The Garden is IN! What's in yours?

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RaisingArizonainNH

Discussion Starter · Jun 6, 2011

<p><span style="font-size:16px;"> <span style="color:#2f4f4f;">I finally got the time, and the weather to plant my garden this weekend! I headed out Saturday to our local farmstand/ plant stand .. and got some great veggies and herbs. I have 4 kinds of tomatoes in,2 kinds of cabbage, lettuces, zuchs and 2 kinds of cukes. I already had the bean and peas planted and they are on the way. I also got parsley, basil and golden sage to add to my little herb patch. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:16px;">   My garden was tilled and I added a nice layer of compost dirt to it. We had another notable crop of winter rocks in there too. DS may be 16 but he still enjoys splashing them into the pond.   I have covered most all the garden space with black plastic. ( Mine is cheap.. water pipe covers that I slice up the side - 2lengths covers the whole place. I do SO love not having to worry about weeds.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:16px;">     Who has a garden ? What's in it ? I may need help with the peas.. I have the base for an old yard windmill thing for them to climb.. but I think I need to put some strings down and around it to let them wrap on ????   I keep thinking the beans need to climb .. but I have bush beans.. so they shouldn't need a trellis .. or do they? I'll try to post pictures soon.</span></span></p>
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Buxtehude

· #21 · Jun 10, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>markalan</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/74111/the-garden-is-in-what-s-in-yours#post_2002322"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>I didn't have time to put in a big garden this year, so I took some old garbage cans that had holes in the bottom, cut them in 1/2 and used them as planters - . Got a nice crop of tomatoes going, some strawberries, and just planted some red and yellow peppers</p>
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Now that's a clever idea.</p>
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<p>It's amazing what you can do with old garbage cans.<br>
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RaisingArizonainNH

Discussion Starter · #22 · Jun 11, 2011

<p>.Mine isn't in a garage. I have it out behind my barn, It does not have the aeration holes on the side, which I will add ( good idea!) I have had mice in the\re occasionally and the neighbors chickens come over and clean up any stuff that escapes via the bottom door.</p>
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wherestheportojohn

· #23 · Jun 11, 2011

<p>we use a huge batch tumbler/composter at the farm; but at home, I just have the 'black box' type out under my pine trees (yes, raccoons 'n' squirrels heart ripping off the little doors to get at the festering goodness)</p>
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<p>it gets plenty hot under there in the summer; but I still use the compost starter that you sprinkle on top/soak/toss to get it up and going once a week for a couple weeks this time of year</p>
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<p>Do any of you have rain barrels? I use it for the flower beds & the bird bath<span style="display:none;"> .</span></p>
<p>This is the third season for ours, and I LOVE IT!</p>
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<p> ...except when there's a drought... <span id="user_yui_3_3_0_8_130775427153113"><img alt="rolleyes.gif" id="user_yui_3_3_0_8_130775427153112" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/rolleyes.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;"></span></p>
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<p>no, this isn't ours....just wanted to show you the model similar to ours:</p>
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<p><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/88929/width/1000/height/800/flags/" target="_blank"><img alt="rain-Barrels.jpg" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="17069" data-type="61" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/17069/width/300/height/299" style="; width: 300px; height: 299px"></a></p>

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Tech Tee

· #24 · Jun 11, 2011

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<p>Do any of you have rain barrels?</p>
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Although I like this idea, around here (New Jersey), mosquitoes are really a bad thing. And, ANY standing water, they will go after.<br><br>
Also, it hasn't really rained in two weeks either.

RaisingArizonainNH

Discussion Starter · #25 · Jun 12, 2011

<p> We don't usually need a rain barrel. ... in pic above you can see the pond we have about 4 feet from the garden. It does dry out pretty well some years, but most years I can just pull a bucket full when needed if the well is low.</p>

4boysmom

· #26 · Jun 12, 2011

<p>With mosquitoes in rain barrels--my biology teacher used to keep fish in his rain barrel. He had another teacher get some small blue gills. I suppose any fish would do, such as feeders from the pest store.</p>
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<p>Drilling holes in rubbermaid cans isn't that hard. We have several cans for yard waste. No, we don't compost. Sometime I'll get to that. I was forever leaving the lids off to cut down on stink, then they would fill with rain water. Using a hand drill, I put several smallish holes in the bottom.</p>
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<p>I was gone for a couple of days and I swear my tomato plants doubled in size! As did the weeds in the back garden...</p>

wherestheportojohn

· #27 · Jun 17, 2011

<p>I *finally* remembered to haul my camera to the farm today....took pix of gardens, the pond, and the storm damage (holy schlitz, we lost some wonderful trees)</p>
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<p>"lower" garden has sweetcorn, onions, squash, taters, punkins</p>
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wherestheportojohn

