2011 Veggies
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DST
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I hate it when ants steal your spade! lol.
Speaking of ants, I did not see one ant this year on my terras. Which I am happy about I can tell you. Perhaps it was due to there being less aphides....mmmn.
mcpurple
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you can over winter things to get them to produce earlier in the season, like onions, potatoes, and garlic, and i think theri are a few more that can take a hard frost.
on the farm we are over wintering, beets, turnips, leeks, onions, garlic and carrots.
and the broccoli doesnt look to bad. my boss has been farming 20 years and he said that just this year he was able to grow it and get nice sized heads.
i decided next year i am doing a few broccoli as well. i guess we will see where it goes. i will also be growing a few Yukon gold taters
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mugan
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you funny thing i have had this happen before, i let the growth in my grean house get out of hand (tomatoes) and before i trimmed them i took a 3 day vacation, when i cam back i had a jungle and all the bottom leaves where spotting PM, and soon it spread to the out side ones. i was going crazy with a bottle of baking soda/dish soap solution tring to eradicate it. and i just got rid of it about 2 weeks ago but i understand that little problem, i have also found that green houses tend to be a double edge sward here when it comes to infections, the keep a lot out but once you contaminate your Ghouse , thats it your in for one long fight. so i can grow these plants in large scale as well, ( cucumber, carrots, pepers [both chilli and not) , spinach and collards,) what do you think is good to add to the grow to grow with my tomatoes which i prolly need to not add any more ( 120 plants so far)
bassman999
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View attachment 1889244
top row Red Savina Habaneros
bottom row
right..Naga Morich
left: Trinidad Scorpion
top row Red Savina Habaneros
bottom row
right..Naga Morich
left: Trinidad Scorpion
bassman999
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for reference those Red Savinas are bigger than a golf ball and the Nagas are a lil over 4" long
mcpurple
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are you growing for your self and family or growing them to sell? if your selling i would try to get something that people buy most often but is cheap for you to grow. lettuce is a great cheap crop to grow and it is easy, also garlicis pretty easy to.i think the next cash crop after toms are taters.
i love sweet tots, we grew some on the farm this year and they were so good, we also grew puprle,red,pink potatoes and yukon golds. i might try the yukons this year for my self cuz they produced the most on the farm.
and also in oregon sweet taters are very hard to grow and out of every one at the markets here our farm is the only one that had them and we sold a few hundred pounds in about 3 markets. i dont know if were doing them agian next year cuz the boss said they are hard to get started in oregon and hard to get them to finish before the 1st frost
mcpurple
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last year i did idaho gold or something in a 7 gallon pot. the method i was trying was supposed to give me 15 pounds per 5 galons of dirt, and i only got like a half pound. it was my 1st time though and the soil was not the best, i also think that the store bought taters i used were not meant to be grown again.
how big of bins you use fumble?
how big of bins you use fumble?
fumble
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I have 18 gallon bins right now. I've never done this method, but the idea is to keep adding soil as the plants grow. The shoots will keep reaching for the light, potatoes should multiply. You just have to keep the taters themselves covered. I have also heard of people using a stack of tires...the potatoes are supposed to 'reach' into the darkness of the tires, as the plant itself grows up, giving you more taters. I don't know, something to try. I have heard though, that store bought aren't that good for starts, not sure why. I think I got the ones I grew last year at Lowe's.
Toolage 87
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Hope things are going well for you McPurple and DTS. My AeroGarden is going well. I found a nice peace of land that is around 0.5 ach but it cost almost $250,000 to almost $300,000 and the cost would be a little to much to moving to there and the spot for me isn't where I'd like to live since there has been fires around areas where cheap spots are at.
mcpurple
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thtas about the same method i did, i used a 7 gallon and every time green showed through the dirt i covered it up untill the pot was full then stopped.
i was gonna do the tire idea, but tires in my eyes are not for organic gardeners, the tires can and will leach oils into the soil, i dont know the effects but i dont like the idea of hot rubber and oil on my plants roots. i was gonna build a potato box with about 3 tiers i can pull off to harvest and add when i need more dirt to do so.
and ya my boss says most stuff at the store should not be planted cuz they are used treated to not grow, this up coming year im getting the seed from my boss.
also this spring i will be doing my own nursery sales, i am gonna try to sale at least 300 plants and make at east 500 bucks.
Toolage 87
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Sounds like you have a fun project going on. I would love to be able to do that kind of thing.
mcpurple
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its not much of a satrt up fee, find good cheap soil, cheap pots or free. the only thing that really cost me money was the small grenn house i bought last year for 100 bucks, but i made it back on sales easy. and adverstising is free. if you want to try man i would try starting like 100 plants in spring and try to sell them to see if you can do it and then go bigger next year. sun flowers are a good sellerSounds like you have a fun project going on. I would love to be able to do that kind of thing.
Toolage 87
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Sounds good. I know my aero cloner works well so I can easily do around 80 cuttings of any kind of plant in 10 days to 30 days maybe more depending how long they take to root.
As for the cost for soil and pots well depending how much some things cost I would sell them just for abit under then what it cost at the store. I do plan on trying to do winter sells for fruits and such because I know people want to get ready for spring and buy things in the winter and have them indoors.
mcpurple
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the soil i will be using is about 4 bucks for a big bag, and then my compost is free. pots are easy to come by, if you have a nursery or a lowes, or diamond i would call around and see if they have free used pots, or even cheaper used pots. and i sell every thing for about 50 cents under every one else to get more sales and it works.
and i to am trying to sell some berry plants, i have about 90 strawberry plants ready to go in 4 inch pots, they are hard to sell in the winter time though.
in spring i will most likely spend about 30-50 bucks on soil, and for pots well 5 cents or free for 4 inch pots, i am also gonna go 6 and 4 packs of stuff this year. im trying to sat under 100 bucks spending this year.
also seeds were a prrob for me as at the store you get like 20 seeds per pack that cost 2 dollars, my boss gave me a catlouge that sells seeds very cheap, most of them are a pack of 200 seeds for 1.50
Toolage 87
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Wow. Here either they have seeds and sell them to you are they don't have seeds. I know veggies and her seeds are cheap here. $2 for around 100 mint seeds and prob 300 to even 400 seeds for lettuce for around $3.
I do wanna get a green house built because I am interested with getting into growing and selling fruits, veggies, herbs and different kinds of plants. I know for a fact I can easily grow lucky bamboo. I have them with my mj plants and they get light 24/0 and they grow faster then people that have then in their window.