How Does Your Garden Grow??????

xtsho

xtsho

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Poontanger said:
I always plant a few Siberian tomatoes first, they can withstand very cold temperatures,they only get to golf ball size and you don't have to stake them if you don't want
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I've been growing the Siberia for a couple years now. It's a nice early tomato. I have a couple planted in the ground right now. I mix up a variety of different tomatoes as they ripen at different times and some years some do better than others.

This year I have

Siberia
Siletz
Early Red Chief
Roma
Super Beefsteak
Gold Nugget Cherry
Sweetie Cherry

All of the tomatoes I started from seeds with the exception of the Super Beefsteak and Roma I got from Ed Hume Seeds which is a regional outfit that sells varieties that do well here in the Pacific Northwest. I get most of my vegetable seeds from them.

I also have some volunteers almost a foot tall growing where I had a San Marzano last year.
 
injinji

injinji

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xtsho said:
. . . . . . . . I also have some volunteers almost a foot tall growing where I had a San Marzano last year.
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I transplanted two San Marzano and a Cherokee Purple into the cow trough at the riverhouse yesterday. My broccoli had gone to seed and died from the dry weather so took them out and added five gallons of Adult Tomato soil mix. Only one other tomato on the front deck, so sometimes I forget to water them.

Lot of stuff in the smaller cups and pots are dying. I water everyday, but the cups are too small to hold enough water. I've got to do a soil mix and get as many as I can into bigger pots. About 12 of my 15 grapevines had cashed yesterday morning. Also lots of the citrus in cups have turned yellow and died. Even the ones in gallon pots are looking rough. We did have 8/10th of an inch this morning. It will help.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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I picked some lettuce and pulled some radishes for salad. The strawberries are just starting to ripen. I ate most of them and the lady's going to be mad at me but I saved her a few.

I'll be sowing corn and cucumbers directly today. We have some hot weather for at least a week so it should help with a good germination. I can't plant the beans yet because of the peas in the spots that are not done yet and I'm worried about the 90° days coming up messing them up. We don't usually get temps this hot this soon. Peas don't like the heat. I might have to cover them with something during the hottest part of the day.




My bees are up and at work. I got a little too close for too long and a bunch came out of nowhere and started swarming around. Bumblebees are not very aggressive so I just walked away and stopped bothering them with my camera flash. They probably alerted the others in the yard that some jerk was taking pictures and came back to tell me to get lost.



I also noticed some birds making a nest in a wooden planter box I have filled with junk on the patio. I won't be moving anything in that this summer. I'm looking forward to sitting out back and hearing the chirps of baby birds. It's like a wildlife sanctuary in my backyard. There's a woodpecker that's been coming around and many other species of birds. I need to get my DSLR ready to take pictures. My camera doesn't cut it for zooming in.

You can see the bird with some nesting material in its beak. This is why I don't spray toxins in my yard. It's 100% bee and bird safe with lots of food.


 
Poontanger

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White shade cloth works very well at preventing frosts,, if you look at the photos I have posted you will notice what I have above,, it is just a framework that I can roll the cloth out over in extreme weather conditions,, very windy,, very hot,, thunderstorms hail & frosts, it works very well
 
Poontanger

Poontanger

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Poontanger said:
I always plant a few Siberian tomatoes first, they can withstand very cold temperatures,they only get to golf ball size and you don't have to stake them if you don't want
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I would also like to add that if you are super keen to get early tomatoes
Siberian tomatoes don't mind growing in pots say 40-50 lt,. Place the pots against a tin wall where the sun hits it most of the day,, this will help raise the temperature of the soil in the pot a lot quicker then the soil in the ground,, so obviously growth is greater and a lot better for the plant to have it sap flowing properly
 
Frankterpene

Frankterpene

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Poontanger said:
White shade cloth works very well at preventing frosts,, if you look at the photos I have posted you will notice what I have above,, it is just a framework that I can roll the cloth out over in extreme weather conditions,, very windy,, very hot,, thunderstorms hail & frosts, it works very well
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Yes i see. Next year ill be better prepared. Planing to go as big as my land allows me to install a bigger garden
 
Frankterpene

Frankterpene

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I finally fid a gire to encourage tomatoes for the last night nearing 0c. They responded well. Some of them are flowering since 2-3 days. They did well with those cover and warm water tank under the plastic. Im just worried about my cannabis plants.. as an unexperienced grower I didnt take care of the lighting schedule and w of them showing pistils at nodes... im worried :wall:
 

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BlandMeow

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Haven't had rain for weeks, so I'm staying positive with the 4 inches of rain we will see from Fri-Tue. I stillneed to get my pumpkins, delicata squash, and watermelon out into the garden still. Sick of caring flats in and out every day!

