Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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calldoctoday said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
We have got ours in with about 4 rows of green beans, a few maters, lots of peppers, about a half row of chard, maybe 6 hills each of Candy Lope, Squarsh, & Cucumbers, plenty of onions, a few more carrots & radishes. We are still plucking Kale, Collards, & Cabages too & will plant a few okra soon too. I am going to try some Red Okra again. Has any of you all tried any of that Dr. JimZ Chicken Soup for the Soil?
What is the Dr. JimZ chicken soup?
GWG8541 It is apparently an organic, mineral laden fertilizer of sorts that The Old Farmer’s Almanac promotes quite a bit. You might try doing a search for it & see what comes up.
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RON PARRISH if you don’t stay on top of them they will get bigger. Looks like you are getting a good flush. Enjoy.
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RON PARRISH Absolutely beautiful.
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Mixed up some potting soil, did some transplanting and started 2 containers of my cold hardy seeds.
Deepwoodsbutcher Looks like you are off to a great start.
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Okay, so, looks like I’m gonna have to get involved in this post a little. We’ve got blueberries, strawberries, zucchini, basil, carrots, sugar snap peas, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, bell peppers, and maybe a few other things I’ve forgotten.Shout out to Brett Walton for letting me use his tiller!
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Okay, so, looks like I’m gonna have to get involved in this post a little. We’ve got blueberries, strawberries, zucchini, basil, carrots, sugar snap peas, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, bell peppers, and maybe a few other things I’ve forgotten.Shout out to Brett Walton for letting me use his tiller!
Jonathon That looks real good. Believe it or not, I am still hand forking this 30 x 40 plot since coming here 20 years ago after having to get rid of my tractor with the beast tiller on it from Italy. I know those plots will do you right.
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Okay, so, looks like I’m gonna have to get involved in this post a little. We’ve got blueberries, strawberries, zucchini, basil, carrots, sugar snap peas, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, bell peppers, and maybe a few other things I’ve forgotten.Shout out to Brett Walton for letting me use his tiller!
Jonathon enjoy the garden, it will provide not only food but a needed distraction.
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Okay, so, looks like I’m gonna have to get involved in this post a little. We’ve got blueberries, strawberries, zucchini, basil, carrots, sugar snap peas, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, bell peppers, and maybe a few other things I’ve forgotten.Shout out to Brett Walton for letting me use his tiller!
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Okay, so, looks like I’m gonna have to get involved in this post a little. We’ve got blueberries, strawberries, zucchini, basil, carrots, sugar snap peas, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, bell peppers, and maybe a few other things I’ve forgotten.Shout out to Brett Walton for letting me use his tiller!
Jonathon No tomatoes? No peppers? Yellow Squash? Did you construct a raised garden like I had built?
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Okay, so, looks like I’m gonna have to get involved in this post a little. We’ve got blueberries, strawberries, zucchini, basil, carrots, sugar snap peas, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, bell peppers, and maybe a few other things I’ve forgotten.Shout out to Brett Walton for letting me use his tiller!
Jonathon You need to get horse watering troughs for planters above ground. No bending over, they retain water and heat, hardly have to weed. I am converting most of my raised beds to these. All I have to do is weed wack or spray around them.
By the way this was last summer, no planting until next week when the frost danger should be done here. -
Jonathon You need to get horse watering troughs for planters above ground. No bending over, they retain water and heat, hardly have to weed. I am converting most of my raised beds to these. All I have to do is weed wack or spray around them.
By the way this was last summer, no planting until next week when the frost danger should be done here.johnsbrewhouse Wow, those look great! I have been thinking of some ideas for that for several years to convert from the normal beds/row. I was going to use Hog pen or coral panels with chicken wire & straw. Have some trees I could cut to initially fill the bottoms. Might help keep the chickens & critters out too & definitely the bending & weeding, especially since we still hand fork. Just have not gotten around to it yet. Yours look absolutely great though.
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Jonathon You need to get horse watering troughs for planters above ground. No bending over, they retain water and heat, hardly have to weed. I am converting most of my raised beds to these. All I have to do is weed wack or spray around them.
By the way this was last summer, no planting until next week when the frost danger should be done here.johnsbrewhouse do you make drain holes in the bottom, or remove the bottom?
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Jonathon You need to get horse watering troughs for planters above ground. No bending over, they retain water and heat, hardly have to weed. I am converting most of my raised beds to these. All I have to do is weed wack or spray around them.
By the way this was last summer, no planting until next week when the frost danger should be done here.johnsbrewhouse Saaaweettttt! Nice plan.
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johnsbrewhouse do you make drain holes in the bottom, or remove the bottom?
GWG8541 The Rubbermaid’s have a threaded drain built in. I put landscape fabric in the bottom to cover the drain port, then added 4 inches of pea gravel, then another layer of landscape fabric, then the soil, and compost on top of that. They sat out all winter here in the NW and have never filled with water. I keep the cap on the drain slightly cracked.
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GWG8541 your plants 🪴 are looking great
. I bet you can’t wait to get them in the ground. Good luck. I got pretty much all of mine planted. Just ready for the rest of it to come up. 
cdavis Nice garden. You’re way ahead of me. Did plant parsnips and carrots but still too cold for anything else.
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GWG8541 The Rubbermaid’s have a threaded drain built in. I put landscape fabric in the bottom to cover the drain port, then added 4 inches of pea gravel, then another layer of landscape fabric, then the soil, and compost on top of that. They sat out all winter here in the NW and have never filled with water. I keep the cap on the drain slightly cracked.
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Folks, I need some gopher-proof raised bed idea help. So far johnsbrewhouse horse trough looks great, any other ideas?
Gophers invaded my yard and totally destroyed it, went from nice grass to the surface of the moon. They ate all the roots and chewed all my irrigation lines, which have to work here un AZ. I had to turn off yard sprinklers and rerun all drip lines aboveground due to daily chew-leaks. I tried traps and kill stake traps, didn’t work. Just paid a guy $700 to come for 4 days and run carbon monoxide into their mounds, over 150 new or old mounds now. I think that worked. But I can’t plant in the ground anymore, so need ideas on easy good gopher proof raised planters. Thx!
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Gopher proof raised beds? Raised bed with a lot of stone and concrete. They, as you know will tunnel everything. I’m building new raised beds now. Can someone tell me how to post a picture?
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Gopher proof raised beds? Raised bed with a lot of stone and concrete. They, as you know will tunnel everything. I’m building new raised beds now. Can someone tell me how to post a picture?
scottfletcher to post pictures :
Either click the white arrow in the blue box near the top of the screen
Or when replying click the icon all the way to the right
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. No matter how big or small, you just cant beat the food that comes out of them. Nice job
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