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nineteeneightyfive
User ID: 76788364 United States 07/23/2018 11:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Okay, sorry, honestly haven't planted in like, years. Used to do tomatoe plants, jalapeno peppers, and ahh...banana peppers...here in NE Ohio. Not much yield, but it was something fresh that we put time and love into. Just in a funny good mood. I thought it was a joke thread at first, honestly. Last Edited by nineteeneightyfive on 07/23/2018 11:55 PM A Coot is a Bird.... |
SilverPatriot
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Asymptote
User ID: 76695518 United States 07/23/2018 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | picking tomatoes (in Michigan!!)... bunnies have wiped mostly everything else out... I have an apricot to pick tomorrow. Kiwis are sizing up. Apples were wiped out by squirrels. Pears look very good (asian and european). Jujubes bloomed well, but fruit has not yet started sizing up. Currants and gooseberries were great, but long done. Blackberries are loaded.. Approaching the line "Be wary of mathematicians, particularly when they speak the truth." - Augustine I sign all my Karma Polymath supreme BTW.... Any grammatical errors (or incorrect words) are due to Spellcheck fucking hating me.....did you see, it auto fucking capitalism the word Spellcheck |
Butthead
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nineteeneightyfive
User ID: 76788364 United States 07/23/2018 11:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Okay, sorry, honestly haven't planted in like, years. Quoting: nineteeneightyfive Used to do tomatoe plants, jalapeno peppers, and ahh...banana peppers...here in NE Ohio. Not much yield, but it was something fresh that we put time and love into. Just in a funny good mood. I thought it was a joke thread at first, honestly. A Coot is a Bird.... |
Fred Garvin
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SilverPatriot
(OP) User ID: 6366763 United States 07/24/2018 12:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Okay, sorry, honestly haven't planted in like, years. Quoting: nineteeneightyfive Used to do tomatoe plants, jalapeno peppers, and ahh...banana peppers...here in NE Ohio. Not much yield, but it was something fresh that we put time and love into. Just in a funny good mood. I thought it was a joke thread at first, honestly. How is that possible? Older thread: GLP Gardeners have begun planning my spring garden using Ollas for irrigation Thread: GLP Gardeners have begun planning my spring garden using Ollas for irrigation |
SilverPatriot
(OP) User ID: 6366763 United States 07/24/2018 12:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not good tried planting everything from seed and most everything got destroyed by hail, the surviving plants not producing anything. Quoting: Fred Garvin Sorry that you had horrific weather issues we had to fight Japanese beetles attacking our grapes but neem oil and spraying on Diatomaceous Earth along with Japanese beetle worked. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76230257 United States 07/24/2018 12:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Sodbuster
User ID: 68702751 United States 07/24/2018 12:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Coal burning stove no natural gas, if that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass - David Allan Coe |
Icey
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SilverPatriot
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wisconsin
User ID: 76788109 United States 07/24/2018 12:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not good tried planting everything from seed and most everything got destroyed by hail, the surviving plants not producing anything. Quoting: Fred Garvin . ... awful! ... we lost some things two years ago because of hail ... . ... potato beetles are destroying the potato even worse this year than last ... BUT we had bumper harvests of strawberries and now the squash and cucumbers are ready for harvest ... . . Our family celebrates The Lord's Feasts: [link to www.grafted-promise.net] Fools and the dead don't change their minds. Fools won't and the dead can't. When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar. You are only telling the world that you fear what he might say. Quoting: CountryWise Amos 5:13 - Therefore at such a time the prudent person keeps silent, for it is an evil time. |
SilverPatriot
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SilverPatriot
(OP) User ID: 6366763 United States 07/24/2018 12:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ours is doing OK, it's been very hot and dry here, so watering every other day. We have 4 Heirloom tomatoes planted an two were getting eaten by something. Turned out to be be a couple of huge tomato hornworms,fed those to the chickens. My wife's Kale is looking great, and our Horse Radish is getting thicker by the day. Quoting: Sodbuster Neem oil and Diatomaceous Earth works wonders and your garden is still organic. |
