California - Northern

[h2oratt]

Anyone have some yokohama eggs or Java eggs?

No. They had some mottled Java at TSC a few weeks ago

 

[Jacinta]

What else are you guys planting? Sorry if I should be posting this in another tread but since we are located in the same area Im curious to see what are people growing. Since we had a nice last weekend I got to plant 2 tomatoes, 2 strawberries, 1 blackberry, basil, chiles and cilantro. Whate else are you guys growing in the east bay this spring-summer?

 

[caychris]

What else are you guys planting? Sorry if I should be posting this in another tread but since we are located in the same area Im curious to see what are people growing. Since we had a nice last weekend I got to plant 2 tomatoes, 2 strawberries, 1 blackberry, basil, chiles and cilantro. Whate else are you guys growing in the east bay this spring-summer?

I have bush beans, acorn,butternut,yellow and zuccinni squash lots of tomato varieties, water melon and cantaloupe missed on strawberries this year, planting yellow red and orange bell pepper and some more pole and bush beans. Have some potatoes going too. Need to pen up the chickens and the asparagas will recover. Everything is in pots at the moment waiting on the chickens to get penned up so I can plant.

Once thats done this fall Ill plant a number of fruit trees and berries (black and blue) and hopefully I can get my gogi berry bush to recover from the chicken attacks

I have an herb garden planned and will hopefully have a bunch of basil planted outside (supposedly repels flies)

I grow peas, carrots and broccoli over the winter. Im hoping to add some more things as well we have a long growing season Im trying out a hydroponic lettuce garden in my garage this year.

 

[Jacinta]

I have bush beans, acorn,butternut,yellow and zuccinni squash lots of tomato varieties, water melon and cantaloupe missed on strawberries this year, planting yellow red and orange bell pepper and some more pole and bush beans. Have some potatoes going too. Need to pen up the chickens and the asparagas will recover. Everything is in pots at the moment waiting on the chickens to get penned up so I can plant.

Once thats done this fall Ill plant a number of fruit trees and berries (black and blue) and hopefully I can get my gogi berry bush to recover from the chicken attacks

I have an herb garden planned and will hopefully have a bunch of basil planted outside (supposedly repels flies)

I grow peas, carrots and broccoli over the winter. Im hoping to add some more things as well we have a long growing season Im trying out a hydroponic lettuce garden in my garage this year.

Oh thats a nice garden, im interested in the squash, Im going to look into it. Do you buy seeds or grow from your own veggies? I dont think I have enough space prep por any melons. Have you done artichoke before? I have a neighbor who grows artichoke. Also planted a fig tree since I love figs and I have a dehidrator, hopefully likes the spot a picked, sunny enough but Im afraid not big enough. House in the hills have their cons and prons.

 

[caychris]

Oh thats a nice garden, im interested in the squash, Im going to look into it. Do you buy seeds or grow from your own veggies? I dont think I have enough space prep por any melons. Have you done artichoke before? I have a neighbor who grows artichoke. Also planted a fig tree since I love figs and I have a dehidrator, hopefully likes the spot a picked, sunny enough but Im afraid not big enough. House in the hills have their cons and prons.

My squash have been from saved seed for the past couple of years.

I bought heirloom seeds originally The tomato's have been a variety of seeds saved and bought. I dont do artichoke but I probably will at some point. I only do a couple of mellon plants too many and they take over I have a specific bed for them
I havent been able to grow them vertically yet but thats my long term goal

 

[HighStreetCoop]

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Chooks went bonkers on my artichoke plant (which they ignored last year) and ate it down to the roots. *sigh*

 

[Sylvester017]

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I have planted with started plants from the garden store as well as from my own saved seeds. I have found Squash, Gourd, and Melon plants take way too much space to get only 1 to 5 fruit from one bush/vine. I found Squash plants incredibly difficult to battle Powdery Mildew because of our humid SoCalif summers. Experimenting for our climate helped me decide what veggies/fruits worked best for our conditions/zone - tomatoes (both in-ground and potted), potted bell peppers, potted hot peppers, potted cucumbers, and numerous varieties of potted herbs and green onions. Root veggies like carrots, radishes, etc, got eaten by rats or soil bugs. I have better luck with quick-growing lettuces and potted ruby chard. One year I had a beautiful leafy dark Fig tree in the front yard that produced beautiful large sweet fruit but the rats, ants, and June bugs infested it so badly that I don't plant sweet soft skin fruit any more - we don't use poison sprays but even if we did the rats would still survive. I plant only hard skin fruits like lemons, grapefruit, pomegranates, etc. - I don't plant sweet oranges or tangerines. From past experience I don't plant avocados because rats love the fruit and the tree takes so much space for the few fruit you might salvage from the rats. We battled two rats and a family of field mice a couple years back and finally got rid of them so I don't want to encourage any new rodents! I don't have any trees left in the yard except for 4 potted containers of dwarf lemons and a couple varieties of pomegranates. Fruit trees grow incredibly out of control at maturity and produce way more fruit than one family will ever pick or utilize which means more attraction for the birds and rodents. I used to grow boysenberries which are a prolific berry but again they take a lot of space and would produce more than we'd ever use. For gardens, raised beds work well if the bottoms are wired to prevent digging rodents and a wire cover to protect seedlings. Of course, after plants and vines grow full of fruit there is no way to wire off these tall plants from invading rodents - bunnies, rats, mice, gophers, moles, skunks, etc etc etc. For me, the best way to save veggies is to container garden -- it's not 100% effective but a lot more harvest to save than from in-ground planting or even raised-garden beds. As for the chickens, we have a 2-foot tall rabbit fencing dividing our patio and garden plants from their half of the yard to do with as they please - hunt for bugs, scratch, or dig dust-bath holes to China! One or two hens tried to fly over into the garden but they got embarrassed at our picking them up and putting them back on "their" side of the little fence -- they respect the barrier now. Who says chickens are not trainable?

 

[Sylvester017]

http://themetapicture.com/apparently-the-continents-can-be-rearranged-to-form-a-chicken/

Apparently the continents can be rearranged to form a chicken
5 April, 2011 in Funny | Comment

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Apparently the site no longer carries the neat photo! Maybe they'll put it back someday.

 

[curious chickee]

My blue, black, splash Marans have hatched. 2 blue, 3 black, and 3 splash

 

[Honora]

My blue, black, splash Marans have hatched. 2 blue, 3 black, and 3 splash

Cute chicks.