2020 gardens......

[glenn57]

I got to harvest my first tomato today.  It's a biggie.  This is how successful my gardening is this year.

:happy1:maybe you should bury some fish guts................oh wait  what was i thinking!!!!!!!!

And what exactly are fish guts???  Do they come with fish???  How does one catch those fish????????

well dont ask boar.......he dont know either!!!!!!

[LPS]

 

[HD]

you are conquering everything Tom!!!   

Maybe we could get GT to teach Glenn how to post pictures 🤣

[Steve-o]

I got to harvest my first tomato today.  It's a biggie.  This is how successful my gardening is this year.

I think I got four 'maters total - and the bugs got at the first one so I couldn't eat it.

I'm done spending good money planting vegetables in my sun-forsaken garden.  I should fill it with hosta and be done with it.   

[glenn57]

you are conquering everything Tom!!!   

Maybe we could get GT to teach Glenn how to post pictures 🤣

yea no kidding.

[LPS]

I made my 3' x 7' garden bed/boxes about 3 years ago.  We really like them and we are novice gardeners.  In one we put 4 tomato plants in a row on one side and about 20 onions on the other side.  So easy to weed and water and take care of.  We are going to drop a bag of Miracle Grow potting soil in each one from now on.  We put peppers and lettuce in the other one this year.  Our cukes we just plant in the ground but may make a box for them too with a fence for them to climb.  Pretty basic and easy to take care of.  HD has his raised up waist high.  That is the best way to go.  I keep thinking about that.  Just throwing it at you in case it helps. 

[fishwidow]

I'm done spending good money planting vegetables in my sun-forsaken garden.  I should fill it with hosta and be done with it.   

Planting hostas will make the deer happy. I keep looking for a repellent that will really work. Otherwise they chomp every leaf off and leave nothing but stems.

[Bobberineyes]

Our patio was full of pots, 5 gallon buckets of tomatoes and peppers over the years. What a difference going with a in ground garden, no rot on the tomatoes and big difference in yield with everything.  I had a waste high raised bed made out of cedar for 5 years or so but the bottom was rotting out so it had to go, not too mention the dogs liked  laying under it for shade which made me nervous as all get out. Our beans and cukes climb a trellis and tgat works great.

[LPS]

We've never planted green beans and we both love them.  Gonna do pole beans so they climb a trellis thing too.

 

[Bobberineyes]

Just made up 6   1/2 pint jars of jalapeno/serrano pepper jelly, at least one wont make it the day..

[mike89]

We've never planted green beans and we both love them.  Gonna do pole beans so they climb a trellis thing too.

don't forget yellow beans too!!! 

[KEN W]

We've never planted green beans and we both love them.  Gonna do pole beans so they climb a trellis thing too.

I always plant beans in a wide row, 3 feet wide. Wide enough to reach the middle from both sides. Scatter the beans in the row. Pull the soil on top from both sides with a hoe. And tamp them down. You get A LOT more veggies and less walking rows.

Also plant onions is a wide row 3 feet wide 5 to 6 inches apart.

Beets and carrots in a wide row. 3 rows 6-8 inches apart. Learned wide row gardening years ago from the National Gardening Association TV shows.

[LPS]

Would be fun to plant beets too.  Last year I went to the Sat morn farmers market here and the women were almost fighting over the beets.  That made me want some.  But they bought them all.  So by a wide row you mean a 4' long row versus a 2' long row?  My cool as heck trellis is 4" squares.  It is steel but it is all white plastic coated.  May be a clothing display thing.  It is 4' x 3'.  I thought I would put the 4' side on the ground so would have 4' of beans.  Do I plant one row of them near the trellis? 

[mike89]

no I think Ken is saying the row it self is that wide...  and then how long is it???  interesting...

[HD]

We've never planted green beans and we both love them.  Gonna do pole beans so they climb a trellis thing too.

I always plant beans in a wide row, 3 feet wide. Wide enough to reach the middle from both sides. Scatter the beans in the row. Pull the soil on top from both sides with a hoe. And tamp them down. You get A LOT more veggies and less walking rows.

Also plant onions is a wide row 3 feet wide 5 to 6 inches apart.

Beets and carrots in a wide row. 3 rows 6-8 inches apart. Learned wide row gardening years ago from the National Gardening Association TV shows.

That's good information! I use that in my raised gardens, and works well!

[KEN W]

The row is 3 feet wide and as long as you have seeds for. Just start scattering them in the row until you have all the seeds on the ground. Leave an aisle on each side to walk on.When ready to pick.....kneel down on both sides.

Peas can be planted this way also. But I prefer putting in a 3 ft. high page fence. Anchoring in place with electric fence posts. Planting peas 6-8 inches wide on both sides of the fence. Pull the dirt up on both sides from the walkway to cover then.

[LPS]

Of our 4 cuke plants we have eaten almost all of them.  I think 4 weren't very good so we threw them.  Last night I picked 4 that were only half the size of the normal ones.  The leaves on our plants are all yellow and brittle.  They know fall is here. 

[Dotch]

The cuke plants here have been prolific altho they may slow down with the cooler temps. We've given several grocery bags of cukes away. They like to run and hide a cucumber or two under other the plants. Find those 3' - 4' diameter jobbies every once in a while. Once they get hard seeds in them they're sheep feed. Can buy cukes like that in the grocery store. Ick! The sheep are most appreciative. 

[mike89]

just heard of this, russian dill pickles...  interesting..

[LPS]

I throw them in the pasture and even if the horses are near me when I throw them in their just not interested.  I would think they would like them being so nice and juicy.  OK I will bite Mike what is a Russian Dill Pickle?

[HD]

just heard of this, russian dill pickles...  interesting..

I've been making these for years. It's what I do with mine every year.

[LPS]

Well, what are they? 

[HD]

Well, what are they?

If I tell you, I'd have to....ahhh.... you know the rest... 
I can post it if you want me to...

[LPS]

    It's that good huh? 

[HD]

It is pretty darn good.....it's a next day eat pickle, but can be stored up to a year in cold storage. Most of the time they are eaten before the year is up.....These are heated only enough to seal the jar.

[delcecchi]

I got to harvest my first tomato today.  It's a biggie.  This is how successful my gardening is this year.

:happy1:maybe you should bury some fish guts................oh wait  what was i thinking!!!!!!!!

And what exactly are fish guts???  Do they come with fish???  How does one catch those fish????????

Glenn probably not the guy to ask...

[mike89]

It is pretty darn good.....it's a next day eat pickle, but can be stored up to a year in cold storage. Most of the time they are eaten before the year is up.....These are heated only enough to seal the jar.

wished I would have know that, I would have ya let me try some...  some body up this way has them for $6.00 a quart...  just never heard of them before...  might have to try them... 

[KEN W]

OK.....we all will bite....What are Russian pickles.

 

[LPS]

I think when Putin gets your email you are a pickle!!   

[mike89]

I googled it and it's the way they are made..