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2020 Victory Gardens
mullet:
My first garden is finished and harvested. I've started the summer garden now . Planted okra, sweet potatoes and sweet peppers so far. Been busy picking figs, grapes and Barbados cherries. When it starts to cool I'll start some collard greens.
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Marc St Louis on July 15, 2020, 07:48:07 am ---Gardens were a bit slow to start here with a nasty cold spell at the beginning of June, lost all my Cabbage to frost. My Spaghetti Squash are finally starting to produce fruit. We started actively planting a native plant called Lambs Quarter that is tasty and full of nutrients, before I would just pick it out of the garden as a weed. Now I have to figure out a way to stop the Deer from eating it, they seem to like it as well.
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If you run out of lambs quarter your welcome to come pick some from my fields Marc. I have plenty yet. I know you can eat it. I’m assuming the tender tops before they go to seed? As good as it grows around here it seems like it would be a very easy garden crop.
Like Marc weather was very cold this spring. Then very warm. My sweet corn is almost ready to tassel. My green beans are starting to grow nicely.
My Navy Beans are starting to blossom. This field looks really nice. The rest are starting to grow now but not as nice as these. It’s been hotter and drier than they like. Got a little shower and a couple cool nights that perked them up a bit. Hopefully it doesn’t get to hot again and cook off the blossoms.
Bjrogg
WhistlingBadger:
That's great, BJ. My corn is tasseling, too. I don't think it ever has this early before. We got off to a rough start, but this is shaping up as the best garden yet.
YosemiteBen:
Ground Squirrels! My arch nemesis! wife had a pumpkin plant just starting to get some good growth and the d@@n squirrels got to it! Had to literally lock it in to keep them out! They like our squashes too! So far we have only gotten half squashes after they get done with them. Pack rats too! They really like green veggies. Carrots got about 2 in tall and then they were gone.... I have all kinds of traps. I put road flares in squirrel and gopher holes.... dont like poison.... just cant keep ahead of them.... The main population of squirrels live in a log pile between me and the neighbor - so when they present themselves to be nixed - I cant because there is a house behind them.... Lots of work to keep a garden here. Hard clay based soil lots of critters. everything is in raised beds.... Cant afford to sit out all day waiting for them with the .22 either... so, we get what we can out of it in the mean time...
WhistlingBadger:
--- Quote from: YosemiteBen on July 18, 2020, 09:13:42 am ---Ground Squirrels! My arch nemesis! wife had a pumpkin plant just starting to get some good growth and the d@@n squirrels got to it! Had to literally lock it in to keep them out! They like our squashes too! So far we have only gotten half squashes after they get done with them. Pack rats too! They really like green veggies. Carrots got about 2 in tall and then they were gone.... I have all kinds of traps. I put road flares in squirrel and gopher holes.... dont like poison.... just cant keep ahead of them.... The main population of squirrels live in a log pile between me and the neighbor - so when they present themselves to be nixed - I cant because there is a house behind them.... Lots of work to keep a garden here. Hard clay based soil lots of critters. everything is in raised beds.... Cant afford to sit out all day waiting for them with the .22 either... so, we get what we can out of it in the mean time...
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Need to ask @outbackbob48 to show you have to make figure-4's! :-T
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