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Entertainment & Artistry => Sports/Outdoors & Manpoon => Topic started by: Steve on March 18, 2012, 07:28:27 PM
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So, who's got them? This is my first year doing one of my own as opposed to helping other people with theirs. Going to plant some squash, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, and maybe even some corn. Probably some other stuff, Ashley hasn't really spoken up yet about what she wants in there.
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we mostly do tomatoes; also cucumber and green onion. Tried other stuff but it is hit or miss - like peppers. We also have red and black currant, gooseberry, a shit load of blackberries, raspberries, and grapes. We had strawberries but not this year because we decided to do some pavers there...
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Peppers, of course! We use a ton of those. Im not expecting any growing issues. Our lawn holds quite a bit of water, im actually hopig this will soak some up from rains. And the sun is pretty great here, mix of sun and shade.
Fingers crossed! Tomorrow i need to put the fencing up keep the critters out
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Squash or zucchini are cool, but you have to be careful or they'll take over your whole damn yard. We have a 4x8 plot and usually grow tomatoes, peppers, and green beans. Last fall I planted a raspberry bush so I'm looking forward to seeing that come in this year, too.
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i live in an apartment. :(
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i live in an apartment. :(
Unless you don't have a balcony, you can still grow stuff in planters. We did when we lived in an apt.
We have a garden, but I don't know that we're going to use it this year. Last year was a disaster. Probably because it was so wet.
Things we've had success with:
Zucchini
Butternut squash
Green Beans
Cherry Tomatoes
Jalepeno peppers
Habanero peppers
Things that have failed:
Broccoli
Watermelon
Carrots
Cauliflower
Watermelon is hard to grow, which I found out after the fact. Broccoli/Cauliflower are also hard because it can be good one day and past it's prime the next and you also have to plant it at pretty much the exact right time in the right conditions. I think the ground in our garden wasn't loose enough for Carrots. They grew but they were stunted.
Be careful with tomatoes. You don't need many plants to grow a shitload of them. Zucchini is by far the easiest and can be used in sooo many things.
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>>green beans
oh yeah, we do those too. Great investment!
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Things that have failed:
Broccoli
Watermelon
Carrots
Cauliflower
Are all a pain in the ass and IMO not worth the effort. Carrots were the worst. The nightmare creatures that came out of our last garden looked like demon spawn. Gives me shivers thinking about it.
Tomatoes, onions, beans, peas, peppers, potatoes, and Brussels sprouts all rocked. Onions were by far my favorite. We replanted them over and again we went through so many.
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Things that have failed:
Broccoli
Watermelon
Carrots
Cauliflower
Are all a pain in the ass and IMO not worth the effort.
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So I'm curious, do you guys have some elaborate fencing system around your gardens? Anything we plant other than perilla gets eaten up before they are worth picking.
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Not elaborate, but I do have some short fencing around mine.
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None around mine but we have fence around the whole yard.
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None around mine but we have fence around the whole yard.
that.
When we tried growing carrots, lettuce, and other crap like that I put up fencing around it...but since that whole crop didn't wokr out too well, I took it down.
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I have had the opposite experience with Watermelon. In my dad's garden and in Pat's the past few years it has grown wonderfully. Hoping to have the same experience this year.
So far we have:
Watermelon
Cherry Tomatoes
Squash
Yellow/Red/Green peppers
Cucumbers
Habanero peppers (thnx for the idea obes)
So I'm curious, do you guys have some elaborate fencing system around your gardens? Anything we plant other than perilla gets eaten up before they are worth picking.
I have an 8 x 10 plot, and around it every 2 feet are wooden stakes. Then going around those is three levels (top, middle, bottom) of regular white string. Then as a lost barrier (more for wind, the string seems to keep bunnies and things out) is a wrap of orange snow fencing.
The whole fence is about 2.5 feet tall and there is a section of orange fence that opens up so you can step in over the string.
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treated the soil in the garden today and got some seeds planted inside in the starter pots!
Excited.
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We planted lettuce, sweet potatoes, jalapenos, bell peppers, tomatoes, and a few different herbs a couple weekends ago. The lettuce just started coming in this weekend :)
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We planted lettuce, sweet potatoes, jalapenos, bell peppers, tomatoes, and a few different herbs a couple weekends ago. The lettuce just started coming in this weekend :)
What type of lettuce?
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I've got no idea. A friend brought over the seeds and I didn't look to closely at it. It's green. Could be romaine. Could be weed?
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move you to drafts is what I should do.
With that thread in drafts you can have all your nintendoy talk and not have me make fun of you! win-win homey
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I wanted to plant lettuce, but it got voted out in favor of other things.
My friggen squash plants look like jungle trees, they are taking over lol. Watermelon, tomato, peppers, squash, and strawberry have started coming in. Onion should be ready soon, and the pumpkin plants have grown quite a bit this past week.
We are getting good rain today so when the sun hits tomorrow they will take off like they always do.
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I've got no idea. A friend brought over the seeds and I didn't look to closely at it. It's green. Could be romaine. Could be weed?
As long as it isn't iceburg.
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i live in an apartment. :(
Me too, but we have a small planter on the balcony with oregano, spearmint (mojitos!), and parsley.
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a few pictures we took this evening.
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Looking good!! I will take some tomorrow. Ours looks like shit honestly because my fence got tore up by the wind, but the plants are doing perfect. Wait until you see how big my squash / zucchini plants are. It's insane.
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our tomatoes are even bigger than last year. The plants AND the fruit. There are two plants that are over 7 feet high. we eat and give out tomatoes to friends and neighbors daily. holy cow what an awesome crop. green beans on the other hand did not do so hot; had a good early crop a few times and then the sun got them :/
Also really big blackberries - and a ton of 'em. They are not very sweet, but that is ok. I add some sour cream and sugar and the kids eat them up. My wife also made some jam. And we still have a shit load.
Red currant sucked this year. So did black currant. We moved the gooseberry last fall, so we had like 3 gooseberries this year :(
Something attacked our grape plant and destroyed 50-60% of the leafs. The fruit had no cover and the birds got 'em.
So all-in-all pretty good year.
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some pics from a couple of weeks ago
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You have me beat. My squash and zucchini took over and ever thing else struggles after the first few weeks. Pumpkins have not started yet, watermelons are slow. Everything else is struggling to stay alive.
It started off really well
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we had a really crappy gardening year. The worst since we started doing it. Tomatoes were weak and didn't taste real good. Had a bunch of squash and zucchini plants, but those yielded maybe 5 total fruit. Pickles completely dried out. Not too much green beans. a few sweet peas. Fruit bushes didn't do much better. The only thing that did well was the grape vine. There were a ton of grapes...until we had two nights of close to freezing temps and what we didn't pick went to shit.
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Find a source of organic material and leave a layer on and work it on the entire garden. Also move the positions of various species around drastically. Odds are you are already doing this....but...just in case.