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KDOGG331 said:
That sounds delicious!!! Thanks for the recipe!! I will have to try that!! And the kind I got says it is good for fresh eating so hopefully it will be! Lol although I must admit that I am a bit nervous about just eating stuff fresh off a plant without washing it first :oops:
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Take the plunge.. stuff off the plant is wonderful.
 
This seems like a good idea for the squash or tomatoes. May try it. Maybe next year though. Might be a little too close to planting time now for this? And idk if I have the room. He has a whole series though and I plan on watching the rest of the series next. Maybe later tonight. More on building good soil in it and stuff like that, lots of good ideas, but for now I just liked the vid on how to build it. Also found lots of videos on cattle panel trellises so appparently Bruce’s idea is a very popular one. Might watch a couple of those too. Anyway, I think this one might be good for the squash as they need it a bit warmer and they also need so much room! Idk if there is room in the current garden with the way it is set up now. But I may extend the garden backwards into an unclaimed yet very sunny area. Idk. Or make another garden. But if they are at all related to pumpkins, which I think they are cause pumpkin are squash? I don’t want them near the rest of the garden. Last year the pumpkins took over everything. I do not want the same thing with the squash. I got zucchini and summer squash. Also, maybe I am crazy, but the little hair things on squash, particularly zucchini, really irritates my hands.

 
KDOGG331 said:
That makes sense!! Might have to try Territorial next year!! I just got from these guys cause I was Googling best seed companies and they came up. Territorial did too and a bunch of other ones but one of the articles said that this one was their favorite one so I decided to try it. And I do like them. But I know nothing about seeds or anything so I just kinda browsed through all the pages and picked ones that sounded good lol
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just remember that they want to sell seeds so altho they all sound good, think before you buy , just what you want in a veggie
 
Yep, some squashes will run a good distance. I don't think I find that with summer squashes (yellow, zucchini) as much as winter squash (butternut, Red Kuri). I've heard you can grow them on trellis or fence but I don't know how easy it is to support the fruit as it grows.

One thing I have heard about adding a lot of wood chips is that they will leech nitrogen out of the soil. Not sure what happens in a raised bed of wood chips. You can also use hay bales on edge, cut side up.

KDOGG331 said:
Hmm, that’s true. Watering probably does too. Didn’t think of any of that. Just thought of dirt and bugs and animals
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Watering shouldn't, not if you are doing it right. Very wasteful to use a sprinkler and it nicely waters all the weeds as well. Better to water at ground level. Make a trench next to things grown in rows. Make a moat around single plants.
 
KDOGG331 said:
I bet it is! Just paranoid about getting sick :lau but I will try it this year!
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we have to put up electric fencing to keep the cats out of the garden, nothing makes me sicker than seeing the cats using my freshly dug garden used as a cat toilet and we have barn cats (or madder) after the fence is up, then i plant my seeds and sometimes pick a veggie and eat it, fil used to do the same thing
 
N F C said:
Morning Sharron!

That's interesting about the sheep. Guess it's about the same way differences are in the taste of beef.

I must be the only person around here that's never eaten lamb or sheep!
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I have not either.
sharron said:
funny, before husband i made it legal, he would refer to me as his wifey, must have taken, been with him since 1967, legally 1969:lau altho i'm sure there are times he would like to murder me
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We marry for better or worse, sometimes they get the worse!:gig
bruceha2000 said:
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I put beans on one side and cukes on the other. I alternate each year, I plant both sides of the row. The big tall wood thing in back is a support for the cherry tomato plant, it has been moved to a different location and that area has been expanded for peas. Raspberries behind it, road up the side of the property behind the fence.
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Very nice!
 
If my hosta plants recover, I will need deer protection. First they ate the expensive plants, then finished the dried out, burnt ,dying cheap ones.

Plus thanks to the electric company, they cut down some of my small trees along the fence. Now every deer in town will be stopping by.
 

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