Gardening 2022

[stocknup]

That's a big operation.

We are going to expand our planting this season in response to the overall food shortages and predictions .
Already have peas, carrots , last fall garlic plantings , and about 600 onions in the ground , Planting potatoes tomorrow .
We are re-establishing our Asparagus bed , so no cutting on it this year .

 

[bwframe]

 

[2in1evtime]

Put out a couple hundred multi=colored beet seeds out today, planted lettuce and radish seeds too. Wanted tp put out onions but wife said not yet she wasn't ready???? worked up soil in several raised beds today also, in 2 weeks going to make a 2nd planting of radishes, beets and lettuce and hopefully have all the spring cabbage out too. oh and the onions that my wife said not to plant yet

 

[stocknup]

Put out a couple hundred multi=colored beet seeds out today, planted lettuce and radish seeds too. Wanted tp put out onions but wife said not yet she wasn't ready???? worked up soil in several raised beds today also, in 2 weeks going to make a 2nd planting of radishes, beets and lettuce and hopefully have all the spring cabbage out too. oh and the onions that my wife said not to plant yet

Get them onions out..................

 

[snapping turtle]

Season has started. Last year I worked so much it did not get going.
this year we are going but not yet going full out. I have canned green beans from covid 19 2020 still canned. I did uncover the strawberries in rhubarb and of course a good weeding is needed. Last year the deer feasted on the young strawberries. Last fall they paid the price.

Mainly going to get the garden back into shape for future years this year but it is a large one. 40 by 60. Plus three strawberry beds and my wife’s herb garden. Plan is to start a second garden of about 40 by sixty for future years. Onion plants ready. Mom said she has planted i host of seedlings of all varieties but we shall she what is valid to plant. Lots of fresh compost to spread. Going to do the tomatoes hanging style again as they don’t get blossom rot like in the cages. Have a new load of horse dug and straw to start the compost piles off right again. The coffee grounds eggs shells and the like brought in a skunk but he or she just got dispatched tonight. Not much smell so a nice hit to the head did very well. Not a bad shot from 50 feet to back of skunk head.

every year I plant during may. Every weekend. Just have this week to till up and get ready so I am behind. Wife does not like the cardboard as weed prevention so I have to weed much more than I like. I don’t mind the cardboard but the queen said no.

corn for me requires 50-0-0 fertilizer or chicken poop and it looks like no corn is getting planted this year. To much space required for 6 inch cobs.

 

[bwframe]

I tidied up the strawberries over the last few days. Got a reminder that I really struggle growing Ozark Beauty plants. I do OK with the rest (always learning,) but can't seem to get the Ozarks to take off, like those surrounding them.

You folks have and berry varieties that you just struggle with?


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[bwframe]

Can't help but notice the wife problem trend, hmmm....

 

[spencer rifle]

Peas, lettuce and onions in. Seeds started for tomatoes, beans, spinach and marigolds. Asparagus just emerging. Rhubarb coming along nicely. Tilled most of the garden and invited the chickens in to clean up.

 

[stocknup]

Yesterdays work .....Got my remaining raised beds ready ( 4 more in the background too )
Also did my ground beds ( They are more like raised beds ,on the ground with drain trenches between them )
There are 14 total that are 12` -14` long x about 30" wide .

 

[Magyars]

 

[Leadeye]

I tidied up the strawberries over the last few days. Got a reminder that I really struggle growing Ozark Beauty plants. I do OK with the rest (always learning,) but can't seem to get the Ozarks to take off, like those surrounding them.

You folks have and berry varieties that you just struggle with?


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I'll speak to the gardener, she has had pretty good luck with strawberries and I know she has different variety's.

 

[snapping turtle]

The best strawberry plants I ever grew were called G3 plants. I was told they were government plant 3. Big sweet berries like we all want picture perfect strawberries. Purchased at a greenhouse east of Columbus Indiana around St road 9

My grandfather taught me about strawberries and he had 3 or four gardens each year till he passed on.

First year pick blooms and all runners not many strawberries first year if any at all.

Second year is your peak year of larger berries once again pick off the runners and plant them as first years if they are the best looking of the runners.

Third year is the most berries you will get and the most fruit you wil get. You don’t have to worry about the runners now as they are dead men walking. These runners are normally smaller than the second year plants

Fourth year the berries are small pick them and then when berry season is done he sprayed them with weed killer ( I cover them with a heavy dark colored rug now. )and till the bed and amended the soil with compost and better dirt. Then the second year runners were transplanted into the bed making them a first year bed.

I bet the man had 20 strawberry beds. He sold them at the retirement homes and at several places around town. He sold sweet corn potatoes and green pepper and cucumbers also.

Do what you want I know the first year they creep the second year they leap the third year they get to thick and the fourth year they get to go to a never ending sleep.

 

[churchmouse]

Question......

My daughter wants to grow some peppers for flavor not heat.
What to choose. I have never done peppers before.
Again...Flavor.

