How Does Your Garden Grow??????
- Thread starter Larry {the} Gardener
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xtsho
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You're way ahead of me. Here's my Armenians. The temps here are going to be in the eighties for the next week and nothing but sunshine so things should start growing good.
Yanked some radishes for a salad.
xtsho
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Cool
I need to get my watering system in. I need to get a four valve timer and some other odds and ends but I have everything else.
socaljoe
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I can't believe I haven't taken the time to do a drip system before. It saves so much time...all I'll have to worry about is keeping my nutrient reservoir filled up and let the timer and pumps do the heavy lifting. Should be pretty sweet once I get it dialed in.
too larry
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I've got a ton of old soaker hoses. They are a pain, trying to corral leaks and such, but you can just turn them on and forget them for the most part. You can tell what has them and what doesn't. The peppers, tomatoes, corn and arm cukes are all kicking ass. Everything else is looking so so. Need to wait until I side dress then I'll string the soakers on the in the ground stuff.
thewanderer718
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Coffee can experiment, woke up this morning and noticed a little melon growing.
too larry
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Exciting time of year. I'm looking everyday for the first Armenian cuke. Just blooms so far.
too larry
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I worked in the garden the last three days. In one of last year's pepper pits I put the 3 best saved seed mammoth jalapeno, 2 habs, and a cayenne I got from Sister.
And in the other pit, the 4 best {or easiest to get to} Cali Wonder Bells, and 4 Mini Sweets. These plants were smaller, as they were thicker in the trays.
Transplanted all the leftover Pruden's Purple and saved seed Mammoth Jalapeno into the sunken pots where the sprouts are. Did a row each of Hatch, Cali Wonder Bell and Mini Sweet peppers in the garden, 6 peppers to the row. Also got the Spaghetti squash in the ground.
And in the other pit, the 4 best {or easiest to get to} Cali Wonder Bells, and 4 Mini Sweets. These plants were smaller, as they were thicker in the trays.
Transplanted all the leftover Pruden's Purple and saved seed Mammoth Jalapeno into the sunken pots where the sprouts are. Did a row each of Hatch, Cali Wonder Bell and Mini Sweet peppers in the garden, 6 peppers to the row. Also got the Spaghetti squash in the ground.
xtsho
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Yes exciting time of year watching things get going. We're having a heat wave here out west. Damn near 90 degrees. Were breaking records for May. I had to water the Pear and Peach trees because the ground is so dry. Already have burn bans across the state and a few wildfires have already popped up. It's looking to be a bad fire season if we don't get some decent rain.
xtsho
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I had to put a sprinkler out and let it run for an hour on each tree. We're supposed to get some rain next Thursday but it won't be much. Looks like all our rain ended up in the Gulf coast. I feel sorry for those people with all that flooding.
too larry
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For a week or more the western gulf has been putting a river of water vapor into the air. We've missed all the bad stuff here.
xtsho
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Yanked some more radishes. I'm not happy with this particular variety. They seem rather small. I got a couple other varieties. Some French Breakfast which are long and Champion which get about 2" in diameter. I already have some French Breakfast growing and I'll plant some Champion today. I have a bunch of other stuff I need to get in the ground somewhere but I don't know where to put it. I'm out of room and I don't even have any summer squash in the ground yet.
too larry
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I've put the rows of transplanted stuff farther apart this year. With the squash and in the ground peppers I used a hoe handle to mark rows, so it eats up space quickly. I have just a little bit left, then it's pots or raised beds for anything else I plant.Yanked some more radishes. I'm not happy with this particular variety. They seem rather small. I got a couple other varieties. Some French Breakfast which are long and Champion which get about 2" in diameter. I already have some French Breakfast growing and I'll plant some Champion today. I have a bunch of other stuff I need to get in the ground somewhere but I don't know where to put it. I'm out of room and I don't even have any summer squash in the ground yet.