Veggie Competition for Fun

[DesertSativa]

i was just gonna attach a hose to it and water by hand with the hose and have no drip lines, i like to spend as much time as i can in the garden so hand watering lets me play in theri for an xtra 15-30 minutes. thanks for the info though, i think i am going to raise my barrel when it gets light enough and just do that until my irrigation gets turned on.
and i would just buy the pump but if i had the money it would go towards a bunch of other stuff that is very much needed. i do have a pool pump that i could some how convert to pump water out, but it pumps water so dam fast, i think it is like 20 gallons a minute



thats all good man, maybe a down side for us if they grow bigger and faster. but ya its cool man the comp is open to any and all people and ways of growing

I think 20 gallons per minute might be a bit overkill for a garden! Actually, I would love to see the garden that needed a 20 gallon per minute water pump!

 

[mcpurple]

I think 20 gallons per minute might be a bit overkill for a garden! Actually, I would love to see the garden that needed a 20 gallon per minute water pump!

thats what i was kinda implying, it is way to much, i think on a hot day my whole garden would need about 30 gallons, but 20 a minis way to fast and a waist. im gonna fiddle with it and see if i can make it work slower

 

[DesertSativa]

thats what i was kinda implying, it is way to much, i think on a hot day my whole garden would need about 30 gallons, but 20 a minis way to fast and a waist. im gonna fiddle with it and see if i can make it work slower

I also agree about spending time in the garden. My planting beds are not hooked up to any automatic irrigation so it is all done by me.

 

[mcpurple]

I also agree about spending time in the garden. My planting beds are not hooked up to any automatic irrigation so it is all done by me.

i just like being in theri. it brings me to a piece of mind and makes me feel some what accomplished about my work in the garden. i wish i had a huge back yard cuz it would all be garden.

 

[mcpurple]

here is my tomato im entering. beef steak, just planted the other day in the ground it stands about 9 inches. i tied a piece of hemp around the stock to keep track of it

 

[DesertSativa]

here is my tomato im entering. beef steak, just planted the other day in the ground it stands about 9 inches. i tied a piece of hemp around the stock to keep track of it

Damn, that thing looks healthy as hell! Can't wait to see it take off. Do you pull off the suckers or leave them be? Also, will you put a cage or some sort of support around it or leave it be?

 

[mcpurple]

thanks DS.
i just leave th suckers for now, i might take off the top ones when it gets bigger to make it branch out a bit more. and i only have 3 small cages from last year and cant afford any more i am gonna do a support for them but it is kinda hard for me to explain so when they are in place i will take a pic and show you what i did. i dont have enough cash to buy 15 cages.

 

[DesertSativa]

thanks DS.
i just leave th suckers for now, i might take off the top ones when it gets bigger to make it branch out a bit more. and i only have 3 small cages from last year and cant afford any more i am gonna do a support for them but it is kinda hard for me to explain so when they are in place i will take a pic and show you what i did. i dont have enough cash to buy 15 cages.

I hear ya. None of the tomatoes in my beds have supports. I might get some steaks to help them but might just leave them to stand on their own. I would need 10 cages myself, so I know what you are talking about!

 

[mcpurple]

here is a pick of what i am going to do, except i will use river wood in each row cuz its free. but the idea is to use the strings as support on both sides of the plants so it can lean either way.

its cheap and im sure it will be effective

 

[DesertSativa]

here is a pick of what i am going to do, except i will use river wood in each row cuz its free. but the idea is to use the strings as support on both sides of the plants so it can lean either way.

its cheap and im sure it will be effective

Looks good. I was thinking of doing something similar for my corn but they have set roots deep enough now to stand upright.

 

[mcpurple]

i might do the same with my sunflowers to if they are gonna need it.

i forgot to ask inyour thread but i know you have a bunch of flowers in your beds, and was wondering if any of those help to deter any pests?

 

[DesertSativa]

i might do the same with my sunflowers to if they are gonna need it.

i forgot to ask inyour thread but i know you have a bunch of flowers in your beds, and was wondering if any of those help to deter any pests?

Just the marigolds. The petunias or whatever they are are just because my girlfriend went nuts planting.

