Garden

[Crakajak]

Liberating melons from captivity is seen by some as sport. The person who planted said melons may not agree.

Hope they shoot rock salt and not OObuck.

 

[sportsman94]

Add you some mushroom compost,or bags of black cow,egg shells and coffee grounds.
Get a soil test and adjust this fall for a better garden next spring.

I just got done spreadin 3 yards of compost yesterday. I also put about 500 pounds of lime when I first broke up the ground. When I get my chicken coop done I hope to have a good amount of compost to be able to add in yearly. So far have field peas, sweet potatoes, peppers, and sunflowers planted. First time dealing with actual farm weeds. Coffee weed, pigweed, morning glory, all of the good ones. Me and the wheel hoe are going to have to stay on top of things.

 

[livinoutdoors]

I just got done spreadin 3 yards of compost yesterday. I also put about 500 pounds of lime when I first broke up the ground. When I get my chicken coop done I hope to have a good amount of compost to be able to add in yearly. So far have field peas, sweet potatoes, peppers, and sunflowers planted. First time dealing with actual farm weeds. Coffee weed, pigweed, morning glory, all of the good ones. Me and the wheel hoe are going to have to stay on top of things.

Sounds like you got it handled. I was gonna say get some chickens for manure but you already have a plan! Them worms will show up as soon as that chicken bedding hits the ground.

 

[fireman32]

Sportsman94, don’t make the mistake I did and let your chickens roam in your garden. They pecked every one of my tomato’s before I realized what they were doing. We keep them in the pen now til growing season is over.

 

[sportsman94]

Sportsman94, don’t make the mistake I did and let your chickens roam in your garden. They pecked every one of my tomato’s before I realized what they were doing. We keep them in the pen now til growing season is over.

They are going to be far away from the garden I hope! I’ve read too many stories about the damage they can do. Want to build a chicken tractor so I can concentrate them where I want them in the garden when the veggies play out.

 

[Shadow11]

My little back yard garden in nega. Our main, big garden is up the road at my parent's. I planted about 75% of this one in scuppernongs, blue berries, and strawberries a few years ago. There's still enough room to cram in a few vegetables each year for myself.

Squash is coming in good now. I would probably have had enough beans by now for a small pot, but had to replant most of it due to rabbits. It'll be a little while on the maters. Getting a few peppers, cucumbers, and onions.

Got some half runner beans on the left, yellow squash/zucchini in middle, and a few maters on right side. Not in photo, but I've got some cayenne, jalapeno, and banana peppers scattered randomly about. Also a couple hills of cucumbers and a couple of red/yellow onion beds down in the lower corner.

 

[fireman32]

Ol garden is about done.

 

[Shadow11]

Couple of good lookn melons you got there, fireman. Where bouts are you located, if u don't mind me asking?

 

[B. White]

This is the first year my spot has been planted at the new place, so it is not very pretty with grass, that if I had pulled would have pulled the other plant roots up with it. Also pulling a lot of coffee weeds from a few spots that took off with all the rain. I hope to have the tiller I've had on order since March before the fall, so a good spraying and tilling should make it a little better next year.

It still looks fine once it is picked.

 

[Shadow11]

Couple pics from earlier this morning of some cucumber plants that didn't get used. They pretty much got left at the edge of yard to die.

A few of them grew roots through the bottom of those little containers. That spot is rock hard clay with lots of tree roots. Darn things are doing as good as the ones in garden, lol!

 

[fireman32]

Couple of good lookn melons you got there, fireman. Where bouts are you located, if u don't mind me asking?

Right square in the corner of SW Dooly Co.

 

[hawkeye123]

My lil garden is really producing this year..just counted 65 maters ripe or getting ripe picked last 3 days

 

[Shadow11]

My lil garden is really producing this year..just counted 65 maters ripe or getting ripe picked last 3 daysView attachment 1091544View attachment 1091545

Man, that's a great looking pile of maters! Was that top pic from earlier in the year? How does it look now?

 

[hawkeye123]

Man, that's a great looking pile of maters! Was that top pic from earlier in the year? How does it look now?

A couple of weeks ago..planted late 4-25..in Monroe co..maters aren't even yellowing at bottom..

 

[B. White]

I'm still digging a fair amount of groceries out of the coffee weeds and grass every other day. I keep thinking it will peter out after the next picking, but keeps going. I planted a late row of pole beans that should start producing soon. For some reason the deer are all in it every day ( I have had to run them out once or twice when they ignored me walking up), but they are eating the tops out of a couple of different weeds and leaving most everything else alone. Strangest thing I have seen, but I'll take it. We canned stewed tomatoes last week. Will go pick another batch this evening.

Something had eaten half of a ripe cantaloupe the other day. I think it was coyote based on how it was eaten, but could be wrong. I hope they leave the watermelons alone.

 

[sportsman94]

That looks great B White! My new garden is coming in way prettier than I expected. Okra getting close to flowering and peas starting to flower too. Sweet potatoes are running and flowering. Peppers are putting on quite a few per plant. I have been neglecting the garden to get other projects done (chicken coop and run for 17 chickens we just got from a guy who was moving), but woke up and wheel hoed and fertilized everything this morning. I’ll try to put an updated pic up tomorrow

 

[sportsman94]

Here’s my garden after getting some weeding done yesterday. First row red burgundy okra, two rows of white acre peas, sunflowers, a few peppers, 100 or so sweet potatoes, and a row of ozark Razorback peas in the midst of the sweet potato jungle. Have about 2/3 of the garden planted in a buckwheat/ic pea cover crop that will hopefully get turned under and replanted this afternoon and stay that way until it’s time to plant fall crops

 

[Shadow11]

Getting some stuff in up here in the nega hills. My folk's garden started off great, but 26 days of rain in July did a lot of damage. It's in a low spot, though. That one does better in a dry summer. They also had a big outbreak of Mexican beetles this year, which did a lot of damage. That was a first there, in the 50 years that they've had a garden there.

I got a pretty good pile out of my little garden behind the house this morning. Not too far from my folks. Mine is kind of on the side of a hill, so it drains well.

I brought in a few straight neck yellow squash, cucumbers, and okra. A few mortgage lifter, better boy, and yellow pear maters. A few banana, cayenne, and jalapeno peppers. Also got a good pile of mountain and state half runner beans.

This little row of half runner beans in the pic has done well. They've got a lot of new ones coming on at the top. I may have to stand on a bucket next time. My folks usually have much better beans than me, but it's right the opposite this year, mostly because of those Mex bean beetles at their place.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Still got a few purples & eggplant growing but probably our final harvest for the summer. Time for some taters, carrots, collards, cabbage & maybe some broccoli

 

[sportsman94]

Sportsman94, don’t make the mistake I did and let your chickens roam in your garden. They pecked every one of my tomato’s before I realized what they were doing. We keep them in the pen now til growing season is over.

Back to the drawing board for me. Have about 120 yards between the chicken run and the garden. A very thick cover crop of IC peas, sunflowers, and buckwheat stands in there way. They are still getting in to the garden. Not causing a ruckus yet, but I know there will be issues next spring when I have more stuff they can easily peck at planted. Ive got about a 250 sq ft run that I can lock them in, just have to finish getting it fenced in and a door framed in for it.