Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Joined: Jun 02, 2008 Posts: 22 Location: Bradenton FL
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: What's Growing in Your Garden RIGHT NOW.
Hi, growing tomatoes, squash, egg plant, and hot peppers in homemade self watering containers. See plans on how to make your own at www.emergencyfoodgrowing.homestead.com. They cost about $6 dollars to make and can be easily moved when necessary. chuck
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject: Re: What's Growing in Your Garden RIGHT NOW.
I am so impressed with everyone's gardens. I hope that mine can
someday be like everyone elses'.
I am currently renting this house due to the housing bust. We got
out while the getting was good and now looking for something
cheap since prices have dropped. I don't want to spend the coin
to fix the dirt on this property so right now pots are the thing for
me.
Another question for everyone...how many of you have green-
houses to start your seeds in? _________________ To survive you must know what to do, when to do it, how to do it and why you are doing it.
Joined: Jun 02, 2008 Posts: 22 Location: Bradenton FL
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: What's Growing in Your Garden RIGHT NOW.
badassmom, for the cost of a greenhouse, you could do so much. Go to www.gardenweb.com and go to the growing under lights forum. There are a lot of people starting their plants under florescent lights with very good results. They use bookcase like stands with the lights mounted on the undersides of the shelves to shine down on the next lower shelf. I have used this method, and it eliminates a lot of problems associated with managing a green house, especially in a location with freezing weather. On your rented land, you might want to try an easy to build above ground hydroponic system. If you have time, visit www.hotpepperclub.homestead.com for some ideas. Good luck, chuck
Joined: Sep 09, 2004 Posts: 421 Location: Upstate New York, U.S.A.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: What's Growing in Your Garden RIGHT NOW.
Pole beans
bush beans
climbing peas
3 kinds of pumpkin
carrots
potatoes
2 kinds of lettuce
2 kinds of cucumber
green peppers
2 kinds of watermelon
yellow squash
zuchinni
corn
eggplant
4 kinds of tomatoes
various herbs
blueberries
broccoli
cauliflower
garlic _________________ "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau
Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 7024 Location: My Grandkids' Farm
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject: Re: What's Growing in Your Garden RIGHT NOW.
Come on BAM, I know this is a talk board, but there are a huge number of post on the site regarding gardening, look in the Topic index here:
http://peakoil.com/fortopic32766.html
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: Re: What's Growing in Your Garden RIGHT NOW.
n6xf wrote:
They use bookcase like stands with the lights mounted on the undersides of the shelves to shine down on the next lower shelf. I have used this method, and it eliminates a lot of problems associated with managing a green house, especially in a location with freezing weather.
How do you plan to do that if the power goes out? Not very sustainable. _________________ Tired of high gas prices? Then stop driving to work, duh..... Learn to Work from home
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: What's Growing in Your Garden RIGHT NOW.
n6xf wrote:
Hi, growing tomatoes, squash, egg plant, and hot peppers in homemade self watering containers. See plans on how to make your own at www.emergencyfoodgrowing.homestead.com. They cost about $6 dollars to make and can be easily moved when necessary. chuck
This setup calls for things like epsom salt, nitrates and other chemicals...... Would work great until you cannot buy those chemicals.
A more sustainable solution would be to utilize an Aquaponics system which provide nearly the same plant food to the plants and is sustainable, as long as you have fish, and a very small solar electric system to run the pump.
backyardaquaponics.com has a great community forum with knowledgeable people if you interested in learning how to build a system. _________________ Tired of high gas prices? Then stop driving to work, duh..... Learn to Work from home
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: What's Growing in Your Garden RIGHT NOW.
I have a 9 by 33 foot greenhouse.
we are growing:
Georgia rattlesnake watermelon
Charleston grey watermelon
Oranglo watermelon
for some reason the cantalope failed
for entertainment, tigger melon
yellow squash, burning up now (even with eight inches mulch)
butternut and acorn squash
white sweet potatoes, all the other varieties died
beets failed
spinach has now burned up
carrots
texas 1015, white and red onions
asparagus (poor crop this year)
bitter melon (ampalaya)
snake gourd (upo)
thai 38 inch long beans
chinese red noodle beans
ichibon eggplant
conentional eggplant
various varieties bell peppers
sixteen poblano pepper plants
thai chili peppers
chili piquin peppers
brandywine, roma, celebrity, mortgage lifter tomatoes
red and golden delicious apples, peaches, pears, plums, nectarines
want to get a fig tree
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Then stop driving to work, duh..... 
