2011 Veggies

[mcpurple]

whodat- theres still plenty of time for you to do some stuff. im sure you could pull off radishes if its been cold as well as lettuce since both are mainly winter crops. you can do some snow peas which fight the frost. in a couple weeks you could probably get some tomatoes growing and by late august could have some nice harvest coming your way. dont give it up!!!

there is a type of lettuce that grows in warmer weather. some lettuce can grow all summer here and we get hot, i only know this cuz i got a new job today on a farm and they grow lettuce all year long, i grow radishes almost all year as well, they have a type for warm weather as well.

whodat get on it still alot of time to plant stuff, id hook you up with good starts if we weren't states apart

well, we here (BC) are having the coldest spring in 50 yrs.
my man said the lady at the hardware place was telling him how they were sold out of clear poly because the farmers were all rushing out to cover their crops and the drywallers are all PO-ed about it.

i'm dancing a jig because stuff is finally starting to *sprout, ffs. "...before it gets too hot..." *pfft* (<- i mean that in the friendliest sense possible, of course )

ya we have been having rainy weather and low temps here in oregon as well, seems like the weather gets worse by the year and seasons change on start and end dates

Subbed, what an awesome thread this is

thanks for subben, and yes a awesome thread with awesome people.



well good news. as said above i got a new job and it is going something i love GARDENING!

i got a job at a local farm and so far i love it. it is a restraunt/farm/tour thingy and wine tasting and what not. any way it is a smaller farm about 5 acres but alot to do still. next week we are supposed to plant a few thousand plants and then start a few thousand more in the green house's. my boss is way cool to, he pretty much is gonna let me do my own thing out theri while maintaining what he wants done as well. right now we are prepping the soils and getting the irrigation in and fixed and cleaning up the farm, once we start harvesting i might get the chance to run the veggie booth at the farmers market. i am also learning alot already from him he is very smart and is all organic.

check out this link, this is where i work now and i love it. it is a great start for me and my goal in life, witch is own something similer to what they have at y job but a bit more going on as well.

http://www.summerjos.com/

 

[littlegrower2004]

nice to know about the summer lettuce and radishes. great news on the job MC! real happy for you. as well its cool that it has to do with farming!

 

[DST]

Sounds like a plan D! My only concern is the bottom staying too wet for too long, but your the man and Im sure youll work it out. peace.

I know, but I got 3 in each pot so I am hopinh they suck that up pretty soon....fingero's crossed mate.

there is a type of lettuce that grows in warmer weather. some lettuce can grow all summer here and we get hot, i only know this cuz i got a new job today on a farm and they grow lettuce all year long, i grow radishes almost all year as well, they have a type for warm weather as well.

whodat get on it still alot of time to plant stuff, id hook you up with good starts if we weren't states apart



ya we have been having rainy weather and low temps here in oregon as well, seems like the weather gets worse by the year and seasons change on start and end dates


thanks for subben, and yes a awesome thread with awesome people.



well good news. as said above i got a new job and it is going something i love GARDENING!

i got a job at a local farm and so far i love it. it is a restraunt/farm/tour thingy and wine tasting and what not. any way it is a smaller farm about 5 acres but alot to do still. next week we are supposed to plant a few thousand plants and then start a few thousand more in the green house's. my boss is way cool to, he pretty much is gonna let me do my own thing out theri while maintaining what he wants done as well. right now we are prepping the soils and getting the irrigation in and fixed and cleaning up the farm, once we start harvesting i might get the chance to run the veggie booth at the farmers market. i am also learning alot already from him he is very smart and is all organic.

check out this link, this is where i work now and i love it. it is a great start for me and my goal in life, witch is own something similer to what they have at y job but a bit more going on as well.

http://www.summerjos.com/

Fekkin AWESOME NEWS MCP!!!! 100X clappy smiley faces for you mate. This sort of things can only bring good vibes in your life. Stick with it and good luck my friend.

