How Does Your Garden Grow??????

MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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Not getting much done here. Last frost tonight. I hope.

But a tray for neighbor of sunflowers and 2 mater kinds. Tray of cukes for the community garden. And too many to go in this small space. Glad when it gets warm.

These coke trays are great. No more sheet pand, boards, spills or 100 trips. LOL.

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xtsho

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No big changes but everything is growing good so far. It doesn't like like there will be any weather surprises. Things are just going to start growing faster as the weather warms up.

I planted another couple rows of beets, a row of dill, radishes, and a couple more rows of lettuce. These are just 4 ft rows so nothing crazy with my limited space. I have a ton of collards and Swiss Chard volunteers on the side of the house. I'm thinking of using some chard as a landscape feature in the front yard. The red stems make a nice color addition and the leaves are nice as well for a foliage addition.

I'm making IMO and FPJ and have a bunch of jars brewing. I have to go buy another 2 gallon pump sprayer to spray everything with the IMO and other stuff. I don't want to use any of the ones I already have as I've used them for spraying fruit trees, roses, etc... with various fungicides and insecticides. You can never have too many sprayers. They're cheap enough to have dedicated ones for specific uses.





The broccoli Rabe is somewhat disappointing. I thought the plants would get bigger. It could be the variety or maybe I crowded them too much. Could be that the soil isn't really to their liking. I've been amending my soil all around the yard but I've never tested it except for a pH slurry test. Things could be off. I'm hoping the KNF and JADAM will get everything back in order. Worm castings and compost can vary as far as nutrient content and concentration. I've been mixing quite a bit of organic matter into the soil over the last few years. It needed it but things might be a little off.

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Taken today. Significant growth but overall the plants are small and look like it's time to harvest as the flowers are about to open up. I've never grown it before but in the future I think I'll buy a different variety from Seeds of Italy. I'm planting some more tomorrow so maybe I planted early. We'll see. It a cold weather crop so it should have done better which leads me to believe that the soil on the side of the house needs some work.

 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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xtsho said:
No big changes but everything is growing good so far. It doesn't like like there will be any weather surprises. Things are just going to start growing faster as the weather warms up.

I planted another couple rows of beets, a row of dill, radishes, and a couple more rows of lettuce. These are just 4 ft rows so nothing crazy with my limited space. I have a ton of collards and Swiss Chard volunteers on the side of the house. I'm thinking of using some chard as a landscape feature in the front yard. The red stems make a nice color addition and the leaves are nice as well for a foliage addition.

I'm making IMO and FPJ and have a bunch of jars brewing. I have to go buy another 2 gallon pump sprayer to spray everything with the IMO and other stuff. I don't want to use any of the ones I already have as I've used them for spraying fruit trees, roses, etc... with various fungicides and insecticides. You can never have too many sprayers. They're cheap enough to have dedicated ones for specific uses.





The broccoli Rabe is somewhat disappointing. I thought the plants would get bigger. It could be the variety or maybe I crowded them too much. Could be that the soil isn't really to their liking. I've been amending my soil all around the yard but I've never tested it except for a pH slurry test. Things could be off. I'm hoping the KNF and JADAM will get everything back in order. Worm castings and compost can vary as far as nutrient content and concentration. I've been mixing quite a bit of organic matter into the soil over the last few years. It needed it but things might be a little off.

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Taken today. Significant growth but overall the plants are small and look like it's time to harvest as the flowers are about to open up. I've never grown it before but in the future I think I'll buy a different variety from Seeds of Italy. I'm planting some more tomorrow so maybe I planted early. We'll see. It a cold weather crop so it should have done better which leads me to believe that the soil on the side of the house needs some work.

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Replacing my almost barren flower beds with beets on the front of the house. Damn deer and chipmunks were hungry last spring. West side and will hide the stripped soil while blending beatifully with my crazy dark burgundy Barberry shrubs. Should not have trimmed last spring and added sulfur and kelp. More growth this spring than ever. LOL.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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BlandMeow said:
@xtsho the garlic is looking strong. My first year growing garlic and definitely pleased with the growth so far. Anything I should look out for? I haven't done any amendments. Custom soil mix for the raised bed, was thinking of some ewc in a couple weeks.
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I'm not a garlic expert but if you planted last fall you'll want to give them a feeding in the spring and then every 3-4 weeks. A basic 10-10-10 fertilizer maybe some blood meal. I personally don't use blood meal in my garden as I grow beans and peas which are nitrogen fixers and don't need the high fast acting nitrogen from blood meal.

EWC would be good. I wouldn't wait a couple weeks. They could probably use a feeding now.
 
injinji

injinji

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The river has crested (for the second time) so the in ground beds should be fine. But it will take most of a week to go down enough that I don't have to wade (or drag out the boat) to get in and water them everyday.

