TOO Garden Thread

[Isaacorps]

Crazy. Beans are just starting to turn here.

That’s what I thought. Same around here, some beans and corn starting to turn but a lot still green. They must’ve planted that field April 1st lol

 

["J"]

Ours is done, pulled everything is pulled and turned under except for the half dozen bell peppers that haven’t turned yet.

 

[5Cent]

Got 95% of garden turned under, waiting on that last pumpkin to turn and a few more maters turning. Most likely will have it cleaned up by end of the weekend.

Decided to break new ground and doubled the size of the pumpkin patch for next year. Goal is to have a hay wagon and make a few hundred off them. Trying to decide between crimson clover again or cereral/winter rye this year for a cover crop. Leaning towards the rye for a denser stand, easier to no till plant, and cheaper seed cost.

All the sunflowers heads are still drying in the barn. May start to remove seeds this weekend or next.

 

[finelyshedded]

My marigolds are kicking some royal ass right now! Bet they’d win blue at the state fair! Lmao
Haven’t watered my garden during this draught so my maters aren’t fairing too well so I doubt I’ll be picking my last on 11/4 like last year.

 

[at1010]

Got 95% of garden turned under, waiting on that last pumpkin to turn and a few more maters turning. Most likely will have it cleaned up by end of the weekend.

Decided to break new ground and doubled the size of the pumpkin patch for next year. Goal is to have a hay wagon and make a few hundred off them. Trying to decide between crimson clover again or cereral/winter rye this year for a cover crop. Leaning towards the rye for a denser stand, easier to no till plant, and cheaper seed cost.

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All the sunflowers heads are still drying in the barn. May start to remove seeds this weekend or next.

Use rye and crimson. The legume will help to balance your C:N ratio and reduce nutrient tie up next year. If no tilling into too thick of rye - you’ll be needing to pound it with N to cycle it. Just my 2 cents.

looks good.

 

[finelyshedded]

It’s dry as dust but them golds are killin it! Lol

 

[5Cent]

Seeds removed, yield not to shabby. More than a few bags of seeds than we were targeting. That said, lots of em have small holes and missing inside seeds due to pests.

Next steps is to continue to sort and clean, then soak in salt water, dry, then roast. We shall see.

 

[5Cent]

Use rye and crimson. The legume will help to balance your C:N ratio and reduce nutrient tie up next year. If no tilling into too thick of rye - you’ll be needing to pound it with N to cycle it. Just my 2 cents.

looks good.

Help a man out, lol!

I'm doing this mostly for tilth and weed suppression. Both areas gets plenty of supplemental help thru the growing season.

 

[at1010]

Help a man out, lol!

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I'm doing this mostly for tilth and weed suppression. Both areas gets plenty of supplemental help thru the growing season.

I’ll have it for next fall!! The logistics just didn’t workout this year!!

 

[finelyshedded]

………..and that’s a wrap. Lol

Probably the last of any red maters from the garden this year. Still have some greens hanging but with temps dropping tonight for a week I think they’re done.
Going out with a bang though…..

 

[Sgt Fury]

………..and that’s a wrap. Lol

Probably the last of any red maters from the garden this year. Still have some greens hanging but with temps dropping tonight for a week I think they’re done.
Going out with a bang though…..
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You had a banner year for maters this year….you still have some green ones left! I just finished pulling all of my dead and wilting plants today. Going to mulch in some grass clippings then let it rest until Spring.

 

[5Cent]

Awesome Ric, they look delicious!

 

[finelyshedded]

I got a lot of stuff done this past week so I can hit the woods again this week. Among some of the things was cleaning up my raised garden beds. Lots of green maters but I had a few ripe maters that are still flavorful and delicious on salads and stuff. I fought,raked,blew,mulched and drug huge tarps full of leaves EVERY DAY! Lol
BTW, Bucktard took a little abuse while I was gone two weeks ago. A lil frisky feller made a scrape and knocked his head off then stood there shaking his head at ole Bucktard like he was saying, “C’mon and put your head back on and I’ll knock it off again!” Lol
Then over the weekend the best buck I’ve seen in a long long time behind our house walked behind BT but didn’t mess with him. My cell cam took a blurry pic of him and one of my back up reg cams with slow trigger speed got little footage as he walked by and out of frame. Here is the blurry pic of cell cam.

