The Gardening Thread

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GVF said:
Dang moles bring out my inner Elmer Fudd. Wife laughs at me when I go all postal on them. We used to have a farm dog that went up and down the road between my brothers house and my house. He took care of all hte moles. Since that dog died, they have exploded. The 3 feral cats are of little use. They have left 2 or 3 at the back door, but they need to amp up their game. I got tunnels everywhere.

Crepes gotta be really old to be that big. Bet they show out.
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I have two spike traps that work fine if I stay on top of new tunnels. The fun part is when I get one: my oldest dachshund loves getting it and shaking the hell out of it. Not much good at finding them before I get them in the trap, but hell on wheels with a dead one.
 
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GVF said:
Got on google earth and saw my greenhouse glowing in the night sky. lol. Timer is set for 7pm to midnight. Looks like a space ship out there. It's one heck of a grow light my kid got me for xmas with my money. This thing is jacked up. Son looked out window and said dang that's brighter than the pole light.
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Ever see the British movie where the old ladies were growing pot and cranking up the growing lights at night? The town would gather with their chairs and drinks to watch when it lit up. Was pretty funny.
 
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GroverCleveland said:
Ever see the British movie where the old ladies were growing pot and cranking up the growing lights at night? The town would gather with their chairs and drinks to watch when it lit up. Was pretty funny.
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No. Can't say I've seen that. But, that's prob what mine looks like. I'll try to remember to post a night time pick when it's lit up.
 
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Last years Old Tire Strawberry Bed was lackluster to say the least. Could have been the everbearers I chose. Could have been the bed design.
But, when I put up my greenhouse, I left one side of the 4x4 base extended and boxed the end and made an instant 10'x18" bout 10" deep raised bed based with cardboard. That got filled up this weekend with a blend of topsoil sand, and decomposed black mulch.

My strawberries now have a new trial home for this year.

Blueberries, Blackberries, raspberry, figs, grapes, peach, apples all now freshly mulched in.

And the monochrome repainting of the den repainting project I got voted to do is now complete too. Same color baseboard to base board actually looks really goo and has visual impacts for a room. All trim, walls, and ceiling same color. Brick on fireplace an contrasting color. BTW, Sherwin Williams Pepperorn & Reflection are great colors.
 
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GVF said:
Last years Old Tire Strawberry Bed was lackluster to say the least. Could have been the everbearers I chose. Could have been the bed design.
But, when I put up my greenhouse, I left one side of the 4x4 base extended and boxed the end and made an instant 10'x18" bout 10" deep raised bed based with cardboard. That got filled up this weekend with a blend of topsoil sand, and decomposed black mulch.

My strawberries now have a new trial home for this year.

Blueberries, Blackberries, raspberry, figs, grapes, peach, apples all now freshly mulched in.

And the monochrome repainting of the den repainting project I got voted to do is now complete too. Same color baseboard to base board actually looks really goo and has visual impacts for a room. All trim, walls, and ceiling same color. Brick on fireplace a contrasting color. BTW, Sherwin Williams Pepperorn & Reflection are great colors.
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My daughter follows that mono color wall/trim/ceiling. To each their own, but I don’t personally care for it. JMO
 
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walkenvol said:
My daughter follows that mono color wall/trim/ceiling. To each their own, but I don’t personally care for it. JMO
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My first time not painting in the traditional. On my own, prob wouldn't have thought of or chose it. But, it worked out well for that sized den, and the visual appearance of eliminating the dimensional constraint of contrasting corners seems to work quite well. It also forced me to paint a tired struggling ceiling which I skipped 10 years ago...last coat of fresh paint. And Lord knows how long before that before we took the house.
 
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What's the best way to plant a grape bare root and how long should you wait to add some sort of trellis?

We have a couple of veey old vines already here at the house that are probably 50 years old plus that are dark blue/purple Concord? maybe.

However I was at Walmart last night and they had marked down some of the bare root things so I picked up at white/green seedless grape root.
 