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MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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injinji said:
The river has crested (for the second time) so the in ground beds should be fine. But it will take most of a week to go down enough that I don't have to wade (or drag out the boat) to get in and water them everyday.

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Brave man according to my understanding of your relativity to sea level.

Nice grow. Almost done torturing myself up potting starter plants. I'll post something in the dark when done. LOL.

Hope all are content at the moment.
 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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injinji said:
The weather station I use is 150 feet above sea level. It's only a couple three miles away, but it is on a hill. I'm guessing the river land is around 100 feet.
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I have a friend or two in FLA. Used to complain about droughts. Now they are fighting water. Nice to here you are not in it. Or above it at least.

I managed to get 131 starters potted up for distributing by Mom's day. Just cukes and yellow grape and Roma maters. I'm hurting already. But damn I feel to good to accomplish something. And my son helped all the way. Bonus.

Plants grow more than plants. LOL.

Gotta ghost slowing my pc down. I'll post pics in a few.
 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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MICHI-CAN said:
I have a friend or two in FLA. Used to complain about droughts. Now they are fighting water. Nice to here you are not in it. Or above it at least.

I managed to get 131 starters potted up for distributing by Mom's day. Just cukes and yellow grape and Roma maters. I'm hurting already. But damn I feel to good to accomplish something. And my son helped all the way. Bonus.

Plants grow more than plants. LOL.

Gotta ghost slowing my pc down. I'll post pics in a few.
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.Smoke

.Smoke

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Just got everything in the ground after our last cold snap.
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A few potato plants and onions left over from last year.
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Bell peppers and horseradish.
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Broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage.
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And we're still waiting on the tomatoes, carrots, green beans and snap peas to break ground.
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Nothing big or fancy. Even though it's just me and the lady, I think we'll need to extend the garden for next year.
Space fills up a lot faster than planned.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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.Smoke said:
Just got everything in the ground after our last cold snap.
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A few potato plants and onions left over from last year.
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Bell peppers and horseradish.
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Broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage.
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And we're still waiting on the tomatoes, carrots, green beans and snap peas to break ground.
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Nothing big or fancy. Even though it's just me and the lady, I think we'll need to extend the garden for next year.
Space fills up a lot faster than planned.
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You may want to rethink the placement of that horseradish. It's going to start popping up all over that garden bed. I dug mine up and put it in the very back corner of the yard away from my garden plots. I'm still digging it up 2 years later. It spreads fast by runners underground. That stuff will be popping up ten feet away.
 
.Smoke

.Smoke

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xtsho said:
You may want to rethink the placement of that horseradish. It's going to start popping up all over that garden bed. I dug mine up and put it in the very back corner of the yard away from my garden plots. I'm still digging it up 2 years later. It spreads fast by runners underground. That stuff will be popping up ten feet away.
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I'll be moving it after this year.
That was a single plant last year. Harvested late fall and now it's 6.
I mean, I'm glad it's growing but yeah. Invasive :)
 
injinji

injinji

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MICHI-CAN said:
. . . . . . . I managed to get 131 starters potted up for distributing by Mom's day. Just cukes and yellow grape and Roma maters. I'm hurting already. But damn I feel to good to accomplish something. And my son helped all the way. Bonus.

Plants grow more than plants. LOL.

Gotta ghost slowing my pc down. I'll post pics in a few.
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I used to give plants to my thrift stores. Some sold them, others kept them for the workers. Most of the thrift stores are back open, but I'm way behind this year. Too much sun got round one, too much cold got round two. Hoping round three works better.

Edit: some threads just about don't load on my PC. I have to stop it and start it again. It will load the second time, but takes forever to get the pictures up.
 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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injinji said:
I used to give plants to my thrift stores. Some sold them, others kept them for the workers. Most of the thrift stores are back open, but I'm way behind this year. Too much sun got round one, too much cold got round two. Hoping round three works better.
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It sadly does take 3. Just an attempt to pacify Karma. She gets ugly. LOL. But hoping to get the greenhouse at least cleared out. Miss my flowers. Damn chipmunks and cold. I had marigolds in the hundreds started in my front beds. Freeze. Barren earth now. Think I'm doing beets instead. Good, good soil.
 
BlandMeow

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Continued building out new beds. This time for carrots. I grew carrots last season and had success for the first time, growing some monsters. Bed walls are 12" tall, but I dug down to 18" to give plenty of room to push down. Made a quick and dirty 1/4" screen and sifted through the soil from last year. Added some perlite and peat. Oh yeah, threw the bug ridden bag of big rootz for good measure. The beneficials in there are feasting on those fuckers.

First time using pelletized seed and it made sowing at the correct rate very helpful. Had some room for some salad greens up front row to round out the bed.

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