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Cheesy, great pictures, nice looking kids. Looks like summer there. Most of our trees don't have leaves yet.
By the way, it looks like you will have a lot of work ahead-----and worth it too!
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Cheesy, great pictures, nice looking kids. Looks like summer there. Most of our trees don't have leaves yet.
By the way, it looks like you will have a lot of work ahead-----and worth it too! Thanks-this is the 4th summer we have lived at this place, I finally quit being lazy and busted up a garden. Wife always gets upset because I plant so much tomatos and peppers and squash "we never use all that". Well, when i want the perfect tomato for a BLT, I get to choose the perfect tomato. Plus all our friends, neighbors, family and coworkers will enjoy the overabundance of produce.
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In Misery there is a small bit of frost possible yet for about 1.5 weeks. But my greens and peas are up in a small plot by the house. My actual garden is wet enough it is like Playdough. Every time I'm a couple of days away from tilling it up, we get rain. So it goes. I failed to get it tilled up last fall. But I break it up 1 row at a time with a shovel and it will get there one day. I have a small row of tomatoes in a border instead of flowers and some more seed started. To every gardener here good luck. Be Well, Rustyzipper.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill.
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First year putting in a garden. Late start. 10 days in on starting the plants below. ~80% germination. Beans, peas, cants, cukes, broccoli. More seed packets arrived in past couple days. Will have the grand daughter assist with seeding/starting the new additions over the weekend. Still too cool and wet here to have the tractor powered rototiller come in and turn up the garden. Been raining every second or third day for past few weeks. And a frost/freeze warning again tonight. Supposed to warm up by end of week, next week. But still calling for rain every day or every other day. Might prove challenging...
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That looks better than my ditch patch dank🤣😂
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We are under a frost advisory, next county over is in a freeze watch. Our last ‘expected’ frosts occurs about April 20 So we always wait till about May 1st to move anything out of the greenhouse. Elijah told that womern: Kings 2, verse somethin-somethin Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. We scrambled yesterday to round up every bucket or pot to cover all our plants. Got 80ft of cucumber vines tarped. Mehhh, it is what is it is..... Fred Sanford would blush
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Those big, broad leafed plants in your garden Bob, is that Tobacco?
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Been eating asparagus, spinach, pak choi, radishes and a bit of lettuce. Tomato and pepper plants are still under the lights. Daikons and turnips are getting close. Cukes and squash have yet to hatch. Beans are about 2" tall.
Strawberries and blueberries aren't far off, then sour cherries. Blackberries and peaches July/August.
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First year putting in a garden. Late start. 10 days in on starting the plants below. ~80% germination. Beans, peas, cants, cukes, broccoli. More seed packets arrived in past couple days. Will have the grand daughter assist with seeding/starting the new additions over the weekend. Still too cool and wet here to have the tractor powered rototiller come in and turn up the garden. Been raining every second or third day for past few weeks. And a frost/freeze warning again tonight. Supposed to warm up by end of week, next week. But still calling for rain every day or every other day. Might prove challenging... I don't start anything but peppers and tomatoes inside anymore. Everything else goes right in the ground. Prevents transplant shock, and the direct-sown stuff always catches up with the seedlings, or even outruns them anyway. Saves me a bunch of trouble. We do use mesh tunnels for the early crops. Makes a big difference. I need to buy more.
