What's Growing in the Garden

[Eric Rorabaugh]

but please insure a hard, impassable backstop beyond your intended target. Something other than your neighbors house or a wooded area where people may be

I agree. If there isn't a safe way to shoot, I don't issue a permit. If someone does have a permit and does anything stupid or causes damage to anothers property, they could be charged for reckless handling and be responsible for any damages. MOST (not all) are responsible enough to do things the right way but there's always the exception to the rule.

 

[trc65]

I must say Tim that you appear to have a very interesting place.

On about 7 acres with fields on three sides and timber/pasture on the fourth. Nearest neighbor is half mile as the crow flies. Lots of space for many different plantings, ornamental and garden. Only limitation is the time and energy to maintain all of them.....

 

[SubVet10]

Gotta stay away from this thread - it makes me too depressed. After 42 years living in the same place about all I have room for is a half dozen tomato and pepper plants - and they don't do all that well because of shade - intenode spacing is way long. Bout all I can do now is hostas, impatients, ferns, eastern woodland wildflowers, azaleas, OLH, and caladiums - and I nurse a few peonies, tree peonies, and Interstems and oriental lillies. Where I have the most sun, I decided on figs and jap. persimmons. I've got one little spot near the mailbox (its where I have the best drainage) where I put rosemary, sage, several varieties of echinacea, buddleia, some rare peonies, and my girls - frilly daylillies and those great smelling oriental lillies

You can still do an appreciable amount of veggies with only a few old tires or buckets.

 

[SubVet10]

I have five 3 gallon bags of potatoes that are growing inches a day, one of scallions from bulbs, two of greens onions from seed and one of tomatoes from seed. No transplants.

 

[Mike Hill]

You can still do an appreciable amount of veggies with only a few old tires or buckets.

Yeh, done that - got the t-shirt. Problem, it's still shady whether in pots or in ground. Plus with what I was paying for potting soil, pots, etc.... I could buy a lot of tomatoes - plus I don't have to water the pots all the time. Years ago - (pre majority of shade) I tried potatoes in a big tall can one time. First time didn't do too bad, but got in the can late and figured the yield was low because of that. The second year, I only got one small potato and probably spent $10 in soil and fertilizer.

 

[trc65]

We need some dry weather!!! It was too wet yesterday, but I still tilled a few rows and transplanted onions and planted spinach, radishes, green onions and peas. 0.75" rain today, with another 1.5" expected Thursday and Friday. Will be another 7-10 days after that before it dries enough to get back at it...

 

[SubVet10]

Garden revision one. Added some greens to the tators. B-F, L-R: green onions, scallions x 2, Pontiac tator, tomatoes.
French fingerling x3, Pontiac x 2.

 

[Wildthings]

Here's my container garden this year

 

[Sprung]

Finally starting to see a few things popping up - some peas, some lettuces, radishes, some broccoli. The Egyptian Walking Onion we were given last year and planted is doing well. We've finally had some nicer days - 3 days in a row of sun, after more than a week of blah. But it's also been breezy. Next week should be warmer - looking forward to that.

Today we brought in dirt and filled in the new raised beds. I need to get some cattle panel yet - that will get attached to the posts for a permanent trellis.

Today the raspberry bare roots and blackberry plants I ordered arrived. The raspberry roots will get put into the ground tomorrow. Blackberries will get transplanted next weekend to get us several days beyond our average last frost date.

 

[trc65]

Hadn't thought about cattle panel for trellis. I've switched from bush green beans to pole beans (easier on back and knees) and am trying some pole Lima beans this year. Last couple years been using thin nylon trellis, but going to try your idea of cattle panels instead. Still have quite a few laying around, and lots of fence posts.

 

[Mr. Peet]

Finally starting to see a few things popping up - some peas, some lettuces, radishes, some broccoli. The Egyptian Walking Onion we were given last year and planted is doing well. We've finally had some nicer days - 3 days in a row of sun, after more than a week of blah. But it's also been breezy. Next week should be warmer - looking forward to that.

Today we brought in dirt and filled in the new raised beds. I need to get some cattle panel yet - that will get attached to the posts for a permanent trellis.

Today the raspberry bare roots and blackberry plants I ordered arrived. The raspberry roots will get put into the ground tomorrow. Blackberries will get transplanted next weekend to get us several days beyond our average last frost date.

