Huerto Urbano Tijuanense 2016

[Gerardo]

Uluru Ochre was good.
Choc Lightning not so good.
Secret Sauce I concur with said statement.

[PureHarvest]

Looking good!

So it's not just my photos turning 90 degrees in the wrong direction.
Anyone know what's up?

When I posted from my pc they were fine.
On an iPhone the are turned sideways.
I resized them on my pc to 640x480 but they turned just like the last few of Gerardo's

[Gerardo]

Some progress today.

Set up another RGGS tube, this one with 12 slots. It will be used for corn. I was able to line up six 30-gallon rootpots (each one has two net pots underneath).

To fill each one of those rootpots I had to screen and refresh soil/ 1 rootpot = one wheelbarrow. They got the usual sheep manure:tobacco, worm castings, crab meal, alfalfa meal and more perlite.

Plus I moved my 45 gallon rootpot full of carrots, all by my lonesome, a true test of ingenuity and leverage.

Tomorrow I create another two tubes, although those will be easier since I only have to fill up 5 gallon containers, about 20 of them. It will be a breeze compared to today. Feel like I've earned my supper.

Gonna watch The Wire and call it a night.

[Gerardo]

Gribovsky is a cool little plant. This is how they started; gave one away, kept the other. They are off-center from the diagonal trench planting.

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And today. Plenty more flowers above the frame.

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Pink and Sunrise BB jungle, need to get in there and clip. Even with rains, no fungi thus far.

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BHN-871.

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Rebelski, next clusters are about 6 flowers.

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Rebelski is the first one.

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Lots of Mokums in a 45 gal home, good eatin'. The snow is citrus blooms.

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Alfalfa-compost tea for tomorrow, 7 gal batch

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Plants chuggin' along

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Future corn field. Ambrosia in the first and last, plus Luscious, Sugar Baby, Buttergold. All se or se+. Planted in aprox. 12 in square pattern. Rootpots are 30 gallon, holding up well for season 2.
Mix is recycled tomato and pepper, recharged with sheep manure:tobacco, alfalfa + crab meal, perlite, peat moss, and some bark fines. When they start showing themselves I'll go heavy with the fish emulsion and establish a high N fertilizer strip.
Next tubes are for cukes and tomatoes. Will probably end up with 7 or 8 tubes. Plus another DIY involving a recycled weight bench and some vinyl posts that'll mimic Aeroflo, destined for hanging basket types and multifloras, dwarfs, and probably cukes too. Gracias C-R.

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These two products make a great foliar combo, I bought the Sea Green, the Floralicious was a sample. 0.5 to 1 ml per Gallon. Syringe is key for the SG, Flora has a decent dropper-top.

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Starting watermelons for the beach garden this weekend.

[imp]

I am enjoying watching your garden and how you have made the watering systems. Great work and lovely pictures.

[Gerardo]

Thanks! Water bill has gone down significantly, and the plants are happy. Coming up in the next few weeks, a DIY Aero system.

[jpop]

Everything looks great Gerardo

[luigiwu]

Hey Gerardo, thanks so much for sending the bean seeds! And I'm SOO happy to meet another RGGS gardener!!

[Deborah]

Yep, you've definitely earned your supper!

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by jpop

Everything looks great Gerardo

Originally Posted by luigiwu

Hey Gerardo, thanks so much for sending the bean seeds! And I'm SOO happy to meet another RGGS gardener!!

Originally Posted by Deborah

Yep, you've definitely earned your supper!

Thanks jpop.

Hope they do great for you luigiwu. After seeing your results I drank the kool aid too. Real easy once the setup is done.

More tomorrow Deb!

[Gerardo]

Filled up 40 containers yesterday, from 5 gallon to 7 gallon.

This lot is ready to be potted up, they've been sideways for 24 hrs now.

• Stump of the World, 3 plants
• Terhune, 1
• Orange Jazz, 2
• Wherokowhai, 1
• Uluru Ochre, 2
• Croatian Brandywine, 3
• Larisa, 3
• Fresa, 1
• Darocense Corporalis, 2
• Zamorano, 2
• Bwine Cowlick's, 2

Following closely on their heels, the next lot is populated by:

• Marbonne, 3 plants
• Rebelski, 2
• Faworyt, 2
• Everett's Rusty Oxheart, 3
• Big Cheef, 3
• Tarasenko-6, 2
• Jackass Yellow, 2
• Taxi, 2
• Copper River, 3
• Rebel Yell, 3
• GJ-Benton, 3
• Russian Soul, 3
• Pruden's Purple, 1
• Mazarini, 1
• Cosm Volkov, 2
• Anna Maria's H, 2
• Sungold, 2

And I have another wave of 40 varieties (many many hearts, a few hybrids, and the 2nd shot on some important stragglers, such as GGWT, D Pink Passion, Roteño Andalucia, Morado ambite, Bear Creek, Brad's Black H) soaking before I sow them. Once they hit the 48 hr mark I'll place them in the mix. Lots of these will be replacements-companions for the above, given away and/or sold.

