2013 gardens

[3legged_lab]

Yep, just broadcast it in the fall. You should be able to buy bit at any farm store/seed store. The ones where the farmers go, not the ones where the suburban housewives go. I may mix in winter wheat as well. Just gotta make sure you till it under in the spring before it seeds, which usually isn't a problem at all, unless you get about 2 months behind. Just throw the manure on top of it as you go or in the spring, then till it all under at the same time. I now have to spread the horse manure as I go through the year, since I'm not allowed to keep a manure pile anymore, no matter how small. Has to be in a covered shed. Fucking environmentalist dickheads.

Just tell them its your poop. Any law against a pile of your own out there on the ground?

[assateague]

Around here? Probably.

I need to get the wife to bring home 6 more horses, temporarily, to get the state to come look, see them, and say "OK, we'll pay for your manure shed". Then get rid of the extra horses.

[3legged_lab]

Around here? Probably.

I need to get the wife to bring home 6 more horses, temporarily, to get the state to come look, see them, and say "OK, we'll pay for your manure shed". Then get rid of the extra horses.

The trick will be that last sentence. Haha

[assateague]

Olly, I know AB started a thread around here somewhere, but I can't find it. Feel free to lump this one in there, if you know where it is.


Got 200 hills of potatoes but in tonight. Up from 40 last year.

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Other than the onions and garlic, that's all I got in right now. Beans, tomatoes, and peppers are still 2 weeks out.

[assateague]

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[(MT)Montanafowler]

what's the total sq. ft? do you store anything in a cellar, can everything or use it all during the year?

[assateague]

No cellars here, the water table is too high. I've turned the closet under the stairs into a big pantry. Most things I can, but this year I'm going to try drying some potatoes. Supposedly, you can fit 15 pounds of potatoes in a gallon ziploc bag, so I figure if I dehydrate enough, I can have 75 pounds of potatoes in a 5 gallon bucket. That's the plan, anyway. Usually I just leave the potatoes in the ground until we need them, though.

[assateague]

As for the square footage, it's roughly 80x80.

[Olly]

Assa keep it coming. I love your garden threads. Can't wait to have a big garden of my own.

Is there enough interest here for a homesteading forum or maybe add homesteading to the DIY forum?

Sent from my phone.

[waterfowlman]

You get carried away with those potatoes Assa.......you might have to make some vodka.

[assateague]

I may have gotten a little carried away. But I had some new varieties I wanted to try, but didn't want to "sacrifice" the regular ones I know work well. I planted 20 hills of purple potatoes, and 20 hills of pink potatoes. That's the flesh inside, not the skin. Layniebug is ecstatic she gets to eat purple french fries.

[rebelp74]

That's a lot of potatoes. You're gonna have your work cut out come harvest time.

[Flightstopper]

Have green tomatoes everywhere. Beans are 10" tall. Squash, okra and cucumbers are well up. Pretty happy for my first go round.

[Flightstopper]

Ttt

[jarbo03]

Have green tomatoes everywhere. Beans are 10" tall. Squash, okra and cucumbers are well up. Pretty happy for my first go round.

WTF! Nothing even planted here, boys up north prob have snow on the ground.

[one2many]

Have green tomatoes everywhere. Beans are 10" tall. Squash, okra and cucumbers are well up. Pretty happy for my first go round.

WTF! Nothing even planted here, boys up north prob have snow on the ground.

same here jarbo nothing getting planted anywhere

Assa looking great man

[assateague]

Here it is. I knew there was a thread around somewhere. Maybe one of you fancy mods could mash the other I started in here with this one.

[Olly]

Smashed

[Flightstopper]

Assa, how many jalapeño plants did you have last year? Remember you had a metric shit ton of peppers.

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[Mornin Beef]

That looks awesome!

[Mornin Beef]

yuck my garden

[(MT)Montanafowler]

assa, you seen the "back to eden" gardening stuff? it emphasizes no-till planting and using natural moisture instead of watering.

[assateague]

Yeeeeaahh, I'm not buying into that business. It's hard enough to keep a garden weed free starting from scratch.

[assateague]

And Jason, that is a badass garden! I don't remember exactly- I think I had about 30.

[ManlyMan]

Spring is showing

Blackberry

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Digging dat blackberry. As the great lyricist, trickdaddy, once stated, the blacker the bear, the sweeter the juice.

[Flightstopper]

And Jason, that is a badass garden! I don't remember exactly- I think I had about 30.

I feel my garden is now worthwhile, Assa has deemed it "badass". Thanks man killing myself trying to make the best of planning how much I want of each. Still have another row to plant and might end up taking out some plants to make room for others.

[Olly]

I'm jealous of all you guys with gardens.

Sent from my phone.

[Flightstopper]

Spring is showing

Blackberry

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Digging dat blackberry. As the great lyricist, trickdaddy, once stated, the blacker the bear, the sweeter the juice.

Juicing a bear seems like quite a task.

[assateague]

If it was me (and it's not), I'd plant cucumbers all along that back fence. Put a stake in the ground about a foot out and run strings up to two nails at the top (like a V). Do this all along the fence, plant at the stakes, and as the vines grow, use twist ties, or strips of an old t-shirt to train them onto the strings. Cucumbers grow upwards very well. And you could grow a ton. Maybe split it up, and plant some pole beans on half the same way , and cucmbers the other half.

[Flightstopper]

I probably have a foot and a half between the fence and my onions. Excellent suggestion and would free up a whole row for me. Planted a row of blue lake beans. From what I know they are a bush and don't climb like pole beans?