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This will be my second go around. I tried about 5 years ago and all my maters got tomato rot just before they were ripe. Have spread plenty of lime since then. That was a bummer and ended my efforts for a while obviously. I have not started yet, but am going to try tomotoes (in pots this time), squash, watermellon, cantelope, okra. The wife loves all of the above. I am also planting a wild flower garden for butterflies to get the kids involved too. Hope it works, good luck with yours.

RedEyed Duck, I get a bag of basic slag from the local co-op and mix a big handful with the dirt I put back in the hole around my tomato plants. It will not completely stop the blossom rot, but my tomatoes do much better with the slag. Just a thought......

My gardens are never real pretty but they produce lots of groceries. We go for the basics to fill the freezer: tomatoes, purple hull peas, butterbeans, squash, sweet corn and yellow field corn. The wife likes the odd stuff like zuchini, peppers, cucumbers and okra. I like the stuff I can fill the freezer with to have in the winter time.

Here's a hint, dont let the grass get ahead of you, its he11 to get caught up! 15 minutes a day with a hoe for a small garden is all it takes and its great therapy after a long stressful day.

I normally just use grass clippings between the rows as mulch. An acre is too much to hoe! I prefer mulch or something to keep the grass down, but you are right, it's a pain the rear end!

If you want to plant some good sweet corn go with Candy Corn, but you need to get it planted soon.

for grass in your garden go to your local co op and get some treflan. it will help keep thew grass cut back. it will kill only broadleaf. so don't put it in the section where you plant corn.

Panama Red.

Sweet g90, good corn.

got a late start this year. all i got so far is 6 rows of G90 and a row of red potatos. it's getting a good rain today!

My 88 year old grandfather likes to dig in the dirt. He normally has about 20 acres of butterbeans and purple hull peas, along with a couple acres of sweet corn, 2 or 3 hundred tomato plants, an acre of okra, and lots of other assorted vegtables. He calls his place the apple farm and its off rosemary road in cleveland, behind baxter. If you want to learn something about a garden, go see him. Hes got all kinds of knowledge and would be glad to share.

We wanna do Tomato's in 5 gal. buckets. Anyone have any luck in the past with this?

When I was in college we did it, and it worked fine. Just get a bush plant vs. regular tomatoes as the bush varieties are designed for confined areas.

This year's 6x12 raised bed crop: bush tomatoes and bell peppers. Maybe 1-2 jalepeno bushes.

mud, im my experience, a 5 gal bucket isn't quite big enough....it'll work, but a pot just a few gallons larger will work lots better....and if you fill it with potting soil, you won't have bottom rot!



onions, squash, okra, tomatos, brussel sprouts, acorn squash, asparagus, bell peppers, ...and prolly more this year....

i do several mater plants in five gallon buckets. we plant the plants in the bottom of the bucket and hang them. it is called upside down maters. they produced better than the ones in my garden. I will go in to detail if yall want some more info.