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Post by cliffrat on Mar 7, 2015 16:20:21 GMT -5
Do you keep volunteers? What volunteers were your best producers? I have always kept one or two volunteers in the garden. Last year it was butternut squash and a variety of bell pepper. The pepper gave me about 6 peppers, which was pretty good I thought, for a plant in a 2-quart pot. The squash was a different story. It grew like crazy and produced about 2 dozen squash that only got about 2 inches long. It had flowered much too late and the heat kept it from full pollination. This year it looks like a random squash plant and possibly a cucumber.
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Post by directsunlight on Mar 8, 2015 12:59:29 GMT -5
I can use it to judge what naturally grows well here. The cherry tomatoes are the only tomatoes that volunteer, and are the easier and more productive kind. Sunflowers and black-eyed peas volunteer too. By contrast peppers and corn never will here. They are more work.
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Post by LinFL on Mar 9, 2015 12:43:05 GMT -5
I have lettuce volunteers here now. Lettuce and other greens volunteer quite readily here in the cooler months - cilantro and radishes, too.
Peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes have all volunteered for me in the past. But they are usually out in the nematode-infested yard and they die quick. They like the climate, but the nematodes are ridiculous here. (That's why I grow mine in containers.) Tomatillos and pineapple tomatillos volunteer like weeds. Unlike the tomatoes and peppers, they will actually produce if I leave them to it.
I expect lots of okra and cowpea volunteers later on. Those will also do pretty well if left to their own devices.
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Post by directsunlight on Mar 9, 2015 23:35:44 GMT -5
I have lettuce volunteers here now. Lettuce and other greens volunteer quite readily here in the cooler months - cilantro and radishes, too. Peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes have all volunteered for me in the past. But they are usually out in the nematode-infested yard and they die quick. They like the climate, but the nematodes are ridiculous here. (That's why I grow mine in containers.) Tomatillos and pineapple tomatillos volunteer like weeds. Unlike the tomatoes and peppers, they will actually produce if I leave them to it. I expect lots of okra and cowpea volunteers later on. Those will also do pretty well if left to their own devices. Don't you love it when seeds you plant never come up, only to sprout in the middle of the winter? Just nature's way of telling me I still have a lot to learn...
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Post by LinFL on Mar 10, 2015 8:39:46 GMT -5
Ha! I know. That's actually when the lettuce usually volunteers - the lettuce in my garden mostly came up between November and January; it just starts off slow in the cold. It's growing like mad now.
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Post by garrett on Mar 10, 2015 10:29:31 GMT -5
salad at lins house.ds bring the dressing.grins
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Post by LinFL on Mar 11, 2015 9:51:55 GMT -5
Hope you like it bitter! I just saw that a bunch of it is bolting now.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Mar 14, 2015 12:53:16 GMT -5
A dog that digs up the garden? Does that make him an eco friendly rototiller?
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Post by garrett on Mar 15, 2015 21:36:12 GMT -5
rotfl.............. makes him a gaurdendog?
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Post by garrett on Mar 15, 2015 21:36:53 GMT -5
ooops a guardendog.
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Post by directsunlight on Mar 15, 2015 22:38:52 GMT -5
If she can do it on command, in the place you want, she could have a bone or two for it.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Mar 15, 2015 23:31:28 GMT -5
Well this one is a he. The previous she would start digging wherever I started. Now the composted soil might go flying a few feet but she tried.
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Post by garrett on Apr 2, 2015 21:22:53 GMT -5
Weeding in the orchard today.found a bunch of volunteer garlic and onions.
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