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[Willie]

Potatoes are planted. I got 6 lbs of seed potato's and that planted seventeen 15 gallon fabric pots. All will be filled with refreshed grow dirt. Yukon Golds, Goldrush, and Purple Majesty. The soil in the spot I'm growing them is only about 6" deep, so putting the bags on top of that should work out.

 

[Willie]

Most of my tomatoes have been evicted to the cold frame Garlic is happy, some asparagus is shooting up. Strawberries still look rough. It appears that none of my cover crops made it overwinter.....so I will be buying some manure or fertilizing.

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

Most of my tomatoes have been evicted to the cold frame Garlic is happy, some asparagus is shooting up. Strawberries still look rough. It appears that none of my cover crops made it overwinter.....so I will be buying some manure or fertilizing.
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Our season is gettin started round here too.
Garlic, horseradish and potatoes up. Tomatoes and peppers 10 weeks old went to greenhouse a week ago.

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

Tilled and ready for rows.

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

38* tonite, veggies are still waiting in the greenhouse.

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

We are planted out!
Got green beans in yesterday.
Got a tent full of pollinators for mama.
Cockscomb, snapdragons, coneflowers,shasta daisies, etc, etc,,,,,,

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

potatoes

onions

garlic and peppers and tomatoes.

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

Green beans are taking their time, the soil isn't quite warm enough yet.

 

[Dino Party]

Whatup everybody, just posting in here to remind myself to be active here, haha.

Got some green beans coming up, spacemaster 80 cucumbers, a couple yellow cherry tomato plants from last year I kept clones of over winter (the most productive ones), and then we just tried some random stuff this year as well, acorn squash, these musk mellons (like mini canteloup), and some brussel sprouts. I'd like to restart all the herbs indoors and keep them inside so they dont get crazy big, flower out, etc. Nothing worse than not paying attention and having your spinach bolt, or your cilantro turn to coriander. ACtually, there are MANY things in the world worse than that. Sorry. I was being dramatic.

Beds are a mixture of tons of old pot bottoms (so soil, perlite, and then coco and perlite Lol) and then amended with some compost and worm castings, and then fed with this organic pre mixed bag of stuff that the local hydro shop mixes up (think Down To Earth nutrients, pre mixed at the store).

Trying to build a couple more beds, I really do not like using pots outside, i feel like i'm constantly struggling to keep them from getting bone dry.

 

[Willie]

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What tomatoes are you running?

 

[Willie]

got my first 2 strawberries this year............that's pretty early......lot's of green ones. I will be making many babies from the runners this year as I actually have more strawbs outside the bed then inside. I could actually use a new bed.

Theres many flowers on the Early Girls and the Defiants tomatoes...........that's early too

 

[Willie]

Whatup everybody, just posting in here to remind myself to be active here, haha.

Got some green beans coming up, spacemaster 80 cucumbers, a couple yellow cherry tomato plants from last year I kept clones of over winter (the most productive ones), and then we just tried some random stuff this year as well, acorn squash, these musk mellons (like mini canteloup), and some brussel sprouts. I'd like to restart all the herbs indoors and keep them inside so they dont get crazy big, flower out, etc. Nothing worse than not paying attention and having your spinach bolt, or your cilantro turn to coriander. ACtually, there are MANY things in the world worse than that. Sorry. I was being dramatic.

Beds are a mixture of tons of old pot bottoms (so soil, perlite, and then coco and perlite Lol) and then amended with some compost and worm castings, and then fed with this organic pre mixed bag of stuff that the local hydro shop mixes up (think Down To Earth nutrients, pre mixed at the store).

Trying to build a couple more beds, I really do not like using pots outside, i feel like i'm constantly struggling to keep them from getting bone dry.

I got some green beans up but they are just sitting there kinda stunned or something. All pole beans......
I like using pots outside. All old grow dirt, but it adds up, about 330 gallons of pots. A tomato bed is 5 x 8 here and I plant 8 plants about a foot in from the edges. That leaves a good sized space in the middle of two rows of 4......I can put 3 pots in that space and they don't take any nutrition from the bed. That helps maximize my space. 200 gallons of that is potatoes......I tip them over, harvest and then cover crop.......then re-fill next season, rinse repeat. Other pots I tend to place near a sprinklered area...in a pathway or whatever, but since the sprinkler will run whether they are near or not, might as well. Vermiculite helps in smaller pots....actually all the pots

I quit growing spinach....to much work and I rarely actually get any. However.......there is a swiss chard called "perpetual spinach" It tastes just like spinach but it grows in the sun and can be harvested until frost. Once I grew that, actual spinach was kaput here, never grew it again. Worth a seed pack to check it out

 

[Dino Party]

Thanks for the tip! Love me some chard so i imagine I'll be getting going on that. I'd love to do potatoes too. I hear they're pretty easy.

 

[Psychobilly]

Use Potato bags if you can; they're pretty nice for checking them and so on.

 

[Idlewilder]

Thanks for the tip! Love me some chard so i imagine I'll be getting going on that. I'd love to do potatoes too. I hear they're pretty easy.

Potatoes are easy. The last two years I’ve had a potato ‘go to seed’ on my counter. I chop it up so each piece has an eye, stick it dirt and cover with a couple inches of soil. Keep backfilling/mounding for as long as you want. Harvest in the fall.
This year I’m reusing my old soil bags. They started rolled down 2/3 and as the foliage has grown I’ve thrown in more soil and rolled up the sides

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

What tomatoes are you running?

Just romas and a red cherry and yellow pear

 

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[Dino Party]

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how else am I gonna watch pornhub from the cab of my john deer X9 1100?

 

[Psychobilly]

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Shut off the AC???

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

Shut off the AC???

Like grandpa did lol.