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Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought #19400582 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA T The_Real_Hawkeye OP Campfire Sage OP The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA A little while back I planted eggplant seeds in my raised box bed. I took three or four seeds and stuffed them down a few inches in four spots in the box, then watered every morning. Now each spot has multiple sprouts coming up in bunches. Do I choose one to keep in each spot and clip the rest? Do I wait to do this till the first real leaves develop, or leave them all alone? Thanks.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400605 04/21/24 Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 737 Nor. Calif. Dons99 Campfire Regular Dons99 Campfire Regular Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 737 Nor. Calif. I may not wait for first leaf but when I see one clearly better than others I clip. When I've left them close together it's stunted their growth. "Drop that or by the splendor of God I will blow your heart out." Kit Carson "Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do then do it with all your strength." George Washington

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400608 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA T The_Real_Hawkeye OP Campfire Sage OP The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA Thanks. Makes sense. I will do that.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400611 04/21/24 Joined: Feb 2021 Posts: 4,303 Likes: 1 Torbert,La Riverc Campfire Tracker Riverc Campfire Tracker Joined: Feb 2021 Posts: 4,303 Likes: 1 Torbert,La Keep the strongest looking one and tip off the others at dirt level.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400614 04/21/24 Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 737 Nor. Calif. Dons99 Campfire Regular Dons99 Campfire Regular Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 737 Nor. Calif. If you have a bug problem you may want to wait a little longer in case they get your best plant you'll still have something to fall back on. "Drop that or by the splendor of God I will blow your heart out." Kit Carson "Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do then do it with all your strength." George Washington

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400638 04/21/24 Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 2,331 Lk. St. Clair C coyotewacker Campfire Regular coyotewacker Campfire Regular C Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 2,331 Lk. St. Clair I have always planted 3-4 seeds to start give them a week or so then pick the nicest to keep....up here in Michigan other than row crops there all started around February 15 in my grow tent in the house they will go outside on a 65 + degree day but stay inside under grow lights with a fan for 18 hours until around May 20 the earliest depending on the weather.... Most years I have tomatoes before the 4th of July....

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought Dons99 #19400647 04/21/24 Joined: Feb 2021 Posts: 4,303 Likes: 1 Torbert,La Riverc Campfire Tracker Riverc Campfire Tracker Joined: Feb 2021 Posts: 4,303 Likes: 1 Torbert,La Originally Posted by Dons99 If you have a bug problem you may want to wait a little longer in case they get your best plant you'll still have something to fall back on. After I transplant or any young plants, I spray some Sevin dust on them that usually keeps the bugs away till they get bigger and stronger. But no matter how big they get bugs can be a problem I use Neem oil, castor soap mixed with water for flowering plants that need Bees to pollinate not to kill the bees with Sevin dust works for me.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400678 04/21/24 Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 69,396 Likes: 4 Filer, ID Rock Chuck Campfire Kahuna Rock Chuck Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 69,396 Likes: 4 Filer, ID Soon after emergence, I remove all but 2. Then I give them a week to see which one is doing better before I remove the other. 3 or 4 in a hole is too many but 2 won't make much difference. When you remove it, cut it off. Don't pull it out or you could damage the roots of the one you keep. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400774 04/21/24 Joined: May 2002 Posts: 15,600 Likes: 1 Turkey River Iowa johnw Campfire Ranger johnw Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2002 Posts: 15,600 Likes: 1 Turkey River Iowa "Chances Will Be Taken"

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400784 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA T The_Real_Hawkeye OP Campfire Sage OP The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA LOL.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400791 04/21/24 Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,489 a swamp in eastern n.c. 1 1beaver_shooter Campfire Regular 1beaver_shooter Campfire Regular 1 Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,489 a swamp in eastern n.c. I usually leave them alone and still get more zooks than I can eat there is no man more free than he who has nothing left to lose --unknown-- " If it bleeds we can kill it" Conan The Barbarian

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought 1beaver_shooter #19400924 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA T The_Real_Hawkeye OP Campfire Sage OP The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA Originally Posted by 1beaver_shooter I usually leave them alone and still get more zooks than I can eat Interesting. So you get multiple sprouts in one spot, leave them alone, and still get a full crop of zucchini?

