How Does Your Garden Grow??????
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Rozgreenburn
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Bravo! It feels good to provide your own nutrition!
xtsho
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I'm addicted to saving seed.
oldsilvertip55
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only problem i've had is the bigger the garden the less time you have to mow, change oil, then play ball with the grand child, but he likes to pull weeds. so i've taught him to pullem after it rains, get weed and roots he thinks ,its cool at how long roots can be.
Modern Selections
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Wow they have a proper bed shaper. Mine never got those crisp edges. Tomatoes on plastic really makes a big difference. Sweet farm impressed!
Here is my tomato
"pheno hunt" from Spring. Seed increase mainly.
Here is my tomato
"pheno hunt" from Spring. Seed increase mainly.Attachments
MissinThe90’sStrains
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Tomato and pepper growers and obsessed seed collectors ? I’ve found my people!
oldsilvertip55
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impressed with the tomato farm ,the old man who used to grow upwards (never saw plastic in one of his grows) of 60 acres till he and his wife got in bad health, miss that old fart!
oldsilvertip55
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are u ready for spring or useing T5's to make veg till 2 nd week of march , big plants ready to bloom!always looking for non gmo strains!
injinji
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I did something today I have never done before. I was down at the riverhouse to plant, and when I was mixing up the soil in last season's seed trays I had to break up frozen soil. It took me a minute to realize what was going on. I thought a big ass root had got in my tray somehow. lol I'm sure you guys up north deal with it every spring.
Anyway, I planted 2 trays each of grapefruit and Peacock orange. At least 1 (but possibly 2) of pomelo and a split tray of sweet cumquat and WC orange. I ran out of umph and daylight before I got to the seeds from the rotten fruit. (I'm on day 13 of covid, and I'm still not 100%) I have about a dozen pomelo and grapefruit that I have to get the seeds out of. Also have a bag each of most likely pomelo and grapefruit seed.
I also planted 5 sets of pepper seeds. Mammoth Jalapeno f2, Cubanelle, and unknown pepper 1, 2, and 3. I know two of them are saved seeds from my mammoth Jalapeno f3's, just not which two. Tomorrow is another good above ground day, and I'll get back down there earlier in the day. I still have to dig in the freezer for cayenne and habs and all the sweet pepper seeds. Our temps are going to reach the 60'a tomorrow so the soil should thaw out enough for them to start popping.
Anyway, I planted 2 trays each of grapefruit and Peacock orange. At least 1 (but possibly 2) of pomelo and a split tray of sweet cumquat and WC orange. I ran out of umph and daylight before I got to the seeds from the rotten fruit. (I'm on day 13 of covid, and I'm still not 100%) I have about a dozen pomelo and grapefruit that I have to get the seeds out of. Also have a bag each of most likely pomelo and grapefruit seed.
I also planted 5 sets of pepper seeds. Mammoth Jalapeno f2, Cubanelle, and unknown pepper 1, 2, and 3. I know two of them are saved seeds from my mammoth Jalapeno f3's, just not which two. Tomorrow is another good above ground day, and I'll get back down there earlier in the day. I still have to dig in the freezer for cayenne and habs and all the sweet pepper seeds. Our temps are going to reach the 60'a tomorrow so the soil should thaw out enough for them to start popping.
farmingfisherman
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Hope you start feeling better soon!
injinji
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Thank you. I tested this morning before running to the diner, and was still positive. I'm still coughing up crud and have ringing in my right ear. But I'm feeling almost human.
GreenestBasterd
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Blue sapphire and purple Congo, second early potatoes
These got clipped by the pitchfork so I cut them for the big reveal.
These got clipped by the pitchfork so I cut them for the big reveal.
MissinThe90’sStrains
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Nice color. I did purple majesty last year, and they were also purple throughout.
injinji
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The timing on these were fucked. I saw the first sprouts when I walked down to the riverhouse Wednesday night. Thursday morning I got 1K slash pine seedlings that needed planting. I got the last of the trees planted yesterday, then last night got back down there and potted up 4 each of Homestead, Beefsteak, Black Cherry and Red Cherry, and 3 Cherokee Purple. I didn't get a picture, but I dug out my hurricane damaged 3 socket hood and got it hung in the shower. (my 6 socket hood is just a half hour of chainsaw work from being accessible)
Roger A. Shrubber
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it's still too early to start anything here yet. i won't start any seeds till the first March. i've got several types of tomatoes, sweet peppers, a couple of cucumbers, and pintos and snap peas to go out once i think i can trust the weather....it's been geting warm early the last few years, then sometime toward the end of April we've been getting one last hard frost.
injinji
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I've got to get my underground greenhouse dug. I won't have the space to keep those under lights but 3 or 4 weeks. But I'm thinking about draping plastic over the raised beds and rolling the dice with some of the tomatoes.
Roger A. Shrubber
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I can do raised beds, but it would require a backhoe to bury anything bigger than a baseball here, the ground if mostly rocks held together with red clay.
injinji
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I call my place the sandhill for a reason.
The plan is to build new raised beds and put the dirt from the underground greenhouse into the new raised beds. I need to hide the gas lantern from the road and I figured raised beds would do the trick. I got a few posts in and some of the 2X6's cut but got side tracked and haven't worked on it for a couple of months.