With the 70 degree days we have been having I have broke out the shorts and the tiller. Time to plant stuff to eat or either for the sun to scorch. ::) As much as I hate hot weather here in the south, I can't help but get excited when the bluebirds start calling each other and the grass greens up. I have a few cool season crops going and I'm taking a chance on not getting a late frost with 3 rows of sweet corn. We'll see. :o
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These are some English peas and cabbage in my beds. Also have lettuce and carrots planted in the middle for shade when it gets warmer.
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I have a row each of garlic, red, yellow and white onions. The 3 new rows are sugar dot sweet corn (bicolor).
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Here is my new blackberry arbor. I have 2 varieties here. One will stick ya and one won't. The canes have been planted about 2 weeks and are starting to sprout leaves.
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And just because it makes the heart smile some daffodils in my back yard.
I hope this garden is successful this year. We will see what the weather brings. With the price of oil soaring again I need some food. :-\
Don
Wow Don, you are getting the early jump on things for sure. Your garden look great as always.
We were cleaning up some on the old homeplace today and my wife said, "Looks like a good place for a garden." Uh-oh, looks like I may have two this year :)
Quote from: WDH on February 28, 2011, 08:15:25 PM
We were cleaning up some on the old homeplace today and my wife said, "Looks like a good place for a garden." Uh-oh, looks like I may have two this year :)
With the way that food prices are going you WILL need 2.
Bruce
Thanks for the pictures Don. :)
I put some tomatoes in Friday. I grow in containers.
What a great garden you have.Nice raised beds and inground.Looks like a big set up.
I'm an Allium fanatic.Mainly onions but garlic as well.Walla Walla is a darn nice onion.
Here in Ontario we still have snow on the ground but we are about to go through a warm stretch with tons of rain.A few more weeks and I'll be putting in my onion bulbs,radish,lettuce,spinach and peas.A little later I'll do carrots,beets and beans.Tomatoes and peppers will follow along with beans and squash.Perhaps a few melons.
Hey Scotty! I see ol' Tom finally got his hooks into you, eh? :D Welcome to the Forestry Forum. :) :) :)
planted my potatoes and onions on tuesday and some of them on monday.
I probably eat 2 or 3 onions a week. Any time I have a piece of meat cooking, I need an onion. Need an onion for the salad to. ;D When I buy onions it's by the 10 lb sac. I'll have to see if I can get some Spanish onion bulbs. 8) I'm going to be growing a lot more jalapeno and bell peppers. I love them little hot babies. :D
Don, you should be able to grow two crops starting this early. ;D With all the garden and the shop construction, your not going to have much time for sleep. ;)
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I think if it's a dry summer again, I'm going to invest in some hose, but I might have a rubber barrel I can rig up under the eves trough. :)
It will rain eventually and a 1/4" can fill a barrel when you have a huge roof. ;D ;D
Nice looking gardens again Don. I like to grow onions and garlic as well. I like walla walla and copra. SD, do you put out sets? I have had better luck getting nice bulbs from seeds, then transplanting them. Or buy seedlings. Just curious how it works for you.
It's 4°F. My green thumb is still dormant. :D
Quote from: DanG on March 03, 2011, 02:45:45 PM
Hey Scotty! I see ol' Tom finally got his hooks into you, eh? :D Welcome to the Forestry Forum. :) :) :)
Darn big hook it was DanG.Nearly ripped my cheek out! :D
Thanks for the welcome.
Quote from: ErikC on March 03, 2011, 09:00:07 PM
SD, do you put out sets?
I have not purchased any for 10 years, but I always got sets. You have to go early to cull out the soft mushy ones because most are in big bins. :D
How long to trays of planted onion seed get to a bulb? I have about 3 months before I can plant. ;)
Hi Scotty, I see you have been a member a while, only recently posted. I just wanted to say welcome to FF. 8)
DonK, impressive as usual. Have you ever had deer eat your onions? Last time I planted them (a few years ago :-[), the deer ate them all.
so far the deer here do not eat onions. :-X i sorta wish i had not said that now. ::)
It takes no longer to get onions from transplants than sets. The problem with sets is this: They are already one year old, and onions make a bulb on the first year, and seed on the second. So a lot of them can end up bolting, and the bulb looking more like a leek.. Especially if they get stressed from heat or lack of water. The transplants just want to bulb no matter what. Sets work often enough though, just the percentages are less in your favor.
