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So far, I've received 12 seed catalogs in the mail. I'm itching to start another garden or two.
What will you plant this year? Are you trying anything new?
I think I will spread the seed little earlier (late feb or maybe early mar), so that I can spready the weed-b-gone little earlier. I was seeing dandelions early march last year. I am planning to skip any fertilizer/revive/scotts stuff this year.
Have received the fancy seed catalog that I signed up for last year from your (TheGrey) recommendation. It gets me excited about gardening. In the end, I let my wife go and buy seeds from where ever (last year it was the Dollar Store) and plant what ever. So I gave it to my new neighbors that want a garden.
GilpinGuy
02-03-2018, 04:15
I ordered a "short season" variety pack of seeds from Victory Seed Co. several weeks ago: Roma II bush beans, Detroit Dark Red beets, Waltham 29 broccoli, Golden Acre cabbage, Little Fingers carrots, Black Seeded Simpson lettuce, Green Arrow garden peas, California Wonder Bell pepper and Siberia tomato. I'll get those going in the beds outside after starting some inside.
I'll mainly be focussed on the aquaponics system though.
Are you going to start a thread to show pictures of your set-up as you go along?
I have contemplated putting down about 1000-2000 sq ft of corn this year. We'll see. I could do about an acre, but that sounds like a lot of work.
What would you do with it all?
What would you do with it all?
Eat a lot of corn. Haha
I would vacuum seal and freeze me a year's supply and give the rest to friends. Or put a for sale ad up and allow folks to come collect it.
And then dump off the rest at a gas station I assume.
And then dump off the rest at a gas station I assume.
Got any build plans for a still?
I cleared my garden and put it all into my compost pile. Now my compost is too large to effectively turn. I've mostly been ignoring the pile, but are there things I should be doing to get the best results that I can?
I cleared my garden and put it all into my compost pile. Now my compost is too large to effectively turn. I've mostly been ignoring the pile, but are there things I should be doing to get the best results that I can?
I'm not sure. If I had that sitation, I'd soak down the pile, and then soak newspapers and spread then over the pile. I'd then lay some black plastic bags over top of that. You coud put bricks or something down to hold the bags in place.
That'd be easy enough. What is the point of the plastic, to retain moisture?
I cleared my garden and put it all into my compost pile. Now my compost is too large to effectively turn. I've mostly been ignoring the pile, but are there things I should be doing to get the best results that I can?
Here's a very effective homemade compost bin. Instead of turning in situ, you move the top frame over, then shovel compost into it, then move another frame and keep transferring until the whole pile is inverted.
http://www.vegetable-gardening-with-lorraine.com/homemade-compost-bin.html
Hmmm, my pile is fixed. I suppose I could just fork it all out, then put the dry stuff in the bottom. I may do that, then soak.
Jeffrey Lebowski
02-03-2018, 15:45
My wife is debating a pumpkin this year, which means I need to deepen her garden.
Thanks for the ideas. My dumb brain needed a kickstart. I spent a few minutes and was able to satisfactorily rotate my compost pile.
https://i.imgur.com/rqpompM_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=mediumPulled the motor outta the tractor need to punch it out .010 and cause some havoc in the back yard
That'd be easy enough. What is the point of the plastic, to retain moisture?
Sorry it took me so long to get back to this. Yes, that is a major issue with my composter. Retaining moisture in the compost is nearly impossible without a lot of help.
https://i.imgur.com/rqpompM_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=mediumPulled the motor outta the tractor need to punch it out .010 and cause some havoc in the back yard
Cool! Do you have a big back yard? What kind of havoc?
I can go pick up one of those rotating composters, but I can tell already that I have about 3x the compost of the capacity of the tumbler.
Cool! Do you have a big back yard? What kind of havoc?
On a standard 6000 sq fr lot but there is not grass and the soil is in poor condition going to turn plow and till in some compost
I might do a plot of barley
electronman1729
02-05-2018, 22:24
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Quite true. I can buy 25# of roma tomatoes for $12.50 at Sprouts through tomorrow.