Sodbuster
User ID: 68702751 United States 07/24/2018 12:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ours is doing OK, it's been very hot and dry here, so watering every other day. We have 4 Heirloom tomatoes planted an two were getting eaten by something. Turned out to be be a couple of huge tomato hornworms,fed those to the chickens. My wife's Kale is looking great, and our Horse Radish is getting thicker by the day. Quoting: Sodbuster Neem oil and Diatomaceous Earth works wonders and your garden is still organic. Thanks Coal burning stove no natural gas, if that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass - David Allan Coe |
DuckNCover
User ID: 76756789 United States 07/24/2018 12:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm in Oklahoma and we really didn't have a spring. It lasted about 2 weeks and then bam, right into summer and 90 degree weather. I usually plant from seeds, but didn't this year. Health issues prevented me from planting. I would think that if people would get almost fully mature plants, they would have done well this year... Potatoes and sweet potatoes should do well, since they love the warm weather... I have been planting this area since 2010, but about 2 years ago had experienced a blight and a bad insect infestation that wiped out my 4000 sq ft garden within a week. I was just working too much at my job to fully attend to my garden... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74989921 United States 07/24/2018 01:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not so good here....I dug out a small one this year, as we skipped the past few years. Was really excited about it too! But I'd never planted in that spot before, so it needed fertilizer etc, and I didn't do that. I also got a very late start planting. I think the beans might produce, but lettuce died, only a few radishes survived, tomatoes not forming much fruit. Scallions died. Only the carrots and beans are growing like crazy. Net year I will get a little more organized and do it up right, as I do love it. |
BirdMom
User ID: 76395149 Panama 07/24/2018 01:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The garden is doing fine, though it's not very big. I only have pineapples and yams growing, plus an avocado tree. They don't really require much maintenance, just watering sometimes. The pineapple plants take about a year to produce, but it's worth it. You haven't had a pineapple until you've had one that's freshly picked. I harvested some 6 months ago that were so sweet and am waiting for the next batch. The yams grow like weeds. The avocado tree is still young and hasn't fruited yet. We have wild parrots here, and they like to perch in it. |
the deplorable ar-15 nut
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HIRSHEL
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Lily o' the Valley
User ID: 76788702 United States 07/24/2018 01:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Our first year trying Olla’s for watering plants and they work great we have to keep an eye on our summer squash or surprisingly fast, they can grow to a huge size. Quoting: SilverPatriot By next week, we will be harvesting grapes from our vines, our potatoes are almost ready to harvest, and we have a great deal of potatoes ready for harvest this weekend. We had a great crop of strawberries and still harvesting asparagus from our garden and have a nice supply of peppers, eggplant and tomatoes. Wafting for our Sugar Baby watermelon to mature along with my okra thus will be canning and dehydrating our produce soon. Our sugar snap peas have ended up being eaten while we pick them thus will need to plant more next year so some will end up on our table. Just replanted more greens to be harvested in the fall along with the fennel I just planted, as fall approaches will grow greens in my greenhouse. Low Maintenance Gardening! So Many Advantages to Watering with Olla Irrigation Pots. [link to www.photomagnets.com (secure)] I am counting on late plantings and winter green house this year. Late, wet, chilly spring here. Some fruit just didnt even show up, but pears and grapes doing very well. *** Good deeds bring rewards, bad actions bring troubles. That is a law of the universe. *** |
OwlTalking
User ID: 69652793 United States 07/24/2018 01:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The horse weed is at least 15 feet tall. Common name is ragweed, horses love it, and think it is a treat. I typically leave the weeds grow until I'm ready to plant other things because it helps keep the soil moist. Then I pull the weeds and give them to the horses as a treat. The volunteer yellow squash is going crazy too. To keep weeds from going crazy I add more manure, and the weeds get burnt out. Both squash and tomatoes can be planted in fresh manure. I went to plant potatoes and found potatoes from a couple of years ago. The white potatoes outlived all the other varieties. I gave up trying to use a shovel to dig up the potatoes, because they kept getting sliced, and unearth them by hand instead. The strawberry plants disappeared. Both the cucumber and melon plants are struggling. The solution to most problems is generally close at hand. |
