I'm gonna kill the rest in the morning we will try again next year in a greenhouse
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I'm gonna kill the rest in the morning we will try again next year in a greenhouse
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Originally Posted by cofi
I'm quite discouraged myself.
Sorry to hear that Cofi. It's raining and hailing pretty hard right now. The aquaponic is overflowing... hope those tilapia fingerlings hide on the bottom. Overall it is very discouraging. I learnt that weed are best for Colorado.. as in water crest, mint, or even the kind that you smoke. Shade plants have little chance in our kind of weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by cofi
I have a ton of tomato and pepper seedlings that are good if anyone wants to salvage some of the growing season
Sent from my tin foil coated mind reading device.
I still a couple extra that I have set aside. I think next year I will plant more seedlings for this reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by mindfold
My lone jalapeno looks like it won't make it. Got some sunburn on the leaves and even the pea sized hail last night pounded it. Rest look ok, even picked a couple of deep red strawberries in between storms that tasted great. They were small, but noticeably sweeter than the CA grown ones in my fridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by mindfold
I hear ya Dave, WHile my seedlings have seemed to have survived for now, The hail and pretty high winds the last couple nights just blew and knocked a lot of the tree fruit off the trees in the yard. The Pears and Apples seem to be more hail resistant than the Plums and cherries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave
More hail and high winds for tonight
Getting dark skies and winds already in Lakewood.Quote:
Originally Posted by cofi
Wind & rain probably would not terminate our garden but a good dose of hail could ruin it all. Each year I ponder putting in mesh netting over the garden just for hail but always find a way to rationalize not doing it. Eventually my luck will run out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHtzJkihxs
How I'm feeling right now nsfw
Here's what my pepper plant looks like now. Is it salvageable?
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Should be okQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave
Oh yeah, it'll come back fine.
I'd cut off the broken leaves. Plants will waste energy trying to keep bad leaves alive.
I'll get on thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Irving
First harvest of the year. (Minus the single carrot that lived through winter that my kiddo ate last month and the 2 early strawberries) http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/07/zu4y3yma.jpg
We saved a lot of the garden by bringing it inside the last two days a lot that I thought dies is bouncing back
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Originally Posted by cofi
After the hail today this is how I feel. So after this year I am going to put PVC hoops up and some sort of coverings.
Hopefully this will address several issues I have encountered this year.
- late frost.
- sunburn.
- HAIL
I want to do the same next year my plants are still beat down and every time they start to recover we get 100mph winds or hailQuote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
Time to build a greenhouse or move to state that actually has a good climate for growing stuff.
Yeah, had to clip some sunburned leaves from my strawberry plants today. The only thing I ever had grow well were some hops a couple years ago in a barrel planter that my dog dug up.Quote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
so the noobs have all given up?
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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
Naaa... I'm determined to figure this out.
Glad I am not alone lolQuote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
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Garden is doing well and coming back strong from the earlier storms.
I have been eating radishes and lettuce every day for a week. Tomatoes are very strong. I have been pinching off the suckers and every flower so they spend their energy growing strong roots and branches. I did this last year and although it delays a harvest for a couple weeks, my tomatoes last year were a good 6ft tall and grew TONS of fruit so it's a good investment in the future.
Sugar Snap peas are a good 5ft tall and I expect to be harvesting peas in a week. Corn is 4in tall and growing. Carrots, beats, herbs, squash, melons, celery, onions are all still small but growing. Strawberry plants are getting big. I'm not sure if they are the single harvest variety or if they are the kind that produce throughout the summer so that will be a surprise. Pepper plants are still a little on the small side. Next year I will make sure to start them inside as usual, but a few weeks earlier.
Pole beans had a terrible germination rate. Maybe 5%. I re-sowed them a week ago also adding some bush beans that I know are from good stock. The bush beans are already germinated but I still have yet to see any new pole bean plants sprout. I think I got a bad batch of seeds. I also sowed additional carrot seeds all throughout my tomato beds. Apparently the two plants are mutually beneficial. I'll report on how that works this fall.
I got potatoes planted late, in boxes, and will report on those later.
For the above posts concerning keeping the plants protected, I always start my plants outside under hoops and plastic. I uncover them throughout the day once the weather warms but this year I got hit with the storms like everyone else because I left them uncovered while I was at work. After the damage I decided I would keep them covered even during the day until the threat of storms passes. I use PVC hoops and 5mil plastic making a tunnel. To keep them protected from above but not over heating during the day I just open the ends of the "tunnel". When I am home I uncover them completely so they get the full sun but I leave the plastic attached and rolled on the side so I can quickly run outside and get them covered if the hail starts flying.