Yeah but fresh tomatoes taste SO much better.
We have a couple of planters so we'll be getting tomatoes and bell peppers again.... I think.
buffalobo
02-06-2018, 09:01
Thanks for the ideas. My dumb brain needed a kickstart. I spent a few minutes and was able to satisfactorily rotate my compost pile.Pitchfork or potato fork will help.
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buffalobo
02-06-2018, 09:03
Yeah but fresh tomatoes taste SO much better.
We have a couple of planters so we'll be getting tomatoes and bell peppers again.... I think.And you know "what" is on them and "who" has handled them.
If you're unarmed, you are a victim
I've got a pitch fork, I just have a huge compost area.
buffalobo
02-06-2018, 13:15
We have 2 garden plots and alternate them every other year. Grow crops on one while composting on the other. Makes composting much easier and less labor intensive.
Actually, using tractor to work compost makes it less labor intensive and tilling regularly helps keep any odors to minimum.
That's interesting as I was wondering why I couldn't just uproot everything at the end of the season, leave it in place, then just till it right into the soil. Would that be effective?
buffalobo
02-06-2018, 14:08
That's interesting as I was wondering why I couldn't just uproot everything at the end of the season, leave it in place, then just till it right into the soil. Would that be effective?
Many farmers do exactly that. Depending on crop being planted next they do not even till previous crop, just drill in new seed. Next time you drive out to family spread watch for wheat stubble from last summer standing in green field of 3" tall wheat.
This is what we do. After everything is harvested I do a "light" disc to tear everything up, usually sometime late Sept. I leave it alone to start decomposition, add moisture if needed. Sometime in Oct I will add compost and or fertilizer and disc heavily if decomposition is slow or turn over completely if good decomp. As soon as frost is gone in spring or late March I disc heavy again and turn again. Process is alot of effort but is turning the horrible clay into soil that is easier to work by hand and requires 1/3 less water.
We hope to start this year(next year realistically) providing all fresh vegetable produce for 5+ families consumption each year and some to take to farmers market to generate enough revenue to offset costs.
ETA - I won't win any awards for soul conservation. Too much tilling.
GilpinGuy
02-07-2018, 17:19
Are you going to start a thread to show pictures of your set-up as you go along?
I've put up a few videos on YT. I'll get those up here, probably tonight. I figured I'd just continue the other aquaponics thread though.
Well, compost is actually composting. Went out to dump some scraps today and pitchforked some dirt out to cover. It was nice and hot and a deep black.
I started my seeds (pepper/tomato/squash/eggplant/etc) three weeks ago. The squash are about 6" tall, the shishito peppers are just over 2", the jalapeno have just broken the surface, eggplant is about 2" tall. Padron peppers didn't germinate at all, will be starting a new set of those this week.
If I could go back in time, I'd have started much earlier. I don't see how these plants at their current rate are going to be big enough to go in the ground by June.
I put them out in the sun in the daytime and under UV grow lights at night. They all seem happy but some are a bit leggy.
I bet they'll grow like crazy. :)
One thing that I found last year is that the plants definitely need a night cycle, without light. Try giving them at least eight hours of night.
I got my fence up which has kept all the deer out except one stubborn one. I have not composted at this house so what is the best bang for the buck to augment the soil? Thinking about doing container gardening as the raised beds may not happen this year.
buffalobo
03-14-2018, 21:36
I got my fence up which has kept all the deer out except one stubborn one. I have not composted at this house so what is the best bang for the buck to augment the soil? Thinking about doing container gardening as the raised beds may not happen this year.Depending on volume, can till in few bags of quality potting soil or have planters mix brought in if need yard/yards. Works in pinch for season until can get compost going. Or just bring in compost from local landscape supplier or garden center. No clue on most economical.
