Slik&Friends-Growin-Some-Veggies Grow Journal

misshestermoffitt said:

That's easy, they are self cloning. They shoot out runners. You let the runner sit on the dirt until it forms roots then cut off and you can move it then.

WalMart has strawberry plants in lawn and garden, they have bags with the onion sets that are basically a strawberry root system. You plant it and it'll grow. They'll only 3 bucks for a bag of 10 or 12.

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found them today ! 3 bucks, bought 2 live ones too.
and corn,watermelon,red pepper

got everything planted up in the starters...about 200 total.
just gotta work on where im planting everything in the garden now

I'm glad you found them Weedman, they're on my list of things to get this week. I'm going to get the ever bearing ones, June bearing isn't enough for me, I want strawberries all season.

Walmart also has yukon gold seed potatoes. (always buy seed potatoes, the ones that you buy to eat are treated with a grown inhibitor ) I want to pick up a bag of those too.





I'm making a strawberry tower since I have lots of plant pots of different sizes.

Strawberries only need about 6 inches of root zone.

SlikWiLL13 said:

this year or years past? im curious because im wary of buying live plants from walmart. whos had luck here?

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the walmarts here suck they only have small palm trees and stuff you cant eat.

Really? The walmarts here have all kinds of herbs and veggies for sale in flats in the spring. Right now it's a bit early for it, but they'll load up on them in about a month.

well i havent been in a few months but yea last time i checked they didnt have much. i think ill go take a look see if they got anything good now.

I don't know how they stock lawn and garden in FL where it's warm, but here in IL they don't really get the bedding plants in until April.

misshestermoffitt said:

I'm glad you found them Weedman, they're on my list of things to get this week. I'm going to get the ever bearing ones, June bearing isn't enough for me, I want strawberries all season.

Walmart also has yukon gold seed potatoes. (always buy seed potatoes, the ones that you buy to eat are treated with a grown inhibitor ) I want to pick up a bag of those too.





I'm making a strawberry tower since I have lots of plant pots of different sizes.

Strawberries only need about 6 inches of root zone.

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i got the ever bearing as well i guess im gonna put these in pots and leave them on my deck.

my back yard connects to almost a 1/2 mile potato field .... i can just walk along the edge of my property and get em

its still somewhat cold here and walmart as alot of shit out already ! shoulda went there first could save a couple bucks on the seeds

well yesterday i checked my trays.... they are staying very humid ... i have them on chairs close to the window ... which is directly above the heater

my loose leaf and romaine lettuce are coming up already ... only been 4 days... cant wait too see what happens next week !

My basil germinated overnight, I wish everything would sprout that fast.

basil is real easy to grow.... i like to start pickin leaves off when its small, i think they taste better.

5 hot pepper seeds germed. i dont know which ones, the pack i got had 5 kinds all mixed together. i did my best to seperate them into 5 piles but pepper seeds mostly look the same. i started 2 of each and so far both of 2 kinds germed and one of another. i also have a bunch of green peppers about to split germing.

im not using the peat pots anymore, the outsides get green fuzz on them and it just seems like im already using alot of them and im not even close to done. ive got some nice 2 1/2" plastic pots to start in now.

ive also restored my growroom to its former glory. i used to grow quite a bit more before i became a single(only basically) parent. since ive been keeping my plant numbers in the misdemeanor range some lights have been decomisioned and growspace turned to storage. but now im about out of room and i have many more veggies i wish to get started.

yesterday i cleared out all the dusty BS, rigged up the rest of my T-12 fixtures(10-4' 40w tubes and 52w cfl all together now for veg), and put up some more shelving for storage.

I bought some rooted everbearing strawberries and got them planted in a strawberry pot outside yesterday. The bag said contains 10 but I got 13.... w00t.

Today my veggies that have been inside are going outside for a few hours again. I was a bad mom last week, I let the basil get a little sunburnt so I've kept them in for the last 5 days.

wallyworld strawberries? what did you pay? im uber-poor right now, im considering buying a gold chain and selling crack at the middle school.

it only works if you have a gold chain, right?

Yes wally world, they're in bags by the onion sets and seeds and stuff. They were $3 bucks per bag, they have everbearing and June bearing both.

They're mostly a root system, but mine had some new growth on all of them.

all this strawberry talk makes me want to grow some. do they like acidic soil?

The majority of food crops prefer a neutral or slightly acidic soil. Some plants however prefer more acidic (e.g., potatoes, strawberries) or alkaline (brassicas) conditions.

http://permaculture.wikia.com/wiki/Soil_pH

I'm not a PH'er myself, not even with my pot I just read up on the nute requirements (strawberries like 13-13-13 BTW) and let mother nature take care of the rest.

hey check out this site they have all kinds of cool plants- http://toptropicals.com/index.htm

cool plants but they aren't for my neck of the woods, it's just too cold here in the winter for that stuff.

heres the pic of my growroom rebuild. the upper level was storage before, i added another storage shelf on the right side of the pic, the lights on the upper level, and eliminated my drying area(gonna need a new one soon!).

SlikWiLL13 said:

heres the pic of my growroom rebuild. the upper level was storage before, i added another storage shelf on the right side of the pic, the lights on the upper level, and eliminated my drying area(gonna need a new one soon!).

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nice

i got my veggies in my office by the window and heater ... i keep being lazy to take pics ... i will today! i got quite a few things coming up now