2024 Gardening Thread

beamernc said:
Have you tried growing them vertically? I have not done it, don't grow squash, but have seen some videos and it makes sense. Get the plant up off the ground and keep the lower limbs pruned off to prevent hiding places for the bugs.

Sevin dust isn't what it used to be, it no longer contains carbaryl and now contains zeta-cypermethrin.
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I put so much Sevin on those squash you couldn’t see that the plant was green. All it did to the bugs was give them a snow day. Think I saw a few of em making snowmen.
 
beamernc said:
Have you tried growing them vertically? I have not done it, don't grow squash, but have seen some videos and it makes sense. Get the plant up off the ground and keep the lower limbs pruned off to prevent hiding places for the bugs.

Sevin dust isn't what it used to be, it no longer contains carbaryl and now contains zeta-cypermethrin.
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No I haven’t tried it. I’d like to. Not sure I have the gumption to do so.
 
I wouldn’t ever use dust when carbaryl spray is much easier and cheap. Bifen is a 3 day harvest interval but works.
 
Jimbob78 said:
I wouldn’t ever use dust when carbaryl spray is much easier and cheap. Bifen is a 3 day harvest interval but works.
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Are either of those bee friendly? Or should they be sprayed when the blooms are closed?
 
Got my load of leaf mulch spread on 2 different garden spots and tilled in thanks to a friend letting me borrow his tractor.

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Soaking rain? LOL

Here it's like flooding rains

My garden is puddles, but the cukes like the water

Tomatoes are tallish and scrawny, they need heat.

I think my Okra drowned, again. Second planting

I hope this isn't one of "those" summers
 
Gardner said:
Soaking rain? LOL

Here it's like flooding rains

My garden is puddles, but the cukes like the water

Tomatoes are tallish and scrawny, they need heat.

I think my Okra drowned, again. Second planting

I hope this isn't one of "those" summers
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I bedded my stuff pretty high so hopefully we are good still. I’ll see in the morning.
 
We got 3" of rain today. Wife made the comment, "I might not have to water everything tomorrow". Looks like more rain in the forecast tomorrow.
 
The soils is warm & the peppers were ready to be set free 46 in ground so far. What a tasty season this is shaping up to be. 😉

Grow list:

1. Antep Aci Dolma
2. Aji Panca
3. Aji Strawberry drop
4. Sugar Rush Stripy
5. Aji Pineapple
6. Aji Chombo Amarillo
7. Aji Fantasy
8. Pasilla Oaxaca
9. Pasillo Apaseo
10. Pasilla Mixe
11. Chilhuacle Negro
12. Aji Chombo Rojo
13. Aji Rainforest
14. Brazilian Starfish
15. Jamaican Scotch Bonnet
16. Aji Charapita
17. Jigsaw ( ornamental )
18. Poblano Rojo
19. Early Jalapeño
20. Serrano
21. Lesya


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My earliest variety of blueberry, O'Neal, is staring to ripen, and the birds have already found them. If we get a lot more rain this weekend, these will probably split the skin. Will try to get most of them picked this evening.

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We went out and picked 2 gallons before dinner and before it started to rain.
 
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If it doesn’t stop raining, everything in our little greenhouse is gonna keel over from being root bound. Got the garden ready last weekend, been raining ever since. I need 3-4 days of dry weather so I can put the ground cover on it and get it planted
 
Gardner said:
Yummmm, fried? mashed? boiled?
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I’m thinking of roasting them with country ham and rosemary/garlic then frying them tomorrow. It’s moments away from a stiff thunderstorm so I think my ribs are going to be delayed until tomorrow
 
Is there a specific point you are supposed to harvest rutabaga? Checked on Saturday we have one the size of a football.
 
Squanchy said:
Is there a specific point you are supposed to harvest rutabaga? Checked on Saturday we have one the size of a football.
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They would have been eat way before that point here. But I would cut one and try it raw to see if it’s too fibrous to waste your time cooking. If it’s bolted it may not be as sweet.
 
I have been paying attention to the posts. Way advance for me but very interesting at the same time.
I'm trying to play and at least grow some of the simple stuff. Wit a lot of u-tube videos.lol Very small space to work with but it is looking promising. Of course it does remind me of years if ocean fishing. Each tomato will probably cost me $25.00. I picked up some more plants to put in containers this afternoon. And I'm going to attempt growing some squash, cucumbers and zucchini vertically. Will see if I screw it up.
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LarrySr. said:
I have been paying attention to the posts. Way advance for me but very interesting at the same time.
I'm trying to play and at least grow some of the simple stuff. Wit a lot of u-tube videos.lol Very small space to work with but it is looking promising. Of course it does remind me of years if ocean fishing. Each tomato will probably cost me $25.00. I picked up some more plants to put in containers this afternoon. And I'm going to attempt growing some squash, cucumbers and zucchini vertically. Will see if I screw it up.
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Is that your train yard repurposed for a garden space?
 
