What's Growing in the Garden

Arn213 said:
I am quoting Li’l Mikey per his recent post on question of the week regarding `aesthetics’. “When @Arn213 says he likes it!”………I like it @Mike hill…..but where is the baseball field with the 440’ centerfield fence? :sarcastic:
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There is definitely room in the neighborhood. We've actually got a couple acres up front that used to be all grass, but I've been slowly been filling it up with trees.

My dream, if I ever win the lottery, is to convert the front to a wildflower/native prairie area. The only turf grass would be on winding paths through the wildflowers.
 
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trc65 said:
There is definitely room in the neighborhood. We've actually got a couple acres up front that used to be all grass, but I've been slowly been filling it up with trees.

My dream, if I ever win the lottery, is to convert the front to a wildflower/native prairie area. The only turf grass would be on winding paths through the wildflowers.
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I did not realize how vast your land is until you took this shot! We need to send a drone! If you ever needed a block(s) and lot(s) drawn up to scale, I could do it for you on the CAD and plot your house(s). Then you can go old school and sketch through what you want to do if you ever hit the lottery. I’ll post something that I designed for a friend on his lots as he wanted to expand and do an addition to his house for his family. I did a master plan for him so he can do them in stages as funding will allow, without the pressure and time constraint.

My dream when I do retire is find appropriate land in the middle of nowhere, to flop something architectural, that it will blend with its natural environment. Sounds familiar?
 
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Arn213 said:
I did not realize how vast your land is until you took this shot! We need to send a drone! If you ever needed a block(s) and lot(s) drawn up to scale, I could do it for you on the CAD and plot your house(s). Then you can go old school and sketch through what you want to do if you ever hit the lottery. I’ll post something that I designed for a friend on his lots as he wanted to expand and do an addition to his house for his family. I did a master plan for him so he can do them in stages as funding will allow, without the pressure and time constraint.

My dream when I do retire is find appropriate land in the middle of nowhere, to flop something architectural, that it will blend with its natural environment. Sounds familiar?
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We are sitting on ~ 6 acres out in the middle of nowhere. Here are a couple of aerial pics from Garmin app.

This one shows most of the quarter section that Mom and Dad owned when farming. Tan colored area to the south is a harvested bean field. To the north is a corn field.

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A little closer view of the current property. The east property line is about where the angle of the corn field turns south east. I think this was an image from last fall.

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trc65 said:
Main garden area is 60' x 60' there is a 15' x 90' area behind that and then a strip of red raspberries and strawberries. ..... The black raspberries are on the other side of the shed.
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Went to one of the few true "Garden Centers" we have to buy a replacement Thuja for one next to the front door I planted last year that the wife deemed too ugly to stay. Noticed, blackberries and raspberries on some of the plants that have not sold. Man, I really wished I had more sunny square footage and could plant some. As it sits now, I have 6 stubby apples that are starting their training as espalliers, but do not know where they will reside right now - so still in pots.
 
We are having a very cold wet May, the old timers said " a cold wet May makes a barn full of hay". Definitely not great for gardening, I managed to get my peas in a while ago and they are up. This is the year that my raised beds and greenhouse are working for me. I built a new raised bed this spring because my wife took over one for strawberrys. The garlic is up and I have beets, carrots, onions and parsnips planted. I've got tomatoes, spinach, lettuce and peppers growing in the greenhouse. It's still too early to plant beans and squash, the hopefully things dry out enough to till the rest of the garden to plant them soon.

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sprucegum said:
We are having a very cold wet May, the old timers said " a cold wet May makes a barn full of hay". Definitely not great for gardening, I managed to get my peas in a while ago and they are up. This is the year that my raised beds and greenhouse are working for me. I built a new raised bed this spring because my wife took over one for strawberrys. The garlic is up and I have beets, carrots, onions and parsnips planted. I've got tomatoes, spinach, lettuce and peppers growing in the greenhouse. It's still too early to plant beans and squash, the hopefully things dry out enough to till the rest of the garden to plant them soon.