This year there will be one inviolable rule: no fruit set by 3rd cluster = fall on their sword.

Excited over the prospect of tasting some big names.

Sunday visit to the hydro store to procure some fittings and get free worm tea, after that, transplant time.

[Gerardo]

Setting up a 100 gal rootpot at beach garden #2 (my bro's place) for a lettuce, kale and spinach trial. I'm hoping on a cool may-june at the beach. They have a weird micro-climate, gray and cool 'til about 1 pm, and then intense sun both from the top and the somewhat polarized rays reflected on the ocean.

I'm sure we'll find a few good ones for a more successful sowing come fall-winter time.
Thank you all for the kale!
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[Deborah]

OK, now you're earning dessert!

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Gerardo

Filled up 40 containers yesterday, from 5 gallon to 7 gallon.

This lot is ready to be potted up, they've been sideways for 24 hrs now.

• Stump of the World, 3 plants
• Terhune, 1
• Orange Jazz, 2
• Wherokowhai, 1
• Uluru Ochre, 2
• Croatian Brandywine, 3
• Larisa, 3
• Fresa, 1
• Darocense Corporalis, 2
• Zamorano, 2

Following closely on their heels, the next lot is populated by:

• Marbonne, 3 plants
• Rebelski, 2
• Faworyt, 2
• Everett's Rusty Oxheart, 3
• Big Cheef, 3
• Tarasenko-6, 2
• Jackass Yellow, 2
• Taxi, 2
• Copper River, 3
• Rebel Yell, 3
• GJ-Benton, 3
• Russian Soul, 3
• Pruden's Purple, 1
• Mazarini, 1
• Cosm Volkov, 2
• Anna Maria's H, 2
• Sungold, 2

And I have another wave of 40 varieties (many many hearts, a few hybrids, and the 2nd shot on some important stragglers, such as GGWT, D Pink Passion, Roteño Andalucia, Morado ambite, Bear Creek, Brad's Black H) soaking before I sow them. Once they hit the 48 hr mark I'll place them in the mix. Lots of these will be replacements-companions for the above, given away and/or sold.

This year there will be one inviolable rule: no fruit set by 3rd cluster = fall on their sword.

Excited over the prospect of tasting some big names.

Sunday visit to the hydro store to procure some fittings and get free worm tea, after that, transplant time.

I'll be waiting for your pictures since I have seeds for

Fresa,know what that one is already
Zamorano
I know it as Favorite
Roteno Andalucia,don't know how to do the tilda
Morado De Fitero
Morado De Alcaniz, but not your ambite, wonder what the differences might be between the 3,maybe just geographic location and all are the same,ala Costolutos?

Brandywine from Croatia? Opinions vary on true origin,that is,could be any of the so called strains of Brandywine.

About the sword.Just one sword used to behead all victims or facing death and to be more compassionate one sword beheading for each victim?

So I'll keep my eyes out,as it were, to see what some of the fruits /plants should look like since most of the above go out for seed production this summer,if I ever get to it, let alone getting my seed offer up.

Carolyn

[Gerardo]

Dessert was in the form of Olympic Cafe. Oh yeah.

Originally Posted by Deborah

OK, now you're earning dessert!

Originally Posted by carolyn137

I'll be waiting for your pictures since I have seeds for

Fresa,know what that one is already
Zamorano
I know it as Favorite
Roteno Andalucia,don't know how to do the tilda
Morado De Fitero
Morado De Alcaniz, but not your ambite, wonder what the differences might be between the 3,maybe just geographic location and all are the same,ala Costolutos?

Brandywine from Croatia? Opinions vary on true origin,that is,could be any of the so called strains of Brandywine.

About the sword.Just one sword used to behead all victims or facing death and to be more compassionate one sword beheading for each victim?

So I'll keep my eyes out,as it were, to see what some of the fruits /plants should look like since most of the above go out for seed production this summer,if I ever get to it, let alone getting my seed offer up.

Carolyn

I'll do the recon work with joy. And if you have some interesting and tasty De Colgar I'd gladly do production for a few, or those other Morados you mentioned.
You can consider the ones I've already listed as part of my seed production batch.

Like all good soldiers, they should fall on their own gladius. Roman style or Sepuku, their choice. Ascending or descending aorta, long or short.

And I hear you on the Croatian Brandywine, I was just curious.