If you're unarmed, you are a victim
Watered my Asparagus and Artichokes.
Leaving the stubble from last years crop helps keep the cats from crapping in your garden boxes.
I got my fence up which has kept all the deer out except one stubborn one. I have not composted at this house so what is the best bang for the buck to augment the soil?
Alpaca manure -it's like Miracle-Gro on steroids. Usually there are a few places on Craigslist that give it away for free, typically in Castle Rock area. I've brought 3,000#s of it to Boulder with multiple trips in my Jeep.
Alpaca manure -it's like Miracle-Gro on steroids. Usually there are a few places on Craigslist that give it away for free, typically in Castle Rock area. I've brought 3,000#s of it to Boulder with multiple trips in my Jeep.
That's a good idea. Found a couple places close to me.
Processed my compost today. I use the system I mentioned on Page 2. I built a screen to sift out the big stuff. Each year it gives me 10, 5 gallon buckets of high quality compost. One advantage of composting on the ground it is literally teaming with worms thousands of them!
I have 3 4x8 raised beds and each gets their share. Then I had to turn them all with the garden fork and rake them relatively flat. All together, about 4 hours of manual labor. I'll sow lettuce and spinach seeds on Monday.
Decided I won't start seeds anymore inside for tomatoes, peppers, etc. I'm just buying seedlings at good garden centers. Not a whole lot more expensive and saves many hours of watering, messing with lights, hardening, etc.
Thinking about adding a 4th bed outside the fence and trying some squash and zucchinis. They take up too much space and I've heard deer don't like them. No big loss if they do get hungry.
I did the same. My neighbor and I split a rototiller rental from Depot. I dug up my compost pile (most of it not even ready), sifted out the driest and least broken down sticks, poured it into my raised bed and went to town with the rototiller. After I was done, I pulled out big stuff again. It still kind of looks like a garbage dump, but I think it will be just fine.
GilpinGuy
04-14-2018, 07:28
It's been pretty nice weather for you flatlanders. You have to be doing something. :)
buffalobo
04-14-2018, 09:37
It's been pretty nice weather for you flatlanders. You have to be doing something. :)Tying all our shit down so it don't blow away.
Can't till the soil, too dry, wind blows it away.
Teufelhund
04-14-2018, 09:38
Just getting started with our first garden this year, since we moved into a bigger place last Summer. There are four, large raised beds in the yard, where I'm going to put the broccoli, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, and lettuce I started inside from seed. There's some lattice with ivy at the bottom near the back patio that I think I'm going to replace with raspberries and strawberries, but I'll start those in hanging baskets on the deck for now.
We also tilled under the large flower beds in the backyard (just irises and such), and planted some fruit trees with some ugly fencing to keep the deer from eating them. I'm going to try to plant some melons and garlic near the trees, but I need to come up with some better fencing to keep the rabbits out of it.
I'm very interested to learn some more about composting, after all the talk in here about it.
Engaging in a war with weeds. I'm very grateful that last years' Devastation of Thistles went so well, but now theres a new weed in town, and it's into everything.
I'm not ready to befriend it yet.
jerrymrc
04-15-2018, 13:49
Doing beans, peppers, tomatoes and some other things this year. Weed control has a whole new meaning here. I have resorted to bootleg methods because the learning curve and time to do what we take for granted in the states here in Germany is frustrating at best. Damn moles are even protected and heaven help you if you want to kill anything. I think the rabbits are bigger than the deer here. [panic][Flower]
Jeffrey Lebowski
04-15-2018, 18:18
My wife is debating a pumpkin this year, which means I need to deepen her garden.
Doubled depth today, which was much of my afternoon.
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Artichokes are sprouting.
Asparagus is ready to start cutting. There about 10 inches tall.
Spinach, Snow Peas and Kale are sprouting.
