2024 Vegetable Garden Thread

[Torqaholic]

Used to use my whole back yard as a garden. It was rather large. Between age and my bad back it just got to be too much. Haven't bothered since retiring. Both my sons have gardens and I get free veggies from them these days.

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

To make rickles pickles, it’s so much easier to buy a bushel from produce junction!

Production Junction, what's your function?

Hookin' up brine, and cukes for consumption.

If you get this, you're ****ing old

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by ZipZap

Production Junction, what's your function?

Hookin' up brine, and cukes for consumption.

If you get this, you're ****ing old

I'm old, but I don't get it.

[Unsuspicious]

Originally Posted by Bruze

I'm old, but I don't get it.

YouTube

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Unsuspicious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjdCFat9rjI

Not enough time to watch random videos.

[Yadkin]

I grew up gardening. Hours and hours on a front tine tiller. In Upstate NY I had 2 acres with 15" deep topsoil, "Honeoye silt loam", and I never had to water anything. My 30' x 40' garden supplied Baby Doll and I with enough vegetables to can and last us all year.

Once we moved to the NC Piedmont my green thumb turned black. I have a good friend here who is a landscape architect and he can grow anything. He tried giving me tips and I just can't make it work.

Now that we are in the mountains at high elevation, a small lot and abundant trees, our gardening is just pitiful. Containers on the deck produced tiny fruits. There just isn't enough sun or heat.

My neighbor just built a small greenhouse and I'm anxious to see if it works for him.

[Bruze]

Anybody ever grow cukes vertically up a rope?

I grow a 'mater up a rope every year, but was wondering about cukes, as my direct sun is very limited.

The red arrow points to the rope, there is a big pot on the ground below it. I get enough 'maters off the ones growing up the rack to the left, so thought I'd try growing a "Rickle up the rope."

[Unsuspicious]

I'll be growing cukes up a trellis, I don't think they can carry the weight without some horizontal support, but could depend on the type of cuke. Go with a mini-me and it might be okay. I'm planting armenian yard long cucumbers.

[markids77]

I watched as many as 9 gray squirrels at a time savage a Japanese maple in my yard while it was seeded, and budding leaves the last few weeks so; since I cannot legally shoot any of them (local ordinance) I will be getting my veg on from the local grocers.

[CurtP]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

Do you grow your own veggies?

Kinda.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by markids77

I watched as many as 9 gray squirrels at a time savage a Japanese maple in my yard while it was seeded, and budding leaves the last few weeks so; since I cannot legally shoot any of them (local ordinance) I will be getting my veg on from the local grocers.

The other thing that we have here are deer. Lots of them. I have to grow vegetables on my deck in containers.