If we get a decent amount of rain this summer and fall, I hope to do 2nd crops of potatos and the cold crops. Hopefully I will get 2 tomato crops in as well. If I was retired my fields would look like a truck farmers. :D I broke the ground for my pinkeyes yesterday. The forcasted rain should soften the ground and make the second tillage even better.
Don
Quote from: fishpharmer on March 04, 2011, 06:35:52 AM
Hi Scotty, I see you have been a member a while, only recently posted. I just wanted to say welcome to FF. 8)
Thanks for the welcome.
DonK, impressive as usual. Have you ever had deer eat your onions? Last time I planted them (a few years ago :-[), the deer ate them all.
Quote from: ErikC on March 04, 2011, 10:45:22 AM
It takes no longer to get onions from transplants than sets. The problem with sets is this: They are already one year old, and onions make a bulb on the first year, and seed on the second. So a lot of them can end up bolting, and the bulb looking more like a leek.. Especially if they get stressed from heat or lack of water. The transplants just want to bulb no matter what. Sets work often enough though, just the percentages are less in your favor.
That's true about onions being biennial and the risk of sets/bulbs bolting but that risk can be greatly reduced by purchasing bulbs no more than half inch in diameter.Larger bulbs have a greater risk of bolting.I grow hundreds of onions and I hand pick my bulbs(purchase in bulk)so I get the size I want.It's true that a hot stretch of weather can bring on bolting but it rarely happens in my zone.Starting with sets can shorten the time to harvest by 4-6 weeks as opposed to direct sown seed.But as you say,with transplants there's not a big difference.Another thing that can cause a bulb to end up looking like a leek is growing the wrong variety for ones area.There are long day onions and short day.Onions produce top growth first and once the amount of light hours reach a certain length,the tops stop growing and the bulb develops.A long day variety grown in the wrong area may not have its bulb development triggered and you get a lot of top growth and a leek like bulb.
Cheers
Looking very good Don. I had better catch up on my tilling, but it will not be nearly what you have.
My tillage is limited to the amount I can turn with a shovel in 3 - 4'x8' raised beds. :D I have scaled way back because a big garden just goes to waste in my instance, one man can't eat all that stuff. :D
Quote from: scottyblue on March 04, 2011, 02:22:42 PM
Quote from: ErikC on March 04, 2011, 10:45:22 AM
It takes no longer to get onions from transplants than sets. The problem with sets is this: They are already one year old, and onions make a bulb on the first year, and seed on the second. So a lot of them can end up bolting, and the bulb looking more like a leek.. Especially if they get stressed from heat or lack of water. The transplants just want to bulb no matter what. Sets work often enough though, just the percentages are less in your favor.
That's true about onions being biennial and the risk of sets/bulbs bolting but that risk can be greatly reduced by purchasing bulbs no more than half inch in diameter.Larger bulbs have a greater risk of bolting.I grow hundreds of onions and I hand pick my bulbs(purchase in bulk)so I get the size I want.It's true that a hot stretch of weather can bring on bolting but it rarely happens in my zone.Starting with sets can shorten the time to harvest by 4-6 weeks as opposed to direct sown seed.But as you say,with transplants there's not a big difference.Another thing that can cause a bulb to end up looking like a leek is growing the wrong variety for ones area.There are long day onions and short day.Onions produce top growth first and once the amount of light hours reach a certain length,the tops stop growing and the bulb develops.A long day variety grown in the wrong area may not have its bulb development triggered and you get a lot of top growth and a leek like bulb.
