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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jun 3, 2016 9:09:55 GMT -5
The internet has informed me that I can put coffee grounds around the plants or work it into the soil? to make them blue, so I shall try that or the lime! But since they're blooming right now, that's probably a task for next year? I don't really know how that works. We did the coffee thing a few years ago with the idea that it would attract earthworms, and I suppose it did. It took quite a lot of coffee grounds to spread over ten 20' rows. Nothing quite like diving in a Starbucks trashcan and hauling giant sacks of grounds and filters. I've only got three plants within a 20' row. I don't atually drink coffee, so I was just going to take the grounds from work; they use the ones that are coffee in a filter-like packet. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jun 3, 2016 11:05:01 GMT -5
We sprinkled a bunch of lettuce seed all over the places where our lettuces were before they all got eaten and now we suddenly have way too many lettuces poking their heads up, and also I really like the word lettuces.
Plus there are blossoms on our tomato plants!
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Post by ganews on Jun 3, 2016 13:46:42 GMT -5
Wifemate was out yesterday planting two rows of cotton (you heard me) and said the beans and okra 2.0 were sprouting and the tomatoes were starting flowers! I'm about to be gone for a week, so I can't wait to see what it looks like when I get back.
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jun 3, 2016 14:43:53 GMT -5
Ok does anyone know how cubic yards work? I'm trying to get an idea of how much it would cost me to just make a little gravel walkway area, probably 10' x 22' (ballparking it) I'm using an online calculator (square area) to find out how much I would need, and it's continuing to tell me I should only need like four cubic yards, and that..seems unlikely. Also I don't know what it means when the gravel place says they deliver "5 or 10 yard loads". |
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Post by heroboy on Jun 3, 2016 15:14:40 GMT -5
Ok does anyone know how cubic yards work? I'm trying to get an idea of how much it would cost me to just make a little gravel walkway area, probably 10' x 22' (ballparking it) I'm using an online calculator (square area) to find out how much I would need, and it's continuing to tell me I should only need like four cubic yards, and that..seems unlikely. Also I don't know what it means when the gravel place says they deliver "5 or 10 yard loads". It's really dependent on the thickness of the gravel layer you want to put down. When it comes to fill, like dirt or gravel, a yard is shorthand for a cubic yard. A cubic yard is 27 Cubic feet (3'x3'x3'), and you need 220 Square Feet of coverage, so 1 Yard will get you a thickness of (27ft 3 / 220 ft 2) 0.12' or 1.5". Four yards will get you a thickness of 6" which seems a little high for a walkway. You could get away with less, with 3" being about the minimum I would go, which would require two yards. |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jun 4, 2016 0:11:52 GMT -5
Ok does anyone know how cubic yards work? I'm trying to get an idea of how much it would cost me to just make a little gravel walkway area, probably 10' x 22' (ballparking it) I'm using an online calculator (square area) to find out how much I would need, and it's continuing to tell me I should only need like four cubic yards, and that..seems unlikely. Also I don't know what it means when the gravel place says they deliver "5 or 10 yard loads". It's really dependent on the thickness of the gravel layer you want to put down. When it comes to fill, like dirt or gravel, a yard is shorthand for a cubic yard. A cubic yard is 27 Cubic feet (3'x3'x3'), and you need 220 Square Feet of coverage, so 1 Yard will get you a thickness of (27ft 3 / 220 ft 2) 0.12' or 1.5". Four yards will get you a thickness of 6" which seems a little high for a walkway. You could get away with less, with 3" being about the minimum I would go, which would require two yards. Yeah, 6" is a little high for a walkway, but it wanted the measurements in feet and I wanted to get a high estimate. That's...actually quite doable for my projected budget, even if you factor in the landscaping fabric and sand or something underneath the gravel. I am pleasantly surprised. |
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Jun 5, 2016 17:19:22 GMT -5
 I think I think I think my first tomato is starting to ripen! It's looking distinctly more yellow than its mates. This is the Sunset Falls variety (1.5-2" red tomatoes with yellow streaks) (pretty photos [ie. not mine] can be seen here). |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jun 7, 2016 10:12:09 GMT -5