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400930 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2019 Posts: 9,949 Likes: 4 H Hotrod_Lincoln Campfire Outfitter Hotrod_Lincoln Campfire Outfitter H Joined: Jun 2019 Posts: 9,949 Likes: 4 One zucchini is one too many! Ignorance can be fixed. Stupid is forever!

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400935 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,102 Likes: 6 Colorado S smokepole Campfire 'Bwana smokepole Campfire 'Bwana S Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,102 Likes: 6 Colorado Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye Originally Posted by 1beaver_shooter I usually leave them alone and still get more zooks than I can eat Interesting. So you get multiple sprouts in one spot, leave them alone, and still get a full crop of zucchini? I plant zukes and yellow squash in "hills" of 3-4 plants each, it works well. Pro tip on your eggplants--if your wife doesn't know what an eggplant looks like, don't let her pull weeds in your garden. A wise man is frequently humbled.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400937 04/21/24 Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 67,154 Likes: 35 TN slumlord Campfire Kahuna slumlord Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 67,154 Likes: 35 TN We start ours in individual peat cubes in our greenhouse. Nothing goes out to the main dirt until plants are about 8” tall. Keep 400w metal halide 4ft about seed arrays. Small oscillator fan to build stem hardiness. However, in the last couple years, we just buy 1ft tall plants 4 pack for $1.75 from the Amish greenhouse plantation. None of that foucking around with spindly bullshît seedlings 1” tall.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought slumlord #19400955 04/21/24 Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 19,014 Likes: 1 Central MS BigDave39355 Campfire Ranger BigDave39355 Campfire Ranger Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 19,014 Likes: 1 Central MS Originally Posted by slumlord We start ours in individual peat cubes in our greenhouse. Nothing goes out to the main dirt until plants are about 8” tall. Keep 400w metal halide 4ft about seed arrays. Small oscillator fan to build stem hardiness. However, in the last couple years, we just buy 1ft tall plants 4 pack for $1.75 from the Amish greenhouse plantation. None of that foucking around with spindly bullshît seedlings 1” tall. my DIY greenhouse plants flopped this year… Musta watered them too much. Buy heirloom seeds from Baker Creek. Had good luck last year.. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ Fuggin Bonnie has lost their minds… $5 for a single plant ( 6” plant?) Local co-op had another brand.. small peets fro 3/$1.69. Dave �The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400961 04/21/24 Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 14,751 Likes: 5 E earlybrd Campfire Outfitter earlybrd Campfire Outfitter E Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 14,751 Likes: 5 Always planted 5-6 seed per hill on cukes n squash and don’t thin

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400979 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA T The_Real_Hawkeye OP Campfire Sage OP The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA Damn! Getting mixed messages on thinning.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought slumlord #19400982 04/21/24 Joined: Feb 2021 Posts: 4,303 Likes: 1 Torbert,La Riverc Campfire Tracker Riverc Campfire Tracker Joined: Feb 2021 Posts: 4,303 Likes: 1 Torbert,La Originally Posted by slumlord We start ours in individual peat cubes in our greenhouse. Nothing goes out to the main dirt until plants are about 8” tall. Keep 400w metal halide 4ft about seed arrays. Small oscillator fan to build stem hardiness. However, in the last couple years, we just buy 1ft tall plants 4 pack for $1.75 from the Amish greenhouse plantation. None of that foucking around with spindly bullshît seedlings 1” tall. We only doing cucumbers, zucchini & yellow squash in starter cups this year, went to the local nursey for bell peppers, tomatoes and jalapenos. Will be planting greens beans & quick pick purple hull peas in about 2 weeks.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19400988 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,102 Likes: 6 Colorado S smokepole Campfire 'Bwana smokepole Campfire 'Bwana S Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,102 Likes: 6 Colorado Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye Damn! Getting mixed messages on thinning. Yes to thinning on eggplants, but squash do well in hills. A wise man is frequently humbled.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought BigDave39355 #19400989 04/21/24 Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 67,154 Likes: 35 TN slumlord Campfire Kahuna slumlord Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 67,154 Likes: 35 TN Originally Posted by BigDave39355 Originally Posted by slumlord We start ours in individual peat cubes in our greenhouse. Nothing goes out to the main dirt until plants are about 8” tall. Keep 400w metal halide 4ft about seed arrays. Small oscillator fan to build stem hardiness. However, in the last couple years, we just buy 1ft tall plants 4 pack for $1.75 from the Amish greenhouse plantation. None of that foucking around with spindly bullshît seedlings 1” tall. my DIY greenhouse plants flopped this year… Musta watered them too much. Buy heirloom seeds from Baker Creek. Had good luck last year.. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ Fuggin Bonnie has lost their minds… $5 for a single plant ( 6” plant?) Local co-op had another brand.. small peets fro 3/$1.69. Bonnie had same here, one plant, six inch pot, 1ft tall, about $5.00 Crazy Im getting 4 for 1.75 that about same size. Also with Bonnie, fee years back started a couple different diseases and fusarium

