2018 Gardening thread

[Brazos Hunter]

Why are all y'alls gardens weed free and mine is covered with them? SMH

Hoggslayer

I leave most of the weeds.




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[elgato]

Picked some chard for dinner tonight. Chard, avocado garlic , onions, and wonderful seasonings as a bed with eggs picked from the coop on top. Fresh picked broccoli and asparagus on the side. Yum!

[elgato]

Cut 4 broccoli's that were ready before the storms hit tonight. What we don't eat for supper will be made into soup. Love this time of year, Earlier today picked a setting of potatoes to go with the turkey that stumbled earlier this week. So tomorrow its wild turkey , potatoes, carrots , broccoli, asparagus , with a big salad. Farm living at its best!

[8mpg]

Very nice.

[elgato]

Just one more thing

Built this bed today. Can you ever have too many beds? Plan is to cover bottom with cardboard then fill half way with horse manure mixed with wood chips. I have access to unlimited supply. Then cover top with 6-8" alfalfa hay and let it sit and melt. Towards fall as the alfalfa has melted cover again with fully composted compost then cover deeply with alfalfa again. Ready to plant. Should stay weed free in the interim as I have essentially no weeds in the rest of my garden thanks to the thick alfalfa mulch.

[IkemanTX]

Just one more thing



Built this bed today. Can you ever have too many beds? Plan is to cover bottom with cardboard then fill half way with horse manure mixed with wood chips. I have access to unlimited supply. Then cover top with 6-8" alfalfa hay and let it sit and melt. Towards fall as the alfalfa has melted cover again with fully composted compost then cover deeply with alfalfa again. Ready to plant. Should stay weed free in the interim as I have essentially no weeds in the rest of my garden thanks to the thick alfalfa mulch.

Sounds like a raised bed lasagna garden, and a recipe for a great garden bed.


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[IkemanTX]

The veggies are coming along slowly, with mornings still dropping below 40°. But, the flowers in the pollinator bed are doing great.







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[elgato]

Beautiful. What kind of flowers do you have in pollinator bed?

[8mpg]

My tomatoes look like they are getting blight already. It killed me last year. Just sprayed them with copper fungicide. Hopefully it will work this year. For anyone who is doing tomatoes, you should spray them every 2 weeks as a preventative.

[Part Timer]

Deer got a little close this morning. Guess the fence is working so far cause i caught the gaurd dog snuggled up sleeping with the cat. He had no idea we had visitors.

Update on the hay is its working great. Weeds are minimal, and the amount i am watering has reduced from once every other day or more to once a week if it doesnt already rain. The moisture retention is great. I layed it about 4 to 6" thick. Its compacred now to about 1". Ive got a pile of wood chips im going to add in a couple months to keep the Eden garden rolling. Im committed to it. Hopefully its the right move.

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[BLACKFINTURKEY]

Picked a few radishes tonight


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[elgato]

Anyone used azomite and if so how and what do you think?

[SaltwaterSlick]

Well, we going to try to replant the things that didn't make it through all the flooding rain a few weeks back... If it doesn't rain us out tonight, we'll try planting Sunday afternoon...





Berries are coming along nicely... We picked almost 3 gallons of dewberries this morning. The Thornless domesticated blackberries are making lots of berries, but only a few were ready today...






Check out the difference between wild dewberries and the Prime Ark 45 Thornless Blackberries!



About 4 cups of the dewberries went from the field to my Dutch oven, then a bowl with some Blue Bell... Hard to beat that!!

[Brazos Hunter]

We have spent more time this month on the road then home so I have not had the opportunity to update on ours. Copper fungicide is on the way for the tomatoes. All in all things look great.

Dozens of tomatoes and blooms



Several bell blooms and the corn is looking good


Carrots are getting there


Maybe next year the dewberries will produce? No blooms


At-will cantaloupe



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[BLACKFINTURKEY]

We have already pulled +\- 50 radishes and 5 squash.


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