Re: The Garden Thread
[Re: HobbieTrapper]
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04/13/20 07:30 PM
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Our garlic is coming up nicely.
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Re: The Garden Thread
[Re: HobbieTrapper]
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04/14/20 11:21 AM
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Have the 1st planting of potatoes and onions in on Good Friday (tradition only). We had the April blizzard as usual on Easter Sunday but the tubers will do ok even with these 20 degree nights as the ground temp is in the 40's. I use cover crops and and NO-TILL plant my 2 gardens of 1.75 acres and have for 8 years. Fertilize with my sweet clover/oats or rye cover crop with minimum of synthetic N3 for the sweet corn. Tomatoes, peppers, beans, pumpkins, squash and peas get very little if any inorganic fertilizer, Have tried all types/systems of gardening, from solid tillage to single straw bales, compost, mulch etc.etc. and finally realized that (along with the therapy) the soil, weed suppression, energy savings, and costs are better served with a No-Till -Cover Crop scheme for this country. Research is proving that on the larger scale feed grain farms also. Herbicide is also a component but not as much as "huggers" would have you believe so until someone comes up with a better system this is what I am using. P.S. had to finally kill the strawberry patch as they had become a WEED with the No-Till and I could not keep up with them! ! ! !
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Re: The Garden Thread
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04/14/20 08:39 PM
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So when the garden starts to mature you better be guarding It with your guns. People with out funds for food are going to harvest your goods If your not careful. They had better watch it! I eat whatever my garden produces!
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Re: The Garden Thread
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04/15/20 09:41 AM
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I put a load of manure on the garden last week. Need to till it in soon.
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Re: The Garden Thread
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04/24/20 10:51 AM
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What is your alls favorite Tomato"s?
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Re: The Garden Thread
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04/24/20 11:38 AM
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So it’s been a while since I planted taters. From what I remembah when I was a kid....my old man use to leave some spuds to grow out a bunch of eyes....then cut the eyes off the spuds and plant those eyes....Am I on the right track ?
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Re: The Garden Thread
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04/24/20 02:36 PM
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Patrice, what your method for growing garlic? Mine never does that well.
The wife and I put our garden in this past weekend. 36 bell peppers, 30 tomatoes, onions, squash, pickle bush cucumbers, beets, zucchini, & cauliflower. Thinking of adding some watermelons and muskmelons too.
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