GilpinGuy
04-17-2018, 22:41
Funny, my friend and I were walking his property up here and we talked about how it's been a nice spring, how it might be good year for growing and it's tempting to start planting, etc. His wife was prepping their raised beds and stuff. Within an hour the temp dropped 15 degrees easy and it started snowing. Mother Nature heard us and was like [hahhah-no] suckas.
newracer
05-12-2018, 21:01
Tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, and squash
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I tell you what, all the pine chips filled with duck and chicken poop have put my compost into over drive! I had a bunch of sticks and sunflower stalks in there that were doing nothing at all since last fall. It only took a week or two of hot poop chips to get things going. They are all softened up and breaking down. Now when I turn the pile I can feel the heat of everything composting, even standing in the sunlight in the middle of the day.
I've started a second compost pile where the chickens hang out. They dig around in it all day and that is supposed to speed things up even more.
GilpinGuy
07-04-2018, 01:34
I'm a bit frustrated. I have planted bell pepper seeds in my indoor aquaponics wicking beds under lights, in outdoor raised beds and in outdoor containers. All sprout wonderfully, then stagnate there. 2-3 inches tall is all they grow, then that's it. No additional growth. They don't die or wilt or anything. They just stay that height. And ideas WTF the problem is?
Everything else is growing awesome in the wicking beds, raised beds and containers, including jalapenos and other hot peppers. Weird. Maybe I got a funky bunch of seed or something.
GilpinGuy
07-05-2018, 03:11
A month at least. Maybe they'll kick start themselves. We'll see.
To Bear Arms
07-05-2018, 06:53
I have never had good luck with bell peppers around here. Only bell peppers though. I have grown Habanero, Jalapeno, and Anaheim's and they all grow good and produce quit a few peppers. My bell peppers would grow maybe 12-16" and grow only a couple peppers but where always small like lemon size. I have given up on them for now.
Bailey Guns
07-05-2018, 07:48
The garden's doing pretty well this year since I put up a fence to keep the deer out.
Here's a challenge... I have a Carolina Reaper plant. Wife brought it home instead of a jalapeno plant I asked for. I'll send any of you a pepper (or as many as you want) if you promise to make a video eating it (or just taking a bite) and posting it up. I'll say it right up front...I sure as hell ain't gonna eat one. I make take a (very) small taste but that's about it.
Should be ready in another few weeks:
https://i.imgur.com/KTOcSyI.jpg
newracer
07-05-2018, 08:13
I'm a bit frustrated. I have planted bell pepper seeds in my indoor aquaponics wicking beds under lights, in outdoor raised beds and in outdoor containers. All sprout wonderfully, then stagnate there. 2-3 inches tall is all they grow, then that's it. No additional growth. They don't die or wilt or anything. They just stay that height. And ideas WTF the problem is?
Everything else is growing awesome in the wicking beds, raised beds and containers, including jalapenos and other hot peppers. Weird. Maybe I got a funky bunch of seed or something.
We have bought seedlings the last three years and they do not grow either, maybe 6"-8" tall and only produce a few small peppers.
The garden's doing pretty well this year since I put up a fence to keep the deer out.
Here's a challenge... I have a Carolina Reaper plant. Wife brought it home instead of a jalapeno plant I asked for. I'll send any of you a pepper (or as many as you want) if you promise to make a video eating it (or just taking a bite) and posting it up. I'll say it right up front...I sure as hell ain't gonna eat one. I make take a (very) small taste but that's about it.
Should be ready in another few weeks:
https://i.imgur.com/KTOcSyI.jpg
Done. I'll PM you my address. I'll take ten if you have that many.
Bailey Guns
07-05-2018, 14:07
You can have them all...except 1.
Are you going to make a video as well?
Bailey Guns
07-05-2018, 15:06
Uh...no. I don't expect to eat a piece large enough to cause enough excruciating pain to be video worthy.
I may put a small slice or two in some green chile or something.
Bailey Guns
09-09-2018, 16:01
Typical daily haul. At this point we're giving most of it away. Fortunately there's a church just up the road that gives it to families that need it more than us. Good stuff, though.
