I saw a new way to garden!

[katholc]

I didn't know where to put this, mods please move this if it is in the wrong place.

I got my last issue of Mother Earth News and there was an interesting article on gardening using bags of garden soil. While this may not be very frugal if you have good soil or even passable soil, where I am is nothing but red Georgia clay and there's not enough time left on earth for me to get this soil to even a passable condition. So now I'm collecting bags of garden soil and I'm going to try it for both a winter and summer garden.

I asked today at the Lowe's if anyone had heard of this. The lovely lady who helped me said she had spoken with a customer who had done this and who still had tomatoes in November. The Lowe's lady said she was going to try this very thing for spring.

She helped me pick out the soil and even told me how to make the beds.
I got 3 bags to start with and will start my transplants tomorrow.

I can't promise but I will do my best to give updates on how this works.

only 1 problem I see, my car smells like manure now.

[Russ]

Is this the article?

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organ...rden-Beds.aspx

[katholc]

That's the article.

[Laura2]

What an interesting idea. I may try that next year.

[Ceashels]

Very interesting. Just along side the current raised bed, there is a 4x4 spot that I want my garden to spread into. Once the evergreen gets out of there it might be worth just letting some good compost and top soil sit there for a year before digging into the ground soil. I'll be keeping this in mind, thank you for sharing.

[katholc]

You're very much welcome. I took some pictures I'll be posting shortly.

[Durgan]

Amazing that such a method is even contemplated. I consider the article almost silly.
Why not simply add a few timbers, stone, or blocks to the side of the area where one desires to plant, and add a load of triple mix? The method advocated is a lot unnecessary work for the desired result, and the results are iffy. Notice in most of this type of article, there is a lot of information about the start, but seldom deep information on the produce obtained.

The education of the writer is nonsense. A professor is no more qualified to propagate this nonsense than a simple farmer who gets his hands dirty.

[madhen]

I
only 1 problem I see, my car smells like manure now.

It's not manure. It's "black gold," baby, "black gold!"

[madhen]

I got a load of "free" hay (should have known) once that turned out to be filled with mold. I ended up dumping the whole mess (about six or seven bales) into my fenced garden area. Not only did it really help to choke out weeds, but the next year, after being rained on and scratched around by the chickens, it was a nice thick black compost-y layer. It is surprising how one day, it is a pile of straw, and before you know it, it is a layer of compost.

[staceyy]

I've heard of it but have never tried it. You can also grow potatoes in a garbage bag. You can Google for directions. Right now I am growing lettuce on my kitchen table in an Aerogarden, tomatoes in my garage in an earthbox and cucumbers outside in the ground.

[katholc]

I've heard of it but have never tried it. You can also grow potatoes in a garbage bag. You can Google for directions. Right now I am growing lettuce on my kitchen table in an Aerogarden, tomatoes in my garage in an earthbox and cucumbers outside in the ground.

I have also seen potatoes grown in old tires. There's a website called selfsufficientish or something like that which has a lot of different ideas like that. I've personally tried adding, composting, etc and can never quite get it like I want it.
So I figured I'd try this for a while and see if it works.

We don't have decent dirt down here the only thing we have in abundance is sun.

okay, gonna try that link www.selfsufficientish.com/