Sparse input

[steev]

Good to hear your eczema is lessened; sorry to hear you have it at all.

[RpR]

It has been a good year for flower gardens, when the humid heat hit hear it was almost like it is with corn, you could hear them growing at night.
Although they say do not do it, even though I have in the past, potting soil, at least some , we used this year has horrid moisture retention qualities so mixing in some garden soil reduces the nasty wilting if you miss a regular watering .
I have been dealing with hanging pots for decades and know those you buy do not hold water but some Sharon created herself are just as bad. :sad:

I finally finished weeding both the North and South gardens last night. South has not been sprouting weeds as soon as you turn your back on it any more, and I turned into a yellow toast a large patch of Nut Sedge.
Damn squash bug got into the one squash down there I bought; I cut them out but doubt it will survive. All those that are transplanted volunteers look good but are at least two week behind.
Transplanted tomatoes down South look amazingly good.
It now seems last potatoes I planted are not coming up and since the dozen or so I kept in a bucket, in the house , have not sprouted yet, I am wondering if I should call the company and ask just what in hades name they sent me. :grumbling:

North garden turned into a green jungle due to laziness on my part, plus poor planting planning with too much , too close together.
I crawled in, literally, thank God my knees seem to be a lot tougher than they were ten years ago, and pulled weeds, and thinned mostly tomatoes but also some carrots.
Chiles are not doing great but one or two are doing better than the rest; squash came up gang busters and I am thinking of removing one or so of them as they, even when redirected , want to go where they do not belong. :blinking:
Cucumbers, look like , they will finally give me enough cukes I might pickle some, maybe; I finally pulled most of the lettuce yesterdeay and found out , IF, planted in good soil, with structural support, I.E. in the middle of a cage for string beans, lettuce plants can grow six feet high and get two inches in diameter at the base. :lol:
I pulled it so I could reach in and get the beans without hunting. :whistling:
It is by the compost pile and fence so it is a good moist area and was literally a jungle of tall Oxalis and short Cleome also.
I kind of hated weeding it but there was Chick Weed in their too and that has been my buttocks agitator for too many years now.
Potatoes are going gangbusters now, and I will get some sweet corn but probably should have reduced my seeding rate by one half although cob production should be good with them being so crowded.
I actually have some Tomatillos, I will use as they popped up by the sweet corn area path that no longer exists as volunteer this and that has set root there.

[steev]

Thanks to this year's copious rain, everything is growing apace; the weeds don't shyly grow at night; they boldly grow by day, snickering derisively.

Chickweed is a good potherb, although a tad coarse to eat, best used for flavor and nutrition in a broth, then discarded to compost, perhaps; many weeds are like that; learn to love 'em; they're gonna grow whether you do or not.

[RpR]

I am ripping/cutting off some potato vines from purple types I planted as they were covering nearly the entire approx. eight by twelve garden and I could not tell if the other varieties were turning yellow under the green and continually blooming purple veined potato.
My Big buck potatoes, the ones I did not plant are now in full sprout and some are finally popping out of the ground in the South garden, good grief.
My purple leaf sweet corn is now at eating stage and is very, very good, I missed the peak of the other variety and it was at the point Ma would have loved it but Dad would have said prime for feeding to the hogs.
Tomatoes are dying due to disease; hard to stop in the near continually wet weeks. Yield was very , very good but I now have enough bags of chilli starter from chiles and tomatoes I could feed a family of twelve chilli for many months,or keep the methane level in a ghetto free soup joint very high for many months.

So far potatoes are medium to small in size, I want large ones but these are the size some prefer, with an average the size of a hand-ball.
Onions did well as did the carrots but the purple carrots are real bad for bleeding and staining clothes and counters while light yellow ones are the most tasty.
I had enough chiles for a few batches of chilli but went to a farm show last week end and bought six very large red bell types, with just a touch of heat in some, for 4 dollars.
I forgot to pick my volunteer tomatillos so I will have to make one more batch of chilli and put them in.
Volunteer tomatoes, a green and purple type from last year, did very well growing in the jungle on the edge of the corn and potato patches.
Raspberries look bad, very bad, green ones have stunted berries and half have turned yellow with green veins.
Probably have to pull them out , again.

[xdrix]

I went on the forum OSSI and i found that it is a forum uniquely on the vegetale selection.He has less post than here.
He is less various.
Here we can see of all project around the gardening.
The gardening is an together of knoledges

Who assembles create a wonderful art.
The gardening is not uniquely a vegetal selection.

[flowerbug]

i'm on enough other forums that this one was a recent addition and so it must be last for me to check so some days i don't make it here.

as i'm mostly growing beans (and more peas this year!) i don't have a ton of input for other crops but i do have plenty of experience growing natural methods and low or no till.

[orflo]

Mar 1, 2020 16:23:24 GMT -5 William said:

Yes, though Joseph Lofthouse has long been the last remaining moderator here. He has been mostly posting to OSSI since its creation. Though in general he has posted less of late their as well. Without moderation eventually I think spammers may prevail here. The OSSI forum is still quite young and it may yet expand to more general gardening info. However, it hasn't been very happening either of late. Mostly active on the sweet potato projects.

Nono, I'm checking everything from time to time, and if it's necessary I'm deleting spam, luckily there's not to much spam nowadays. If you do see something unusual send me a pm so something can be done about it.
Frank

[Dewdrop]

I think it may personally help me become a little more active if I can learn how to successfully post pictures on this forum. Good pictures can be a wonderful tool, especially to help visualize and clarify, such as 'identify this bug'.

Some topics are well outside my personal experience, but I have a couple of stories (and plenty of my mistakes) that I may be able to share.

[flowerbug]

Mar 1, 2020 17:33:40 GMT -5 William said:

Mar 1, 2020 17:07:02 GMT -5 flowerbug said:

i'm on enough other forums that this one was a recent addition and so it must be last for me to check so some days i don't make it here.

as i'm mostly growing beans (and more peas this year!) i don't have a ton of input for other crops but i do have plenty of experience growing natural methods and low or no till.

You might want to consider adding the OSSI forum, a lot of the people who were here regularly two years ago are now there primarily I think.

no thanks! i'm good here.

[flowerbug]

Mar 2, 2020 2:57:34 GMT -5 Dewdrop said:

I think it may personally help me become a little more active if I can learn how to successfully post pictures on this forum. Good pictures can be a wonderful tool, especially to help visualize and clarify, such as 'identify this bug'.

Some topics are well outside my personal experience, but I have a couple of stories (and plenty of my mistakes) that I may be able to share.

check my last reply in Dewdrop's doings thread. ...

[reed]

This site sucks for posting pictures. You have to host them somewhere else and link. I used to have a photobucket account and hosted them there but photobuclkt sucks too and I severed my relationship with it. All the pictures in old posts are gone.

[steev]

We've returned to sparse input; that's no fun; I can't believe nobody's doing anything whatsoever.

[khoomeizhi]

really? i've been pleased the last couple week with how much more traffic there was.

admittedly, i haven't been adding to it, but i been readin'

[flowerbug]

i'm so busy lately. hard to keep up with every place. will be outside again today. i have pallets to cut up.

almost ready for planting in all of the gardens except a large one outside the fenced areas. so it being outside the fence it is always last for me to plant or worry about as most efforts that go into it may not result in a lot of return.

i've not been ahead of planting like this for several years (due to injuries) so that is nice. now i just worry about not being able to find plants at the greenhouse.

[jondear]

I've been busy with work, trying to buy a proper farmstead, and growing for 2 farmers markets. We're currently at a standstill.

Pretty tickled I have a bunch of homegrown seeds though, seeing what's going on with the seed companies.