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You telling me Kewaunee's last frost is usually around the 15th of May? Figured being that much further north than us, your date would be later than us. Spring peepers told us May 20th this year, so will see how close they are. Those cattle panels work great for cherry tomatoes and cucumbers as well.

 

[Sprung]

Hadn't thought about cattle panel for trellis. I've switched from bush green beans to pole beans (easier on back and knees) and am trying some pole Lima beans this year. Last couple years been using thin nylon trellis, but going to try your idea of cattle panels instead. Still have quite a few laying around, and lots of fence posts.

The cattle panel is not my idea - been seeing a lot of people using it and liked it as we wanted something that would hold up and that we wouldn't have to redo each year.

You telling me Kewaunee's last frost is usually around the 15th of May? Figured being that much further north than us, your date would be later than us. Spring peepers told us May 20th this year, so will see how close they are. Those cattle panels work great for cherry tomatoes and cucumbers as well.

No, our last average frost date is May 7. Kewaunee is right on Lake Michigan - we live 5 blocks from the lake - which has a huge affect on our weather.

I bought the raspberry bare roots and blackberry plants from Stark Bros. and they say the raspberry roots can go in anytime - since they're dormant a possible frost won't be a problem. But since the blackberries are plants and not bare roots, they say to wait until after chance of frost to transplant. So I'm going to wait until next weekend to transplant the blackberries, especially because it has been a little colder than normal here lately.

 

[DLJeffs]

The cattle panel is not my idea - been seeing a lot of people using it and liked it as we wanted something that would hold up and that we wouldn't have to redo each year.



No, our last average frost date is May 7. Kewaunee is right on Lake Michigan - we live 5 blocks from the lake - which has a huge affect on our weather.

I bought the raspberry bare roots and blackberry plants from Stark Bros. and they say the raspberry roots can go in anytime - since they're dormant a possible frost won't be a problem. But since the blackberries are plants and not bare roots, they say to wait until after chance of frost to transplant. So I'm going to wait until next weekend to transplant the blackberries, especially because it has been a little colder than normal here lately.

Do you worry about the blackberry and raspberries spreading? Around here, those things will take over and become very hard to get rid of when you need to. They can become a real nuisance. A tasty nuisance but still a nuisance.

 

[Sprung]

Do you worry about the blackberry and raspberries spreading? Around here, those things will take over and become very hard to get rid of when you need to. They can become a real nuisance. A tasty nuisance but still a nuisance.

No, not really. Where they're going here, and where the raspberries were where we previously lived, the area around it is all lawn. So with lawn moving right up to the edges of the patches, they haven't spread beyond the area we've designated for them.

 

[djg]

The cattle panel is not my idea - been seeing a lot of people using it and liked it as we wanted something that would hold up and that we wouldn't have to redo each year.

I bought the raspberry bare roots and blackberry plants from Stark Bros......

I've got my tame Blackberries trellised on a section I've got raised off the ground 1.5'. Get 6 foot + high vines that way.

Stark Bros? I thought they went out of business?

 

[Sprung]

Stark Bros? I thought they went out of business?

If they did, even they don't know that, lol. Ordered from them last week and received everything today.

 

[Trob115]

First daylily bloom of the season for us.

 

[Wildthings]

Speaking of blackberries, well we call them dewberries here. Here's about 10 minutes picking them this evening. The spot I've been going to for the last 10 years is being turned into commercial warehouses. I'm sure this is my last year at that place and the very minimum amount of rain we received this spring most of them are small, abundant but small



I'm really enjoying the pouch of wildflowers seeds I sown in the small area around my septic system. I planted pretty late but they're showcasing themselves right now. Even a few bluebonnets

 

[djg]

Speaking of blackberries, well we call them dewberries .....

Dewberries are different than blackberries. Blackberries grow on erect canes and dewberries are ground vines. We use to pick both on on farm, but slightly different seasons.

 

[Wildthings]

Dewberries are different than blackberries. Blackberries grow on erect canes and dewberries are ground vines. We use to pick both on on farm, but slightly different seasons.

Yessir. They are very different and I have had both here. Just worded it that way cuz lots of folks moving in around here from other areas of the country will call them blackberries. I see some dewberry cobbler in my near future