How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry

too larry

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Sour Wreck said:
wow, i have so far to go in my outdoor garden.

@too larry ,why you growing on the beach? :bigjoint:

just kidding, i have to get my automated watering system up next year. temps are deadly here if you are plant with little water... :sad:
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That section with the corn and okra had a truck load of mushroom compost spread on it a couple three years ago. It actually has a darker color than the rest of the garden. When I showed the wife how good the corn and okra were growing where I had spread it and how weak the rest of it looked, she said she was going to call and get me a dump truck load of it. It's been 7-8 years since the BIL and I split a load. It was about 300 bucks back then. I'm sure it will be a little more. But still cheaper than the 15 bucks a scoop I'm paying now. {not to mention not having to go to town. Saves gas and time}

And yesterday morning after I got the cukes mulched, I ran the sprinkler, even though we had almost 3 inches of rain Tuesday night. It doesn't hang around long.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Damn I'm jealous of some of these gardens. I need more room. I have stuff crammed into every available spot in my yard and I still want to grow more. So far this year I've eaten zucchini, yellow squash, beets, onion, peas, kale, lettuce, radishes, and cucumbers from the garden. In a few days I'll be eating fresh green beans as well. I might have some fried green tomato's today.

My bean machine




I planted some bush beans in a small spot that was available. I'm going to put some more seeds in the ground today wherever I can find a spot.



Gotta have some greens. Some kale. I have some more scattered around also.



Siletz tomato



Stupice



Mortgage Lifter



Assorted Cherry and Grape



English Cucumber



I'm going to stop starting Cukes indoors. The ones on the left were started in the ground from seed and have caught up to and look healthier than the ones on the right transplanted from starts. Putting Cukes out early is a waste of time. They like warmer temps. I always try to play with mother nature but I never win.



Some corn






My girl wanted me to grow some gourds for her craft projects.



The giant pumpkins are taking over my yard




This sunflower came up on it's own

 
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too larry

too larry

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xtsho said:
Damn I'm jealous of some of these gardens. I need more room. I have stuff crammed into every available spot in my yard and I still want to grow more. So far this year I've eaten zucchini, yellow squash, beets, onion, peas, kale, lettuce, radishes, and cucumbers from the garden. In a few days I'll be eating fresh green beans as well. I might have some fried green tomato's today.

My bean machine




I planted some bush beans in a small spot that was available. I'm going to put some more seeds in the ground today wherever I can find a spot.



Gotta have some greens. Some kale. I have some more scattered around also.



Siletz tomato



Stupice



Mortgage Lifter



Assorted Cherry and Grape



English Cucumber



I'm going to stop starting Cukes indoors. The ones on the left were started in the ground from seed and have caught up to and look healthier than the ones on the right transplanted from starts. Putting Cukes out early is a waste of time. They like warmer temps. I always try to play with mother nature but I never win.



Some corn






My girl wanted me to grow some gourds for her craft projects.



The giant pumpkins are taking over my yard




This sunflower came up on it's own

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You are killing it. I want to do some pole beans on a trellis net. Growing them in the field corn is cool, but the corn is so much bigger, that it sucks up all the food and water, so the beans are playing 2nd fiddle from the start. The old guy who gave me the orange plants grew his pole beans on PVC pipes bent into a dome, with the plants around the edges. He did 3-4 20' links with a cedar post in the middle {with a couple three forks left on it}. It was high enough he could sit on a bucket underneath to pick. It was cool as hell. It made it's own shade. And the beans hand down so you can get to them.

I missed my spring kale and broccoli window. When I had the little 2x4's and plastic greenhouse, I had them all winter into the next spring. Since then I haven't been able to get my timing right and that is what the wife asks for the most.

A couple of days ago I stepped off the dripline on the oak in the middle of the garden. They say to go at least double that before planting. All of the BIL squash were inside that area, and a good deal of the okra and corn. But there are big oaks all along the south side, so if I used that, I wouldn't have much garden left.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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too larry said:
You are killing it. I want to do some pole beans on a trellis net. Growing them in the field corn is cool, but the corn is so much bigger, that it sucks up all the food and water, so the beans are playing 2nd fiddle from the start. The old guy who gave me the orange plants grew his pole beans on PVC pipes bent into a dome, with the plants around the edges. He did 3-4 20' links with a cedar post in the middle {with a couple three forks left on it}. It was high enough he could sit on a bucket underneath to pick. It was cool as hell. It made it's own shade. And the beans hand down so you can get to them.

I missed my spring kale and broccoli window. When I had the little 2x4's and plastic greenhouse, I had them all winter into the next spring. Since then I haven't been able to get my timing right and that is what the wife asks for the most.

A couple of days ago I stepped off the dripline on the oak in the middle of the garden. They say to go at least double that before planting. All of the BIL squash were inside that area, and a good deal of the okra and corn. But there are big oaks all along the south side, so if I used that, I wouldn't have much garden left.
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I plant kale in late summer so it's strong enough to over winter. That way I can harvest it a couple times in early spring before the bugs take over and I pull it up for other crops. The kale I have growing now is from some starts I planted when I pulled the over wintered kale. Once it warms up I don't have the bug problems specifically aphids, similar bugs, and cabbage worms. I grew Brussels sprouts one year and had to rip them out after they got infested with bugs. Same thing happened this year with most of my lettuce. It turned into a slug nursery. There is no way I can enjoy a salad knowing the lettuce had slugs on it. I have some leaf lettuce starts I'm going to put in pots to have enough fresh lettuce for sandwiches, hamburgers, salad, etc... Once the tomato's are ready it will be time for BLT's.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Some garlic from store bought garlic that sprouted and I just stuck the cloves in the ground. Pretty small but fine for cutting in half and using for making stock.



Had to see how the carrots are doing.



Still pulling beets. I'll roast these on the grill for dinner tonight to go along with the Columbia river Spring Chinook fillet I pulled out of the freezer that a friend traded me for some weed. That, a cucumber salad and some potato's I'm going to dig up, cut into wedges, coat in Spanish olive oil, salt and pepper, and cook on the grill as well. I love this time of year when things you grow end up on your dinner plate fresh from the garden.

 
socaljoe

socaljoe

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The garden is plugging along. Trying to keep up with watering during this little heat wave has been difficult, but we're keeping up.

I've been seeing the most growth on my cucumbers and my Death's Door tomatoes.:mrgreen:

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too larry

too larry

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xtsho said:
That's the problem. I have to buy store bought bacon. I hoping that in a few years I'll be living on a few acres and will be able to raise my own meat. I would like to cure my own bacon.
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My BIL raises two shoats a year in our old stock trailer. You don't need a ton of space.
 
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