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Bristol R.I. USA

I'd be interested in what everyone does when the growing season ends. It appears that everyone has been busy researching seeds,making contacts, coming up with their game plan.

I've been researching and reading up on better growing techniques not to mention trying to get the soil to cooperate, Turning the compost pile over when the ground is thawed. tending to the worm farm, collecting coffee grounds. Looking for the best ways and equipment to make a killer tea brewer. trial and error. last year was my first year and I did it alone. Not a bad first season.I keep forgetting that we still have a few more months. I'm still counting down the days.

1/29/2010 2:22:15 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

I'm just watching the winter rye grow, waiting untill its time to put up the hoophouse, send in a spring soil sample (to see if the ammendments did their job) and then till the patch in prep for planting time.

Not much you can do now Kenny but read, research and correspond with your mentor.....you've got a mentor right?

1/29/2010 2:41:53 PM

43.841677 , -79.086692

2010 will be my first season with good seads. This fall and winter I have been reading, reading, reading. Talking to my offical mentor many times weekly and my non official mentors as well. At the GVGO all the experienced growers go out of their way to mentor the new guys.
This is also a great time to source supplies. I have had a steady stream of stuff coming in. That way I wont have to pay for it all at once come April.

1/29/2010 3:00:47 PM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

About all I can do now is reading and research. The snow is too deep and the weahter is too cold to d much else. Plus this year the ground is not frozen and is muddy under the snow. That is what happens when you get 10" of the white stuff before the ground freezes.

1/29/2010 5:27:54 PM

Bristol R.I. USA

Yes North Shore I do have a mentor. Several of them. You may have read my diary and have seen me make references to the "Wisemen" the wisemen are people from the SNGPG who are mentors and great people who will give advice and answer questions no matter how dumb they sound. Never once have they laughed at me or thought ill of the questions I've asked. Mike Oliver is helping me and has been a great inspiration as have Pap and the rest of the gang...I wish I was able to help them out the same way they've helped me..You wouldn't believe the feeling I got to be able to go to their patches. It's like meeting Mohammed Ali.

1/29/2010 6:25:33 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Good to hear Kenny, then you are on the right track to keep getting better.

1/29/2010 6:39:26 PM

Rhode Island

kenny
your welcome in our patch just leave the kilt at home ---lol
pap

1/30/2010 9:50:01 AM

Belgium

hmmm, what do I do at the end of the season, still 2 months to go and just placed the first greenhouse of the year in the snow..... and still more to come

1/30/2010 1:08:26 PM

Minnesota

Trying to get everything in order so it works like clock work. Like a machine.

1/30/2010 2:07:20 PM

Bristol R.I. USA

lol Pap! I'm sure that everyone would have a big laugh at seeing me playing the Pipes with the kilt on. I'm starting to get the green houses made soon I'll put them out to help warm the ground. Also I'll be getting to harbor freight tool and get an air pump to start getting the compost tea brewer made. It rots to get the equipment and not be able to use it right away. Thats why its so hard to spend the money now rather then when the season is in full swing.

1/30/2010 3:53:39 PM