It's Spring! what's going on in the garden.

[pulsevape]

Hey it's time to be planting! so let's start a gardening thread pictures would be great! So what are you doing in the garden and what ya got planned for the season.
I'm weeding but got some potatoes and gladiolas planted the garlic went through the winter and is looking good .I planted a new blackberry a year back and this spring the tihng is huge looking forward to blackberry pie and blackberry ice cream.California poppies are blooming everywhere.

 

[mammado]

Well it's summer now and my garden us doing great. Tomatos and squash are doing well my broccoli on the other hand had a run in with my daughters goat. That little stinker ate it all. She's lucky I love her. I think my chickens are eyeballing my squash. I'm going to have to do something to keep them out of there. Anyone else garden and have farm animals.

 

[Whiskey]

Can't grow anything until I get these deer off the property, they eat everything in sight, grills calling for tenderloins.

 

[mammado]

I haven't had a problem with deer thus year. Last year they ate 100 bulbs I planted. I was not a happy camper. I'm not sure where they've gone but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth

 

[pulsevape]

just harvested the potatoes they did real good..made about half a gallon of homemade blackberry ice cream from my blackberry bush. tomatoes are doing good they need to get red..gladiolas did great, fennel bulb is real good...squash is pumping out... cucumbers have done real good....beans are little dissapointing, so I planted another crop...peppers have lots of fruit....and I just got a bale of alfalfa to start making compost for next year, and this fall's garlic crop.

 

[mammado]

I have a tip for making compost. Step one take bale of alfalfa put it in to the front end of a goat.
Step two gather the resulting droppings from the back end of said goat.
Step three spread on garden
No wait time it comes our almost as fast.as it goes in.

 

[pulsevape]

I have a tip for making compost. Step one take bale of alfalfa put it in to the front end of a goat.
Step two gather the resulting droppings from the back end of said goat.
Step three spread on garden
No wait time it comes our almost as fast.as it goes in.

after reading what they did to your garden I think I'll pass on the goats.

 

[mammado]

I'm jealous my potatoes did nothing this year and slugs ate my beans

 

[mammado]

Yeah my daughter forgot to latch the gate. I'm just glad she didn't make it to my neighbors garden. Right now she loves the goats because of said compost. It could have gone horrible wrong

 

[Synphul]

Mary Mary quite contrary, my garden grows so slow lol. Got a late start on it with the funky weather, that and the local stores around here don't put small plants out til late. Have some tomatoes, bell peppers, a chili pepper plant, zucchini planted. Trying some brussel sprouts and broccoli this year also. Got some oregano but not sure what type it is. Doesn't smell or taste anything like oregano I've used in the past so trying some from seed. It's a hit or miss this year unfortunately.

Lmao @ mammado, yep, goats are a pia. My garden's fenced off with cattle panels and the bottom wrapped with dog wire. Hoping to keep the stray cats from using it as their personal litter box. Most of the goats have been staying out of it so far but have one that can clear a 4.5-5ft fence/gate no problem. So far so good.

 

[gingerbread]

I live in London, ain't got no garden.

 

[pulsevape]

Mary Mary quite contrary, my garden grows so slow lol. Got a late start on it with the funky weather, that and the local stores around here don't put small plants out til late. Have some tomatoes, bell peppers, a chili pepper plant, zucchini planted. Trying some brussel sprouts and broccoli this year also. Got some oregano but not sure what type it is. Doesn't smell or taste anything like oregano I've used in the past so trying some from seed. It's a hit or miss this year unfortunately.

Lmao @ mammado, yep, goats are a pia. My garden's fenced off with cattle panels and the bottom wrapped with dog wire. Hoping to keep the stray cats from using it as their personal litter box. Most of the goats have been staying out of it so far but have one that can clear a 4.5-5ft fence/gate no problem. So far so good.

alot of what you buy commerically as oregeno is mexicam marjom...fresh orgeno is wonderful it is not overpowering more subtle with a greener fresher tatse.where are you growing at. I'm in Oakland Ca....what variety of chili are you growing

 

[pulsevape]

Yeah my daughter forgot to latch the gate. I'm just glad she didn't make it to my neighbors garden. Right now she loves the goats because of said compost. It could have gone horrible wrong

never liked goats(the got demon eyes)...like their cheese...I 'd like to try sheep some day.

