How am I doing?

[Dan45761]

On my first garden.ImageUploadedByTapatalk1340761094.262411.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1340761108.265145.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1340761122.913969.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1340761139.817028.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1340761153.781579.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1340761172.032171.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1340761194.897882.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1340761215.396076.jpg

[Fat Charlie]

You've got me beat. That's great!

[RayR]

I'd say you are doing just fine.

[Mojave]

Looking good Dan! What varieties are you growing?

[Save$]

Looks good. Big crop of plant! Can't use straw under my plants in Maine unless the ground is really warm. Straw would insulate the soil and it would never warm up. Like the idea of straw. It prevents splash up from the soil and can limit the spread of disease.

[Dan45761]

Yeah lol, I think I'm OCD. When I get into trying something I push it a bit far and much over do. I start with a little and can't stop. I have pretty much every thing in there. 48 tomato plants alone which some I have planted to donate to food banks. It has become a really good garden and it's so funny how you become very protective of it lol, hey, that ball goes in my garden I'm kickin your @ss :-)

[Dan45761]

Mojave: jalapeno, Cheyenne, jumbo bell, regular green bell, habenero, red/orange bell, pamento, banana pepper 4 plants each. I have a great recipe for franks hot sauce if anyone would like... I plan to can my own.
48 tomato plants, I'd guess the harvest of 36 will be given as cherity to local food banks, a combination of better boys, steak, bigger boys and roman for canning. Oriental egg plant, ghost egg plant which I basically bought because it was a beautiful plant, had a battle with flea Beatles over these and I tried everything organic to rid of them but they were trying to spread so I hated it but I had to use a dose of sevin, I worried for a week about destroying my polinators but 8 days after the disgusting sevin, I saw a swarm of dozens of beautiful bumble bees and honey bees. I was more worried about them taking the sevin back to have and destroying the population than I was hand polinating many plants, that would have sucked!!! I hate sevin and what it does but the money and labor, I couldn't let the flea Beatles destroy my crop, it was a disaster and looked like some one shot it with shot gun bird shot, I could have lived without the egg plant and I would be happy to share some of my veggies but when I saw them spreading to my peppers and tomatos I freaked and panicked and asked the hardware for the best thing they had, they handed me the sevin, pic in closed, if you saw your plants looking like this, what would you have done??? I got 100 bulbs of garlic, 20 potatoes, 12 garlic, dill, and 4 inch pickling cucumbers as I have a good recipe for pickles if wanted as well and I'm going to try to can that hot sauce and salsa. And maybe some spaghetti sauce if I can find a recipe. I have 6 of those pickling plants. I have 8 each of leaf lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower. I forgot about the canning recipe I have for pickled cauliflower onion, and peppers, mmm I can taste it :-)
Got a couple varieties of peas in there and 12 regular cucumber slicers and burp less that I hope yield plenty to donate as well. 6 zuchini. I think I got everything in that plot lol
I have 2 5x5 sections I used to try for the 3 sister garden. I got the corn started and got it up 6 inches , I planted those in 5 foot rows, 1 foot apart, 1 foot between rows. In the center and edges I planted various melons between, cantelouoe, cucumber (though I believe isn't a melon but basically the same.... Watermelon. I let them come up a few weeks then I planted some kind of pole bean that grows purple, greean and blue beans. These will grow up each of the 25 corn stocks in each of the 2 plots for 50 stocks of corn, 50 pole beans and 6 water melon, 6 more cucumber, 6 cantelouoe, yellow and summer squash. These plots I predict will be beautiful and once the beans start to climb the corn I'll post pics. Oh, don't forget about the huge 1 pumpkin I planted just for my niece and nephew that is literally growing a foot a week, no joke! I think that's all of it lol. Oh nope 1 more! I had an extra cherry tomato plant. Me and my nephew were watching morning cartoons and the topsy turvy upside down tomato plant commercial come on just after he finished pouring the last of my milk in a glass and he was walking over to toss the jug and I said hey wait a minute, I got some potting soil, you up for a little project? I get the milk carton, a coat hanger and a splonge and we move out to the shed where the potting soil was. I cut a side door out of the upside down top to pour soil in and to water in the future... I poked 2 holes in the side to run the coat hanger through to hang it. I poke 4 holes on each quarter at the bottom spout where the milk would have poured from, I poked the holes so access moisture could drop out. I cut a slit down the center of the sponge and wet it, put the plant through the spout and with my hand on the wet sponge, I put it around the stem and sealed the sponge and forced it in the hole getting the stem in perfect center. I hold it in place as my 9 year old nephew adds potting soil and I pack it tight every 3-4 scoops, he gets it to the bottom of the access hole I cut and I pull the stem to check if it was holding ok and it worked, we watered it and hung it up. This was a solid yellow milk jug so if you want to make one, just make sure it's clear, we don't have any tomatos on it yet put there are flowers on it and it's working beautifully :-). Was a nice project and all should try it :-). Sorry about the novel! :-)ImageUploadedByTapatalk1340770865.212842.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1340770920.876323.jpg

[Mojave]

Well it was a good novel anyway! Good gardening and keep us updated Dan!