Well, I'm running late. Last year it took two days to get all the seeds planted. This year it took a week. It's amazing how much this HOCM has taken out of me.
I sure hope I'll be able to keep up with the garden this year.
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Well, I'm running late. Last year it took two days to get all the seeds planted. This year it took a week. It's amazing how much this HOCM has taken out of me.
I sure hope I'll be able to keep up with the garden this year.
Looking good I just got mine tilled up today. Planted one row of onions. Plant green beans tomorrow.
^^^ Man, we still have 2 foot of frost in the ground here. Starting a garden is still aways down the road for us. Have fun and good luck.
Weird, cold weather delayed me several weeks, but we have quite a bit coming up. Interesting pots, never thought of cans.
Very nice! Can't wait to get going on mine.
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Excellent work. Mine is coming to an end. Had an amazing bean season. Spuds are just OK. Carrot good. First year I've done well with cabbage and caulis.
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I got potatoes and onions already up and a couple dozen cabbage plants in the garden
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Seems the PERMA FROST measures over 30" as of yesterday. No sliding into home base for a few more weeks yet.
Planting is still a loooong way off.
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I like your use of materials for starting seeds. Here's an idea for you. The cardboard rolls from toilet paper and paper towels can be cut to length and set in a tray. They make dandy little substitutes for peat pots.
I do most of my gardening in big pots and 5 gal buckets. A couple years ago the wife and kids got me a 6' by 8' portable green house. I can get about 35 buckets planted and started in there along with a set of shelves to hold a few trays of seedlings. A milk house heater that I bought at a yard sale for $5 gives all the heat I need in case it gets real nasty. It's pretty slick. The wife and I can set it up in about 30 minutes. I'll have to take some pictures when we set it up in a week or two.
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I just put seeds in dirt yesterday. Still snowing here, and below freezing temps are forecast yet. It is usually Mother's Day weekend before you can plant outside here, and you can still have frost for another month.
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Nice! I have garlic up in several beds. Music garlic, Vietnamese striped garlic (oh man, this stuff smells up the WHOLE house!! Awesome to cook with!) and some unknown soft neck variety that is hot as jalapeno peppers!
Coming this week, Hatch Green Chile seeds, Purple Bell pepper seeds, Orange Yummy sweet pepper seeds, and Aleppo (a sweet pepper from northern Syria which is all the rage lately, and hard to get because of the war) seeds.
Music garlic:
With the Winter we had, and the lack of Spring to date..............I should have my garden in by September.
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I've still got avoer 6 inches of snow on the ground with over a foot in places. No gardening here for a while yet.
Thank you all for the compliments. The can idea came about as a cheap way to start seeds. I use a band saw to chop the tops and cut slits in the bottom. Then I use a funnel wrapped inside and out to debur the can tops - just like a deburring tool used on case mouths after trimming.
That a really good idea! Thanks. Yes, please post pictures. It's always great to see other people's projects.Originally Posted by DHurtig
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Nice! I have garlic up in several beds. Music garlic, Vietnamese striped garlic (oh man, this stuff smells up the WHOLE house!! Awesome to cook with!) and some unknown soft neck variety that is hot as jalapeno peppers!
Coming this week, Hatch Green Chile seeds, Purple Bell pepper seeds, Orange Yummy sweet pepper seeds, and Aleppo (a sweet pepper from northern Syria which is all the rage lately, and hard to get because of the war) seeds.
Music garlic:
Very cool. What's the purpose of the screen over your bed?
We have hordes of squirrels here and the little b*stards dig everywhere. Some of my soil has composted horse manure in it and they will dig and dig and dig looking for one tiny morsel of grain the horse might have passed through.. I educate them with a pellet rifle but I can't be watching the yard the whole time so the netting works very well.
Here's a pic of the larger enclosed beds, we grow tomatoes and strawberries in the raised beds in the netting, keeps the squirrels and birds off them too. The long bed in the front, hard to see but there is about a foot and a half of thin black 1/2" wildlife netting strung up loosely around the garlic, if it's loose and feels kinda rickety they won't climb on it.
Black raspberries, blackberries, blueberries? Yup, they get a net enclosure built around them too, if you don't you won't get ONE single berry because of the birds.. No net = 100% predation.
Last edited by DougGuy; 03-20-2014 at 09:35 PM.
May have to steal your netting idea to deal with grasshoppers. What they didn't eat last year they defecated on. Due to that and medical issues I abandoned my garden last year, haven't decided about this year yet. This thread is helping me get interested, tho. Thanks!
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Go for it! That stuff I got at Lowe's, it comes in a roll 8' x 50' I think and it's easy to work with and strong. I used salt treated 2x2 for framing, and a stapler to attach the netting, then came back and screwed salt treated 1x2 to the 2x2 to sandwich and contain the netting. It's been up 3yrs now, and made it through snow, ice, high winds, it needs tightening up some but it has served quite well. Squirrels will decimate a good tomato crop, and when it gets hot and dry, they will bite a quarter sized piece out of every green tomato you have. The enclosure stops them, stops the birds, still lets the bees in, breaks up the heaviest rains...
Apologies to L1A1Rocker, didn't mean to steer your thread..
No apologies needed. This is good information. Here's my "cage" wrapped in 8' of welded wire and encased in bird netting. Great minds must think alike. I've got one section that's 12' tall.
You can see, some of the plants get pretty close to the ceiling.
I cannot find the pics of the tomato plants over 10' high. But they do get there. Oh there's one. Last pic, just to the left of the bean trelis. That's a tomato plant. Further over to the left are some tomato cage extensions that the plants have not grown over yet - but they do.
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