 

[5Cent]

Won't be long now, and the warm weather break sure helped start the itch. Waiting until end of March to get seeds going this year. The rye cover crop came in well on the higher ground in the garden, but has been submerged in the lower corner for a couple weeks after the snow melt. Curious to see how it does when temps pop.

Got the start of compost alley going. Intent is to help with animal waste, give chickens a place to scratch, and ultimately end up in the garden or pumpkin patch to help build soil. Next couple of weekends will be spent on that side of the barn to create a good 60-75' run up against the property line.

 

[5Cent]

Round 1 of seed starting complete:

Tomatoes:
12x Big Beef (I)
8x Box Car Willie (I)
8x Abe Lincoln (I)
8x Celebration (D)
8x Bella Rosa (D)
8x Sweet Cherry
8x Sun Gold Cherry
6x NLA seeds

Peppers:
8x Gold Fortune
8x Cherokee Bell
8x Bayonet Bell
8x Pimento

Cucumbers:
4x Diomede
4x Marketplace
4x Hossinator Slicing
4x Olympian

Pumpkins/melons:
6x Honey Ruck Cantaloupe
12x NLA pumpkin seeds mixed ('23)
6x Georgia Rattlesnake watermelon
40x NLA Jubille watermlon seeds ('23)

Targeting 3 rounds of planting this year, 1 being the direct sow of Pumpkins and last melons.

Fun looking back throughout the day, this thread is a great reference tool!

 

[Jamie]

Nancy began starting seed a couple weeks ago. I weed whacked the green manure (oats, field peas, radishes, rye, clover) we planted last fall since the Rye was a foot tall. Bought some Sunchoke bulbs and got them planted them over the weekend. Started some lettuce and scallions a week ago. Two spears of Asparagus up already, and I cut enough fiddleheads to mix in with the Pheasant backs I got on Friday for a nice side dish with dinner. The wild Leeks I transplanted years ago have finally begun to spread themselves this year. Spring has sprung.

 

[5Cent]

Nancy began starting seed a couple weeks ago. I weed whacked the green manure (oats, field peas, radishes, rye, clover) we planted last fall since the Rye was a foot tall. Bought some Sunchoke bulbs and got them planted them over the weekend. Started some lettuce and scallions a week ago. Two spears of Asparagus up already, and I cut enough fiddleheads to mix in with the Pheasant backs I got on Friday for a nice side dish with dinner. The wild Leeks I transplanted years ago have finally begun to spread themselves this year. Spring has sprung.

Awesome Jaime! I have the same situation of 12" tall winter rye in the garden, curious if yours regrows without it being to a head or you terminating the roots.

I'm going to let it go to get to the final stage, then crimp with a 2x4 to get the weed mat I'm looking for. Soil is heavy sand and I want to get it shaded, and retain the subsurface root surface without tilling and turning up more seeds.

 

[Jamie]

Mine isn't going to regrow, lol. Well, some of it always manages to survive somehow. Before we plant, I'll scalp/mulch it with the mower and till the bageezus out of all the organic matter. Clay soil here. The mix we did last fall did a nice job of crowding out the weeds so far, though.

 

[Bankfish]

One garden tilled so far.

I have 24 starts each of cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage started March 1st. Pic is from March 5th.

 

[5Cent]

I can smell that dirt from here bankfish, looking good. This is a new plot, correct?

Jaime, gotcha on rd 2 of mowing then tilling. It's taking everything I can muster to not till it, will need to see how the crimping goes lol.