NFR 2024 Garden and Growing Things thread

RCF · Mar 15, 2024

Power washers are great until they are not. Depending on the PSI it can actually damage stuff including concrete. A wider spray further away from the surface can help reduce the impact. No need to drill 2 inch holes.

We use 30 Seconds. Pre-spray with a pump sprayer, let it stand a couple of hours and then wash it off.

Stonedfish · Mar 15, 2024

I scraped a bunch off my walk a few years ago with a flat edged shovel. It didn’t get it all, but took up the majority of it as it was pretty thick. Should have then hit it with the power wash but put moss killer in what remained. I need to do it again.
SF

mcswny · Mar 15, 2024

Gary Knowels said:
Anyone have a preferred method/product for removing moss and mildew on concrete? The north side of our home gets very low levels of light and stays damp long after rains. All of the paved surfaces, sidewalk, driveway, retaining wall, stairs, etc., have moss and/or green and black mildew. We do have a pressure washer but I'd like to clean more than a 2" stripe at a time.

I was going to say pressure washer until your last sentence

SteelHeadDave · Mar 15, 2024

I’ve only recently discovered the joys of pressure washing. I’m letting my moss grow thick so I can have more satisfaction when I finally spray it off, 2” at a time

Kilchis · Mar 15, 2024

A rotating nozzle strips moss faster than a fan tip, at least on my homeowner-grade electric pressure washers.

(Because a friend was moving to Florida and said, “Here, you can have this.” That's why I have two! Could you say no?)

Matt B · Mar 15, 2024

The saying ‘round my place is, If ya don’t like moss, stick around a while—it’ll grow on ya.

Tom Butler · Mar 16, 2024

Salmo_g · Mar 17, 2024

Yesterday I was noticing that the crocuses were up and blooming and how nice and spring-like they looked. After I'd gone in the house and Mrs. Salmo came home, she reported a deer had walked through the flower beds and ate all but one of them! She had planted them there because they said, "deer resistant." We've planted so many things that allegedly were deer resistant, but our deer don't read. They eat 'em all. Every time. These deer don't eat daffodils, but that's about it.

Mossback · Mar 17, 2024

Deer gotta eat too...
On non edibles this works, but have to reapply after each rain. After a bit, they seem to lose interest in the foliage, then after a bit, they regain their interest.
If there are neighbors with plants that don't use any type of deer spray, it works pretty damn good.

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Stonedfish · Mar 17, 2024

Yard work is overrated. Just sayin…..

SF

Kilchis · Mar 23, 2024

Tulips are blooming.

Shawn Seeger · Mar 26, 2024

Things are starting to push through... looking to be another great garlic year, rhubarb looking good, and the winter lettuce is still producing.

And some flowers

RCF · Mar 26, 2024

I know it is spring when I can successfully grow these:

jact55 · Mar 26, 2024

Planting plans are made. Limiting garden to stuff we normally use, instead of a random assortment of experiments.
Onions, potatoes, carrots, corn, zuchinni, pumkin, (less) tomatoes, buttercup squash (not butternut. Buttercup are my favorite).
Our one experiment will be watermelons. Granddaughter is obsessed with em.
Probably some herbs and greenbeans in smaller beds by the house.

Spring has a way of ruining those plans through snap buys and grander plans. We'll see.

Seeds, besides onions and potatoes going under lights starting this weekend. It's getting to be go time. Need to ammend beds with nutrients and compost.

Eastside · Mar 26, 2024

Worked on expanding the blackberry patch yesterday. These are heirloom blackberries from my wife’s aunt in Gig Harbor. The first starts were from their garden and they are Olallie berries. I always thought that her aunt was pulling my leg, but read in an OSU bulletin about berries and they are an actual variety. They have been transplanted twice as we have bought and sold houses. They do better in cooler springs in the Tri-Cities where we live, but I typically get a gallon and a half from the patch that we have in our back yard. This year, I expanded the patch by nearly double, using starts from the existing canes that I leave on the ground as they grow over the summer. Rototilled the new bed thoroughly and added steer manure. Will build a trellis system for the new bed. The transplants seem happy, and I’m looking forward to more of my wife’s blackberry jam. I supplement with wild native blackberry picking in July on the west side. Those berries are reserved for pies….

RCF · Mar 27, 2024

Dandelion makes a good salad. Even though many consider them a weed, it's leaves makes a good salad base product.

SteelHeadDave · Mar 27, 2024

RCF said:
Dandelion makes a good salad. Even though many consider them a weed, it's leaves makes a good salad base product.

I picked a bunch of dandelion flowers a few years ago on Easter weekend to make wine. It was a lot of work to separate the green from the yellow parts. The wine is a bit sweet for my liking, almost like a mead. The best part of the process was finding a bunch of un-found Easter eggs in the field I was harvesting from

Capt Insano Emeritis · Mar 31, 2024

Started first few days of March…peppers tomatoes herbs. Previously started and planted Filderkraut cabbage , Korean radishes, picking wintered arugula , winter lettuce Dutch corn salad(mache’) starting summer squash in a few