Garden Is In!

I’m thinking of going organic.

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For the Garden.

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Never mind, it died so I’m just gon’ia have to do it the ole city fashion way today.

finally……1/4 inch of rain tonight. maybe more yet??????? also got the garden bunny proof!!!!!!!!

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Bragger!

I introduce all Mr. and Mrs. Haas N. Feffer to this effective form of crowd and birth control pill. I do so personally since I have found that they pay no attention to measures used to keep them from encroaching on sensitive areas. One pill per candidate is all it takes. Delivery of the pill is very swift and relatively noise-free plus its also cost effective since replacing garden plants and seed is perhaps 100 times more expensive than the pill and wayyyyyy less expensive than fencing. Sure works for me.

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I finally got everything in my garden yesterday. I’ve got snap peas, broccoli, purple and orange carrots, green beans, cherry tomatoes, salsa tomatoes, super tasty tomatoes, bell peppers, and jalapenos. Oh, and raspberries.
Now, to keep the deer at bay.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

I introduce all Mr. and Mrs. Haas N. Feffer to this effective form of crowd and birth control pill. I do so personally since I have found that they pay no attention to measures used to keep them from encroaching on sensitive areas. One pill per candidate is all it takes. Delivery of the pill is very swift and relatively noise-free plus its also cost effective since replacing garden plants and seed is perhaps 100 times more expensive than the pill and wayyyyyy less expensive than fencing. Sure works for me.

Tom, I wish I could to. I live in town with homes relatively close, besides a don’t trust a couple neighbors. I’ve live trapped my share always seems 1or2 are a bit smarter then the trap.

Tom, I wish I could to. I live in town with homes relatively close, besides a don’t trust a couple neighbors. I’ve live trapped my share always seems 1or2 are a bit smarter then the trap.

hmmmmmm makes me wonder are they smarter then the trap or the trapper
ha ha just kidding glen

maybe a little of both.

I hate going to garden centers with Ma. She wanted to find a couple plants to go with an idea she’s been toying with so I said let’s go. I knew I had room for one more tomato and be damned if I didn’t come across and nice looking heirloom one and the thing followed me home. I was going to plant 8 [eight] standard tomato plants this year. Now I’m at 18, not counting the 9 that make up my 2 Roma varieties and a cherry plant.

I re-arranged the garden this year and actually looked at sweet corn seed this morning too, but had enough sense to walk away from that.

I had a package of heirloom cucumbers seed that yields cucumbers over a yard long…or so the package boasts. I found a couple feet of empty fence in with some of Ma’s Cardinal vine and Scarlett Runner beans and I see they’re up and doing fine. Now all I need is a decent growing season. A yard long cucumber is just about the right size to slice up along with a couple tomatoes for dinner, in lieu of dinner, for me when its hot out.

Picked these tonight. Winter onions are about done. Also on my second cutting on lettuce and spinach.

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Things are popping up nicely in our garden – including the weeds. I need to get out there and pluck some of them outta there but with Fritz recovering from knee surgery and starting physical therapy I’ve been neglecting my garden duties.

I’m really looking forward to snacking on some grape tomatoes this summer!

It’s getting there.

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It was either Tom Sawvell or glenn57 that spoke of using a fertilizer that just was mixed in earlier this month or last. Then it would not be needed until August. For the life of me I think it was a Scots brand but I cannot think of it.

I think it started with an O, maybe?

Osmocote Denny.

Gardens are looking good fellas! I was out weeding the other day and noticed some grape tomatoes popping up.

What do you guys do to keep the weeds at bay in your gardens? I just keep pulling them by hand, but year after year we seem to get more and more @#$% weeds.

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i weed by hand and i lay grass clippings around my maters, cukes, green beans. seems to help alot. one needs to get them roots out or they just grow back.i stay clear of weed killers in the garden, although in the fall i’ll hit weeds in the garden with roundup. i also will no longer use preen, it may just be in my head but i think it carrys over!!!!!!!

I hand pick the weeds, too. I did it this week for probably the first time, and they were bad. I put grass clippings around the tomatoes and peppers. I’ll do the beans, too, now that they’re big enough.

Things are going well with mine. Tomatoes are flowering. Peas are flowering. Won’t be too long, now. I’ve kept the deer at bay so far, too!

