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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 9:08:15 GMT -5
Well that's no good! I guess I can split my hostas and then fill in the spaces with flowers.
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Post by busymom on Jan 14, 2014 9:45:46 GMT -5
I have to split up my hosta every year. It amazes me how thick the variety I have comes in every Spring. We've got a smaller patch of land in front of the house where our flowers & hosta grow.
Our garden started small too. And, we had some soil issues when we began. But, over the years we've built up the nutrients in the soil, (thank you compost!) and DH kept making our garden bigger & bigger, since he wasn't satisfied with the amount of room for all of the things we like to plant. Someday, when we're empty nesters, we'll probably stop growing pumpkins. But, there are so many other things we'd like to try, that I don't think we'll have any problems filling up the space. This past year was the first year our potatoes were truly successful. I can easily see us planting more potatoes.
Have any of you grown blueberries? We're thinking we'd like to add those to our mix.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Jan 14, 2014 21:47:38 GMT -5
I'm planning a small garden this year. I used to have a big one; peas, spinach, tomatoes, green beans, etc. but the past 20 or so years I've lived in houses with small or no yards, so I've only put things in pots on the deck or patio. We moved into a new house a couple of months ago and have over 1/2 acre so I'm planning on putting in a garden this year. I'll plant peas, green beans, tomatoes and maybe some squash.
My grandpa used to grow blueberries and they were wonderful! He had bushes lining the driveway and he'd wrap them in cheesecloth when the berries started to ripen so the birds wouldn't get them. Grandma used to freeze them and then use them during the winter for blueberry muffins, crisp, etc. They were the best!
DH mentioned recently he thinks we got a fig tree in the back yard. I like figs so I'm hoping there is one. I have a raspberry bush in a pot from the old house and I'll plant that somewhere too. Love fresh raspberries.
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Post by kadee79 on Mar 7, 2014 14:22:11 GMT -5
GeeWhizz gals, life got in the way & I hadn't been back to this thread.
I just sent our local tv meteorologist an email asking her "if" that 32º they are predicting is REALLY going to happen since I don't see the same thing at TWC or UW sites.
I have cabbage that needs set out and also some tomato plants. If we get hot before the cabbage matures, it won't do much and I'll be fighting the cabbage worm moths too. I'd also like to beat the tomato horn worms showing up if possible.
This time last year I already had tomatoes in the ground & blooming!
My cauliflower were toast, they all died! My cabbage has been very slow but we have had one head and have another one getting close. My carrots are looking better since we have had a few days into the 70's, but still slow. I've planted more carrot & radish seeds the other day. The onion are growing good! I planted potatoes on Valentines and some of them are up. I also have 2 onions & several potatoes growing in my compost!
I still don't have all of my 32' raised bed cleaned out. It keeps raining and I don't relish playing in wet dirt!
Swamp, if you have a way to do it, I have found something that deters deer. Do you have any old CDs that you don't want?, don't throw them out or donate them. What I've done is tie 2 together, shiny sides out with 25# test fishing line. Then I tie one fishing line swivel above it and leave a long piece to tie it on to a tree branch in the area I want to keep the deer away from. It works best if a second set of CDs is also tied below the first one...also with the swivel so that they will turn independent of each other. They reflect off our neighbor's night lights (we don't have a night light) and off my color changing (solar) lights that I have scattered around. We still see tracks where they pass through, but with the random light flashes, they don't see to pause to nibble on anything. I've been doing this for about 5 yrs. now and so far so good! Birds will land above them, but I haven't seen any land under them...so not much deterrent for bird problems.
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Post by kadee79 on Mar 12, 2014 16:06:56 GMT -5
Pat, if you ever decide to try onion seeds....start at LEAST 12 weeks prior to planting time....and you may have give them a "hair cut" once or twice. I have given up using sets as they are actually second year growth of the onion and often put out seed shoots. I get my plants at Dixondale Onions. Yes, they cost a bit more, but their varieties are much better since you can match the onion to your conditions. There are 3 "kinds" of onions...long day, short day & intermediate.
I FINALLY finished cleaning out my raised beds. I have planted more English peas, radishes & spinach. I also set out some tomato plants, cabbage plants & celery plants. DH &I got the new seedlings all covered this afternoon as we are supposed to go down into the 30's for the next 2 mornings. Now it will just be waiting for the soil to get warm enough to plant corn & beans & cukes & squash & ?....I've forgotten what else I have seeds for.
