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Got some tomatoes and cucumbers going this year. Lawn is green but way too much clover and crap in it. Going to aerate it (just ordered a manual aerator on Amazon, yay hard labor!) and then start some Scotts weed and feed granules.
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Originally Posted by y8s
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it's both. want a miata for a fair price?
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Originally Posted by pusha
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why don't you pm me your phone # so we can talk about it :giggle:
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Spread a ton or better of my horse manure compost on the gardens and tilled it in. Hopefully we get some rain over the next few days. I tear it up in the fall with the field cultivator and tractor to let it fallow and I like to till early in the spring and again right before planting. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1365309047 https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1365309047 https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1365309047 |
ROFL at Pusha/y8s
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That is one hell of a good sized garden you have going on there. The old truck is a nice touch.
So, what will the crop consist of? Us Florida folks have a hard time growing many traditional garden vegetables unless they are in raised beds or in containers. Damn nematodes :vash: |
1949 Chevy? Price and condition?
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Gardens aren't ready to go yet, but one is tilled, the other is drying out. Planted some pots with herbs today. Sweet Basil, Cinnamon Basil, Mammoth Basil, Sage, Lemon Thyme, Rosemary, Cilantro and some Dill. The way I grow basil, it always turns into a tree size plant of 4' high. I can get as much basil as I want and never bother the plant.
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I have not planted herbs in way to long. It has been on the radar for me to do lately, but I have been so busy working on this bucket of mine.
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I just planted tomatoes, peppers, field peas, snap beans, corn, and okra. OK, it doesn't look like much because the tide came and went since then, but trust me it's there.
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Originally Posted by olderguy
(Post 998415)
1949 Chevy? Price and condition?
"Build" thread here, minus any real "building". https://www.miataturbo.net/insert-bs...-beater-70866/ |
Originally Posted by miata2fast
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That is one hell of a good sized garden you have going on there. The old truck is a nice touch.
So, what will the crop consist of? Us Florida folks have a hard time growing many traditional garden vegetables unless they are in raised beds or in containers. Damn nematodes :vash: We grow about everything. My wife cans a lot for the winter. Pretty much any regular table vegetable. |
This makes it official: should the zombie apocalypse occur, MT.net crew convenes at Stein's house. By invite only.
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Spent about $100 on plant seeds this year... We just moved into our house last summer in July so there will be lots of work to do once the snow is gone. Building at least 3 beds, plus laying some Quinoa, Esparagus, and sunflowers.
Various melons, onions, radish, various tomatoes, squashes, carrots, sweet corn, 4 different types of beans, peas, Kale, Cabbage, Some other kind of lettuce, a crap ton of herbs. Leek seeds to go under the pines. ... Might plant a walnut tree out front. Also want grapes but probably wont happen this yr. |
Where do you guys get seed?
We used Southern Exposure previously and had decent results. Now about the squirrels stealing my almost-ripe tomatoes. |
I bought mine from Sustainable Seed Company - Over 1,570 Heirloom Seed Varieties. This is the first time trying them out so we'll see how it goes.
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I try to use seeds or container grown plants that are as closely associated to the ecotype that I am planting in. I will only buy locally grown seed unless the plant I am trying to grow has enough plasticity that it will work well even if it is not grown locally.
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OK, kids and wife wanted a garden, so $200 later and here we are.
Tomatoes x5 Corn x4 Strawberries x4 Cucumber x6 Peppers x10 Radishes x50 Carrots x200 Snow-peas x50 ... and yup, pumpkins So everything is coming up tits... and growing like crazy. 20 bags of mushroom compost and a bag of stuff that smells like straight cat shit. Got the rain barrel hooked up before a big downpour and it filled it in 15 minutes. I've gotta figure out where to route the overflow. So I followed the directions on the package that said plant 1 radish for every 10 carrots in the row and plant them together... which I now know is unnecessary. I also learned that carrot seeds are about half the size of a flea and a mofo to space evenly... so I "sprinkled". I also thought that corn stalks made like 10 ears per stalk... wrong... it's more like 1 or 2, so I guess that's enough for one dinner. My problem is now the pumpkins... wtf the wife was thinking I'll never know. They've sprouted and now I need to do something with them. What's the smallest "thing" I can grow a pumpkins in? I've got some extra across the garden strip you can see in one of the pictures that is big enough for a 3-seed patch... and I can erect a small raised bed, but how small can I keep it? https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ardening-1-jpg https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ardening-2-jpg https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ardening-3-jpg https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ardening-4-jpg |
Your wife is hot, what country is she from? Your dog is evil.
