BYC gardening thread!!

[Angelicisi]

Last week lettuce was ripening!

Almost forgot! I have blueberries and wild blackberries this year too! Started grapes but they didn't make it. :-(

Peas are loving the weather!
Happy spring ya'll!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Tons l flower n veggie pics lol No pesticides used, I use other bugs...lol. assassin beetles, lady bugs, praying mantis's and the good old two finger squish! I try to companion plant for nutes to or use compost made here by nature huge oaks. I have pics of everything lol love the gardens.

nice pictures

I garden...veggies, flowers & fruit trees. This is going to be the best year yet. Ordered 2 cherry trees in December (not a local find here), they're filling in beautifully already! We have a pineapple guava that's doing great, an orange tree, grapefruit tree, kumquat tree, peach tree, avacado tree & few loquat trees. 2 veggie gardens the hubby made for me, one smaller one out front and a large one outback with the chickens (which gave me their 1st egg today! No April fool's egg song today! Hehe. In the smaller garden I do raised rows. Ready right now I have Arugals, romaine lettuce, sugar peas, swiss chards, garlic, leeks, red leaf lettuce. Have a rows of herbs-cilantro, oregano, parsley,dill, mint , Basil & thyme. Still growing (seedlings went in the ground week before easter) broccoli, cabbage, cherry toms, jubilee toms, purple bell peppers, orange bell peppers, red onions, Alaskan peas, yellow squash, cucumbers, red cabbage & purple tomatillos.

In the larger garden I have multiple boxes. Far upper left is potatoes, radish (for eating.) & Alaskan peas (planted with potatoes for nitrogen feeding) mums are here n there for pest control. The top box holds an asparagus bed 1st year, cosmos, a few broccoli, jalopanos & radish (for trap crop). Big box holds excess seedlings, artichoke, watermelon and cantalope. I keep an empty box as a nursery for over abundance of started seeds, moved plants or use as an area to depot without mess. Lol so far so good this year! Hope it all hangs in there! Louisiana weather can get brutal!

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[Mr MKK FARMS]

Last week lettuce was ripening! Awesome!


Almost forgot! I have blueberries and wild blackberries this year too! Started grapes but they didn't make it. :-( Oh, to bad.


Peas are loving the weather! Good
Happy spring ya'll!

Yes, happy spring!

 

[Angelicisi]

Thanx! Hard work but always worth it! Even veggie fails teach me something!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Thanx! Hard work but always worth it! Even veggie fails teach me something!

Yup, totally!

 

[Angelicisi]

MKK, you mentioned you have forest area? I have some woods on the property, unused really riddled with fallen trees & overgrowth (i love just taking a hike around & dislike clearing land that doesn't *need* to be cleared...I did however decide to start a few patches of lettuce and they grew great with very low light. I planted many little patches scattered because of the wild rabbits and deer and of the 4 lil areas 2 made it! but we only grow for us. I am doing okra and a few other veggies this year too in a couple of fallen tree logs in a clearing back in the woods. They're sorta soft, I'll hack out a chunk with my machete, drop in a chunk of compost and seedlings, cap with milkjugs sans bottoms until beefy enough and let you know! Also, watermelons on grass, no digging. Last year where our woods meet the kept grounds I plopped a shovelful of compost down on top of grass, planted 3 watermelon seedlings, surrounded the seedlings in hay layer about 3 inches deep 2ft around and they did good! Got 6 melons (ok well good for me lol) The vines grew out on top of the lawn, they also dug in a bit at the joints of the vines. I added hay around the base of the plants as they grew and it helped keep moisture up. Watermelons grew sitting on the bed of grass, after harvest I pulled up the vines. Looked a bit like it airated the lawn lol. We did it in a few corner so if it had killed the grass we were ok with it. It didn't but it made yellow spots where the melons grew and where we put hay, but they grew back in This year I'm going to try again with watermelon and cantalope. Seedlings are are almost ready.

 

[poultrylubber]

Hey I was just wondering how many people here put there chickens on the garden before they plant? I was thinking of doing that this year to try to build up my soil some.

 

[Angelicisi]

I was going too...but read to do it in late fall after harvest to give it time to breakdown...we go year round here tho :-/ so I didn't, but I did start a compost pile with their soiled hay...

 

[poultrylubber]

Ah I read in a farming magazine that you can do it in the early spring. Here the ground will be exposed pretty soon but it will be awhile before the last frost, so I think it would be enough time for it to break down some. I am going to get my dad to help me build a compost tumbler for the litter

 

[Angelicisi]

That'd be awesome! Here the sun is relentless from mid April to October...if that's what it needs to speed up the process I'm so game! Does the tumble help you "tumble" the compost? Also very helpful! She's that's NOT fun in July here lol. I do use the soiled hay around in small clumps and the established flowers LOVE it. Just the baby veggies seem to stunt when I tried on them. They rehired but everything was mini!