BuckyB93
2 years ago
Rather than hijack a different thread thought I'd start this one.

I enjoy growing plants both indoor and outdoor plants. All my life I've grown up with and have continued with growing a garden. I grew up in WI after all so gardening is in my genes. No mater how often I wash my clothes, it's still in my genes.

Last few years, doing the apartment dwelling, my outdoor gardens have been container gardening.

Typical veggies are...
Beans: Pole beans so they climb up a lattice or teepee structure for a better use of space.
Peppers: Both hot and sweet peppers.
Tomato: I don't like tomatoes but I still grow them. I use them for making sauces, salsa, relish. Plus many people like them so I grow regular toms and grape or cherry toms.
Cucumbers: Again, grow them up a lattice or teepee.
Corn on the cob: I've done that for a few years but it's just easier to buy them from the local farmers and food markets. I did some Numi Corn a bunch of years back (remember Numi here on Cbid? He sent me some of his seeds) for a couple years but I was unable to keep the strain going.

Typically I get the tomato and pepper plants from the nursery in those 6 pack seeding thingies. The pole beans and cucumbers I start from seed since they are less available in seedling thingies. It's getting that time to get some seeds.

Herbs would be...
Chives
Oregano
Basil
Rosemary
Parsley

The herbs can be grown year round inside if you have a sunny window to put them in. If you have a ground based garden, oregano and chives will come back every year.

Fruit...
I've done melons, pumpkins, and stuff before when I had the space for an in ground garden but they really can't be done in containers.

I've done strawberries before but the birds and animals would eat them before they were ripe for human consumption. I guess I could put netting over them but I just punted after a couple of years.

Also did a rhubarb patch. Just a couple plants. Once that is established it grows like a weed and doesn't need any maintenance at all. Strawberry rhubarb pie is awesome.

I used to live next to a field/small wooded area and there were wild blueberries in the field and raspberries & blackberries where the field met the woods. I could easily pick 1 pound of each every week when they were in season.
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dkeage
2 years ago
OK
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BuckyB93
2 years ago
Peas. I forgot about peas. However, they usually get eaten as I pick them so they don't last long. I like fresh peas.
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RobertHively
2 years ago
I guess block me if you dont like it Bucky.

So how bout that 2024 election??
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RobertHively
2 years ago

Ok I'll start.

Considering inflation, in goods and services, and "supply chain disruptions", self reliance and food security (Garden) is just as germane to the 2024 (s)election discussion as taxes or abortion.
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MACS
2 years ago
I threw pot seeds in the swamp on the side of my house growing up... a few months later there were some yuge plants.

I'm not that interested in it, but the wife seems to like it. She just doesn't know how to keep the bugs off her plants.
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RobertHively
2 years ago

Anyone know the candidates stance on drug legalization, in particular Marijuana?
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Palama
2 years ago

I threw pot seeds in the swamp on the side of my house growing up... a few months later there were some yuge plants.

I'm not that interested in it, but the wife seems to like it. She just doesn't know how to keep the bugs off her plants.

MACS wrote:



In my youthful college days, I started a few pot plants. My parents didn’t know what they were but my Mom once commented that they looked nice. Eventually my oldest brother, the cop, told me to get rid of them before our Uncle George, who was also a police officer, saw them. He knew that Uncle George would just rip the plants out and throw them away. And then, of course, I would have to answer to him. [gonzo]
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danmdevries
2 years ago
When I was living in Chicago I had an attic apartment. There was an access panel in the bathroom to the unfinished attic area. I removed it, turned it into a small door and had a 10ft x 5ft area about 5ft tall I turned into a grow room.The smell was ...intense

Now I have cattle troughs around my deck for a small garden. But it's just some herbs, carrots, peppers, beets, collard greens last year. Haven't decided on this year, probably just carrots and peppers. Wife n boy love carrots. I love peppers. We tried a big garden once. I tilled up a 20x20 section of yard but my topsoil is very thin and it's all hard clay underneath so I'd need to put in some work to make it happen. I didnt, so it didnt. I planted a couple dozen 3ft tall fruit trees 10+ years ago. The ones that haven't died yet are still only 3ft tall. They just don't grow. The peaches grew great until we had a very deep freeze in 2014 and they all died. Had a couple plum trees that gave us fruit one season and died the next winter. I had grapes along the edge of my woods but they all died off. Did corn one year, deer ate it.

