How Does Your Garden Grow??????

WubbaLubbaDubDub

WubbaLubbaDubDub

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MICHI-CAN said:
Man I am in trouble. Season is upon me. I am still unable to do real labor for long. I repaired the wind damage on the greenhouse and added more anchors. Got the front flower beds and one on the side of the house broken and fertilized. My greenhouse is a jungle. Seriously. I think I can start far earlier. But I have a 10x20 section that needs weeding and a roto till to 4-6". I need some volunteer labor that I can gift for helping. All my friends kids have kids now. What to do?
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Make your own kids, free labor lol
 
myke

myke

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Need a little help with my tomatoes. Leaves curling up like theirs too much light. There under 3 48 W strip lights so not powerful. Soil is promix that’s been amended with Gaia 444. Soil was cooked for over a month. Fed straight water. Thanks 188952B3-F5FF-42E0-9556-52CFEF3AC59D.jpeg9DE5B828-8D93-4E0E-9956-84514B06131A.jpeg65ABE8BA-9010-40AE-A198-ECD9AB4DC71C.jpeg
 
injinji

injinji

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MICHI-CAN said:
Man I am in trouble. Season is upon me. I am still unable to do real labor for long. I repaired the wind damage on the greenhouse and added more anchors. Got the front flower beds and one on the side of the house broken and fertilized. My greenhouse is a jungle. Seriously. I think I can start far earlier. But I have a 10x20 section that needs weeding and a roto till to 4-6". I need some volunteer labor that I can gift for helping. All my friends kids have kids now. What to do?
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I can relate. I've been trying to get my flint Indian corn transplanted the last couple three days. I started way too much, now I'm sticking it anywhere I can make a spot. I still haven't cut up the sandhill garden and good above ground days are just around the corner. Then late yesterday I ran down to the riverhouse after our big storm. A huge hickory tree came down and missed my sprouts in cups by two feet. (it came down right where the swing frame had been setting for months. Glad I moved it over to the bean and corn patch a few days ago) Two cedar trees came down next to the river by the gen-deck, and one of them fell on my peppers. Broke one cage, but all the plants should straighten back up with time.
 
injinji

injinji

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Bareback said:
Nothing is free...... ^^^^^^....... best example ever.
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When I first met my wife, she was keeping her nephew. Somehow I thought he was her kid, and I stayed away for months on those grounds alone. I've had a good deal of luck in life, but I still say the biggest reason we are comfortable and so many of our peers are neck deep in debt is the fact we are childless.
 
Bareback

Bareback

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injinji said:
When I first met my wife, she was keeping her nephew. Somehow I thought he was her kid, and I stayed away for months on those grounds alone. I've had a good deal of luck in life, but I still say the biggest reason we are comfortable and so many of our peers are neck deep in debt is the fact we are childless.
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I love my kids..... I could have paid for a dozen houses with what I have invested in each one.
 
Bareback

Bareback

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I got ten tomatoes transplanted into their final garden spot yesterday. And I’m hoping to transplant some cucumbers tomorrow. The wife got her second shot today so I’m staying home with her tomorrow.....you know to keep an eye on her...... but also because the weather is to nice to work lol.
 
Rurumo

Rurumo

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I envy you guys that can plant out tomatoes already! I have another month minimum to wait before it's safe here. My garlic all came up though, I've got a 4x10 foot bed just packed with it. Was worried because there was a HARD freeze just a week after planting, and it's not all that deep, and I didn't mulch it like I usually do. I thought it would be a wash, but instead it's like 100% germination, pretty stoked about that. Last year I grew tomatillos and "ground cherries"-the ground cherries were awesome, crispy like grapes and tasted like pineapple, but earwigs decided to crawl in every single husk, and the husks protected them from the neem and spinosad. This year I'm growing out 3 kinds of tomatoes, plus something called "litchi tomatoes" and Chichiquelites, aka "garden huckleberries." I'm working my way through all the weird tomato family berries, they've all been surprisingly worthwhile so far.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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xtsho

xtsho

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Rurumo said:
I envy you guys that can plant out tomatoes already! I have another month minimum to wait before it's safe here. My garlic all came up though, I've got a 4x10 foot bed just packed with it. Was worried because there was a HARD freeze just a week after planting, and it's not all that deep, and I didn't mulch it like I usually do. I thought it would be a wash, but instead it's like 100% germination, pretty stoked about that. Last year I grew tomatillos and "ground cherries"-the ground cherries were awesome, crispy like grapes and tasted like pineapple, but earwigs decided to crawl in every single husk, and the husks protected them from the neem and spinosad. This year I'm growing out 3 kinds of tomatoes, plus something called "litchi tomatoes" and Chichiquelites, aka "garden huckleberries." I'm working my way through all the weird tomato family berries, they've all been surprisingly worthwhile so far.
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I can't plant yet either.

I'm still debating on whether I should put my tomato and pepper starts out in the unheated greenhouse. The stores have starts that are outside but it's still dipping into the low 40's here at night. We are going to be having great daytime temps but they drop of significantly at night. Another reason to build my sealed greenhouse complete with power for heat. I can get my starts out of the house sooner.

That still won't address where I'm planting 40 tomato plants with just a 4 x 10 raised bed planned for tomatoes.

My starts look better than the stuff they had for $2.99 in the same size nursery pots at the store I saw the other day. Some are even starting to flower. Gotta pinch those early ones off.





I'm going to wait another week before they go out in the greenhouse. They won't go into the ground until mid to late May. Depending on the weather. It's looking good for the next week at least. Just those cold night temps keeping me from doing what I want.

 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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xtsho said:
I can't plant yet either.

I'm still debating on whether I should put my tomato and pepper starts out in the unheated greenhouse. The stores have starts that are outside but it's still dipping into the low 40's here at night. We are going to be having great daytime temps but they drop of significantly at night. Another reason to build my sealed greenhouse complete with power for heat. I can get my starts out of the house sooner.

That still won't address where I'm planting 40 tomato plants with just a 4 x 10 raised bed planned for tomatoes.

My starts look better than the stuff they had for $2.99 in the same size nursery pots at the store I saw the other day. Some are even starting to flower. Gotta pinch those early ones off.





I'm going to wait another week before they go out in the greenhouse. They won't go into the ground until mid to late May. Depending on the weather. It's looking good for the next week at least. Just those cold night temps keeping me from doing what I want.

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I'm kinda glad I couldn't get my starts going yet. Another week of cold here. My poor lemon trees rolled over and tried to hide from the sun after a 43F night.

I got started though. POS greenhouse got some band aids and 4 more anchors. What a mess in there. Almost 3 foot fox mint. And huge clover shrubs. Fun fun. Got good dirt.

Started sunflowers, milk weed and 2 types of beets. I need to get functionally mobile soon. I feel like I'm living in a studio apartment again. LOL. 001.jpg
 
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