I will post pics later today on the setup.
Not yet. Just having seen my mom's garden growing up in Michigan vs. trying to grow stuff here it's a frustrating difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
Yes please! I think that this is what was in my head, because I think there was a pic of your garden up somewhere here before. Could you perhaps do a close up or explain how you attached the plastic to your garden for ease of placing/removing? I was thinking about putting grommets or something on the double/tripled up plastic or something like that and some hooks of some kind.Quote:
Originally Posted by hollohas
This is a picture from a couple weeks ago of one of my tomato beds with hoop house cover pulled back during good weather.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/16/8aza6eru.jpg
Here's a picture of it covered on top for protection against hail but with sides left open for ventilation. This is how I am leaving them while I'm not home until the spring storms pass.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/16/2ybupyry.jpg
This setup works for any size bed. Pipe straps are screwed on the inside of the boards and the pvc just slips in making it easy to remove during summer.
Thanks! This will work nicely I think. Screw the HoA.Quote:
Originally Posted by hollohas
Currently one side of the plastic has brass grommets installed through the end of the plastic that has been folded over itself 4-5 times giving it a thicker seam. The grommets hook to simple screws that are in the outside of the boards sticking out an inch. I tried using grommets on both sides but I found that the stress each day pulling it to cover/un-cover/hook, the grommets pulled out. So now I just use the grommets on one side and the spring clamps you see in the picture on the other side. This makes it very easy to pull back each day and it has weathered some pretty serious wind as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
I don't have closeup pictures with me but will post some tonight.
My thoughts exactly. Mine hasn't given me trouble...yet. This is year two with the hoop houses on the garden.Quote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
Nope, I'm still in! My bean sprouts are about 4 inches tall now. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
Edit: It seems that I am MONTHS behind hollohas. I guess I should have started everything inside and transplanted it. I won't have any veggies until August at this rate...
US too everything's only got a few leaves on emQuote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
Next year were going to start inside and run hoops
Peas are taking off. Look close at the 2nd picture to see them. They'll be ready to pick on Thursday or Fri. However, my 4 year old can't wait so she picked a couple dozen and ate them this evening while I was out watering. She'd grab a few, then follow me around. When those few were gone, she ran back to get another few and this went on the whole time I was out working. The girl LOVES the garden.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/18/6upaquma.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/18/a6aneqah.jpg
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Originally Posted by cofi
The first time I started seeds inside I made a mistake and the plants didn't grow strong. I mounted the lights much too high. I've found that the most important thing is to keep the lights mere inches (1-2) above the plants. But not everything transplants well. Tomatoes, peppers, celery, onions, strawberries and herbs are what I start inside. Some people start lettuce, cucumbers, squash and beans inside but they grow fast enough I don't see the point in starting them inside. I had two zucchini plants last year and they produced twice as much as I could eat, so no need to start them early. Spaghetti squash? I had two plants and I still have 4 squash in the basement that need to be eaten...they were direct sowed outside last year. But that's one reason I LOVE winter squash...they last through the winter and spring in the cool basement. Something that's very important if food supplies were short.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
Also, carrots do not transplant well at all...it makes them not grow straight for some reason.
I am still experimenting. I have a pretty small yard so I'm working on some methods for small spaces. This is my second year with a real garden of my own but my Dad kept a very large garden when I was growing up that I spent some time in and that has helped wonders. I hope to pass that on to my kiddos too.
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Originally Posted by hollohas
Do you have a thermometer in your basement? I have storage areas in my basement where I have the space to keep things like this. I can always can it, but fresh is nice too.
I think it stays pretty cool.
So I have well over half a 10x4 bed that's just bare soil right now, and several packets of seeds just sitting around (carrots, onions, peas, beans). I went ahead and started planting some of them tonight. Any chance I will see something I can eat by the end of the summer at this point?
We direct sow last year in the middle of July and still pulled veggiesQuote:
Originally Posted by Brian
All of those veggies (except onion) are typically ready to harvest in 60-75 days depending on the variety. Carrots will be the on the longer side of that range. Peas usually prefer cooler spring weather so may not be as productive during the summer but if they stay strong they should give you a bigger harvest in the fall.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian
Onions however can be 100-120 days or more to harvest so they may be pushing it. However they can tolerate some cold so you may be good.
Plant them all and see what happens.