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Post by busymom on Mar 12, 2014 16:34:50 GMT -5
I am SO jealous of those of you who live in warmer climates. Now that our snow is FINALLY starting to melt, I'm getting that itch to get in the garden!
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Post by kittensaver on Mar 12, 2014 17:21:07 GMT -5
I live a mile from the beach on the So Cal coast, so my gardening cycle and some food choices are probably different-to-very-different from most other parts of the country. Because we share a microclimate with the mediterranean region of Europe (the same global latitude), those are the veggies that do best: many of the leafys, bulbs/tubers and cruciferous in the winter; beans (all kinds), nightshades (tomato, eggplant), squashes, peppers, cukes in the summer and fall; carrots, beets, radish, mesculin, peas, favas, chard, arugula and fennel year-round. The rest-of-the-country's January/February is my August/September: when everyone on the east coast is curled up with hot chocolate and perusing seed catalogs in January, I spend my August stretched out on a chaise lounge with an iced tea looking at seed catalogs. Anything I plant in August or early September is just about guaranteed to wilt and die - especially if/when the hot Santa Ana winds kick up and decimate seedlings. During that time, we just let the established plants "finish up." Other than that six or eight-week period, I can pretty much plant year around. I just pulled out the last of the winter lettuces, broccili rabe and spinach - it was so warm this year they bolted almost immediately (I know, I know, lots of other folks would like to have that problem right now! sorry ). In their place I started my tomatoes, squashes, green beans and peppers. I also put in a second planting of peas. When the collards and broccoli finish up I will put in more beets, peppers and kale. I think I'm going to try some purslane and some edible flowers too this year. The toughest thing we have to deal with is powdery mildew - it's an on-going hazard of living at the sometimes-foggy coast. Vegetables that require extended periods of heat (okra, corn, melons, some hot peppers) also do not do well. Because our community garden is 100% organic, we "fight" pests with neem oil spray and with biological controls (nematodes, ladybugs etc). Our birds LOVE our bugs, so almost everyone plants sunflowers to attract them (they come for the seeds and swoop in on the bugs while they are there - I see it happen repeatedly). I hope everyone has fun and great success this year!
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Post by haapai on Mar 12, 2014 19:27:02 GMT -5
I'm planting peas, the edible-pod type that I have left over. And I have the perfect spot picked out for them right next to the kitchen and the spigot where I'll be sure to water them.
There's a 3' drift of snow there now.
Will you zone 8 folks kindly knock it off. I shoveled six inches of snow off two hundred feet of sidewalk this morning.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 12, 2014 21:53:42 GMT -5
I decided today that I have had enough of the mustard, kale, spinach and turnip greens so pulled out of beds. I have blooms on tomato plants. Getting rest of garden planted tomorrow or Friday. Cold front moving thru tonight and tomorrow with lows in mid 30's but back up into 60's and 70's during day. Got plans for yellow squash, zuchinni, pole beans, cukes, eggplant, red bell peppers, romaine lettuce and anything else that strikes my fancy and I have room for. I only have 3 raised beds. May have to con #1 son into building me one more - baby steps Lemon and chocolate mint survived freeze/ice since I saw it poking it's head out today. Oh I am one of those Zone 8b folks - sorry haapai ETA: I haven't had much luck growing "big" onions. Anyone here want to enlighten me?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2014 22:50:53 GMT -5
Me me me!
We've got 2 large garden areas in the backyard. Not as big as Kadee's (500 onions). But, we typically grow tomatoes (large & cherry), carrots, pea pods, broccoli, strawberries, pumpkins, radishes, potatoes & whatever else looks good. We've also got a row of raspberry bushes.
We put in some new fencing last year that did a great job of keeping deer & bunnies out of the garden (as well as our dog).
