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We just started these, but they say 1-2 inches over the tops of the shoots, keep covering them as they grow. They like water, but need to be well drained. Harvest when they leaf out after the bucket is filled with dirt (3ish months?).Quote:
Originally Posted by cofi
looking forward to seeing the hops pics. Starting seeds this week. Tomatoes for sauce, winter veges including butternut squash, turnips, parsnips, leeks. Cucumber, one summer and zucchini squash plant, honey dew and cantilope melons. Going to make a new deeper bed for blueberries I think the one I have is too shallow and dries out during the winter. And two new bee hives at a buddies home in Elizabeth.Quote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
re: Hops...
Once you have trained the first shoots on your trellis, any subsequent shoots from the rhisome can be cut and cooked like asparagus or pickled.
YUM
Nice thread, I just started buying some stuff last week. This will be the first year I've been involved personally - usually our "garden" is just a place for my daughter to play. And honestly I have no clue what I'm doing, hopefully youtube isn't lying to me about how to do this... LOL.
Doing russets and fingerlings in a whiskey barrel - similar to the video above.
Some herbs in some smaller pots, and planning to put some other herbs and some green onions in the semi-shady area under the deck.
Carrots, maybe some onions too. I wanted to do garlic, but apparently it's too late for that...?
I'd love to do tomatoes, peppers and green beans as well, but I'm not sure how much is too much to bite off for a first year.
Ideally, if I don't end up killing all this stuff, I'd like to turn the crappy little dirt pile we have in the corner of the yard into a raised bed - maybe next year. We have a serious rabbit population, and I'm concerned they're going to get everything that's not a couple feet off the ground.
I wanted to try growing hops this year but opted not to. Keep us posted on how it's going.
Anyone have insight on growing peppers? I'm going to try a salsa garden this summer.
Just chuck em in the pot an away you go peppers are super easy to grow if you want them hotter let them dry out to where the leaves just start to droop(learn how heavy you pot gets wet and dry)Quote:
Originally Posted by fj605
A pic of three of the places I planted the hops. The other two are out of the picture on the left. because I planted them farther away as they are a different variety.
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Sugar snap peas, lettuce and radishes are in the ground already. Tomatoes, peppers and herbs were started inside weeks ago and are going strong. Poles beans, zucchini, potatoes, carrots, onions, cucumbers, butternut, spaghetti squash, Acorn squash, watermelon, strawberries, cantaloupe, corn, celery, pumpkins and a few other things I'm forgetting will get planted right before mothers day. The indoor plants will be transplanted then too.
A few picks from last year. These are examples of my harvest pretty much every other day all summer long. All came from one 20'x 3' bed and one 6' x 8' bed plus a few 10" holes in the river rock ground cover for the squash and melons. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/10/2usyqeva.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/10/y4y9y3ep.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/10/a4ubyzav.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/10/yve3y5y4.jpg
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That is awesome! I have only started with two 4x8 raised beds... can't fit much in there, but I hope that it is a good start. I have a feeling the HoA doesn't get involved with the back yard unless I get too crazy.
The asparagus is starting to poke through that the previous owner planted. And the fruit trees are starting up.
And another question... where is everyone getting seeds?
I wish I had fruit trees.
My favorite part of the garden is that my kid (3 years old most of last summer) came out with me each evening and she just snacked on all the fresh food while I was tending to it. She'd be running around and every few minutes run over and pick something to eat right off the plant...cucumbers, green beans, peas and carrots...she just loves it! She has already told me she plans to pull and eat "all" the carrots this year.