BYC gardening thread!!

[jerrey]

great pictures

 

[hippiestink]

Thanks for the tips folks. I've never tried hay bale gardening, but I don't think it'll work out well here. Hay is very expensive and has been hard to find lately. It's easier to find a bale of pine chips for the birds than it is to find hay.

I noticed intensive gardening did help a bit with my late crops. I had hardly any weeds mixed in with the radishes and the carrots only have a few along the edges and three large weeds in the main patch. I'm thinking a combination of intensive gardening, mulching, and raised beds will be just what I need.

 

[Guvnah]

No issues with mice or voles? They move in on all of my root crops.

Interesting question.

I've been doing this for at least 10 years, and never had a problem with that. And I know I have mice in the garden. I catch them all the time (and I used to give them to the chickens, when I had chickens... Man, I miss watching them play keep-away with them!)

Just watch... This year they'll become a problem, if Murphy has his way.

 

[Bugseye]

What about tearing up newspaper as amendment? I've got straw down, along with composted chicken litter and other compost. Last year when I put down cardboard boxes as weed deterrent, I got a resident vole and had to move her on. What I would do, after clearing away the tops of the veggies, is pull away the straw and put down newspaper, along with some more compost. Would that attract rodents?

 

[Peep_Show]

Bugseye -- That sounds like the makings of lasagna gardening! (google it)

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Been working on putting the garden to bed.... kind of weird as we're having a lovely 80-degree day. But the nippy 42-degree morning portends of autumnal weather just around the corner. So before the first frost hits I took out the hot peppers. Got a trug (3.5 gallons) of ancho peppers, a basket of red jalapenos (will smoke them and make chipotle), and a couple of pounds of red College and Garden Salso peppers that found their way onto a ristra. Tomorrow will be the final harvesting of the sweet peppers which will end up in the freezer and friends' fridges: Assorted Bell, Carmen, Gypsy, Sweet Banana, Giant Marconi, Big Bertha.

 

[marktoo]

Spring/summer garden winding down. Fall/winter garden coming into production. Harvest of sweet potato & butternut squash. Gonna miss them sweet potato greens. Kinda hate seeing the gardens come & go anymore, guess of reminds me of how rapidly the years pass by.

 

[dan26552]

Spring/summer garden winding down. Fall/winter garden coming into production. Harvest of sweet potato & butternut squash. Gonna miss them sweet potato greens. Kinda hate seeing the gardens come & go anymore, guess of reminds me of how rapidly the years pass by.

Nice harvest.

 

[Peep_Show]

How do you know when to harvest sweet potatoes? (I've got nine plants and no clue....)

 

[dan26552]

 

[lazy gardener]

Spring/summer garden winding down. Fall/winter garden coming into production. Harvest of sweet potato & butternut squash. Gonna miss them sweet potato greens. Kinda hate seeing the gardens come & go anymore, guess of reminds me of how rapidly the years pass by.

Nice looking garden and harvest, Mark. Yes, the years and seasons do run by faster and faster. I'm just hoping my orchard produces while I'm here to enjoy it! If not, hoping that the next land steward will appreciate my work, and reap the benefit.

What you growing there, Dan???