 

[pulsevape]

I'm jealous my potatoes did nothing this year and slugs ate my beans

I think I got bad seeds..I planted beans from another company and they are doing fine....next year I'm gonna really focus on trying to really get a bumper crop of potatoes.I do good with potatoies but I just know they could be better.

 

[mammado]

I was going to give up on potatoes . this is the third year with eh results . my herbs are doing good. They are spreading like crazy almost acting like ground cover. I bought a sad little lemon balm and it's probably 19 inches in diameter . ... Goats should be kidding any day now so we will have plenty of milk for cheese making butter ice cream etc. The less I have to go to the grocery store the better.

 

[Jimi]

For potatoes use bone meal boosts harvest and size.
Store produce is so full of poison

 

[pulsevape]

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For potatoes use bone meal boosts harvest and size.
Store produce is so full of poison

lots of compost, and I spary with kelp...this year I'm going to put bone meal and azomite and maybe some cottonseed meal in my compost pile.

 

[pulsevape]

For potatoes use bone meal boosts harvest and size.
Store produce is so full of poison

plus store produce is tasteless.

 

[Jimi]

I usually do real good with potatoes 12 to 16 a hill

 

[Synphul]

I'm in the midwest, trying to garden between alternating biblical downpours of rain and dry spells like the last couple days. 101 degrees today with around 50-60% humidity, yum. On the bright side when my juice runs out I just open the airflow and vape the humidity lol.

Have a couple of green bell pepper plants planted and the other pepper plant is a sandia chili, the kind they usually make ristras out of. I read the tag on the oregano, it just says 'hot spicy oregano' from bonnie plants. It's the only thing they had at wally world's nursery (go figure). I tasted some, it's funky. At least compared to the oregano I used to have. Don't remember what kind it was, just plain old oregano far as I can remember.

 

[pulsevape]

I'm in the midwest, trying to garden between alternating biblical downpours of rain and dry spells like the last couple days. 101 degrees today with around 50-60% humidity, yum. On the bright side when my juice runs out I just open the airflow and vape the humidity lol.

Have a couple of green bell pepper plants planted and the other pepper plant is a sandia chili, the kind they usually make ristras out of. I read the tag on the oregano, it just says 'hot spicy oregano' from bonnie plants. It's the only thing they had at wally world's nursery (go figure). I tasted some, it's funky. At least compared to the oregano I used to have. Don't remember what kind it was, just plain old oregano far as I can remember.

maybe it's greek oregeno....Sandia chili huh..I grew up in the shadow of the Sandia moutains those chiis are named after...if you like that type of chili, the new mexico chili, there's one called Baker's hot...that is pretty good. this year I'm growing a new mexico variety from espanola new mexico...

 

[Synphul]

When I was younger my family and I lived in Az, we used to get sandias out of Hatch, Nm that were pretty good. Haven't tried growing too many hot peppers here in the midwest yet but figured it's worth a shot. The local produce around here is pretty limited. Usually the savings on growing the bell peppers vs buying is enough to cover the cost of the garden and they're a lot bigger homegrown. Not to mention tastes better. Some of those dinky bell peppers in the store are hard to make stuffed peppers with.

Melons on the other hand I haven't had much luck with. Tried some a couple times a few years ago, would get a nice looking cantaloupe or watermelon. Before it was full sized and ripe it'd rot and die on the vine. Grew them on a hill, tried placing boards under them to keep them from sitting on the ground. They still rotted.

Haven't even attempted potatoes at home. In my teens I worked for a local farm that tried getting into potatoes one year, didn't pan out very well. Lost about 1/3 of them and along with harvesting we had to cull the bad ones and dispose of them. Damn that stunk. A rotten potato in a bag is bad enough, when you're hauling them out in front end loader, phew. I just leave it to the ppl in Idaho lmao, they seem to have a handle on it.

