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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 10, 2016 15:20:14 GMT -5
So I was thinking that I might try planting tomatoes really close. Like two plants in the same hole with the holes spaced at 3 feet. What do you guys think? Seems fine to me. I sometimes plant a couple dozen plants into the same hole. I tend to cull most of them when I do that, but I still might leave up to 5 or so. |
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 11, 2016 22:37:45 GMT -5
So I was thinking that I might try planting tomatoes really close. Like two plants in the same hole with the holes spaced at 3 feet. What do you guys think? Seems fine to me. I sometimes plant a couple dozen plants into the same hole. I tend to cull most of them when I do that, but I still might leave up to 5 or so. I might try that this year. I know I will have plenty of plants left. |
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 11, 2016 22:44:21 GMT -5
Well this morning when I was rotating the tomato and pepper seedling I dropper a tray. It was too early and I was running late for work so I didn't have much time to do much. The bigger plants I think I was able to salvage but the seedlings were pretty much a pile of dirt.   So tonight I may have sowed a ton of seeds for all of the varieties that I lost/didn't come up. Hopefully they will come up fast and grow quick. |
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Post by reed on Apr 12, 2016 8:29:24 GMT -5
Not to worry, still plenty of growing season left. The replacements will catch up pretty quick even if they are smaller when you put them out. My tomatoes just started sprouting a few days ago, they don't even have true leaves yet.
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 12, 2016 16:41:38 GMT -5
I hope so. My planting date is in about a month.
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 14, 2016 23:22:52 GMT -5
I thought I would post a few pictures from the garden today. I weeded the garlic today and also planted the potato onions that I overwintered and forgot about.   Strawberries are coming along well too.  Here's the walking onions.  |
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 14, 2016 23:25:38 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Apr 15, 2016 1:28:45 GMT -5
On my farm, there are tulips I've planted that keep surviving outside the veggie corral; I've no idea why the deer haven't wiped them out; s'pose there's just so much other chow when the tulips are available that the deer don't notice them.
All things considered, kaze, that's pretty well-ordered; I'm afraid my stuff is far too large for me to keep it up so well, even if I had the time on-site.
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 17, 2016 22:26:51 GMT -5
I spent some time in the garden today. Tilled up the new area where I dumped a bunch of leaves last fall. It's nice having a tiller to do it. I might pull up the rock this year and till the main garden too. The new area   I also found this along the back edge. It ran across the whole thing. The top edge was about 3" under the surface and bottom was about 18" deep for a lot of it. It was even longer but I cut it once it was a way from the new area. I wish I could have got more of it up but I didn't have time. It was a pain in the butt for sure.  |
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Post by steev on Apr 18, 2016 0:01:31 GMT -5
That's an unwelcome surprise, for sure; I'm glad I don't have to cope with such, my farm never having been urbanized.
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Post by richardw on Apr 18, 2016 0:35:35 GMT -5
Whats the white things over the back Zack
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 18, 2016 5:22:10 GMT -5
Whats the white things over the back Zack Those are plastic bags and such that have blown out of people's recycle bins. They get caught in the trees over the winter. It's hard to clean it up to because most the time they are pretty high up. They same developer that did our neighborhood use to own that land and clean it up a few times a year and now the back strip once a month. About year or two ago they sold it and I don't think the new owners have done anything with it. They haven't mowed the back strip either but maybe once. |
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Post by richardw on Apr 18, 2016 15:30:51 GMT -5
What hopeless recycling bins, shouldn't be blowing out of them
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Post by philagardener on Apr 18, 2016 19:43:58 GMT -5
I also found this along the back edge. It ran across the whole thing. The top edge was about 3" under the surface and bottom was about 18" deep for a lot of it. It was even longer but I cut it once it was a way from the new area. I wish I could have got more of it up but I didn't have time. It was a pain in the butt for sure. Some sort of runoff barrier from a long time ago that got silted in and buried? Too bad about those plastic bags blowing all over - they can be a nuisance! |
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 18, 2016 20:32:47 GMT -5
Yep that's what it is. I'm sure they just "forgot" it.
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