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Newt Short Timer
Joined: 21 Dec 2001 Posts: 3176 | TRs | Pics Location: Down the road and around the corner |
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Newt
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:49 am
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rubberlegs wrote: | Forgot to mention fertilizer. The book recommends some do-it-yourself organic fertilizer that's fun to make. Get 50 lb bags of lime, blood meal, cotton meal, kelp meal, rock phosphate or bone meal, etc. Then mix up before planting according to the recipe. Takes only a minute to toss it into a container and stir with a stick. |
I'm with Rubberlegs al the way on this one.
It's been a few years since my last garden but I swear by chicken manure. Mix it in before planting. When fresh it can be *hot*, as in burn the roots, so mix it in early. Really good stuff. But since you're already growing, try the fish fert and ph.
Also make sure that the soil isn't to compacted. It must be kinda loose in order for the roots to grow properly.
Territorial Seed have some pretty good stock if you start this way. They never failed me.
NN
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
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#19 Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 2197 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 7:57 am
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Every year I mix in a combo of steer manure, peat moss, and my own compost. But I mostly grow tomatoes, romaine lettuce, red leaf lettuce, and every few years I switch up with corn and potatoes. My corn does ok until the flippin' raccoons start taking them down - ear by ear. Eat a couple bites and then toss it like a kid
I have tremendous luck with romaine lettuce every year. Heads 18" tall x 12" wide. Twice the size of what you see in the store. Is that normal for a home garden?
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Mike E. Member
Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 687 | TRs | Pics Location: Mount Vernon |
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 11:10 am
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I live on the east side of the mountains and you just can't mess up corn or beans on this side due to the constant sun and heat. One thing that I do that seems to work well is to mulch with a layered system of about two inches of compost around the plants with about 6"-8" of straw on top of that and all over the garden. This does a good job of providing slow nutrient supply and water retention in the soil. The best book that I ever read on gardening was "A One Straw Revolution" by Masanobu Fukuoka.
Not so much for any specific tips, but for his ATTITUDE. Zero tilling, zero spraying, lots of insight.
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jenjen Moderatrix
Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 7617 | TRs | Pics Location: Sierra stylin |
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:11 pm
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I'm glad I'm not the only one with monster lettuce! I don't do anything all that special to it (when you spend the whole day fiddling with other people's gardens you don't really want to do it when you get home). BTW, if you let just 1 or 2 of your lettuce plants go to seed you'll never have to worry about buying seed or plant starts again. I haven't had to replant lettuce since I got really lazy a few years ago.
If life gives you melons - you might be dyslexic
If life gives you melons - you might be dyslexic
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A green green thumb Guest
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A green green thumb
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 7:42 pm
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I don't want to sound like Ed Hume when in reality I know little about gardening, but it seems like in you should be able to grow corn in area codes 206, 425, and a few others around here. If you have dirt with fertilizer, it should grow. When I have cared for corn, I watered it just about every day, especially in hot weather like we have now. It likes water. If the leaves start getting yellow, this is not good. Make sure the plants are spaced far enought apart to grow.
Another bad thing for gardens is moles. They tunnel under your plants, disturb the roots big time, and pretty soon the plant is gone. One day you are watering zuchinni so you can give it to your neighors in the fall, all of a sudden you notice the dirt just cave in and water pouring down into a vast bottomless underground chamber. Yes, now you are watering your neighbor's lawn through a mole tunnel!
Keep the moles out. Keep the rabbits out too!
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