What's in your garden?

[rustypjr]

I have never used pro mix. I am asuming it is a topsoil or fertilize. the way I do fertilize. is I attach the middle busters to the cultivator and run it throught the garden and put fertilize in the middle of the rows. then I take the the middle busters off and just run the coltivator through it makeing my rows right on top of the lines of fertilize. Then later on you can go back and side fertilize and run your cultivator back through it. Don't know if that is what you are looking for or not. Got mine fertilized and rowed up and hope to plant this afternoon and beat the rain. maybe we will see.

[landscaper]

and just run the coltivator through it makeing my rows

I don't have the luxury of a cultivator. I guess I'll be raking my rows out by hand. Boy, I'm excited about that.

[rustypjr]

you got a tiller? put a sweep plow on the back it will help a lot. Plus that is an easy way to weed also.

[RedEyed Duck]

Breaking ground with a rear tine tiller again today, gonna plant tonight or tomorrow. How is everybody else coming along? I have onions, broccoli, peas, corn and peppers already sprouted in the peat moss pots, ready for transfer......

[iron grip]

Tomatoes and strawberries already producing fruit, green still but coming along.

Pepper plants are looking good, zucchini and squash as well . eggplant so-so. Butter beans, green beans, crowder peas, lettuce, mesculum, and corn ( I know I'm forgetting something) are all coming up and looking good.

[RedEyed Duck]

Tomatoes and strawberries already producing fruit, green still but coming along.

You are way ahead of the game! When did you plant the strawberries?

[ajlineman]

My garden is looking good tomatoes(better boy),cherry tomatoes, crimson spineless okra, red cow horn okra, straight neck squash, zucchinni, green butterbeans, black eyed peas, watermelons(red and yellow split up) cantaloupe, honey dew, red, yellow, and green bell pepper, habenero peppers, anheim chilies, and sweet bannana peppers, pickling cucumbers, cabage

All is up and looking good

[iron grip]

Tomatoes and strawberries already producing fruit, green still but coming along.

You are way ahead of the game! When did you plant the strawberries?

Same time as the tomatoes, but they were plants too not seeds.

[MSDawg870]

Just got started Sunday, finally dry enough to work the dirt. Put in 30 tomatoes in the garden and 6 around the barrel.



The barrel is just a pro lick container with holes drilled on six even sides. In the next week we'll fill up the barrel with barnyard.



After that, when we water, we'll just fill up the barrel and let the water seep out of the holes. The hog wire acts as one big cage and in few months it'll turn into one big tomato bush. When the get taller it helps to thread the plants up through the wire to keep em straight.



Just thought I'd share this method if there are some folks that don't have room for a rowed up garden they could try something like this.

[GILREATH]

msdawg870;
that method looks like something i'm going to try. probably will be next year though b/c everything has already been planted.
Question: Do you fill the bucket all the way up w/ comp, like to the tip top?
You have holes drilled in the bottom half of your bucket too, right? (so water can constantly seep out)
Generally, how long does it take for a full bucket of water to seep out?

Sorry for the questions, just curious.

[MSDawg870]

Question: Do you fill the bucket all the way up w/ comp, like to the tip top?

You don't have to, on some of our other barrels you can see 3-4"s of the rim sticking out of the ground.

You have holes drilled in the bottom half of your bucket too, right? (so water can constantly seep out)

The holes in the bottom are from last year's experiment where we planted some plants inside of the barrel with it sitting on top of the ground (like a big flower pot). That didn't work out too well so I dug the hole and went back to the old way. You can also use two barrels buried about a foot apart and plant 12 or so plants around them, in kind of a figure 8 pattern.

Another thing is you are going to have grass in with you plants, there's really no getting around that. At the point where the plants are intertwined with the hog wire you wont want to pull off the cage to hoe around each plant. As long as the plants are still short I'll take off the cage knock back the grass, but they don't stay short for long.

[RedEyed Duck]

How is everyone's garden coming along. I have harvested my first squash and okra, beans, corn, cantalope, watermelon and maters are looking good. The storms that we had a few weeks back (close to a month) have hurt my maters but they are hanging in there. Hope everyone else is doing well. Finally got me a tiller, so now I wil be dangerous.

[MSDawg870]

Our maters got a little stunted from all the rains but are comin along, peppers are doin fine, had to replant peas and butterbeans three times b/c of rain and now have a real good stand. Also have had our first set of deer tracks strolling through the peas, anybody got a good July backstrap recipe.

[Hays Creek]

When do y'all put in fall gardens and what do you plant?

[Meeka]

I pulled sweet corn 2 weeks ago, maters since then. Beans . . . i'm sick of pullin beans for at least 3 weeks. peas, we got lots we been pullin for a week. okra everyday for 3 weeks. banana peppers out the wazoo - froze um to use at camp this winter. habaneros turnin now.