TOO Garden Thread

[Hedgelj]

Got the garden planted this weekend. Couple of varieties of tomatoes, two different peppers, cucumbers, carrots, spinach and some broccoli.

 

[Fullbore]

We got doused 3 times yesterday and the last one was a toad strangler!

Yeah, I was working in Clarksburg W.Va yesterday and from the P&R on 339 to Watertown it came down in buckets! That was somewheres around4:30-5:00?

 

[giles]

Noticed the fields that were planted a couple days ago have growth already! We didn't get a lot of rain here in my area, but we did get a good bit of nitrogen yesterday evening.

 

[finelyshedded]

Very cute pic with Lil Kay in the garden with you and pops Jesse!

I got most of my stuff in the ground cept 4 blueberry bushes and 3 small fruit trees

 

[bowhunter1023]

Here is our garden. I planted a crazy variety of stuff. When I get a minute, I'll copy stuff over from my journal. We planted on Saturday and already have radish and turnip sprouts.

 

[Big_Holla]

Holy smokes Jesse!

 

[bowhunter1023]

I don't know moderation. Everything I do is to the max. Not always a great trait to possess!

 

[Dannmann801]

I've never gardened before. Decided I wanted to try this year.

We had some ornamental grasses that I wanted to take out and make a sitting area right between mine and the neighbor's place. But I thought I'd make it a garden instead.

My neighbor brought over his mini-excavator and dump truck to remove the grasses. He broke up and turned the soil really good for me, then I took a tiller to it. I got it tilled before the 8 yds of topsoil arrived. I started spreading that by hand, but neighbor had returned and said "Let me help you with that" and he used to excavator to spread it around. Then I spread lime pellets and some 3 bags of sweetfeed as organic fertilizer, then tilled and raked everything. The garden is about 15ft x 48ft with a 4ft wide x 10ft long "panhandle" on the end.

 

[Dannmann801]

So in the panhandle, the next day after I'd raked everything out and watered I saw this: ants!



Any suggestions as to how to deal with that?

 

[bowhunter1023]

Good stuff Dan!

 

[Bigslam51]

Looks good, Dan!

 

[Fullbore]

If you access to a weed burner? Burn them out. Pour some old motor oil in and around and then light them up!

 

[Dannmann801]

If you access to a weed burner? Burn them out. Pour some old motor oil in and around and then light them up!

Old motor oil I got.
Propane torch 3ft long I got.
but that area is about 2ft diameter - you really think that'll get 'em all? Kill the queen? destroy the colony?

 

[teenbowhunter]

Would that be harmful to the garden in that spot?

 

[Huckleberry Finn]

Hell no fire is good fertilizer.

Those are some massive gardens for first patches. Good kuck! Jesse you will love pthe results from the pkastic, did you put drip line down it?

 

[Fullbore]

Would that be harmful to the garden in that spot?

IMO, the fire would burn off the oil and kill all the ants above and below the surface.
Huck is right! Ashes from fires are always good for the soil too.

 

[Fullbore]

Old motor oil I got.
Propane torch 3ft long I got.
but that area is about 2ft diameter - you really think that'll get 'em all? Kill the queen? destroy the colony?

I think so Dan?! Hopefully someone else chimes in and adds fuel to our fire. Lol

 

[giles]

I wouldn't use the oil. The weed burner should be just fine. Do it at night so they are all home.

 

[Joel]

I wouldn't use the oil. The weed burner should be just fine. Do it at night so they are all home.

x2. Fire will kill them. Oil seems like a bit much.

 

[bowhunter1023]

Hit the garden with the tiller this morning. A week in and I've lost two wax peppers, which I'll replace, and have sprouts in turnips, radish, red/yellow/candy onions, silver queen and peaches & cream corn, blue lake and Kentucky wonder pole beans, and the earliserve bush beans. No apparent transplant shock either.

We might just grow some food in this thing!