Minnesota Outdoorsman
General Category => Lawn & Garden => Topic started by: glenn57 on February 02/24/14, 04:17:12 PM
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I snow is butt deep but spring is just around the corner. so anybody thinkin about there garden plans yet??????????
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Nope just bought a snowmobile. Picking it up this weekend. But I'll be planting the Ol' Weed Patch this year. :happy1:
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Picked up some seeds the other day. I plan to start the plants (at least have the wife start them) in doors because I don't think they can go out until Memorial day. That is if the frost is out by then.
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I am starting a list on what I need. I want to get into growing more of my own seasonings like savory, oregano etc. I am for the first time planted garlic and interested to see hoe that all shakes out.
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Glenn you should have planted your garlic in October before the ground froze....will be the first thing up ..
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I did..............I did!!!!!!!!!! covered also with lotz of mulch. harvest in july. let dry keep your best bunches to replant!!!!!!!!! :happy1: :happy1:
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Have my tobacco, celery and cherry tomatoes in the mini greenhouses starting to sprout. Garden is buried in 44 inches of snow, we just measured it! :snow5:
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It has crossed my mind a few times but nothing planted yet. I have saved a few milk cartons for planters if nothing else!
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I tried the planting things from seeds last year. cut down on the greenhouse fee but this year will just get all my plants from the greenhouse again. the normal carrot radishes etc will again be purchased as normal.
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I tried the planting things from seeds last year. cut down on the greenhouse fee but this year will just get all my plants from the greenhouse again. the normal carrot radishes etc will again be purchased as normal.
Haha With that ?? Less than green thumb you have,I spose even stinging nettles and poision ivy are hard to grow.Must be the soil EH?
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naw.ma was less then impressed with cups all over the place and took up a lot of time. us union thugs are busy!!!!!
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Yep Glenn I hear that. One 30 min trip to the store and plants already started. A couple hours and the garden is planted. The opportunity cost alone is worth doing it this way for me. However when I'm retired and bored out of my mind I'd be happy to start from scratch. But then I'll probably be telling myself I could be fishing right now instead of watering plants. ;)
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I for one have plenty of time to start plants in my own greenhouse. Of course I am not just doing them for myself as I start plants for family, friends and neighbors. The bartering and donations I get back more then covers the time spent on the plants. I have also been doing it for over twenty years so I have some experience at it. As for watering grand kids get a kick out of watching seeds grow in to plants taller then they can reach and now all of them have their own gardens. The real time consumers are peppers and I am finding that celery along with the tobacco I am trying this year need to be seeded three months before ground planting. Only time I have any seed pots in the house is right now but by mid April everything will be out in the green house. A real good way to get an extra start on what I am guessing is going to be another short growing season up North here.
Have been doing a lot of container gardening the last few years and starting plants early lets me just move the plants right out onto the deck and lets me bring them back in come fall. Work's really good for cherry tomatoes and peppers. I still have peppers growing in November indoors. Of course we are not talking about dozens of plants but hundreds. By the time fishing season arrives Green house is pretty empty of plants other then the ones for my own garden and containers, and of course the flowers that will be transplanted to pots, that is the wife's job.
I still get some plants from the local greenhouse, but I have an inside girl who gets me stuff right off the truck and it never makes it to the sales floor. We do that a lot with flats of flowers and sometimes if she spots really good pepper plants.
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I'm a ways from retirement yet but even then I don't think I would be doing the starter seed thing again. don't get me wrong I kind of enjoyed it but I really don't run out of things to do.
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Don't worry Glen when you hit retirement you will have plenty to do. Seems like when people hear you are retired you must have nothing to do and time on your hands so they go out of there way to try and keep you busy with their projects :rotflmao: Only another retired person can share retirement. Younger folks who still have another twenty years to work try to make retirement sound like a bad thing. I find the ones who retire and complaint about having nothing to do came from a life of working and had no hobbies. No work, nothing to do. Ask Lee how retirement is going for him. All he seems to do is :fishing2: :happy1: My Buddy Chuck and I we are both retired now and we have no problem finding things to do, sometimes it is hard to find time to go fishing till one of us reminds the other that we are Retired!