 

[stocknup]

Question......

My daughter wants to grow some peppers for flavor not heat.
What to choose. I have never done peppers before.
Again...Flavor.

We grow a lot of peppers , all for different reasons ....... Some great ones just for eating are " Lunchbox Peppers " They are a sweet variety and multi colored . Very flavorful .
Also Anaheim peppers .........A chili variety but very mild ( to me at least )
I`m sure more will chime in with their favorites .......

 

[Jaybird1980]

We grow a lot of peppers , all for different reasons ....... Some great ones just for eating are " Lunchbox Peppers " They are a sweet variety and multi colored . Very flavorful .
Also Anaheim peppers .........A chili variety but very mild ( to me at least )
I`m sure more will chime in with their favorites .......

Question......

My daughter wants to grow some peppers for flavor not heat.
What to choose. I have never done peppers before.
Again...Flavor.

I agree the lunch box peppers are great, my son's favorite. Couldn't find any last year so we had candy cane and they were good also. Pablanos are our not hot chili pepper choice over the Anaheim.

I can't grow bell peppers for crap, but can grow the others just fine.

 

[Leadeye]

We have only grown bell peppers. All start in the greenhouse and a few over winter there. Only issue was Anthracnose, a fungal rot and that's controlled with fungicide. Strangely the best flavor came from the ones that moved into the greenhouse during the winter.

 

[snapping turtle]

Peppers rainbow bells from park seeds.
Bell peppers but there is a white one that is perfectly sweet no green taste at all.
I think the seed pack has purple orange red yellow chocolate green white and lavender.

I brought one of the white ones in the house over two winters before I killed it off by placement next to a heater vent.
I lost the second white the first winter.
Yes you can overwinter bell peppers

Hungarian peppers are normally considered flavorful without the heat.

Keep hot peppers and sweet flavorful peppers far away for each other as they can cross with each other and you will get hotter sweets and sweeter hits. Bees doing the work

 

[hooky]

We grow a lot of peppers , all for different reasons ....... Some great ones just for eating are " Lunchbox Peppers " They are a sweet variety and multi colored . Very flavorful .
Also Anaheim peppers .........A chili variety but very mild ( to me at least )
I`m sure more will chime in with their favorites .......

+1 on Anaheims

Poblanos are really flavorful too without much, if any, heat. My brother grows shishito peppers, but you'll get the occasional hot one. No rhyme or reason and you can't tell until you chomp down. They're delicious though.

 

[wcd]

ok at 1k for fertilizer anyone trying to make due with out it and find an alternative?

Our goat pen will make enough for our usual spot, but this year we are planning on an additional two acres.

We are going to till areas that in the past do not get a lot of leaves, brush debris etc. I have a cattle farmer friend that is more than happy to bring a few dump truck loads over. So I am wondering how much I would need to cut it to get the right mix? I am perhaps thinking of spreading it in rows tilling it and repeating?

Thoughts?

 

[stocknup]

ok at 1k for fertilizer anyone trying to make due with out it and find an alternative?

Our goat pen will make enough for our usual spot, but this year we are planning on an additional two acres.

We are going to till areas that in the past do not get a lot of leaves, brush debris etc. I have a cattle farmer friend that is more than happy to bring a few dump truck loads over. So I am wondering how much I would need to cut it to get the right mix? I am perhaps thinking of spreading it in rows tilling it and repeating?

Thoughts?

My son has over 50 rabbits , get all my manure from him ............You can apply it to your plants or soil at anytime without fear of burning or over fertilizing , I use it on almost all my plants and fruit trees .

Here are a few facts about rabbit manure:

• Rabbit manure has four times more nutrients than cow or horse manure and is twice as rich as chicken manure. Cow, horse and chicken manure are considered “hot” and need to be composted (well-rotted) to use as fertilizers.
• One of the best things about rabbit manure is it doesn’t need to be composted.
• Rabbit manure is organic matter and improves poor soil structure, drainage and moisture retention.
• It improves the life cycle of microorganisms in the soil.
• Worms love rabbit manure.
• It is not as smelly as other manures and is easy to handle.
• One doe and her offspring can produce a ton of manure in one year. That’s a lot of bunny honey.
• Rabbit manure is packed with nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, minerals and micronutrients.
• It contains beneficial trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, boron, zinc, manganese, sulfur, copper and cobalt, just to name a few.
• Nitrogen (N). Rabbit manure is higher in nitrogen than sheep, goat, chicken, cow or horse manure. Plants need nitrogen to produce strong green growth.
• Phosphorus (P). Rabbit manure is also higher in phosphorus than the other manures. It helps with the transformation of solar energy to chemical energy. Phosphorus also helps plants to withstand stress and contributes to more and bigger blossoms, and is great for root growth.
• Potassium (K). Potassium helps with fruit quality and reducing disease; plants will not grow without it.