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Post by nxp on Feb 9, 2015 15:01:47 GMT
Those container pieces are neat! Makes complete sense, probably cuts down on evaporation issues too - I could see rigging up a 55gal run-off tank to demand water as the containers empty. Talk about simple gardening!
I did chuckle at the tomato plant on the first page, no way my last two cherry tomatoes could hang out in there - I use 3 6.5' T posts for support stakes and I'm always over the top and over the fence....
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Post by NamelessStain on Feb 9, 2015 15:08:47 GMT
I don't use the frameworks they sell. I use 7' stakes and chicken wire and mine still grow over the top. Last year my green beans were twisting onto each other and about 2-3' above the top. Insane amounts of green beans. I'm talking 5-7# a week from just 2 containers. Pickling cucumbers I was getting about 5# a week from 2 containers. And that was for about 3 months. Yea, I did a LOT of pickling and would take them to the neighborhood cookouts.
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Post by nxp on Feb 9, 2015 16:29:39 GMT
Nice on the bean greens! I usually grow bush beans for ground cover, but once we hit August they're choked out by everything else.
Any pic of your setup from last year? Curious to see the setup as that's a ton of produce for little impact.
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Post by NamelessStain on Feb 9, 2015 17:05:59 GMT
Sorry, I don't post pics  |
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Post by nxp on May 24, 2015 5:38:44 GMT
IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!!!!  Garden's in the ground for the season! Spent all day in the sun and mud making sure everything got in before the rain tomorrow. Hopefully the next few days of wet and heat will do good things to get the plants moving along. Late start compared to y'all down south, but we had freeze (not frost, freeze) warnings on Wed of this last week... A lot of folks that planted early are having to replant this week. Dude I know lost most of his cukes/beans... |
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Post by omegaman on Jun 10, 2015 10:35:30 GMT
This gardening season is going very well! The Omegas have been gingerly tending our first attempt at the large gardens and we are seeing results! Kudos, of course, goes to Nameless who hooked us up with the heirloom seeds and helped get everything shaped up for planting. Bermuda grass has given me fits the whole time, it is going to be hard knocking this stuff out of the seed bank, but there is no shortage of herbicide on the property I have started filling my truck bed full of pine straw and piling it in the garden as mulch...it seems to be doing the trick. Speaking of extras from work, I was able to grab a bag of 17-17-17 fertilizer, which I gingerly applied, oh and straight-up liquid nitrogen! Have to be careful with this stuff, too much or splash any on the leaves and the plant will burn up...which I did on 2 of the smaller bush beans. Oh well, my boss dumped a bucket full of the nitrogen in is raised-bed garden by the office and killed everything! Anywoo, we have been picking crooked-neck squash and bush beans for a week now. The added fertilizer and nitrogen is already showing their effects with the squashes starting to go crazy and the watermelon is starting to it's thang. Some of the corn is seeding out and I am already seeing a couple of silky tufts sticking out from the stalks! We will be picking the pole beans soon, too. These are crazy big and purple and grow on a bamboo trellis supplemented by lengths of string hanging down for the vines to twine on. Oh, and then there are the containers. Our cherry tomato is starting to fruit out. Peppers and cucumbers are budding out. I doubt the onions will do much in the tub we planted them in, but hey...gotta try new things, right?! Good news is, as long as everything keeps going we will have plenty of garden fare. More importantly, the squash, beans, and carrots are baby food! We have yet to buy a jar of Gerbers and hope to keep it that way.              |
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Post by nxp on Jun 10, 2015 12:38:20 GMT
BEANS!!!! Love it, Omega. I'll have to get some pics up of our garden. It's going well, especially since we planted on Memorial Day (typical start up here), but we've already got our beans/cukes up to the trellis, brussles/cauli/cabbage going well, peppers seem to be meh, but they're usually pokey at the start anywho - tomatoes are finally starting to GOGOGOGOGO, and we're finding a bazillion starter cherry tomato plants everywhere (rotated crops around so anything that got tilled under is now on it's way back up). Lots more Heirloom variety this year. Seriously, I think I'm the Johny Tomato Seed of the midwest. I could be putting these things everywhere... Pumpkins planted themselves again. No idea what's going to come up back there, I think we've got 5-6 varieties that are all mixed together at this point. May be a few squash in there too. Who knows; have fun, nature. Hops - Hallertau is starting to spur! May actually have two harvests this year. Nugget is almost ready to spur, and Columbus is on fire sending bines everywhere. Fuggles didn't make it through the winter, as well as Chinook. Doesn't surprise me, the root structure on the rhizome isn't one that would like an above ground planting and the winter we had was pretty harsh for frost. Cascade was passed along to a friend who was interested in growing but didn't want to start with a cutting, so I gave him the whole plant.  I'm a giver. |
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Post by nxp on Jul 3, 2015 14:27:03 GMT
Up-diddy - Tomatoes are rocking, lettus/spinach/kale is rocking, beans are rocking, peppers are sucking ass. Weather has not been pepper friendly for anyone (asking around everyone's peppers are sucking regardless the variety) I try to not look at the pumpkins, they haz a sad with lack of water... |
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Post by NamelessStain on Jul 9, 2015 16:57:41 GMT
This gardening season is going very well! The Omegas have been gingerly tending our first attempt at the large gardens and we are seeing results! Kudos, of course, goes to Nameless who hooked us up with the heirloom seeds and helped get everything shaped up for planting. These are crazy big and purple and grow on a bamboo trellis supplemented by lengths of string hanging down for the vines to twine on. As always, you are welcome for the seeds and labor. I'm anxious to make that chicken coop! Good to see the trellis working out for you. Bamboo is quite useful for climbers. Meanwhile, the squirrels decimated my sunflowers, but the 36 pickling cucumbers look like a wall of kudzu growing in the yard. |
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Post by NamelessStain on Jul 13, 2015 10:44:28 GMT
I went out last night to do the first picking of the cukes to make into pickles... all had some kind of green caterpillar/worm which ate perfect circle into the outer skin and decimated the insides. I had to throw out about 20 cukes and still don't know if I got them all.
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I'm a giver.