Some Garden photos and a link

[Joe S]

Here are some early garden pictures. Pardon the weeds :medium-smiley-010: click for larger image. Pardon the ads.

This is the big picture. The crooked and variously lashed, duct-taped and/or wired together temporary fence posts are trellis supports for vining vegetables. Luckily, my neighbors are used to my eccentricities.

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Here's a picture of a 4'X4' block planted with onions, red cabbages and beets. The beets are only just emerging from seed.

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And this is a block planted with early, small-headed cabbages and late big-headed cabbages, the reason they are farther apart to the right.

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I have nearly planted the entire garden, but it's too early to look at anything else much.

Here's a link to a spectacularly useful site I happened upon, bout every variety of vegetable ever conceived has been reviewed here, and you can search by your own state or region:

Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners (http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/gardenInfo.php)

[JBaker45]

That reminds me.. In the wee morning hours of the internet (while Al Gore was still fumbling around with the sleep in his eyes) there use to be this thing called the on-line garden. Beverli and I had a little plot there and we could time-share the robotic arm to plant and water and stuff, all from the web browser.

I think we had Netscape 1.0 or something, and we needed trumpet winsock to do tcp/ip on Win3.1. But it was so cool.


- Nice garden Joe :smile:

[TigerBunny]

That reminds me.. In the wee morning hours of the internet (while Al Gore was still fumbling around with the sleep in his eyes) there use to be this thing called the on-line garden. Beverli and I had a little plot there and we could time-share the robotic arm to plant and water and stuff, all from the web browser.

I think we had Netscape 1.0 or something, and we needed trumpet winsock to do tcp/ip on Win3.1. But it was so cool.


- Nice garden Joe :smile:

Something like this John?

http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/garden/Ars/

Nice little garden you have there Joe! :bigtup:

[JBaker45]

Something like this John?

http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/garden/Ars/

Nice little garden you have there Joe! :bigtup:
Exactly like that.

Of course, it was nearly impossible to line things up as well as Joe was able to do! :smile:

[TigerBunny]

Exactly like that.

Of course, it was nearly impossible to line things up as well as Joe was able to do! :smile:

Well...they are doing it in a circle. A robotic arm on a straight slide would do just as well ( better perhaps ) as the circular. The only limitation would be it's reach. Not as well as Joe though. :)

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[JBaker45]

Well...they are doing it in a circle. A robotic arm on a straight slide would do just as well ( better perhaps ) as the circular. The only limitation would be it's reach. Not as well as Joe though. :)

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Good. Now you're thinking outside of the circle ;-) :BubbleGum:

Edited to add : sorry to have hi-jacked your thread Joe - Lol :smile:

[tking]

Here are some early garden pictures. Pardon the weeds :medium-smiley-010: click for larger image. Pardon the ads.

Joe!! I'm so impressed...really! :clap: I'm gonna have to link those to a friend of mine. She's dying to try a little gardening, and I gave her the link to that square foot gardening thing you shared earlier in the year, but she got discouraged early on.

Wow...I'm envious now...LOL! I used to garden a LOT and freeze and can things, but the last few times I've put one in, it didn't do well. I know I need to send in a soil sample to see what I need (this is a different house), but I haven't ever taken the time to do it. Gosh...I'm inspired for next year.

Please keep taking pics. I'm anxious to see how it progresses....um and where do you live? I might want to come to dinner! :sparkle:

[TigerBunny]

Good. Now you're thinking outside of the circle ;-) :BubbleGum:

Edited to add : sorry to have hi-jacked your thread Joe - Lol :smile:

Oops...I did it again. Sorry Joe. Get me on the subject of gardening and hi-tech...

By the who...how do you keep the hungry critters ( non-human ) away?

[Tallen]

Joe, you've given me inspiration and some ideas. This could be dangerous.

Next month we can start planting here in Michigan, should be through all of the frost warnings. http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_11_8.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSYYYYYYYYUS)





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[Joe S]

Thanks for the encouragement Terri. I'm gonna need it around mid July when it's 95 degrees with 85% humidity and the garden needs weeding. My boys like working in the garden and that is good motivation for me- got to set a work-ethic example 'ya know :BigB: My laziness really gets embarrassing when the weeds get way ahead of me. Not embarrassing enough to make me work though.

I live in Virginia- come own down round mid July-we'll kill a chicken and have melons and maters and beans from the garden. Wait till August and we can have some Sugar Dots corn- if the 'coons leave me any.
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[TigerBunny]

Thanks for the encouragement Terri. I'm gonna need it around mid July when it's 95 degrees with 85% humidity and the garden needs weeding. My boys like working in the garden and that is good motivation for me- got to set a work-ethic example 'ya know :BigB: My laziness really gets embarrassing when the weeds get way ahead of me. Not embarrassing enough to make me work though.

I live in Virginia- come own down round mid July-we'll kill a chicken and have melons and maters and beans from the garden. Wait till August and we can have some Sugar Dots corn- if the 'coons leave me any.
:yum:

Well...depending on your tastes 'coon goes well with corn. :sparkle:

My family and I live all squished into a 2 bedroom apartment...I really miss having a garden. My hat is off to you sir!

[Joe S]

Nah this is a laid back thread. Besides, I'm public enemy #1 when it comes to thread high-jacking.

Believe it or not, the deer have left me alone for the most part over the years, I don't know why. The raccoons totally destroyed my corn last garden I raised. They wait until it is almost ready to pick and then attack by climbing the stalks, riding them over, then shucking and eating the corn, leaving the cobs in a pile. They are clever animals. I also had trouble with something gnawing the tops of my beet roots last time. It looked like a rat may have done that, I had no idea till I harvested and my beets looked like apple cores :biglol: The tops were beautiful.

I bought some rotten egg spray this year that is supposed to repel most animals. I also read that you can duct tape your corn ears to discourage the 'coons. It will look tacky, but I'm a tacky kind of guy :BigB: If I had the money, I'd do a 6' chain link fence with a single strand of electric wire at the top (to keep out climbers). Maybe the spray will work.

[Joe S]

I heard tell sweet-taters are good with 'coon and possum. Thankfully, I haven't been that hungry yet. I do eat squirrels and rabbits though. I might try the popcorn popper squirrel Ala Huckabee this fall LOL.

[tking]

Thanks for the encouragement Terri. I'm gonna need it around mid July when it's 95 degrees with 85% humidity and the garden needs weeding. My boys like working in the garden and that is good motivation for me- got to set a work-ethic example 'ya know :BigB: My laziness really gets embarrassing when the weeds get way ahead of me. Not embarrassing enough to make me work though.

I live in Virginia- come own down round mid July-we'll kill a chicken and have melons and maters and beans from the garden. Wait till August and we can have some Sugar Dots corn- if the 'coons leave me any.
:yum:


Oh man! That meal sounds great!...lol. Now my mouth is watering. Hmmm...we're fattening a calf, maybe we could bring something to throw in the pot...lol. Wouldn't it be great to live close enough to do things like that?

I completely understand about the weeds. I don't have the vegetable garden anymore, but I have the same problem with the huge ole flower bed allllllllll around our house. Some creative soul built it that way years ago. Number 1, I don't have that kind of green thumb. Number 2, I don't have the time or energy when the weeds get going and I'm spending all my afternoons mowing the various places in my charge. And number 3, 100 degree temps tend to make me look at the weeds and think...surely you'll die?! :biglol:

[Tallen]

Well..., I think we are finally past the frost season in Michigan. We had frost two nights ago, but the forecast looks as though it is going to warm up now.

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