 

[mcpurple]

whats does the marigolds deter. i read a bunch of flowers can help deter pests but then when i went to go buy some at the nursery i asked the lady if they had any flowers that do that and they said no flower does that so it kinda contradicted all the books and info i have read about them. i think the lady was wrong and just a bit under educated at her job

 

[DesertSativa]

whats does the marigolds deter. i read a bunch of flowers can help deter pests but then when i went to go buy some at the nursery i asked the lady if they had any flowers that do that and they said no flower does that so it kinda contradicted all the books and info i have read about them. i think the lady was wrong and just a bit under educated at her job

Marigolds are good for quite a lot of things. Let me do a quick google search...Here you go: Annual Marigolds can be used anywhere to deter Mexican bean beetles, squash bugs, thrips, tomato hornworms, aphids,and whiteflies. They are also known to repel harmful root knot nematodes (soil dwelling microscopic white worms) that attack tomatoes, potatoes, roses, and strawberries. The root of the Marigold produces a chemical that kills nematodes as they enter the soil. If a whole area is infested, at the end of the season, turn the Marigolds under so the roots will decay in the soil. You can safely plant there again the following spring.

 

[mellokitty]

marigolds deter bad nematodes. i've *heard* deer don't like to eat them but i could be thinking of something else.
nasturtiums ostensibly help with aphids by attracting them all to themselves, but after what i saw last year, i think we may just have had less aphids in general if we hadn't grown them at all.

any broccoli in this contest? my romanesco natalinos just came up. (you know, that one that looks like a tetrahedron?)

 

[mcpurple]

thanx for the info guy/girl.
i might just have to pick some up, plus it will add color to my garden. i mainly need something for aphids cuz that seems to be one of the bad bugs i get the most.

and i did not put broccoli up but i dont mind if you enter it. i dont know if any one else is growing it.
if any one is growing broccoli the comp is now open to that to.
i think i might just make this comp open to all veggies and then well just see who gets the biggest,healthiest plant and fruit. and maybe ugliest plant and smallest matured fruit just an all around fun comp

 

[mellokitty]

have you ever heard of a product called "pink solution"? it's an all-natural enzymatic-action coconut-tallow blahblahblah all-purpose cleaner, but it says right in their "other suggested uses" that you can use it as aphid control too. i've actually purged the upstairs of chemical cleaners in favour of it, part of the sales pitch is that it's completely safe and the salesbitch sprays the light solution right in their mouth. (<-sold me, as a soon-to-be mom lol) i've only ever seen it at costco and trade show kiosks, otherwise you have to order it directly from them, i think.

idk if they distribute to the states, but while i was researching it i read that there's an american company with a similar product (i forget what they're called now). (whenever i encounter a too-good-to-be-true product i google the company name with "scam" tagged on the end to see what it comes up with.)

anyway, just for shits and giggles i tried spraying a branch of my infested mock orange with it last year and it worked. for about 5 days, that branch stayed aphid-free.
it's one of those products that has quickly become part of my "new parent" arsenal, figured i'd share since you're going to be a fellow aphid-fighting parent soon

 

[mcpurple]

have you ever heard of a product called "pink solution"? it's an all-natural enzymatic-action coconut-tallow blahblahblah all-purpose cleaner, but it says right in their "other suggested uses" that you can use it as aphid control too. i've actually purged the upstairs of chemical cleaners in favour of it, part of the sales pitch is that it's completely safe and the salesbitch sprays the light solution right in their mouth. (<-sold me, as a soon-to-be mom lol) i've only ever seen it at costco and trade show kiosks, otherwise you have to order it directly from them, i think.

idk if they distribute to the states, but while i was researching it i read that there's an american company with a similar product (i forget what they're called now). (whenever i encounter a too-good-to-be-true product i google the company name with "scam" tagged on the end to see what it comes up with.)

anyway, just for shits and giggles i tried spraying a branch of my infested mock orange with it last year and it worked. for about 5 days, that branch stayed aphid-free.
it's one of those products that has quickly become part of my "new parent" arsenal, figured i'd share since you're going to be a fellow aphid-fighting parent soon

thank you i will have to look into that. id be sold to if i saw her spray it in her mouth.
again thank you

 

[mcpurple]

looks like me and otheryoda will have a some what fair comp, im doing beef steak to and it 2 was started about that long ago. maybe a bit before

 

[jeckysmith]

Hey...I really enjoyed veggie competition fun.