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Appears the greenhouse is paying big dividends for you! Chuck
 
sprucegum said:
We are having a very cold wet May, the old timers said " a cold wet May makes a barn full of hay". Definitely not great for gardening, I managed to get my peas in a while ago and they are up. This is the year that my raised beds and greenhouse are working for me. I built a new raised bed this spring because my wife took over one for strawberrys. The garlic is up and I have beets, carrots, onions and parsnips planted. I've got tomatoes, spinach, lettuce and peppers growing in the greenhouse. It's still too early to plant beans and squash, the hopefully things dry out enough to till the rest of the garden to plant them soon.

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Sweet set-up!
 
sprucegum said:
We are having a very cold wet May, the old timers said " a cold wet May makes a barn full of hay".
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Talking with my brother yesterday in Lebanon he was saying the exact thing after we compared his wet 54* to my hot and humid and very dry 92*
 
Wildthings said:
Talking with my brother yesterday in Lebanon he was saying the exact thing after we compared his wet 54* to my hot and humid and very dry 92*
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I'm okay with cool and wet, at least I can still function 😂 we will get some hazy, hot, and humid later on.
 
I went and checked on the two Montmorency cherry trees I planted and they were both dead. Only a couple of leaves came out but they didn't survive. The other tree (apple) I got from the same place is doing well. I ordered them through Home Depot from a company called Online Orchards. They have a 60 day guarantee of which I am under. I contacted them twice now about replacements and I have received no answer. They have three email addresses which I have used all. I'll look for a phone number and give them a call. Then maybe Home Depot. I really wanted to get cherries started again.

On another note, I was mowing around one of my pecan trees I planted 25-30 years ago and I saw this:
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I guess it's on its way out too. Never got any nuts from it because of the squirrels.

I was weeding my strawberry beds today and I noticed most of the leaves were chopped off. Do deer eat strawberry vegetation or is this rabbits? I've had plans for a hoop system which I never got around to making.
 
Those holes look like sap sucker holes. Won't harm the tree.

If your deer are like ours, they eat nearly everything, especially the fawns. Fawns don't know what tastes good and what doesn't, so they sample everything. I've seen them munching on the mugo pines and even on the fresh growth on my spruce tree. And since their teeth don't cut, they often pull plants clean out of the ground and rip branches off trees. Rabbits are pesky little guys too. I planted three new liatris flowers in the bed where I chopped out all the over grown grass. I put wire cages around them to keep the deer off. But one of the cages had a cut away section near the bottom but I figured it would still keep the deer off. I forgot about the cottontail that lives under the fitzers. He found it the very first day and ate off 75% of the leaves of that liatris.
 
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djg said:
I went and checked on the two Montmorency cherry trees I planted and they were both dead. Only a couple of leaves came out but they didn't survive. The other tree (apple) I got from the same place is doing well. I ordered them through Home Depot from a company called Online Orchards. They have a 60 day guarantee of which I am under. I contacted them twice now about replacements and I have received no answer. They have three email addresses which I have used all. I'll look for a phone number and give them a call. Then maybe Home Depot. I really wanted to get cherries started again.

On another note, I was mowing around one of my pecan trees I planted 25-30 years ago and I saw this:
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I guess it's on its way out too. Never got any nuts from it because of the squirrels.

I was weeding my strawberry beds today and I noticed most of the leaves were chopped off. Do deer eat strawberry vegetation or is this rabbits? I've had plans for a hoop system which I never got around to making.
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Deer eat my berries as soon as they start growing in spring. I use electric fence around them. One strand at waist high and another at about 6".
 
Garlic gold! First variety of garlic started sending out scapes. Need to be removed so bulbs will bulk up more. Rather than discard them, will throw them in the dehydrator, then grind. Makes some great garlic powder.

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trc65 said:
Garlic gold! First variety of garlic started sending out scapes. Need to be removed so bulbs will bulk up more. Rather than discard them, will throw them in the dehydrator, then grind. Makes some great garlic powder.

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I let my scapes grow this year. I am raising a bed of elephant garlic which overwinter decently in our area. But I only have about 7 or 8 plants so I am trying to add plants every way I can.
 
trc65 said:
Other than a legume, I don't know what those are......
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Not a legume. These are radish seed pods. Known as aerial radish. Spicy, can work in salads raw or in stir fry or even pickled. I have just started trying this. The daikon radishes that they sell for food plots for deer bolt nicely if planted in the spring instead of the fall. If you have a fall planting of deer plot with these in it, they are pretty good root harvested in the late fall.
 
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