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I've been working through those peppers you sent me. Thanks again.
Great-Kazoo
09-10-2018, 07:48
Been talking to a few of the neighbors, to see if they have an interest in a garden co-op. 4 tomato plants and 1/2 doz red potato ones were more than we could eat this year.
ChickNorris
09-10-2018, 08:24
I've been working through those peppers you sent me. Thanks again.
Are they really really hot?
True story... My husband woke me up early one Saturday morning & said: Wanna see me cry? Not waiting for a response he laughed (almost a giggle) & then ate a few little peppers right there next to the bed. I think they were Ghost peppers. Always true to his word, he cried. That was only the first, now he does it every year. That might have been the only time he cried though because now his eyes just sweat. He eats habaneros like cherry tomatoes & we have bottles of hot sauce that when opened, I can't even be in the room.
No, they aren't very hot. Good though. I put them in my eggs.
Bailey Guns
09-10-2018, 16:58
They weren't what they were advertised to be. I think they were mislabeled at the store. Try again next year.
Our garden is kind of a failure this year. Of the things that are growing, we don't know what half of them are. Everything else seems to be way behind. However, we planted pumpkins and they are really taking off. I probably won't even be able to mow around them anymore. I'm excited to see if we actually get any.
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ChickNorris
07-13-2019, 21:12
If you take pictures of what you want identified... I can probably save you some time.
Well, for a while I was cultivating a great section of 100% weeds; but they were all the same kind so I was letting them grow. It's not top priority, but if I think about it I'll post some up.
Bailey Guns
07-22-2019, 18:13
First peach harvest:
https://i.imgur.com/M3CvJOS.jpg
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ChickNorris
07-22-2019, 18:20
Those are lovely, I can't wait for peach cobbler!!
Great-Kazoo
07-22-2019, 22:13
Have so much leaf and romaine lettuce, we've been donating it by the boxful to the food bank. Then the neighbors all get a shopping bagful. Carrots another week or so. Potatoes first bin of yukon golds today, the reds mid to end of august, shallots when ever. Carrots 2 more weeks, green beans who knows, same for cukes.
This was the "lets throw seeds" and see what we get year. Next year with planning we should end up with zilch.
Do have a lot of goat heads littering the rest of the property this year. They're like the borg, short of some ddt and napalm who knows when they'll die.
Bailey Guns
07-24-2019, 16:27
Goat heads... we don't have a lot but it doesn't take many to be a real problem.
Peaches look great. My pumpkins might actually be watermelons. Guess we'll find out at some point.
Folks up in the the PNW have a garden that's behind this year. They did mention that they have a bumper crop of pumpkins going this year. I have to wonder if it's related to the wet spring we had?
Those peaches look great BG!
Our garden is kind of a failure this year. Of the things that are growing, we don't know what half of them are. Everything else seems to be way behind. However, we planted pumpkins and they are really taking off. I probably won't even be able to mow around them anymore. I'm excited to see if we actually get any.
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BladesNBarrels
08-03-2019, 10:42
Saw this on the 9 News last night.
How fun!
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/rare-blooms-towers-over-visitors-at-garden-in-lakewood/73-454dd38b-0ef0-41a4-b59d-502a70db30a5
^^^ That's pretty cool.
So what does the hive mind say? Watermelon or pumpkin? I've convinced myself watermelon, but I brought the neighbor over to look in person and she is now convinced pumpkin. All of these pictures are off the same plant, maybe. It's hard to tell in that jungle. The difference in shade isn't me taking crappy photographs; it is accurate to how they actually look.
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This thing with the purple vein down the middle seems like it might be kale.
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Bailey Guns
08-05-2019, 07:14
I'm gonna say that's definitely pumpkin. Maybe. I'm pretty sure. It's pumpkin. The leaves are a dead giveaway.
The plot thickens.
