We are going to shoot for the second week in May anyone think that's too early?
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We are going to shoot for the second week in May anyone think that's too early?
Second week of May?....-I'll be planting at least two weeks prior to that as I have every other year. We did April 15 two years ago and were happy we did. Look at the 10-day forecast and proceed accordingly. Greens (lettuce/kale/chard/etc.) can go in right now/today, the cold won't hurt those.
My garden is getting sowed once wheat ridge comm center calls the gf......gonna dabble with mychorrizae this year.
Anytime we planted before Mother's Day we got screwed.
I think the only thing I'll be doing this year is an aquaponics setup growing a few cucumbers off of my pond.
You wanna dial back the nutes when using mychoQuote:
Originally Posted by mcjhr
US too we got some snow may 20th or somewhere around there last year that killed everything then we replanted in July and early frost took most of the garden :(Quote:
Originally Posted by RCCrawler
Last year sucked we are trying to go bigger this year
Yeah that's what I been reading. I got some homemade compost I'm gonna add....nothing crazy. Add the myo sort of "set it and forget it". Just check for bugs and water.....I'm assuming you have used/use it? Any tips?Quote:
Originally Posted by cofi
You should get something that has bacteria in it as well like this stuff. http://alphaagsolutions.com/terra-one/
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simple one for a 1st timer. Doing them out of 5 gal buckets, with lots of drain holes. Basil, oregano, few pepper plants.
I just planted my hops rhizomes this weekend. I'll add a pic later tonight.
Started the seeds this weekend indoors as well.
You can get away with way smaller pots for the herbsQuote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
Your doing beer from homegrown hops???Quote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
I don't start out indoors out by me it's impossible to harden them off from the wind out here
I'm going to attempt it. I got the rhizomes from a hops farm in Colorado.Quote:
Originally Posted by cofi
Hops is one of the most expensive ingredients, especially when i do an IPA. The first year I am anticipating a very small harvest of hops while the plants get established, but I have a really sunny side of my house that I think they will like. I was able to get 11 and a half feet of hops twine from the ground to the eave of my house. Hopefully I don't have any neighbors that turn me into the HoA.. HA!
want space for 2-3 per and ability to germinate.Quote:
Originally Posted by cofi
We already have a lot of stuff going in the greenhouse, lettuce and spinach in coldframes, and bucket potatoes going. the wife's corn is already over a foot tall in the greenhouse. We had fresh tomatoes all winter long this year.
Bucket potatoes? Tell me more!
This sounds like fun, are you growing them like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAdolIdFaos
Yeah, same basic deal. 5 gallon bucket with drain holes, gravel, weed barrier, 4 inches of soil, plant 2 or 3 seed chunks, keep adding dirt as the shoots start to peek through to keep the potatoes from turning green. Should yield about 40 lbs per bucket by the time the dirt gets to the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
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Originally Posted by TFOGGER
THAT looks like fun! I have a project for the weekend thanks!
We have good luck with Green Peppers, Tomatoes and Egg Plants the past couple of years. Beans are always working.
How much dirt are you putting on top of the shoots? When do you harvest?Quote:
Originally Posted by TFOGGER
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.
Bucket potatoes are awesome however I found out that not all potatoes produce a lot that way. Last year I had yukon golds and fingerlings. I use boxes and the fingerlings grew the entire 4ft deep box but the Yukon's only grew in the bottom layer.
My boxes are built from fence pickets with 2x2's to nest each level together. As the plant grows, I add additional layers and more dirt.
Start small
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/10/uqarehas.jpg
Then add layers
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/10/y3abydyz.jpg
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Partial harvest.
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My cousin grew potatoes on his concrete driveway in some hay one year. I'm sure the neighbors loved that.
Someone mentioned the late freeze last year. That's why its always good to wait. I only planted 4 tomato plants early last year (just as a test) but they all froze.
Here was the weather on 4/28/13
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And this was 5/1/13
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My first Willamette Hops Rhisome has sprouted!
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Lmao I love coQuote:
Originally Posted by hollohas
[Beer]Quote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
Anybody recommend a good pickling cucumber breed/brand/whatever? Would like to try planting some this year for making pickles.
snowed yesterday
we are considering next monday depending on how the ten day looks
these guys are legitQuote:
Originally Posted by Brian
http://www.ufseeds.com/store.php?dpi...x=0&Submit.y=0
I wish my seedlings were big enough... they are seriously slow.Quote:
Originally Posted by cofi
Quite discouraged this weekend, when trying to ease the trays of seedlings outside, the greenhouse shelves got blown over. Some seedlings didn't survive and many are damaged.