Moved my "garden" out of the woods (didn't grow a thing last year except a sungle 6ft tall fruitless tomato plant) and into an area with a bit more sunlight. Hoping this year we'll get some produce!
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I'll post some pics after work later. Wife started everything under grow lights in the basement this year so things are way further along than normal. Strawberries have started to ripen. We will replace the lettuce with beans pretty soon as it starts to get too hot for the lettuce.
Red is Romain. Blue is spinach and yellow is leafy lettuce. The far left is strawberries and then to the right is different squash and then over to tomatoes. There’s some onions in there somewhere and of course plenty of weeds. Fertilizer is chicken crap!
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The "hobby" farm is picking up speed. My buddy tells me, "I didn't think we'd have THAT many berries.." What the heck did you think two, 250' rows were going to do?
Last year's asparagus came up. No picking this year, but next year we'll have tubs full. 250' of that as well.
So now we're working on summer crops. Strawberries and asparagus in spring, sweet potatoes, switchgrass and pumpkins in the fall.
Last year's asparagus came up. No picking this year, but next year we'll have tubs full. 250' of that as well.
So now we're working on summer crops. Strawberries and asparagus in spring, sweet potatoes, switchgrass and pumpkins in the fall.
Wolverinebuckman
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First summer in this apartment, still trying to figure where I'm going to have the most sun. Thinking right at the end of my little pallet deck, here.
I'm still planting here in Illinois. Just harvested my first 5 radish and we picked 2 strawberries yesterday. We have 13 tomato plants, 18 peppers, potatoes, onions, zucchini, cucumbers, bush beans, lettuce, radish, spinach all up and kohlrabi, beets, and okra planted but not up yet.
Good question. The originals are years old that we split and moved. I'll have to look to see what the other variety we planted were.
First 'fruit' of the garden started to come up yesterday. Cauliflower never looked so good. I'm stoked! Even if it ended right now we'd be doing better than last year.
I am really puzzled by this. Have some volunteer pumpkins that are growing from where I tossed last year's jack o lanterns and such (a few were painted so still had seeds)... I am 99% positive all of which were orange. (One was green because it didn't get enough sun/time to mature, but was turning orange and grew dark green, the rest were bought)
Luck of the germination I guess? I thought white/ghost pumpkins were specifically bred that way, didn't expect them to grow from orange seed.
I guessed at first one of the painted ones had to have been white but I don't remember buying anything other than orange ones and I'm pretty sure if you zoom in on both you can see patches of orange show through. These are what they grew from:
Luck of the germination I guess? I thought white/ghost pumpkins were specifically bred that way, didn't expect them to grow from orange seed.
I guessed at first one of the painted ones had to have been white but I don't remember buying anything other than orange ones and I'm pretty sure if you zoom in on both you can see patches of orange show through. These are what they grew from:
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It’s been off the charts wer around my hood. The garden is mostly doing really well, but the ground is so saturated that I can’t walk in it to pull weeds, harvest or fertilize.
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Same here. Nice not having to run the watering system though.
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FYI Home Depot has Champion and Legend branded tillers on sale for $200.
Our new thing is sweet corn. Pulled 135 ears yesterday.
Strawberries in spring, sweet corn in summer, sweet potatoes and switch grass in the fall. Maybe a few pumpkins as well. That's the plan.
Planted some forage sorghum as well. Came up pretty good. The rest of the food plots look good but need a dose of Cleth.
Strawberries in spring, sweet corn in summer, sweet potatoes and switch grass in the fall. Maybe a few pumpkins as well. That's the plan.
Planted some forage sorghum as well. Came up pretty good. The rest of the food plots look good but need a dose of Cleth.
First tomato of the year! 
On the plus side the plants are loaded with nice tomatos (still green), The pepper plants have good sized peppers, the onions are doing well and cucumbers are forming. All in all it looks like a good year for the garden.
On the plus side the plants are loaded with nice tomatos (still green), The pepper plants have good sized peppers, the onions are doing well and cucumbers are forming. All in all it looks like a good year for the garden.
Wow, not a weed to be seen. You pulling them by hand or do you have some ground cover?
We've gotten better with timing. We will initially weed around the stalk if necessary (potato rake...goes quick) and just leave enough room to run the tiller down the rows after rain showers.