DST

 

[littlegrower2004]

garden update

 

[DST]

garden update

Looking good bru. The squash you are growing also looks good. I unloaded a whole load of some new bio spray on the contents of the garden. Little red buggers are hardy fuks. I got bowl full of peas in the house to empty, or peal, or de-pea, not sure of the exact term. Off for the bong, sweet pics LG.

Oh, and what's that furry little pod thing?

 

[littlegrower2004]

thanks D, thats a baby cantaloupe that got knocked off in the photo shoot haha. hope your mite defense pays out for you! my girlfriend ate some of the snow peas yesterday and said they were nice and sweet. even ate a couple pod and all.

 

[DST]

So I seem to loose a lot of flowers on my pumkins, is your cantaloupe the same, mine just seem to shrivel up and fall off (or should I say "ours" since the wife actually planted them, sorry love!) There are a few here and there that are growing but they don't seem to be developing as fast. Next year I am going to plant in big trays, just need to construct the buggers some how, either that or just line half the greenhouse and put a wooden beam across is, then fill it with substrate......now there's an idea. Amazing what comes to you when typing.

 

[Chronic Monster]

this is hands down my fav thread on all of RIU... Kick Ass inspiring.
I planted a garden last week after seeing some of the great gardens I went a bit bigger than I was expecting ill take some pictures for you guys this week.

 

[mcpurple]

garden update

looking really good LG, you season seams so far ahead of ours up here in oregon. mine are all starting to take off now that we are getting warm weather.

this is hands down my fav thread on all of RIU... Kick Ass inspiring.
I planted a garden last week after seeing some of the great gardens I went a bit bigger than I was expecting ill take some pictures for you guys this week.

im glad you like it man, and i am looking forward to the pics of your garden as well.
thanks for joining the ride.




Ok. these pics are from yesterday, the pics kinda do the explaining plus i am real lazy right now.
every thing is doing great now that it is getting warm, the only prob i seem to have is aphids showing up ( they are under control but i still need lady bugs) and it seems all my rolie pollies are eating my leafs as well, every thing ive heard and read about them in the garden says they dont eat the growing plants and only decomposing matter, like dead animals and or plant material. all mine are healthy so i dont know why they are munching them. i got a bunch of berries picked yesterday, they are not huge but they sure are more tasty then any store bought berry, i think if i had a bloom food for them they would get bigger, but they only receive xtra veg nutes. i should be planting my sunflowers in the ground by next week as well.

also some things i found out about using blocks today for beds.
1. i can move one and see all the root growth, so root pron will come soon.
2. bees like to try to nest in them.
3. it also provides shelter for slugs. ( bad)

i hit every thing with neem last night as well lady bugs are showing up slowly this year, but like i said above i am buying some in the next few days.
i will also be getting a few raspberry plants.

all questions are welcome if you have them.
sorry for the shitty update.

 

[littlegrower2004]

D- i do have flowers withering and falling off on both the cantaloupe and the watermelon, but the cantaloupe seems to be producing what looks like small fruit where as the watermelon doesnt look like anything is replacing the flower. if your pumpkin flowers are opening then falling off i would assume its natural for them and they should start having some small pumkins forming. if they are withering before opening then im not sure whats up.

Monster- this thread is one of my top favs on RIU as well, good people with lots of knowledge and great gardens. plus throw in Ds camera skills and his beautiful garden and were good to go haha. thanks to MC for starting this one for us!!

MC- yeah the garden has exploded for us this year. the corn is all over 5 ft pretty much and has started its flowering to pollenate each other and will hopefully have corn cobs growing soon, just gotta keep the dam ants off this year. nice update yourself!! i think your going to have a lot of strawberries and tomatoes by the end of the season. its weird that both of our squash are doing that flower curling, never grown it before so dont know if its normal, pretty trippy though. strawberries look real tastey with many to come!!

