Sour Wreck
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whoa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How Does Your Garden Grow??????
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too larry
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In the future I'm only going to put 4 plants per pool. It's going to be a bitch to pick.
too larry
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Year before last I grew one Yellow Pear tomato in a kiddie pool. That son of a bitch made so many tomatoes, I killed it, just so I could get a break from picking. It grew up as tall as the T-post I had it tied to, then it grew back down to the ground.
too larry
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I went ahead and gave the BIL squash a light side dressing when I was doing everything else at the beginning of the week. I was real careful to keep it way away from the tender young plants. Looks like I might have got it a little too hot anyway. But the ones that didn't get burned are taking off. I had planted these in the skips of the other {round white} squash. Only had 4 of those, and 2 were real runts. So I culled all of them, and planted more of the BIL seeds in those spots on Thursday. Also did the rest of the half row.
Sour Wreck
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explain the kiddie pool configuration for a dummy... i might need to implement this next year.
i must get my automated timer setup for watering...
too larry
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Each pool holds 45-50 gallons of soil mix. I use them for mixing and storing my soils, so as they get old and have holes in them, I put them out in the garden with plants in them. Practice has shown that covering all exposed plastic with mulch will increase it's life. When putting 4 plants, you just put them on the 4 cardinal compass points. With 5, add one in the middle. The wire legs of the cages will poke though the bottom of the pools, so you just tie all of them together, and put in one stake to hold it all in place.
Let me look back and find a good picture of the young plants in the pools.
socaljoe
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I'm using that same trellis netting for my cucumbers. It's pretty nice.
too larry
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Good to hear that. Most of the time when you are searching Amazon, any product that is an Amazon Choice is going to have pretty good quality for a pretty good price.
socaljoe
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My thoughts exactly.
Here's a shot of my cucumbers today. I'm blown away that these are less than 1 month old.
too larry
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Those do look nice. My first round of cukes are just about toast. The rain did a number on them. But the replants are doing well. I just need the Armenians to start producing.
socaljoe
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I can't wait to get some Armenians going. It's hard to tell from the picture, but I've got 6 plants in each 30 gallon pot. So I'm hoping to have a nice haul of cukes. Got Armenians and Straight Eight varieties going. I'm going to have to learn how to make pickles this year, I love me some pickles.
too larry
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Once you grow Armenians, all other cukes pale in comparison. When I'm having a good year, I will eat two or three in the garden before I ever make it to the house with them.
Google pickle and cucumber recipes. We found lots of good salads online.
too larry
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The wife is home washing peas to get them ready to go in the freezer this afternoon while I'm at work. I called to ask how it was going. She saw a worm as she was looking through them, but covered it up before she had a chance to pick it out. Now she can't find it again. It was funny as hell to hear her tell it. I do hope she finds it.
xtsho
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I'm digging some more area for gardening. This is what I'm dealing with. It's not fun and since I'm not in my twenties anymore my body lets me know . It's good soil once you get rid of all the rocks.
Cucumbers are coming along fine. Now that it's warmed up they're really starting to grow.
It sure is nice with the irrigation I put in. Turn it on and walk away. I had been hand watering with the hose but that was too time consuming.
Cucumbers are coming along fine. Now that it's warmed up they're really starting to grow.
It sure is nice with the irrigation I put in. Turn it on and walk away. I had been hand watering with the hose but that was too time consuming.
too larry
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I got soaker hoses down for the peppers a couple days ago. I still have to run some for the kiddie pool tomatoes. The middle pool was wilted pretty bad this morning. And all the Hatch peppers still in pots were in rough shape. I set the worse in pans and filled with water. I'm going to give most of them away tomorrow.
xtsho
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I'm sure your peppers in pots look better than mine in the ground. Mine are fried. I started mixing my own fertilizer from organic ingredients. Bought 50 lb bags of kelp, crab meal, alfalfa meal, rock phosphate, guano, etc... I used that to amend the soil and everything is doing great except my peppers. For some reason I decided to toss another handful in the hole when I transplanted my peppers and it was too much. They're starting to come around but I lost at least a month of growth. They're stunted and burned up. I blew it with my peppers this year. Everything else is doing great so I can take comfort in that.