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this weekend im going to help my grandfather tilder and plant his garden, its rather large , id say at least 115-125ft x 50
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We got a little garden started for this year. Probably 6 x 12. It's starting decently.
The wife has yielded a lot from her lettuce, celery, and green onions though. Just cut off the leaves from an organic store bought head, then replanted the bottom part. Already about 2 ft high.
Hoping to be in the position in the fall to build a raised bed along one of our slopes in the yard to do a good sized garden next year.
The wife has yielded a lot from her lettuce, celery, and green onions though. Just cut off the leaves from an organic store bought head, then replanted the bottom part. Already about 2 ft high.
Hoping to be in the position in the fall to build a raised bed along one of our slopes in the yard to do a good sized garden next year.
that's because i locked my facebook down. no one can see shit anymore unless i say so.
let me view the gardening shit on fb yo.
Things are growing in good this year.
Had a ton of green, yellow beans, more kale than i care to eat (i'm sick of it... but it just keeps growing.. lol) a bunch of snap peas...
Cukes are starting to come in hard now. Made the first batch of pickles tonight. Will find out in 4 weeks how they came out.
Yellow squash is right around the corner ready.
broccoli is sprouting, tomatoes are coming in, had a few peppers already too.
Only got 1 ear of corn to sprout for some reason... so that was a bust this year.
The soy and telephone pole beans are insane. I gave them 4' trellis at first. and they ate that up in a week. So i made a 2nd teir one that is over 8' tall, and they are currently a foot taller than it looking to grab on to something more. lol insane.
So, here's some pics
Had a ton of green, yellow beans, more kale than i care to eat (i'm sick of it... but it just keeps growing.. lol) a bunch of snap peas...
Cukes are starting to come in hard now. Made the first batch of pickles tonight. Will find out in 4 weeks how they came out.
Yellow squash is right around the corner ready.
broccoli is sprouting, tomatoes are coming in, had a few peppers already too.
Only got 1 ear of corn to sprout for some reason... so that was a bust this year.
The soy and telephone pole beans are insane. I gave them 4' trellis at first. and they ate that up in a week. So i made a 2nd teir one that is over 8' tall, and they are currently a foot taller than it looking to grab on to something more. lol insane.
So, here's some pics
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its pretty easy to make pickles...
for 2 quart jars, we used about
2 cups water
2 cups white vin
1 T canning salt (nothing with iodine)
dill, garlic, peppercorns, red pepper to taste
cut ends off cukes, the flower side will make it go soft.
boil the salt/vin/water into a 'syrup' in a stainless pan. don't reduce it, just let it boil and then kill it. aluminum will react. don't use it.
pour over cukes in the sterilized hot jars
water bath process for 15 min
store on shelf for 4 weeks
for 2 quart jars, we used about
2 cups water
2 cups white vin
1 T canning salt (nothing with iodine)
dill, garlic, peppercorns, red pepper to taste
cut ends off cukes, the flower side will make it go soft.
boil the salt/vin/water into a 'syrup' in a stainless pan. don't reduce it, just let it boil and then kill it. aluminum will react. don't use it.
pour over cukes in the sterilized hot jars
water bath process for 15 min
store on shelf for 4 weeks
What do you do to control/kill weeds?
send my g/f out with a mini cultivator she loves doing it for some reason, so its been easy on me. she does it about once a week, and then fertilizes a little bit as needed.
But, I did nearly all the hard work up front turning that shit and getting the retaining wall 'masoned'. She wasn't strong enough to dig in that tough earth.
we're 100% organic, no pesticides, no nothing not organic. All seeds are heirloom open pollinated non gmo from places like baker creek and mike the gardener.
soil was mixed with a little manure, peat moss, and some fish/lobster natural decay fertilizer. We have a compost pile that will be mixed in for next season. tons of worms live there now. lots of castings. will be epic soil for next year!
early in the season, we use garden tone, which is higher in nitrogen to promote plant growth and 'greens'
we use plant tone for later season (just started a week ago now) for more phosphorus and focus on producing fruits now that the plants are big and healthy.
we even filter tap water when it doesn't rain through a sawyer bucket filter to strip out toxins in the city-claimed potable tap water. i'ts pretty scary. As it's flushable, it clogs up after about 10-15 gallons (we run a 5gal bucket as the source and drip it into an 80 gal rain barellel). 2-3 bucket ful of 'clean' tap water, and the filter barely flows and needs to be backwashed.
it comes out disgustingly brown. it's a .1micron filter.