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought smokepole #19401006 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA T The_Real_Hawkeye OP Campfire Sage OP The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA Originally Posted by smokepole Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye Damn! Getting mixed messages on thinning. Yes to thinning on eggplants, but squash do well in hills. Okay, thanks.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought johnw #19401010 04/21/24 Joined: May 2008 Posts: 25,528 Likes: 4 Valhalla SE AK & WA A AcesNeights Campfire Ranger AcesNeights Campfire Ranger A Joined: May 2008 Posts: 25,528 Likes: 4 Valhalla SE AK & WA Originally Posted by johnw That literally made me laugh out loud. 👍🏼 I’m amazed at the simple solutions to problems that once plagued me….this was another “why didn’t I think of that” moment. 😂 �Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr. --------------------------------------------------------- ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19401012 04/21/24 Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 67,154 Likes: 35 TN slumlord Campfire Kahuna slumlord Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 67,154 Likes: 35 TN Dang I had alla this garden chit figured out by about 8-10 years old. 😃 Maybe you were playing Atari and eating Fudgesicles while little Slumlord was being indentured servant to Central Florida grandparents, 2 acre garden 😳⭐️

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19401038 04/21/24 Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1,828 Lakewood, Colorado MickinColo Campfire Regular MickinColo Campfire Regular Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1,828 Lakewood, Colorado I only start a few things directly in the garden, Swiss chard, quash, corn, peas, and all the root plants like reddish, carrot, beets and turnips. I start eggplants in the house with 3 seeds per container, pick out the best one in the container just before the first actual leaf (after the seed leafs) starts to show, then cull the rest. After that, I move them to the unheated greenhouse.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought BigDave39355 #19401042 04/21/24 Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 45,202 Likes: 18 North East Urth Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 45,202 Likes: 18 North East Urth Originally Posted by BigDave39355 Originally Posted by slumlord We start ours in individual peat cubes in our greenhouse. Nothing goes out to the main dirt until plants are about 8” tall. Keep 400w metal halide 4ft about seed arrays. Small oscillator fan to build stem hardiness. However, in the last couple years, we just buy 1ft tall plants 4 pack for $1.75 from the Amish greenhouse plantation. None of that foucking around with spindly bullshît seedlings 1” tall. my DIY greenhouse plants flopped this year… Musta watered them too much. Buy heirloom seeds from Baker Creek. Had good luck last year.. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ Fuggin Bonnie has lost their minds… $5 for a single plant ( 6” plant?) Local co-op had another brand.. small peets fro 3/$1.69. Crazy about those Bonnie plants, eh? Saw some at the local Grocery Outlet. Gotta go check the local Mennonite nursery and the nursery in town. See what they're doing. Time to start some indoors too, as I can plant them out in a month and a half here! The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni) member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19401268 04/21/24 Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 25,926 Likes: 2 West Treasure Valley, Idaho I Idaho_Shooter Campfire Ranger Idaho_Shooter Campfire Ranger I Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 25,926 Likes: 2 West Treasure Valley, Idaho Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye Damn! Getting mixed messages on thinning. Hills vs rows. When you plant in hills three to four feet apart, the hill will support several plants. When you row crop with a seed every twelve inches and rows 24 to 30 inches apart, you will thin to one plant. People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19401293 04/21/24 Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 14,751 Likes: 5 E earlybrd Campfire Outfitter earlybrd Campfire Outfitter E Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 14,751 Likes: 5 Plant a few seeds pluck the smaller ones after they come up a inch er 2