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so anyone thinkin of playing in the dirt yet??? last nite I threw some 10-10-10 on the horseradish and winter onion/rubarb patch and raked it in. going out to the camp groundt his weekend to do the same with my garlic, other onion patch and asparagus patches!!!!!
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I am tilling today.Getting Sandy setup for small gardens.Since the neck is off till June I gotta do some gardens.Long term like corn,Popcorn taters onions,course my favorite spinach and lettuce Greens.Maters,beets and some of what she wants to care for! Got to get a outboard set up for elec.start cause I wont be able to pull the rope start on the little 15HP evinrude.Lots to do that I said was out till fall!!
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I haven't even looked at the garden yet. Last week the kids were playing in it and lets just say they were mud from head to toe. But if dew is tilling and he's about 5 miles away I better go take a look tonight. By the way dew I have a compact tractor with a tiller if you need any help.
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do you deliver to cold spring????? :scratch: :scratch: ;D
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I haven't even looked at the garden yet. Last week the kids were playing in it and lets just say they were mud from head to toe. But if dew is tilling and he's about 5 miles away I better go take a look tonight. By the way dew I have a compact tractor with a tiller if you need any help.
OH MAN THANKS for the offer.I finished.There is very little moisture in the soil here!! No clodding just easy go.Tomorrow I'll pay,I am right now!! Might help the ole girl rake flower gardens tomorrow.But I have a new to me 1993 polaris to install a new starter an solenoid.A out board 1988 or 92 Evinrude to install elec.start and a new bird with GPS and a lakemaster card to install think the bird is the 597 di hi.Its been sitting so long waiting for me??
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Got my Ford 8N going yesterday and mowed the asparagus patch as well as the fall bearing raspberries, hope to get the cultivator out tonight and go over the garden...
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Got my Ford 8N going yesterday and mowed the asparagus patch as well as the fall bearing raspberries, hope to get the cultivator out tonight and go over the garden...
You dog you!!! The ole girl had the hedge trimmers out cleanin up the asparagus,The manual type with long handels.The raspberries are mixed and I wait to see what's growin.Course the asparagus bed is only 6 ft wide by??20-25 ft long.4 years old with 1 year olds this year down the middle.
Cant wait fer them oh so good and versatile spears!!!!
How big is yer patch? You use rock salt in any shotguns?
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My Asparagus patch isn't that big 6x15' but about 10 years old..produces a Bunch.bet the spears are up next week!! Nuting better with fresh walleye fillets along with wild rice..
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Got my Ford 8N going yesterday and mowed the asparagus patch as well as the fall bearing raspberries, hope to get the cultivator out tonight and go over the garden...
I always burn the asparagus patch as I was told they will produce more or come up sooner. I have no idea if it's true but listening to the old gardeners has never done me harm.
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Never heard that..too late for this year, maybe try next year...
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I hooked the tiller up and made a round and it is ready to be tilled. I'll get some manure tomorrow and till it in. Hopefully it doesn't rain to much so I can get the spuds in this weekend after the kids DU banquet.
Glenn I can help you out with the tilling if you need it. No problem. I do 5 other neighbors in the area.
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I was half kidding general. I have my pops 8 horse walk behind tiller. does a good job but I'd like to find someone with a bigger one. my garden dirt gets a little hard and the tiller only gets so deep and I'd like to get it tilled a bit deeper. I watch the ads but no one does this anymore! :scratch: :scratch: :doah:
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I was half kidding general. I have my pops 8 horse walk behind tiller. does a good job but I'd like to find someone with a bigger one. my garden dirt gets a little hard and the tiller only gets so deep and I'd like to get it tilled a bit deeper. I watch the ads but no one does this anymore! :scratch: :scratch: :doah:
I'm sure we can work it out if you want. I can till it so you are up to your knees in dirt :happy1:
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I will take you up on that. let me know what ya need for it and when would be a good time. been wanting to do this for years!!!
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my garden dirt gets a little hard and the tiller only gets so deep and I'd like to get it tilled a bit deeper.