I'm not great at growing stuff.
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BuckyB93
2 years ago

I guess block me if you dont like it Bucky.

So how bout that 2024 election??

RobertHively wrote:



Just thought I'd post a garden thread to share what we might or are growing and any tips or experiences on growing a garden. Veggies, herbs, fruit, flowers or whatever and stuff.

It's not politically motivated nor should it be. Why would I block you?
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RayR
2 years ago

When I was living in Chicago I had an attic apartment. There was an access panel in the bathroom to the unfinished attic area. I removed it, turned it into a small door and had a 10ft x 5ft area about 5ft tall I turned into a grow room.The smell was ...intense

Now I have cattle troughs around my deck for a small garden. But it's just some herbs, carrots, peppers, beets, collard greens last year. Haven't decided on this year, probably just carrots and peppers. Wife n boy love carrots. I love peppers. We tried a big garden once. I tilled up a 20x20 section of yard but my topsoil is very thin and it's all hard clay underneath so I'd need to put in some work to make it happen. I didnt, so it didnt. I planted a couple dozen 3ft tall fruit trees 10+ years ago. The ones that haven't died yet are still only 3ft tall. They just don't grow. The peaches grew great until we had a very deep freeze in 2014 and they all died. Had a couple plum trees that gave us fruit one season and died the next winter. I had grapes along the edge of my woods but they all died off. Did corn one year, deer ate it.

I'm not great at growing stuff.

danmdevries wrote:



Heavy clay soil is tough, plant roots have a hard time with that.
It can take some years to convert a plot into healthy soil for growing. It's a lack of organic matter and a healthy microbial population in the soil to cycle nutrients that is the problem. The bacteria and fungi attract larger critters including earth worms that contribute to building soil structure.
Incorporating compost, mulching with ground-up fall leaves, adding coffee grounds and spent tea are good practices to move things along. They all have a high carbon content and nutrients.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Soil_food_webUSDA.jpg 

One way around it in the meantime is building raised beds and container growing like with your cattle troughs.


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BuckyB93
2 years ago

When I was living in Chicago I had an attic apartment. There was an access panel in the bathroom to the unfinished attic area. I removed it, turned it into a small door and had a 10ft x 5ft area about 5ft tall I turned into a grow room.The smell was ...intense

Now I have cattle troughs around my deck for a small garden. But it's just some herbs, carrots, peppers, beets, collard greens last year. Haven't decided on this year, probably just carrots and peppers. Wife n boy love carrots. I love peppers. We tried a big garden once. I tilled up a 20x20 section of yard but my topsoil is very thin and it's all hard clay underneath so I'd need to put in some work to make it happen. I didnt, so it didnt. I planted a couple dozen 3ft tall fruit trees 10+ years ago. The ones that haven't died yet are still only 3ft tall. They just don't grow. The peaches grew great until we had a very deep freeze in 2014 and they all died. Had a couple plum trees that gave us fruit one season and died the next winter. I had grapes along the edge of my woods but they all died off. Did corn one year, deer ate it.

I'm not great at growing stuff.

danmdevries wrote:



I tried grapes as a vine thing that would climb up the lattice that I put in underneath a deck. I had a walk out basement and a deck overhead. I enclosed the perimeter under the deck with lattice and used it kinda like a shed to store the snowblower, lawnmower and stuff. I wanted to grow some vine thingies to make natural wall thingy.

