The 2024 garden thread.

[Tikiman]

Let's see your gardens so far. We've got tomatoes already growing and lots of blossoms for tomatoes yet to come, we've got eggplant blossoms, rosemary, tatsoi (leafy green similar to spinach), potatoes, peppers, garlic, radishes, beets, pumpkins, watermelons, and more.

[Tikiman]

Here's the pumpkin and watermelon patch.

[Don Rickles]

Awesome thread idea!

Your tomatoes are way ahead of ours!

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

Awesome thread idea!

Your tomatoes are way ahead of ours!

Some of those plants are from last year. She Who Must Be Obeyed kept them going in our laundry room with a little help from my vegetative lamp (1,000 watt metal halide). She also used the lamp to start seedlings in March so that they would have a head start once the threat of frost was over. Thank God we have a large laundry room. She had tables set up and everything.

[04 commemorative]

What is a graden ?

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

What is a graden ?

It's what you get when I try to start a thread on only one cup of coffee. I fixed it. Thank you!

[04 commemorative]

Originally Posted by Tikiman

It's what you get when I try to start a thread on only one cup of coffee. I fixed it. Thank you!

[DJ_Critterus]

No pics, but I have lots of Basil, garlic, grapes, and various peppers growing.

Tomatoes have always been an enigma. Mine either wilt from too little water or too much sun or they rot from too much water and not enough sun. What's the trick?

[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

What is a graden ?

Says the guy from the graden state.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

What is a graden ?

RELEASE THE GRADEN!!!!

[Onebadcad]

I grew watermelons, the small round ones, for two summers back in middle school.
HUGE success, had way more that I could eat, so I threw them at people's houses at night.
Due to it being a GREAT success, I need not attempt again.

[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

I grew watermelons, the small round ones, for two summers back in middle school.
HUGE success, had way more that I could eat, so I threw them at people's houses at night.
Due to it being a GREAT success, I need not attempt again.

I like big round melons.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Vandelay Industries

I like big round melons.

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by Vandelay Industries

I like big round melons.

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[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

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Nice fail

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Nice fail

Damnit, I hope the link works, as cannot get pic to load

[Yadkin]

I learned how to garden from my grandfather in rocky, glacial till soil, western part of Gloucester, Mass. He practiced (mostly) organic gardening way before it was a thing. His lot was about an acre and I'd till up about 1/4 of it. In the fall he used to go around our town in the suburbs picking up leaves that others had bagged for him, filling up an old trailer, the trunk of his car, then between the open trunk lid and the back window, all tied down with spider webs of rope.

He'd pick me up and we'd ride up to his cabin, then spread those leaves thick. Then top it off with pellet lime and bagged fertilizer. Then spray water to keep it all from blowing away. A blanket of snow was a gift from God. As soon as the soil was workable in the spring I'd fire up his old Ariens front tine tiller and grind all the leaves and mix with the soil below. Every weekend I'd make at least two passes until the leaves broke down completely.

He used to collect the 8oz milk cartons that we'd get in school and use those to start seeds indoors. When planting time came I'd hoe up long, 2' wide rows. He'd cut the bottom off of the milk cartons and plant them deep.

During the growing season he'd dissolve a cup of Miracle Grow in a 5 gallon pail of water and place a cup at each plant. He'd whisper to me "This is like marijuana to them."

In upstate NY I tilled up 30'x80' fenced plot in the thick Honeoye silt loam that used to be farmland. We grew most of our vegetables for the year, canning 40 quarts of tomatoes and storing root vegetables in the cold, dark portion of our basement.

When we moved to NC my green thumb turned black. I couldn't grow crap in the Piedmont red clays, no matter how many leaves I composted. Up here in the mountains with well-drained soils we have a small lot and lots of huge trees, so not enough sun. Our climate is similar to northern PA so we are far behind Virginia.

I've been trying several strategies to get stuff to grow. Some containers on the side deck and railing. A pitiful crop last year. This year I may move some rocks around and expand a bit on one side of the driveway.

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

I learned how to garden from my grandfather in rocky, glacial till soil, western part of Gloucester, Mass. He practiced (mostly) organic gardening way before it was a thing. His lot was about an acre and I'd till up about 1/4 of it. In the fall he used to go around our town in the suburbs picking up leaves that others had bagged for him, filling up an old trailer, the trunk of his car, then between the open trunk lid and the back window, all tied down with spider webs of rope.

He'd pick me up and we'd ride up to his cabin, then spread those leaves thick. Then top it off with pellet lime and bagged fertilizer. Then spray water to keep it all from blowing away. A blanket of snow was a gift from God. As soon as the soil was workable in the spring I'd fire up his old Ariens front tine tiller and grind all the leaves and mix with the soil below. Every weekend I'd make at least two passes until the leaves broke down completely.

He used to collect the 8oz milk cartons that we'd get in school and use those to start seeds indoors. When planting time came I'd hoe up long, 2' wide rows. He'd cut the bottom off of the milk cartons and plant them deep.

During the growing season he'd dissolve a cup of Miracle Grow in a 5 gallon pail of water and place a cup at each plant. He'd whisper to me "This is like marijuana to them."

In upstate NY I tilled up 30'x80' fenced plot in the thick Honeoye silt loam that used to be farmland. We grew most of our vegetables for the year, canning 40 quarts of tomatoes and storing root vegetables in the cold, dark portion of our basement.

When we moved to NC my green thumb turned black. I couldn't grow crap in the Piedmont red clays, no matter how many leaves I composted. Up here in the mountains with well-drained soils we have a small lot and lots of huge trees, so not enough sun. Our climate is similar to northern PA so we are far behind Virginia.

I've been trying several strategies to get stuff to grow. Some containers on the side deck and railing. A pitiful crop last year. This year I may move some rocks around and expand a bit on one side of the driveway.

You are still a good dood, even though you piss most of us off!@#&!

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

You are still a good dood, even though you piss most of us off!@#&!

Glad to be of service.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

This year I may move some rocks around and expand a bit on one side of the driveway.

So, you're doing multiple driveway rocks this year?