Thread: In The Garden 2020

Originally Posted by dinnermint

Saturday was pretty busy! Had to pick up some soil and mulch (unfortunately they were out of what we bought 2 weeks ago). Then off to the local garden mart for a boat load of plants. I was promised I wouldn't have to do any gardening (i hate every aspect), but daylight and oncoming rain made the lady and I split most of the work.

I wear a mask for 1 simply reason, my coworkers can't even wash their hands after dropping a deuce. I trust your average person less. I fit 8 bags of mulch, 2 big bags of soil and a bunch of plants in my wagon, felt like a tetris champ!
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All done! 3 pots have chives, rosemary and "super" chilis. Left of AC in ground is green & orange bell peppers and 2 varieties of tomato. Right of AC is some flowering stuff, I only know the front middle one as thats the only one I picked and its called Beardtongue. I laughed at it enough that the lady got sufficiently embarassed, so i had to get it.
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Nice work, John-You know those tomatoes will be all over that bed very quickly, and totally over-run those peppers (ask me how I know).

My wife and I have been steady creating new beds and planting stuff during the lockdown. There's a Home Depot just up the road where we seem to spend all of our play money. No doubt it's back-breaking work, but my enventual goal is not to have to bring the mower inside the fence.

(Oh, and I thought you looked like the dude in your avatar lol!).

I've been delinquent on getting strawberries picked. It's been raining off and on for several days but today it cleared up and once things dried out a bit, on went the knee pads and a picking I went--I lost a lot to being over ripe and being bug bit. I never see pests amongst the plants and I've even looked after dark. I'm hoping when I start using the waist high beds that will be a thing of the past.

The plants don't produce berries that are anywhere near close to the same size but I pick everything--





The tiny one wouldn't even make my scale register anything in grams



Just over 2 lbs this time and it probably would have been around 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 lbs.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

(Oh, and I thought you looked like the dude in your avatar lol!).

Funny you should say that Aaron. When I read that I thought, " in my mind's eye I picture him looking like the avatar. Of course I also picture Aldwyn as Marty Feldman.


Edit: by the way I do not look like a silver fox. Incidentally the wife and I saw one a few months ago out driving one night. It was dark out but he walked right in front of the headlights and he looked to be almost all black phase except the tip of his tail which was brilliant silver/white. I had never seen one before that.

Originally Posted by 32t

A wee bit north but the cucumbers here.

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If you drive north in the springtime along I-75 or I-95 the corn gets shorter and shorter as you go. I actually planted late (almost TOO late) for Florida but it would have been too early for upstate New York where my Dad's people are.

110 or 65 day corn, many people don't understand why and the difference.

Just thought that I'd show that the onion shafts that have the seed pods at the end follow the sun. This was taken at 5:40 pm and the sun is to the left of the picture:

Well it looks like I will have Genuine Walla Walla Sweet seeds for planting later this year---



This one has bloomed out more than the others but they are coming along

Hahaha, no, my avatar is from a meme. Usually used in refetence to things being overly organized. Herexs a link if you're curious

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kno...mes/feels-good

The garden is coming along great! My gf picked flowers that would bloom at different times, so the side of the house hasn't popped yet.

Used some rosemary last night with red potatoes and daaaang delicious. Chilis are coming along, tomatoes have/are flowering, but SHD you are so right. Bell peppers seem a bit starved for space and are slowly growing.

I am about ready to throw in the towel and make the area into a Duck pen that Shan wants

I cut back to JUST Romas this year and built a raised bed with a sealed bottom after last years "Mole Attack" that killed everything
I received 8 really nice Roma starts from a Teacher friend of mine that raises money teaching the Kids how to garden by selling them.
I put them in the ground, the rain started so I put Tomato Cages around them, overnight the deer nipped them back to almost nothing
I put up the Deer fences, the next day, it looks like MAYBE they are recovering.

Tomatoes this year or Ducks next year hehehe

Oh I have a few Basil starts going also

Originally Posted by gssixgun

I am about ready to throw in the towel and make the area into a Duck pen that Shan wants

I cut back to JUST Romas this year and built a raised bed with a sealed bottom after last years "Mole Attack" that killed everything
I received 8 really nice Roma starts from a Teacher friend of mine that raises money teaching the Kids how to garden by selling them.
I put them in the ground, the rain started so I put Tomato Cages around them, overnight the deer nipped them back to almost nothing
I put up the Deer fences, the next day, it looks like MAYBE they are recovering.

Tomatoes this year or Ducks next year hehehe

Oh I have a few Basil starts going also

Well if it's ducks, get plenty of Hens and NO Drakes so you'll have bloodless eggs, plus roasted duck is mighty tasty-------------