NFR 2025 Gardening Growing Thread

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Capt Insano Emeritis

Capt Insano Emeritis

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Yeah overdue starting a new thread. Not much news other than i have dug up all our begonia bulb and put in the greenhouse . Raked swept the balance of leaves . Digging another yard of my compost tomorrow and planning greenhouse starting dates . Still have a lot of parsley and oregano growing and shallots , winter stuff all growing swiftly. Favas and biennial broccoli from Sept planting about 30” tall. Temps very very mild . Lowest temp here so far since winter began is about 38-40 degrees. Garlic is taller than usual for January. Narcissus , and other bulbs on there way. Have made a soil amendment list. Will get it in the ground/ raised beds in the next month- 50 lbs cottonseed meal, 25lbs kelp meal, 12 lbs bonemeal , some worm castings(12. Lg bags) maybe ght grab 30 lbs of alfafa pellets. Happy gardening!
 
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Well I gotta say this years garden is really thriving and oddities occur, like the leaf size on my great red that i got seeds when in the USSR in 1991, and have been saving seed and growing almost every 2 years since. What is different this year is my dosing the plants with my black water elixir( diluted humic acid powder) a few weeks after planting out. Leaves are huge and not in a usualIMG_7537.jpeg way.
 
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Modest_Man said:
Garden related (sort of). Grew a bunch of grass - got the field baled yesterday and used the drift boat trailer to get up up into the barn.

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Real gardens (farms) count, not sort of. Life would suck without farmers and ranchers. Most of us don't have what it takes to grow stuff like the Capt.
 
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I learned some sowing tricks from a few farmers over the decades. One was for carrots. The simple carrot- ain’t simple. Birds mess things up. Prestarting inside or in my case a greenhouse works but a delicate planting out process- need steady hands of a surgeon. One young farmer used a very effective method. You prepare a planting spot to amended “full tilth” level and smooth and water evenly. Cut a piece of packing cardboard to the size of the planted area and set aside. Take a pinch 3-4 seeds in rows every 4” spacing- (on top of the soil!!)cover with cardboard and water the cardboard heavily as the water capilaries ynder the cardboard… and leave alone for 10 days for germination to occur.
It is difficult not to peak under the cardboard. NOTE: the surface placed seed does a lightless albino white root thing and turns into the wet soil to take root! It is a very effective small scale way to plant carrots!
 
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I am going to half to try my hand at collards and kale... Looks like you are in Tacoma I am on the Eastside of the mtn where its a furnace in the summer do you think they would do ok over here? Probably takes a crap load of water?
 
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Salmon123 said:
I am going to half to try my hand at collards and kale... Looks like you are in Tacoma I am on the Eastside of the mtn where its a furnace in the summer do you think they would do ok over here? Probably takes a crap load of water?
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I don't really know. I've only grown them here. They are 12 month crops for me. I plant in march and they do great all the way until the following spring when they'll bolt
 
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My tomatoes aren’t at nearly the level of @Capt Insano Emeritis, but they are doing ok. Should harvest my first this week.
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I got a late start on cucumbers, squash and zucchini, but they are coming along. I can’t eat everything this corner produces, so I put extras out with a free sign for folks in the neighborhood. Hopefully no trucks run it over this summer. 😂
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