Gardening Tips

[gamgee]

I use post hole diggers when planting transplants. I use old compound buckets for carrying and pouring composted manure and compost into, and around the holes. I put whatever else I'm using, epsom salts or bone meal, in the holes, and then mix it up with a spading fork. I plant each transplant and water each one immediately.
I like to plant in the late afternoon, so the transplants have an easy first day out of the midday sun.

[Mayaca]

They sell bags of premixed salad at most grocery stores.

[swampbilly]

The Farmers Almanac Gardening by the Moon Calendar

JUNE 2016

24th-26th Set strawberry plants. Excellent for any vine crops such as beans, peas, and cucumbers. Good days for transplanting. Favorable time for planting late root crops.

27th-28th Cut hay or do plowing on these barren days.
29th-30th Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting root crops.

[Necio]

Post hole digger?
Just how big are these transplants???????






And I thought I was the only one that goes whole hog in the garden.
Here's me transplanting radishes last week:

[swampbilly]

been useing a post hole digger since i figured out as a yung beansprout dat shovels/spades sux.

hoz are eben wurst ta use

[dudeman]

I wish I had a green thumb. I can kill a silk office plant.

[Mayaca]

hoz are eben wurst ta use

I LOVE Hoz.

[Unclefred]

I LOVE Hoz.

Yeah but the only shovel work you'll get out of em is up their nose.

[Absolutely!]

I use post hole diggers when planting transplants. I use old compound buckets for carrying and pouring composted manure and compost into, and around the holes. I put whatever else I'm using, epsom salts or bone meal, in the holes, and then mix it up with a spading fork. I plant each transplant and water each one immediately.
I like to plant in the late afternoon, so the transplants have an easy first day out of the midday sun.

the other trick is to put your plants in a bucket of water when planting.

I have done a lot of dry planting where you have tiny plants in 1 inch diameter root trainers, and you walk along and just heave your spade into the ground, pull, drop and go onto the next one.

If you have soaked all those little baby trees in a bucket of water, and you do this after rain when the land is moist, you can just chuck those babies in and that's it.

but they have to be fully soaked.

[Absolutely!]

been useing a post hole digger since i figured out as a yung beansprout dat shovels/spades sux.

hoz are eben wurst ta use

are you using a flat ended d-spade?

because shovels are for moving loose items around. Shovels are NOT for digging.

Spades are for digging. Nice sharp stainless steel spades.

If you're too weak for a real one, you could always use a border spade.

[swampbilly]

like i said......

homey dunt dew spades oar shovels.....

hoz are oUt of da qUestion......

[Absolutely!]

like i said......

homey dunt dew spades oar shovels.....

hoz are oUt of da qUestion......

yeh no Swampy don't like dem hos. And dem hos don't like swampy.