Cheers
I should have said welcome Scotty. Sorry for the bad manners. :-\
The day length is important. You guys have plenty for any long day onion up there I bet. We get by fine here with them too, but you have to get an early enough start so there's plenty of growth or they won't turn out. Mom and dad grow hundreds and hundreds at their place for the farmer's market. I get by with a couple hundred for just us. Transplanting seed starts is cheaper than sets too for that many, if you start the seeds. All the onion seeds I need cost 3 or 4 dollars. :)
Just a bit of worthless information to all you Northerners. Did you know that you cannot grow onions in the tropics as the days are the same length and the onion doesnt know it is supposed to make a bulb and get ready forwinter as the days are all the same lenght and dont get shorter and send the message to get ready for next year..
If some one has figuered a way please let me kow.
Today I got a melon flower and several pickle flowers. Tomatoes are looking good also. My radisheses and lettuce look like it will be a disaster.
Could you fool them with shade in the same way we use a grow light to start tomatoes?
I dont know. ::)
Jim, can't you plant bulbs? I think it would be complicated from seed. I don't think shading would work. It has to be darkness, like in some kind of lidded container. Then cold stratified after the daylight is gradually reduced over time. Not frozen, but refrigerated for a few weeks and then plant the sets.
I said shaded because I didn't think darked was a word ::)
There are a lot of onions grown here in Florida. Perhaps you just need to find the right kind of onion. I know that we are farther from the equator than you are, but it looks like something would work.
I like the tops almost as much as I like the bulbs.
You still have a change in daylight and a dormancy in Florida Tom. :) But I agree a good onion top is good in the pan or a salad. ;D
Quote from: Paul_H on March 04, 2011, 07:50:23 PM
Could you fool them with shade in the same way we use a grow light to start tomatoes?
I wondered that too? I have fooled fish into spawning early or late, by holding them in tanks and manipulating the photoperiod with timers.
Jim, something like that may work for onions too? Seems like a lot of trouble. Or, what about putting something like a tall, large diameter pipe over your onions so it limits the the amount of direct sunlight?
Quote from: ErikC on March 04, 2011, 06:17:39 PM
Quote from: scottyblue on March 04, 2011, 02:22:42 PM
Quote from: ErikC on March 04, 2011, 10:45:22 AM
It takes no longer to get onions from transplants than sets. The problem with sets is this: They are already one year old, and onions make a bulb on the first year, and seed on the second. So a lot of them can end up bolting, and the bulb looking more like a leek.. Especially if they get stressed from heat or lack of water. The transplants just want to bulb no matter what. Sets work often enough though, just the percentages are less in your favor.
That's true about onions being biennial and the risk of sets/bulbs bolting but that risk can be greatly reduced by purchasing bulbs no more than half inch in diameter.Larger bulbs have a greater risk of bolting.I grow hundreds of onions and I hand pick my bulbs(purchase in bulk)so I get the size I want.It's true that a hot stretch of weather can bring on bolting but it rarely happens in my zone.Starting with sets can shorten the time to harvest by 4-6 weeks as opposed to direct sown seed.But as you say,with transplants there's not a big difference.Another thing that can cause a bulb to end up looking like a leek is growing the wrong variety for ones area.There are long day onions and short day.Onions produce top growth first and once the amount of light hours reach a certain length,the tops stop growing and the bulb develops.A long day variety grown in the wrong area may not have its bulb development triggered and you get a lot of top growth and a leek like bulb.
Cheers
I should have said welcome Scotty. Sorry for the bad manners. :-\
The day length is important. You guys have plenty for any long day onion up there I bet. We get by fine here with them too, but you have to get an early enough start so there's plenty of growth or they won't turn out. Mom and dad grow hundreds and hundreds at their place for the farmer's market. I get by with a couple hundred for just us. Transplanting seed starts is cheaper than sets too for that many, if you start the seeds. All the onion seeds I need cost 3 or 4 dollars. :)
If I ever develop good manners I'll be in a position to scold someone for lack of same :D
Yes,starting seed indoors and transplanting them out would be cheaper than sets.I really need to do more of that.Some heirloom onions I can only get as seed.I direct sow them but they have a higher failure rate than sets when direct sown so yes,I need to do what you do.Start them and transplant.
