plaintiger: Yes, I picked one up today. Mine is like a propergator but its called a Hydro Greenhouse. You can grow anything in it and use it inside and out. Whatever you grow is fed automatically by a water bottle with nutrients in. It says in me book of destructions there is no fear of soil born diseases, insects or weeds as it uses no soil.
I never heard of it before today, but I was looking round the toy dept at Toyrus, saw it and picked it up.
I got it set up already with plant seeds.

Foxy Lady: i have it from one site that it's "the growing of plants without soil," Ma'am. and here's one of the few sites i've found so far that doesn't look to be trying to sell a specific line of hydroponics equipment.

clay soil a big problem here too

Foxy Lady: well, okay, maybe "discussing" is too strong a term...

nobleheart: We have a pretty good size veggie garden,right now our garlic is up.Can't plant here yet the nites are too cold,by the end of May is safe.We use alot of compost,and peat moss.Being our soil is clay we have to add soil every year.

Mousetrap: Is that growing plants in water?

well ms foxy doesn't mind a LITTLE humour,even if some of these snorks are real lemons(pun).
but seriously,lettuce leaf these jokes alone & get down to the real dirt and discusss some real gardening issues.
anyone got any tips/experience with growing veggies?shall we share?

Anyone grown anything by this method?

plaintiger: Sure you were.

Foxy Lady: whew!! saved by the Fox's sense of humor!!

thank You for sparing us, merciful Goddess. =)



we were discussing veggies...kind of...

plaintiger: Tapping foot with arms crossed




but i do have a sense of humor today that is.

nobleheart: yep: we better spinach up here or the FoxGoddess'll turnip and weed us out!

(oh, aren't we a pear?)



okay, okay...i must remember: i am a moderator here, and i am afraid of the Fox (and proud of it). so let's shhhh indeed.

I have always felt that there is much truth in humour.but we really are wandering off topic..so sssh now,before we get a "beeting". ok ok somebody stop me now.

nobleheart: ark ark ark!

the great James Thurber said, "humor should be left out of nothing, as it improves everything."

please don't be angry ms.Foxy,a little veggie humour won't soil the gardening board.it might even grow on you.

biggest onions:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/postcard/onions.jpg
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veggie humour
http://flaphead.members.winisp.net/blog/image005.jpg
http://www.dfordog.com/funnies/blinddate.jpg

skipinnz: And we are starting into Spring.. :) I will..

ScarletRose:Strawberries they are sweet memories now we have to wait for next season, seeing as we're going into winter. So enjoy them whist you can. :o)

skipinnz: we have strawberries growing in the adult garden here.. I can't wait till the berries start coming out and ripen..

skipinnz: aha. there you go...

glad that helped. :)

plaintiger:Most informative, it seems my plant might not be old enough to fruit as it's only 2 years old.

my pleasure. and here's some information on the particulars of growing cranberries, in case that helps.

plaintiger:It is planted in the open so it might need to be sheltered. I'll look into it thanks

skipinnz: heh...yes, i can understand that...i just feel an especial connection with the perfection of Nature when i have an experience like that in which no human hand has taken part. it reminds me that we're loved and provided for. :)

cranberries need a bog, don't they?

plaintiger:Well I get the same satisfaction just walking out my back door and picking straw,black,blue,gooseberries. The only one I haven't had to much success with is cran berries, poor little bush doesn't want to get off the ground.

skipinnz: thank you for the suggestion, but that's just not the same as encountering them in the wild, plucking one, admiring its beauty, popping it in my mouth, tasting it, and marvelling at the wonder of it all.

plaintiger: Try a nursery for thornless blackberry, I've got one growing and the person I got it off just has his growing in a cylindrical 6"wire mesh. It's about 6 feet tall and apart from the birds he does all right. My one grows alond a boundary fench

Foxy Lady: me too, Ma'am. i'll have to have a look around...and maybe off-island.

plaintiger: Awwwwww thats too bad,i love fresh berries.

Foxy Lady: as i wrote that i was thinking about a wooded area not far from here where i used to explore when my Mom first moved the family to NY. those woods seemed so big to me then, but they'd only seem a little patch now...and i don't know how i'd even get to them without crossing someone's property.

i'm not sure where i'd find a wooded area on long island that hadn't already been all picked of berries... :/

ajtgirl: lol! You're wacky, Ma'am. and thank You!

plaintiger: Have you checked out any wooded areas,sometimes you can find lots of wild berries.

plaintiger:

I know that!

Just looking for an oportunity to flatter you!

Have a great day, everybody

Foxy Lady: oh boy! =)

i wish i knew where to find blackberries around here. i love picking those and gobbling 'em up.

ajtgirl: oh, thank You, dear Lady, but i didn't take that picture. that's the picture from the tillandsia page You linked to.

ajtgirl: That shows a pawn has posted and waiting for approval.

rednaz23: We have a rabbit family and a chipmonk that lives in our yard all year.We share the garden with them.It's no big deal since our garden is good size.So is my neighbors.

Foxy Lady:

Hi Foxy

Why is there a little green (1) after the link to our Gardening board
on my favorite boards site?

I have never seen this before

Foxy Lady: Do you have lots of rabbits in your area that could get into your strawberry patch? If so, what do you plan on doing about it? We had a problem with that a couple of years ago...

edited to fit this board.

plaintiger: Yes we do and this year were putting in a strawberry patch.That will produce next year.

plaintiger:
You are a master of photography, no doubt about it
I actually have one of that variety tillapsia
It has stopped blooming so it looks now like a beached sea urchin...but I know it will flower again.

Thanks for that picture

Foxy Lady: oh boy! =) do You get real live berries, Ma'am?

plaintiger: My rosebush is coming back i hope the worms don't get it this year.Ted sprayed it so i'm hoping it get's a chance.My blueberry bush is all budded loves those coffee grounds.

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am.

plaintiger: That is pretty,has alot of color.

ajtgirl: i know i want some. i want some that look like that picture on the page You linked to. preeeee-tty.

ajtgirl:
can not remember now..it was not for me.
was my friend that wanted to know...i give her the site i found she going to have a look at it..
thanks for you help..i will go back and look see what the site was called i can give her that one as well.

Did you clink on the link I made 6 messages back?
Lots of good info and pics of tillandsia
I believe the plural would be tillandsias

ajtgirl
it ok same iam as well..dont need to.thanks the was you spelled was another way lot of spelling it..no prob....yes i did now i told my friend she going to look on google..the other part she did not it was called now she knows...it does flower look nice. if you go to google type in the name of the 2 spelling tell you all about them.

night owl:

Sorry I am a careless speller...ask anyone I play with.
You are correct about the correct spelling...I was wrong.
Did you figure out what they are though?