i want to have a little garden, is it possible to start some stuff in june or did i miss the boat for this season? I would want to grow some veggies i guess, maybe some spices. i know very little about gardening.

5/2/2007 1:25:30 PM

I wouldn't wait until june

if you really want to start it, go ahead and get the seeds you want and start them in peat cups


then just transplant into the garden when you can

I prefer to start most of my stuff from seed where I intend to grow it though

5/2/2007 1:26:47 PM

i mean i don't have a choice, i'm not gonna be at my new home until mid-may the earliest. will i still be able to grow some stuff though? any reccs on what are easy to grow, i would like to do tomatoes for instance.

5/2/2007 1:32:01 PM

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"if you really want to start it, go ahead and get the seeds you want and start them in peat cups then just transplant into the garden when you can"

5/2/2007 1:42:41 PM

yea i kind of missed that, but i mean i'm gonna ship all my stuff from nyc and i'm gonna fly, so i wouldn't really be able to transport them.

5/2/2007 1:44:03 PM

where are you moving to? you can always grow stuff in containers in/outside. i would still try if you want it b/c i mean a tomato plan is only $1 or so. if it dies, no big deal.

5/2/2007 1:48:40 PM

i'm moving back to raleigh for like 4 months. oh yea, is four months enough time to harvest, bc i'm moving again after that?

5/2/2007 1:50:48 PM

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"i would still try if you want it b/c i mean a tomato plan is only $1 or so. if it dies, no big deal."

i'd still try it

5/2/2007 4:03:51 PM

have someone here pick the plants up for you and look after them


right now there is a booth at the farmers market that has flats for $12 each, with 48 plants per flat, pick and choose

I can't grow my own for that price and will use them for all of my tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant next year

5/2/2007 6:48:28 PM

what's a flat? i mean i seriously know very little about gardening

5/2/2007 6:55:52 PM

A flat in this case would just be a tray they use when they start the seeds out. If there are 48 seedlings per flat then it might be like a 12x4 tray, which would equal 48. They have individual little cups for each seed, that are attached so you can just pop them out of their container when you want to transplant.

5/2/2007 7:05:02 PM

cool, like rockwool cubes or whatever? how would i go about starting this garden? any tips would be appreciated as far as nutrients or tricks or anything.

5/2/2007 7:10:14 PM

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"I wouldn't wait until june if you really want to start it, go ahead and get the seeds you want and start them in peat cups then just transplant into the garden when you can"

I've got all my plants in peat cups until I get back to Charlotte. It's still ok to start them now, but I wouldn't wait too much longer.

[Edited on May 3, 2007 at 7:13 AM. Reason : Oh, and tomatos are really easy to grow. Plant, water, prune (once a week), they're hard to kill.]

5/3/2007 7:11:12 AM

make sure you get enough sun

my ass gets like 3 hours a day of shaded light so my plants are shitty

5/3/2007 7:20:03 AM