· #28 · Jun 17, 2011

<p>upper garden (took several pictures to be able to include it all) has raised beds with beets, lettuces, peppers, basil, parsley, then there are roma/slicing/grape 'maters. the spring garden has string beans, melons, broccoli, cauliflower, zukes, cukes, sugar snap peas.</p>
<p>There are sunflowers growing along the garden fence line.</p>
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wherestheportojohn

· #29 · Jun 17, 2011

<p><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/89236/width/1000/height/800/flags/" target="_blank"><img alt="storm damage and gardens 2011 032.jpg" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="17108" data-type="61" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/17108/width/667/height/500" style="; width: 667px; height: 500px"></a></p>
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willrun4chocolate

· #30 · Jun 17, 2011

<p>Peas, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, raspberries and rhubarb. Oh and a pumpkin plant.</p>

RaisingArizonainNH

Discussion Starter · #31 · Jun 17, 2011

<p> Porty - you have a little farm going there! Nice gardens... but I don't envy you having to weed them!</p>

markalan

· #32 · Jun 17, 2011

<p>Very important when using planters - you have to remember to water!!!! - I lost my Strawberries, and 1 pepper plant - surprisingly my tomatoes are doing great</p>

wherestheportojohn

· #33 · Jun 18, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>RaisingArizonainNH</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/74111/the-garden-is-in-what-s-in-yours/25#post_2003716"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p> Porty - you have a little farm going there! Nice gardens... but I don't envy you having to weed them!</p>
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I know what you meant; but in truth, we actually DO have a farm. 170 acres, to be exact. Mom rents out the fields to a local dairy farmer, who plants alfalfa and feed corn. The rest is wooded, meadows, ponds, blah blah.</p>
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<p>and as for weeding the gardens, hand weeding + the Mantis makes work less of a torture.</p>
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<p>All gardeners need one of these toys....they are da bomb...</p>
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<p><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/89309/width/1000/height/800/flags/" target="_blank"><img alt="Mantis%207225-15-02%202-Cycle%20Gas%20Powered%20Tiller%20Cultivator%20with%20Border%20Edger%20and%20Kickstand%20CARB%20Compliant.jpg" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="17116" data-type="61" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/17116/width/280/height/280" style="; width: 280px; height: 280px"></a></p>
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RaisingArizonainNH

Discussion Starter · #34 · Jun 18, 2011

<p> It IS a farm! Okay...</p>
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<p> And I really wanted a Mantis.. but cannot justify the expense for such a small plot .. I do have a Weasel though= sort of the low tech, manual version of that.</p>
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<p> Everything is growing nicely- can't wait to start harvesting- Lettuce will be first as it is almost ready now. ..</p>

Floridaboiler

· #35 · Jun 18, 2011

<p>You guys have such nice gardens!</p>
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RaisingArizonainNH

Discussion Starter · #36 · Jun 19, 2011

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I'll remember you when all my tomatoes are coming ripe at once !!! - I think I planted too many... I wonder how they would ship ? <span id="user_yui_3_3_0_8_130851142787515"><img alt="surprised.gif" id="user_yui_3_3_0_8_130851142787514" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/surprised.gif" style="width:15px;height:15px;"></span><br>
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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Floridaboiler</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/74111/the-garden-is-in-what-s-in-yours/25#post_2003894"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>You guys have such nice gardens!</p>
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Tech Tee

· #37 · Jun 19, 2011

I will know this year, whether I planted too many (8 plants), and whether planting them at the same time was a bad idea. Although, they're all indeterminate, so, I guess the time I planted them doesn't matter that much. But, I guess if I had planted some a month later, I could still have them in October...not sure. I plan on a second planting of broccoli and lettuce, if I don't get too bored by it all when August rolls around.<br><br>
Today, I noticed that a few of my pepper plants have holes in the leaves. Didn't see anything on them that would indicate anything, but, just on a whim I checked out the underside of the leaves on the tomato plants, and there's some type of eggs there.<br><br>
So, I just got back from the local big-box home store with some insecticidal soap. Wish me luck.<br><br>

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