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Vegetable Garden
6/30/04 @ 1:47 PM
Who's got one ? what are you growing ? and how's it coming along? Mine consists of sweet corn , cabbage , brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli ,cucumbers, zucchini, peas, tomatoes , peppers , acorn squash, pumpkins, and assorted spices. The cold wet weather hasn't been very conducive to good growth so far for me. But with warmer weather in the forecast things should turn out. I hope those of you growing fair better.
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I'm slowly getting more planted in my gardens. About 20 more pepper plants, 4 tomato plants, a row of beans and some lettuce to go yet. I planted last night until the rain started. The soil is pretty moist in all of my gardens but seems to be draining pretty well - no standing water or anything. When planting one of my tomato plants last night I dug a little too deep and got into some buried fish guts (which were mostly broken down already, surprisingly), but man did that smell! Hope I get some beautiful tomatoes off that plant!
Onions are starting to bulb. I have some that are almost ping-pong ball size 4 inches up on the neck. That’s not good for storage, but it’s gonna be some massive onions. I still have not seen any bumblebees for pollinating, big bees, and non-pollinators.
Thank you.
So I kind of cheat a little bit, my local Community has a yard waste recycling center, where it actually turns into very good compost. So what I typically do is at the end of each growing season I take a couple 55 gallon garbage bins fill about halfway a little more with the compost, empty the remaining soil that I have in my my containers that I grew in, separated all the old roots and everything so that it's clean. add a couple bages of black kow manure, and just some generic fertilizer for vegetables, stir it all up and leave it set over the winter time, then come spring blend it up again, and use it. And if I happen to run out, I go to local hardware store, pick up some gardening soil that's on sale.
So I kind of cheat a little bit, my local Community has a yard waste recycling center, where it actually turns into very good compost. So what I typically do is at the end of each growing season I take a couple 55 gallon garbage bins fill about halfway a little more with the compost, empty the remaining soil that I have in my my containers that I grew in, separated all the old roots and everything so that it's clean. add a couple bages of black kow manure, and just some generic fertilizer for vegetables, stir it all up and leave it set over the winter time, then come spring blend it up again, and use it. And if I happen to run out, I go to local hardware store, pick up some gardening soil that's on sale.
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