Gardening 2023

[Survivor_316]

Looks good. No rain for me. I'm going to water after is cools. It is 91 here and I don't want to overheat 2 days in a row.

Good idea. Take care of yourself.

Can anyone tell me- I can't remember what crops cross pollinate. I plan to be more organized at saving seed this year, but which blossoms do I need to bag if I am saving them? Or has someone found a better way?

 

[Psalm7]

If you are saving seeds , only plant one type of each . Different types of squash will cross like yellow crook neck , zucchini , winter , summer . Same with any other veggies . Not that crossing is always bad . Everything we plant has been crossed at some point .

Good idea. Take care of yourself.

Can anyone tell me- I can't remember what crops cross pollinate. I plan to be more organized at saving seed this year, but which blossoms do I need to bag if I am saving them? Or has someone found a better way?

 

[Survivor_316]

If you are saving seeds , only plant one type of each . Different types of squash will cross like yellow crook neck , zucchini , winter , summer . Same with any other veggies . Not that crossing is always bad . Everything we plant has been crossed at some point .

Ok, maybe I'll just buy extra seeds again then. Thank you!

 

[Psalm7]

Ok, maybe I'll just buy extra seeds again then. Thank you!

Nothing wrong with saving seeds . I save some and buy others every year .

 

[user 7704]

If you are saving seeds , only plant one type of each . Different types of squash will cross like yellow crook neck , zucchini , winter , summer . Same with any other veggies . Not that crossing is always bad . Everything we plant has been crossed at some point .

I have a cross that I have been using for 4 years. It is yellow summer and black zucchini cross. We really like it.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

On NewsMax - today , they said there is now a bill up that requires all U.S. citizen to register their garden with the government .

Don’t do it!!! It is looking more and more like we are all going to have to rely on our local government and Sheriff to stop this attempt at starving us all!! Stalin wanted to know where all the farms were too.

 

[Cindyd]

Harvested the first of our sweetpeas today. Unbelieveably BIG peas...here is a pic of one of them:
Hope it makes you all jealous!!!
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Jeolous!....here are how some of mine are looking..

 

[Mountain trapper]

F... the government. I'll never register my garden or livestock. Actually, a lot of my cattle were registered, just not with the government.

More importantly, we finished planting the garden a couple days ago. The new concord grape plants are looking good. The wife planted 75 super hot pepper plants and 70 tomato plants. We're still getting a lot of asparagus and the potato plants are starting to come. All of the fruit trees are done blooming. If we don't get a late frost or hail, we should have a good garden this year.

 

[Oddcaliber]

Mass noncompliance just like unconstitutional anti gun laws. Ignore them. They know they can't put all of we the people in prison.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Just killed my first rattlesnake of the year. It was hiding in some bushes next to the driveway. I need to mow the orchard and around the berry plants to make it harder for the rattlers to hide.

 

[user 7704]

Got my order from Strictly Medicinal today. Hopefully the Moringa will germinate from these seeds. I need a space to plant the Stinging Nettle. Got to do some thinking on that.

 

[Survivor_316]

I just got more winter seeds in the mail today. I ordered more stuff that can overwinter or will be ready in early spring.

I'm curious, if anyone is willing to tell me, how much you guys plant? We have about 1300 sq ft of garden space and at least half of that is for grains. I do intercrop, but I am always just nosey about how others do things! I'd like to add more, but I think I'm at my max on workload!!

Nothing wrong with saving seeds . I save some and buy others every year .

I used to save seeds before I got sick, but I don't remember what I did. I know I bagged the blossoms of squash that I didn't want to cross pollinate and I just timed my corn varieties by DTM, but I don't remember what in the heck I did with anything else!

Maybe I need to buy a book on seed saving.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I just got more winter seeds in the mail today. I ordered more stuff that can overwinter or will be ready in early spring.

I'm curious, if anyone is willing to tell me, how much you guys plant? We have about 1300 sq ft of garden space and at least half of that is for grains. I do intercrop, but I am always just nosey about how others do things! I'd like to add more, but I think I'm at my max on workload!!



I used to save seeds before I got sick, but I don't remember what I did. I know I bagged the blossoms of squash that I didn't want to cross pollinate and I just timed my corn varieties by DTM, but I don't remember what in the heck I did with anything else!

Maybe I need to buy a book on seed saving.

Our garden/orchard area is about 80'×300'. We have 28 fruit trees, several varieties of grapes, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries. We actually cut our garden area in half. We don't have anyone to share the produce with, and we didn't like throwing so much of it away.

 

[user 7704]

I have 4 different gardens. I measured them once, but don't remember their sizes. I'll take a tape measure tomorrow.

 

[Proud Prepper]

My gardens are small. I have a 15x 6 in the ground and 4 raised beds 3×6 , a 8 × 10 greenhouse and about 18 planter pots of various sizes. I also have amaranth and other edibles along the house flower beds.

I have 2 Orange 1 Satsuma 1 Lemon 2 Fig 1 Mayhaw trees. Muscatine vines, Huckleberry bushes, Blackberry, Elderberry and Blueberry.

