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Title: Garden Time Post by: Bryant on March 15, 2010, 10:23:35 pm I sure miss reading Lavon's garden posts from a couple years ago.
Since moving to the country last year, I've been looking forward to planting a small garden. I spent Sunday afternoon with the tractor tilling and getting everything ready. I'll probably start planting this weekend. Anyone else planting this year? Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: djhogdogger on March 15, 2010, 10:41:42 pm i gave up on gardening. apparently my ancestors were hunters, lol, because i cant seem to grow anything! One year we planted a garden, tended to it everyday, then when things started to look good, a flood came and killed everything. >:( But i didn't give up, i planted a garden on higher ground the next year. Same thing... i worked in it every day. Finally everything started to bloom. I thought to myself, it won't be long now and i will have some veg.s. :-\ All i managed to grow was miniature vegtables, lol. After that i figured that it was cheaper and easier to buy our veg.s from the store. ;D
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Dexter on March 16, 2010, 06:20:31 am Bryant
We have our garden going with onions, lettuce,cabbage,spinach,radishes and turnips i planted some corn and beans this weekend hope I dont get burned with a late frost again. we also have 144 tomatoe plants started and going good along with artichokes,peppers along with a bunch of herbs the last average frost is the 23 of this month verses the 13 in your area so barring any late snow storms and sand storms i hope to have the type of garden i had at home Dexter Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Hawkins on March 16, 2010, 08:24:53 am Planted potatoes and onions Sunday.
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: matt_aggie04 on March 16, 2010, 08:45:55 am Looking to have our first garden this year. Hope to get some seeds this week and plant something sunday afternoon. We'll see how it goes, I have a feeling that is going to be more work than expected.
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Circle C on March 16, 2010, 09:13:58 am We should have our raised bed gardens planted at the house by Easter weekend. We are also going to try something a little different this year too. We're going to have a large co-op garden with our neighbors. Planning to hit it with a 10' offset disc this week, then spread several loads of compost that we have been acquiring over the last year, then till it all in with a skid steer mounted tiller. We are hoping that by spreading the work load between the two families that we might have better success with a large garden, than we had trying it on our own last year.
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: bparkerson on March 16, 2010, 09:29:55 am Potatoes in the ground in Mississippi too
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: sfboarbuster on March 16, 2010, 09:34:20 am All of my tomatoes and peppers froze this year. Had a pretty good turnout of collard greens though.
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: lonewolf on March 16, 2010, 10:24:28 am Got mine already to go! onions are planted, waiting on the weather to plant corn!
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: jls41 on March 16, 2010, 11:47:25 am Spent last weekend getting ours cleaned out and will start amending our soil this weekend. Our average frost up here in Yankeeland is around April 3rd. I hope to have our onions, lettuce, spinach, and radishes planted by Easter weekend. Gonna get slim to fix me some trellis's for my green beans to climb on this year. And going to get my eggplants started a whole lot earlier this year too!! I just hope after all that rain we received all day long yesterday we are dried out enough for me to do planting this weekend!! :o
Will take and post pics of the progress. Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Dexter on March 16, 2010, 06:02:08 pm Jo Lynne
Get Cody to make yall a beangloo I had one and it looked like a igloo with beans growing on it plus its a cool shady spot to sit and drink a cold one i made the frame with 3/8 rebar and wrapped it with old field wire a few 5 gallon buckets for guest and you have yourself a sure enough redneck bean and beer hut were you can drink beer and pick beans ;D ;D Dexter if we have enough stuff here ill make one and post a pic of the frame Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: W-tate on March 16, 2010, 06:06:12 pm i got my taters in sunday and onion in yesterday and i gotta say my onions look like crap hope they make it
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: ETHHunters on March 16, 2010, 08:08:14 pm Dont jump the gun! It may be a little early. It maybe I just want the cooler weather to hang around.
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: BobbyB on March 17, 2010, 02:14:25 pm I planted onions and taters 2 weeks ago. Have been planting tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, mustard greens, turnips, squash and carrots. Will put in some beans this evening.
I have some pepper and tomato starts to put out yet as well, but they wont be ready til the end of the month Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: BigAinaBuilt on March 17, 2010, 02:38:44 pm Pretty interesting to hear bout the different crops you guys got going up there! I plant random trees and veggies but I have this thing about growing things that get thrown out ( The bottom of cabbages, Mango seeds, Old potatoes ,avacadoe pits) I also have a few lemon and lime trees going along with a coffee tree. I also took some green onions that were used for dinner and planted also and at one time I went out and measured one at 38'' long! :o There is legislation going on right now to make marijuana use by adults 21+ legal on private property so there has been an influx of guys growing that here lately also.
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: jls41 on March 17, 2010, 03:45:38 pm Ok here are some pics of the beginning stages of our garden.
