BYC gardening thread!!

[chickadoodles]

I have one strawberry plant that is from 4 years ago. I put it in a bed and I am hoping it will start several more this year. I love strawberries I still have two bags in the freezer that I use to make jam.

From what I know about strawberries you are not suppose to let them fruit the first year so they can get stronger and later produce larger fruit.

 

[jerryse]

We are having frequent heavy rains here. I know I can block access from outside my fence.

But do you think the bean runners will rejuvenate and find the fence again?

They will regrow and be fine .

 

[sunflour]

@jerryse


Thanks, that's what I thought, but needed an opine.

 

[lazy gardener]

I agree with Jerry. Your plants will do better and produce sooner than if you were to start over with fresh seed. Naughty bunny!

 

[dan26552]

 

[A-K-A]

I hate to disagree but i wouldn't count on a return growth. It would be no more than suckers. Mine got ate last year nothing returned. Except for the rabbit. Do what you feel is right.

 

[Bugseye]

I couldn't ignore a quick-passing twinge of envy for all you gardeners in the south, but then I remembered the heavy-duty upkeep once the weather really heats up! Here in northern Idaho I finally have most of my plants in ground and establishing themselves. I'm doing okay, considering that it's only my second year gardening in this short-season climate and that the garden space is so much bigger than what I'm used to--48' X 15'. I'm having a setback figuring how to upload photos, so hope to find a bit of time to figure out how to do that. One side of the garden is a raspberry jungle, pretty much trained onto trellises, and on the lower edge strawberries are growing in the openings of cement blocks and looking like they're training for the Olympics. Some of the ticks that have landed on me came from the raspberry patch, but I'm loath to spray lest it impact the honeybees and bumblebees who are very busy pollinating up there. I'm afraid I was overly ambitious with my plant starts and am running out of space for them. I think I have to figure out how intensive gardening works and how to get it to work here. So far I am free-wheeling it by planting stuff like lettuce, mache, beets, carrots and radishes among the cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli. Anyone have any ideas on whether this is a good strategy?

 

[lazy gardener]

Some of my favorite interplantings: Onion sets with any type of greens (lettuce, spinnach, and similar) Radish as row markers. I love French breakfast. Slice them vertically, and spread the slices with peanut butter. YUMMY!! Cabbage among the asparagus. Potatoes between rows of corn planted 1' o.c. (I plant 2 rows of corn, 1 foot apart, then a row of potatoes, 2' from the corn, then an other 2 rows of corn. Potatoes LOVE corn. I mulch the whole thing heavily with hay. Wide row: all of the greens, onions, beets, carrots. Lots of nasturtium, calendula, marigold. Sounds like you're starting out well, Buggseye.

 

[A-K-A]

I loved my garden in Western Montana years back. Tomatoes took some work but everything else grew and grew and grew till frost or snow. The heat is the killer here.

 

[dan26552]

I loved my garden in Western Montana years back. Tomatoes took some work but everything else grew and grew and grew till frost or snow. The heat is the killer here.

Yeah, the heat does have it's draw backs.