Not many here want to do any work on a vegetable garden at this time I have the space, seeds and equipment to expand as much as is needed if they do.

 

[Survivor_316]

We don't have anyone to share the produce with, and we didn't like throwing so much of it away.

That's still a lot of space. I always hate throwing food out, too, though.

Not many here want to do any work on a vegetable garden at this time I have the space, seeds and equipment to expand as much as is needed if they do.

It is so time consuming, so I can understand that.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

Mine is probably one of the smaller garden set ups on here. With hubby refusing to have trees taken down, I can’t grow any more than I currently have. When things get bad though, he will see the light and we will expand. I‘ve bought a ton of seeds and saved them. I do have a greenhouse that I plant in year round. We have a vineyard and small orchard too. Lost all but one blueberry bush last winter, so I need to replace them. Sigh. Hazelnut trees are growing. My garden I think is 15’x 30’. I do have a 5’ x 12 raised bed too. Plus lots of herbs growing around my fruit trees. It is more than enough to feed us with crops left over. Wish I had space to grow a lot of grains.

 

[rachaelk]

Got my order from Strictly Medicinal today. Hopefully the Moringa will germinate from these seeds. I need a space to plant the Stinging Nettle. Got to do some thinking on that.

I know this sounds crazy...but i put my stinging nettles in pots behind the house. Then divided the following yr into more pots. That way i could control the spread and keep the children from getting stung. But my 16 yr old thought it would be fun to wake up his sister with a plant in the middle of the night. She was so mad. The nettles grow well in pots and winter over fine in wnc. I had greens until the 0 degree freeze snap.

 

[Survivor_316]

I do have a greenhouse that I plant in year round.

I am still trying to convince my husband to invest in one, but I think that is so important. I really think it would allow us to completely be independent of grocery stores.

I have never grown as many grains as I am this year, but I think we need them. I don't have as many in store as I would like, so I want to save those. I eat a lot of grain currently and I am growing some feed grains for the first time for the animals. We planted alfalfa, turnips, oats, and will be planting triticale in small patches. We'll see how it goes!

 

[user 7704]

Got an early start in the gardens this morning. Wanted to get them watered and I tied up the squash and zucchini, put more string in the bean garden so they more to climb on. They are looking good.

I always buy jute string, but yesterday I bought a spool of 20,000 ft baling twine for not much more than A few hundred feet of jute.($30) It will last for years because I remove the strings and store them over winter.

I'm also using it to wrap the tomatoes so they don't fall and break.

 

[GaRp58]

We planted two different radishes yesterday and it rained real slow all night off and on...then it rained again this afternoon for about an hour. Thank God for rain. My BIL came over and we talked gardens. He had to fill up both of his 2000 liter / 350 gallon water tanks and drip water his garden from the middle of May till Sep last year--twice a week. We are in June and he has yet to water his garden a single time this year we have had such a regular and enough railfall so far.

 

[Mountain trapper]

We get little to no rain here from June to October, but we did get more rain in May than normal. Some of our seasonal streams are still flowing.
We have to water the garden every other day now. The wife is putting up a sun screen to protect some of her delicate plants.

 

[user 7704]

Couple of pics of the garden and how I have the beans climbing strings.

 

[user 7704]

I went outside and the rays coming through the woods is showing the smoke. Plus, just being out a few minutes has made my throat scratchy.

 

[poltiregist]

I harvested my spinach seeds yesterday . Some of the seeds are still in the garden as they are not yet ready for harvest . Looking at my journal the harvested seeds will be due to be replanted in mid August or about two months from now . They grow all winter even through way below freezing temperatures and getting buried under snow . Actually they have stayed green even around 0 temperatures . I have put them under row covers for the colder temperatures but have discovered there is no need for that as they don't need the extra protection . -- There is a huge difference in different spinach Varieties and have grown some that simply taste bad . The variety that I have settled on for our survival is delicious , way better than that crap in a can . I will go back and see if I can pull up the name of this spinach for you guys . --- I found my saved original spinach seed purchase empty packet , though I now use my own saved seeds with good germination and growing results . It is " Giant Winter Spinach " that I purchased from " Gaea's Blessing " via the internet .

 

[poltiregist]

I made the mistake last fall of covering my strawberries with old hay . This spring when I uncovered them found those that were buried deep under the hay simply died . Luckly for me a few of the plants had managed to put up a chute through the hay and got a bit of what they needed , thus survived . I am now cultivating my surviving plants runners to reclaim the dead parts of the bed . Perhaps some of you have more knowledge in growing strawberries .

 

[user 7704]

Bought my Meyer lemon tree last July. It had 2 small lemons. Today, those same two are finally ripe. I told the family we are all having a SMALL glass of lemonade to toast. I didn't realize lemons took so long to mature.

 

[user 7704]

The lemonade was great.

 

[user 7704]

We had a storm with wind and I am happy to say the beans and tomato trellis worked great. Not a single plant broke. They just swayed with the wind.

 

[user 7704]

Went out at 6 a.m. and harvested some garlic scapes. Any ideas of what to do now? I think I will freeze them. Last year I made garlic salt, but without preservatives they clumped.