Comments on: Spring On My Micro-Farm, and the 2010 Tiny Garden

By: Sayward

Sayward — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:13:34 +0000

@ Lilminx2 – Not too late at all! You’ll just need to buy starts instead of going from seed. A bit more expensive but also easier. Check your local nursery for what will work best in your area. Luck!

By: Lilminx2

Lilminx2 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:55:20 +0000

My husband I are just now moving into a new house with a backyard, a huge improvement from the apartment we had been living in. I desperately want to try my hand out at gardening as now I actually have some space to do it, but this is my first attempt. Its the beginning of June and I was wondering if it is too late to get started for this year? Any tips on what would work?? Thanks!

By: Sayward

Sayward — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:07:47 +0000

@ EroSan – They’ll stay small(ish) for quite a few years, and still bear fruit. You should give it a go!

@ Minna – AWESOME! That’s great you’re traveling a bit before heading home. Very cool. That resort sounds seriously amazing!

By: Minna

Minna — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:33:48 +0000

We’re leaving Melbourne on the 29th of June to go to Thailand for a two week holiday. It’s quite bad in Bangkok right now which is a bit scary, but I’ve already found an alternative – a paradise island called Koh Chang (300km from BK) and a Spa Resort with raw vegan food, meditation, yoga, cooking classes and even cleansing packages. So, can not wait =)

So I’ll be home in mid July!

By: EroSan

EroSan — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:24:38 +0000

@Sayward: Avocados are great! my grandfather used to have a huge avocado tree on his house (it fell due to a huricane), but it is such a massive tree! I don’t know if I have enough space on my backyard to grow one… T_T

but there’s an idea…

By: Sayward

Sayward — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:09:25 +0000

@ Rebecca – Practice makes perfect! I’m a reformed black thumb myself – also an overwaterer. So don’t give up. And that’s awesome you rented a raised bed!

@ Minna – That’s exciting! When are you going home?

@ Saundra – Sounds like an awesome lot! Good luck with everything – keep me updated. =)

And awww, Sheldon is a great name!

By: saundra

saundra — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:19:41 +0000

oh can’t forget shelldon my little black chicken i sure hope it doesn’t turn out to be a boy :(.. and i totally count that thing as my garden, i have to feed and water just like the plants. only it will try to flap out of my hands when i bring him in for the night plants don’t do that.

By: saundra

saundra — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:17:47 +0000

well i’ve got some mint that my aunt gave me, some broccoli that ‘bolted’ with the prettiest of yellow flowers, tomatoes (cherry, ruetgers, and cherokee purple), zucchini had to plant over at my moms lol, more zucchini for here, some beans i found growing in my sink now growing in dirt, 3 types of basil some anise, wild onions wild straw berries, mulberry trees in back yard, pear tree in nieghbors yard (hangs over fence so it’s mine too right?) and another little tomato of unknown origin sprouted up by my front porch, and i’m going to try to start a persimmon tree from a seed, and hopefully everything will grow great!

By: Minna

Minna — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:54:06 +0000

I have a big garden at home and we grow most of the fresh edibles (also potatos and carrots) ourselves. Well, my parents grow them :) I *know* that we have a nice large field and I do *see* it everyday from my room’s window, but I don’t really know much more :D hahaha. I guess I’ve just started to appreciate the hard work my parents are doing and realize that having your own garden is such a treasure.

I’ve talked to my mom, given her a nice list and asked her to buy me some seeds so that I could start growing herbs and green stuff myself on my windowsill =) And have something fresh to eat every day throughout the winter! I’m a little nervous about that cause I’ve never grown anything alive before! I so hope they won’t be needing *too* much attention and that they’ll come out all cute and green to feed me =)

..So… I guess that’s a start, right?

(I lovelovelove your chooks! They’re so clean and fluffy. Can’t believe my granny had chickens for sooo long and I was being such a chicken myself and never dared to go close them when I was little!)

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:35:34 +0000

I had to laugh “mini and manageable”…how apropos with the new baby!

In regards to growing things..I must admit, as domestic as I am in all other regards, I have a black thumb. I recently moved from the east coast to Colorado and..after much hemming and hawing, sucked it up and laid down the money to “rent” a raised bed at my apt. complex (how sad..I know). I am wishing, hoping, and (almost) praying that raised beds coupled with CO’s dry climate (I am an over-waterer) will spell success. Unfortunately I have already killed pansies and lavender in a few days–do I get a prize for that? At least an “A” for effort I guess