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Ours is doing pretty good. We did three 4x8' raised beds last year and decided to upsize a little this year. At the last second in February we carved out a 25x40' area and started doing ground work. Started putting plants in the ground second week of March. Just sowed okra last week which rounds out the plans for the spring garden. Here's the list of what is going on currently: 1 row of yellow sweet potatoes 1 row of yellow sweet onions 1 row of tromboncino squash 1 row with 8ft of pinkeye purple hull peas, 8ft of limas and 8ft of rattlesnake pole beans 1 row with 4 green bell pepper plants and 4 sweet banana pepper plants 1 row of various tomato plants (8 plants total) 1 row of yukon gold potatoes 1 row of okra 1 row of patty pan squash We ended up with a few "freebies" that carried over and germinated from the transplanted dirt. Got several unknown varieties of tomato plants coming up...and two types of squash that have started as well. Each row is 25ft long. Obligatory pics Shot of the cucumbers, peas / beans and the tromboncino trellises. This pic is about two weeks old and the squash foliage has filled out a lot more since. I will have to do a larger and sturdier trellis next year. This was the first time I have tried tromboncino squash so this was a learning experience for me. Our cucumber trellis...if you zoom in you can see several pick-ready cucumbers hanging and we have already picked over them once. The wife has made over a dozen pints of pickles already so we are going to be swimming in cucumbers this year. Tons of blooms still coming on. A shot of my 6'4" gorilla self standing next to my tomato plants. They are all covered in green tomatoes...just waiting on them to start turning so we can start eating. One of my "freebies." Turns out this one was a spaghetti squash from last year. These are some of the prettiest bell peppers I have ever grown. Already picked several. Some went in the salads and stir fries...a few have gotten chopped and put in the freezer. Some of our banana peppers. This was an an afternoon garden haul from Tuesday. A shopping bag full of cucumbers, a healthy load of tromboncino squash and a few patty pan squash. We are picking at least 6 or 8 squash every day or two and it doesn't show any signs of slowing down. We've started canning and freezing these already just because we can't keep up with eating them.
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I put my tomatoes and peppers in last week. Now I’m scrounging to find every 5 gallon bucket I can to cover them up for tonight’s cold weather.
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Madden getting some tiller work in- AK getting the watering in on her freshly planted peppers and tomatoes. Notice the curve where she is watering. She kinda missed the point of the stringline to keep the row straight. Free labor..... Couple of good looking kids, there. Looks like you should have some deer in the area. How do you keep them out of the garden? I couldn't see any fence.
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It was 23-degrees yesterday morning in SE Idaho and 25 today!
Garden got composted manure till in last week and all the starts are in a greenhouse. The wife will put out quite a few in a gizmo called a wall of water, which makes a miniature greenhouse over each plant. These have protected new tomato starts down to 19-degrees.
We have peas planted, salad greens, and radishes planted outdoors.
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We are under a frost advisory, next county over is in a freeze watch.
Our last ‘expected’ frosts occurs about April 20
So we always wait till about May 1st to move anything out of the greenhouse. Dang, don't I wish Last frost of the season last year was June 9. Hoping it's better this year. Picked up +/- $70 of starts and some blueberry bushes the other day. Put out 16 cabbages and broccoli in the beds as it has been warming up and I figured they might take a bit of cold. Two nights later.......27F. Pretty sure the broccoli plants are all gone, the cabbages might make it. They've been getting covered at night.. Kept the warm season stuff in the little greenhouse, that 27F night burned the tops of some of the tomatoes and peppers. They've been coming inside at night since. But, the garlic I put in last fall is looking great, the Egyptian onions really need thinning, the berry patch is getting leaves, and the strawberries have flowers on them. And, with a fiber pot covering it every night, the artichoke I overwintered is going great guns too Although no strawberries yet, I did harvest some rhubarb and with the addition of some commercial berries we had a nice pie last night! (today and tomorrow too!)
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Last frost will be in the next 10 days. We can start then.
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Friggen Southerners and their gardens producing in early May............. I hate you folks! Not really, just jealous War_Eagle. Nice garden there, love the straw mulch. I use it a lot too. Geno
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It’s always amazing what a few degrees of latitude can do. You guys can sure get a head start.
It’s june, mid-June before any of my stuff looks green and lush. Usually 2nd week of July before tomatoes are plentiful. August 1st before I am able to really haul in enough Determinates to fire up the canning kettles and pressure pots.
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Madden getting some tiller work in- AK getting the watering in on her freshly planted peppers and tomatoes. Notice the curve where she is watering. She kinda missed the point of the stringline to keep the row straight. Free labor..... Couple of good looking kids, there. Looks like you should have some deer in the area. How do you keep them out of the garden? I couldn't see any fence. When we bought this house, the first time we looked at it there was a good 8 point standing right where the garden is...This is the first garden on this property, so maybe they'll mess with it, I don't know yet. I've always lived in 'deer' country, but have never had trouble with them in the garden. Have never put up any kind of fence to keep them out. Or rabbits or coons (as a kid with a huge sweetcorn patch we'd have to string up electric fence to keep the coons out, or they'd strip the field in a few nights. Even with 3 strands of hotwire, they'd still get in once in a while). Have had a hen turkey several times in the past week in the yard, don't think she'll scratch up too much of the graden though.
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