LarrySr. said:
Dave

No it's just the other half of the back yard sorta. lol


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I seen the gravel area and thought damn that's where the trains supposed to be. Now I see. Not to hijack the gardening thread but since we are talking about your projects. How is your military jeep coming along? Maybe there's a thread on here we can get some pics of that bad boy.
 
I grow a quarter acre vegetable garden in Eastern Wake County every year on some land that is still in the family. Weed control is a problem for me every year, mainly because the property is a thirty minute drive from my house and I can only get out there two to three times most weeks during growing season. I just planted everything last weekend and was wondering what some of you do to keep the grass and weeds out of your gardens.
 
NC Farmer said:
I grow a quarter acre vegetable garden in Eastern Wake County every year on some land that is still in the family. Weed control is a problem for me every year, mainly because the property is a thirty minute drive from my house and I can only get out there two to three times most weeks during growing season. I just planted everything last weekend and was wondering what some of you do to keep the grass and weeds out of your gardens.
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Spiders work the best for me. I just ran them through those beans before I took the picture.
 
NC Farmer said:
I grow a quarter acre vegetable garden in Eastern Wake County every year on some land that is still in the family. Weed control is a problem for me every year, mainly because the property is a thirty minute drive from my house and I can only get out there two to three times most weeks during growing season. I just planted everything last weekend and was wondering what some of you do to keep the grass and weeds out of your gardens.
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Wife and I are trying mulching this year. We had a big pile delivered from chip drop (free) and once the plants were a foot or so tall we mulched around the plants it is working so far.
 
Squanchy said:
Wife and I are trying mulching this year. We had a big pile delivered from chip drop (free) and once the plants were a foot or so tall we mulched around the plants it is working so far.
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The only things with mulching I found was fungal issues and weeds brought in with it. I tested mulching around a few trees and had more grass weeds than the trees I didn’t, but I don’t think it was cleaned mulch, which could have been the issue. The benefits are weed suppression, moisture retention and organic matter added as it breaks down. I have started blowing all my grass clippings into my rows for moisture, nutrients and organic matter.
 
Jimbob78 said:
The only things with mulching I found was fungal issues and weeds brought in with it. I tested mulching around a few trees and had more grass weeds than the trees I didn’t, but I don’t think it was cleaned mulch, which could have been the issue. The benefits are weed suppression, moisture retention and organic matter added as it breaks down. I have started blowing all my grass clippings into my rows for moisture, nutrients and organic matter.
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We have a second bed we are trying grass clippings with but boy is it a lot of work collecting the grass clippings! Lol
 
Squanchy said:
We have a second bed we are trying grass clippings with but boy is it a lot of work collecting the grass clippings! Lol
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I let the mower do the work while I’m cutting, lol. I have started cutting every other week if it’s rained or every third week if we haven’t had more than 1.5” per week.
 
I'm using a bagger on the rider and dumping it out. Just takes twice as long to mow the yard. Hopefully I don't get the mold issue you're talking about. I did notice the chicken run have some mold where I mulched with the same stuff.
 
Squanchy said:
I'm using a bagger on the rider and dumping it out. Just takes twice as long to mow the yard. Hopefully I don't get the mold issue you're talking about. I did notice the chicken run have some mold where I mulched with the same stuff.
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Maybe you won’t see the mold issues. I’m sure I was putting out more water than you will be.
 
We call it mulch, and we use it primarily for weed control (secondary side benefit is of course soul amendment) but what we buy and put down is really wood chips from a local sawmill.

My wife wanted some for Mothers Day so I got her a tandem dump truck (20 ton size) load. She'll get 2 more this year. It's cheap, clean, and effective.

On a normal year she'll only use one load but we are rebuilding a couple of spots after having rotated goats through them.

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NC Farmer said:
I grow a quarter acre vegetable garden in Eastern Wake County every year on some land that is still in the family. Weed control is a problem for me every year, mainly because the property is a thirty minute drive from my house and I can only get out there two to three times most weeks during growing season. I just planted everything last weekend and was wondering what some of you do to keep the grass and weeds out of your gardens.
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Heres ours with two of the three runs of 12’ wide fabric down. We finished the third run around dark. This will last us several years. It significantly cuts down on weeds, regulates the ground temp better, and holds moisture longer. Bought. 300’ roll 12’ wide. Got three runs down with about 10’ of fabric left over. I’ll burn 3-4” holes with a weed torch to plant. And I’ll mulch things with leaf mulch/compost that I collect off our yard every year when the leaves start falling. All of our tomatoes, cucumbers, several kinds of squash, and watermelons will be planted in the fabric. There’s about 8’ of space left uncovered with fabric. I’ll probably do two rows of okra this year just because I have the room. We like to freeze it to bread and fry later.

Okra and beans are planted in hilled rows.

I bought a hiller that goes behind a tiller this week. Had to do some small quick mods to get it to fit my legend force tiller that a few folks here bought from Home Depot last year. It makes great rows. I have another spot that’s about 20x50 that we planted green beans in. Used to hiller for the first time a few nights ago and made 6 rows in that spot for green beans. My wife said her goal was to put up 200qts of beans this year.

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