Two-Sixteen
User ID: 76785285 United States 07/24/2018 01:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I consider the world our garden. There were no wild mmushrooms this spring and the few lady bug that are left are a dull orange color. There's gonna be famine. We need farms. Last Edited by Two-Sixteen on 07/24/2018 01:53 AM |
CaptainChaos
User ID: 76788651 Russia 07/24/2018 02:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not good tried planting everything from seed and most everything got destroyed by hail, the surviving plants not producing anything. Quoting: Fred Garvin I have fed more cridders trying to garden Then the weather..... Just how did they do it just a few hundred yeas ago we fed ourselves and preserved our own food? |
SilverPatriot
(OP) User ID: 6366763 United States 07/24/2018 07:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The garden is doing fine, though it's not very big. Quoting: BirdMom I only have pineapples and yams growing, plus an avocado tree. They don't really require much maintenance, just watering sometimes. The pineapple plants take about a year to produce, but it's worth it. You haven't had a pineapple until you've had one that's freshly picked. I harvested some 6 months ago that were so sweet and am waiting for the next batch. The yams grow like weeds. The avocado tree is still young and hasn't fruited yet. We have wild parrots here, and they like to perch in it. It must be wonderful to have fresh pineapple where we currently live in the Mid-Hudson Valley region of NY means we have cold winters here. We are in the process of building a retirement home in a state most conducive to an underground greenhouse. An Underground Greenhouse? It's Not Just A Fad - Off-the-grid [link to www.offthegridnews.com (secure)] Build a $300 underground greenhouse for year-round gardening (Video) [link to www.treehugger.com (secure)] |
Wondering Mind
User ID: 73265267 United States 07/24/2018 07:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The trees are doing more than I would want them to. I have walnut tree that when I came back home the other day the thing looked bigger than when I left, it is covered in walnuts. I am going to have it cut down, the thing will grow way bigger than we want that close to our house. The garden veggies are doing fine they will be canned later. The breads already made from them, pickling as well. The most precious things are the simple things in life, always present in the simplest of minds. |
ItsAllOneBigLie
User ID: 70941054 United States 07/24/2018 07:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | More kale and okra than I can keep up with. Strawberries plants grew, but didn't produce anything. First round of potatoes did okay, but were small. Tomatoes are just now starting to produce, but there's an insane amount on every plant. Brussel sprouts are taking a ridiculous amount of time to grow to size and the plants take up way too much space. Won't make that mistake again next year. Green beans and peas were a bust, it's too hot and they died. "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus "It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." - Albert Camus "The trouble is, you think you have time." |
Superkicker
User ID: 75394950 United States 07/24/2018 07:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My mammoth sunflowers are over 10 feet tall and the flowers are truly huge. Beans have overtopped the 8 ft. high trellises and tomatoes + peppers are thriving. I only grow heirlooms and 2 of the world's most expensive peppers for pickling and dehydrating (peppadews and espelettes). Sure beats paying over $200/lb. on Amazon !!! Superkicker |
Fluffy Pancakes
User ID: 76784000 United States 07/24/2018 07:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's doing alright but everything was late. We had to rebuild the garden spot, and now it's going to be fantastic! Getting tons of summer squash and toms are setting as are beans and potatoes. But all of my garlic and my onions damped off. Plan on having a better fall garden. Plenty of blackberries, and the Jerusalem artichokes are rocking it like they do. Trying out some "global buckets" hoping they work out for greenhouse plants and extending the season. Check out this video on how to make these, and especially the guy's pepper plant at the end. Wow! Video is a little over 6 minutes long: For people with poor soil or little space, this really is cool. Things are bad enough, there is no need to make anything up. ~Fluffy "Never interrupt an enemy in the process of destroying himself." Quercitin and zinc...Get it. Take it. Visit howbad.info...If you took the shot, for sure. |