2015 Garden

[Sean Gadhar]

How dose your garden grow??

Our spinach, mustered greens, and kale are up from seed, I got everything roto-tilled today, planted the first patch of sweetcorn, 2 cherry tomato's & 2 heirloom, some onion sets, 3 types of squash, cucumbers & some pepper plants all before the evening rain

I have seeds for okra, and two types of beans soaking in water to plant in the morning. I think I'll try to get the flint corn in as well.

 

[Alden]

Beans, mmm... Good luck this year. This still mostly on the "borrowed" land?

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Only the sweet corn is share cropped :rotf: on my neighbors easement. I'm still hoping when the others see TWO easements planted they will cut their easement's weeds :idunno:

I'll plant the flint corn beans & squash on MY easement. Everything else is in my garden proper.

 

[Alden]

Oh sure, leave The Three Sisters out there to fend for themselves...

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Oh sure, leave The Three Sisters out there to fend for themselves...

:haha: I guess they will have to fend for themselves ,
I'm like Lydia Bennet, in that it is all about my happiness and my three sisters we suffer for it. (Yes that was hard working in a Pride & Prejudice reference a 5am)

Well they will be within shoot'n gun distance of the back door so they are safe enough less-in the utility fellers come through.

 

[Coot]

The deer are thick around where I live and eat practically everything - azaleas, day lilies, roses (gave up long ago there) BUT, last year I found one thing that appears untouched - hops.
So, this year, I am planting a 20' pole & putting in five more hops plants next to the original 'experiment' plant. If all goes well, I will add a second six plant bed on the other side of the pole next year.

 

[omarick1948]

What is Flint Corn?

 

[coloradoclyde]

A large patch of potatoes, sunflowers, barley, pumpkins, Indian corn and squash.
carrots, parsley , Basil, onions, sage, garlic, chives, Egyptian walking onions, cucumbers, many varieties of lettuce, bell, cayenne and jalapeno peppers, kale , broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, dill, pole beans, bottle gourds, peas, rosemary, thyme,
And then there are apples, grapes, raspberries, pears, hops, asparagus and rhubarb .
And the wife's flower beds :grin:

 

[coloradoclyde]

What is Flint Corn?

A classification of corn based on the type of kernel.. there are flint, dent, sweet, flour, pod and pop corn.
people eat flint, flour, sweet and pop.....cows eat dent. :grin:

 

[Sean Gadhar]

What is Flint Corn?

A classification of corn based on the type of kernel.. there are flint, dent, sweet, flour, pod and pop corn.
people eat flint, flour, sweet and pop.....cows eat dent. :grin:

:hatsoff: Flint parches well and stores well can be ground I have not roasted any young ears but it is said the NA did this as well

 

[coloradoclyde]

When you planted the 3 sisters did you put a fish in the bottom of the hole first.???

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Lol no I did once when I was a kid . Sucker in each hole.... Corn seeds rotted along with the fish & the whole garden stunk of dead fish

 

[coloradoclyde]

I remember my grandpa and uncle doing it...but I had a similar experience when I was young also.... I'm going fishing, maybe I will try it again... :haha:

I'll bury it deep and to the side....maybe only use part of the fish and not the whole thing..

 

[BullRunBear]

Well, we have 4 types of tomatoes, cukes, summer and winter squash, beets,leaf lettuce, arugula, spinach, 6 different herbs, brussel (sp?) sprouts and bell peppers. We do everything except the herbs from seed.

This is only our third year with a garden but we are really enjoying it. The wife and I are exploring inexpensive ways to extend the growing season and making plans to expand the garden area. This is all done in a small suburban back yard. I figure the bigger the garden, the less grass I have to mow. :grin:

 

[sidelock]

Have spuds, peas and onions in. The rest this week and next. It was 32F here this am, and irrigation sprinklers frozen a couple of days ago. Corn will not make it at my place, and some years no tomatoes. Winter kill got my raspberries this year.

 

[jamesthomas]

I have some Celebrity Tomatoes in, some straight neck squash, and a few Jalapeno peppers. its to hot already down here for lettuce, kale, and other leafy greens.

 

[nhmoose]

Here in mid NH we just put the seeds in the ground a week ago had a frost 5/23. It has now gotten warm and veg sets have been put in.

 

[Alden]

Hate the Cog Railway but I ain't gonna drive it and couldn't climb it anymore!

 

[sidelock]

Gophers got my peas when they were up 1 1/2". Had to replant----- but got the gophers. Taters and onions jumping. Dead raspberries from winter kill mowed down and salad stuff in. Other stuff goin in this week, including wife's flowers.

 

[Flint311]

Just got stuff to put in the garden tonight. Yes, kinda late, but should turn out well. While working on it, a doe passed a little ways from us, just to check on our progress I'm sure! :rotf: