"Mini" is relative. Eh?
Or you can go Damascus version of giant goat and have a face not even a mother could love.
Ps- some menudo or posole sounds good.
NFR 2024 Garden and Growing Things thread
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"Mini" is relative. Eh?
Or you can go Damascus version of giant goat and have a face not even a mother could love.
Ps- some menudo or posole sounds good.
Soon some of these plants will go out . They are quite large. Still adjusting to the speed of growth from my saved seed. I will start a few weeks later still next year.
For 40 years I used enclosures a radiator plug in heater and lensed sun exposure only. My absentee neighbors own this big house next door and show up at the house once a month. They are idiot gardeners and planted a bunch of fruit trees 6-8’ from my greenhouse on the sun exposure side. I had to get a lighting set up.
goinoregon
Just Hatched
hey capt. i just moved to vancouver. is there a nursery u would recommend? tomatoe starts are of interest. will grow from seeds next year.
Bambooflyguy
Life of the Party
Sugar snap peas in last Sunday, Kentucky wonder and blue lake beans in today….time to fish!
I do buy starts so i do not know any more
Fighting with owners of a house that do not live there . Nope. A doctor purchased it to establish residency in washington. They live across the columbia in Oregon
Salmon123
Just Hatched
Question I am in the middle of re doing my raised beds, I am putting in galvanized water troffs to use instead of traditional boxes. My plan is to drill holes in bottom for water run off and pile a bunch of cardboard in their before putting in top soil. My question is I have a bunch of old soar back salmon carcass i was thinking of putting in the bottom with the dirt. Would that be a good idea to do, Its nutrient's for the soil isn't it?
I have buried salmon carcasses in my beds in the past, specifically my tomato beds. It yields great results. I would not do it until after this growing season however. IMO you want it to have enough time to decompose before planting out your bed. Also be aware that raccoons will try to dig them up so bury as deep as you can. I generally do this at the end of the growing season and let them fully compost for the spring planting.
I would not put something like a carcas in the bottom… it would attract less than desirable maggots and beetles through your drainage holes. Speaking of hole drilling I bought siz 2’X 6’ galvanized troughs . I cut 2 2”x 4” Pressure treated boards a little wider than the troughs bases- for drainage clearance and watering runoff so not to trap water. When I drilled 3/8” holes evenly spaced about 10”. Apart and bought a couple cans of galvanized metal spray to seal the hole edges to slow the potential rust. I use a granular organic dry fertlizer compost local soil worm casting bags for water retension. My troughs are about 3’ deepand that is a lot of soil. You could put old chunks of firewoon or short brances ans trimming in the bottom to reduce the amount of soil needed. 20inches of soil is adequate for almost anything accept perhaps asparagus. I filled my 6 troughs fully with soil but I had a lot of soil as we leveled the yard and I sifted it all with a shaker screen I made over a wheelbarrow.A hell of a lot of work!
Sunset clematis
I use salmon heads as fertilizer regularly - bury one small head or half of a big one about 18” or 2’ down, and plant the plant on top. Works really well for squash and pumpkins, for tomatoes it tends to be too much nitrogen, so you get giant plants that don’t produce quite as much fruit as you would expect. I have done the same in big deep pots a couple of times, and have sometimes noticed a bit of a fishy smell around the pots for a while afterwards. I think that you would need to be very careful about the amount of fish vs the amount of soil in a water trough raised bed to avoid that problem.
Interestingly, by the end of the growing season there is no trace of the salmon remaining. I thought I might be able to find parts of the skull, but it is all gone.
I have been pinch back tomatoes for a couple weeks and pinching off all the flowering pepper buds too. Forecast shows another ten days of cool wet weather. Average of 60 deg/40 night. Still a bit early - still thinking mid month . No greenhouse heat for a week or so(electric oil filled heater on lowest setting and heat mats dialed down to 68 deg. These will be turned off soon. Then the out during the day and sheltered at night for a week to harden off. And setting a sidewalk table out with extra plants for the neighborhood announcement that Skip has tomatoes and peppers. The annual thing . Donations accepted willingly. Along with many “sermons”about the joys of seed saving!
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Another cool spring, so my gardening efforts are off to a slow start. I've started some seeds in trays in the window sill that are now popping up. Added compost and fertilizer to my raised beds. Got them leveled off and put in a row of radishes so far. I should be able to transplant some lettuce from the window sill tray to the raised bed in a few days. Next up is to get the tomato house ready, but I probably won't get plants for a couple weeks yet.
_____Metal Frames for Raised Beds._____Last Winter there was a discussion about raised bed, metal modular frames. Ive scoured the pages and can't find it. I am after some experienced info. on this subject. I need to rebuild my beds.. Any help is appreciated...
