Re: Growing food
Here's the transplanting method we use to transfer containerized plants into the ground, it's called "wet-to-wet" - <br /><br />It's simple really, you get some liquified seaweed, mix it up in a bucket, and let your plants soak in it after removing 'em from the container...give 'em a good couple hours in there. Dig the hole, fill it with the diluted mixture, let it all soak in, then fill it again. Plop your plant in there - go back a few minutes later & saturate the ground with the seaweed mixture again. We always add "rabbit poop" to the soil, it's a locally-made natural fertilizer that include earthworm castings, rabbit poop, who knows what else.<br /><br />and shredded hardwood mulch - that's my favorite...forms a sort of crust, won't float away, won't track into the house (not very much anyway), keeps roots warm in the winter, highly recommended.<br /><br />That liquified seaweed stuff is great...they also have a liquified fish that is reportedly better...tried that once, but the odor was so strong & so bad, neighbors were coming around "what's that smell" I mean it's horrible!<br /><br />we learned this when we had some landscaping done a few years ago...got a big discount to have it done mid-January, below-freezing temps...they planted several dozen perinneal shrubs & flowers and we didn't lose any. Haven't lost many to speak of since.
<br /><br />I built an 8x20 green house a little while ago. Right now I've only got some strawberries growing in there. I'm thinking about planting some corn in there soon. I used to grow a bunch of corn outside but I decided the area would be better for parking. 
