How well do they hold up when it is time to transplant?????
I have never tried it..Seen where you can buy molds ..In a seed catalog .
Tubby
Some Early Feb Pics
This is my first time doing it, so I don't know how it holds up. Other people on DG do it every year, though. I'd imagine it would depend on how much paper you use for the pots.
You don't need to buy molds. I'd bet you have plenty of round things to form it on in your kitchen cabinet. Water glasses and soup cans and such.
Here's a video tutorial on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqywwIr5-aI
I want mine square, so I'm using origami instructions for a basic box. But the rounds ones are easier and less time consuming.
TPlant: A day late and a dollar short dearest, the job is done, and it was a tedious one too, made sure there were no air pockets whatsoever put a few smidgens of coir in the bottom of the solo cup and used my fingers to put coir in the sides of the basket with the starting in it and made sure I buried the stem up to the leaf. Now that that is done, and have only lost about 4 out of 43 tomatoes ya'll, I will ask another question I asked earlier and Boca Bob told me to ask you cause he didn't know and said you would. Here goes: Should I bury the stem on my eggplants too? The stems are getting awful long on them and was thinking if that would make for a strong root system on the eggplants too and if so I need to know?????? Yes???? No????
I got problems too folks, I think I got voles. I think I found it's runway tunnel today, let it rear it's ugly head, especially if it has been munching on my canna bulbs I will hit it's head with the shovel so hard it will go flying all the way to China through that tunnel believe me.
I know those varmints eat bulbs; but I think my daffodil ones are poisonous and they leave those alone; but, do they eat cannas? sniffles? And can they get into earth boxes that are up off the ground?
joy112854
YA VOLE YA VOLE its off to eat they go ..not funny those voles But for some unknown reason it hit me LOL
Here we fight moles Don't know if they are much different My understanding is they are bind
MIL says they move at a set time each day..If you are patient you can see them..And wack them.
Tubby
Joy112854Please don't be upset with my humor
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Joy, I live in Mole country USA. I have tried electronic "buzzers" jammed into the ground, poison peanuts, pouring boiling water into holes, spreading human hair clippings in the holes, granular poison, wire traps, wire mole killers, chewed up wads of spearment gum, and electrocution. NOT ONE DARN THING WORKS HERE! My yard is a maze of tunnels and mounds which I occasionally trip in. I have spent hundreds of dollars, wasted dollars, battling them. Joy, I'm sorry hon....Don't know if Voles are the same, but yes, Moles eat bulbs of anything here, don't matter if it's poison or not. And no, they can not get into your Earth Boxes.
Everyone in my area deals with this and no one can kill the darn things. If anyone here can tell me a product that they would guarantee I would just love to know it. The only ones I have ever found dead my beloved Boston Terrier babies (I have 3) have caught and moidered...hehe....
Once, in the middle of the night, (we had a doggie door in our bedroom at that time) my dog Lily went out to tinkle. She came back in and jumped under the covers. I immediately felt something really really strange. I turned on the bedside light and that stinker had brought a fresh dead mole into bed with us...EEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKK.
I'm trying Castor Beans on my gophers. I ordered them from Baker Creek. They are extremely poisonous, so don't put them where anything else can get hold of them. I shoved them way into the gopher holes where the bird/dogs or what have you can't get to them.
Oh, gak on that mole being in the bed. I think I'd have jumped high enough to break drywall on the ceiling if that had happened to me.
Voles are worse they eat 10 times their weight in food, they love bulbs and are not carnevorous, they are vegetarians. Moles will eat your earthworms, and voles usually use mole tunnels that have been discarded by moles. They are small like a mouse. You can gas them to death. I have terminex and they will be getting a call from me this week to come out and do just that. I'm not sure if it's a mole or a vole. Moles don't usually mess with bulbs I heard??? I will find out when it comes time to divide my prize cannas and will I be hot if I find out something has happened to those little babies of mine.
My daughter promised faithfully, to get pics up tomorrow for me so I'm going to go take some now. My house is a literal inhouse greenhouse now. LOL
joy
joy112854..DW says they are active 7am 11am 4pm have to check with DML to see if this correct..She swears by it .She was an avid gardener ..She is 84 .Sill tinkers around a little,nothing like she used to.
Good luck at giving them a good whack
Joy -- Eggplants are not planted like tomatos. They are planted at their natural mark but may require stake support and I would tie them up for the support they will need.
Now, see, that's exactly why I do not sleep with animals.....
gymgirl: Tubby is right, the things don't sleep and all they do is eat, everything in your garden. Terminex where are you? LOL I've decided to gas them out. Remember that stray cat? It wouldn't stay out of my yard right? Now it sits just out of my yard and stares into my yard, instead of chasing this thing and eating it. On the left of me I have a neighbor who still feels the need to burn her trash instead of paying a lousy $20 a month for her trash to be taken off her hands twice a week, (in the mean time, her cat and two dogs tear into it and it blows into my yard, then comes the huge bon fire, nice hey? On the right is a vacant lot grown up by shrubs that must be 3 ft by now, and across the stree is woods. How did I wind up in this situation? LOL
I need to ask a few dumb questions please. About the Coconut Coir Growing Medium that has been mentioned several times..
