Getting the Garden Ready

[snuffy]

Got my okra planted today during the eclipse using my one row planter. Think I might have super okra?

 

[B. White]

Got my okra planted today during the eclipse using my one row planter. Think I might have super okra?

It appears you got the deluxe model. My wife borrowed mine below to plant 8 rows of sweet corn Friday. Less trouble and thinning than messing with the seeder or planter. We have tried to plant a little something daily since Friday.

Got all of the plants we had in the ground and drip tape going to water them in. Last couple of years we have had to rush hearing thunder in the distance as we were getting started. We were better organized this time and mixed up some buckets of half rabbit manure, half compost and a little lime and organic fertilizer. It did good last year top dressed, but hope it will do better this time going in each hole with a plant. Spread one FEL bucket full of wood chips around half the maters. Will try to do a couple each day until they are covered. It is a lot of shoveling, but will pay off not having to deal with as many weeds later on.

We still have okra, beans of all types, peas and field corn to go.

 

[snuffy]

Wish mine had a hopper!

 

[Hit-n-Miss]

Got my okra planted today during the eclipse using my one row planter. Think I might have super okra?View attachment 1298709

I have a question. I tried using a pipe like that and the end just kept plugging with soil. Do you have an elbow on the end or something?

 

[snuffy]

I have the end cut at a pretty steep angle.
Try to keep it just above the bottom of the row.

I have a question. I tried using a pipe like that and the end just kept plugging with soil. Do you have an elbow on the end or something?

 

[B. White]

I have a question. I tried using a pipe like that and the end just kept plugging with soil. Do you have an elbow on the end or something?

Some folks poke a hole with the pipe when planting. I make a furrow first with the wheel hoe and I'm just dragging it across the bottom without putting much force down. I did another 480 ft this evening and did get a clog twice, but just had to shake it to get it loose. Pipe diameter may also make a difference. I'm using 1".

 

[Hit-n-Miss]

So drag the pipe not poke?

 

[B. White]

So drag the pipe not poke?

That’s what I do. Just touch enough to keep the seed from bouncing, since I’m going to cover the furrow after dropping seeds.

 

[BriarPatch99]

Finally dry enough to harrow up...probably gonna plant tomorrow... the old garden spot is on year 107....

 

[B. White]

I got everything finished over the past couple of evenings except for field corn. About wore out from it, but it is worth it. Sweet corn is just coming up, so I'll give it a few more days to get some space between them. I hope I have better luck with butter beans than I did last year. I froze some, but not much and had to replant. Still have some bare dirt just in case some stuff doesn't pop up. Sowing buckwheat on it until needed.

 

[BriarPatch99]

Planted the old garden today..

3 rows Ford Hooks
2 rows Green Butter beans
3 rows speckled butter beans
3 rows Lady Finger peas
2 rows of Nic's old timey corn
1 row Okra
1 row squash
6 Eggplants
1 row flowers/Sunflowers for the Wife

I be dog tired...

 

[SC Hunter]

We took a family beach trip this week gone for 4 nights. My brother is doing a shut down at work and their working them boys something serious, he still came by every morning and watered the garden and fed the dogs, cat and chickens. I got in there this afternoon and sorted out the grass growing in there and got everything fixed up. This is the first year we've had a garden here, started in cups and transplanted. Squash and Ford hooks are doing good. My brandywine tomatoes are coming along good too!

 

[ucfireman]

Tilled and planted mine today.
Now we wait for some rain.
Hot next week, should jump if it gets water.

 

[snuffy]

Lost 4 of my 6 rutger tomatoes.
Going to probably replace them with Parker's Whoppers.

Might have to replant my okra. Coming up spotty.

Everything else looking okay.

 

[SC Hunter]

Well, I won't have to water the garden for a few days....I got home this morning to a sprinkler that had been running all night. I'm not sure who turned it on the kids or my wife yesterday but it ran all night. Hopefully everything doesnt die, I haven't figured up exactly how much water got put on it but it's going to be north of 500 gallons....I'm going to town to get a cup of coffee and sit and stare at a wall for a minute.

 

[ucfireman]

Watered mine this morning, not waiting for the rain, if it comes all the better but enough for germination for now.
Planted 33 tomatoes, most ever, haven't had much luck the last few years so hoping for better this year.
Some zucchini, green beans and purple hulls, and a few cucumbers.
Garden doesn't get as much sun as it used to, need to take down some trees, plus I don't have the drive to do a big garden right now.