Only one real way to find out how your pumpkins will do is to experiment. You may consider planting them each in pots. I would try planting one or two in 7 gallon pots, and one or two in 15 gallon pots. Just let them grow out of the pot and sprawl over the ground. The advantage of a pot, is you will have the ability to move the pots around if you find that the light conditions are not quite right where you initially set them. Also, it is easier to control nematodes. |
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I don't do any gardening, but my neighbor is crazy.
He bought an empty lot near his house on tax sale for $500. Then he started planting fruit. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1369230822 https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1369230822 Raspberries, blueberries, peaches, almonds, strawberries, and probably some others that I'm forgetting. |
Sam, don't skip the culling step on those carrots or you'll end up with a bunch of crowded runts. We made that mistake with the half-flea-sized beet seeds one year and got bubkis.
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Originally Posted by y8s
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Sam, don't skip the culling step on those carrots or you'll end up with a bunch of crowded runts. We made that mistake with the half-flea-sized beet seeds one year and got bubkis.
I don't want to trash any of the carrots when I thin them, but due to planting them on top of the radishes, I'm probably gonna have to pull a bunch. A neighbor said I could probably start pulling and eating the radishes in about a month... so that will make room for the carrots... but I still think I need to start thinning the carrots sooner. They're the small 3-4" baby carrots, so I don't need to space them as far as the big ones... thinking about hitting a few local used-shit places for something like this: http://fleamarketgardeningdotorg.fil...n-12.jpg?w=690 |
I'm sooo bad at gardening.
Tried for 2 years. Coons ate our corn, deer ate our cucumber and peppers, grubs destroyed our zucchini and squash after 1 - 2 fruitings, and cats like using our freshly plowed dirt as a litter box. Only thing we did right was we ended up with an arse load of tomatoes, but since we had no clue how to can, we just ate what we could and gave the rest away. We were trying to be all organic and what not so we didn't use any pesticides. We tried the natural stuff like boiling peppers, dish soap, garlic etc. And of course we were very lazy so we purchased all our plants as seedlings or larger. (except the corn). We are now at a new house and not enough flat property to attempt a full garden again so I think i'm going to build a raised garden or 2 and attempt more zucchini and tomatoes. |
Originally Posted by samnavy
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Yup, I think if I'd given any of this any thought process at all, I may have done something different. It's a helluva learning experience.
I don't want to trash any of the carrots when I thin them, but due to planting them on top of the radishes, I'm probably gonna have to pull a bunch. A neighbor said I could probably start pulling and eating the radishes in about a month... so that will make room for the carrots... but I still think I need to start thinning the carrots sooner. They're the small 3-4" baby carrots, so I don't need to space them as far as the big ones... thinking about hitting a few local used-shit places for something like this: http://fleamarketgardeningdotorg.fil...n-12.jpg?w=690 Interestingly, I buy pinestraw by the semi load, about 1300 bales at a time. |
I made the news today. Link has the story and accompanying video.
County Commissioner promotes the spread of wildflowers in Hillsborough |
Originally Posted by miata2fast
(Post 1020416)
I made the news today. Link has the story and accompanying video.
County Commissioner promotes the spread of wildflowers in Hillsborough For those who don't know, Troy is really knowledgeable about plants. His company specializes in native plant restoration and removal of invasive exotics. |
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Pics are as follows... Garden overall after 6 weeks. Have trimmed at least 2 feet off the tomatoes and they're just starting to come in. Have harvested some kind of long-dong peppers and strawberries... and one snow-pea. The 10" cucumber is almost ready for the bedroom along with a half-dozen others. There are some other cucumbers just starting and I'll try to do a day-by-day growth thing if I remember. Within the next month, we'll be up to our fleshlights in cucumber and zucchini. The radishes and carrots never worked because I didn't thin them. Several of the snow peas died for unknown reasons, and the strawberries haven't really produced or grown. Peppers are right on schedule and we'll be working on some serious salsa recipes. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ardening-4-jpg https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ardening-1-jpg https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ardening-2-jpg |
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Nice. I picked up my first piece of plant life: a lime tree. It's a mini version that's going to stay in a pot.