 

[DST]

These look super tasty, I must say McP, you are yielding a whole load of more strawberries than my one seems to be giving out. I got like 3 little red things that have shrivveled up, lol.

looking really good LG, you season seams so far ahead of ours up here in oregon. mine are all starting to take off now that we are getting warm weather.


im glad you like it man, and i am looking forward to the pics of your garden as well.
thanks for joining the ride.




Ok. these pics are from yesterday, the pics kinda do the explaining plus i am real lazy right now.
every thing is doing great now that it is getting warm, the only prob i seem to have is aphids showing up ( they are under control but i still need lady bugs) and it seems all my rolie pollies are eating my leafs as well, every thing ive heard and read about them in the garden says they dont eat the growing plants and only decomposing matter, like dead animals and or plant material. all mine are healthy so i dont know why they are munching them. i got a bunch of berries picked yesterday, they are not huge but they sure are more tasty then any store bought berry, i think if i had a bloom food for them they would get bigger, but they only receive xtra veg nutes. i should be planting my sunflowers in the ground by next week as well.

also some things i found out about using blocks today for beds.
1. i can move one and see all the root growth, so root pron will come soon.
2. bees like to try to nest in them.
3. it also provides shelter for slugs. ( bad)

i hit every thing with neem last night as well lady bugs are showing up slowly this year, but like i said above i am buying some in the next few days.
i will also be getting a few raspberry plants.

all questions are welcome if you have them.
sorry for the shitty update.

D- i do have flowers withering and falling off on both the cantaloupe and the watermelon, but the cantaloupe seems to be producing what looks like small fruit where as the watermelon doesnt look like anything is replacing the flower. if your pumpkin flowers are opening then falling off i would assume its natural for them and they should start having some small pumkins forming. if they are withering before opening then im not sure whats up.

Monster- this thread is one of my top favs on RIU as well, good people with lots of knowledge and great gardens. plus throw in Ds camera skills and his beautiful garden and were good to go haha. thanks to MC for starting this one for us!!

MC- yeah the garden has exploded for us this year. the corn is all over 5 ft pretty much and has started its flowering to pollenate each other and will hopefully have corn cobs growing soon, just gotta keep the dam ants off this year. nice update yourself!! i think your going to have a lot of strawberries and tomatoes by the end of the season. its weird that both of our squash are doing that flower curling, never grown it before so dont know if its normal, pretty trippy though. strawberries look real tastey with many to come!!

I saw your cantaloupe flower and mine do that twisty then like that, then fall off or go brown. however we do have some fruit growing.

And McP, we have not had as many aphids yet, but the ants have not arrived, and with them the aphids seem to come. We have a few rose blooms out although out hanging roses look a bit wimpy as well.

I picked up some feed for my conniffers, contains all the goodies including mycorrhizae and micro's and what not. I emptied a whole bucky full of bio spray in my greenhouse so fingers crossed guy and gals. Repeat action will be happening soon. I'll get some pics for you in a bit.

Have a vegefull day.

Peace, DST

 

[mcpurple]

thanks DST. this year is the 1st year the berries are producing good for me, the last few years they have only gave me a few small ones.

also about the aphid thing, ive noticed that ( or at least where i am at) the aphids show up 1st then ants. i read that once the aphids are their the ants will come in and kinda farm the aphids to eat, it sucks having both cuz they ant help make them reproduce so fast, but again i did read this, last year on my corn though that is what the ants seemed to do, and on our black berry bushes. i hope your bug situation is handled.
i am getting my ladies today if theri in, and i also picked up some slug and snail bait to help fight them off cuz they are every where, and beer was not cutting, it.

 

[billcollector99]

These look super tasty, I must say McP, you are yielding a whole load of more strawberries than my one seems to be giving out. I got like 3 little red things that have shrivveled up, lol.




I saw your cantaloupe flower and mine do that twisty then like that, then fall off or go brown. however we do have some fruit growing.

And McP, we have not had as many aphids yet, but the ants have not arrived, and with them the aphids seem to come. We have a few rose blooms out although out hanging roses look a bit wimpy as well.

