Big Beef F1 SeedsDamn you - you are tempting me to give them a try ..................... we love good juicy tomatoes with most foods, especially home made burgers
Geuss I am going to have to learn how to grow food now and NOT just cook it
Veg plot planning and some planting starts in winter you know!Thankfully I have a few months to let all this sink in and figure out what when and when to do it all
This year, early tax time, I got a pressure canner. Was NOT ready for oh crap now I need jars when I was getting 15 lbs. of veg a week.Thankfully I have a few months to let all this sink in and figure out what when and when to do it all
I need to post a pic or two of our yard as it looks now .... don't think there will any planting just yet - a lot of "plotting" maybe, but not much planting with 6" of snow on the ground
Figure out what you want to grow and we can help from there. I had 3 Big Beef F1 and 1 Roma that produced for me. Those plants provided me with a year of toms. You'll need to scale up...I need to post a pic or two of our yard as it looks now .... don't think there will any planting just yet - a lot of "plotting" maybe, but not much planting with 6" of snow on the ground
Oh hang on - maybe I could grow some "snow peas" what do you think ????
Um, you still want me as a member ?
That sounds ideal for me, after all, I just want to feed my wife and I - not the whole darn town
We're tenants in the farmhouse and have access to the entire 800 hectares, but only have to manage the plot that comes with the house. It was barren when we moved on with the old fruit trees dying and the grass barely alive. Part of moving here was with the consent to us adding a veg plot. Initially it was just fenced off from the chooks, but the summer sun was killing the plants and they were clearly stressed. Then the cockatoos wiped out 10 bulbs of garlic that i had planted in autumn, right at the mid point in spring. They just did their normal damage and moved on. All of it gone. So we added a shade screen that was just horizontal but the wind was causing massive issues with that, so after some gales that destroyed it and there fact that Rosella size birds could still get int, I decided on a poly tunnel approach only made of shade cloth. If we owned the place, I'd have several of them and a greenhouse by now. But being a sheep farm, on top of a mountain, literally, all the good silt has run off, so the land is very poor. Having chooks has really done wonders for the fertility of there ground here. My approach was very old school. A long nut and bolt, a drill, and the poly pipe is attached to the star picket. 2 per post minimum and I just worked at it slowly over there chose of a week.
I had 3 of the Big Beef F1 and averaged an easy dozen a week. I was also growing to can for the winter.
