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thanks for the tips guys, I threw in some cheaper top soil, added manure and then the 3-1 garden mix. Planted some seeds, wish me luck!
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04-18-2023, 10:43 AM
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Harvested our overwintered green onions the other day: 
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Wow those look amazing. And I think I have the same knife  | 
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06-23-2023, 08:03 AM
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Morning lettuce harvest, I guess I'm going to be eating a shit ton of salad for the next month lol. 
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06-23-2023, 11:27 AM
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that looks amazing. do you have problems with slugs at all?
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06-23-2023, 11:29 AM
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You know, not really. These are from our city garden plot, which has raised beds which we surround with fir sawdust mulch in between the beds. I don't think the slugs like to cross the sawdust.
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06-23-2023, 11:47 AM
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wow so outside of your home garden you also have a community garden plot? that's commitment man
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06-23-2023, 11:55 AM
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The gardens are only like a block from my house, so it's really handy we just walk there.
It's about 90% my wife's work. I just provide the grunt labour (ie shovelling) when needed. My involvement at the city garden is less nowadays since my mother in law moved nearby and she puts in a bunch of effort as well, mother daughter bonding thing.
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06-23-2023, 02:56 PM
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thats not bad then. i always tell ppl who are excited about community gardens that if it's too far away from you you'll never go there regularly enough to water your plants. most ppl forget or are too lazy to water their houseplants let alone drive 10 minutes to a garden every day.
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06-23-2023, 03:37 PM
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#135 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Oh yeah, gardening is work, make no mistake. It's not just putting some seeds in soil, walking away and turning up again 3 months later and magically having a harvest.
I get a kick out of those people who dig up their front lawns for gardens only to have them revert to an ugly weed patch a year or two later. We have a couple of those in my neighbourhood.
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06-23-2023, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by unit  thats not bad then. i always tell ppl who are excited about community gardens that if it's too far away from you you'll never go there regularly enough to water your plants. most ppl forget or are too lazy to water their houseplants let alone drive 10 minutes to a garden every day. | Our community garden plot is about a 15 minute drive from our place, but we share it with another person who lives walking distance away and they water our part a couple times a week. We water their part when we go down. It helps out immensely.
We have harvested SO MUCH curly endive. It is just growing like crazy. Same as our rainbow chard. Still waiting on cucumbers, zucchini, beets, and tomatoes.
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06-23-2023, 04:08 PM
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So I've gotten lemons and strawberries awhile back, I should probably post some pics as there are some really good lemons going. I am super excited watching them get bigger.
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06-27-2023, 07:34 AM
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At the store the other day, I just about couldn't believe my eyes when I saw local raspberries were $8.99 per little pint.
We've been picking two of these containers full of raspberries a day for the past week from our backyard lol 
Never thought I'd be saying I've probably eaten $100 worth of raspberries...
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You guys stake your zucchinis?
I gave mine 2x2 feet squares in a 4x4 feet garden bed.
They're crawling everywhere. Might stake them now for the new leaves that are growing in.
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06-28-2023, 09:23 PM
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Not really zucchinis, no. We do trellis cucumbers though
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06-28-2023, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Great68 Not really zucchinis, no. We do trellis cucumbers though | I need to make a trellis for my green beans and some squash. Was thinking about some 2x2 posts and twine. What do you guys use?
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06-29-2023, 08:38 AM
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We have various different things we use. From some custom trellis frames I made out of cedar for the heavier stuff (squash and cukes), to just some plastic mesh fencing zip tied to a few 1x1 cedar stakes for like the peas and beans.
And actually a really good one is to use old wire CD racks, pick them up for nothing people give them away.
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Ok, so I'm at a dilemma on how to stake my pole beans. They're starting to get tall.
I'm doing the square foot gardening thing, so I did 9 per square foot (as indicated by the square). The number in each box represents which square foot the plant is located in inside the 4x4 square foot box.
Now I'm trying to figure out what method I should use.
First image - Pull the middle plant in each square foot, plant a stake and just let 8 plants run up each stake.
Second image - Pull out each alternating row to thin things out, and do the stake + plastic mesh fencing route that Great68 suggested
No image - Don't thin anything out, stake + plastic meshing
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Originally Posted by Great68 Morning lettuce harvest, I guess I'm going to be eating a shit ton of salad for the next month lol. | This is impressive, meanwhile I have a green house in my back yard we don't even make use of. We really need to start growing some vegetables.
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why don't you try both methods and see which works better? maybe half one way, half the other way, and next year you can do them all with the better method? no matter what you're going to have a ridiculous amount of beans Quote:
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Ok, so I'm at a dilemma on how to stake my pole beans. They're starting to get tall.
I'm doing the square foot gardening thing, so I did 9 per square foot (as indicated by the square). The number in each box represents which square foot the plant is located in inside the 4x4 square foot box.
Now I'm trying to figure out what method I should use.
First image - Pull the middle plant in each square foot, plant a stake and just let 8 plants run up each stake.
Second image - Pull out each alternating row to thin things out, and do the stake + plastic mesh fencing route that Great68 suggested
No image - Don't thin anything out, stake + plastic meshing | | |
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07-06-2023, 09:33 AM
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I don't think you need to thin anything out. My wife only really thins out root veggies, ie radishes, carrots etc. but not much else.
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07-06-2023, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Great68 I don't think you need to thin anything out. My wife only really thins out root veggies, ie radishes, carrots etc. but not much else. | https://www.homedepot.ca/product/eve...180474#reviews
Do you think this mesh would work? 1 1/2 is a bit on the smaller side, but not sure if it matters. Pole beans just need to wrap onto something?
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yup, that's pretty much what we use.
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10-17-2023, 07:43 PM
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Hot pepper harvest 
Prepping to pickle my peck of peppers
Those little yellow fuckers are awesome, the sweetness of a ripe bell pepper, but the heat of a serrano. So good.
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I had strawberries and lemons last year. I wanted the lemons to survive but they died despite me trying because too cold/not enough light. I didn't care too much about the strawberries but they actually survived, and the runners took root as well on the lawn.
Now I need to pot the runners and clean up the old plants. And we got a raspberry bush too. Wish my black thumb luck.
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