I would LOVE someday to have a small greenhouse on our property to start plants with. Right now, because we tend to get frost late, it doesn't make sense to put most of the garden in until Memorial Weekend. We finally bit the bullet a few years ago and bought a greenhouse. Now I can't believe how I ever lived without it. I can't use it in the coldest part of Winter or the hottest part of Summer, but the rest of the year it's good to go. When it's raining or too windy to work outside, you can find me playing in the greenhouse.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2014 22:54:26 GMT -5
I can't grow things all that well, so we contribute labor to my parent's garden. Last year we expanded it to cover my parents plus three families of siblings still in town (little brother moved out of town before anything was ready to be harvested, but they still got some benefit). Last year, the garden was about 2/3 an acre. Some plots were new, but they didn't do great because it was the first year for the soil (we have very sandy soil, takes a few years of stuff being plowed under in the fall/spring to get it good for growing). This year, garden size will possibly be restricted by snow pack in the mountains. If there isn't enough, water gets restricted in the summer. So, waiting to see where that goes. My mom will start seeds in February. We are still able to dig up carrots and potatoes from last year!! There will be... Tomatoes (20+ plants, at least 10 varieties) Onions (at least 2 varieties) Radishes Potatoes Beans Peas (several varieties, like sugar snap peas) Corn peppers (at least 10 varieties) lettuce (at least 4 varieties) turnips and a ton more I can't remember Last year, she gave away over 200 tomato plants she had started from seed. Some were well over a foot tall when I delivered them to coworkers. Sandy soil with us, too. Also, possible water restrictions due to no snow pack. We found that installing a drip system really helped.
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Post by kadee79 on Mar 14, 2014 8:46:22 GMT -5
Pat, when you break off the seed stem on onions, yes...it will allow the onion bulb to grow, but it also makes a "soft" area on/in the onion and those will rot faster than the ones that don't get seed stems. Since I plant so many, I don't want rotting onions, I want mine to be able to keep.
NoNamePerson....if you are zone 8b, you should likely be doing the same as me and planting in the fall...Nov./Dec. and no later than the 1st week in Jan. Here is a link to the variety of onions that will do best in your area, we are "short-day" onion folks....
www.dixondalefarms.com/onion_plant_daylengths
scroll down just a tad to see the map. But the "secret" to getting bigger bulbs is two-fold...plant a variety that has been bred for your conditions and plant them at the right time.
As for space with 500+ onions...what I have is a 20'X4' & a 10'X4'....so not "really" a lot of space. I plant my onions 3" apart in rows 3" apart for about 4 rows and then leave enough space to get my foot in there for weeding & pulling...then on to the next set of rows. I had a few left over that I planted on the inside edges of my raised beds...so they won't really interfere with anything else in those beds.
And for those of you who are giving us the "what for" down here in the lower regions....just remember that when you are enjoying the nice summer breezes we will be wilting under our heat/humidity and barely be able to breathe on some days! Our tomatoes will also slow WAY down in production or quit until the temps get cooler and we have to have an eye on them every day to make sure we don't get pests that devour them (tomato/tobacco horn worm...sphinx moth/hummingbird moth).
And BTW, we had our first ruby throat hummingbird of the year visit us on 3/9. My feeders have been out since mid Feb. On the 10th there were 2 here in the evening...so they are on the move. If you would like to watch their migration progress, here is a link to a map...updated daily as the reports come in from folks like us....
www.hummingbirds.net/map.html
The date 3/9 down in SW Ga. is "my" report!
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 14, 2014 9:12:04 GMT -5
Thanks kadee79 I guess I am to late for this year except to have "spring oinions" but that will do. But will know what to do come fall. I want red oinions also. LOL that is so true. Off to read up on the oinions. Happy Planting everyone and remember to share your bounty with friends/relatives and neighbors!!
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Post by kadee79 on Mar 28, 2014 11:26:37 GMT -5
I have my 15 tomato plants in the ground. I also planted 13 more cabbages and (I think) 8 celery. I've planted seeds for 4 kinds of lettuce, but these little rows are just that "little"...only about 18" long. Also planted more carrot seeds. I picked English peas yesterday from the ones I'd planted last fall and my latest planting of them are up about 3". We enjoyed some fresh cabbage and carrots the other night with our supper and those peas I picked went into a homemade chicken pot pie....had to use up that rotisserie chicken I'd bought! So there are now 6 servings of pot pie in the freezer!
I'm ready to plant corn & green beans & cukes, when the weather co-operates. It is raining today! I picked up some bell pepper plants at a nursery the other day too...the seeds I planted haven't geminated. I ALWAYS have trouble getting them to grow!