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought slumlord #19401295 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,102 Likes: 6 Colorado S smokepole Campfire 'Bwana smokepole Campfire 'Bwana S Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,102 Likes: 6 Colorado Originally Posted by slumlord We start ours in individual peat cubes in our greenhouse. Nothing goes out to the main dirt until plants are about 8” tall. Keep 400w metal halide 4ft about seed arrays. Small oscillator fan to build stem hardiness. Indica, sativa, or both?? A wise man is frequently humbled.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought earlybrd #19401378 04/21/24 Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA T The_Real_Hawkeye OP Campfire Sage OP The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,749 Likes: 20 USA Originally Posted by earlybrd Plant a few seeds pluck the smaller ones after they come up a inch er 2 Too late. I just clipped all but one in each spot. Just new sprouts a fraction of an inch high.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19401409 04/21/24 Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 14,751 Likes: 5 E earlybrd Campfire Outfitter earlybrd Campfire Outfitter E Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 14,751 Likes: 5 Sounds good👍

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19401477 04/21/24 Joined: May 2010 Posts: 7,360 The West Mountain P Poconojack Campfire Tracker Poconojack Campfire Tracker P Joined: May 2010 Posts: 7,360 The West Mountain I always plant two eggplants in the same hole, same for peppers, two plants in the same hole. Read somewhere years ago that doing so improves pollination. "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought The_Real_Hawkeye #19401927 04/21/24 Joined: May 2008 Posts: 5,174 Likes: 6 D dassa Campfire Tracker dassa Campfire Tracker D Joined: May 2008 Posts: 5,174 Likes: 6 Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye Originally Posted by 1beaver_shooter I usually leave them alone and still get more zooks than I can eat Interesting. So you get multiple sprouts in one spot, leave them alone, and still get a full crop of zucchini? That's pretty good, since I thought we were talking eggplants.

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought dassa #19401969 04/21/24 Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,489 a swamp in eastern n.c. 1 1beaver_shooter Campfire Regular 1beaver_shooter Campfire Regular 1 Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,489 a swamp in eastern n.c. Originally Posted by dassa Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye Originally Posted by 1beaver_shooter I usually leave them alone and still get more zooks than I can eat Interesting. So you get multiple sprouts in one spot, leave them alone, and still get a full crop of zucchini? That's pretty good, since I thought we were talking eggplants. Yea generally I walk down the row punching holes every few inches ,doesn't matter what I plant ,drop a few seeds usually 3 or 4 to the hole, walk back and cover them up . Most folks overthink this planting and gardening stuff anyway long as they are good seeds, have water,good soil and the weeds and bugs are removed you will have enough to eat and put up for hard times there is no man more free than he who has nothing left to lose --unknown-- " If it bleeds we can kill it" Conan The Barbarian

Re: Vegetable Gardening Advice Sought smokepole #19404660 04/23/24 Joined: Mar 2022 Posts: 734 Likes: 1 Northwest of Kaywoodie T Tminc Campfire Regular Tminc Campfire Regular T Joined: Mar 2022 Posts: 734 Likes: 1 Northwest of Kaywoodie Originally Posted by smokepole Originally Posted by slumlord We start ours in individual peat cubes in our greenhouse. Nothing goes out to the main dirt until plants are about 8” tall. Keep 400w metal halide 4ft about seed arrays. Small oscillator fan to build stem hardiness. Indica, sativa, or both?? Both please with several hybrids throw in as well. Rehab is for quitters! THEY are all guilty! Name one honest politician! DEFINE Treason. God bless the USA Democrats ARE the plague! RINO'S need to be hunted! Who's a bigger puzzy than Paul Ryan? Mike Pence? John Kerry ? REELECT NOBODY! Except Trump