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My 5th summer garden: Expansion and more beans
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JB0704
I Gots Goats
I may try that. Good idea.
Whitefeather
Management Material
No clue unless I over dosed them with bonemeal when I planted them but I’ve never had any problems with it before.
I'm way behind y'all. Just cleaned out the first bed yesterday. I got lots of soil prep work to do.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding non socialist bohemian luddite
Cold soil maybe?
Or flea beattles.
Whitefeather
Management Material
They are in bales so possible. I did get a lot of volunteer wheat start emerging before I planted the seeds so I don’t think it was a pre emergent herbicide like Grazon. Maybe that cold snap could be the reason. We will see.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding non socialist bohemian luddite
Well you cant rule out Grazon on account of the wheat sprouting. Anything in the monocot family should be fine. Grasses, corn, wheat, rye, etc. Probably just to cold from being in the bales. No biggy. Stuff fails. I am having to remind myself of that a good bit this spring.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding non socialist bohemian luddite
While we on the subject, you can test for herbicide contamination with any bean variety. They call it a bioassay? Soak the straw or compost with water. Then plant a bean seed right into that compost or use the water you soaked the straw in to water the bean sprout. It will come up but quickly twist up and deform. There are pictures online to help. NC State? Has a good article on it.
Whitefeather
Management Material
I put some plants in the ground too so I can see what they do side by side and then go from there. The squash in the bales next to it are doing fine but they aren’t really exploding on growth but I kinda expect that from last year’s crop.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Got the field corn planted. This is the stuff Ima feed the cows n goats this fall. Gonna plant a few acres of soybeans between it, the garden corn and the heirloom corn. I never have really thought about cross pollination till now. But I’m gonna do my best to prevent it.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Soybeans are next.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
……and tomorrow’s 65% chance of rain is now 57% , that’s no fun
This is the garden I do with my paw-in-law. Corn consists of Silver Queen, Peaches-N-Cream, and Trucker's Hybrid. Got a few rows of Zipper Creams. Two half rows of Okra and Ford Hook 242 Lima's. Few tomatoes of different varieties. Cucumbers under the panels. A number of hills of yellow squash, zuch's, and spaghetti squash. I have a separate bed for peppers that will be going in this evening if the rain holds off.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Looks great! Do you worry about cross polinating on the different corn types? We grew peaches n cream last year and the girls loved it. I planted golden queen instead this year just to mix it up some.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Wish we could get some more rain. Just gota few sprinkles this morning. Looks like some more might move in. I haven't got pond pump setup just yet so some rain would be very welcome.
He's been planting this garden like this for a while and I can't say we've ever really had an issue. Folks flock to us to ask for more corn. The trucker's went in last night separate from the other sweet's. They were planted two weeks ago and are up about 8-9 inches already. We try to shoot for the sweet's to be ready around the 4th of July. Last few years we've been late, but we should be about a week early this year if all goes well.
Shadow11
Senior Member
Heck yeah. Jump out the back door and right back in with an arm full of fresh stuff.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding non socialist bohemian luddite
Just stagger the corn and it wont cross. Two weeks should be enough to plant it side by side really. Plant the earliest to mature variety first. So if one is 90 days and the other is 110 plant the 90 first. Easy peasy.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Good deal. All my corn just went in the ground so I am a few weeks behind you. I was over your way tillin' your neighbor's garden the other day......he didn't get his seed in the dirt ahead of this rain so he will likely be a week or so behind me.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
The one issue I have with that covington planter is fertilizer. It tends to drop a ton. I can throttle it somewhat, but I am worried I put too much in the ground with my beans n okry. I don't think corn can have too much fetilizer. Do yall add any when planting beans like purple hulls, pinters, etc? Or is that something I am messing up?
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