A garden is only as good as the ground that it's planted in. Discussion forum for the many ways to improve the soil where we plant our gardens.
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I thought it would help me be less scared of him if I gave him a name, so I named him Johnny Cochran. He is one laid-back snake. I can put my foot on him through the plastic and roll him back and forth like a log, and he doesn't care.
My outdoor garden is about 750 row feet. 200 of that is now planted and trellised. |
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#318 |
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Here is my variety list for rows 1 and 2. Each of these rows is just under 100"
Row 1 Rosella Crimson Wherokowhai Utynok Fuzzy Wuzzy Sweet Adelaide Uluru Ocre Tasmanian Chocolate x 2 New Big Dwarf Adelaide Festival Fred's Tye Dye Chocolate Lightning Sweet Adelaide Mano Perth Pride Coastal Pride Orange Northern Lights x 2 Jazz x 2 Big Russian Red x 3 Bola Maciza x 2 Sky Reacher KBX x 2 Eva Purple Ball x 2 Koroleva Tigerella Brad's Atomic Grape Red Beauty x 2 Ambrosia Red Big Sky Zebra Lintorpa Prinzess Heshpole Danko Ten Hung Tan Chieh Grot Bear Creek Chapman x 2 Golden Bullet Black Vernissage |
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#319 |
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Row 2
Taos Trail x 2 Son of Sultan Juane de Nole Noire Charbonneuse Vinson Watts Cherokee Green Rose Tommy Toe x 2 Painted Pink x 2 Pineapple Pig Crynkovic Yugoslav x 2 Purple Dragon Bradley Esterina F1 Ambrosia Red x 3 Coucher de Solie Eva Purple Ball Bosque Blue Bumble Bee x 2 White Cherry x 2 White Beauty Leningradsky Giant Rebecca Sebastian's Bull Bag x 2 Wes Danko Noire Charbonneusse Tolstij Botsman Russian Soul Druzba Alaskan Sunrise Lucinda Elgin Pink x 2 Kardinal Mazarini |
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#320 |
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16' cattle panels are $20 at the farm store, but it looks like Menard's has half panels for $7 : https://www.menards.com/main/p-14444...13-c-12502.htm
I may spend a lot of money there tomorrow. |
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#321 |
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Wish I had Menard's nearby.
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So you went ahead and planted - just inside? Or are these rows some of your outside plantings - frost is done? Do you have a pic of your supports, like maybe last yrs?
Thanks Pete |
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#323 |
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Oh yeah, we are well past frost, I think. These are outside rows. I can snap a pic today. I'm on my way to Menard's in a bit to buy some of those panels.
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Just a heads up, that link for 4x8 remesh at menards is not cattle panel. The cattle panel is galvanized 8 ga. That mesh is CRW, so likely ungalvanized, and only 10/11 ga. I use CRW cages and like them but they are not the same.
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#325 |
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Crud. You're right. Thank you for pointing that out.
I think my cattle panels are actually 4-guage: https://www.ruralking.com/red-brand-...nel-94913.html They are nice, but at 16', not exactly easy to bring home from the store. |
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#326 |
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I just found a lumberyard that will deliver 8' x 15' 10 gauge remesh panels for $14.50 each. One panel will do 30' of row when cut in half.
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#327 |
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I've taken my bolt cutters along and cut them to size before loading.
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#329 |
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I just bought 2 yesterday at TSC for 24.99 each.
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![]() I was just telling a friend about that a couple weeks ago. Telling her why I hated Padre Island, lol. The snakes, the scorpions and the mosquitos waiting at the doors for a meal when you opened it. ![]()
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