Wifemate was out yesterday planting two rows of cotton (you heard me) and said the beans and okra 2.0 were sprouting and the tomatoes were starting flowers! I'm about to be gone for a week, so I can't wait to see what it looks like when I get back. Cotton??? That's awesome!! Will this yield enough for her to do anything with it, or is it going to be just like that time we tried growing peanuts and got a final crop total of one (1) qty peanut?  And this is the best time of year to go away for a week, because everything triples in size that quickly. Our garden news is that we've finally, finally got EVERYTHING the way it should be. The last of the seeds have sprouted -- pickling cukes, gherkins, and beans -- and we got our replacement rain gauge, so now the garden is fully outfitted. And now everything's getting flowers! The peas are getting covered with their little wimple-shaped flowers, and the tomatoes, tomatillo, and peppers are putting out their first blossoms (which I know we should be knocking off the plants but I can't be bothered with all of them). I love this time of year! Things are really happening out there!! |
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Post by ganews on Jun 7, 2016 14:33:28 GMT -5
Liz n Dicksgiving it's not our first year for cotton. She's saving up. It's comparably easy to win cotton-spinning ribbons at fairs and sheep&wool festivals.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jun 11, 2016 15:16:47 GMT -5
EEEEEE!!! WEE BABY PEAS!!!  Sadly, they are shelling peas, not, like, snow peas, so we are still a ways away from eating them. |
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Jun 14, 2016 19:10:59 GMT -5
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Jun 15, 2016 14:15:57 GMT -5
Okay while this looked gorgeous it didn't taste like much. I will leave the next ones on the vine longer. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jun 16, 2016 10:13:05 GMT -5
Okay while this looked gorgeous it didn't taste like much. I will leave the next ones on the vine longer. BOOOOO! I was living vicariously through your tomato, so this is very disappointing to hear.  |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jun 16, 2016 10:48:52 GMT -5
You southerners with your wildly early tomatoes! We have three or four tomatoes that have gotten up to maybe 1.5" across, and are still very very green. But there are a dozen or so blooms now, and lots more coming, since we've got ten tomato plants. We're going to be drowning in tomatoes. Plus our zucchini plant has a couple of cute lil squash coming up now, so the annual zucchini surplus is on its way.
And we inherited a big mint planting from my sister-in-law, so juleps are coming. Juleps are coming!
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jun 16, 2016 14:47:47 GMT -5
Yeah, we are still WEEKS away from the first tomato. Looking back through my Flickr archives, we tend to get our first little single cherry tomatoes around July 7, and our first "we have enough tomatoes to toss with pasta or put in a salad" quantities around July 21. Pause. Is it mid-July yet? HOW ABOUT NOW? Something I do have plenty of right now? Garlic scapes. Juuuuuust a few:  |
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Jun 16, 2016 17:58:25 GMT -5
Okay while this looked gorgeous it didn't taste like much. I will leave the next ones on the vine longer. BOOOOO! I was living vicariously through your tomato, so this is very disappointing to hear. It was just a Big Beef variety though, nothing special. I have three Sunset Falls that are red-red-red which I have much higher hopes for tastiness. (and to Powerthirteen : it is the glory of the West where I am posting, not the South) |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jun 16, 2016 18:15:27 GMT -5
BOOOOO! I was living vicariously through your tomato, so this is very disappointing to hear. It was just a Big Beef variety though, nothing special. I have three Sunset Falls that are red-red-red which I have much higher hopes for tastiness. (and to Powerthirteen : it is the glory of the West where I am posting, not the South) Whereabouts in the west? We're in north Idaho, and although it was over 90 for a few days last week we haven't gotten anywhere near ripening temperatures. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jun 17, 2016 11:48:56 GMT -5
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jun 17, 2016 12:12:37 GMT -5
I don't know what I did wrong this year. Usually I couldn't kill the herbs I plant in my vertical garden if I tried, but nothing has really taken that well this summer.
On the upside, I'm lousy with salad greens and it looks like I might have tomatoes and hot peppers soon!
