical in 300 years. He gathered the sea veggies after a Nor’easter down at the beach to add minerals to his soil base. He also moved his hen house every three years to plant asparagus after a fallow season to grow the best asparagus in the state. Composting was very important to the success of all of these gardens.
If you are serious about gardening fruit and vegetables check out the work of Rudolf Steiner on BioDynamic Gardening. You may know about him through his educational philosophy — via Waldorf Schools. Steiner was a visionary and intellectual giant who had positive, practical ideas about everything from growing food to growing children and healthy living hich includes education. His work has which has stood the test of time. Weleeda products are connected to his philosophy.. Interesting man – great information.
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Richard asks…
Seniors, do you grow your own vegetables? If so, what have you planted?
so far and what is now beginning to show through the soil?
I have planted very many things but, so far, I have onions and garlic showing and the first potatoes which I put in much earlier than my second lot (which are not showing yet). Some things I put in and expected to be showing by now are not so either the frost got them or I’m just being impatient. I’m quite a novice so will be making notes of what has worked for me and what hasn’t and trying to find out where I went wrong and what suits my soil and what doesn’t etc.
I’ve planted a second batch of certain things in case it was the frost that was the problem so I hope to get some tomatoes and cucumbers, cabbages and lettuces and have decided to forget the peas and beans this time round as I’m running out of garden. I only have a front garden and want some flowers in there also – nearer to the road.
Sophieb, it is not a large garden by any stretch of the imagination but I have dug up half of the lawn which was there when I moved here so I now have the borders AND the space where half the lawn was. Next year the other half of the lawn is coming up. I am just utilizing the space I have as best I can. This year is a learning curve and will determine what I grow next year. I have put in only small amounts of each veg I mention to see how they cope with the soil here (which looks as if it will be much better than my previous one which had a lot of clay in it).
Lynn, my mobility is not all that good really. I have very stiff knees and back problems (dating back to my teens) but, like many people, I have good days and bad days and I just utilise the good ones. If I don’t feel able on some days I don’t do any gardening but it’s coming along in much the way I envisaged it but next year might be quite different. Digging up half of my small lawn was a challenge and had to be done spread over many days. I’m still trying to find a way of getting rid of all the clumps of grass now which are in a large heap.
GardenersCardiff answers:
We have asparagus,cabbage carrots, broccoli,beans, radishes,potatoes,lettuce,spinach,Swiss chard,tomatoes and peppers growing now. Also my favorite….strawberries. I will be planting corn and okra soon.I may have room for sweet potatoes too.
Linda asks…
Vegans- do you grow your own fruits and vegetables?
If so, what do you grow at what times of the years and do you think it’s better to?
GardenersCardiff answers:
Tomatoes, raspberries, oranges, lemons, apple, peach, blueberry, jalapeno, bell peppers
Thinking of growing green beans and potatoes
I try to grow the stuff on the “dirty dozen” list, or things that’s better to purchase organic. It’s just plain cheaper, plus it’s usually fruit, so it’s better fresh. As for what and when to grow, it depends where you are. If you look up “master gardener” and your major city, and use some search skills, you can find some guides on what, and when, to grow seeds, when to transfer into the ground, etc. All the brain work will be done for you. I tend to buy plants, though.
This is for my area (Los Angeles County): http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/Common_Ground_Garden_Program/Garden_Tips_for_Los_Angeles_County/
And here’s some general tips: http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/Common_Ground_Garden_Program/Gardening_Articles/
There’s no sub for research. You can also go to your local garden center and ask them for advice. Go to a good one, though.
Jenny asks…
What was the song used grow your own drugs episode 6 vegetables.?
It is a loop of violin i think then drums come in
sorry the television program is called “grow your own drugs “
GardenersCardiff answers:
Must be a weird song :s
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