olyclimber Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 You know, keeping TR pics out of Spray is fine and all, but I sure wish you'd leave my family out of it, too. You had me for a second there. But then I noticed they all had teeth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 Gus is getting bitter and pencil sized. It's done for the year.  So she calls it Gus?  As a matter of fact....  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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akhalteke Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 I just use my veggie garden as a means to attract and shoot my favorite game animals which happen to love em. Its nice to be able to sit on the porch and drink a beer while harvesting free range goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off_White Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 "Naw, thet ain't no garden, it's just a lil chum" Â What's your favorite possum recipe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
111 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Harvesting the walla wallas from last fall now and they are fatties! Didnt get a leaf of spinach, it all went immediately to seed (we planted seeds and starts May 1 . Any tips for keeping it viable a little longer? Less sun?) Pumpkins vines will be taking over a good sized area soon. Snow peas are rockingout (stirfry every week!) Planted eggplant start (a little late this year) Got lots of things set up on 1/4 in drip hose. Planted 4 more roses (bad year for blackspot, or is it just me?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 (edited) Try a warm weather spinach, like Summer Perfection. Even Correnta will bolt in weather like we've had. May's too late for the other types. Side dress the seedlings with blood meal to get them to grow as fast as possible before they bolt, and eat 'em when they're small. Â The most common types of spinach are, from cold weather to warm weather types: Tyee, Skookum and Bloomsdale, Olympia, Correnta, Summer Perfection. PLanting different spinaches in an order like this successively, starting the 3rd week of Feb, will give you a harvest during more of the year. starting end of Feb, will provide you with spinach during much of the year. You reverse the order after mid summer. Edited June 16, 2009 by tvashtarkatena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 WTF? We all can see through this facade and recognize that you don't eat healthy...we have the pictures to prove it. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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G-spotter Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 i find spinach palatable only after frying it in bacon fat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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denalidave Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Strawberries coming out the wazoo, sugar snap peas, asparagus, onions, leeks, lettuce and a few other goodies trickling in. Lots more on the horizon and it looks like my serrano peppers are doing much better than last year since I decided to leave them in the greenhouse this time around. Dave likes his chicken spicy! Â Â Â Taken a couple weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazyalpinist Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Cloche:Â Take one of those round tomato cages, drop a clear plastic garbage bag over it, duct tape it down at the bottom, and poke a few air holes near the top. The bag only has to last a month or so. Â 10 minutes max. Â Ivan, you don't need to cloche. I can't be bothered, and I can pull jalapenos off the plants 1-2 everyday once the plants get going. Great for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And while the plants don't appear to be growing this year, I got flowers on the cayenne already. Â And for the rest of my garden report: Already have pea sized cherry tomatoes on the plants Beans are calf high with leaves the size of my palm All the onions (NY early, Cippolini, WW) are doing grand Leeks just plugging along, but not like the onions I should be able to start harvesting carrots in 4 weeks or less Broccoli coming along fine Potatoes (all blue) are out of control and knee high! Â Tvash: How do you know when to harvest the garlic? We planted some back in October, and it just put out bulblets last week (which I promptly cut.) I can't tell when to harvest without actually harvesting them to see what they're up to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 we would sing and dance around because we know we can't be found Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denalidave Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted June 17, 2009 Author Share Posted June 17, 2009 Cloche:Â Take one of those round tomato cages, drop a clear plastic garbage bag over it, duct tape it down at the bottom, and poke a few air holes near the top. The bag only has to last a month or so. Â 10 minutes max. Â Ivan, you don't need to cloche. I can't be bothered, and I can pull jalapenos off the plants 1-2 everyday once the plants get going. Great for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And while the plants don't appear to be growing this year, I got flowers on the cayenne already. Â And for the rest of my garden report: Already have pea sized cherry tomatoes on the plants Beans are calf high with leaves the size of my palm All the onions (NY early, Cippolini, WW) are doing grand Leeks just plugging along, but not like the onions I should be able to start harvesting carrots in 4 weeks or less Broccoli coming along fine Potatoes (all blue) are out of control and knee high! Â Tvash: How do you know when to harvest the garlic? We planted some back in October, and it just put out bulblets last week (which I promptly cut.) I can't tell when to harvest without actually harvesting them to see what they're up to. Â Clip the flower buds off your garlic before they bloom (May/June) and sautee those little beyotches and eat em. Stop watering the garlic from that point on and pull them around July 1. Â Pull them out July 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bosterson Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 How do you know when to harvest the garlic? We planted some back in October, and it just put out bulblets last week (which I promptly cut.) I can't tell when to harvest without actually harvesting them to see what they're up to. Â Addendum to the other response you got: after you stop watering them, wait until like 1/2 - 2/3 of the leaves are brown and they should be ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosterson Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 We have a winter squash growing that's like a foot and a half wide right now. Pumpkins are growing. Zucchini and one ball squash. Green beans, tomatoes are a forest and have set fruit (still green), garlic and shallots will be ready soon, chards and kale are tasty, snap peas, berries. A couple of peppers that could be edible (non-ripe) but the plants are still pretty small. Potatoes are doing well. Corn is maybe 6-9" tall. I need to get pictures of all this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rooster Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Corn is maybe 6-9" tall. Â By any chance do you need a Rooster? Â I can keep bugs out of your garden. Â Just let me know. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raindawg Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Moderators....please send this weakness to "Cafe Sensitivo" where it belongs....that's right....it ain't even good enough for "Spray". Â Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhöQ Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 You are obviously inflexible Dwayner. This isnt a bolting issue and if you have a problem with sensitive "garden chat" perhaps it is in fact your problem and you need to just leave the forum as it was, as your inane input is at times trite and wholly baffling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted June 29, 2009 Author Share Posted June 29, 2009 (edited) Eat more home grown vegetables and maybe some of that fat back you got goin on will melt away. Â Now harvesting elephant garlic, zucchini, rasberries, strawberries, and lettuce. Scarlet runner beans in full flower. Â Real men grow their own food. Edited June 29, 2009 by tvashtarkatena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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