Vegetable Garden

[Goose]

So who's growing what? Whats the best results in timeing your plantings? Any veggy tips you wanna share?

This year:
steak tomatoes
cherry tomatoes
q cumbers
zoo key knee
green peppers
asparagus
parsley/scallions

Last year I had outstanding results turning over hard soil(never been gardened) and adding lots compost, there was alot of crab grass but you can keep the weeds down by spreading your grass clippings over the garden. I also mixed lots of ashs when I turned the soil, ashes also helps to against bugs too. I'm adding chicken poop this year not that it needs it but I was offered some and couldn't resist. You don't want to add manure every year, about every third is best. I'm gonna give asparagus a shot this year, from what I understand it takes 2-3 yrs to get the plants astablished. If you can find bamboo stakes they work great if set up like a tee pee formation, to tie tomatoe plants as they grow. I was able to run a water line over to the garden, a small sprinkler set on a cinder block in the center of the garden makes it very easy, just turn on water. I think 3rd week in may is safe time to plant.

I had a small veg garden and I had more then enough veggies, I ended up giving most of it away to the neighbors. So whats workin for you? Tips you wanna share before we plant?

[BigFish]

I am growing a brown, dried out lawn! It seems to flourish when I am out fishing alot......the key is not to water it too much!

[BigFish]

I am, however, going to try and find out where Goose lives cause'....damn, it sounds like he has one sweet, tastey garden!

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by BigFish

I am growing a brown, dried out lawn! It seems to flourish when I am out fishing alot......the key is not to water it too much!

your an idiot

I

[tattoobob]

Green beans,
tomatoes,
chives,

[EricW]

I usually grow tomatoes, beans, squash, corn, cucumbers, carrots, cantaloupe, basil, chives, raspberries, blueberries strawberries, asparagus and grapes. I have not been able to find good tomatoes yet this year. Last year and several before that a local nursery had really nice and already tall (2ft) plants in at patriots day. I bought a couple of those and put them under a tent until early may and they did great!

I'll second the chicken poop. I do things in raised beds. I started many years back with a load each of topsoil and chicken manure compost. Best stuff I have ever seen. I had tomato plants that year that were 12' tall. I literally gave away bags full. I have a picture that was taken 1/2 thru the year and they were already 7' tall. I will try to dig it up and post it. I now use that cock a doodle doo with very great results. I like to do only organic with garden and lawn and that stuff you can sprinkle around plants and spread on the lawn. I put some on my strawberries, and they shot right up and got nice and dark green. They are flowering now, I hope to have a nice season.

You are right about the asparagus. Plant them the first year in a 6" trench and as they grow cover them up. The next year you can cut "some" and the year after that you can cut all you want. I get mine from Miller Nursery in NY. They have them pretty economically. I also got my strawberry plants there. They sell bundles of 25 for about 8.00 which is a nice deal if you look at nursery prices of like 2.xx for a flat of 4 plants.

Good luck this season,
Eric

[TheSpecialist]

Tomatoes (steakers and grape), cuke, eggplant, and zucchini. Memorial day weekend..

[gone fishin]

I gave up. i have a groundhog that eats everything that sprouts, even before I can get them to fruit.

[Raven]

my dingo is trained to kill and eat ground hogs...

i have two big gardens

[Raven]

ya gotta plant them... sweet as sugar

most people that try mine eat them all raw

and they never make it to the stir fry dish

or steamer... mine i planted starting march 7th

with succession plantings every week following

they are now a foot high and absolutely loving this rain.

once a week i pour a weak fish emulsion fertilizer on the row.

when you go to buy them they're $5.00 dollars per pound and up

i just laugh....pfff and the usual quality is crap.

the thing is: they are the easiest to grow vegetable period.

[Fishpart]

No tips, but how do I keep the @#$%^&8ing Chipmunks and Squirrels out of my fruit trees.

I guess I could move them from the trees to a stew pot, but that is a last resort....

[Aqua-man]

Lettuce, swiss chard and spinach are up and growing
Cukes are up.
I've got enough oregano to start a spice factory.
Corn is sprouting...everything else is going in after the damn rain.

[Raven]

cuz they'd much rather eat black oiled sunflower seed than fruit any day....

otherwise you have to use some sort of slippery metal rap around the tree so when they jump up to climb they slide off indefinately.

of course it depends on the tree size and the trunk shape too.

[Jenn]

Tomatoes, peppers, carrots radishes, beans, parsley, cukes, zukes, yeller squash, celery, basil, spinach and onions. Decided not to do potatoes this year which I am sure I will regret come the 4th of July camp fire when I dont have any home grown spuds to roast! Oh well.

Tips-Peat moss, compost, ashes, compost, water, compost. Oh and you cant forget compost and compost.

[Squid kids Dad]

Jenn.. you and hubby are going to be very busy...enjoy

[UserRemoved1]

this week I'm growing WATER CRESS

[ProfessorM]

Planting the usual. Ben eating Asparagus for 2 weeks kind of sick of it now.Well worth the effort. I go with all heirloom tomatoes, ugly but the best flavor. I don't put any heat loving plants in before Memorial day. I've found they don't do much till at least then because of the soil temp. and you can run in to root rot if you get too much cold rain. I start all my own seeds indoors so I put pretty big seedlings in so I am along pretty far as soon as planting time comes. Bumin' because I have lost a lot of my blueberry buds to the damn winter moth catapillers. I will have to spray much sooner next year. Compost everything, all kitchen scraps and leaves and some grass. The best soil amendment available. Most town dumps offer it for free nowadays. P

[Jenn]

Originally Posted by Squid kids Dad

Jenn.. you and hubby are going to be very busy...enjoy

Actually this is all in a fairly small garden. Its amazing if you plan it right and spend a just few minutes everyday how much you can reap from a small area. Also once things start growing make sure you pick what is ready every day or two. The plants will produce much more this way.

[Jimbo]

Tomatoes I started indoors and and beans went in a couple weeks ago. I also tried beets this year which are going ganbusters all of a sudden, and onions from seed. I left room because I'll get some hot peppers (the last garden ingredient for salsa) and I want to start asparagus, just haven't found any anywhere. I also have horseradish, rosemary, oregano, chives and strawberries.
Not much to prep, I just turn it over, throwing in a few shovel fulls of peat. I also add the ash from my chiminea and anytime I find a dead potted plant in a healthy dirt/vermiculite misxure, I throw that in. I don't use any spray or pesticides, but I'll pay the neighborhood kids for toads and top dollar for a praying mantis.

[vineyardblues]

I can make some nice mud pies if any one is interested
Freakin rain.

VB