I picked up some feed for my conniffers, contains all the goodies including mycorrhizae and micro's and what not. I emptied a whole bucky full of bio spray in my greenhouse so fingers crossed guy and gals. Repeat action will be happening soon. I'll get some pics for you in a bit.

Have a vegefull day.

Peace, DST

The ants come after the aphids, as they use the honeydew as a food source

 

[DST]

Sweet, I knew that ants harvested the aphids for the honeydew but thought they came as like a double fucking act. Perhaps thats why I haven't seen any ants this year yet. Well I zapped the aphids as soon as I saw them and nothing since then so fingers crossed, just mites!!! grr. But I have them under control for the moment.

Well here's some pics form the garden today.












sorry, went a bit mad with the roses...

I have quite a few of these now....little pumpkin, pompoen in Dutch.

McP's favourite, Red Iceberg





Peace, DST

 

[littlegrower2004]

awesome show D!! whats the spinning thing? second to last pic. nice to see the pumpkins showing up and really like that plant in the bag of coco haha. makes a nice pot.

 

[DST]

cheers bru.

Its a Clematis, once the petals of the flowers come off all the heads start to do that swivelling type thing.

And the plant in the coco sack are the potatoes

 

[mcpurple]

nice update D!
what do you use for aphids? i just use neem and lady bugs i got a few right now and i am releasing the ladies tonight so the aphids should be gone and stay gone soon. still curous as to what you use though.
and also i used some slug and snail bait last night and the shit works great, i cant use near my garden though cuz the dogs can get in theri and it is fatal to dogs, so untill i get a small barrier up im getting the slugs around the house and front yard

 

[FrostickZero]

I have a question. I made a thread but no one answered in it so I'm gonna try here. I am limited to space and since liquid plant food takes up space and some of it isn't any thing but small amount at the top. Now I was wondering if I can buy glass containers wash them then use them to store the plant food in there that I buy like B-1 Thrive and such. Thanks.

 

[DST]

Thanks McP,
I use a product by a company called ECOstyle, supposedly all BIO stuff in it. If I look at the ingrediants if I remember rightly it has rape seed oil among other things in it. (similar to neem I assume) I also used BIO insect spray by POKON for the mites. I'll try and get the product names for you, but they are in Dutch so not sure that will help, lol.

nice update D!
what do you use for aphids? i just use neem and lady bugs i got a few right now and i am releasing the ladies tonight so the aphids should be gone and stay gone soon. still curous as to what you use though.
and also i used some slug and snail bait last night and the shit works great, i cant use near my garden though cuz the dogs can get in theri and it is fatal to dogs, so untill i get a small barrier up im getting the slugs around the house and front yard

I have a question. I made a thread but no one answered in it so I'm gonna try here. I am limited to space and since liquid plant food takes up space and some of it isn't any thing but small amount at the top. Now I was wondering if I can buy glass containers wash them then use them to store the plant food in there that I buy like B-1 Thrive and such. Thanks.

Hey Frostick, off course you will be okay. My advice would be to get dark coloured bottles that don't let the light in. A lot of fertilizers will be based from seaweed and other organic nutirents to obtain the correct NPK. These will generally also be effected when hit with sunlight. YOu may even get algae etc in bottles if left. All the stuff I have ever seen says store in the dark. So as long as you adhere to that I see no reason as too why you can't decant the nutes to a smaller bottle.

Peace, DST

 

[FrostickZero]

Hey Frostick, off course you will be okay. My advice would be to get dark coloured bottles that don't let the light in. A lot of fertilizers will be based from seaweed and other organic nutirents to obtain the correct NPK. These will generally also be effected when hit with sunlight. YOu may even get algae etc in bottles if left. All the stuff I have ever seen says store in the dark. So as long as you adhere to that I see no reason as too why you can't decant the nutes to a smaller bottle.

Peace, DST

Hey Thanks for the help. I was thinking of buying sume rubber made or some type of glass containers to store the plant food in. I plan on keeping them in a dark area so no light will hit them.