How Does Your Garden Grow?
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- Iceman
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
How about a little resurrection? While I do not actively grow anything edible in my garden except for rhubarb, I'd like to say, that I'm getting a giant sequoia soon. Oh, and can anyone give me some pointers on what to grow in a cool temperate/arctic zone.
Resurrected. Also, I see Bear choose to send the thread to the graveyard rather than tidying up his garden and taken pics of it. The DAMNed
Resurrected. Also, I see Bear choose to send the thread to the graveyard rather than tidying up his garden and taken pics of it. The DAMNed
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
I would like to bring this one back, too. I've got a ton of garden stuff to talk about.
@Iceman: There are plenty of cool-season plants that should grow fine where you are. Your best bet would probably be greens, like lettuce, spinach, or kale. Anything in the cabbage family would be good, too. I've seen pictures of 30-40 pound heads of cabbage that were grown in Alaska. The growing season is short, but the length of the days makes up for that.
@Iceman: There are plenty of cool-season plants that should grow fine where you are. Your best bet would probably be greens, like lettuce, spinach, or kale. Anything in the cabbage family would be good, too. I've seen pictures of 30-40 pound heads of cabbage that were grown in Alaska. The growing season is short, but the length of the days makes up for that.
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
It's alive, but it's not active yet.
Today is my favorite milestone of the gardening season. I picked the first ripe tomato out of my garden. I've had a couple of bacon and tomato sandwiches with tomatoes from the farmers market, but I think the first homegrown is going to be served with cottage cheese (my favorite summer "salad").
I've got 25 tomato plants, of 8 varieties, so I'll have more than I know what to do with soon. The same with cucumbers (8 plants), squash (6 plants), and peppers (hopefully). I have 6 varieties of peppers, 27 plants, both hot and sweet. Most of them haven't started producing anything yet. I think it's been too wet this year. We are starting to get some really hot weather, so that should help.
Today is my favorite milestone of the gardening season. I picked the first ripe tomato out of my garden. I've had a couple of bacon and tomato sandwiches with tomatoes from the farmers market, but I think the first homegrown is going to be served with cottage cheese (my favorite summer "salad").
I've got 25 tomato plants, of 8 varieties, so I'll have more than I know what to do with soon. The same with cucumbers (8 plants), squash (6 plants), and peppers (hopefully). I have 6 varieties of peppers, 27 plants, both hot and sweet. Most of them haven't started producing anything yet. I think it's been too wet this year. We are starting to get some really hot weather, so that should help.
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
My garden grows very well because of all the corpses in it....
Not really. I'm not sure how this plant in my room survives. I think I haven't watered it in a month.
Not really. I'm not sure how this plant in my room survives. I think I haven't watered it in a month.
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
The garden here has been taken over by 2+ meter tall nettles. <_<
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You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others. ~Tarquin
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
THERE ARE MOTHER FUCKING FROGS IN OUR MOTHER FUCKING POND AND I HATE THEM. The plants in our pond are overgrown, so like a million frogs laid like a million eggs in the pond and now those fuckers are huge. (I swear to God there are some that are easily four inches long, which is about 3 inches longer than I'm comfortable with). And every damn time I leave the house, normally at like 6 o'clock because God knows I'm totally awake and prepared for anything at 6 in the frikkin' morning, one of them will jump out of the pond at my feet and I freak out. Guh.
TL;DR: My garden grows frogs. Hopefully it will soon grow even better thanks to the multiple frog corpses I intend on installing under the plants.
TL;DR: My garden grows frogs. Hopefully it will soon grow even better thanks to the multiple frog corpses I intend on installing under the plants.
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Look on the bright side, at least it's not a million moskitos .
Artificial does not mean obtuse! ~Uno from Paperinik's New Adventures.
It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it become rigid and stale. ~Iroh
You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others. ~Tarquin
The skin stretched and tanned, the striped suit sown into the flesh itself, the killer donned a new body, giggling to no one, "Wears Waldo."
This is here for future reference.
It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it become rigid and stale. ~Iroh
You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others. ~Tarquin
The skin stretched and tanned, the striped suit sown into the flesh itself, the killer donned a new body, giggling to no one, "Wears Waldo."
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
This year, my garden grew Prize winning tomatoes
And Zucchini
Mine's the one on the left, with the blue ribbon. This is the first year I've entered anything in the county fair. Yes, it is as bad as you think, and they are out to get you
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
I've got watermelons on a trellis, but they get only about as big as a tennis ball and then shrivel and fall off.
Haven't figured out what's going on yet.
Haven't figured out what's going on yet.
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
nutrients or maybe the seeds themselves?
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Or the fact that you have then on a trellis? Watermelon are generally ground growers.
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
I got the trellis idea from pinterest, seems a lot of people grow watermelon, and other fruits and veggies this way.
As for the seeds, they were from an heirloom seed company.
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I considered that, so I added compost which I've been accumulating, but it will be a few days, or maybe a couple weeks before I see a change from this.Tenjen wrote:nutrients or maybe the seeds themselves?
As for the seeds, they were from an heirloom seed company.
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Interesting. Never seen or heard of watermelon being grown that way.
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
I think I may have not been watering the watermelon's enough, so I'm going to try watering them once a day, instead of once every two or three, and give it week to see if I notice any changes.
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
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