Got this idea from a neighbor. This pic was several weeks ago. I’ve already got tomatoes growing and have taken a ton of onions out already & added peppers. Works great and no bending over, no rabbits or deer yet either. Total cost to build (per unit) was $30 for treated lumber, $2.50 for plastic barrel halves, $1.60 for mesh screen bottom liner over drain holes drilled, $16 4 cf of menards potting soil & I had the screws already.

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Thanks Tom! Exactly what I was looking for and I thought it was you who spoke of it. I just could not fine where. Off to work now. Thanks!!

We have had lots of rain of late and the weeds were rampant. Yestrday we joined forces and weeded everything seen here including a 26 foot by 4 foot stretch of tomato plants that sit below the back of what you can see here. We.ve had a couple trips lately that took us away from the garden but now we are where we should be. The weeds that might come from seed or rhysomes will be taken care of by the Preen we’ve applied. We just got to it later this season than we wanted. Preen does a super job and the few weeds that might come along now will fall to the hoe or get hand-pulled. Preen can go on the garden right over existing plants and not hurt a thing.

I don’t like sprays in my active garden except to keep insects in check. I do not use the Preen product with fertilizer in it as the fertilizer is for green growth not fruit production. When I clear the garden in the late I will hit whatever is still green with a shot of round-up, wait a week and hit it again then put my fall mulch of leaves and grass on and till everything in. Round-Up, incidentally, becomes inert as soon as it touches soil so there’s no chance of carry-over from plant residue.

Weeds have to be dealt with all year in a garden to keep the garden fairly easy to manage.

As soon as the Preen gets rained in I will Osmocote my tomatoes and pepper plants, squash and cucumbers again then start laying in grass trimmings between the rows and under the pepper and tomato plants to help hold moisture. The grass really helps hold down weed growth too and as it rots down creates a lot of heat over the root balls that the tomatoes and peppers like.

I used horse manure from a farm once to help the garden’s soil along and never again.

Tom, fo you plant much from seed? I ask cause at times where I’ve spread preen, the following year it seems seeds done sprout. I’ll use it in my wife’s flower bed but that’s it.

With that being said my garden is 99% weed free.

Beets, lettuce, spinach, carrots and green beans – both climbing and bush varieties- are done from seed and I have zero issues as long as the plants are up and growing well. I’ve never had Preen carry over from one year to the next.

I have used Preen as well for the last 6 to 7 years too, no issues.

Some weeding,TLC, and some nice rain, it’s looking like a jungle.

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Sharon wrote:

What do you guys do to keep the weeds at bay in your gardens? I just keep pulling them by hand, but year after year we seem to get more and more @#$% weeds

This is what I’ve done the last 3 years, and while it takes awhile at the start of the year to lay it all, I don’t spend a lot of time weeding throughout the summer except for occasional weeds/grass at the base of plants.

Bare black dirt is bad, so I cover pretty much the entire garden in newspaper. Just open them up and lay them down. In the fall I mulch up a bunch of leaves and store them. I then put the mulched leaves on top of the newspaper and once they get wet and start decomposing, they mat together and form a nice barrier. Outside of occasional Canada thistle, nothing really penetrates through the newspaper/mulch barrier.

mnrabbit wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Sharon M wrote:</div>
What do you guys do to keep the weeds at bay in your gardens? I just keep pulling them by hand, but year after year we seem to get more and more @#$% weeds

This is what I’ve done the last 3 years, and while it takes awhile at the start of the year to lay it all, I don’t spend a lot of time weeding throughout the summer except for occasional weeds/grass at the base of plants.

Bare black dirt is bad, so I cover pretty much the entire garden in newspaper. Just open them up and lay them down. In the fall I mulch up a bunch of leaves and store them. I then put the mulched leaves on top of the newspaper and once they get wet and start decomposing, they mat together and form a nice barrier. Outside of occasional Canada thistle, nothing really penetrates through the newspaper/mulch barrier.

first question…….what type of fertilizer do you use?????? i used to use some form of animal dung. i found that for some reason holds alot of weed seeds, especially if its older. i,ve switched to useing 10-10-10 and leaves from my big maple tree. i also trow in my used coffee grounds, nitrogen, and all potatoe peelings etc gets tossed in the garden………. year round.

after its tilled in the spring and the garden is somewhat established i use one of them garden weasel thingy’s. you also need to pull the weed getting all the roots. once i’ve gone threw the garden thoroughly, i lay grass clippings around the cukes, maters, peppers and cabbage. i leave bare dirt around kalarabi carrots etc.

your never going to get rid of weeds but i have found staying away from animal manure is a good start.