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yotehunter

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Yea mine was looking sad too. I only ended up with a half inch this week and over the last three I've only had a inch. And yea a good thunderstorm without the wind would really turn things around. From what read and studied the lightning releases nitrogen in the atmosphere. Idk but they always spruce things up.
 
Milo

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yotehunter

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I got the three garden I raise rototilled and most of the rows weeded before the rains started today. Here is some pics of my garden and the two at my parents. They consist of a 1\2 lb of peanuts, 42 tomato plants, 8 zucchini 8 muskmelon, 8 watermelon, 5lb of seed potatoes, 4 lbs of assorted onions 12 pickles, a 1\2 lb of sweet corn and some lettuce. I pick a quart of strawberries and the red raspberries and horshradish look promising too. So far about another half inch of rain so far, with more too come the way the radar looks. Here are a few pics.IMG_20150530_161738.jpgIMG_20150530_161727.jpgIMG_20150530_161715.jpgIMG_20150530_161701.jpgIMG_20150530_161623.jpgIMG_20150530_161610.jpgIMG_20150530_155435.jpgIMG_20150530_155420.jpg
 
hickslawns

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The rains have helped a bunch. Timing of getting our garden in and the rains hitting couldn't have been better. Even a couple hydrangea I planted last year have come back. I thought I was going to need to pull them but the rains have helped.

Looking good Jake. You got some work in front of you. Quite the gardens.
 
Buckmaster

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Well, Today's work day has been spoiled due to heavy rains. Looks like an indoor day today but the gardens are happy with over 1" of rain overnight.

Good for the gardens but bad for my weekend job list.
 
bowhunter1023

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Looking good out there TOOzers! We got some gardening fools around these parts!!! :smiley_clap:

Our garden was in dire need of some TLC, so I invested 4 hours of sweat equity in it yesterday. I got about 98% of the weeds out with the hoe and tiller. Raked up rocks, weeds and roots. Pulled the last of the guide strings. Worked all the branches of the tomatoes in the cages to get them supported. Set 24 stakes and tied up all the rest of the tomatoes. Sprayed liquid fence and a solution of Epsom salt. Added more mulch and tidied up around the place. We are 3 weeks in and things are looking great so far!







Start of a red bell pepper...



Better Boy tomatoes on the plants I bought...



Hungarian Wax peppers popping up...



Our romaine lettuce looks great!

 
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yotehunter

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bowhunter1023 said:
Looking good out there TOOzers! We got some gardening fools around these parts!!! :smiley_clap:

Our garden was in dire need of some TLC, so I invested 4 hours of sweat equity in it yesterday. I got about 98% of the weeds out with the hoe and tiller. Raked up rocks, weeds and roots. Pulled the last of the guide strings. Worked all the branches of the tomatoes in the cages to get them supported. Set 24 stakes and tied up all the rest of the tomatoes. Sprayed liquid fence and a solution of Epsom salt. Added more mulch and tidied up around the place. We are 3 weeks in and things are looking great so far!







Start of a red bell pepper...



Better Boy tomatoes on the plants I bought...



Hungarian Wax peppers popping up...



Our romaine lettuce looks great!

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Loooks awesome. We ended up with 3.2 inches of rain. We needed it but not that much. Just need the heat now.
 
giles

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Really Bowhunter? Compliment everyone then throw down some pics like that! LOL, that garden looks like something out of a magazine!!! Nice work brother.:smiley_cleaning:
 
bowhunter1023

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Thanks fellas. I have a firm belief in (can't remember the scientific term) possessing skills through your DNA. There was a study done recently where they taught a group of rats in NYC a skill and that skill showed up in a control group of rats in Australia a few generations later. I'm not doing the experiment justice, so I hope my own personal examples help tie it together.

I can't read music and have no sense of beat. My only year in band, I was first chair for saxophone. Didn't practice, couldn't read music. I could just play. My grandfather played sax professionally. I've always felt like he did the 10K hours to get great and I benefited some from it.

I've never grown a garden, but my grandmother was an expert gardener. She put in the 10K hours. Same with cooking, she was awesome. I can't explain why I'm a pretty solid cook; its just something I "know" how to do. Gardening may be the same, we shall see.

That said, Google is a pretty powerful teacher too! LOL
 
Big_Holla

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LMAO after looking at Jesse's pics I'm almost embarrassed to admit I planted several tomato and pepper plants around our deck and sidewalk over the weekend. Kurtis (Blackbeard) has several tomato plants and others they planted along the edge of their sidewalk and that got me to thinking I could at least do that this year to see if it amounts to anything. I don't have access to a tiller yet so this seemed to work OK. Put 3 cherry tomatoes, 3 beefsteak tomatoes, 3 Hungarian yellow peppers, 3 green peppers and 6 jalapeno's in. Wasn't sure how much room I would have but after I raked out all the old leaves and shit that's collected there for years it turned out good enough LOL. Of course my wife and kids think I'm crazy though!
 
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