Garden for your Fresh Vegetables

Best fertilizer in town. Contact Captain Jack

We did the worm compost for a few reasons.. 1st was to have Great big ole' Night crawlers available upon demand for hook'n them Catfish.. 2nd to try the in home composting methods, (better outdoors).. 3rd to see if we could (well the worms) produce rich composted soil for our plants.

We were happy with results used some storage tubs for this, a fair amount of rich loam for the plants..We want to try the 5 gallon bucket technique next.

We used fish heads when we could go fishing and ate what we caught, we don't eat the fish anymore to afraid of the farm field run off chemicals..   Maybe Captain Jack can start us a Summer supply when he starts his fishing trips..

That better to know we have a true expert on board...

Should I relinquish my thread to you now...

Or can I ask you just help Moderate it if The Garden Lies get out of hand

Relinquesh your thread??? Are you kidding?? Heck no!

Want to know the most interesting thing I learned in my master gardener studies?? There is almost never a single way to accomplish something in the garden. With a few exceptions, like dumping mass amounts of salt in your soil will kill most plants and the such, I found people who grew things in ways that others clearly said shouldn't work and in places they ought not to have thrived. The only thing I became absolutely certain of was that there are lots of ways of accomplishing gardening objectives and everyone has something interesting to teach you if you take the time to listen. The only people I never took time to listen much to were those who were adamant that their way was the best way. I really encourage people to try different methods but if they didn't want to then they didn't want to. I found only a couple who got out the class text and showed me where I was wrong. Fortunately those folks rarely hang around long.

Carry on, you are doing a great job and fufilling primary role of Master Gardeners which is to get people talking and thinking about plants as well as being a service to those with questions.

One of my favorite gigs was the "Ask Gertie" feature on the Hamilton County Master Gardener page. We would get questions from the website and we researched the answers. I don't believe I ever gave a single action type answer. There were always multiple options that one could take. I suggested some over others but there was always more than one way to go about the problem.

Lastly, I don't know it all by a long shot. Bard is a day lily hybridizer. I have never done that on purpose. I am an heirloom person. I like them the best. I learn just as much reading these threads as anyone else.

Again, carry on. I am enjoying the thread!

Wish I had more to give at the moment. That was funny. :)

My biggest problem with potatoes was the bug.  I didn't want to put poison on them, but it's either that or pick the bugs off them daily.

BTW, Dan's right - I hybridize day lilies. If anyone would like some daylily seeds to start from scratch, I'll be glad to provide them for free. I have far too many seeds to be able to grow them all. I can't guarantee the colors, but the plants I use for parents are reds, purples, lavenders, neon oranges or screaming yellows, pinks, corals and golds.

For free seeds, just PM me with a snail mail address.  

What we did was order a few of the praying mantis nest.. let them hatch.. they (not all of course) stayed around the yard garden area eating a lot of the bugs. We had what I thought was a fairly good crop. In fact I still have a few garden taters stored break them out about 2 times a week for a good tater meal..