Cheers
Welcome to the forum, Scotty. Concerning deer and the onions, just yesterday I noticed where a couple strolled through the garden looking to see what I had on the buffet. I saw where one had chomped a top but spit it out. I hope they don't get a taste for them. I know they will eat okra and peppers even the hot ones. Never thought I would see that. ::)
Don
Would you call that "Pre-seasoned" meat?
Jim-I see some onions are being grown in a group they call "day-neutral". I think Candy is one variety. I don't really know anything about them, but they are supposed to grow without being as photo-sensitive. Maybe one of that type could help you get onions?
I never imagined that deer would eat okra. But, I have had them nibble okra that was planted outside the garden fence just like you have seen, Don. When Miss Scarlet was alive, there was never any problem with deer in the garden. She could smell them a mile away it seems. Now, I need another garden watch dog or more fence :).
I vote for another garden watch dog. :)
edit: Rhett, by chance?
If it is a male bloodhound, his name will be Forrest. In the South, it is common to name bloodhounds after Confederate generals. However, that would not work for a female, hence, I chose a Southern Belle as you so clearly understood. Rhett would be absolutely appropriate as well!
I'm in the same boat WDH, since ol' Goofy and Pluto went to their reward. I got some good dogs that keep my tools safe, but they don't give a hoot about the garden. I'm scrambling for some 10' fencing! :-\
I'm considering chaining the Mother-in-law out in the yard. Might as well put some of that animosity to good use. :-\
That would keep the deer as well as all the neighbors away for sure.
Quote from: Don K on March 05, 2011, 10:19:31 AM
Welcome to the forum, Scotty. Concerning deer and the onions, just yesterday I noticed where a couple strolled through the garden looking to see what I had on the buffet. I saw where one had chomped a top but spit it out. I hope they don't get a taste for them. I know they will eat okra and peppers even the hot ones. Never thought I would see that. ::)
Don
Even hot peppers?Wow.What wont they eat.I have a ton of deer around here but the fence seems to keep them out.Not that they're not able to leap over it if they had a mind to.Deer can put Olympic hurdlers to shame:)Of course many of my neighbours have dogs which keep the deer away.
Thanks for the welcome
Cheers
Quote from: Tom on March 05, 2011, 12:56:37 PM
Would you call that "Pre-seasoned" meat?
That's rich Tom :D
Here in Saskatchewan to get onion bulbs of any size we have to trample the tops over once they start getting tall. This seems to cause the bulbs to grow. Before we put the sets into the ground we sprinkle a good bit of ash to topcoat the ground. The ashes come from our own woodstove and we do this to prevent the cutworms and ants from chewing and killing the sets.
Brad.
Coon, we've always bent the tops here to. And have used wood ashes.
I am back in the gardening business after an unwanted hiatus last summer. The wife and I moved in July last summer, so it was too late to plant a garden at that point (I did stick a few hot peppers in the ground, and then some broccoli for winter, but that hardly qualified as a garden). We just closed on our new house last week, and it has lots of fenced-in gardening space in the back. A bit shady, but it will do! I'll try to get some pictures this afternoon :)
Tom, I didn't know we have the same MIL. :D I'm going to make some raised beds as soon as it quits raining, that will be good therapy for Karen. I hate gardening but sure do enjoy the end result.
Dodgy, I got a big garden in the works this year. I had to fence in an additional area because the wild hogs showed up the other week and rooted up a section where I planted tomatoes and peppers last year. Between the drought, bugs, deer, and hogs, it is a wonder that you can accomplish anything gardenwise.
I just purchased my 3 tea rose bushes for the next ten year stint. I put them in pots in the yard. ;D
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Quote from: WDH on April 14, 2011, 04:53:02 PM
Between the drought, bugs, deer, and hogs, it is a wonder that you can accomplish anything gardenwise.
Don't forget the squirrels. I am having a time with the squirrels digging around in the beds for my seeds, and then whatever actually comes up they nip off at ground level >:( Still trying to decide what I'm going to do about them.
