BYC gardening thread!!

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Ok I am so on for the giant pumpkin seeds and contest. I'll be sending an email

Alright, why don't we have everyone send there biggest pumpkin sizes this year to me (PM me) once they are fully grown, and then I'll post the winner on this thread!!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Okra is pretty easy as long as it's warm enough and you keep it watered well. Fresh is always better than store bought ... eggplant can be tricky. It's kind of like tomatoes as it will not produce if it is too warm or too cold.

Okay thats good to know. Yes, we did try Tomatoes for a few years but soon discovered that it was to cold around here. We never got the tomatoes to grow. They failed. Does anybody grow like decoration plants such as decoration Squash or something? Just wondering!!

 

[TravisE]

remember that these plants take up alot of space per plant.
big macs need a 15ft x 15ft of space while the atlantic giants need 25ft x 25ft of space per plant.
the cross of my 650lber is 1028.5 holub x 1225 heyne. the mother seed of the 1028 holub. grew the world record. this year of 2009lbs by ron wallace. the crazzy thang is these giants have pedigrees. believe it or not.

 

[AccidentalFarm]

Does anybody grow like decoration plants such as decoration Squash or something? Just wondering!!

I usually plant Mammoth Sunflowers for decoration. I also have an ornamental pepper plant that puts on tons of little purple, red, yellow, and orange peppers. I'd like to plant luffa this year for fun.

I got my okra (which grows like a weed here-effortless for me), corn, green beans, and carrots in the ground today. Already planted were 6 or 7 varieties of Tomatoes, Cauliflower, Poblano Peppers, Chile Petins, and New Mexico Chili Peppers. I still need to plant my cantaloupe, watermelon, summer and crookneck squash, acorn squash, pumpkins, zucchini, cabbage, broccoli, peas, soybeans, spinach, lettuce, garlic, and herbs. Sheesh! That sounds like a lot, and that's not even a complete list. I've been splitting my time between the garden and re-building an older coop, so it's slow going right now. That's alright though, it'll get done when it gets done!

My sister and I have been coordinating our gardens this season, trying to plant different things than the other so that we'll have a larger variety to share with each other. I sure hope we have a good season. I'm looking forward to canning and drying our harvests this year.

 

[Shewholovesducks]

We're kinda late tilling the soil and getting the ground ready man I feel like we had an all star workout yesterday! We've some plants started in the house and we're gonna plant the onions once we get all the tree roots out of it and put some fertilizer down. I'm just hoping anything will grow as XD I have no idea what I'm doing! And actually our biggest problem so far seems to be keeping/stopping the cats from anointing the garden and the compost with their poop -_- any ideas on stopping that?

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

remember that these plants take up alot of space per plant.
big macs need a 15ft x 15ft of space while the atlantic giants need 25ft x 25ft of space per plant.
the cross of my 650lber is 1028.5 holub x 1225 heyne. the mother seed of the 1028 holub. grew the world record. this year of 2009lbs by ron wallace. the crazzy thang is these giants have pedigrees. believe it or not.

Wow thats crazy!! Yes, pumpkins do take up quiet a bit of room. I would only plant like 10-20Ibers.

I usually plant Mammoth Sunflowers for decoration. I also have an ornamental pepper plant that puts on tons of little purple, red, yellow, and orange peppers. I'd like to plant luffa this year for fun.

I got my okra (which grows like a weed here-effortless for me), corn, green beans, and carrots in the ground today. Already planted were 6 or 7 varieties of Tomatoes, Cauliflower, Poblano Peppers, Chile Petins, and New Mexico Chili Peppers. I still need to plant my cantaloupe, watermelon, summer and crookneck squash, acorn squash, pumpkins, zucchini, cabbage, broccoli, peas, soybeans, spinach, lettuce, garlic, and herbs. Sheesh! That sounds like a lot, and that's not even a complete list. I've been splitting my time between the garden and re-building an older coop, so it's slow going right now. That's alright though, it'll get done when it gets done!

My sister and I have been coordinating our gardens this season, trying to plant different things than the other so that we'll have a larger variety to share with each other. I sure hope we have a good season. I'm looking forward to canning and drying our harvests this year.

Awesome!! Good Luck!

We're kinda late tilling the soil and getting the ground ready man I feel like we had an all star workout yesterday! We've some plants started in the house and we're gonna plant the onions once we get all the tree roots out of it and put some fertilizer down. I'm just hoping anything will grow as XD I have no idea what I'm doing! And actually our biggest problem so far seems to be keeping/stopping the cats from anointing the garden and the compost with their poop -_- any ideas on stopping that?

Well we bought a a thingy on ebay that would make a high pitched screeching sound when it sensed movement in the garden. It worked. But every time you would weed it would hurt your ears! lol But I guess it hurt the deer's ears too!

 

[Ducclelover10]

What do you mean? :/

I'm not supposed to have potatoes with the diet I'm on to get rid of my muscle aches. But it's not working anyway so I'm gonna start eating them again.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

I'm not supposed to have potatoes with the diet I'm on to get rid of my muscle aches. But it's not working anyway so I'm gonna start eating them again.

oh okay, well I hope you stop aching.

 

[Wlsngrl]

Do any gardeners here compost and let your chickens do some of the work? I'm interested in this and seeing how it works, isn't smelly, etc. I guess all the bugs get eaten by the chicks so they're not flying all over the yard? If so, do you have a bin or area that is closed off and put the chickens there or is it just a low boundary around the compost so that the chickens can walk over there whenever they're out in the yard?

 

[Ducclelover10]

Do any gardeners here compost and let your chickens do some of the work? I'm interested in this and seeing how it works, isn't smelly, etc. I guess all the bugs get eaten by the chicks so they're not flying all over the yard? If so, do you have a bin or area that is closed off and put the chickens there or is it just a low boundary around the compost so that the chickens can walk over there whenever they're out in the yard?

We put wire over our composting bin, so the chickens can't eat the compost. It made one chicken really sick. I think, she had sour crop and a bacterial infection!