Posted by Sara | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 04-05-2010
I am very excited to announce that I have installed a forum for us today!
CLICK HERE to get in on the action! Start by doing an introduction post, and then in the other areas please tell us what you are up to in your gardens!!!! Post Post Post!
The link is on the left side mid-way down the home page and also at the very top left corner on every page.
Please start some good topics about your own gardens in there today!!!
My tomatoes are outgrowing their spot on the shelf:
So I had to move them to a new place! I am scared to put them on the ground because I have 3 cats who would probably love to dig in the dirt they are planted in and see how they taste just for the fun of it!
So now, they are living on a little plant stand next to the shelf and have plenty of room to grow upward, for now. 🙂
Here they will stay until they are too tall to get good light on them from above. Then I will have to figure something else out!
Thanks for stopping by!
Well, the tangerine tree is totally against all this care and change that has come to its home recently! It was thriving just sitting by the window, I would forget to water it, I certainly was not fertilizing it, and all it had for light was indirect, winter light deflecting from the yard which is over 20 feet away. The leaves were green, the stem was hard and it was very happy!
Since I changed the indoor setup to be that of the indoor garden (for veggies) it has dropped 2 leaved which yellowed, weakened and fell off! So, no more water, no more extra light, no more liquid fertilizer for that one!
I have moved it to a place (on the top shelf for now) where it only gets natural light and I will not be watering it as often, and I will just be using plain water, and fertilizing only about 1 time per month.
Hopefully this will stop the leaf shedding!!
I was just reading my Farmer’s Almanac for this year and found out the meaning behind the term “Victory Garden.”
In 1588 Queen Elizabeth sent riders out into the country side to tell the folks out there to prepare for war. One of the main things that was told to everyone through out the land was to plant extra food in their home gardens because without it they would be going hungry. This is was part of the reason the English were victorious over the Spanish invasion!
Likewise during WW2 the department of agriculture told people to start home gardens (which at that time were few and far between here in the U.S.) to relieve the demand for food in the grocery stores. Many families took this advice and ate better (and a lot healthier) for it!
So, the Victory Garden is just that – a sustainable way for families to maintain themselves during times of war. Thinking about all of the ways this effects the whole country is amazing to me. A war can be won due to sustainable living, in particular – gardening for our selves and not relying on the grocery stores to be there for us.
This is just as true now as it was back then. Gardening this way can conserve energy and also keep us healthier!