Solve yer problem Glenn.If the general will deep till your hard garden,Spread 3-4 inches of sand on top before he tills it in,and add some gypsum on top a the sand.The gypsum lubricates soils, the sand will keep the clay from clodding making a looser soil,Probably making a better producing garden
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i'll look into that. I am not so sure though I have any clay in the ground.
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I will take you up on that. let me know what ya need for it and when would be a good time. been wanting to do this for years!!!
It will cost you a case of coors light :happy1:
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Haha! Pull out the case of Miller Lite after he is done!!! :toast:
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If it's free and cold I'll take that too. Along with the coors.
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I will take you up on that. let me know what ya need for it and when would be a good time. been wanting to do this for years!!!
It will cost you a case of coors light :happy1:
sounds good!!!! let me know when it fits your schedule!!! you do know that garden is in cold spring. right!!!
might have to hit the pension fund for the financing part though!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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you bet Glenn :happy1:
Shoot me a call I sent you a PM and we can figure it out.
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got it. actually saved it from the last time!!! :happy1: :happy1: :happy1: and didn't even do any prank calls!!!!!! ;D :rotflmao:
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I cleared the straw off my strawberry patch yesterday, some nice health looking green plants growing. As I type this it is snowing and now the plants have an inch of new snow on them.... :snow5: :doah:
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I cleared the straw off my strawberry patch yesterday, some nice health looking green plants growing. As I type this it is snowing and now the plants have an inch of new snow on them.... :snow5: :doah:
You just had snow!!! We uncovered our strawberry patch 3 days ago maybe 4,they were leaving out,Then this nice 3/4 inch rain over 2 days is really helpin em along. SNOW??
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yea they had snow up nort. the upper most tip of mn could of got up to a foot. as far south as the cabin they talked as much as 6 inches!!!! more water for the lakes!!!!!!!!
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Depending where you are on the big lake we got any where from 4-9 inches last night. My raised bed for the berries is now full of snow again.
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Our berries areleafingiut nicely been raingfortwo day, sun is starting pokenout an springseemsnslowin coming. Cant waitfornfresh strawberry toppings. Mmmmmmmmmm
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Our berries areleafingiut nicely been raingfortwo day, sun is starting pokenout an springseemsnslowin coming. Cant waitfornfresh strawberry toppings. Mmmmmmmmmm
can I have some of what your smoking boar??????????????????? :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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LMFAO......No, its all mine.
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Thats a keeper!
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This past week I divided up a couple rhubarb hills. I gave one neighbor three clumps and another 5 clumps so they can start their own rhubarb patches.
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Planted a row of Yukon Gold Potatoes last night, raining all day today so no more work in the Garden for a while.
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Planted a row of Yukon Gold Potatoes last night, raining all day today so no more work in the Garden for a while.
I've been itching to get the tators in. Looks like it's going to have to wait until next week. :doah:
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Planted a row of Yukon Gold Potatoes last night, raining all day today so no more work in the Garden for a while.
I've been itching to get the tators in. Looks like it's going to have to wait until next week. :doah:
I was already to put in tatters and onions and greens,Then I was called away the last sunny day Friday,then the rain started and I dont work well in mud!! This week sometine I hope!
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Planted a row of Yukon Gold Potatoes last night, raining all day today so no more work in the Garden for a while.
I've been itching to get the tators in. Looks like it's going to have to wait until next week. :doah:
thought them taters where suppose to be in on good Friday???????? you slippin??? :bonk: :bonk: :scratch: :rotflmao:
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Those dang neighbors always seem to come first. :bonk:
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there sure is lotta water standing all over!!!!!!
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youre water broke glenn! Get to the vet quick! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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youre water broke glenn! Get to the vet quick! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: boar made a funny!!!!!!! :moon: :moon: :doah: there was enough water in the medians on hwy 10 the geese where swimming in it down in the cities.
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We picked up the onions and some more asparagus crowns to add to are already big patch. Pickled asparagus is the bomb and they make a great stir stick for bloody Mary's. I have a bunch of spots marked on the GPS around the area the kids and I collect asparagus out of the ditch. It's fun to take out the wheelers and go for an evening cruise.