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some updates on our lazy person garden:
(aka: throw some seeds into dirt and ignore them for a few months) bi-squash: https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373116225 squash, cabbage, and kale dominate. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373116225 arugula also put in a good showing. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373116225 rosemary and two types of lavender grow like weeds. I cut them back to stubs in winter. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373116225 hard to see, but we did not plant these tomatoes. they are last year's. I have promised the plants to braineack if he can successfully extract them from the tangle of gardenitude. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373116225 |
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Things are coming around. Corn is tasseling and starting to shoot ears. Yellow wires are electrified fence to keep the deer out.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373256599 Maters https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373256599 Green beans https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373256599 Just tied up the peas. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373256599 Squash-zucchini and yellow https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373256599 Cabbage https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373256599 Broccoli, butternut squash and cantaloupe. Bugs got on them while we were in Sweden. They are dead now. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373256599 |
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This thread made it to page two, so i thought i would bump with my ghetto garden. (see Detroit)
I have a little room around behind the garage. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373847763 Don't mind the wooden planks, my tomato plants get BIG and i don't much like to trim them back. I'm already on my second string of radishes, and am starting to pull green onions and cherry tomatoes. I've also got a few small peppers out of it. We're having a really good season here, lots of rain with nice sunny hot days makes for a happy garden. |
Originally Posted by y8s
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Pics of y8's garden
It is hard to build an edible garden that looks good enough to be in a front yard, but you have pulled it off nicely. I bought an assortment of herbs in June, and finally got them planted in some clay pots I had in my carport. The swallowtail caterpillars have already eaten half my parsley. They are allowed to munch on them, but it would be nice if they would leave me some. |
Originally Posted by miata2fast
(Post 1031786)
It is hard to build an edible garden that looks good enough to be in a front yard, but you have pulled it off nicely.
I bought an assortment of herbs in June, and finally got them planted in some clay pots I had in my carport. The swallowtail caterpillars have already eaten half my parsley. They are allowed to munch on them, but it would be nice if they would leave me some. the front line of plants along the sidewalk are intended to shield the view from the unkempt yard. rosemary and lavenders are VERY easy to keep nice for a long time and grow fast. you can cut them to stumps in winter and they look like mine by early summer. You can also supplement with wildflowers to fill in the early spring deadness as well as some coneflower / black eyed susan / echinacea for late summer when everything is winding down. ours (at the far end of the sidewalk photo) were just starting to turn into a little green plant and bud in the last few weeks. Within a few more, they will be getting taller (2-3 feet) and have bright yellow daisy-shaped flowers that attract lots of bees. |
all the rain is killing my basil.
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These are supposed to be beans. Now they're as tall as the fence, but have nothing. They flatten out at the top of the fence like they have much more to go. Do i get them to go taller? Should they be producing? What's wrong with this plant? Am i growing a weed? /ihavenoideawhatimdoing https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374192230 These are peppers and they're good. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374192230 |
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Arise.
We are growing bell peppers, limes, carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, corn, radishes, jalapenos, tomatoes, oregano, rosemary, some other spices, and a bunch of other things right now but the squirrels have absconded with all of certain types of plant seedlings. We've tried feeding the squirrels ample amounts of other things so they would leave the crops alone but that didn't work. I hate to consider a squirrel massacre as the other option. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...220_164840.jpg https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...220_164851.jpg Kitty is disinterested https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...628_193729.jpg https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...230_095946.jpg https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...7-16-55-04.jpg The rose garden https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...614_170103.jpg :giggle: |
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The front yard got a makeover this fall and we are attracting pollenators by the handfuls.
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Squires only ate my strawberries. The rabbits get everything else.
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Garlic and onions were eaten by the squirrels, lol.
I just uploaded a video I took at dusk of my favorite visitor to the flowers. She only comes when it's almost too dark to see or record. And we have frogs. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...617_051221.jpg |
I have had good luck using bird netting to keep birds, rabbits, and squirrels out of my garden.
http://vu2025.admin.derinhost.net/si...sition=elastic Not my garden, but you get the idea. I buy it at Agri Supply. Don't know if you have those in FL, but it is a large farm supply store. Can pick up some parts for your tractor, get a new set of coveralls, and have your shotgun repaired all in one place (the one near me has a gun shop inside... not sure if they all do). Can't beat that. |
When I was a little tyke, we owned a dog that loved vegetables. Even though we had the garden fenced well against the deer, she would get in and pull up carrots, beets, and radishes and devour them.
