How Does Your Garden Grow??????

oldsilvertip55

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Wow they have a proper bed shaper. Mine never got those crisp edges. Tomatoes on plastic really makes a big difference. Sweet farm impressed!

Here is my tomatoView attachment 5240200 "pheno hunt" from Spring. Seed increase mainly.
impressed with the tomato farm ,the old man who used to grow upwards (never saw plastic in one of his grows) of 60 acres till he and his wife got in bad health, miss that old fart!
 

injinji

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I did something today I have never done before. I was down at the riverhouse to plant, and when I was mixing up the soil in last season's seed trays I had to break up frozen soil. It took me a minute to realize what was going on. I thought a big ass root had got in my tray somehow. lol I'm sure you guys up north deal with it every spring.

Anyway, I planted 2 trays each of grapefruit and Peacock orange. At least 1 (but possibly 2) of pomelo and a split tray of sweet cumquat and WC orange. I ran out of umph and daylight before I got to the seeds from the rotten fruit. (I'm on day 13 of covid, and I'm still not 100%) I have about a dozen pomelo and grapefruit that I have to get the seeds out of. Also have a bag each of most likely pomelo and grapefruit seed.

I also planted 5 sets of pepper seeds. Mammoth Jalapeno f2, Cubanelle, and unknown pepper 1, 2, and 3. I know two of them are saved seeds from my mammoth Jalapeno f3's, just not which two. Tomorrow is another good above ground day, and I'll get back down there earlier in the day. I still have to dig in the freezer for cayenne and habs and all the sweet pepper seeds. Our temps are going to reach the 60'a tomorrow so the soil should thaw out enough for them to start popping.
 

farmingfisherman

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I did something today I have never done before. I was down at the riverhouse to plant, and when I was mixing up the soil in last season's seed trays I had to break up frozen soil. It took me a minute to realize what was going on. I thought a big ass root had got in my tray somehow. lol I'm sure you guys up north deal with it every spring.

Anyway, I planted 2 trays each of grapefruit and Peacock orange. At least 1 (but possibly 2) of pomelo and a split tray of sweet cumquat and WC orange. I ran out of umph and daylight before I got to the seeds from the rotten fruit. (I'm on day 13 of covid, and I'm still not 100%) I have about a dozen pomelo and grapefruit that I have to get the seeds out of. Also have a bag each of most likely pomelo and grapefruit seed.

I also planted 5 sets of pepper seeds. Mammoth Jalapeno f2, Cubanelle, and unknown pepper 1, 2, and 3. I know two of them are saved seeds from my mammoth Jalapeno f3's, just not which two. Tomorrow is another good above ground day, and I'll get back down there earlier in the day. I still have to dig in the freezer for cayenne and habs and all the sweet pepper seeds. Our temps are going to reach the 60'a tomorrow so the soil should thaw out enough for them to start popping.
Hope you start feeling better soon!
 

injinji

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The timing on these were fucked. I saw the first sprouts when I walked down to the riverhouse Wednesday night. Thursday morning I got 1K slash pine seedlings that needed planting. I got the last of the trees planted yesterday, then last night got back down there and potted up 4 each of Homestead, Beefsteak, Black Cherry and Red Cherry, and 3 Cherokee Purple. I didn't get a picture, but I dug out my hurricane damaged 3 socket hood and got it hung in the shower. (my 6 socket hood is just a half hour of chainsaw work from being accessible)

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Roger A. Shrubber

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it's still too early to start anything here yet. i won't start any seeds till the first March. i've got several types of tomatoes, sweet peppers, a couple of cucumbers, and pintos and snap peas to go out once i think i can trust the weather....it's been geting warm early the last few years, then sometime toward the end of April we've been getting one last hard frost.
 

injinji

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it's still too early to start anything here yet. i won't start any seeds till the first March. i've got several types of tomatoes, sweet peppers, a couple of cucumbers, and pintos and snap peas to go out once i think i can trust the weather....it's been geting warm early the last few years, then sometime toward the end of April we've been getting one last hard frost.
I've got to get my underground greenhouse dug. I won't have the space to keep those under lights but 3 or 4 weeks. But I'm thinking about draping plastic over the raised beds and rolling the dice with some of the tomatoes.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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I've got to get my underground greenhouse dug. I won't have the space to keep those under lights but 3 or 4 weeks. But I'm thinking about draping plastic over the raised beds and rolling the dice with some of the tomatoes.
I can do raised beds, but it would require a backhoe to bury anything bigger than a baseball here, the ground if mostly rocks held together with red clay.
 

injinji

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I can do raised beds, but it would require a backhoe to bury anything bigger than a baseball here, the ground if mostly rocks held together with red clay.
I call my place the sandhill for a reason.

The plan is to build new raised beds and put the dirt from the underground greenhouse into the new raised beds. I need to hide the gas lantern from the road and I figured raised beds would do the trick. I got a few posts in and some of the 2X6's cut but got side tracked and haven't worked on it for a couple of months.
 
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