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I might need to put a tail on ya when your after them stir sticks.
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general, what kind of a reciepe you gotz for them pickled asparagus. I do a green bean that's got zing to it. I use a thia chili pepper for the zing!
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general, what kind of a reciepe you gotz for them pickled asparagus. I do a green bean that's got zing to it. I use a thia chili pepper for the zing!
I'm not sure as I stay out of the CP's room when she is working. Her pickled green beans have that zing you're talking about too.
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I might need to put a tail on ya when your after them stir sticks.
Those trips are done under secret stealth mode.
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We picked up the onions and some more asparagus crowns to add to are already big patch. Pickled asparagus is the bomb and they make a great stir stick for bloody Mary's. I have a bunch of spots marked on the GPS around the area the kids and I collect asparagus out of the ditch. It's fun to take out the wheelers and go for an evening cruise.
Ummmmm? where's mine?
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:coffee: my gardens are wet from the 130 inches of snow melt and as I write this it is raining out with flakes of snow mixed in. You guys may be harvesting before I even get anything to grow.. :doah:
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I got the garden tilled and planted a few things last night. Now just ready for some warm weather.
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thanks general!!!!!!!!!!!! :happy1: :happy1: :happy1: thanks to the general now my garden is tilled also. got my dill in the ground before I got rained out for the evening. will tackle the rest or at least start tonite and sunday!
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We finished planting everything cept maters just yesterday,Started with taters onions 4-5 days ago.Lots of long term plantings this year.Then last nights rain came just at the perfect time for us.We hurried to get the planting done before this rain.
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little wet tonite to continue. dumped out an inch of rain.
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just poured here......need a boat to work in garden. :bonk: :bonk: :censored: :censored:
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thanks general!!!!!!!!!!!! :happy1: :happy1: :happy1: thanks to the general now my garden is tilled also. got my dill in the ground before I got rained out for the evening. will tackle the rest or at least start tonite and sunday!
Glad to help and you were most generous with the coors light. Thank you.
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Finally warming up enough..
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thanks general!!!!!!!!!!!! :happy1: :happy1: :happy1: thanks to the general now my garden is tilled also. got my dill in the ground before I got rained out for the evening. will tackle the rest or at least start tonite and sunday!
Glad to help and you were most generous with the coors light. Thank you.
no problem!!!!!!!! :bow: the least I could do. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!
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best cover da crops...frost and freeze warnings about!!!!!!!! :censored: :doah:
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finally got the garden all planted!!!! picked a good supply of asparagus as well as a bumper crop of winter onions!!!!!
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Garden is not looking to good, only thing green in it is stuff that was transplanted from the greenhouse. Soaking wet and cold here with not much change in the future. :coffee:
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Pickle plants are doing great, tomatoes and peppers...are a little behind...(http://i58.tinypic.com/mr32o3.jpg)(http://i62.tinypic.com/27x4a4k.jpg)
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HD a sprinkler?? We been enjoying lots of strawberrirs,salads of 5-6 different letuce,tatters are flowering.New tatters soon. corn is bout 3 ft high.Onions seen stunted from rain!! the lake may be close to all time high!! We have some carp and nords in the yard!!!
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Mama just weeded that garden, and watered in some fertilizer. Not, much...we live on sand, so it soaks in fast. Not like the dark clay you guys have.
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Looking good there HD. I wonder when you could weed the garden with all the rain.
The pumpkins, cukes, gords, and watermellons are slow to get going.
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Tomatoes, onions, potatoes, and various other vegetables are doing fine.
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Of Course you can't go without flowers.
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Last year was a bumper apple corp. Looks like it will be less this year
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How's everyone's garden been doing? The wife canned 38 jars of Dilly beans the other day. The pickles are starting to come and we have eaten all of the sweet corn. The tomatoes are all still green, but there is a lot of them. I haven't dug any of the potatoes yet but the tops of the plant look just like last years hopefully under the ground is as good. I think the wife planted enough spaghetti squash to feed the nation. Anyone wanting some let me know it would be free you just have to come get it when they are ripe.
