xbokilla
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- Jun 28, 2012
- 16,220
Like I said, I just do a little raised garden. Just started planting Saturday.
Garden 2023
- Thread starter CalebConn16
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drakeshooter
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Yeah X2, I need these in my life. I bottled 6 gallons of some of the very best blackberry wine ever over the weekend then went to rack another 6 gallons this morning for final 30+ days and it smelled like rotten eggs, nearly puked so I lost a wad of last year’s berries on top of winter kill off dammit to hell.
bigpuddin43
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primeark freedom thinking I got them from stark bros.
smashdn
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We harvested lettuce and spinach this past weekend. Have a green tomato already. Pole beans are climbing well. Peppers from old seed didnt sprout. Will get some sets. A few cucumbers have come up but not well. First time growing them. Asparagus bed is doing well for being the first year of it. Zukes and squash are blooming and have one little squash already.
slobear
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Not done planting yet. Cucumbers and beans are gonna be late
mudhole crossing
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Peas and maters looking good. Got a field of sweet corn but not sure how well it will do this year. The flood left a lot of sand behind.
Lady Hunter
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- Jan 12, 2009
- 5,590
Peaches & cream corn popped thru the ground yesterday. Okra has been up for a couple of days - clemson spineless, heavy hitter, and purple. Walking onions look good after the winter - so does the garlic. Got veranda tomatoes growing in planters & hanging baskets all over the place. Started some cucumbers in a hanging basket too just for grins. Helped hubby get the two bottom garden spots planted last night: roma tomatoes, mortgage lifter tomatoes, poblano peppers, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini. Hope to get the top garden (where the corn is) finished up tonight with sweet peppers, bunching onions, and yellow pear tomatoes.
One the fruit side, trees are all looking good but lost most of the blooms/fruit from the late freeze. Still have a few (like less than 20 per tree) pears but the apples, paw paws, and peaches all froze out. Frost got our pecans too - they're just now recovering & starting to leaf back out. Saw a couple blooms on one of them but nothing on the other 4. Our little mulberry is bloomimng for the first time - just a couple blossoms that probably won't produce but it's a start. Honeyberries were looking good & growing like weeds but one of them just up & died over the past couple of weeks. Stark Bros is shipping me a replacement that shouudl be here tomorrow. Blackberries were starting to bloom but the freeze killed them all the way back to the ground. Hope to put in a new blackberry plot next spring so I've been reading the posts above & making notes!
We've also been working on the flower beds. The big bed by the driveway has been unbelievable this year... Masses & masses of daffodils, irises, and peonies - with buds setting on the daylilies like crazy!!! I have two openings in it & plan to move two irises up out of the old holding beds in the next few weeks. We're starting to get the bed below the garage under control - it's been a weedy mess for years but with lots of Roundup, hoeing, and mulch, it's starting to look pretty good. The irises, peonies, and daffodils all bloomed well & the hostas are finally taking root so hopefully it's shaded enough that they don't get cooked - it only gets afternoon sun. The raised bed along the back of the house has reached the point where all we have to do is maintain it. The peonies & hostas there are growing like weeds & it's just beautiful. We're adding new beds along the side of the deck & across the front of the house for more irises out of the holding beds, a couple of fig bushes, some hibiscuses, etc. It's slow going where I'm out of commission but should be looking nice by next year - especially after we rework the front steps this fall (if the old ones last that long). The little beds around the pack patio are both looking good (yucca, sedum, and hostas). Hubby keeps pulling weeds from the old shade bed (magic lilies, coneflowers, irises, daffodils, etc.) but for now, it's not a priority & is by far more weeds/vines than anything desirable. Maybe someday we can get it controlled but for now, it'll have to wait.
One the fruit side, trees are all looking good but lost most of the blooms/fruit from the late freeze. Still have a few (like less than 20 per tree) pears but the apples, paw paws, and peaches all froze out. Frost got our pecans too - they're just now recovering & starting to leaf back out. Saw a couple blooms on one of them but nothing on the other 4. Our little mulberry is bloomimng for the first time - just a couple blossoms that probably won't produce but it's a start. Honeyberries were looking good & growing like weeds but one of them just up & died over the past couple of weeks. Stark Bros is shipping me a replacement that shouudl be here tomorrow. Blackberries were starting to bloom but the freeze killed them all the way back to the ground. Hope to put in a new blackberry plot next spring so I've been reading the posts above & making notes!
