Nifty Gardening Ideas

Nifty Gardening Ideas CROPS Miscellaneous Long-time subscriber Chuck Angier is an innovative guy who runs Angier Agri-Services Sandy Level Va an online seller of garden supplements Chuck’s been working in ag for 50 years He tests all products himself and all photos on his website were taken in his garden He even does the website himself and warns visitors “I don’t know squat about designing websites so get used to it!” www angierag com; ph 434-688-2208 Anyway a couple of Chuck’s gardening ideas recently caught my eye The first one was the idea of “being the first in your neighborhood to have fresh sweet corn” by starting corn plants inside the same way you might start tomato or pepper plants He starts several flats of corn a few weeks before he can get into the garden then transplants them when they get to be a couple inches tall “Some people call it cheating but I call it smart ” says Chuck who likes being the first to have fresh corn in early summer He says corn is more resistant to frost than most people think “At first my gardening buddies had great fun at my expense but now they’re all doing it ” The second idea Chuck passed along is a simple way to make trellises out of 16-ft long cattle panels He staples the ends to chunks of 4 by 4’s and then inserts them into cement blocks He sets them up so they’re about 5 1/2 ft tall at the peak Cucumbers and beans hang down inside making them easy to pick At the end of the season he can easily stack the trellises alongside the garden

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