^^^ I see what you did there...
And are you sure your broccoli in post #83 isn't kohlrabi? is it more of a bulb than a stalk?
I've never even heard of that plant, so I have no idea.
My brother sent me this video. Turns out to be a few pretty cool projects in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkbn499wsWc
Have a few pepper plants in the garden that don't seem to be doing anything. Noticed these the other day. I ate this one, wasn't spicy. Don't know what it is.
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Got a couple U-turn zucchini as well.
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Great-Kazoo
08-17-2019, 08:03
had a great run of lettuce, till the heat made them go to seed early. Carrots are great, shallots, green & wax beans producing. Cuke's are so -so. Tomatoes are still green. Peppers, well they're there. Seems we had an issue with aphids, like lots of them. Some neem oil slowed them down but not out.
Peppers like hot weather and we had less than usual. The cool wet spring also pushed some crops back.
That looks like it could be an unripened cayenne pepper, Irving. Do your zucchini not have enough room?
They probably don't. The garden is pretty crowded. It's about to get worse for them, because the pumpkins (which are planted as far away as possible from the zucchini) are now sprouting fruit off an arm that has reached the zucchini plant. It'd estimate that the plants are about 30' from each other.
Pumpkin update. I've got at least 13 of these so far, that I can find, that are at least as big as a volley ball. Some are more orange than others.
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This is the third box. Those are zucchini on the far right, and the pumpkins have an arm along the back of the fence all the way to the yellow fence. Pumpkins are fun, but I don't really have the room for these shenanigans.
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Next year, throw in some watermelons.
You might not even have to mow your lawn. [Coffee]
In the last photo, the very left vertical column of the right most box is a little plant hanging down in front of the wood. Those are the watermelons. Not exactly doing their part.
Meanwhile, the only thing I can successfully grow is tumbleweeds.
ChickNorris
08-19-2019, 19:52
Meanwhile, the only thing I can successfully grow is tumbleweeds.
Rabbits & spiders?
Ive a pumpkin growing in the middle of my rifle range. It repeatedly gets mowed & grows on... nothing else out there but tumbleweeds, rabbits & spiders.
Meanwhile, the only thing I can successfully grow is tumbleweeds.
I've pulled enough sumac and vines out of my garden to build a fort and roof it.
I'm no skilled gardener (obviously since I can't even identify what I'm growing) but I've found that the consistency of having the sprinklers water the garden every single day, and pulling weeds when I can, really makes it easy.
I've pulled enough sumac and vines out of my garden to build a fort and roof it.
I'm no skilled gardener (obviously since I can't even identify what I'm growing) but I've found that the consistency of having the sprinklers water the garden every single day, and pulling weeds when I can, really makes it easy.
I have successfully grown about 200 tree cuttings to about a foot tall, at which point, they all died suddenly. The aspen I planted this spring looks like poo, mostly because it got shredded by hail several times this year. I do get to kill some grass since I have some settling issues from where they back filled around the house, so at least I get to kill that on purpose.
ChickNorris
08-19-2019, 20:09
Aspen prefer higher elevations.
Aspen prefer higher elevations.
It was doing fine until Colorado came through and dropped dime sized awesomeness on us about 3 times this year.
It was $25 at Home Depot, so I'm not in it for much. Have definitely wasted cash on dumber stuff.
I have successfully grown about 200 tree cuttings to about a foot tall, at which point, they all died suddenly. The aspen I planted this spring looks like poo, mostly because it got shredded by hail several times this year. I do get to kill some grass since I have some settling issues from where they back filled around the house, so at least I get to kill that on purpose.
Sounds like you could use some Terra Preta.
Great-Kazoo
08-23-2019, 07:49
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Getting a decent amount of wax and green beans every 4-5 days. We'll see how well my blanching process works, over the winter
carrots
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onions & cukes
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Last of 3 potato bins
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I've given away at least five before these. Pretty good crop for a first time I guess.
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