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Post by daylilydude on Jun 5, 2016 4:56:20 GMT -5
What's in your garden this year... anything new?
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Post by bammer on Jun 5, 2016 5:28:55 GMT -5
Nothing really new, just a lot of maters, a few peppers, squish and cowcumbers. I guess you could consider some of the tomato crosses new.
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Post by camochef on Jun 5, 2016 6:51:54 GMT -5
Great reduction in the amount of tomatoes but made up for it with a huge amount of beans. Over 1000 bean plants in garden #2 along with over 150 pea plants. Other than that I have over 75 cabbages set out of different varieties, lots of spinach, beets, lettuce, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, and a small amount of tomatoes. This has been a crazy year here weather-wise...and it continues. Hope to see things pick up here with improving weather conditions in this area. Gotta go pick some peas before it gets too hot and humid. Enjoy Camo
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Post by nightmist on Jun 5, 2016 10:33:06 GMT -5
My guideline has been keep it simple, keep it small. Since I can't do as I used to I am trying to get the most bang out of a smaller space that I can. Skipped tomatoes entirely this year, and am going for low maintenance, expensive to buy things, and vegetables we use a lot with a good yield in a small space, with a few other things planted to improve the soil and what not. That amounts to a lot of herbs, maintaining the small fruits, chard, alliums, large radishes where the clay needs broke up, and beans where the ground needs a boost, plus flowers to camouflage the vegetables.
Makes me feel lazy. Last year I over did things though, and ended up sitting on my backside darn near the whole summer while my garden went to wrack and ruin. Thinking about trying some indoor container gardening, but with the low light in the house (trees shading every window) I think I would have to get grow lights. I am considering a shop light, an under the bed tote, and some salad greens as a beginning experiment.
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Post by cliffrat on Jun 5, 2016 11:59:59 GMT -5
Well, it's been a while since I visited here and I got this special invite to come back, so I figgered I'd wander by and see what's happnin. This year's garden was supposed to be different. I swore I was not gonna have another jungle in the cage again. For those of you who don't remember, I have to garden in containers 'cause the soil around here is useless and I have to cage the garden in with chainlink and chicken wire to keep the rabbits, birds, and gophers from eatin' everything. Every year I try and cut back on plants or make the cage bigger to keep it contained. And every year I fail. Well, this year was no exception. I have been eatin' well. The salad greens this year were great, and the volunteer spaghetti squash and the beans are producing like mad. Came back from a week in Egypt and found all this.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Jun 5, 2016 19:44:28 GMT -5
The only things new are Chimayo hot pepper and some Iraqi cantaloupe. Everything else is golden oldies from years gone past. But then again I guess that applies to me also.
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Post by klorentz on Jun 5, 2016 21:43:25 GMT -5
What's new ? Well the garden it's self is new. Also new is the endangered tomato Athens. I am going to work on preserving this Greek heirloom and will distribute saved seeds as far as they go this fall. Also I got my favorite plum type Giant Italian Paste. New pumpkins are Wolf, Mr Wrinkles and Triple Treat.I also have a new sunflower called Orange Sun. This sunflower is sold on Burpee seed racks as citrus but found out after looking for it's growth habit that it is really Orange Sun. Grows 4 to 5 foot. non branching.
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Post by directsunlight on Jun 19, 2016 1:21:57 GMT -5
Tried orach and a couple kinds of carrots this year. Root crops are doing nothing this year, except for radishes which I can more or less count on. Looks to be an average to pretty good year for tomatoes, black eyed peas, and sunflowers, and a good year for basil, but none of the other herbs. This looks to be a very good year for squash and jelly melon, while peppers are a question mark still. In big stuff, persimmon and artichoke are winners, while the pear and blackberry bushes are doing basically nothing. So, am all over the map as usual!
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