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My wife has found an additional use for my cayenne pepper. She makes a tea from it and sprays this on plants plagued by aphids. It’s working. Aphids gone or greatly reduced.
 
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Got the peppers in, and the beans. Mowed the lawn, weed whacked, and blew the driveway clear of oak ganglia.
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
What's the best way to plant a grape bare root and how long should you wait to add some sort of trellis?

We have a couple of veey old vines already here at the house that are probably 50 years old plus that are dark blue/purple Concord? maybe.

However I was at Walmart last night and they had marked down some of the bare root things so I picked up at white/green seedless grape root.
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When I got mine, it said to soak roots in water up to 24 hrs. THen when you plant it, you have a small mound in hte middle of the hole so the roots can fan over it. I don't see a probelm with going ahead and adding the trellis right away.
 
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Tin Man said:
Tilled my vegetable garden patch, added amendments, put in the tomatoes grown from seed (14). Putting in the peppers grown from seed tomorrow and the haricot verte seeds.
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So aggravated this morning. Went to my SIL house for weekend. Everything watered. Vents open on greenhouse. Herb cups from garden center up against greenhouse outside. 16 tomato sprouts about 2 weeks upor so. Still just 2 leaf sprouts around 1" or so. They seem to sit in that state for a bit before they take off. I did a weak solution of miracle grow earlier in the week to feed the roots. Did another weak solution before leaving. Told son to check everything and make sure to water in needed. Left THursday. Check them last night after getting home. All the herbs toppled over and dry and wilted. 14 of 20 tomato sprouts burned off and not visible. No water in trays. All hte pepper and okra sprouts were fine. Don't know if I burned them with hte miracle grow water even though it was weak, or if the heat smoked them with hte lack of water. Even though I opened the vents, it did get mid-80's. But, I have had some days I didn't open them till lunch and was quite hot in there and didn't burn anything. And I was really looking forward to the varieties I chose this year. I had one brandywine otv, 1 orange peach, 1 missouri pink love, 1 kellog breakfast, and two cherokee purple survive...so far. I didn't seed my trays till 2nd week of march i guess, so their size at hte moment should be on schedule. I was aiming for a mid May planting. Too late to re-tray.

So, now it's off to the mennonite nursery. Atleast they carry a pretty good selection of heirloom/indeterminates.
 
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Tin Man said:
Tilled my vegetable garden patch, added amendments, put in the tomatoes grown from seed (14). Putting in the peppers grown from seed tomorrow and the haricot verte seeds.
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Pretty much on schedule for your place. Was in Covington over the weekend and all the trees were filled out. I don't foresee a late frost this year up here, but my normal target just in case is mid-May to get everything in. I haven't tilled yet, but my garden soil should be better this year. I over wintered a green manure mix in hte garden to till under, and it's thriving right now. Should provide a good boost. Also through out a left over mix of top soil, sand, and decomposed mulch over one end to till in. Planted my strawberries in that.
 
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GVF said:
So aggravated this morning. Went to my SIL house for weekend. Everything watered. Vents open on greenhouse. Herb cups from garden center up against greenhouse outside. 16 tomato sprouts about 2 weeks upor so. Still just 2 leaf sprouts around 1" or so. They seem to sit in that state for a bit before they take off. I did a weak solution of miracle grow earlier in the week to feed the roots. Did another weak solution before leaving. Told son to check everything and make sure to water in needed. Left THursday. Check them last night after getting home. All the herbs toppled over and dry and wilted. 14 of 20 tomato sprouts burned off and not visible. No water in trays. All hte pepper and okra sprouts were fine. Don't know if I burned them with hte miracle grow water even though it was weak, or if the heat smoked them with hte lack of water. Even though I opened the vents, it did get mid-80's. But, I have had some days I didn't open them till lunch and was quite hot in there and didn't burn anything. And I was really looking forward to the varieties I chose this year. I had one brandywine otv, 1 orange peach, 1 missouri pink love, 1 kellog breakfast, and two cherokee purple survive...so far. I didn't seed my trays till 2nd week of march i guess, so their size at hte moment should be on schedule. I was aiming for a mid May planting. Too late to re-tray.

