How Does Your Garden Grow??????
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Larry {the} Gardener
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Not for myself, but I used to work for a seed farmer. We did just about all the grains at one time or another.
Larry {the} Gardener
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It is like that with melons down here. It's hard to compete with South Florida. They are always going to be first.
Larry {the} Gardener
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Looking good. I had turnips and broccoli this winter. There is just a few heads of broccoli left, and I cut the turnp patch under when I disced the garden. My kale and collards are still cranking. I had some this weekend.
Larry {the} Gardener
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I have peas up, and just a few sprouts on the field corn. I plowed the peas. Just because I could.
Larry {the} Gardener
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Green beans, sweet corn and soybeans are up today. That's everything from the first planting with at least one plant above ground.
thumper60
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wow looks like u growing in sand,u must have to stay on top of watering,
Larry {the} Gardener
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It's a challenge. I have a huge collection of soaker hoses and there is a waterline with spigots every 10 feet or so right down the middle of the garden.
I live in the edge of what we call The Sand Hills. We do get lots of rain some summers. I have to stay on top of weeds. Can't be loosing any water to them. I used to use hay as mulch, bu that led to a roach problem.
thumper60
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man all I have my way is black loam,add water instand mud great in the summer, not so good in the spring
Larry {the} Gardener
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Less than a mile from the house, where I dug the WH holes, I have black, rich dirt. I just lucked out and drew sand.man all I have my way is black loam,add water instand mud great in the summer, not so good in the spring
Larry {the} Gardener
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I transplanted 5 pepper plants into the kiddie pool this morning. They were a Mini Sweet Pepper {from a 1 gallon pot} and 1 Cayenne, 1 California Wonder and 2 Grand Bell Mix's {from cups}.
The roots on some of the pepper plants in the cups were not ready for transplanting. I was going to fill up this other kiddie poll, but I decided to wait a few days. {sorry about the double on the 1st picture}
The roots on some of the pepper plants in the cups were not ready for transplanting. I was going to fill up this other kiddie poll, but I decided to wait a few days. {sorry about the double on the 1st picture}
Larry {the} Gardener
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I planted 10 Pruden's Purple tomato seeds, and 6 each of Mini Sweet, Anaheim Chili, New Mexico Chili and pepper seeds marked "Looks Like Jalapeno". They are from the nursery sales rep that is friends with Sister. She will tell me the Latin name, but I never write it down.
BLVDog
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I just planted a pack of sweet corn ,pack of purple carrots and sum cherry tomato seeds in this lil raised bed. It has a mint plant growing in it from last year. I really hope the corn pops ,I have another bed next to this one I think I'm gonna fill it with like ten tomato plants, I need sum peppers also. 
iHearAll
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You adding compost and a carbon source? I had sand a few years ago and now its pretty dark amd rich with organic materials. I added leaf mould, decomposed mulch from mulching over the beds, peat moss, and sawdust over the plantings of various crops. Compoast i did every time i planted something and once or twice during vegetation.
iHearAll
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Is that a strawberry plant in the center?
iHearAll
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Those purple carrots are sweet. Literally too. I let some mint, oregano, and catnip take over a few square yards of ground last year and it actually looks relatively nice. Today i thought of how nice it would blend a cannabis plant into the ground.
Larry {the} Gardener
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No, that is about 8 Acorn Squash plants I started inside under the lights. I heard they didn't like being transplanted, so I just slid the whole lot of them out of the tray to keep from damaging the roots. Then there was a frost that touched them up anyway, so they are just now starting to think about growing. I cut a lot of dead and damaged leaves off them this week.
Larry {the} Gardener
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Yes, but a little bit at a time. I laid down cardboard in last year's corn and pole bean patch. Then covered it with a scoop {just a hair less than a cubic yard} of Mushroom mulch, then leaves on top of that. {Couple of weeks ago I spotted a big pile of wood chips beside the road, but haven't made the time to go get any of them. Would rather have the chips than leaves}
Larry {the} Gardener
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I saw cucumbers up yesterday morning before work, but I forgot to post it. We had 2 inches of rain Thursday night/Friday morning, then about a quarter yesterday and last night. That should get the other seeds to popping. It also reminded me I hadn't fixed a good drain on my RNRGGS. The water was halfway up the pots, so I set everything {but the corn} out of the trench to dry out, and I worked on a drain.
Also got sprouts from Armenian cucumbers, squash and zucchini planted outside in trays.
Also got sprouts from Armenian cucumbers, squash and zucchini planted outside in trays.