Last year we decided we needed to find a “green” fertilizer or organic fertilizer – whatever you want to call it.   We found lots of options, including (but not limited to):

Fish emulsion

Seaweed emulsion

Granule based fertilizer mixtures

Manure

Vermicompost tea

Compost tea

And the list goes on and on…

While looking, we came across what ended up being our final choice.  A product called Great Big Plants (or GBP as we like to call it).  Great Big Plants is a compost concentrate that you add when you watering (mix it into your watering can) – and it gives your plants a nice kick in the backside.

We used it last year, but not consistently – this year we just started with it (we have been busy ok!) and plan to keep it consistent from here on out.  It is so easy to use, I mean you just add it to your watering can (that sounds so old school) and apply it to the base of the plant.  Done.

Then you can sit back, drink a cold one and field questions from your friends when they can’t believe your GREAT BIG PLANTS.  See how I worked that in?  Yeah… I have been working on that for a week.  haha  No, but really a great  product for those that maybe can’t do a compost bin/heap.  This is like having a compost bin… in a bottle.  Trust us.

So if you have a minute, and want to read more about Great Big Plants – here is a link to their website…

Visit Great Big Plants

Tell them we sent you, or don’t… doesn’t really matter.  They have tons of info to read and several different versions of the compost concentrate – so check ‘em all out.

Tags: Container Gardening, Gardening, Gardening Tips, Growing Garlic, Growing Okra, Growing Onions, Growing Peppers, Growing Potatoes, Growing Strawberries, Growing Tomatoes, Growing Watermelons, Living Green, Organic Fertilizer, Organic Gardening, Recession Gardening, raised beds by James
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Thought we would share this tip with folks growing strawberries this year – will realize that the longer your strawberries are laying on the ground… the more likely they are to get eaten by insects or damaged from laying on the ground itself.  Well a quick tip, and easy solution is to lay a sheet of newspaper under your strawberries so they aren’t laying directly on the soil. 

Like this…

Do you have any tips you want to share.  Strawberry tips or just tips in general.  Email us your tip and we will include it on Double Danger giving you credit!  Or just share your tip in the comments.

Tags: Container Gardening, DIY, Eating At Home, Gardening, Gardening Tips, Growing Strawberries, Living Green, Organic Gardening, Pictures, Recession Gardening, raised beds by James
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So we have been on garden-watch for the past month or so just begging our plants to do SOMETHING.  But they don’t listen.  We buy them things.  We pet them.  We baby them like no other…

but nothing seems to really do the trick.

They are stubborn.  Like us.

But finally, this week – a few of them have budged.  Yesterday we were walking around in the heat snapping pics and hi5-ing each other as we saw each new development.  So it is only fair for us to share with you guys eh?

So here ya go…

You have likely seen this guy before, but he has gotten so BIG.  We are proud.  Our lil boy’s growing up!

Disregard the ant… he was being an asshole and wouldn’t move.  This is our okra.  It is slow growing, but growing still… working on its second set of tru leaves – we can’t wait to jump head first into some fried okra this summer.

We had a million blooms this year, and thought – man we are going to actually get some limes this time around.  Well then they all fell off, we got 40MPH winds – and so on.  But this lil guy and one other are still hanging on.  I’m sure it will fall off, but hopefully it will be garnishing a beer at some point.  Who knows?

Shala’s Fuschia is pimpin’ as ever.  We murdered one of these last year in about a week (record time).  So we are happy to see it doing so awesome.  The foliage is nice and healthy – not to mention about 100 blooms on it.  I know Nestmaker just threw up from all the blooms.  Sorry.

Just had to give you a closeup of one.  So cool.  Ok – enough.

Ok – you know you see them in there.  The first lil blooms of our tomato season.  Right there in the crotch… see it?  We do.  FINALLY.  Maybe we can get them germinated pollinated (wrong word sorry hehe) and then next pics we take will be baby tomato butts.  We can only hope so.

Yup, that is a strawberry bloom – nice and healthy.  We saved this guy from death – since Lowe’s didn’t think it was worth saving.  Now it is about to produce some of its first strawberries.  MmmmMmmm.

How does your garden grow?  Anything we should know about?  Any new blooms, new veggies… anything?  Do share.

Tags: Container Gardening, Flowers, Food, Gardening, Growing Okra, Growing Peppers, Growing Strawberries, Growing Tomatoes, Living Green, Organic Gardening, Recession Gardening, Seeds & Seedlings, Springy, raised beds by James
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