This morning Vince wanted a big breakfast so I fixed biscuits, bacon, grits and eggs.
Once I got the kitchen cleaned up, I went out and started working on planting more in the grow bags.
You can see the neighbor’s little four wheeler back there. Nice to have “help” from two boys, ages 3 and 6. 🙂
Vince spread a couple of bags of mulch over the asparagus bed. I planted four more bags of potatoes, 3 – 7 gallon bags of ginger, 20 – 1 gallon bags of turmeric. I still have more potatoes on the way (2 pounds). I have a bit more ginger coming but that’s it.
After April 15, I’ll plant the other plants in the ground and be done with planting.
Rosalie says
Judy, did you put dirt in the potato bags or just straw?
judy.blog@gmail.com says
There’s about 6″ of dirt in the pot. I added the straw just on top for a couple of reasons. First, we may have a lot of rain over the next few days and I’m hoping the straw will keep the rain from beating all the dirt off the tops of the potatoes. Second, the straw acts as a mulch. I’ll add more dirt on top of the straw once the potatoes grow about 6″ above the straw, then I’ll add more straw on top of the dirt.
We used the straw to cover the concrete patio during the winter. We always buy several bales and then spread it out to cover the ice so we can walk out with the dogs. I just use what was leftover from winter.
Liz says
I’m going to give the grow bags a chance and I’ve ordered two sizes. The cucumber and tomato plants are just a bit over 1 inch in size. Now to get some dirt and stakes and I’ll be ready to plant.
Teri says
How do you plant the turmeric? 20 bags seems like a lot but I’ve never grown it. Do you cut it up into pieces and just plant one piece in each bag? Thanks for any help!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
The pieces I had were fairly small but I had a lot so I planted each piece in a separate bag.
April L Reeves says
i’m so tempted to get rid of my garden boxes (that fill up with weeds from the grass clippings) and just use grow bags. I didn’t even know it was a thing till you talked about it.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
The thing I like about the grow bags is that at the end of the season, I dump the dirt into a bit, add fish heads if we have them, stir it all up with veggie scraps and other than wetting it down every now and then, and stirring it up, it sits and is ready to use the next year . . it’s nice and soft and there are no weeds! I make sure the bags are dry, then put them in Rubbermaid totes and store them in the garage through the winter.
Heather Watts says
We grow Turmeric here in Sydney, but the tubs that we use are the size of the largest ones you have in the photo – 1 plant to a tub. They need a ton of room for the tubers to develop and feed. We usually divide them up every 2 years. I gave away lots of tubers and plants a few months ago and had people coming from far and wide to pick up a plant or two, and they were so grateful, some offering me other plants in exchange. It gave me a buzz to be giving something which was really wanted
judy.blog@gmail.com says
We grew it for years in Texas but the growing conditions there weren’t ideal since it was super hot and dry. It will grow much better here. Because of our winters, and not having a greenhouse, I’ll have to replant every year.