We've also been working on the flower beds. The big bed by the driveway has been unbelievable this year... Masses & masses of daffodils, irises, and peonies - with buds setting on the daylilies like crazy!!! I have two openings in it & plan to move two irises up out of the old holding beds in the next few weeks. We're starting to get the bed below the garage under control - it's been a weedy mess for years but with lots of Roundup, hoeing, and mulch, it's starting to look pretty good. The irises, peonies, and daffodils all bloomed well & the hostas are finally taking root so hopefully it's shaded enough that they don't get cooked - it only gets afternoon sun. The raised bed along the back of the house has reached the point where all we have to do is maintain it. The peonies & hostas there are growing like weeds & it's just beautiful. We're adding new beds along the side of the deck & across the front of the house for more irises out of the holding beds, a couple of fig bushes, some hibiscuses, etc. It's slow going where I'm out of commission but should be looking nice by next year - especially after we rework the front steps this fall (if the old ones last that long). The little beds around the pack patio are both looking good (yucca, sedum, and hostas). Hubby keeps pulling weeds from the old shade bed (magic lilies, coneflowers, irises, daffodils, etc.) but for now, it's not a priority & is by far more weeds/vines than anything desirable. Maybe someday we can get it controlled but for now, it'll have to wait.
CalebConn16
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- May 27, 2016
- 1,122
Put out 50 tomato plants assorted Romas, Celebrity, Mortgage Lifter, Cherokee Purple, Big Boys. 20 pepper plants jalapeños, cayenne, habanero, bells, Hungarian hot wax, yellow wonder. 36 Beauregard sweet potato plants. 6 hills of poinsett cucumbers, 6 hills of Zucchini, and 5 hills of watermelon’s yesterday. Local hardware has flats of tomatoes for 20 dollars right now and they are beautiful plants
drakeshooter
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Should have posted my dicamba drift post here. Most of my tomatoes’ new suckers look like they’ve been hit with tobacco sucker oil. Bastages.
Here’s my small plot with the wheat field behind it.
On a better note dug out some new taters for lunch today.
Here’s my small plot with the wheat field behind it.
On a better note dug out some new taters for lunch today.
Sounds great everyone! Don’t know what wilt you have there Drake but not good.
Got 32 tomatoes in 2 weeks ago: black krim, better boy, big boy, big beef, Carolina gold, Rutgers, sweet 100’s and sweet millions. Also planted 32 peppers: bells, cubanelles, habaneros, chilis. Several eggplants, 4 zucchini mounds, 8 cucumbers, and 60 feet of green beans. Apple tree and pear tree are looking good. Cherry tree got hit with a blight last year and lost half of the tree.
Black berry plants are looking good. I split out 40 plants and transplanted down to my property. Herb hanging baskets are all growing well.
Only bad thing so far was an infestation of aphids. Fortunately, the lady but larvae showed up just in time on my burning bushes so I had the kids transplant about 100 down to my tomatoes and egg plants. Aphids are almost gone a day later.
Got 32 tomatoes in 2 weeks ago: black krim, better boy, big boy, big beef, Carolina gold, Rutgers, sweet 100’s and sweet millions. Also planted 32 peppers: bells, cubanelles, habaneros, chilis. Several eggplants, 4 zucchini mounds, 8 cucumbers, and 60 feet of green beans. Apple tree and pear tree are looking good. Cherry tree got hit with a blight last year and lost half of the tree.
Black berry plants are looking good. I split out 40 plants and transplanted down to my property. Herb hanging baskets are all growing well.
Only bad thing so far was an infestation of aphids. Fortunately, the lady but larvae showed up just in time on my burning bushes so I had the kids transplant about 100 down to my tomatoes and egg plants. Aphids are almost gone a day later.
CalebConn16
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- May 27, 2016
- 1,122
Went around the fence on the second garden today and got it back working and hot. Ran fishing line and flagging throughout the corn patch zig-zag to fight the crows. Sumbitches had already started pulling corn that had literally just popped through. I’d like to have the time to go nuclear on them. But this worked last year so hopefully it buys us enough time for it to get too big to pull. Pulled tomato baskets off the third garden which were planning to be pumpkins and such in the ground this week. Found a bald faced hornets nest that wasn’t happy and a nest underground of what looked like bumblebees that were pissed off. So I got the hell out of dodge. Be there early with spray for them bastards
Lady Hunter
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- Jan 12, 2009
- 5,590
Got 28 tomatoes (roma & morgtage lifter) caged last night. Got 7 more (yellow pear) to do tonight. Hauled hoses for the better part of 2 hours last night to water both gardens good. Forecast doesn't look like any rain in the foreseeable future so I just hope our rain barrels hold out. (We put in a 3rd one last weekend but with no rain to fill it...) Corn is looking good. Okra is looking good. Itty bitty maters in planters & hanging baskets look good. Cucumbers are coming up along with yellow squash & zucchini.
Fingers crossed!!!!!
The Kid is hoping we get enough tomatoes that he & his wife can have some to can. Told 'em as long as they do the cannng here, I'll go down to the produce auction and get maters if I have to!
Fingers crossed!!!!!
The Kid is hoping we get enough tomatoes that he & his wife can have some to can. Told 'em as long as they do the cannng here, I'll go down to the produce auction and get maters if I have to!
bigpuddin43
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Got tomatoes tied up again tonight along with the first pepper tie up. Would have been last night but we got a pop up thunderstorm that broke off one pepper plant. Everything is looking great.
drakeshooter
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barney
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- Oct 11, 2005
- 20,135
I hope it stays on the dryer side this year. It's been wet and wetter here since 2018, besides last fall.
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