The plants grew just fine but the grape fruit was limited and pretty sour. The leaves attracted a huge number of of Japanese beetles that I couldn't get rid of. I even dosed my lawn with Milky Spore to kill the grubs but if the neighbors didn't treat their lawn to deal with the grubs then it was a lost cause. Maybe I should have went with some sort of ivy rather than grapes. Grapes don't work well as fruit in northern latitudes.
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HockeyDad
2 years ago
Had a huge garden in California with ten 5x5 garden boxes, lemon, lime, orange, tangerine, and apple trees. Chardonnay, Cabernet, and Zinfandel grape vines.

Currently I have two indoor AeroGardens and scheming what I can plant outside based on the HOA rules.
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RayR
2 years ago

Had a huge garden in California with ten 5x5 garden boxes, lemon, lime, orange, tangerine, and apple trees. Chardonnay, Cabernet, and Zinfandel grape vines.

Currently I have two indoor AeroGardens and scheming what I can plant outside based on the HOA rules.

HockeyDad wrote:



You wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of the HOA Nazis, would ya? 🤨
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Jakethesnake86
2 years ago
Peppers do well in clay.

I grow plants for a living (farmer)

I can grow just about anything.

I like celebrity tomatoes I picked over 70 baseball sized tomatoes off 1 plant a few years ago. Some of my buddies wanted to do a contest 😂

Poblano peppers. Are my favorite to eat. But I grow several kinds. To grow decent corn you really need around 6 rows. The center of the patch is gonna be where it does the best. Corn needs lots of nitro

If you have any questions I can get the answers if I don’t know. I’ve got a few agronomist. Even if I haven’t grown it I know someone who has

Grew carrots cabbage tomatoes peppers potatoes sweet potato broccoli squash (yellow crook) some bush limas and some random beans I can’t remember what they’re called but everything did well.

Don’t give up if you have tough soil. You can still grow decent plants

For income I grow soybeans corn and wheat I like gardening just for the hobby
I’m the snake
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DrafterX
2 years ago
Do what I like to call the salsa garden... tomatoes and a few different
peppers.. have some wild onions and garlics that come back every year... got lots of basil and cellantro also... wife makes pesto and stuff... 😟
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tonygraz
2 years ago
I have a shrinking garden which at one time was 60' x 100'. Grew about everything from peanuts to catnip. Seems I no longer have the time or energy to grow more than the 2 of us can possibly eat. Last year I had 4 pepper plants, 3 tomato plants, and a couple each of summer squash and cucumbers, along with beans (only enough for two meals thanks to the mice) and some leaf lettuce. By mid-July the weeds started to take over and it all went to hell thereafter. I don't know if I will do anything with it this year, but I hope to move the fences to shrink the garden to a much smaller size.
We go a vacation 3 times or more a year and those weeks make things fall behind.
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RayR
2 years ago

Do what I like to call the salsa garden... tomatoes and a few different
peppers.. have some wild onions and garlics that come back every year... got lots of basil and cellantro also... wife makes pesto and stuff... 😟

DrafterX wrote:



Hardneck Garlic is one of the easiest things to grow up here in the North.
Plant the cloves in the fall (late September), they will root and sprout some green growth in Octpber. They survive over winter and start growing again in the spring. You get two harvests, at first you get the delicious scapes (the early flower stem) and then in the summer you harvest the bulbs after the tops start to brown. Keep some of the biggest cloves to replant in fall.
I plant around 50 cloves in the fall, that gives us plenty enough harvest to use during late summer through next spring.

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RobertHively
2 years ago
Bought a tiller today. 2010 Cub Cadet RT65 H. H is for the 190cc Honda engine.

This thing is lightly used. Got it from an older couple in their 70's. They said it hadn't been started in 3 years but garage kept, they even had the manual that came with it.

It started right up even with the old gas.

Will do an oil and gas change on it bf I use it. Maybe air filter change too idk.

Thankful to find a lightly used pre-covid era tiller in my area. Wont have to borrow the neighbors tiller this year.

Over and out.
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Jakethesnake86
2 years ago
Got an old statesman last year with the engine locked up. Bolted on a harbor frieght predator and use it for my garden. Old one was completely worn out
I’m the snake
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