Raised Bed Gardening

Mooseherder · April 11, 2009, 11:17:38 AM

That does sound like a great idea.

We had some very windy days here where the Peas could have used that type of stabilization. :D

Jeff · April 11, 2009, 11:21:49 AM

Your tomatoes look a lot better then the ones I have started. I have a puny grow light on them, and they just look weak.

I could use my fancy-dancy burnt bed trellis in two different configurations, although I think the pup tent looking version might make it hard to harvest the snow peas I plan on growing on it.

Mooseherder · April 11, 2009, 11:33:39 AM

That just gave me a idea. There is a piece of plastic lattice hanging around here somewhere.

Mooseherder · April 13, 2009, 09:53:21 PM

Harvested my first Pea tonight. My wife and I split it. :D
It was DanG good and sweet. Today is day 55 of them planted. Got a few more days to maturity.

Then I brought a couple more with me in my shirt pocket and told the folks we were at dinner with that I had a special announcement. ;D :D

I pulled out 2 fresh Peas.

Jeff · April 13, 2009, 11:31:39 PM

I have my snow pea seeds right here between me and my monitor. I'm not to successful so far with my gardening this year. I took all of my tomato plat starts outside two days ago, for a coupke hours when it warmed up and got sunny, as they really looked like they needed some real sunlight. I dont have any south facing windows, so the pitiful grow light I have is all they get.

What I'm getting at is. I killed em. All of em. :-\ I didnt mean too. :'(

Paul_H · April 14, 2009, 12:09:36 AM

Like Lenny and the rabbits :D

ellmoe · April 14, 2009, 06:36:13 AM

Quote from: Jeff on April 13, 2009, 11:31:39 PM
I. I took all of my tomato plat starts outside two days ago, for a coupke hours when it warmed up and got sunny, as they really looked like they needed some real sunlight. I dont have any south facing windows, so the pitiful grow light I have is all they get.

What I'm getting at is. I killed em. All of em. :-\ I didnt mean too. :'(

Wow, you must have some sissified tomatos up there. A couple of hours of sunlight and there gone?

Burlkraft · April 14, 2009, 07:35:12 AM

Mebby it was the 28° that got 'em :D :D

Jeff · April 14, 2009, 07:41:58 AM

It was 50 that day. It was probably the 20 degree temp shock.

WH_Conley · April 14, 2009, 07:47:27 AM

Lost all of my tomato seedlings and now my peppers are dying. No idea why.

WDH · April 14, 2009, 07:38:03 PM

Quote from: Paul_H on April 14, 2009, 12:09:36 AM
Like Lenny and the rabbits :D

Paul,

You are a well read man ;D.

Paul_H · April 14, 2009, 09:37:18 PM

Bugs Bunny :D

WDH · April 15, 2009, 05:58:31 PM

Tell me it wasn't bugs

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Mooseherder · April 19, 2009, 06:37:03 PM

We have been out of town for a few days and I was anxious to check on the garden when we got back this afternoon. The newest edition is the Butternut Squash have flowered and are taking shape.

Scuba_Dave · April 22, 2009, 08:49:19 PM

Dang, I'm just getting ready to move stuff into my garden
I just finished setting up a greenhouse a few weeks ago
Cold frames will be built for next year

SwampDonkey · April 25, 2009, 06:23:24 AM

I'm just getting ready to go fetch some 2 x 6 to make 3, 8x4 beds down the edge of the lawn on a SW facing slope. I don't really need to buy any soil, but maybe get a few bags to mix in my own soil and few maple leaves stirred in. I won't plant until May unless I get a couple packets of carrot, peas and parsnip and put under plastic. It's going to be almost 80 degrees today. 8) Unfortunately short lived, back down to 40-50's by Sunday afternoon I think. :( I've done tomatoes along side my barn with a window frame this time of year before. They were like trees by mid May and had 'maters in July. Mom's uncle, who was in his 80's and still gardening at the time was flabbergasted. Gotta give them old timers something to talk about. :D :D

Mooseherder · April 25, 2009, 08:08:06 AM

I bought some more Pea seeds yesterday to start over with that commodity. :D
2/3 of my Pea transplant isn't doing good. 1/3 is producing just fine. I'm thinking the transplant might have been the problem. That or the high winds we had a few weeks back.
The production isn't keeping up with my consumption. ;D

Burlkraft · April 25, 2009, 09:34:43 AM

I just put my peas in the ground yesterday. We got a nice rain this morning and it won't be long and the wabbits will have peas to eat :D :D :D

SwampDonkey · April 25, 2009, 10:37:11 AM

Well, I constructed my frames and then hauled them off to my garden site. I took the grub hoe and tore up all the sod and picked the rocks off. Hauled that off. I felt like Harold when I was dinging up lost iron treasures. I just tossed them right into the wheel barrow with the rocks. :D Now I have to take the shovel and shave some more sod along the edging and sink the timbers a couple inches in the soil to keep stuff from growing under and into the beds. That sure is a work out. Time for a long break bub. ;D :D

Patty · April 25, 2009, 11:42:14 AM

Norm planted peas in one of the raised beds earlier this week, his greens (we call it the salad bed) were planted last weekend. The raised beds seem to be warmer than the soil on the ground, so we are able to plant in them earlier in the spring. I checked our other beds, my rhubarb is up, and the asparagus is up 8) It looks like my strawberries came up too early and were wiped out by the blizzard we had a couple weeks ago. :

Does anyone have a suggestion for really good strawberry plants?

Burlkraft · April 25, 2009, 12:44:57 PM

Quote from: Patty on April 25, 2009, 11:42:14 AM
Does anyone have a suggestion for really good strawberry plants?

Toss them in balsamic vinegar with peas and tomatoes :D :D :D

Mooseherder · April 25, 2009, 01:08:25 PM

Dat were funni right dare. :D

SwampDonkey · April 25, 2009, 01:15:17 PM

I wish I knew the variety I had years ago. I had dug some plants in the fall and stuffed them int grocery bags and put them in the freezer. I forgot about them for 3 years or more. :D I found them in the bottom when we were cleaning the freezer one spring and planted them in the garden. WOW, they took. 8)

Dad grows some under floating fabric this time of year, and they are ready in late May. Regular uncovered ones fruit in late June. Don't know the variety.

Well I got the 4'x8' frames buried into the soil. Just need to put a sprinkling of maple leaves and new soil in with them to mix. Too windy today to deal with leaves. Some of the old soil is fairly gravelly but lots of dark loam to. Never know where your going to strike the gravel around here. Sure was a mess of rocks in that soil to. I'll be sore for a couple days, gotta get whipped into shape to cut brush. ;D

SwampDonkey · April 25, 2009, 04:33:17 PM

Well, once a fella gets going....

I went and got some compost manure and mixed it with my soil and a few leaves. I also picked up my seeds for this year. I'm going to wait and see what the long range weather looks like and plant some root crops maybe next week. I have some floating fabric to lay on the seed bed for awhile, keeps the warmth in and the frost out. Sure is hot today, 78 F in the shade. ;D