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Re: A couple of questions for the gardeners out there . . .
« Reply #50 on: September 25, 2011, 09:16:39 AM »
Just planted cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts and lettuce.  Hopefully the winter will be nicer to my garden.
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Re: A couple of questions for the gardeners out there . . .
« Reply #51 on: September 25, 2011, 05:45:26 PM »
I talked to one of the other "Gang of 3" today, and he said that he's going to try to put in winter ryegrass in the whole plot, after we get the farmer who turned it over in the first place to plow all of it under.  Problem with that is this:  It's 75 degrees today, and we still have some growing yet.
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Re: A couple of questions for the gardeners out there . . .
« Reply #52 on: September 26, 2011, 08:20:44 AM »
Just saw this thread for the first time...  :thatsright:

What a fun read to see how y'all did with your gardening!
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Re: A couple of questions for the gardeners out there . . .
« Reply #53 on: September 27, 2011, 07:15:44 AM »
My wife roasted some of the Russett Banana potatoes last night, and I had some after I got back from my AA meeting.  They were pretty good.

ETA:  Deb, where did you think I put my excess energy this year? :???: :tongue:
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Re: A couple of questions for the gardeners out there . . .
« Reply #54 on: December 04, 2011, 01:09:15 PM »
Where I am, Memorial Day is regarded as the start of the gardening season.  But, I've got a few window boxes that I'm growing things in, for quick-grab stuff for dinner.  Anyway, I was noticing the spacing between the broccoli plants in one window box, and the spacing between the spinach plants in another window box, and I thought, That's a lot of space!  Could I put something else there?  My first thought was radishes.  Any opinions on this, or anything else (tomato plants, pepper plants, green beans, etc.) I could put in between the spinach and broccoli plants?

And, where I am, we have cutworms.  A few nailed three of my cousin's tomato plants the night after he planted them.  He remembered a tip that our grandmother had used to deal with cutworms--wrap the stems of the fledgling tomato plants in wax paper and tape the wax paper together.  Make sure that the paper is in the soil about 1/2".  Cutworms won't touch the stems that are in the wax paper.  When the plant gets big enough, its' growth will break the wax paper.  Anyonw else try/do this?

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Re: A couple of questions for the gardeners out there . . .
« Reply #55 on: December 04, 2011, 01:20:09 PM »
Last harvest yesterday. I put up 3 pints of horseradish and it is HOT!
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Re: A couple of questions for the gardeners out there . . .
« Reply #56 on: December 05, 2011, 04:25:54 AM »
We're already talkiing about when we'd like to plow up the land next spring.  Both Rich and I realize that we need to be a lot earlier than we were last year.  We'd like to get one of those 9' high deer fences (and finally put the well in), and we realize that we need to get the pastor behind us if we want to pull that one off.  That shouldn't be too much of problem.
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