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GreenThumbr – Social Networking for Gardeners

Cody Marx Bailey — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:24:16 +0000

I met the folks from GreenThumbr.com from North Carolina last spring during South By Southwest. The site allows gardening enthusiasts to come together and share their passion with each other.

From the site:

You can keep up a journal of your garden activities. You can get reminders of when you should feed or water the plants under your care. You can chat with others who are growing the same type of plants. You can post your artistic or scientific photos of plants. You can catalog your collection of plants.

Check it out for yourself. You can find me on the site here.

Good things at Producers Coop

Cody Marx Bailey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:39:18 +0000

Celebrity Tomato plants are in, but you better hurry as they were gone in a few hours last time they got a shipment. I swung by and grabbed a few six-packs. I’m only going to use 2 or 3 of them so if you need just a couple or so email me and you can come pick some up.

I’m probably going to be putting the Celebritys in my larger container garden as they will be bigger and bushier from what I understand and I’ll put my Cherry, Solar Fire, and Sun Masters in 5 gallon buckets.

Also, I’m going to be purchasing a 55 gallon barrel ($18) from producers to use as my water container, thus liberating my 5 gallon buckets.

Beds Prepped, Rain Caught, Seeds Planted

Cody Marx Bailey — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:43:44 +0000

Saturday, Brian and I decided to get our garden stuff together. We grabbed three large plastic tubs from behind Square One and then went to Lowes and picked up some soil, compost, mulch and rocks. The tubs were perfect. We originally wanted to do a raised bed garden using rail road ties, but time was short and McCoys was closed by the time we got there.

We figured we’d use the three tubs and then pick up a few 5-gallon buckets for the tomato plants. We rushed home and prepared the soil just before sun-down.

On Monday, I went over to Producers Coop and with the help of Mark in the gardening section I selected 6 different seeds that I thought I would plant – cucumbers, squash, cantaloupe, watermelon, eggplant, and okra. These all needed to be planted pretty soon as we were getting late into the planting season.

Mark told me to wait a few days until the big rains from TS Eduardo passed. He also told me to collect as much rain water as I could because with the way the summer has gone – rain has been… non-existant.

Just before the storms on Tuesday I ran down the street to McCoys and purchased 4 large buckets and placed them at the edge of the roof. After 2 hours of rain the 4 buckets were filled. Now I just need to find a way to store that water so I can use the buckets for planting tomatoes.

Today, Thursday, I planted the seeds and soon they should sprout. I photographed a few of the buckets and where I planted the seeds. I planted the okra and eggplant in the center of the buckets and I plan on hanging the squash and melons over the sides of the tubs once they get large enough.

Check out the images on flickr.