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[stargazingmommy]

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oh how cool. My garden is still in pots lining the rail of the front porch.
I think most of its dead.

 

[Illia]

About 90% of my garden is in pots.

Nothing wrong with that!

. . . . Except if they're dead.

Two kiddie pools down the center are not yet filled, second from the back is filled with melons and beans who aren't as healthy as the last pool in in the back, overrun with dark green beans, watermelons, and a "Luneville" melon. The sides are all adorned with tomatoes, peppers, and squash, although adjustments are still being made, new pots are still being filled and/or moved, and weeds are pulled all the time. The back is where it is the warmest, and is where my fig, bananas, corn, and pole beans grow. Up in the very front (not pictured) are tomatillos, eggplants, and litchi tomatoes (not actual tomatoes) The dead bale of hay directly ahead has a few white cherry tomato plants growing in it as well as some pole beans just planted. NONE of my beans grow in a place where they aren't supplying another plant with nutrients / nitrogen.

 

[Chickielady]

T-Hi asked me to post this photo to you guys...not sure why, maybe she is selling these hens ?

Edited to add:
The grey is a drake.

Toni called me again (texting to my computer

)
These 3 she is keeping, they are babies she hatched, blues from BlueDucklings.
OK, that settled, I am off!!

 

[Chickielady]

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I had to cut holes in the TOP of the walls at 8 feet, to let my cucumbers out cuz they are starting to want to grow across the top of the green house LOL (that would block light) and my tomatoes look like trees...about 1 foot taller than me.
It is getting hard to walk through the rows.
peas are out of control...and all abloom (snow peas) beans are climbing up about 2 feet now, melons all abloom but not set fruit yet, Pumpkins are about 10 feet long, have 2 female starts about baseball size (Wyatt's Wonder Giant) and Cinderella's are just 2 eweeks old and 1 foot long.
We had 2 zuchinnis 12" long last week and one again last night & still have one in the fridge.
So yummy to have your own vegies!!
Illia you MUST get the long boxes & put your own compost in them, and attach the green house to the boxes !!
It works so good!!
My Candy Onions (keepers) are almost ready to pull & dry.
Garlic too.
Then I will have those 2 boxes for something else..
Planted another set of Victoria Butterhead and A purple romaine today, and arugula.

 

[Chickielady]

Miss you Illia!!
Howdy!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Inside my greenhouse, to show the boxes, 3 weeks ago.
Hard to squeeze through the rows of boxes now...I always plant too much.
I think I have 30 tomatoes, all different but 'Stupice' and 'Ace 55' is doing best, heirlooms are slower 'Tigerella'
Cucumbers are about 12", and hard as logs.
They need to be 18" before they are softened up & ready to eat.
Spaghetti squash has 5-6 fruits size of footballs...'Black Queen' (?) Zuchinni doing the best..'Green Goddes' is bigger, but not yet setting fruit.
Sweet meats squash are 8 feet long & blooming, haven't seen fruit but it is hard to see in there!

This box is now completely covered & crawling out 10 feet in every direction

I planted too much!!!
Started the compost in this box last summer..so it is PERFECT right now for these heavy feeders.

 

[Chickielady]

So everyone is gone

I am going to go too!!
Bye!

 

[Illia]

Nice CL!

I'll admit, we still don't have any garlic, onions, or cucumbers.


This is my healthiest, oldest pool of beans / melons. The jungle of beans there are Jacob's Cattle beans. The watermelons escaping the jungle are Orangeglow watermelons, and in the center, also crawling out and up the 4x6" post are the Luneville melons. I've got a few female watermelon flowers developing, one already fertilized and growing a little baby melon.

The second pool is again filled with Jacob's Cattle beans, both are flowering. The second pool also contains White Sugarlump watermelons and several Green Nutmeg muskmelons, who have given me a TON of male flowers and finally now some females. The Sugarlump watermelons have given me so far about 6 flowers - 3 are female.

I've got tons of heirloom squash too, but only my Golden Crookneck and Blue Hubbard look like they'll give me something anytime soon. I've had about half my squash plants since March, but the move from indoors to the greenhouse took a stressful toll on them, causing them to spit out nothing but male flowers for months on end. But, I now have females.

My tomatoes are all growing huge, about 4-5' tall, constantly trying to escape their cages, and about half of them are bearing now. The photo shown earlier is a Carbon tomato (purple beefstake variety) but I've got so many other kinds, some just fascinating, like these Green Sausages. They'll mature to some delicious dark green/light green striped tomatoes - Great for green tomato sauce. We've got 39 varieties of tomatoes in the greenhouse, at least two of every color, shape, size, flavor. . .

My peppers are varied (as in health, age, productivity - But also in variety) I've got about 23 varieties, but only a few are producing right now, as a LOT have yet to be transplanted in bigger pots, and several have gone through a lot of stress. (the greenhouse gets HOT if I don't open the "windows" and let it ventilate on sunny days) But, peppers are tough! I've got three nearly two year old plants who are 5 feet tall and growing in a pathetic, tiny pot, and still producing a lot of peppers.

The secret is "tea."

(dirty water with animal poo and compost in it) However, I've moved one of them to a bigger pot, and seeing how it hasn't given up after that move, I'm moving the others too and and going to see just how long they'll continue to grow and produce to.

( picture of some of the peppers from the 1.5 year old "Sweet Chocolate" bell pepper plants)

 

[PNWChickenlady]

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Welcome to the forum!

And my babies at 3 & 4 weeks are going in & out, and locked in at night.
They have not had a heat lamp for 2 weeks or more.
The brooder room is warm enough.
They go out when they want to, and if cool, they come inside.

Thank you all for your help. Wow, so no heat lamp at 3-4 weeks. I should turn mine off then...I have it really high up---- they're still in the house right now. I get worried they're going to get to cold. Huh...

 

[DIYSeattle]

I would love to ahve a greenhosue that produces year around. I am currently in theprocess of building a greenhosue lean to on the side of the house. I ahve a couple things to figure out but IM very close to starting. Im tired of having to buy my vegetables that I could easily grow myself provded I ahve the proper greenhosue and heat to do so.

I have some hydropinic setups in the basement but it is not enough to provide a surplus of food. It is more like a supplement to food, like bok choi, lettuce, herbs, spices, etc. Id like to produce more.

Here's what Im trying to make.

Im almost there. Ill figure it out. Im trying to make a greenhouse with a single top header but I can tfigure the best way to connect two headers together without a double row of top headers.