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Thread: Garden 2022
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05-22-2022, 09:41 PM #76
Let some lettuce go to seed last year, lotta volunteers this year. The neighborhood sparrows have been decimating it. I’ve got a lot of strawberries forming which are right next to the lettuce…
The wife painted up some rocks tonight, going to put them amongst the strawberries.
Hoping that keeps those broken beaked bastards from eating the strawberries once they ripen.
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05-22-2022, 11:20 PM #77
Wife got the vegetable garden going over the last couple weeks, but still a bit still to plant. I put together about half a dozen containers of flowers today. Felt good to get out and get my hands dirty!
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05-23-2022, 09:22 AM #78
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05-23-2022, 09:48 AM #79
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05-23-2022, 02:59 PM #80
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06-01-2022, 10:33 AM #81Registered User
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I think things are going pretty well so far but I pulled one garlic that I expected to be near retail size and it was more like a scallion. Weird. I've been transplanting tomato plants out of the volunteer forests, soon the whole damn yard is going to be a tomato forest, Haha. So much mint
This has been the most productive bed for a few years so it's getting an early season nitrogen replacement, it's all beans and peas. The bottom is 3 or 4 season old oregano then English Thyme on the lower left and to the right of that it's nasturtiums and basil, then it's peas and 4 kinds of beans. At the top is the berry patch which has gone completely crazy and should be insanely productive.
Look at that rosemary! The mushrooms that popped up yesterday are pretty fkn cool too.
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06-01-2022, 12:45 PM #82
How's the pool doing? And I'm jealous of those beds. I had some cedar trees taken down in early winter and I kick myself everyday over having not kept the logs to use for garden beds. How did I miss that? FML
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06-01-2022, 12:56 PM #83
gravitylover those pics are beautiful. It snowed here this morning, but we do have dandelions. :P
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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06-01-2022, 01:39 PM #84Registered User
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Oh shit I'd rather have snow than this 90° humid shit but, thanks. Any time you want to sit and enjoy a beer among the greenery you're welcome to come join us.
That pool has been rotting away for 24 years. I really should cut it up and get a few bucks for the scrap metal. Every now and then another tree falls on it so I use the parts for garden supports.
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06-01-2022, 01:42 PM #85
Thanks, I'll be right there.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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06-01-2022, 04:26 PM #86
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06-04-2022, 12:50 AM #87
Let some radishes go to seed last season, anyone want them? Thinking of making some posole and using them.
My 170 KQ onions are doing well, should have a hearty harvest in the fall.
Didn’t harvest enough potatoes last year, those fuckers started themselves up this season.
Peas should be flowering soon, rather large radishes are interspersed amongst them.
Flowers interspersed in the garden are doing well. The Dianthus we planted last year all came back and are flowering profusely.
My wife’s flower garden is doing well.
Hops doing well…
Looking forward to eating strawberries…
Planted 7 peppers and 2 tomatoes tonight. I still have some room and may grab some more stuff to plant tomorrow.
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06-05-2022, 11:43 AM #88
sign o'the times:
“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism
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06-05-2022, 01:46 PM #89
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06-05-2022, 02:16 PM #90
Untapped markets.
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06-06-2022, 04:24 AM #91
Have you considered the benefits of fractional ownership?
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06-06-2022, 05:47 AM #92Registered User
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So last year was the best flower year we've had in the last 10 (at least) and this year there are hardly any. It's all sorts of plants all over the place not just a local thing. I have plants that hardly flower before setting fruit or beans, berries are similar, which has me wondering how the tomatoes are going to fare if they can't self-pollinate easily. I also think the potted flowers around the patio aren't as vivid and lively as usual. Is anyone else having a marginal flower year?
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06-06-2022, 12:43 PM #93“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism
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06-07-2022, 12:13 PM #94
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06-07-2022, 01:30 PM #95
catnip farm!
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
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06-07-2022, 02:23 PM #96Registered User
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KQ = The crazy cat lady
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06-07-2022, 05:24 PM #97
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06-09-2022, 10:39 AM #98Registered User
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Anyone run a drip system off of rain barrels? Sounds like I only need a pump to make it work. If you are familiar with a set up like this, some advice is needed please.
Long explanation first: I actually won't be running it to a drip system, we already have one set up to house water for our garden. But I do need to still get the water from the barrels near the house to the garden 50-75 feet away. Right now I turn off the house water to the drip system, fill up watering cans from the barrels, and go back and forth. I like a bit of exercise but this will get old. My thought is to get a battery powered or electric plug in pump, maybe a small sump-pump attached the bottom of the rain barrel, then attach a long hose that reaches the garden. Then we fill up as needed. Once one barrel is done, we move the pump to the next barrel and start draining it (which is why I don't want a hardwired pump in one location).
Is a simple sump-pump what I need to get a tiny bit of pressure to move this water? Anything else I'm not thinking of?
Edit: looks like I need a simple water transfer pump, not a sump pump
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06-09-2022, 12:05 PM #99one of those sickos
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A transfer pump will do what you want for this. But, you can automate it a bit if you're willing to raise your rain barrel up. Let gravity do the work. You can even move the majority of your capacity to the garden if your first rain barrel drains into them.
I have a barrel in my basement that catches most of the grey water from the house. Inside is a sump pump that sends the water to another barrel that is in the garage. Another pump lifts the water to a 55 gal drum that is on the roof. The drum gives enough surge capacity so that it can slowly drain via a 1/2 " poly sprinkler line to wherever we put the end. It gives my trees and non-food plants some much needed moisture in the summer months, and since I have septic anyway the net result on the water table is the same. The poly gets clogged a few times a year and the barrel overflows onto the roof, so I blow it out with compressed air. Overall it's been a great system for the last 8 years or so.ride bikes, climb, ski, travel, cook, work to fund former, repeat.
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06-09-2022, 03:18 PM #100Registered User
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That's cool evan, sounds like you got an efficient system there. You made me think I should get a big water storage tank, maybe 250-300 gallons, near my garden and then pump all the water from the rain barrels to it. Then in the spring/mid summer we can drip irrigate from the storage tank until it runs out. After that, I'll just hook up the irrigation to the water spigot that's already in the garden.
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