Cleaned out and ready to go.... (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-5.jpg) (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-4.jpg) (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-3.jpg) Got the flower beds cleaned out as well.... (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-2.jpg) The 80 trees that line the east side of our drive that I have been battling a cottontail rabbit population over - they are chewing the bark off as far up as they can reach!!! GRRRRR!!!!! (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-1.jpg) Dexter - this one is for you....This is my beer drinking spot!! (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001.jpg) I'll post up a pic progress as we go along. Would like to see everyone else's too!! Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Dexter on March 17, 2010, 04:03:25 pm Jo Lynne
one word WOW Dexter Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: matt_aggie04 on March 17, 2010, 04:14:38 pm Could yall please tell me what kind of boards you used in your fence here? I am wanting to something similar for my entrance and front gate.
Thanks, Matt (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001.jpg) Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Circle C on March 17, 2010, 04:18:37 pm Matt,
They are telephone poles, cut on a portable sawmill. They look pretty darn nice. Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: matt_aggie04 on March 17, 2010, 04:25:15 pm I need to find a mill, have a pretty good idea on where to find the wood...
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Circle C on March 17, 2010, 04:35:45 pm Cedar Nate has a mill, but I bet you can find one local. Seems like there used to be a mill near Cat Springs, that ought to be closer than Nate.
George from Brookshire also has a portable mill. Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: matt_aggie04 on March 17, 2010, 04:37:03 pm I think there is one here in Magnolia or Pinehurst and if not I bet I could take em to Giles in Montgomery.
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: jls41 on March 17, 2010, 05:49:40 pm Circle C is correct. They are telephone poles that have been run thru a saw mill. We lucked out when we found this place. All fencing was already done. I'll get some more pics for yall.
We added the trees after we moved in because there wasn't any at all. But other than that and the dog kennels and a few minor additions, it looks like it did when we bought it. Lucky, right? ;D Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: BobbyB on March 17, 2010, 06:22:47 pm I like the drinking area, a little short on shade trees maybe. ;D
I feel your pain with the rabbits. I lost several trees last winter when it was so dry to the dayummed things. How far can you see out there, all the way to tomorrow ? ;D ;D Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: jls41 on March 17, 2010, 06:43:08 pm BobbyB the tree issue is the only thing I don't like about this place, but that's an easy fix as long as I can keep the rabbit population in check! ;). Growing up in a small town in the upper northeast corner of the Texas Panhandle and on the Canadian River, trees and cattle are the two things I miss most nowadays!!
we can definitely see blue northerns coming about a half a day before they arrive!! Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: jls41 on March 18, 2010, 02:35:44 pm Here's more pics of our little abode!!!
the house.....beer drinking area on the other side of that fence...... (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-11.jpg) some picks of the fencing...... (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-10.jpg) (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-6.jpg) back patio area...... (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-8.jpg) (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-7.jpg) my future chicken coop....... (http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn224/jls41/image001-9.jpg) Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Circle C on April 06, 2010, 10:00:23 am Mandi, myself, and our neighbors, Raul and Maria, just got the majority of our CO-OP garden planted yesterday. Just so everyone knows, Mandi is the Garden Boss, if the garden fails to produce, it will be her fault ;D
We spent considerable time working the gumbo soil that we live on. Used a cultivator, an offset disc, and a 6' tiller/ rotovater. We spread ~16 cubic yards of manure/ stall cleanings, then tilled that in about 8". After making our rows, we ended up with 83 rows, that are 40' long. This week we will bring out an excavator and install 700' of 1-1/2 waterline to keep the garden watered during the heat of the summer. Here is what we planted Row # 1-10 = Sweet Corn 11-15 = Bush Beans 16-20 = Anasazi Beans 21 = Jalapeno 22 = Cabbage 23 = Zucchini 24 = Cabbage 25 = Okra 26 = Cucumber - Vining 27 = 28 = Yellow Squash 29 = 30 = 31 = Canteloupe 32 = 33 = Cucumber - Bush type 34-79 = reserved for succession planting of Sweet Corn 80-83 = Watermelon Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: jls41 on April 06, 2010, 11:57:35 am DAGGUM!!! Now that is what you call a garden!!! :o :o Can't wait to see pics of it!!
We got the majority of ours planted this weekend as well - giant sunflowers, radishes, lettuce, spinach, onions, bush beans, eggplant, broccoli, & watermelon. We will be finishing up this weekend with cantelope, zucchini squash, yellow squash, tomatos, jalapeno peppers, green chiles, and purple hull cowpeas. We are working on some kind of drip irrigation system for ours as well. Sure will make it a lot easier to water more efficiently during the hot summer hours!! Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Bryant on April 15, 2010, 08:32:47 am Finally got everything in the ground. Now it's just watering and waiting.
