can we share tips n tricks for the season?

 I have a few good ones !    one  , I start  fertilizing early ( mostly with cheap 5-10-5 on the flowering plants ) because nutrients in cold soil aren't really biolavailable .  That makes  plants really spring into growth / bloom early .  which means , conversely  .much longer lasting BLOOMS  since theyre blooming in colder weather  ;)  .

So  I  get my  whole garden  to bloom  on a couple of weeks earlier cycle than  those of my neighbors  and  all my flowers not only last way longer  ...  I get to enjoy the FIRST  crocuses , teh FIRST  tulips , the very FIRST daffodils etc.... ....

2) I use  seaweed fertilizer and b12  in the fall  and very early spring   to  strengthen  my little  seedlings and protect them from  frost .   The  seaweed makes their cell walls very flexible and allows them to survive frosts  that  would normally kill .

3) I give extra water  to again to promote faster blooming when i think it will help .... again to  speed up the cycle and  make blooming happen in significantly colder weather 

My tip is to walk more when it's not pouring out!  :)

My tip is donkey and horse manure.

I haven't started my garden yet but my beds are full of manure, cooking under black plastic.  I should be able to plant some early stuff soon.

I use raised beds, 20" tall.  Fill them with manure in the fall when the garden is done, cover with black plastic.  In the spring I can just cut holes in the plastic and stick the babies in.  No weeds, no watering, no cultivating.  At my age, I need easy.

My flowers are late in comparison to the area.  We live in a cold microclimate.  The good part is when everyone elses daffodils, etc are done, I still have some.

 What I would give to have  a manure producing horse  or even donkey lol !  ( can't  U just  Imagine it tethered in my Brooklyn backyard  ?        Wow  ! such a cool system Price !  U actually  have HEATED beds  from the composting action .... I bet  Ur vegetables  are luxuriant too ....

Usually have great veggies.  We go as organic as possible although I am not above a sprinkle of sevin if I can't control whatever is eating my good stuff.  I've tried Neem and diawhatever earth and that also does but it that won't, here I come with the Sevin.

I want to plant thorne free blackberries this year.  DH and I are still arguing over where because he want to put in a putting green. 

 There  are some amazing ones  I have seen in Hungary  Price I  don't know if U are familiar with them but the berries  are fully   2 inches long each and the FLAVOR   WOW  is all I can say .  I believe  theyre everbearing too .

I snuck some  back to this country once in my luggage (  oh I know i'm BAAD  )  and they didnt even TAKE  ( that was a first  )  .... but it turns out I  eneded up seeing them in a seed catalogue anyway  .... im going to try to find  it for U  .... could they be called Honeyberry here maybe ?  R.H. Shumway's Quick OrderLog InMy AccountBasketClick for Advanced Search

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apparently  people  do grow them  out in the midwest  ... i should have known ... 

I grow  Fall gold  raspberries myself  because  the birds never get them (  apparently they only see the red ones  so U dont need nets  ..interesting ) ...all these years all these succulent berries  and an almost constant harvest  (  June on old canes and  July through frost  on new ones ....and no bird damage at all  ) .  I like the extra sweet  non-acidic taste too  .. then again I'm a yellow pear  tomato grrl too....

 I was wrong as can be about the boysenberry Price .. turns out that  has just as  short a fruiting season as  the blackberry ( 5 weeks ) right before actually  .... and the honeybery is an ENTIRELY different plant  ..

so I have no idea  what  I'm talking about  ..probably  a strain of giant  everbearing very black colored  RASPERRY  im guessing or raspberry/blackberry  hybrid.   They Taste blackberry like though .....

I just have never SEEN anything with so huge a berry  ...ill keep looking  ... now  I'm intrigued to grow it too though i sure have NO SPACE  lol....but maybe  in the FRONT  now that  I got rid of the nasty  huge  pine tree 

Gardening Tips:

1. Have your hubby pee around the garden. It keeps the varmits (even deer) away for a week or so.
2. Place RED plastic under your tomato plants as mulch. Improves tomato flavor and size.
3. Use the Square Foot Gardening Method by Mel Bartholomew. Saves space, time, and more time.
4. For over-abundance of harvests (think zucchini and cucumbers), take your load to a local Men's or Women's Shelter or Soup Kitchen.   They always appreciate fresh veggies.

 OMG I LOVE square foot Gardening !!    that  was one of the first gardening books I ever read  and  followed (  my very FIRST  bed  was an overturned wooden  bookcase  on my  Manhattan apartment  roof I drilled drainage holes in .... I MADE the soil  largely out of  kitchen scraps and  bags of dirt hand-carried inconspicuously past the doorman in the  elevator  from Central Park    ( the landlord would  NOT  have approved ) 

it was so much FUN  !! and my meager harvest  of  lettuce  and what -  three tomatoes tasted SOO  good    LOL....thats  a GREAT introduction Ure  so right  !  

My best tip is to swap some of my free range organic backyard chicken eggs to my neighbors for whatever vegetables they can spare,lol.
Holly