2022 Gardening Thread

[Axxe55]

I think that is for using a tractor to cultivate. If it were myself, I'd plant a row or two between if you are NOT using a tractor, I use a hoe, and NO it is not Cameltoe Harris! LOL

Since I already have them planted, I think the easiest way would be for me to buy more seeds and half my distances on the mounds.

 

[10-96inTexas]

I like having a garden but I have downsized over the last couple of years from 6 12' rows to a 8' x 3' raised bed to these buckets. We just like a few fresh tomatoes and jalapenos (my wife likes squash) and this serves us well. Not really a garden but it's something to do.

 

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

One year, many years ago(Spring 1982), I had a hot shot rig and was running all the time. One afternoon and night I disced the 2 acre plot ran the furrower over it and broadcast every seed I had into the furrows in no particular order. Then I dragged a chain over it with the tractor. I got 4 hours sleep and hit the road again. I didn't look at it again until about May (unfortunately I had lots of free time by then. The oilfield is funny like that, cept it wasn't funny....). Best garden I ever grew. I'd carry a couple of five gallon buckets out there and start picking. The sticker burs and buffle grass was thigh high but down in there were all the vegetables I could haul out of there. We canned, froze, ate and gave away as much as we could and still didn't get it all. The okra was phenomenal. When I disced it the next year and planted an okra forrest came up. A strip about 30 feet wide and 150 feet long of okra.

Hasn't been anything like that since...

Alan

 

[Younggun]

Since I already have them planted, I think the easiest way would be for me to buy more seeds and half my distances on the mounds.

Corn really doesn’t pollinate very easily. These are my rows, just starting to come up.

It’s a little dense in the rows, had a young nephew helping, lol. But the more you have, it gives you some room to spread them a little more. We always leave just enough room to get between. And it’s often better to do kind of a square pattern if possible so they are more clustered for pollination. If that makes sense.

We do enough room between the rows to harvest them, but that’s about it. These are 3’ apart. We usually go a little closer, but planted a lot more this year.

 

[FNORD]

The okra that I plant is from seed that has been passed around over three generations. Story goes that my FIL moved to Houma, LA in around 1956-7. He put in a garden and a neighbor gave him some okra seed. It grows like a tree and the pods will get to be a foot long and still tender. His FIL (who lived in N. LA) took some of the seed back to his garden and grew it thereafter... In 1976 when #1 wife and I got married we got some seed from him and brought it to S. Texas... I've grown it ever since. Now my #1 son grows it as well. The nearest I've seen to that strain commercially is called Cow Horn.

Two years ago #1 son had a single plant that lasted into winter. The base of the stalk was as big around as my leg. He had cut it off after it got too high to pick and it put out multiple stalks that produced into the winter. He had to dig the stump out with a grubbing hoe.

Pretty impressive stuff. I'll save a bunch of seed this year.

All my plants are up and doing well as long as I keep the water on. We've had maybe 3" rain for the year... Contrast that to last year when we'd had 30" by now...

Alan

It’s been a coon’s age since I’ve thought about cow horn okra.

 

[FNORD]

Would be interesting to see how it grows in East Texas!

It grew quite well in Beaumont.

I know that’s a ways South of you but....

 

[Axxe55]

I like having a garden but I have downsized over the last couple of years from 6 12' rows to a 8' x 3' raised bed to these buckets. We just like a few fresh tomatoes and jalapenos (my wife likes squash) and this serves us well. Not really a garden but it's something to do.

Pretty close to the size of containers I'm using. I planted the tomato plants in five gallon buckets. Did them that way last year, but only did two, so I'm doing four this year.

I'll follow up with some pictures tomorrow.

 

[Axxe55]

It grew quite well in Beaumont.

I know that’s a ways South of you but....

If it grew well in Beaumont, it would probably do well here in East Texas.

 

[Axxe55]

Planted more potatoes and onions this afternoon.

 

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Took a hoe out to the cucumber patch today and left it there (I know this one is hitting the "out of context" thread.... I came back in an hour and it hadn't cut one single weed... I figured if guns kill people then hoes can chop weeds.... I'll try again tomorrow...

Alan

 

[Axxe55]

Planted some cilantro and basil in small containers. Also planted more squash and cucumbers as well.

 

[Axxe55]

Planted more onions, squash, okra and cucumbers last night. Just watered all the vegetables and noticed my corn is sprouting!

 

[Katydid1984]

Andrew bought me a greenhouse set up for the back patio once its built. I'm going to do a raised garden in there; right now, I have dill, emerald basil, rosemary (the rats ate most of it last year) and candy cane peppers. Hoping to grow some more veggies and herbs in my little greenhouse that will be protected.

 

[Younggun]

Still fighting to keep my tomato’s alive. Put WAY to much of the composted hay in with them and they are getting hit hard by the over fertilization. All the wind beating them to death lately hasn’t helped either.

 

[Axxe55]

Still fighting to keep my tomato’s alive. Put WAY to much of the composted hay in with them and they are getting hit hard by the over fertilization. All the wind beating them to death lately hasn’t helped either.

My tomato plants already have small blooms on them, as well as couple of the pepper plants. I just finished planting more okra and onions today.

 

[Axxe55]

We had to make a dog food run to TSC, so I picked up a Poblano pepper while there and just got it planted in a container.

 

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Put in another dozen tomato plants today (that makes 40 total), Sweet peppers (12), Squash and beans galore... The cucumbers are starting to climb. As long as I keep the water running things keep growing... no rain in sight.

Alan

 

[Axxe55]

Planted more onions and potatoes yesterday.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Still fighting to keep my tomato’s alive. Put WAY to much of the composted hay in with them and they are getting hit hard by the over fertilization. All the wind beating them to death lately hasn’t helped either.

I’ve had rogue tomatoes start growing from waste thrown into a compost pile. Not sure what the problem could be, but probably not too much compost, as long as everything is organic.

Did you use a lot of chemical fertilizers?

 

[Younggun]

I’ve had rogue tomatoes start growing from waste thrown into a compost pile. Not sure what the problem could be, but probably not too much compost, as long as everything is organic.

Did you use a lot of chemical fertilizers?

Nope. Nothing but hay and cow manure that had been piled up for the last 6 months.

Daily watering keeps them hanging on, but it the soil dries at all they immediately start to curl. Lost one of the 6 early on. Got another that is really borderline, and the last 4 look bad but the lower leaves hold a healthy appearance as long as they remain constantly watered.

Only other idea is that they were diseased when purchased.

Also, no herbicides have been used that could have washed or been carried to them.