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I always struggled with good or get off my plants with the ladies.
Great shot though. Kudos on the macro.
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They all grew that size, tasty with no heat.
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I’m 19 days away from a 8 day vacation where my hand watered garden will perish. We have a sprinkler system but it won’t do the trick for our garden.
I’m working towards a plan of a drip/tubing system to be done with the dragging the hose system currently in use. I’ll be running it off my faucet in the back yard, hooked to a timer ideally.
I’ve got two 4x8 raised beds and a bunch of holes I amended and planted two per of tomatoes and peppers. These go along with an aggressive set of pumpkins taking aim on some passive watermelons, scattered about are marigolds and pots of cucumbers and squash.
I’ve been told the kits are a waste of cash and craft my own. I’m open to ideas...
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Why wouldn’t a sprinkler on a timer keep things alive? Area doesn’t look bigger than a sprinkler could cover.
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Saturate the shit out of it before you leave. One week is nothing; I have a bed I gave up on a month ago that still has corn trying to survive. Plants can take abuse.
If you want to get OCD, you could cover the beds in plastic to keep the moisture in, but that’s probably overkill.
i run the herb garden, veggie garden, the hops and berries and xerascaped front yard on drip/microsprinkler systems shits easy itll be even easier for you as my main issue is cleaning the inline filters from irragation water that isnt as well filtered
ill come help set ya up a system
our spreads doing well after a wet cool spring
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good harvest of hop shoots rhubarb broc and strawberries
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put in a couple flats of hula berries, which are a citrusy moist pink berry a couple seasons ago and they went off this year
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cherry trees hurting but pumped out a decent amount on whats left
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not many apples this year but pear trees full
the 16-18' green fence of hops grapes and black berries is doing his green privacy thing
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got a few maters and peppers on the vine/plant
my spring compost always produces a lot of volis
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its a peppermatersquash
been transplanting a few
always plant more squash than we can eat as we probably eat as many stuffed blossoms as finished veggies
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fuckin pocket gophers fucked with my broc and cale hard
diggin in from underneath and chomping the young ones and takin them under
i like to bill murruy mop level 3 em
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Nasturtiums taking off, some onions, tomatos going, peas lagging
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Peas are raging, basil is limping, tomatoes are still small and green, nasturtiums have taken over everything except the buttonberries. The pinot noir vines are hidden.
This is not a garden stoke post....but I am dealing with a major slug problem in my mulched garden beds.
I have been doing the “beer” cup method..getting like 30-40 a night the past week....wondering how long this will go on?
Oh man. Have the carcasses disgusted you yet? I put a ring of slug killer around the garden and seems to have stopped 90% of them. I still find the little slug fetuses on things and now i’m moving on to insect wars.
1st garden has been a bust so far but I’m learning valuable info for next year.
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I like Deadline for snails and slugs, grey liquid/gel you put a perimeter with. Stuff is deadly, I had snails eating the shit out of my pumpkins, one squirt of a perimeter and that ended rather quickly. I’m having a lot of stuff eaten by bugs, luckily everything is growing fast enough to keep up with it.
First red cherry tomato, many soon to follow.
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Lettuce kicking ass. We’ve been eating off that for a month, it’s the everlasting gobstopper.
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Cayenne peppers starting, have a few yellow peppers as well.
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Went with the overhead sprinkler and timer, my rebuild of the faucet is working well, no leaks.
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Pulled the garlic last week.
Good to average crop this season.
Cacio e pepe over garden arugula and spinach. First garden meal of the year.
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I was looking forward to trying scapes this year. They weren’t ready and then I got busy, turned around and looks like I missed? Did a fair amount of googling but waiting too long for scapes didn’t turn up much.
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Just enjoying the view. After 2yrs of drought and fire, its Victoria weather in the BC interior.
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Peas are mostly done.
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Toms are doin’ alright
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Beans and squash on deck
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Strawberries done, raspberries starting
First cherry tomato was had yesterday. Finally.
No but they seem pretty potent so I was thinking of cutting a bit from above and below the seeds.
And so based on that are the bulbs ready to dig, or do you go by the “lowest of 6 leaves turning brown” method I read about online?
I’m not one to ask-> We usually procrastinate until they are entirely brown!