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Post by tampaspicer on Jun 14, 2024 9:22:28 GMT -5
I'm building a trellis over some of my raised gardens this summer. Picked up two rolls of green field fence 2'x50' yesterday. Got them both for $25. I built three 3'x3'x2' boxes earlier this year and adding one more soon. I'm going to run the trellis over from the boxes I built to the other side which has 27 gallon bins along the vinyl fence. I've picked up five more 5 gallon buckets and a couple 20 gallon containers to add to my garden space. This has been a project I started last summer and it's coming together nicely. My plan is to double what garden space I had this past fall and be ready to go by September. I'll get some pics this weekend of what I've done so far and where I'm at.
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Post by richm on Jun 14, 2024 12:07:08 GMT -5
Fun project!
Bought my wife a couple raised bed things and she's cooking up some ideas like burying wood to feed plants and such.
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Post by tampaspicer on Jun 14, 2024 12:09:42 GMT -5
Fun project! Bought my wife a couple raised bed things and she's cooking up some ideas like burying wood to feed plants and such. Yeap I put a bottom layer of wood mulch topped with a thin layer of hay in the boxes I built. Going to add some better soil on top of that. Pine straw and pine cones are a good bottom layer as well.
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Post by richm on Jun 14, 2024 12:16:10 GMT -5
Lil momma brough home some cardboard boxes to line bottom, then wants maple tree slices to layer and stack in bottom and some mulberry tree limbs too. Of course she'll take me to HD and buy the most expensive organic compost mulch stuff she can find.
We made raised beds years ago and the wood rotted way fast. Bought her a metal one this time - 4x8 or whatever various sizes she can come up with out of it.
Find gardening to be a lot of fun.
You gonna do some funny tobacco?
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Post by TRTerror on Jun 14, 2024 12:26:04 GMT -5
I buried a bunch of Wood back in the Day...thankfully nothing ever grew from it...That I know of anyways..
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Post by tampaspicer on Jun 14, 2024 12:37:44 GMT -5
Lil momma brough home some cardboard boxes to line bottom, then wants maple tree slices to layer and stack in bottom and some mulberry tree limbs too. Of course she'll take me to HD and buy the most expensive organic compost mulch stuff she can find. We made raised beds years ago and the wood rotted way fast. Bought her a metal one this time - 4x8 or whatever various sizes she can come up with out of it. Find gardening to be a lot of fun. You gonna do some funny tobacco? Lowes had a deal on some pretty good soil about a month ago. $2 a bag and I bought 20 of them. Still have 12-13 bags of that left. If you can check out Home Depot for open bags. They usually only have a handful missing from them and you can get them 1/2 off. I wanted to grow some funny tobacco but the wife shot that one down. If I didn't live in a residential neighborhood I would. I got some seeds that I found in some bags this year. I'm going to give them to my cousin. He's on about 3 acres.
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Post by richm on Jun 14, 2024 13:51:37 GMT -5
Lil momma brough home some cardboard boxes to line bottom, then wants maple tree slices to layer and stack in bottom and some mulberry tree limbs too. Of course she'll take me to HD and buy the most expensive organic compost mulch stuff she can find. We made raised beds years ago and the wood rotted way fast. Bought her a metal one this time - 4x8 or whatever various sizes she can come up with out of it. Find gardening to be a lot of fun. You gonna do some funny tobacco? Lowes had a deal on some pretty good soil about a month ago. $2 a bag and I bought 20 of them. Still have 12-13 bags of that left. If you can check out Home Depot for open bags. They usually only have a handful missing from them and you can get them 1/2 off. I wanted to grow some funny tobacco but the wife shot that one down. If I didn't live in a residential neighborhood I would. I got some seeds that I found in some bags this year. I'm going to give them to my cousin. He's on about 3 acres. I have found a few grow areas while doing site visits and aerial reviews of properties. One itme we looked a t a 5-acre property and came out of th woods to find a gazillion people tracks around the car - turned out there was a significant grow plot on the other side of the road - saw it in the aerial photos.
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Post by ferris1248 on Jun 14, 2024 14:16:11 GMT -5
Yall need to start looking for Mason jars at garage sales this summer.
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Post by swampdog on Jun 14, 2024 14:22:55 GMT -5
Sounds like a great plan. We skipped gardening the last year, but are planning to go at it again this fall. We do have some “Everglades tomatoes” we’re planting from seed pretty soon, just to have them ready for the cooler weather. A botanist gave us some and said they handle the heat well and will produce year around. I never heard of that particular variety of tomato so guess we’ll see.
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Post by richm on Jun 14, 2024 17:16:14 GMT -5
Sounds like a great plan. We skipped gardening the last year, but are planning to go at it again this fall. We do have some “Everglades tomatoes” we’re planting from seed pretty soon, just to have them ready for the cooler weather. A botanist gave us some and said they handle the heat well and will produce year around. I never heard of that particular variety of tomato so guess we’ll see. Its not that tomatoes cant grow in summer, it is the bugs that eat em dead in 1 night. Hornworms and cut worms.
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Post by TRTerror on Jun 14, 2024 19:17:59 GMT -5
I saw a thing on the internet bout burying an ear of corn just under the dirt surface. 5 or 6 stalks would grow and produce. Sounds good to me.. Bought 5 ears..planted 2 and the squirrels dug them up in 2 days. Buried 2 more with wire cages around them. Squirrels dug them out the first day. Had one ear left sitting in my shop with the door open..Squirrels ate it right on my workbench. Went and bought 3 fresh ears at WalMart...fixin to eat them and then go Squirrel hunting....
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Post by conchydong on Jun 15, 2024 15:21:12 GMT -5
Squirrel >corn
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Post by cyclist on Jun 16, 2024 13:12:35 GMT -5
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Post by tampaspicer on Jun 17, 2024 8:27:01 GMT -5
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Post by richm on Jun 17, 2024 10:35:41 GMT -5
Looking good!
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