What did you do in the garden today?

[SheaLoner]

The extra work pays off..

Are those vining or bush varieties? And that is Awesome.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Saw this the other day from HOSS tools. Anyone use this Florida weave style for trellising tomatoes? I was probably gonna cheat and use the old round cages I have floating around, but this looks better.

I have done something similar with repurposed baling twine that I save from hay bales. The only difference is that my stakes are not lined in a row but offset front & back to create criss-crossed boxes. All my tomatoes last year (and this year) are indeterminate so they get rather big. Setting up my supports in a box fashion gave them more support all around.

 

[638858]

Yes, regular old yella straight neck and crookneck and zucchini squashes.. bush types.. you know how squash grows, I wouldn’t call it directional.. but it flops over to one side or the other, just tie to a support and train it to “flop” and go straight up.. it grows super fast and early on it takes training 2-3 times a week..

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I saw this a couple days ago.. but went back that evening to reply and it was gone.. but no mam, do not prune/pinch squash until after they fruit..

Man!!! So reckon they will all die?

 

[638858]

Man!!! So reckon they will all die?

I’m not sure.. can you post a picture to show exactly how big? How are they reacting so far?...

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I’m not sure.. can you post a picture to show exactly how big? How are they reacting so far?...

I'll have to try and get one tomorrow...already dark n raining here.
Half were all swiveled up and darkeningthe other half just looked sickly - not nearly as perky and healthy as they did before pinchin...ugh

 

[riss]

Carrots: @riss @chickengr I’ve never started them in pots! I’ve only direct seeded. I’ve heard that for many root veg it can mess with root formation when they are transplanted.

I got some tomatoes and watermelon I thought about just straight putting in the ground at the end of May

 

[Ascholten]

Well... I got everything moved into the new freezer, and said holy #$%$ aaron, this damned thing is packed to the GILLS. I mean it was a solid packed with like zero space to move with meat / frozen garden stuff yadda yadda doo. As I was wrapping the cord up, I heard gas hissing in it. I started thinking ok now youve been sitting unplugged for a day, there is NO WAY the gas has not equalized yet.... then it hit me.

Because I had so much crap packed in there, the thermal mass, does not allow for good circulation in there, once it gets cold, it will STAY COLD !! Which indeed it will !! This thing 'died' last night, at I said 34 degrees or so, but that was because I was in it the past 10 minutes prior (to notice it was ticking) and that heated up my temp wand. anyways it started at 10 degrees. Today, a full day later it was only at 21 degrees with NO cooling running. Because it couldn't circulate well, it got too cold, the freon stopped evaporating and I got liquid flood back on the compressor. That WILL lock it, hence the overload clicking out when it tries to turn over. Once I moved the stuff out, it brought the thermal mass away from the evaporator coils plus the open door, it heated up, the liquid evaporated, hence the hissing i heard, the now gas is going where it needs to. The liquid in the compressor was able to turn back to gas, and the thing was able to turn again, because I was not trying to compress a liquid.

Ok now that the long dork o matic explanation is out of the way. The freezer is now working fine, (it seems).

Given how packed it was, well YES I DO need more freezer space, I just didn't fully realize it yet! So the new one was not totally in vain, (i just still need to figure out where to put it in the garage, the garage is still a #$@ pile ugh!)

As a side tangent, my earlier comments about going to the junk yard to find freezers etc. It's stupid stuff JUST LIKE THIS, that makes people throw away perfectly good appliances !! So don't automatically assume just because someone junked it, it IS junk, you can still find plenty of good stuff in there!

Aaron

 

[638858]

I got some tomatoes and watermelon I thought about just straight putting in the ground at the end of May

Tomatoes start in trays or gang sow in a pot and then pot them up or move them outside only after the second set of true leaves, the more leaves the better, not counting the cotyledons, tomatoes start seed 6-8 weeks before your last threat of frost date and when they go into their final spot hey the plant as deep as possible leaving just the top little bit exposed, Watermelons direct sow in the ground.

 

[riss]

Tomatoes start in trays or gang sow in a pot and then pot them up or move them outside only after the second set of true leaves, the more leaves the better, not counting the cotyledons, tomatoes start seed 6-8 weeks before your last threat of frost date and when they go into their final spot hey the plant as deep as possible leaving just the top little bit exposed, Watermelons direct sow in the ground.

I was just gonna put them in the ground just cause that's what my grandmother told me she did when she was a kid and they would grow. She said she just dug her trenches then planted them and covered them up and watered