((Serious Gardening))

[feather and mountain man]

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Sometimes we do till things under for green manure but not done it with bush beens we use too many beans to waste any.

 

[CluckyJay]

We have veggie sprouts!

I figure by the time the greens bolt it will be good chicken food, LOL.

I just got done planting Bright Lights chard yesterday. I found 13 plants for less than $2.00. It was only supposed to be a 4-pack but each cell had at least three colorful plants in it!

This is my first year growing this plant. Its so pretty guys!

The rain is nice because its setting all my seeds for free, hehe.

Its time to start making a roof to channel the rain into the rain barrel now.

 

[NanaKat]

A few garden photos: The poles in the back are martin house gourds.

 

[Jenlyn9483]

This weekend I bought another rather large blackberry bush with rather large green berries on it. I also built another garden added 4 tomatoe plants, 3 more cucumbers a few flowers and thats about all that little square footer can hold. I also got a great deal on cat palms and table foliage for my porch and a beautiful pink hydrangea.

 

[StupidBird]

It's Monday. I did plant one hill each zucchini and yellow squash, and a ring of scarlet runner pole bean around the dead and pruned back peach tree. Gotta go ice up = how frustrating!

nana kat, those are wonderful beds

 

[NanaKat]

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Thank you. Should have used the connection to the bigger pictures..you have to click them to get them to enlarge.
I'll post pictures of the rest as soon as the beds are clean, compost worked in and planted.

 

[Cats Critters]

Here is a link to the thread I started on my garden expanding: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=487439

 

[StupidBird]

Ok, heads up! Who else is just finding gazilliions of beetle grubs and grasshopper pupae as you pull back the mulch and hoe up a seedbed? I've never seen so many. Am I facing the bug apocalypse 2011? I have been daily rubbing off the potato beetle egg clusters from under the potato leaves, and surroundings, for a week. I finally got wise this morning and pulled off all the hay mulch - dozens of potato beetles were hiding under the mulch. I've left the hay mulch in the path for now. Ick.

 

[Kassaundra]

I am wanting to grind my own cornmeal this year. I have a question though, can I use the sweet corn I already am going to plant or do I have to plant dent corn for that?

 

[StupidBird]

Kassundra, I'm no expert, but IMHO, if the sweet corn seed you have ready to plant in your hand is the big, fat kernels and not the super hybrid SE sweets with the shrunken little seeds, I'd use it. Corn is corn - many heirlooms and field corns are great as sweet corn in the "milk" stage - when the kernels on the cob are nice and soft. Field corn, cattle corn, fed corn, flour corn...to make corn meal is a matter of choosing qualities for the "best" flour, whatever that may be.