Learning to garden isnāt as easy as reading a book or a couple websites and articles, its trail and error, its learning by doing, and figuring out along the way. On the road to becoming self sustaining and learning to live off the land as much as one can, there is no clear cut path, there are no exact instructions, its all about envisioning your dream, and working until its clear as day. Step by step, we are making that dream more real. Here are some progress pictures of our very first garden setups and the wonderful things that theyāve produced.
āOur first batch of vegetables to go into fall garden we decided we would do directly from seedlings to soil to test how well the potting method worked. Here we have some Bush Lake Blue Beans, and carrot seedlings that were sowed into large potting bins with a 60/40 ratio of potting soil and homemade compost. After a couple weeks the beans sprouted beautifully however the carrots did not sprout at all. The weather was quite moderate 80-90 degree sunny weather with very little rainfall but continued watering from collected water bin every 2-3 days. Both had same amount of sunlight and shade, same amount of water and same quality of soil, however only the beans flourished. Going to re-attempt carrots in spring. ā
Seeds: Carrot, Bush lake Blue bean, cauliflower
9/13/18: Bush Lake Blue beans
Planted seedlings 9/13/18; Carrot (grey bin) and bush lake blue beans (round pot)
9/27/18: Bush lake blue bean growth
11/27/18: Bush lake blue bean
1/4/19: Bush Lake blue bean
Ā āIn addition to the beans and carrots, we have also simultaneously planted cauliflower, kale, arugula, tomato and eggplant seeds. Unlike the other seeds which we sowed directly into potted soil, these seedlings we have sowed into prepackaged Peat Pods which contain a specific mixture of soil and nutrients to help them sprout and grow. After about a month and half of sprouting and hardening we transplanted the kale, arugula and single cauliflower plants to our garden bed which was composed of about 70/30 soil to compost ratio, Ā then transplanted a couple eggplants and tomatoes to a grow box to test the different factors for maximum growth. Below you can see how each seedling has progressed thus far in their respective medias of planting, the kale, arugula and cauliflower were planted directly into garden bed, and the eggplant and tomatoes into grow box setupā
Ā 9/11/18: Cauliflower, Kale, Arugula Eggplant Seedlings in peat pods
11/5/18 Arugula transplanted to garden bed
11/5/18: Kale Transplanted to garden bed
11/5/18: Cauliflower transplanted to Garden bed
11/27/18: Kale growth
11/27/18: Cauliflower growth
11/27/18: Arugula Growth
Two Month growth from date seeds were started
1/9/19: Kale
1/9/19 Cauliflower
1/9/19 Arugula
Ā Ā Ā KNOWING before GROWING Learning to garden isn't as easy as reading a book or a couple websites and articles, its trail and error, its learning by doing, and figuring out along the way. 351 more words