Quote from: Dodgy Loner on April 15, 2011, 09:36:55 AM
......Don't forget the squirrels. I am having a time with the squirrels digging around in the beds for my seeds, and then whatever actually comes up they nip off at ground level >:( Still trying to decide what I'm going to do about them.
And the subject of food comes up again. :D :D
Are you looking for some squirrel recipes? ;)
Add skunks, cats, coons and whistle pigs. :D
Get a live critter trap and bait it. A squirrel road trip (trips!) is in order
Had a guy here today that wants to Turkey hunt on my place. "I won't shoot anything around your garden". I figured the best thing he could do is hunt someplace else.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on April 15, 2011, 10:44:20 AM
Add skunks, cats, coons and whistle pigs. :D
Please tell me we're not still talking recipes? :D :D
Sure. ;D
SwampDonkey,
My tillage is limited to the amount I can turn with a shovel in 3 - 4'x8' raised beds. I have scaled way back because a big garden just goes to waste in my instance, one man can't eat all that stuff.
I suspect that if you had excess vegetables, a local church would be happy to take them for you. Never knew a church that did not have some members who could use some help.
Jim, there are quite a few vegetables and fruits that do not do well near the Equator. I noticed that when I was in the Solomon Islands in 2002. They are at 8 degree South. Although the Yard long beans were really good.
Green thumbs are going to have to wait a bit here in northeastern Illinois, as we had 3 inches of snow this morning.
I have some update pics finally I have been promising. Things are coming along nicely and if the rain continues, we might not go hungry this year. ;D
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peas and butterbeans. I have another plot of snap beans on the hill at my grandparents old garden. Some corn and okra up there as well.
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Onions, corn, and taters i started this post with.
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Some random flower photos to mix it up a little.
I also planted 60 hills of melons this week. Now to guard from the coyotes. Blasted fruit mongers. >:(
Don
Don, looks fantastic!!! 8) 8)
So what do you do with all your spare time? :D :D
Beautiful garden Don!
I envy your rain. That is an awesome start this year!
My goodness, what beautiful gardens! I know how much work goes into creating those beauties, either that, or you folks do not have weeds down there! :D Soon you will be harvesting the fruits of all your labor. Good for you!!
Those gardens look awesome Don as usual. I don't know how you do it all, plus go to work, and then build a shop in spare time. ::) :D
We are getting rain here to, and the stuff has sure greened up. The leaves are coming on faster now, but it's not all that warm yet.
Dad has some peas and taters planted in his garden. Some farms have some grain planted.
It may be cool there yet, but the sad fact is that when it gets warm there, I will be melted and run into a puddle and then go up in a puff of steam. :D
Don
Very nice. If my garden doesn't produce this year, I will know where to go to get fresh veggies. ;D
Still have some moisture in the ground, but could use a inch or two. Small chance coming this weekend.
Don
Very nice garden! :)
Wished I lived a few thousand miles closer cuz I know whose garden I'd be raiding. ;) :D Nice garden by the way. The dirt work is about to start on ours in the next few days, then the planting will begin. Was planning on putting in a few acres of spuds this year to sell but there ain't much seed to be had in bulk due to poor crops last year. ::) Many of the larger market gardens are only getting half their orders of spud seed due to this.
How about Manitoba, they grow a lot of spuds there. We could ship you some from NB I suppose. :D :D
One farmer from here has been sitting in a Lebanese jail since March. Seems he was on INTERPOL for exporting bad seed in Algeria, extradition pending. He has a brother in Manitoba.
Here is the Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=25902406772&topic=16422
Swamp, we talked to a few producers in Manitoba as well. Many areas of Manitoba are in flood stages and the spuds are getting wet and rotting. In other areas the seed is in high demand and they want very rediculous prices that I ain't gonna pay. I found some seed here from one of the hutterite colonies but it's not registered seed cuz it hasn't been inspected. I need registered seed for crop insurance and saleing purposes. I'll just put in what I can buy and be happy with that for this year.
