((Serious Gardening))

[schellie69]

My garden is all planted here is my list that I planted this year
Corn,
black beans
Pinto beans
dragon beans
colored peppers
Watermelon
honey dew melon
cucumbers
4 different types of tomatoes
spinach
3 types of leaf lettuce
Snap peas
Herbs
Cilantro
Chives
oregano
tarragon
dill

My daughter is planting some stuff in pots this years.
I am waiting till July to plant pumpkin, and my squash.

 

[Kassaundra]

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Thanks for the answer. I have the sweet corn seeds and can't find any dent corn seed locally and to late to order online. And it is just going to be an experiment anyway so I think I will give it a try w/ the corn (if I actually get any don't have a great track record w/ corn)

 

[galanie]

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This is true. My aunt and uncle used to have a farm in Indiana and they'd eat/can all the corn they needed, then let the majority of the crop mature on the stalk and harvest it as feed corn. It was not any special variety that they used, it was a common type grown as feed corn though I don't recall exactly what it was.

 

[StupidBird]

Aw, Shellie69, what a list! And it's done you say? I am sooo slow then!

It took me all afternoon to do eight tomato plants. Rake back the straw mulch. Capture loose chicken. Haul all the tools and supplies and hose. Dig each hole really deep, mix in fertilizer and a cup of oyster shell (the calcium stops blossom end rot), push the chicken out of the hole, plant the tomato, water in, shoo the chicken so it won't get trapped under the tomato cage as I place it, hammer in the anchor stakes and tie it in. Repeat. I kept trading out hen helpers as they would get too full of grubs and bugs to pay attention. And then I planted marigolds started from seed all around the cages. And I also planted cucumber seeds along the pea trellis where one variety came up very poorly. Not one of the tomatoes are the same variety. I started 8 varieties, planted the best one of the 3-6, and will give the rest away.

How do you do with the dry beans on your list? How much do you plant, harvest amount? And what are dragon beans?

 

[galanie]

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hahaha Takes me forever to do anything in the back yard for exactly the same reason.

 

[Junkmanme]

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I, too, usually plant marigolds near my tomatoes. But I still got Hornworms on my tomatoes. I started putting ONE Basil plant next to each tomato plant. I haven't seen any Hornworms since !!!

I don't use "oyster shell" here....but I may grind up some "egg-shells" to plant with the tomatoes and see if that helps with "blossom end rot". I think that how you water makes a difference with that also. It's worth a try. THANKS !

-Junkmanme-

 

[1MrsMagoo]

I planted winter and summer squash, sweet corn, field corn,
grain sorghum, sunflowers, pole beans, bush beans, kidney beans, okra,
tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, watermelon, cantaloupe, southern peas,
cucumbers, and pumpkins on March 20th....here they are 30 days later.

The posts have horticultural netting on them for my pole beans, winter squash, and cucumbers. I am trying Florida Weave for tomato support....so far so good. I have another three rows of corn and tomatoes in another section, but need to weed that this afternoon....it is too embarrassing to take pictures of all those weeds....

My winter garden will be done in another week or so...since we skipped spring and went straight to summer (been in the mid to high 80's here). Then I will transplant more peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants into those beds as well as some dill and summer savory.

I am putting some things in large landscape pots to see how they do versus in the ground or a raised bed. I only have a few done, but so far
the eggplant loves it.

I also used the tractor to cover some large tree stumps left over from Katrina trees to form a bed for pumpkins.

Okay, break time is over....now back to watering (only three days of measurable rain in a month) and weeding.

 

[Junkmanme]

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THAT ain't no garden !!! It's a FARM ! (There ain't THAT MUCH "tillable" land in all of New Mexico !!!)

(just kidding)
Ha-Ha !!!
-Junkmanme-

 

[featherbaby]

OK, what is "Florida Weave" with tomatoes?

 

[feather and mountain man]

Harvested some cold weather lettuce, raddishes and onions today. Cabbage will be ready soon too. I then planted some basil in place of the lettuce and more raddishes. Then had to take DS #2 to the Walk in Care Unit for an ear infection poor fella is in so much pain and so wiped out from it and on Easter Weekend of all times. My neice is here and she has been doing garden chores for me most of the day. She is a sweetheart and loves to come work on the farm.