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My garden doing well,
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Looks great! I'm behind with mine, keeps raining.
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Mine is planted and coming up. With all the rain we've had mine looks like a rice paddy.
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I have picked a couple hundred lbs of vegetables already. Looking like a good garden year. The last two haven't been too good.
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In Minnesota, its early. I will plant most of mine next week.
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Around here, we don't plant until close to Memorial Day. There's always a chance of frost. We had a touch of frost last week, 30F. I planted stuff that won't freeze kill a couple weeks ago and they're coming up. I planted the rest this week. Some things we started in the greenhouse and I've got most of those set out. We irrigate with drip tape. Once it's set up, it's by far the easiest way to water, other than rain of course.
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You all don't have a very long growing season.
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June, July, and usually most of august here.
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Planted our small container garden May 6. Just the 2 of us, so we don't plant a lot. 6 - tomato plants . . . 3 - Amish pastas and 3 - Goliaths 3 - eggplants and 4 - sweet peppers
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Around here, we don't plant until close to Memorial Day. There's always a chance of frost. We had a touch of frost last week, 30F. I planted stuff that won't freeze kill a couple weeks ago and they're coming up. I planted the rest this week. Some things we started in the greenhouse and I've got most of those set out. We irrigate with drip tape. Once it's set up, it's by far the easiest way to water, other than rain of course. That is a "big" garden!
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June, July, and usually most of august here. Usually we can go through Sept but not always. We always have a cold spell around Labor Day and sometimes we'll get a killing frost.
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I wonder why our user names don't give our location anymore?
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I haven't even tilled mine yet. Hoping it dries enough this weekend. I don't usually plant until May here anyhow as we are prone to get a lite frost most anytime in May.
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I wonder why our user names don't give our location anymore? I thought it was just me. Hell i can only see half the fuggin screen since Rick did whatever voodoo update to this place. As for garden, despite some on again off again cool weather and rains, we're in and caged up with about 60 cages of Romas and 80linft of cukes Keeping it basic this year. Still mending from health issues and i'm *not supposed* to playing in soils while still on high dosed anti-rejection meds. But that's what surgical gloves are for.
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I wonder why our user names don't give our location anymore? Go into "Edit Profile" under "My Stuff" at the top of the page and put in whatever location info you want . . .
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Texas is listed under profile. Locations are not shown for anyone.
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fyi,your locations are up for me,,,,
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Just finished our first real meal featuring our broccoli, sauted with shrimp, carrots, garlic, green onion, garnished with fresh cilantro from the garden as well. Been having strawberries with whipped cream over butter cookies for a few days too. Tomatoes are starting to flower.
Can't wait for the scrambled egg sandwiches on white bread with a big old thick slab of tomato on top. Breakfast of champions!
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been eating spring onions for 3 weeks or so. tomatoes are getting close to 3 ft high,squash and cucumbers are blooming. i grow in a raised bed thats about 30ft long. most stuff does really in a bed filled with compost.
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fyi,your locations are up for me,,,,
Me too...... Back OT....I just have a few small raised beds. Four Tomato plants and four peppers. That's all I want or need. Between our short growing season and living in the timber I'm a long ways from harvesting anything.
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Around here, we don't plant until close to Memorial Day. There's always a chance of frost. We had a touch of frost last week, 30F. I planted stuff that won't freeze kill a couple weeks ago and they're coming up. I planted the rest this week. Some things we started in the greenhouse and I've got most of those set out. We irrigate with drip tape. Once it's set up, it's by far the easiest way to water, other than rain of course. That is a "big" garden! It's not as big as it looks. This has been a pasture for 6 or 7 years. I left 5' between rows to give me room to till it as needed during the summer to keep down weeds and grass. I used quit a bit of Roundup on it but there's still a lot of old seed in the soil that will be coming up as soon as I look the other way. Those rows over near the trees are my wife's flower garden. She hopes to corner the market in cut flowers at farmers markets this summer.
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I can see the locations of anyone who has them in their profile.
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Flowers, or not, that's still a garden, my friend! And a relatively large one!
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Mine is probably about like Rock Chuck's. But not nearly as tidy. 150' X 50' I irrigate with siphon tubes from a header ditch across the top, with a 25 gallon/minute hydrant available for backup.
But I cheat. I have a 95 hp John Deere 4020 for a garden tractor. I plowed and the tilled with a rotovator behind the tractor. Planted six rows of corn 150 foot long each wih an old John Deere two row planter. Set out a couple dozen assorted tomatoes, a couple dozen peppers, (garden salsa, red, yellow, and green bell peppers). I planted the rest with seed. Zuchini, yellow straight neck, butternut squash, cukes, cantaloupes, pumpkins and watermelon.
The corn and cukes are just starting to peek through the ground. The tomato and pepers got their little ears nipped by the frost two nights after I set them out, but I think most will recover.
We decided peas were too cheap to buy frozen, and I opted out of beets, carrots, or any of the small stuff which is a PITA to weed. I will just put the cultivator on the 4020 and pull it through.
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Does an acre of asperigus count...
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Does an acre of asperigus count... Aspergrass is one of my favorites. I have a good row going. We decided peas were too cheap to buy frozen, and I opted out of beets, carrots, or any of the small stuff which is a PITA to weed. I will just put the cultivator on the 4020 and pull it through.
Carrots are a bugger to weed but I really don't like grocery store varieties. They aren't bred to be edible. There are any number of good garden varieties that are worth the effort. For peas, we raise only edible pod varieties. They're too much work to shell. I plant corn every 2 weeks until I have 4 patches going. That keeps it going all summer. I plant watermelons next to the 1st row of corn and the spinach and peas. Those will be done early so the melons can just overrun the space. As soon as the early corn and peas are done, I cut the drip tape so the ground doesn't get any more water. That slows down the weeds considerably. It also helps to spread weed fabric under the watermelons and cantaloupe to stop weeds. Black fabric will also get hotter which helps the melons ripen sooner.
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Rhubarb up 12". Ate some today. Strawberries blooming. F'kn grass got cut day before yesterday first time. Not Kotz!
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You must not have a pack of dogs trotting through the rhubarb.
It's fenced off now.
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Surprise! I found this guy in my garden this morning between the cantaloupe and the cabbage. They're found in the river near here but this guy had to make his way through a canal system then crawl quite a ways on dry ground. They're delicious and I wish I could find a few dozen more.
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I wish I had time for a garden. Wife doesn't care much and just as I get one going fire/ems pager just kills the needed time to tend with it usually. Have not grown one for 2 years now. Other than needing to burn the damn grass burrs out of it this year for sure.
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Rhubarb up 12". Ate some today. Strawberries blooming. F'kn grass got cut day before yesterday first time. Not Kotz! Can't say that we have any month we don't cut grass here. Very rarely in Jan/Feb for a spell and then again in July/Aug sometimes its well into 110 and nothing growing. But most years, you can cut it every month of the year. If that makes you feel any better.....
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