I'll come back with some pics of the garlic which is now 2.5ft tall. Worried it's just pumping leaves and not going to bulb for me, but time will tell.
 
SpideyManDan

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myke said:
Forecast was a little off,Had a low of 8c last night and forecast calls for more the same.Finally I think summer is here!
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Btw, your backyard looks pretty nice. Pretty cool setup you have too. Thats something i look forward to finally being able to have.
Frankterpene said:
I finally fid a gire to encourage tomatoes for the last night nearing 0c. They responded well. Some of them are flowering since 2-3 days. They did well with those cover and warm water tank under the plastic. Im just worried about my cannabis plants.. as an unexperienced grower I didnt take care of the lighting schedule and w of them showing pistils at nodes... im worried :wall:
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When a plant has been in veg for a while, it starts to pre-flower. The pre flowering is more of the plant signaling sexual maturity and/or getting ready to potentially accept pollen from males in the area. Its not the end of the world if it was on 12/12 for a bit and starts to flower, you can start giving it 18 hours again and it will go back into veg. It will take a little time for any potential flowering hormones to clear out, so maybe you lost some time, but it wont ruin the plant.
 
Poontanger

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BlandMeow said:
Haven't had rain for weeks, so I'm staying positive with the 4 inches of rain we will see from Fri-Tue. I stillneed to get my pumpkins, delicata squash, and watermelon out into the garden still. Sick of caring flats in and out every day!

I'll come back with some pics of the garlic which is now 2.5ft tall. Worried it's just pumping leaves and not going to bulb for me, but time will tell.
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Give your garlic a good water then wait for an hour or so and go and walk all over them or individually bend each stalk over so it is almost at right angles,, this will help stop all the goodness going into the leaves and help develop the bulb under the ground
In a few days time they will spring back up again,, so I just go and do it again,, you might snap the odd one but they still keep growing, I can't be bothered bending over and doing it by hand so I just walk all over them
Here's one I grew last year,
And I do the same two onions
 

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injinji

injinji

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myke said:
Im at 16 hrs 13 min.
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xtsho said:
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You guys up north have the long days in summer. But remember it will all equal out next winter. My shortest day is just under 10 hours.

I'm still struggling to work out the best times for planting weed. I lost all my old strains when I took off 12 years. Now everything wants to bloom in the rainy season and I have an annual rot-a-thon to end the season.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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injinji said:
You guys up north have the long days in summer. But remember it will all equal out next winter. My shortest day is just under 10 hours.

I'm still struggling to work out the best times for planting weed. I lost all my old strains when I took off 12 years. Now everything wants to bloom in the rainy season and I have an annual rot-a-thon to end the season.
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Yeah we get those 8 1/2 hours of sunlight in the middle of December. Fortunately we typically have mild winters here in the PNW unlike the freezing brutal winters they get in other northern states and Canada. Being 80 miles from the pacific ocean the weather patterns that roll off keep that arctic cold that drops down away from us. But sometimes early fall rains bring us our own rot-a-thon.
 
injinji

injinji

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xtsho said:
Yeah we get those 8 1/2 hours of sunlight in the middle of December. Fortunately we typically have mild winters here in the PNW unlike the freezing brutal winters they get in other northern states and Canada. Being 80 miles from the pacific ocean the weather patterns that roll off keep that arctic cold that drops down away from us. But sometimes early fall rains bring us our own rot-a-thon.
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I'm learning more about spring crops every year. Not the same yield, but if you dodge getting killed by the cold, there is a lot less rot. What is sad is all my old strains flowered later, just catching the tail end of the rainy season.

And almost all of my new strains, the seeds were grown in your neck of the woods, so they are used to 15 hour days. The Ass Cheese and Gorille de Raisin are Oregon grown. Also the Random Bud X TPD and all the Oregon's Best Bag Seed. (my buddy who is a pro grower gave me his bag seed collection. And on the grounds that when a grower is out, he only buys dank, I'm trying all of them this season)

A couple three years ago one of the Ass Cheese f2's and an Ass Cheese Blues flowered in June and never revegged. I need to work with them using really long light hours, then put them out and see if they will flower in the summer regularly. That would change the game.
 
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