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Two different varieties of Halictidae iridescent bees on one of the varieties of pentas in my yard. I didn't know there were so many types of bees other than honey bees. These are iridescent green.
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Prepped the garden last weekend, got a few things in. I have like 6 days off this weekend, i was thinking of building a spud box or two... Has anyone done it, is it worth it?
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Wild coffee (psychotria nervosa) - I have six of them in bloom now and am anxiously awaiting the development of coffee cherries. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...420_145346.jpg |
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I caught a rare specimen with my camera phone today. I call this picture "Miatus Fortracus in the Garden".
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is that pink butterfly weed?
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The pink one is Pentas lanceolata
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Spent a little time yesterday extending our drip irrigation system to cover some additional plant beds and pots. Man that's super convenient. I need more stakes though.
And also less of this: https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...94405500b9.png ... which would be the bucket of irrigation connections, emitters, etc. all hidden in my grass and not their handy little tray on top of the distribution hose dispending bucket--which, incidentally, is not heavy enough to permit one to pull from a distance greater than about 12 inches. Oops. |
Well, not exactly gardening but close. All of this started when we purchased our house two years ago and wanted some curb appeal. Then we had our first child and that got put on hold. Left my job, sold both of my miatas and it got put on more hold. Then I decided to finally tackle it this year.
This is how it looked in the beginning: https://d.pr/2pfgIs+ https://d.pr/8FyJBU+ Then I power washed the porch and began ripping up the existing grass and flower beds: https://d.pr/1Z3Gm4+ Then dug the trenches for the irrigation and installed the stone flower beds for the front. Here you can see I ran pipes for drip irrigation to each flower bed on a single zone: https://d.pr/sw3PjA+ Laid down sod and tested the irrigation zones for each area: https://d.pr/4IwFb1+ Lastly, some photos as it currently sits. In the front flower beds you have Zebra grass in the back, then Russian Sage in the middle, and then stella day lillies and hydrangeas in the front. At the curb strip, it alternates between lavendar and pink coreopsis. Along the side of the house are white and pink rose bushes. https://d.pr/5A1YF+ https://d.pr/gHlXuN+ https://d.pr/n4zRuX+ https://d.pr/Bc9Vi+ Still need to finish installing the drip irrigation (the main lines are ran to risers) and pick out the cap stones for the flower beds. All the while our second child was due this past Saturday so the clock is ticking! -Matt |
I have a love-hate relationship with Lavender. It's gorgeous and smells great and attracts all the insects.
but it gets so damn HUUUUUGE it takes over our sidewalk. And then people walk weird around it because of the black and yellow pollinators. Especialy after a rain when it leans even further over. |
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 1427165)
I have a love-hate relationship with Lavender. It's gorgeous and smells great and attracts all the insects.
but it gets so damn HUUUUUGE it takes over our sidewalk. And then people walk weird around it because of the black and yellow pollinators. Especialy after a rain when it leans even further over. -Matt |
I don't have a current picture. This one is from late May.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...fe1e987076.png And two weeks later, starting to bloom: https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7fd052fbaf.png Note that over winter it completely turns to dry sticks and gets trimmed to a small stump. It also grows underground like a rhizome or runner. You'll see new sprigs sprout a few inches away from the main mass and keep extending out. Keep an eye on those as they can get woody fast. I think I will have to cap the drip emitter at my plant and pull away some mulch. Apparently this climate is more than moist enough for Lavendula. |
Different subject:
What are y'all using to protect tall tomato plants? I hacked together a plastic fence-based tower and roof to keep the squirrels out of mine but it's fucking ugly as shit and this is my front yard. I'm seriously starting to approach this level of ridiculousness, but we only have two plants: https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f4888cb67b.png |
Get some 1"x2"x8' lumber. Hammer it into the garden bed, book-ending the plants. Drape some bird netting over the top.
This is the cheapest/fastest solution. It doesn't look terrible from a distance, but it looks really cheap up close... because it is. The plant will being to grow into the netting. Just be careful not to damage your plants when lifting the netting. This is my 4th year using this method. It keeps the birds and squirrels out. |
can pollinators get through that netting?
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3/4" squares. Plenty of room.
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I use the mt.net approved method of squirrel control. There is a pack of stray cats in my neighborhood that keep the squirrels off ground level. It's free too.
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Tropics.
No howler monkeys but we have some fun plants. Curcuma ginger pictured. |
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