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Post by rambler on Jun 28, 2015 19:53:18 GMT -5
78Riverrrat. I’m just sharing a garden interest with others. I’m also learning from others, as well as looking for new ideas to explore. Yeah you have to keep up with certain garden activities to keep a nice clean looking garden. You mentioned about addressing flower beds as I too have to do my own very soon. I try to also grow different flowers so as not to be the same as neighboring homes. This year I’m trying to see if Cantalillies will grow well here. So far so good. Ed Looks like you need to adjust your time and date stamp Ed??
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Post by ET on Jun 29, 2015 6:01:50 GMT -5
Another Senior moment in the Twilight Zone. Ed
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Post by 10ga on Jun 29, 2015 10:41:44 GMT -5
I try to keep something in the garden year around. Started onions, garlic and shallots last fall and now they are ready to dig. Maters yielding good. Squash washed out with the 7" rain last 2 weeks, rotting before able to pick. Taters OK. I love to raise white and sweet taters but the ssweet taters don't make it. That is the one crop that will attract every varmit around. Deer, rabbits, groundhogs, voles, borers, squirrels all of them love sweet taters and I don't get anything. Seems impossible to keep them all out of my sweet tater patch. Lettuce, on second crop and will plant swiss chard when that done for summer greens. For "irish" potatoes I grow 4 varieties, Purple Viking, Rose Finger, Russett gold, and Red Bison. The Purple Viking are the best yielders and a very pretty potato. red purple mottled skin and white flesh good any way you cook them. My "secret" is chicken manure. Get it from the layer farms. Not the typical bedding from a fryer house, straight stuff, Dosent take much. Otherwise I use some bone meal as it provides the calcium and micronutrients w/o making PH go up. Lots calcium in the chicken manure too from the eggs/feathers/bones that are in it. Mostly I till some manure in and then sidedress the plants when they bloom and set fruit. With the rain weeds are wild this year, just about wearing the tines off the tiller and the hoe shrinking from the use and sharpening. Hope all OK. 10 ga
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 11:34:22 GMT -5
Finally finished garden fence, never knew a dog that liked vegetables but my dog seems to like everything we have in garden. She's lucky I didn't plant a ghost pepper plant, I looked for one but never bought one.
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Post by rambler on Aug 13, 2015 12:08:54 GMT -5
Good job!
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