Posted on 06/18/2010 4:59:42 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
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I do have a tiller — a Mantis. I love it. It’s easy to work around small spaces.
Wa-Hoo! Glad to see you using Fertilome! I’ve used it for 0+ years and sell that to anyone that will listen to me. :)
I’ll have some current shots of the garden today, Folks. things are coming along nicely, despite the amzing amount of rain we’ve had this month. :)
Diana: were you affected by the tornados earler this week?
I’m heading out to check on how much rain we got last night and whether I need to set the automatic sprinkler for this afternoon. BBL.
Amazingly, not at all. Lots of rain, TONS of thunder & lightening, but no damage.
But, the rain has left me with an awful lot of weeds to deal with, LOL!
Me too (weeds). Even though my version of “Mel’s Mix” is not soil (with a few bags of Schultz and Miracle Gro thrown in for good measure) I’m surprised at how many weeds are coming up in my planting boxes. They are easy to pull because of all the vermiculite, but it just goes to prove that those commercial planting mixes are NOT weed free.
I was shocked to learn that after your spate of tornados, we were hit over in WAukesha County and I think around Janesville. More than 1000 property damage claims were submitted from Tues. night. I just got about an inch of rain. Got another 1/2 in. last night.
LOL... I may have been born at night but not last night Yose. Those are small Black tail deer in my neighbors field and my 6’ chainlink fence keeps them at bay. I couldn’t get them all in the photo as there were 12 of them. I hope a few are still around when meat becomes scarce.
A little perspective on my gardening experience. I was born in the early 30s in western FResno county and tending my Mother’s door side garden at 5 or 6 pumping water from a well with a pitcher pump and at 7 was flood irrigating, hoeing and cultivating with a Wheel Hoe my Dad’s 1 acre garden. This was the same time period that Mother made me a cotton picking sack from a feed sack and I have a photo of me picking cotton alongside my older brothers and sisters. By 10 I was flood irrigating cotton and Alfalfa and at 12 was running a Farmall cultivating and at 16 was flagging for a aerial spraying outfit.
Wife and I have been married 53 years and have had a garden for 51 of those years and tended 2 large gardens for 20 years when we had a summer place on the mid Klamath River. I have worn out 2 Troy Bilt tillers and still have a little Troy soil mixer and had a Sears rear tine that I gave to our Pastor because it was awkward to use compared to the large Troys. I have had a Wheel Hoe for over 40 years that I restored a couple of years ago and rarely use because of the nature of my raised beds. I have extensive experience with drip irrigation in gardens and landscaping including 3 or 4,000 feet at our Church.
Most of the folks posting here have small gardens compared to you and I and even mine is not expansive and I covet my neighbors open field, deer, weeds and all. For all my years of gardening I am aware that there is always something new to learn and my wife reminds me that no one knows it all...
What is the name of your better potting mix? I can not see the entire name in the picture. Thanks.
It’s Fertilome. Diana in Wisconsin recommends it to all. I have a sack, but I got it too late to use for seed starting. I’ll use it this fall, or next year.
‘Scuse me for butting in, but I have a large screened monitor and I figured it out a few posts back.
My radishes did well. I interplanted them with beets, and many of the beets didn't come up, so I reseeded the beets after I harvested the last of the radishes. I think radishes like cooler weather, fwiw.
I made hubby take a picture after I washed them off.
Those are beautiful! Wish I had a couple of those to dip in some salt and just munch down on! Yummmmm!
They were yummy. Mom said she always found home grown radishes to be to ‘hot’, but these were almost sweet.
Thanks for the thread again this week. I wish I could spend more time here.
One of my potted potato plants developed small black spots that I only noticed today. Any advice?
Also, My bean plants look OK, but one is really dark green, and it going crazy, (no flowers yet). What is it getting that the rest of them are not getting?
Tubebender, you said “I’m sure every thing will do better next year when the soil microbes stabilized in your new beds. “
Soil microbes aren’t already in the soil? Can you elaborate?
Did you feel the earthquake?
Your radishes are GORGEOUS! How’d you get them so clean? I scrub and scrub and then have to use a knife to get the last of the dirt off.
I think tubebender was refering to the raised beds that AFTR just started with potting soil mixes when he was talking about the microbs.
I didn’t feel the earthquake — just read about it in the newspaper.
Yes, by tomorrow morning it will be covering half the leaf and by Sat morning it will be the whole plant. Actually we need a photo to give you a clue or then again it could have been a precursor to the earthquake?
I don’t know, I planted them in the first raised bed. I wish I had kept a journal, but I do have a picture from June 24 showing that I had planted them by then.
Sorry, FRiend, I just ran them under the hose, and rubbed the excess soil off with my fingers. ;-)
Maybe it was the type....I’ll go see what strain I planted.
That’s why it caught my attention.
I just started mine with bagged soil this year too.
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