I still have a few tomato plants that I can plant...one is from seeds I planted and I have some volunteers coming up in my compost...those would be grape tomatoes! They will go into one of my flower beds for easy daytime snacking!...grab a few as you walk by!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 12:02:16 GMT -5
It won't warm up here ... I have some seeds started... sigh.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 29, 2014 7:35:10 GMT -5
WOW KaraBoo I'm impressed. I kept checking out the window yesterday to make sure my little garden hadn't floated off!! Even though raised beds we had so much rain I wasn't sure So far everything is looking good but have to keep eye out for that big bad green worm that shows up and chews things down when you back is turned. I was pleasantly surprised to see my Amaryllis bulbs coming back. They were in pots outside and got the big freeze/ice and I really thought they were dead but just hadn't tossed them. Time to get them in the flower beds. Might bloom again but they will be there with the daylillies for next spring...
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Post by kadee79 on Mar 31, 2014 7:26:46 GMT -5
Good morning! Looks like it will be another pretty day and since it's Monday, I'll be doing laundry & hanging out! Just a bit cool this morning at 40º, but we will warm up quickly!
I picked English peas yesterday and got enough for a mess for DH & I and since I had another brilliant thought, I went to my compost pile & dug up the potatoes that had started growing in there. I got a couple of handfuls of little new potatoes to go with those peas, so I will cream them! I stuck the potato plants back into the compost...I don't know if they will live or not but sure no harm in trying!
I have spinach up, at least 2 of the 4 kinds of lettuce are up, more English peas are about 3-4" tall now and my onions are starting to get bulbs on them!
I have azaleas, wisteria, lady banks yellow roses, iris, creeping phlox & flowering crab apple trees all blooming right now.
We have at least 4 humming birds that have stayed with us. Last night there were 6 but some of those may just be passing through on their way north. My 6 feeders have been out since late Feb. and I've had to refill a couple of times! All the other birds are either male chasing female or are looking for nesting spots or are just passing through as they migrate to the north. But they all seem to be very active and chirping a lot.
And we are supposed to hit the 80's near the end of the week!
So what is happening in your neck of the woods??
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Post by kadee79 on Apr 4, 2014 21:28:55 GMT -5
Not only did we make it to the 80's, we hit 90º one day this week. I have been one busy, busy little old lady around here. I've planted corn & green beans, more tomatoes, some bell peppers, and my order that came from Burgess.....4 forsythia, 2 elderberry, 1 "Sunny" knockout rose, 3 Carpathian walnut trees and I put the lilac in a pot since it looked like it needed some TLC. I've filled all 56 concrete blocks around my biggest raised bed with dirt from a pile we had out front. I shoveled it into buckets and hauled the buckets in my little yard trailer and then troweled the dirt into each hole. Those are now planted with several different kinds of flowers...but not every hole...I need some places to step sometimes. I also planted 30 popcorn plants that I started as an experiment. I couldn't plant them near my sweet corn (cross pollination) so I dug 30 holes in hard clay out by the woods in a sunny spot. I had to adjust my spacing several times when I ran into pine tree roots...but they are in the ground and on their own! I revamped one flower bed and now it needs mulch. I've planted more flower seeds in my garden house. Most of those were old seeds so I'll just have to wait & see if they germinate, but no harm in trying.
I've been picking English peas every other day. We had creamed peas with new potatoes the other night...oh, that was delish! And some are now in the freezer too with more coming on and a second planting growing.
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Post by kadee79 on Apr 17, 2014 23:03:03 GMT -5
That first planting of peas has now been pulled. We ate all we wanted and there is about a qt. in the freezer. The plants are in the compost bin. My corn & green beans are up and I mulched both of them today. As soon as my DH brings me a piece of fence wire, I'll plant my cucumbers along it so they can climb. And I need to stick a couple of cantaloupe some place too. My big 2 sweet potatoes are planted....since we don't eat that many of them, if they produce, that will be plenty for us. My second planting of peas are getting close to a foot tall. My latest planting of radishes is just sitting there, not doing much. And the spinach is looking pathetic too. I just don't seem to be able to grow spinach here at all. I'll try one more time this fall and see what happens. The last planting of carrots are growing slowly and the lettuce may or may not do anything...depends on how quickly we get hot temps.
So who has been in their gardens so far Inquiring minds want to know!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 23:50:32 GMT -5
Finally got broccoli and onions out this week... Will plant some peas and beets tomorrow...
