Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 24, June 15, 2012

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[Red_Devil 232]

Weekly Gardening Thread

Good morning gardeners. JustaDumbBlonde has been very busy lately and asked me to post this weeks thread for her. She felt bad about not being able to respond to posts on last weeks thread.

I hope all of your gardens are doing well. My little 6 x 6 raised bed tomato patch is coming along fine. It has benefited from a couple of good rain showers in the last couple of weeks.

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This picture was taken at about 3:30 pm yesterday. The shade starts moving on to the tomato patch at about 3 pm and it gets full sun, 8 hours, up until then. I think the shade will be beneficial as the summer heats up.

Come on over and visit me at Beer Thirty (5:30 CDT) on the Homebrewing thread.

If you are a gardener or you are just starting out and are in need of advice or just encouragement please feel free to join in and enjoy the friendly discussion. Our Freeper community is full of gardeners, each with varying interests and skill levels from Master Gardener to novice.

Weekly Gardening Thread

Good morning gardeners. JustaDumbBlonde has been very busy lately and asked me to post this weeks thread for her. She felt bad about not being able to respond to posts on last weeks thread.

I hope all of your gardens are doing well. My little 6 x 6 raised bed tomato patch is coming along fine. It has benefited from a couple of good rain showers in the last couple of weeks.

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This picture was taken at about 3:30 pm yesterday. The shade starts moving on to the tomato patch at about 3 pm and it gets full sun, 8 hours, up until then. I think the shade will be beneficial as the summer heats up.

Come on over and visit me at Beer Thirty (5:30 CDT) on the Homebrewing thread.

If you are a gardener or you are just starting out and are in need of advice or just encouragement please feel free to join in and enjoy the friendly discussion. Our Freeper community is full of gardeners, each with varying interests and skill levels from Master Gardener to novice.

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[greeneyes]

So so soft neck varieties usually mature faster than hard neck types? Is that the main difference between them?

We are finished with our Strawberries - Mainly due to lack of water. We get lots of berries in May early June. We could get more if we irrigated, but we just water enough to keep them alive for next season.

I would really like to put in a cistern. We usually get plenty of spring rain, but always have dry July and August.
This year, our dry season began in May.

Main thing we are collecting right now is wild blackberries. We have loads of bushes in the backyard. We have eaten 2 cobblers already, and I have 5 quarts in the refrigerator for canning or making jelly.

[tubebender]

After reading up on the growing garlic in the south I would say the stiff neck like Spanish Roja or any the the Creoles would be best down there. What area do you garden in? Were you up in Canada?

[this_ol_patriot]

All the fungi, viruses, and creepy crawlers I ever had didn't even come close to doing the amount of damage a pair of young groundhogs did to my vegetable garden last year.

You'll do ok.

[rightly_dividing]

Yea, considering all the deer, wild hogs and smaller critters running around here, I’m amazed that we haven’t have varmint troubles.

[greeneyes]

I am in South/Central East Missouri. About 75 miles south and slightly west of St. Louis. Wide variety in weather. Mild to Cold winters. Light to heavy snows. Rainy spring. Hot dry Summer. Dry to rainy Fall.

If you don’t like the weather today, just stick around - it will change. LOL.

I’ll check out those varieties of garlic. Thanks.