Gardening Thread 2021

[Alaskan]

That's a good idea. I have one but of lumber it's low but I can sit on a bucket. I keep my digging fork close so I can get up. I thought about one of the wheel seats in the garden catalog until I thought about falling off. Been using raised split barrels for salad greens, scallions. Built those stands waist high. Do you think radishes and carrots would grow ok in a barrel split lengthwise?

Radishes most definitely.

Carrots, as long as the carrots aren't the super long ones, would work well too.

 

[Baymule]

Thursday and Friday we finally got the garden ready. Today I start planting. Tomorrow night it starts raining and will rain all week. It rained all last week, Thursday to today were the only clear days. Today will be cloudy until it starts raining. But maybe I can run out between rains to plant something. We have hit it as fast and as hard as we could yesterday and today. We are sore and tired. The tomato trellises are ready to plant. We laid down paper feed sacks and covered with well composted wood chips mulch. It is well broken down, black and crumbly.

The green strip to the left is mustard greens peeping out from a blanket of ragweed, lambs quarters, chickweed and other assorted weeds bent on taking over the world.

To the right of the Long tomato trellis is where I’ll plant beans.

Last year we put down weed cloth on this place in the garden. It let in enough light for crabgrass and lambs quarters to grow, which lifted the weed cloth up. Had to roll up the weed cloth, pull the fanged crabgrass and lambs quarters, then roll the weed cloth back out. So yesterday we laid out paper feed sacks, cut open, then rolled weed cloth out over them.

After we finished that, we stopped for lunch. Then we came back out, I laid down cardboard while DH brought wood chip mulch in the tractor bucket and dumped it.

Then we moved to a strip on the other side of the mustard greens and laid cardboard down and mulch over it. I haven’t raked it all out yet, we were exhausted and stopped. DH will rake it out today while I plant.

 

[Mini Horses]

WOW....talk about work. Will be interested to hear how that works out. Guess you won't need to till or weed.....hopefully.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

@Baymule wow that's a big garden. I've wished for years I had that much ground.
I think you have to put weed cloth down in two layers for it two really work good. I do and don't have much trouble. I use the staples, tougher to push through doubled but they hold pretty well. Nothing wrong with bricks just lighter to carry. Loose myself for hours in a garden that big.

 

[Alaskan]

Thursday and Friday we finally got the garden ready. Today I start planting. Tomorrow night it starts raining and will rain all week. It rained all last week, Thursday to today were the only clear days. Today will be cloudy until it starts raining. But maybe I can run out between rains to plant something. We have hit it as fast and as hard as we could yesterday and today. We are sore and tired. The tomato trellises are ready to plant. We laid down paper feed sacks and covered with well composted wood chips mulch. It is well broken down, black and crumbly.

The green strip to the left is mustard greens peeping out from a blanket of ragweed, lambs quarters, chickweed and other assorted weeds bent on taking over the world.

To the right of the Long tomato trellis is where I’ll plant beans.

Last year we put down weed cloth on this place in the garden. It let in enough light for crabgrass and lambs quarters to grow, which lifted the weed cloth up. Had to roll up the weed cloth, pull the fanged crabgrass and lambs quarters, then roll the weed cloth back out. So yesterday we laid out paper feed sacks, cut open, then rolled weed cloth out over them.

After we finished that, we stopped for lunch. Then we came back out, I laid down cardboard while DH brought wood chip mulch in the tractor bucket and dumped it.

Then we moved to a strip on the other side of the mustard greens and laid cardboard down and mulch over it. I haven’t raked it all out yet, we were exhausted and stopped. DH will rake it out today while I plant.

How do you weed and tend between those fences?

 

[Alaskan]

Bought some seedlings since my seed sprouting was very spotty.

I will now wait a few days for that plastic on my beds to warm the soil...

And in the greenhouse I need a few more days of thorough soaking to wash out the extra nitrogen.

 

[Baymule]

Fence line is the hard part. It also has chicken wire hog ringed on the bottom 2 feet and 2 feet laid on the ground to keep rabbits out. Weeds grow into both fence and chicken wire. I don’t know how I quoted Alaskan with no quote. LOL

 

[Baymule]

@Grizzlyhackle the garden is 100’X70’ I used to garden in small beds in town at our old house. Sometimes it gets away from me. I’ve turned sheep in it at the end of the season and the weeds were so high and so thick, you couldn’t see the sheep! That’s why all the cardboard, paper feed sacks and mulch.

@Mini Horses just look at that lovely strip of green that the mustard greens are hiding in. If I don’t pull them out, they will get over 5 feet tall with roots and a thick stalk that I have to cut down.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

@Baymule 100x70!!!
With all those animals you've got..... I'd have so much sweet corn growing.
Those aren't weeds that's fresh pasture. My house I say it's erosion control.

 

[Baymule]

Just planted 20 rows 32’ long of Painted Mountain corn, 32-36 seeds per row. And a 32’ row of purple podded green beans. Got my tomatoes planted today too. DH pounded in T posts for 3 rows of pole beans, 32’ long. Only got one planted. Tired. Sitting in lawn chair with dog trying to give me a stick and lambs sticking their nose in my face. “What’cha doing?” LOL LOL