2012 Garden
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Re: 2012 Garden
First pick from the garden!!!
Yellow Squash
Corn and Yellow Squash
String Beans and Zucchini
Sweet Potatoes
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Yellow Squash
Corn and Yellow Squash
String Beans and Zucchini
Sweet Potatoes
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- treefarmer
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It's a good time of the year when the garden starts to produce. Got a late start this season and have had to begin watering last week. The yellow straight neck squash is all that is producing now but the late planted green beans(Roma Flat Bush) will be ready in a day or two. Sweet corn and okra has a ways to go yet. Peppers and tomatoes are in raised beds that are filled with mushroom compost. Zipper Cream peas are also coming along, there are 14 rows planted next to this part of the garden. Treefarmer
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Any ideas on what can be planted now that will grow and produce in this heat until the fall planting? Pretty all my stuff is dead. Only the cukes are producing. It is filtered sunlight in my garden
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Okra and any of the southern peas (blakeye, purplehull, zippers, etc...) should still work up until time for fall gardens. Treefarmer
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I just planted okra and snap beans, they are growing quick.
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Re: 2012 Garden
Looks good treefarmer! Could i get some better pics of ur watering system? I have a cheap walmart sprinkler that i have had to replace twice and have to move a couple times when i water.
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my stuff slowed down a bit the last few weeks in the heat, now is going like gangbusters but my topsy/turvey stuff I gotta water like crazy or it wilts. also spray app every 3 weeks with amonia,baby shampoo, mouthwash,brewed chewing tobbaco equal parts with 4-5 parts water. keeps em clean,antiseptic,bug free, well fertalized and nice and green.
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sam03, Here's a couple of pics of one of the sprinklers. Camera is acting goofy so forgive the slight blurr. The stand is made of 1'' sch. 40 pvc, there is a 1" cross that begins the stand and a 1" "T" that accepts the riser, which is about 72". The 4 legs of the stand are 12'' long, 2 opposing ones are capped and the other 2 are plumbed with a male and female hose fittings, in and out. The head is a rainbird and it has a 1/2" male end, so you have to reduce from 1" down to a 1/2" female adapter, screw on the bird and your done. I only run 3 as it will almost cover 14- 3' rows 100' long. The 2nd sprinkler is the same as the 1st with a 25' length of 5/8" water hose between the sprinklers. The one on the end has a female hose fitting one on leg and the other 3 are capped. You could do it with a hose cap that screw on rather than pvc cap just in case you wanted to add more sprinklers. You can buy similar stands already constructed that probably look a lot better, but with a can of glue and a hacksaw it's a lot cheaper to build your own. Treefarmer
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just picked a whole collander full of bush beans, cherry tomatoes,cowhorn tobasco pepper and my first beefstake mater and first green bell pepper. and I only have 8-9 pots. got big plans and a large area for a much larger garden but want to set up and get some compost first. enjoy eating a cold 3 bean salad with string beans, red onion, maters, kidney beans,garlic and italian or mojo dressing. maybe some salsa this time. bush beans, a lot of leaves are turning yellow and think they are over then a couple weeks later they are loaded again. when do they die off?
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treefarmer, how many people you feeding with that size garden? even keeping things small, just the wife and me usualy have too much. suppose I should use the dehydrator more and learn to jar stuff. another item on the honeydo list.
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deutze, Been doing it like this for years. It's just me and mamma since the kids are on their own but they don't mind taking a few jars of canned beans, a bag or two of frozen peas and a few packages of smoked sausage home with them when they come to visit. There are always folks that appreciate a mess of fresh vegetables when we have been blessed with an excess. I thought gardening would get easier when I retired, but it isn't a bit easier. It even seems like the grass grows faster than it did! Treefarmer
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Vacuum bag all your veggies and save for the winter. Same with the winter crop. Im still eating collard greens from last winter
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Pulled the Zucchini last night cause it is starting to die off will pull the squash this week sometime. What are you guys planting once you pull ur spring garden?
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Picked the corn last night. I will be cleaning and freezing it tonight.
My peppers are freaking out...any ideas?
I going to try and replant this weekend!!
My peppers are freaking out...any ideas?
I going to try and replant this weekend!!
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