I ended up planting Zucchini, Okra, Tomatoes, Cantaloupe, Corn, Bell Peppers, Jalapenos, Banana Peppers, Peas, Kentucky Beans, Carrots and Watermelon. (http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee138/bdavis1476/Kennels/garden2.jpg) (http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee138/bdavis1476/Kennels/garden1.jpg) Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: levibarcus on April 16, 2010, 08:22:39 am We got our garden in saturday, we planted the cold weather stuff a while back and it stayed so wet that most of it rotted. This time it looks better, if we get some rain this weekend it will all be coming up soon. I haven't had a garden for a couple of years, so I had to break a new garden spot. I'm sure the bermuda grass will be bad this year, but I plowed up where I stacked hay last summer so the ground should be fairly fertile from the hay rotting on it all year. We planted onions, collards, and spinach a while back, then green beans, okra, purplehull peas, corn, tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, zuchini, watermelons, and some very late potatoes that should have gone in a long time ago but the day after I bought the seed it started raining and just now has dried out. Hopefully they will make at least some small potatoes to go with the green beans.:) Here is a picture of me breaking the garden the old fashioned way. My horse Bully hadn't been worked in quite a while so we had some behavior modification sessions before we got to this point!(http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz282/levibarcus/010.jpg)
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Cutter Bay Kennels on April 16, 2010, 08:46:08 am Well, that answers my question of how many hp your tractor has.
Very nice pic. I can't even imagine doing it like that. Hats off to you. Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: jls41 on April 16, 2010, 01:47:33 pm Very cool Levi!!!
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: uglydog on April 16, 2010, 10:15:36 pm After last years drought and the lack of produce from my garden, I just did not have the enthusiasm this year, all of yalls gardens put any of my efforts to shame!
Jolynne, you better get Slim to work on that chicken coup! the little fluffybut hen is setting her clutch now, and I got some beautiful Roosters from last hatch that need to go, they are just starting to crow! Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: jls41 on April 17, 2010, 09:40:04 am Krystal, that is cool!! I will have to get to work on the coop now, but it's got to stop raining first!! Slim and I both agree that no roosters unless Thomas either trains us one or we get that big "dancin'" one!! ;) LOL!!
Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Dexter on April 18, 2010, 07:41:48 am heres a few pictures from around the house yesterday yeah i know the garden has water in it " aint it beautiful" the water that is
and a few clucker pics too for the fowl lover Lynne and Dexter the strawberries and snow peas We made Lynne this strawberry patch and she added snow peas on the edges (http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt51/skiparope/chickens%20and%20strawberries/chickensandstrawberries41710002.jpg) just a few of our chicks some we bought TSC made us a deal that we couldnt pass up and theres 7 or so I took from a hen and put in (http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt51/skiparope/chickens%20and%20strawberries/chickensandstrawberries41710004.jpg) some chicks ducks and guineas (http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt51/skiparope/chickens%20and%20strawberries/chickensandstrawberries41710022.jpg) some chicks we have hatching this weekend (http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt51/skiparope/chickens%20and%20strawberries/chickensandstrawberries41710028.jpg) now a couple shots of the garden that just keeps getting bigger and bigger a shot to the east 4 rows of maters on the right and 2 taters,1 sweet potatoe and 2 melons in middle the fresh tilled purple hull cow peas ,pintos ,squash and a lil corn (http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt51/skiparope/things%20i%20have%20made/PICT0065.jpg) now a shot of the garden to the north tomatos pintos watermelons cantalope and other melons okra cucumbers corn ect .... (http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt51/skiparope/things%20i%20have%20made/PICT0059.jpg) and a pan to the north east (http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt51/skiparope/things%20i%20have%20made/PICT0056.jpg) and heres killer 1 gallon of oil to 5 in gas it stops smoking its time for a beer and pit stop >:D (http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt51/skiparope/things%20i%20have%20made/PICT0064.jpg) opps forgot Lynnes herb garden its still a work in progress (http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt51/skiparope/things%20i%20have%20made/PICT0054.jpg) Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: Bryant on June 04, 2010, 10:26:16 am How's everyone's garden coming? I'm turning veggies like crazy over here. We had a heck of a storm come through night before last with wind, hail and all that. Layed my corn over...hopefully it will stand back up but we'll see.
Last nights pick.. (http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee138/bdavis1476/Kennels/garden.jpg) Title: Re: Garden Time Post by: matt_aggie04 on June 04, 2010, 11:55:33 am I would say from your pics I aint doing something right haha. I got fruit but it seems to be taking forever to mature. My tomatoes are a good size but still green and my bell peppers are about half that size and havn't grown much lately. I have done my garden with no pesticides or fertilizer just to see what it would do and I think I am seeing that I need some fertilizer! I do have some squash and bush bean that are coming on strong though hopefully they will make. I planted some carrots and they never even came up?
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