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Post by moimoi on Jun 17, 2016 13:18:57 GMT -5
I got a handful of blueberries! Probably because I didn't prune the blossoms last season - apparently you're supposed to do that to increase yield the following year. Anyhoo, am I the only dork who has gardening anthems (songs that get stuck in your head whilst performing garden tasks)?. Yesterday it was: SLOW reminded me with her recent post of "Digging in the Dirt". |
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Jun 19, 2016 12:36:18 GMT -5
It was just a Big Beef variety though, nothing special. I have three Sunset Falls that are red-red-red which I have much higher hopes for tastiness. (and to Powerthirteen : it is the glory of the West where I am posting, not the South) Whereabouts in the west? We're in north Idaho, and although it was over 90 for a few days last week we haven't gotten anywhere near ripening temperatures. Well, considering where you are, I guess pretty much every place would be the South. I'm in the San Francisco area. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jun 23, 2016 10:13:26 GMT -5
My platonic ideal of my garden -- lush, somewhat shabbily overgrown with catnip weeds, drenched in the late afternoon sun:  When I think about this sort of view during the dark of winter, I always imagine it's a July/August thing, when the peppers (in the foreground, interspersed with basil) are bigger and the tomatoes (not pictured) are tall. But actually, by then the peas and garlic have come out of the garden so there are two empty beds, and everything is rangy and getting bedraggled and it's not even remotely photogenic. So, yeah. Turns out I like my garden best before it's actually really yielding anything. (That's the garlic in the further bed, with some chest-high catnip and volunteer dill in between.) In other photogenic news, we've had a small aphid issue in one corner of the garden, and the cavalry has arrived. Cutest cavalry ever!  (That's cilantro I'm letting go to seed.) |
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Post by moimoi on Jun 23, 2016 11:23:21 GMT -5
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jun 25, 2016 10:34:18 GMT -5
Well I have poison ivy growing in my yard!
GUESS HOW I FOUND OUT.
Seriously I usually break out at least once a year from this weed in my backyard, so I have gotten to where I wear long sleeves when weeding but still expect it anyway. Yesterday my arms were itching like a mother, and this morning I woke up with a swelled up face and puffy puffy eyes and the doctor at urgent care was, "Yup, poison ivy, lookit those lines" so I got a shot and a steroid pack and basically I blame all of you.
The moral of the story is, as always, YARDWORK SUCKS.
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Post by Hugs and Hisses on Jun 25, 2016 12:10:40 GMT -5
Poison ivy always makes me laugh because a friend was once trying to come up with the famous rhyme about it and said, "Leaves of three..." then trailed off, thought for a minute and lamely concluded "... get it out of your yard."
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jun 25, 2016 15:28:33 GMT -5
Well I have poison ivy growing in my yard! GUESS HOW I FOUND OUT. Seriously I usually break out at least once a year from this weed in my backyard, so I have gotten to where I wear long sleeves when weeding but still expect it anyway. Yesterday my arms were itching like a mother, and this morning I woke up with a swelled up face and puffy puffy eyes and the doctor at urgent care was, "Yup, poison ivy, lookit those lines" so I got a shot and a steroid pack and basically I blame all of you. The moral of the story is, as always, YARDWORK SUCKS. Worst salad greens ever. |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jul 3, 2016 21:04:01 GMT -5
Found em, the little fuckers  |
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Post by ganews on Jul 4, 2016 15:57:57 GMT -5
Yesterday was a good day for the garden. I ate my first (of waaay many to come) Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, found two bell peppers on the vine, and found three tiny okra. The eggplant plants have gotten really big with all the rain. The extra butterbeans I planted to fill in row gaps are coming up. The sesame is up in big bunches, but I have no idea how much to thin it.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jul 5, 2016 11:10:13 GMT -5
We're going to have way too many tomatoes.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jul 5, 2016 11:32:17 GMT -5
We're going to have way too many tomatoes. That is a wonderful problem to have!  I harvested our first banana peppers this weekend! And pulled a head of garlic for getting some pickles fermenting (not our cukes yet, sadly), but it was still a bit on the young side, so I'll let them go a couple more weeks before harvesting the rest. The tomatoes, however, remain stubbornly small and green. I AM READY FOR TOMATOES. |
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