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Post by Bill on Apr 6, 2013 11:43:19 GMT -5
I just got done putting in onions, peas, lettuce, and spinach. Planted the tomatoes and peppers in the hot box too. Feels good to play in the dirt again, heard the peepers for the first time last night also.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2013 11:47:32 GMT -5
I have my garden area dug up and want to get some broccoli and cauliflower to plant love them both and then will probably plant bell peppers and tomatoes and plant corn in my dad's garden.
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Post by TusseyMtman on Apr 6, 2013 12:45:54 GMT -5
The ground just thawed out here Weds and Thursday. The lawns are still dormant, the latest I have ever seen it. The nights have been frigid, with some readings in the 15 degree range around here Thursday morning. Next week should get things going. I still won't touch my garden until May 20th or so.
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Post by wentzler on Apr 6, 2013 18:29:53 GMT -5
Eye,,if only you knew:) Send me a PM...to remind me to send you one Yeah..it;s that bad
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Post by mfarcher on Apr 11, 2013 18:36:21 GMT -5
Put onions in a week and a half ago. Put in lettuce, radish, spinach and carrots earlier this week. Put in cabbage last evening. Cut grass tonight. Didn't need it. Mulching remaining oak leaves so they don't mat. Love the scent of fresh cut grass. Ten day forecast looked good so I jumped on the garden.
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Post by bushmaster on Apr 11, 2013 18:45:18 GMT -5
My garden is tilled and ready. I'll plant 3 types of peppers, around 12 plants. I'll also plant around 4 tomatoe plants, I normally get them to about 12'. Cucumbers and Green beans as well. My garden is small 18 x 21.
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Post by wentzler on Apr 12, 2013 6:37:27 GMT -5
Well, now Eye knows...and I know. Mr. Eye knows the grow!!!! I'm now thoroughly inspired and already started in rebuilding the gardens I lost in the flood. This time with an 'eye' to the north from whence the waters came, though I've got a lot of soil to build
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Post by Bill on Apr 12, 2013 10:17:56 GMT -5
As do you Ed......as do you.
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Post by wentzler on Apr 12, 2013 16:17:41 GMT -5
Eye, Thank you my friend...for the 'jump start'!!!!! A man who knows a garden...knows a Greater Plan!!!!! Here's a story to share with the other soilbies here:) A year or so ago...while working 'twixt the rows...I noticed a whole bunch of small 'wasps' working my Brassicas. I took a beer to watch. I 'had' these little tiny holes all over the the outer leaves of the Brocilli, cabbagggges, and Kauliflowers But the little buggers had dual purpose..under close evaluation..or at evaluation as close as I could render two cold beers into the field research They (the wasps) would systematically search every nook and cranny...and fly away with a stung and paralyzed 'worm' (larvae/caterpllar) of the offending invading pest. Some would cut leaf circles from the outer plant leaves...and fly off with those...to their Mud-Dauber formations under and in the eaves and gables of my wood shed...right handy close by. Daubers...build a mud tunnel. Lay an egg, sting and carry off a few 'pillars', pack them in the tunnel ,put a dry wall of green leaves' tissue in place, and repeat. This was the year I had decided NO CHEMICALS, EAT THE BUGS. I had the finest crop of Brassicas I've ever raised...and not a bug..in the part we wanted to eat. Bottom line here... a studied and balance ecosystem...will sustain us all with abundance beyond our comprehension...kinda, sorta, almost...like Eden:) Ask the Eye...to share what a bluebird box or two can turn into We're on same page/paragraph there also And all this 'stuff' easily translates into being a MUCH better hunter:) Not my rule:) ed
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Post by Bill on Aug 29, 2013 4:25:02 GMT -5
Well I've been picking brandywine tomatoes the last few days, the sweet corn still isn't quite ready yet and the pumpkins have taken over three quarters of the garden. BTW my bluebird pair raised two broods of chicks successfully this year, seven more bluebirds out into the countryside of PA. Thought they might go for a third but I guess they decided to quit while they were ahead.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 29, 2013 12:40:07 GMT -5
That sweet corn may be killed by frost before its done. LOL
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Post by johns on Aug 29, 2013 17:24:15 GMT -5
Tomatoes, bell peppers and jalepeno peppers and cucumbers are comming in faster than I can pick them. Got lots of home made tomato juice in the fridge and lots of plum tomatoes in the freezer for use this winter.
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