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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 18, 2014 9:32:58 GMT -5
Has anyone here planted Edamame beans before? I found a 4 pack in nursery and going to give them a try. I like them but they are so friggin pricey in the grocery store so thought I would give them a try. Any advice appreciated.
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Post by Pants on Apr 18, 2014 10:01:21 GMT -5
Planted brocolli, brussel sprouts, and peas carrots and lettuce seeds last weekend. Promptly got an inch of snow. Oops. Last year we only had a small garden with some green beans, green peppers and lettuce, got much more ambitious this year and pulled up a 16x16 patch of grass to make a garden. Have no idea how this will go. Just started seedlings (I know, I'm very late!) for peppers and eggplants. Still have squash and watermelon to plant - need to get out and water today too.
This will be out first year of a big garden, but I'm hoping that we get some good fruits and veggies out of it. And that DD has fun with growing things and eating them. We're also hoping to do some berries as well, but will probably build a bed for those on the porch to increase drainage and access.
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Post by Apple on Apr 18, 2014 10:09:25 GMT -5
This will be another year for giving away tomato plants. My mom has about 350 little plants in the greenhouse!
Headed over to their place to work in the garden today. BIL is bringing a tractor, so the work should go MUCH faster than years past. The garden area has been covered with compost and dead leaves, so all that will get ground into the soil today.
I foresee a ton of canning again this year.
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Post by kadee79 on Apr 19, 2014 10:37:36 GMT -5
Has anyone here planted Edamame beans before? I found a 4 pack in nursery and going to give them a try. I like them but they are so friggin pricey in the grocery store so thought I would give them a try. Any advice appreciated. Since they are just immature soy bean pods, it shouldn't be a problem. You could probably buy soybeans at some kind of farm store in your area and plant those too. Just make sure you pick them before they mature or will get soy beans!
They don't grow well down here in our extended heat, but should grow most other places except maybe on a mountain! And the plants will harvest nitrogen from the air & set it in your soil too...and that is a good thing!
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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 19, 2014 19:01:52 GMT -5
Thanks kadee79 I'm going to give them a shot. Just never seen them in nurseries here so I'll try anything once!!! Thanks for the hints. I have been keeping an eye on them. They seem to be getting kinda tall and lanky so off to google growing habits - I should have done that before I planted them but I got impatient.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 20:19:10 GMT -5
All of our fruit trees are loaded with baby fruit. Now watch, we, as usual, will get a killing freeze before June. This year I told hubby that I was going to park both of our cars under our huge cherry tree and keep starting them in order to produce enough heat through the night to keep the fruit from freezing. I will lose the fruit off of the rest of the trees. Not enough cars.
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Post by Apple on Apr 19, 2014 21:47:43 GMT -5
All of our fruit trees are loaded with baby fruit. Now watch, we, as usual, will get a killing freeze before June. This year I told hubby that I was going to park both of our cars under our huge cherry tree and keep starting them in order to produce enough heat through the night to keep the fruit from freezing. I will lose the fruit off of the rest of the trees. Not enough cars. Another option might be to string Christmas lights in the trees. You want some that will give off a little heat, so definitely don't get LED lights. Try to find the highest wattage you can. Smudge pots are also useful.
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Post by kadee79 on Apr 22, 2014 20:00:33 GMT -5
All of our fruit trees are loaded with baby fruit. Now watch, we, as usual, will get a killing freeze before June. This year I told hubby that I was going to park both of our cars under our huge cherry tree and keep starting them in order to produce enough heat through the night to keep the fruit from freezing. I will lose the fruit off of the rest of the trees. Not enough cars. Another option might be to string Christmas lights in the trees. You want some that will give off a little heat, so definitely don't get LED lights. Try to find the highest wattage you can. Smudge pots are also useful. An open fire pit with a SMALL fire might help too....and maybe a fan to direct it where you want it to go?
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Apr 29, 2014 1:46:20 GMT -5
I officially have a red tomato on one of my plants.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 29, 2014 7:12:23 GMT -5
And I am dreading going out to check my garden to see what if any hail damage it sustained. I can see my hanging baskets from the window and poor old plants are beat down but I know they will bounce back. Ok, I have been putting it off long enough so out the door I go
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