I thought you just wanted a few garden seed. What seed isn't expensive? ::)
Tilled up a small plot, repeat, small, yesterday and put out 17 mater plants and 7 pepper plants (5 habanero and 2 serano). Also a few yellow squash. First thing I 've planted besides a couple of small potatoe patches in years. I'm really excited and looking forward to the maters and peppers.
Good luck Lee. I love to watch things grow. They taste better than store bought anyway.
Don
The hardest part is keeping Lindy's birds away from it. Her peacocks will destroy a planting in a heartbeat.
I have to fence my garden to keep the deer and hogs out of it.
Skunks, dogs and cats. None of'm mine. :D
Just tell her that's chicken on the grill. ;D
We got home from the beach last week and the garden was waiting for our attention. It was a restful vac. with fantastic weather. Here is a couple of views from our 10th floor balcony.
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Gulf of Mexico at Orange Beach, AL
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Looking towards Pensacola, FL
We had just dug our new potatoes before we left and I knew the corn from my little test plot I planted really early would be ready. We also picked our first mess of snap beans and cooked them with some new potatoes and fresh red onion from the garden. The corn is a bicolor called sugar dot. I got that seed from Wal-mart. :D It is super sweet.
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I don't have any pics of the finished product on a plate because I wouldn't take time to get the camera. ;D
Also the blueberries are coming off now and we average a gal. every 2 days. Also probably be harvesting some honey from the bees soon. They are filling supers at a amazing rate. Now if we could just get some rain, things would be golden.
Don
:D :D :D When the H ::) do you have time to vacation? ;D
That garden crop looks mighty tasty. Corn already? I thought it was snowing down there a month ago? :D
Don,
Any lingering signs from the oil spill?
Your post made me hungry.........again :).
Don, you sir are a cruel and vicious man. :D
A bountiful harvest. Great views of beach too. Did you swim?
I was there for 2 full days before I hardly left the room. ;D My grandson came down with his mother for a couple of days, so we played in the pool one day and went to the beach the next day. He is 3 1/2 and fascinated with the swamp and alligators so we built a life size gator in the sand. I started doing them for my daughter when she was little but this was my biggest yet. He was somewhere between 10 to 12 feet long. That took a while.
Danny, the water was clear, no tarballs. I dug a hole in the sand for Jay to stand in, maybe 36" deep, figured I would find a layer of tar. Nothing. They have done a decent job of recovery. At least on the beach I was on. The crowds seem to be coming back like pre spill days.
That is my first real vacation since 2007. Jay went on that one too, but he was 4 months away from popping out of the oven. :D :D :)
Our last real cold weather was about the 3rd week of Feb. so I took a chance and planted that small patch on a whimsy. I have 2 other patches coming on. One putting on ears and one I just layed by. It is smothering hot down here already with high humidity. I took about a 20 minute stroll yesterday when I got home from work to check on the crops. It was 6ish in the evening and I sweated down in that short time. I'm gonna try to finish shingling the shop this week and I am dreading the heat. Those shingles will be like limp noodles.
Don
Yeah, but wasn't February just a month ago? :D
Only high humidity we get is when it's raining. :D Well, ok when it's over 80 as well. :D I couldn't take that kind of heat down there unless it's dry heat by a stove. :D :D
SD,
It will wring you out. Like on the old washing machine with the squeeze rollers. But, I hate the bitter cold, too :).
Don,
Sounds like you got to relax and unwind. That corn looks excellent. I love it cut off the cob and creamed. I don't grow it though, only store bought or from the farmer's market.
No rain here for going on the EIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! week. One of the worst springs that I ever remember. I have kept my garden alive by watering from the well. I will hate to see my power bill.
Quote from: WDH on May 31, 2011, 07:10:30 PM
SD,
But, I hate the bitter cold, too :).
That's only a problem when you realize you need more than shorts, t-shirt, and sneakers on. :D ;)
Sounds like fun.Building the alligator for Jay anyways seems to top the bill. Any pictures of the work in progress?
My wife has some on her camera. I'll try to get a download from her.
It is dry. I'm toting water to my melons. Thank goodness for a FEL on a tractor.
Don