JB0704
I Gots Goats
I know next to nothing about gardening. This is my 4th garden. The first two were absolute disasters. LAst year's was a success. I was hoping to do a build-a-long thread in here to see if I could get some of yall to jump in with tips n such from now through harvest time. I just got the seeds in the ground yesterday, my 14 year old daughter drove the tractor while I walked behind and made sure the planter was dropping the seeds. It's about a half acre garden, about 80 yards long.
This year I am growing:
- 5 rows corn, peaches and cream (wanted golden queen and silver queen but that danged golden queen is EXPENSIVE)
- 4 rows purple hulls (I have three daughters who will need something to do this summer, shelling peas is an excellent chore)
- 3 rows okry (had 4 rows last year, cuttin' back a bit even though erybody all around came and got all they wanted)
- 2 rows pole beans (This is first attempt at pole beans, always did bush beans and it was just too much to harvest them all at ground level, we got a bunch, but felt like a lot was wasted too)
- 12 Mater plants
- 12 assorted pepper plants
- A couple squash plants as an experiment
- A couple cucumber plants of the small pickling variety (will be asking for picklin' help later on, hopefully)
The maters, cucumbers, squash, and peppers aren't in the ground yet, but I bought them yesterday from a local fella who grows em in a greenhouse. Good dude, I trust his stuff. I haven't built the fencing for the beans yet, but plan to run cattle panel on posts. I'' post pics of all that as it gets done, hopefully this week.
Susbequent posts will also be questions. Hope to gain some good info from this buncha experts.
This year I am growing:
- 5 rows corn, peaches and cream (wanted golden queen and silver queen but that danged golden queen is EXPENSIVE)
- 4 rows purple hulls (I have three daughters who will need something to do this summer, shelling peas is an excellent chore)
- 3 rows okry (had 4 rows last year, cuttin' back a bit even though erybody all around came and got all they wanted)
- 2 rows pole beans (This is first attempt at pole beans, always did bush beans and it was just too much to harvest them all at ground level, we got a bunch, but felt like a lot was wasted too)
- 12 Mater plants
- 12 assorted pepper plants
- A couple squash plants as an experiment
- A couple cucumber plants of the small pickling variety (will be asking for picklin' help later on, hopefully)
The maters, cucumbers, squash, and peppers aren't in the ground yet, but I bought them yesterday from a local fella who grows em in a greenhouse. Good dude, I trust his stuff. I haven't built the fencing for the beans yet, but plan to run cattle panel on posts. I'' post pics of all that as it gets done, hopefully this week.
Susbequent posts will also be questions. Hope to gain some good info from this buncha experts.