So, now it's off to the mennonite nursery. Atleast they carry a pretty good selection of heirloom/indeterminates.
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Sympathies on your seed failures. Last year, all but two of my seedlings died. May the nursery have some that you wish to grow.
 
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GVF said:
Pretty much on schedule for your place. Was in Covington over the weekend and all the trees were filled out. I don't foresee a late frost this year up here, but my normal target just in case is mid-May to get everything in. I haven't tilled yet, but my garden soil should be better this year. I over wintered a green manure mix in hte garden to till under, and it's thriving right now. Should provide a good boost. Also through out a left over mix of top soil, sand, and decomposed mulch over one end to till in. Planted my strawberries in that.
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I amend my vegetable garden patch with homemade compost every year or every other year, depending on the readiness of my compost. I’ve built up ~6” of good soil atop the ubiquitous red clay of my area.
 
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Tin Man said:
I amend my vegetable garden patch with homemade compost every year or every other year, depending on the readiness of my compost. I’ve built up ~6” of good soil atop the ubiquitous red clay of my area.
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And that's some serious red clay. I was in Hartwell. I fenced in the 3 acres behine hte house for the dogs. The part of hte fence closest to the house had little to no top soil. Not sure how hte grass grew on it. The post holes for the gate posts were in the worst of it. The auger cutting blades would smoke. Would bore it out about 6 inches at a time and put water in it to soak in and soften. And the water would still be in the holes after several hours. Took two days to get the gate posts set. My first post-growing up garden was at that house. The tiller would walk across that ground out in the yard. Didn't end up with a very large garden. Maybe 10x15 foot. Mostly started it for tomatoes. But, added family green beans and peppers. Up at the house, the top soil was added after construction. And I tilled in mushroom soil each spring for about 3 years and mulched in for the flower beds. Then never had to ammend or fertilize again. Around hte house was great soil for hte beds. Starting from about 20 feet out, it was red concrete. Never understood how I had decent grass. But, when the summer dry spell hit, I'd only have to mow once a month axcept for right around the house. Had alot of creeping red fescue too. So, it took the droughts well, and even in the rainy season, had very low growth. I did amend that garden some, but it was still worse than what i got now, yet I grew some serious maters and peppers somehow.
 
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Tin Man said:
Sympathies on your seed failures. Last year, all but two of my seedlings died. May the nursery have some that you wish to grow.
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Oh, they will have more than suitable varieties to select from. And this nursery will have them in the $3 4-packs. Lots of really good hybrid and heirloom varieties to choose from. I let it slide and didn't say anything to him, but it sure was aggravating that nothing was watered. Heck, could have been my fault anyway with the miracle grow possibly burning them. even though I mixed it weak. They may not have been ready for that. The first time maybe, but not twice in a week. Or, Maybe it was pouring hte water over that one time and not filling from the bottom. So, I just let it go. Odd that I only lost mater seedlings. They are likley alot more tender at that size. Peppers and okra are fine. And they're all about same size.
 
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youre no daisy said:
beat the rain and got 3 rows of greasy beans in last night.
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Got about 25 seed of those, but have never planted them to try. I might add them as a canning season support bean. Got some rattlesnakes too. Maybe I'll do mostly mine, and add some of the other two.

How do you like the greasy's? They get good ratings for flavor but seem better fit for higher areas ??
 
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Blueberries are definitely producing this year. Sadly I think a small hail storm a few weeks back took about 40-50% of them. Looking forward to what’s left.

Cherry bushes are growing a ton with only a few cherries. The Juliet only had a few flowers while the Romeo had 20 or so. I’m sure next year will be a big step up in production for both.

Raspberries are growing well. I still need to pull down both arms of the trellis, but I don’t expect anything else other than another good crop this year.

Peach trees are growing very well with at least 5-6” of new growth wherever new growth is found. My Contender still has all/most of its baby peaches, but my Belle of Georgia dropped all of its baby peaches. Probably still too young of a tree. They are about 4-5’ tall (from the ground).
 
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