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Thread: Garden 2021
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03-28-2021, 07:26 AM #76
Thanks Mud.
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03-28-2021, 07:43 AM #77Registered User
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04-08-2021, 11:29 AM #78
Ms Boissal veggie cave is going off! She's also starting a ton of flowers this year, something about turning the front yard into a cottage garden which involves massive amounts of perennials. I barely go in there, it's too intimidating:
BTW, Mr. Mike, the lettuce seeds never arrived, I feared they got last in transit. Freaking post office getting in the way of my leafy greens.
Sorry about that, I was excited to grow more varieties, I think we have a few growing but nowhere near as many as we could have"Your wife being mad is temporary, but pow turns do not get unmade" - mallwalker the wise
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04-08-2021, 11:35 AM #79
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04-08-2021, 11:47 AM #81it just depends
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04-08-2021, 11:51 AM #82
Holy shit man. Amazing. Your fencing seems a bit weak though. Rabbits and deer may treat that like Ol’Country Buffet.
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04-08-2021, 12:22 PM #83
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04-09-2021, 12:48 PM #84
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04-09-2021, 05:59 PM #85Registered User
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I've got a bunch of hours of cleaning up, setting up, amending soil, building new beds and finally a bit of planting. It's been so warm here for the last 5 weeks that the soil is all warmed up and dry the first inch or so, so after spending all that time getting it together I started planting. I've pretty much only put in cold weather hardy stuff and it's (almost) all from seed other than 8 heads of lettuce so it should definitely be warm enough by the time they germinate and pop through the soil surface. I'm also pretty confident that we saw our last frost already even though that was almost 4 weeks early. Anyway, I'm looking forward to some fresh veggies in 10 weeks or so
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04-09-2021, 07:18 PM #86one of those sickos
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04-09-2021, 08:24 PM #87
Hah! Yep. I was puttering in the yard earlier this week, and was looking at a bed, and thought, 'hey, maybe I can take some compost and turn it in now. Snow's been off the ground for almost 2 weeks now'. Took the fork and 20cm down hit the ice lens. The oldtimers here wouldn't seed or transplant into open soil until the last half of May. We can get away with the first half of May now, but certainly not early Apr! Forecast to go to -9C tomorrow night. There was still a foot of snow on the ground this time last year. Patience!
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04-09-2021, 11:35 PM #88
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04-10-2021, 06:34 AM #89Registered User
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^^ Heh, I have that same wheelbarrow. It's not standing the test of time well. The plastic tub has cracks in it and one of the handles snapped off when it rotted through. I have the best hoopty wheelbarrow on the block
I'm pretty into long range weather forecasting and I just don't see any more significant winter weather ahead around here, if I'm wrong it's just a few seeds and I'll plant again. Our winter was short and sweet but when it ended it ended with a bang, the temps shot right up and things dried out and warmed up in a big hurry. I have soil temp of 50* at 10" down already and it's hovering between 52-55 at 2", that's planting time. For the most part I fertilized and composted back in November while it was still warm so when I turned the beds in early March they were almost ready other than it being too cold. For warm weather plants like tomatoes and peppers they'll wait until late April before going in the ground.
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04-10-2021, 06:52 AM #90
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04-10-2021, 07:13 AM #91Banned
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I'm going to wait at least another week, but compost goes in and mixed tomorrow
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04-10-2021, 08:11 AM #92Registered User
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I like to get the compost in early so it does its mixing thing more evenly and doesn't overwhelm any particular spot in the bed. We didn't get any late season snow (at all) though and very little rain so I had to turn them twice to get it mixed well. I think they're mature enough now that I won't have to turn them next year just top dress.
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04-10-2021, 09:58 AM #93
I like the two wheel set up but yeah it doesn't seem very sturdy. Wasn't my choice, this is what my insurer provided after my last wheelbarrow was smoked by a car.
I too will roll the dice and get started planting early, just salad greens from seed so if it doesn't work out it's no big deal. Tons of peppers and tomatoes going inside, won't risk those.
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04-10-2021, 11:25 AM #94Registered User
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04-10-2021, 11:29 AM #95
Your wheelbarrow is insured?
Man, Canada is one helluva country.
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04-11-2021, 10:12 AM #96
Had a car fly through my fence, so had an insurance claim on my house insurance for the fence, tree damage, and yes - they covered the smashed wheelbarrow.
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04-11-2021, 12:25 PM #97
Oh. Well when you put it that way sounds like America.
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04-11-2021, 12:34 PM #98Been there, skied that.
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04-13-2021, 07:35 PM #99Registered User
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@skidog - It looks like I might have missed on the no significant winter weather ahead, Thursday night/Friday I could get 4-5 inches. At least it looks like no hard freeze, temps might not even get below freezing.
I'm gonna try to lay out a bed for corn tomorrow while the ground is good and wet from the inch of rain yesterday then let the snow settle it. I was only sorta successful with corn last year because my patches were too small and the wind beat up the stalks when they got to about 5 feet tall. I'm hoping to get about 10x20 but my yard is pretty rocky. How many cubic yards of soil would I need to cover that 6" thick?
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04-13-2021, 07:42 PM #100Banned
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I'm planning on turning beds this week with compost and planting this weekend. I agree we are past any cold snaps. This one coming Thursday, even north won't bother my location. Grass is going off I have to mow this weekend too.
Springs here fellas and gals. Looking forward to seeing harvests. I'm a total newbie, but my dad's been going strong a good bunch of years so I got some local knowledge, and hell it's black dirt NY. If I can't figure it out here, I'm fucked.
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