 

[pulsevape]

I wonder what causes your melons tor rot? I've never heard of that....I know fungus gets to melons pretty easily...what I do is I take a five gallon bucket and drill a series of tiny hole in it about 1 inch to 4 inches from the bottom then I bury about 6 inches of the bucket in the soil...then plant my melons and cucumbers next to the bucket....when I want to water my melons I just fill the bucket with water and it weeps out of the holes in the side of the bucket. into the soil at bout the level of the plants roots....this keeps water from evey touching the leaves of the plant, and fungus can't grow on them...but with all the summer rains you get it would be impossible to keep your plants leaves dry it must be a fungus hell///....I live in the SF bay area and we don't get really hot summers which is what melons require,but I've had pretty good luck by growing TRUE cantaloupes, not the muskmelons we call cantaloupe..most of them are french and only grow to the size a little larger than a softball,but they are much much more flavorfull than our muskmelons, and much sweeter, and they can handle the cooler weather....I dream about living someplace just a little warmer hell even twenty miles away.where it would be easier to grow things that need heat like tomatoes, chilis ,watermelons..I can grow them but they would do better with just another 10 or 15 degrees heat. when we have heat waves they don't last long as the hot air rises it creates a vaccum and it pulls cold air off the ocean, our costal current comes down from alaska so the water is cold.....that cold sea air hits the dry land and turns into fog.....and presto change-o the sun disappears.

Peppers sound like they would do ggod where you live, after all the pepper plant originated in the Amazon basin a hot humid place.although the chilis I grew up eating all came from dry hot climates....like Hatch....I have family that live about an hour away from Hatch and they send me chili...I think they get most of their chili from Demming New Mexico. even though chili is grown all over New Mexico southeren N.M. seems to produce the very best chili.

 

[Synphul]

I was born and raised about 40min south of s.f., can't imagine trying to grow warmer weather stuff. It does get warm but around the bay it's overcast a lot and the breeze always seems a bit chilly right off the water. As far as the melons, I dunno if it's fungus or what. I know the melons shouldn't rest directly on the ground and with the rain here no there's no way to keep the plants from getting rained on shy of a greenhouse. If it goes 3-4 days without rain the people here scream drought.

At least you've got plenty of good fishing around there by the bay or out along the coast if you can get out on a boat.

Az was a lot drier and more arid, had to water more often but great for growing chilis and peppers. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a fungus, it's humid here most of the time in the midwest. More than I care for, I still haven't adjusted to it in some 18yrs. There are times the ground turns a funky shade of green like the dirt itself is moldy. Reminds me of the algae around streams and things but just in the open on the dirt. The tree trunks turn green in places and even the walls of nearby houses get green patches on them that have to be washed off. Might be great if I was a fan of mushrooms lmfao.

Humidity here is so rough I've had stainless steel tools begin to rust - IN the house. Ugh.

 

[pulsevape]

I was born and raised about 40min south of s.f., can't imagine trying to grow warmer weather stuff. It does get warm but around the bay it's overcast a lot and the breeze always seems a bit chilly right off the water. As far as the melons, I dunno if it's fungus or what. I know the melons shouldn't rest directly on the ground and with the rain here no there's no way to keep the plants from getting rained on shy of a greenhouse. If it goes 3-4 days without rain the people here scream drought.

At least you've got plenty of good fishing around there by the bay or out along the coast if you can get out on a boat.



Az was a lot drier and more arid, had to water more often but great for growing chilis and peppers. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a fungus, it's humid here most of the time in the midwest. More than I care for, I still haven't adjusted to it in some 18yrs. There are times the ground turns a funky shade of green like the dirt itself is moldy. Reminds me of the algae around streams and things but just in the open on the dirt. The tree trunks turn green in places and even the walls of nearby houses get green patches on them that have to be washed off. Might be great if I was a fan of mushrooms lmfao.

Humidity here is so rough I've had stainless steel tools begin to rust - IN the house. Ugh.

I grew up as a desert rat.......and I left as soon as I could.....couldn't imagine being away from the ocean,....most of the fishing I do is for trout, but I do go fly fishing for strippers in the delta sometimes...I worked on a fishing boat along the north coast of Ca, when I was yonger and ate fresh fish from the ocean everyday......I live in Oakland so it's about 10 degrees warmer than SF...but yeah hot weather crops are a challenge...things you can't grow are most melons, no watermelons,okra,and eggplant....peppers are OK but they could do better. I can't imagine dealing with humidity.....I'm a stone cold Westener.