1. Can ANY seeds be used in the Coir?
2. Can the Coir be used with heat mats?
3. Can The Coir be used with or without additional potting soil for container plants(not EB's)
(Coleus, Cannas, Hibiscus)
We have lots of Tropicals that need repotting this year, And I was hoping to try something different this year that might retain more moisture for the container plants,
Also I have dozens and dozens of seeds I would like to grow, I haven't had the best of luck with seeds (But I keep at it) lol
Thanks for any help that anyone can be..Pheadra
Hi, BocaBob here,
1. YES
2. YES
3. YES
I have pepper seedlings growing in Bobs seedling planter just now and they are doing great. Tomorrow I will use the coir in one of his stackers that I bought and am going to use for strawberries and set it on my deck. Useful planter as they can be used for anything and stack as high as you like. I would like to use another for the sprawling Petunias. You know the ones that hang down? So have no fear Georgiagarden3 as you will find it to be better than any mix that you have ever used and he has a deal on it just now so try it?
You are going to enjoy those stackers, Tplant. I planted 4 each 5 pot stacks with a mixture of convovulus, nemesia, and nemephila. All plants that tend to mount and drape. Love them grow poles!!!
Boca Bob: So when are you going to put the stackers up for sale on your site, I think I would probably like one for spinach or lettuce can you grow that fairly ok in there? Radishes maybe?
joy
They should be perfect for those crops and a lot more! Spinach is a good idea as it is one of my favorite veggies.
TPlant: Spinach is my favorite too.
Gym Girl: I went to his site yesterday and they aren't up for sale yet, you sure know me well by now hey? LOL
joy
I got a question about the "buring the stem" technique. I've been doing that with my maters already; but I wanted to know this, they are getting lots of leaves now, do I bury any of the leaves like say the bottom ones or is that a no-no?
joy
Ok, Bob,
Not ready to post coco coir pics just yet, but I'm looooooooooooooong overdue for posting pics of my fall garden.
One more. But that's all you'll need! Picasa 3 program upgrade!
R1, Left to Right: Purple Top Turnip, Lettuce Flashy's Trout, Cauliflower, Collard Greens
R2, Mustards, Cabbage, Broccoli, Trellis Bed (turnips, Half Nantes carrots, Flashy's Trout Lettuce)
R3, Bull's Blood Beets (purple), Chioggia's Beets (green), Swiss Chard, cauliflower, cabbage (a quarter for scale)
R4, Cabbage in eBucket, mustard leaf (quarter for scale), cabbage, "Green's Row"
Enjoy! I've been nibbling baby carrots like a rabbit. And the fresh Chioggia's Beet greens are absolutely delicious right from the patch!
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gymgirl: nice looking cabbage there, explain the first two pics is that a staking system there and above ground garden?
joy
Hey Joy,
It sure is. The trellis is an "A" frame made out of 8' 1x1 lumber, and it folds together when not in use. It's a wonderful thing to behold, although I have yet to actually grow something on it. I tried Sugar Snap Peas last summer, but I still haven't got the timeframe down right. I planted too late and the sun just cooked them.
What you see is the bed I planted in November. I pulled the trellis out and stored it away. Then I sowed the purple top turnips, Nantes Half carrots, and the Flashy's Trout Lettuce you can see in the next pic. As soon as I pull up what is now growing in the bed, I'll be planting my Bush Sugar Baby watermelon seeds there. I'll let them sprawl out onto the grass on the side. I might also try cantaloupe in the beet boxes after I pull them up.
We've eaten the mustards and collards for Christmas Dinner. They grew back and we ate them for New Year's dinner. And they've grown back again. I'm hard-pressed to let them go one more time 'cause I need the boxes for the 'mater plant out March 10th.
Good news is I have FOUR brand new EBs, so I'll be able to plant at least 8 'mater plants. Decisions, decisions, decisions....
Gymgirl: I love your ideas they are fabulous. Guess you been hanging with Jaywhacker too long hey? LOL
joy
Oh Joy,
I just met Jaywhacker. I've been hanging with Tplant, dmj1218, Bubba_MoCity, feldon30, araness, Horseshoe, and a host of others who have been helping me along. I have to dedicate this season to these mentors, and so many others who've contributed to my success.
Gymgirl your garden is so beautiful. I hope mine looks half that good when it gets going. You should be very proud of that.
Thank you, Pugzley! Looking toward mater planting in roughly 3-4 weeks! Got "yard" to go before I rest!
Gymgirl: Looking good, looking good.
joy
Oh my goodness, Gymgirl! I see some good stuff in the Ebuckets, too. I am sooo impressed. Also, great work there on the photos. Stuff of magazine quality! Your post makes me hungry.
Great pics,GG. Great lookin' garden, too! Thanks for posting!
Methinks you're gonna be able to say you had a bumper crop this year!
Shoe
Thanks, Yall!
It looks like a lot, but it's really just a very small spread. I have five EBs, six 24" planters, two 14" planters, about ten eBuckets, the 4.5 x 5' trellis bed, and the two 3 x 5' raised boxes. That's my entire operation. The EBs are the engine, and I'm hoping to make better use next season, growing more since I have four new EBs to introduce to the grid.
Thanks for all your help, instruction, and especially your encouragement!
It's a gorgeous day and I brought the 'mater seedlings outside. They've had field trips as the weather allows!
Linda