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Lots of peppers, tomatoes are doing good. Cuks are great, but my pickles look like tennis balls.
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Brocclli was good, cabbage is fine, peppers are good, some small red tomatoes, been eating potatoes and onions for a while, brussels sprouts are coming along fine, lots of cuks, some strawberrys. Will be a while before any watermellon and pumpkins. Gourds look fine for now. Small apple crop this year and very few grapes. Ground cherries should start soon also.
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Yeah the onions here have been good. My wife saves all of them for making salsa.
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man I have been so busy haven't had time other then to take quick peeks here. :bonk: :bonk: garden is coming along. starting to get cukes, maters and kalarabi. going to pick my last of the green beans tonite and yank them. plants are about toast. I'd say its an average garden.
musta been the tiller!!!!!! :bonk: :doah: ;) ;) :rotflmao: :rotflmao: sorry general just hadda throw that in there.!
it actually did help!!!!!! :happy1: :happy1:
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Always interesting reading here on how everyone's gardens are growing, you can really tell the difference a few hundred miles can make. Berries are just getting ripe up here and I got my first ripe tomatoe. Have tons of spinach and a good onion crop growing. Corn is way behind but we still have two months of growing. Apple trees are doing nothing, 2nd year in a row.
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I have come to the conclusion my garden stinks this year. :doah: :scratch: :cry: :cry: already pulled my green beans and cukes because they sucked. more maters then normal have that stem rot. the tomatoes on the vine are less abundant then normal and my kalorabi are coming slower then they should. my carrots are good however! peppers stink too!
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I have come to the conclusion my garden stinks this year. :doah: :scratch: :cry: :cry: already pulled my green beans and cukes because they sucked. more maters then normal have that stem rot. the tomatoes on the vine are less abundant then normal and my kalorabi are coming slower then they should. my carrots are good however! peppers stink too!
You may want to ditch the union gardener theory and hire a migrant farm worker. :doah:
Just sayin ;)
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boy.............you sure know how to hurt a guys feelings. :doah: :doah: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: cant do the migrant worker thing, run into to many paperwork and legal details.
I'm blaming the weather. :bonk: :bonk:
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boy.............you sure know how to hurt a guys feelings. :doah: :doah: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: cant do the migrant worker thing, run into to many paperwork and legal details.
I'm blaming the weather. :bonk: :bonk:
Skip da paper work! Just marry one :happy1:
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no can do, already married to a white city girl!!!!!!!!
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I was hoping for a bumper crop of pickles this year, but....no...
So, I have been canning some cucumber spears and zucchini a few jars at a time...(http://i57.tinypic.com/2uy2gew.jpg)
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I'm begging for cukes, pulled mine. might need to start begging for maters. :doah: :doah: there not doing so hot and I had planned on a whole lotta canning.
I have done 3 2 gal jugs of cukes. HD are those hot bathed and sealed?
try this method. slice the cukes the long way like you did in your post. add dill, onion garlic. stuff in a jar and if ya got 2 gal jars they work good. the brine is 2 qts water 2 cups vinegar and 1/2 cup pickling salt. mix pour into jar and set in frig.
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I give the cukes a ice bath over night, boil the brine, slice the cukes and dump my stuff in the jar. Pour over the boiling brine to the top (or real close) then seal and put in hot water bath and let come to room temp. Then put um in the fridge. They seal just about every time.
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The taters are looking great again this year.
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Tater?, That looks more like a volcanic rock
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still have some tomatoes and carrots in. also kalarabi. going to replant garlic this weekend.
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Wife is canning tomatoes and making another batch of pickles. A pretty good year for the garden. Pepper plants have all been moved into the green house for another month of growing. Still have squash growing and carrots and spuds are being harvested as needed. Corn did not fair well, the only thing I was disappointed about this year in the garden. On the other hand a great year for strawberries and onions and spinach and more ripe tomatoes then I have seen in a couple of seasons. I would give my garden a B+ for this year. :happy1:
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Tks for reminding me to plant the garlic for next year had forgotten....