2021 Veggie Gardens
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I really don't have enough room for that tent without pulling down the 32x32 I have the competition plants growing in. I want the 2x4 to be my dedicated veg tent with the occasional flowering cycle in there.
Ohio.george
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This weeks lettuce haul, and this freak of nature Cucumber that came outta nowhere
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H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
I have everything set except the peppers lower left. They are all going to get 2-3gallon cloth pots, and get spread out in the blank area with cages or something
I am a big proponent of natural weed control, and not having to mow much. The bare areas are seeded with clover, then if it takes, the stuff will sit in bare spots LOL. My front yard is in the process of reducing mowable acreage. I'm letting this go to seed before mowing it. Pollenators love the stuff too. To me, if it doesn't get too tall, have spines or thorns, and look halfway decent it is not a weed. But clover is excellent for fixing nitrogen in the soil.
Peppers get stakes or cages, but the overhead drop is better for tomatoes. Just wrap them as they grow, drop a new line for any secondary limbs you want to keep. When they reach the top I super-crop them and after a foot or so along the top let them grow back down. The cherry tomatoes are super prolific like that.
The rest is just johnny appleseed chucking to see what stuck.
Zuchinni and some peas
Cucumbers and more peas
and some giant pumpkin mainly for the grandkids at halloween, but the seeds are great.
I am a big proponent of natural weed control, and not having to mow much. The bare areas are seeded with clover, then if it takes, the stuff will sit in bare spots LOL. My front yard is in the process of reducing mowable acreage. I'm letting this go to seed before mowing it. Pollenators love the stuff too. To me, if it doesn't get too tall, have spines or thorns, and look halfway decent it is not a weed. But clover is excellent for fixing nitrogen in the soil.
Peppers get stakes or cages, but the overhead drop is better for tomatoes. Just wrap them as they grow, drop a new line for any secondary limbs you want to keep. When they reach the top I super-crop them and after a foot or so along the top let them grow back down. The cherry tomatoes are super prolific like that.
The rest is just johnny appleseed chucking to see what stuck.
Zuchinni and some peas
Cucumbers and more peas
and some giant pumpkin mainly for the grandkids at halloween, but the seeds are great.
My wife got most of the veggies transplanted outside for me today while I pointed to where they needed to go. They don't look very happy right now so I'm hoping they turn around over the next day or two. The pole beans look like they are about ready to grow beans...I'd say I started them WAY too early.
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
Just started the beds with peas, carrots and lettuce. Started the tomatoes, cukes and peppers indoors.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
I just started a few portable beds with lettuce and green onions. The carrots seed I bought disappeared somewhere between the store and my house.
They have cool little tape strips now with the seeds inbedded. Very easy instead of messing with those tiny seeds. My tomatoes are pretty much set. The one plastic pot may or may not stay like that but I didn't have any more big cloth pots. Cukes and zuchini are past the seed-leaf stage.
Got two of my peppers up-potted then moved them all inside. 3 days-ish of rain predicted starting last night and I didn't want them just getting mudded in.
Because of the rain I also seeded the rest of the bare spots in the yard with crimson clover. No clue how that will work. Never purposefully planted weeds before...
Nobighurry
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We made a trellis for the beans today with leftover garden fence. I’m thinking of doing the same thing for the squash and cucumbers.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
Ed Zachary! (with Asian accent that used to be allowed as funny
)I already have those two 4'x4's to stretch it between, and a spool of stuff leftover from keeping the rabbits out.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
Now that I am getting a defined area where I can grow established I am going to invest in more permanent fencing. I got some 2.2' tall dog-pen fencing that works well enough, but a determined groundhog or rabbit would have no problem. I like that stuff you have @TreeFarmerCharlie
I have been working to reclaim a larger area around the garden but with the briars, honeysuckle, these damn gold colored shrubs that spread like fucking strawberries, and enough poison ivy sprinkled around to keep you careful - I am just taking my time. I'm going to fence in that huge oak log instead of trying to move the damn thing.
If I can get that clover established as the ground cover that will solve a lot of problems.
I have been working to reclaim a larger area around the garden but with the briars, honeysuckle, these damn gold colored shrubs that spread like fucking strawberries, and enough poison ivy sprinkled around to keep you careful - I am just taking my time. I'm going to fence in that huge oak log instead of trying to move the damn thing.
If I can get that clover established as the ground cover that will solve a lot of problems.
The fencing I have I ordered through Lowe’s. I’ve never seen it actually in stock at the stores by me so I ordered it online and had them ship it to my house. Here’s a link in case you are wondering exactly what I have. The holes are only 3/4” x 3/4” so it should keep most pests out.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
Didn't see that it was plastic. I'm thinking steel but the same set-up with the easy-stakes.
So, after all that work, pretty much everything we moved outside died because I didn't harden them off well enough. The only plants that survived were the tomatoes and peppers. I ended up going to a local garden center today and picked up really healthy looking starter plants and replanted everything...and after seeing how damn cheap they are I wonder why I bothered with seeds in the first place. It cost me like $25 for everything I needed to replace (9 beans, 3 zucchini, 3 squash, 3 cucumber, 6 cabbage, 6 iceberg lettuce, and 6 eggplant) plus I decided to add 6 basil plants and 6 romaine lettuce to the garden.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
Exactly. I think that for special stuff, heirloom tomatoes and such starting seeds is/was the way to go, but they are putting out some wild varieties in the garden center now. Not even worth it.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
I am going pretty laid back. If it grows it grows. I have a good farmers market close.
The tape-strip "easy grow" seeds for the lettuce worked. I have three rows, and about 30' of tape/seeds left for more crops. I think I put green onion between the three rows. I know there's green onion in the small container.
The cuke I started inside is gonna stay on my screened/greenhouse roof "porch" (half-ass covered deck) I'll let it climb around in there and see what happens. I have clover everywhere now. Hope I don't regret it LOL
Only two issuesplants I have are the bell peppers I think they're done.
The cage match.
Zuchini n peas
Cukes n peas
The tape-strip "easy grow" seeds for the lettuce worked. I have three rows, and about 30' of tape/seeds left for more crops. I think I put green onion between the three rows. I know there's green onion in the small container.
The cuke I started inside is gonna stay on my screened/greenhouse roof "porch" (half-ass covered deck) I'll let it climb around in there and see what happens. I have clover everywhere now. Hope I don't regret it LOL
Only two issuesplants I have are the bell peppers I think they're done.
The cage match.
Zuchini n peas
Cukes n peas
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
Chipmunks don't eat strawberries - apparently nothing does. I've gotten a few handfulls off basically junk plants. This might be a crop worth spending some effort on. These were in pots at my apartment over three years ago waiting on the divorce to finalize, and when I moved in I jammed them in the dirt. Period. I have done nothing to them, including watering. They get rain when it happens
In the front is that parsley going to seed. Instead of having an herb garden, I have several spots around the yard I can get cooking supplies
In the front is that parsley going to seed. Instead of having an herb garden, I have several spots around the yard I can get cooking supplies