https://www.sawyersafetravel2.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_33&products_id=69
the biggest problem I have is bugs. They eat everything. the leaves. my cheery tree is basically sticks right now. :/ lots of beetles and other things.
hoping to get some chickens for next year and they will help eat bugs.
she loves doing it for some reason, so its been easy on me. she does it about once a week, and then fertilizes a little bit as needed.But, I did nearly all the hard work up front turning that shit and getting the retaining wall 'masoned'. She wasn't strong enough to dig in that tough earth.
we're 100% organic, no pesticides, no nothing not organic. All seeds are heirloom open pollinated non gmo from places like baker creek and mike the gardener.
soil was mixed with a little manure, peat moss, and some fish/lobster natural decay fertilizer. We have a compost pile that will be mixed in for next season. tons of worms live there now. lots of castings. will be epic soil for next year!
early in the season, we use garden tone, which is higher in nitrogen to promote plant growth and 'greens'
we use plant tone for later season (just started a week ago now) for more phosphorus and focus on producing fruits now that the plants are big and healthy.
we even filter tap water when it doesn't rain through a sawyer bucket filter to strip out toxins in the city-claimed potable tap water. i'ts pretty scary. As it's flushable, it clogs up after about 10-15 gallons (we run a 5gal bucket as the source and drip it into an 80 gal rain barellel). 2-3 bucket ful of 'clean' tap water, and the filter barely flows and needs to be backwashed.
it comes out disgustingly brown. it's a .1micron filter.
https://www.sawyersafetravel2.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_33&products_id=69
the biggest problem I have is bugs. They eat everything. the leaves. my cheery tree is basically sticks right now. :/ lots of beetles and other things.
hoping to get some chickens for next year and they will help eat bugs.
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I love the -tone products. Use the hollytone on all of my arborvitae's and they've grown about 1' this summer already. My mother used it on hers when planted 6 years ago and they've already been topped once because they grew to over 20' tall within that span. They're normally 14-18' species but this stuff really makes them grow.
hmm..
i think our place has pretty good soil. we have plenty if weeds in our little garden, but thats mainly due to lack of time to get them out.
but, the cucumbers and zuchinis are growing great and producing good sized fruits.
she planted some sunflowers too, just bc, and they were only supposed to grow to about a ft tall, they are well over 10ft now. they are crazy massive.
we have some bug issues too, but not much we can do about them. i dont want chickens. and we have no use for their eggs.
will get a pic of her garden soon, next year we will be going bigger, i have a big hill that i dont want to weed eat any more, so im going to build boxes going up it and plant there.
i think our place has pretty good soil. we have plenty if weeds in our little garden, but thats mainly due to lack of time to get them out.
but, the cucumbers and zuchinis are growing great and producing good sized fruits.
she planted some sunflowers too, just bc, and they were only supposed to grow to about a ft tall, they are well over 10ft now. they are crazy massive.
we have some bug issues too, but not much we can do about them. i dont want chickens. and we have no use for their eggs.
will get a pic of her garden soon, next year we will be going bigger, i have a big hill that i dont want to weed eat any more, so im going to build boxes going up it and plant there.
When the baby is born, my wife's parents will be coming out from Japan to live with us for 2 months, and we've given them complete control of the gardening since it's just about their favorite thing in the world. Here's a 360 degree panorama of their front yard in Japan that I took when I was there:
Parent's garden - Photosynth
Parent's garden - Photosynth
lots of stuff coming in now first watermelon and spaghetii squash ever, made about 12 jars of pickles already peppers and tomatoes soon
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TeinGirl
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Anyone doing aquaponics?
I've been researching for about 4months and trying to figure out how I want to do a set up that's at least 3 grow beds plus the tank.
Going to start acquiring all the pieces and hopefully put together this fall/winter to start in the spring. Just like any other it will take a year to get fully developed and nourished.
Even thinking about adding a tank that will house crawfish along with the fish of choice, possibly tilapia.
Seems to be a pretty good way to become self efficient and organic.
Nice garden B!^_^
I've been researching for about 4months and trying to figure out how I want to do a set up that's at least 3 grow beds plus the tank.
Going to start acquiring all the pieces and hopefully put together this fall/winter to start in the spring. Just like any other it will take a year to get fully developed and nourished.
Even thinking about adding a tank that will house crawfish along with the fish of choice, possibly tilapia.
Seems to be a pretty good way to become self efficient and organic.
Nice garden B!^_^
