How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[sandhill larry]

The wife and I have decided to have a wood and glass greenhouse built. We are just waiting for the right time to do it. I have enough glass for about half of it now, and haven't really tried rounding up old windows yet. I thought I had a deal with a cool contractor. He would have taken partial payment in smoke. But his business has blown up since then. He is jacking his price up to discourage folks from hiring him. Too busy for a small project like that.

 

[thewanderer718]

Saw the first squash blooms yesterday. Shouldn't be too long now.

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Saw the first squash blooms yesterday. Shouldn't be too long now.

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When i was a youngster my dad would pick squash blooms in the morning and cut them up and mix them in our scrambled eggs. ( man i miss dad and those eggs). Looking great man and thank you for reminding me about those days

 

[sandhill larry]

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When i was a youngster my dad would pick squash blooms in the morning and cut them up and mix them in our scrambled eggs. ( man i miss dad and those eggs). Looking great man and thank you for reminding me about those days

Sister cooks with them, but I can't remember exactly how she does it. I'm with you on missing my dad. He's been gone for 15 years, which doesn't even sound right saying it.

 

[thewanderer718]

Sister cooks with them, but I can't remember exactly how she does it. I'm with you on missing my dad. He's been gone for 15 years, which doesn't even sound right saying it.

Yea mine has been gone going on two years now. I still have some ruff days

 

[sandhill larry]

Yea mine has been gone going on two years now. I still have some ruff days

Time does round off the rough edges.

 

[thumper60]

They are looking good. That short growing season must be a bitch. Last year I started some sweet corn inside under lights, and all my southern e-gardening friends thought I was crazy. But there were a couple of folks from up your way, and they said they had to start corn inside or it wouldn't make it in time to market.

that's what a lot of farmers do up here,they put the black plastic on the rows so they can get plant a week or two early

 

[sandhill larry]

that's what a lot of farmers do up here,they put the black plastic on the rows so they can get plant a week or two early

Lots of tomatoes and peppers grown around here. They mound up the dirt and cover it with black plastic to get an early start too. They run drip lines under the plastic. You never want to get tomato plants wet if you can help it.

 

[Roche Mars]

 

[sandhill larry]

I've been doing a lot of work in the garden, but haven't had time to post much on here. Here is some Jalapeno in the pepper pit.

 

[sandhill larry]

I got a scoop of mushroom compost this week. Fifteen bucks, or three per swimming pool.

 

[sandhill larry]

I side dressed and mounded up dirt around the bigger melon plants, while trying to avoid stepping on the replants. These guys are pretty lucky. {see my foot prints on both sides of them}

 

[sandhill larry]

I side dressed and worked the okra. Came back and hand watered everything. Early on I ran the sprinklers, and the weeds tried to take over.

 

[sandhill larry]

Picked the first squash of the year today. I was hiking most of the week, and damn it if they didn't keep growing while I was walking. Might be a hair too big.

 

[sandhill larry]

Last week I dug 13 holes and added 2 gallons of mushroom compost to each. I let it sit in the sun for a week to cool off.


Got out this morning and mixed that in with my sandy soil.



I had about 20 of the 2014 saved seed Crimson Sweet sprouts that needed planting.



Gave each a gallon of weak coffee ground compost tea.



You can see how my sand sucks up the water. Should have rain the next couple three days, so hope they do alright.

 

[Susan Harris]

I like your techniques of growing garden

 

[sandhill larry]

I like your techniques of growing garden

Thank you. I really need to spend more time in the garden. But time seems to be in short supply.

 

[SwitchHitter]

Had one of these lights given to me...... yeah, I also gave it away.LOL

 

[sandhill larry]

This morning I got the tomatoes in the new Redneck Rain Gutter Grow System. I need to scoop out an inch or so of sod on the high end, then it will be pretty level.

6 Pruden's Purple, 1 Yellow Pear and 4 Brandywine. There is a good sized tomato on one of the Brandywines.

 

[sandhill larry]

Spaghetti squash.



Not sure what kind this is, but the wife cooked some in stir-fry for lunch, and it was good. {this is a pretty small one}



We did find the name of this one with Google, but I don't remember what it is. Have not tried one of these yet.

 

[sandhill larry]

Saw the first little Crimson Sweet melons this morning.



And the re-plants are coming along nicely.