Leaping Dachshund Farms CFO - Page 3

peebee · July 12, 2016

They sorta look like Blush, in reverse--blush is golden with red stripes. It also has a droopy growth habit, w/ wispy leaves. I love them, as do all my neighbors.
I have a couple of 10 gal. grow bags but this year just for fun I have 4 tomatoes in random fabric shopping bags (Sprouts, Walmart, Whole Foods) in a kiddie pool that I half fill maybe once a week. Also have a few bags with Japanese eggplants. But they can't compare to the eggplants I have in an Earthbox. I think I will buy at least one more next time there is a sale.

I'm amazed you can still grow lettuce in the summer. I live a few miles from you but it's too hot by end of spring, and I don't have much shade in my garden. Maybe I'll try them in a grow bag next year, I have enough room for that.

pixlpush · July 12, 2016

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Originally Posted by peebee

I'm amazed you can still grow lettuce in the summer. I live a few miles from you but it's too hot by end of spring, and I don't have much shade in my garden. Maybe I'll try them in a grow bag next year, I have enough room for that.

Right now it's topping out at about 75 degrees at my place and I'm still getting some morning and evening fog. We're about 1/4 mile from the ocean. Probably getting near the end of lettuce season for me too but I'm going to do a second planting.

I'm growing the lettuce in GardenSoxx in an area with some shade. The Soxx are basically 8" in diameter sausages of soil. A friend of mine turned me on to them a few years ago and they work great in my small space. I built two tables that are on casters with heavy gauge hardware cloth as the table top. I put the gardenSoxx on those in rows with 1/4" weeping irigation hose run through them. I'm growing lettuce, strawberries, snap peas and butter beans in the Soxx. The GardenSoxx material is way too expensive but it's a good solution for my tiny grow area. I'll dig out some photo's of my elevated gardenSoxx tables. Here's their website if your interested:
GardenSoxx

I've also got a small self watering bucket garden based on the Alaska Grow Bucket systems. I've only got three plants in buckets but it works great. Basically you grow in shopping bags (like the ones you've got in the pool) that are in 5 gallon buckets drilled full of holes with a self watering setup. here's the Alaska Grow Bucket site, really great setup and really easy to replant compared to the soxx.
Alaska Grow Buckets

I've added some photo's to this one, first up is my rolling GardenSoxx tables and the next batch is my rolling Alaskan Grow Bucket planter.

MajorTom · July 14, 2016

pixlpush: Wow! Gorgeous boxes! Nice work!

Worth1 · July 14, 2016

Nice work but where is Tim?
Love the dog pictures.

Worth

peebee · July 15, 2016

Wow I can see that you are handy with the tools, beautiful set up! Thanks for the Alaskan bucket link, I started looking at the next video, and the next one...you know how that goes. I must've lost myself in them for an hour at least before I came back here.
Hey Yeah, like Worth says, where's Tim? I'm telling you, every time you post a pic he has to be in there somewhere. He's your model.

pixlpush · July 15, 2016

Tim gets bored easily and finds all this talk about how the tomatoes are grown and in what fancy contraption a snore. Who wants to play ball?

pixlpush · July 17, 2016

Yeah!!! our first weekend take. Tim is thrilled!

Worth1 · July 17, 2016

Sweet puppy.

Worth

jhp · July 17, 2016

Very cool! Love it! Thanks for posting.

Jen

peebee · July 18, 2016

Does Tim like tomatoes?

pixlpush · July 18, 2016

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Originally Posted by peebee

Does Tim like tomatoes?

I give him some of the ends of the small ones when I cut them up and he seems to like that. He's food obsessed though so anything that goes in his bowl goes in him.

pixlpush · July 21, 2016

6 pounds of assorted goodness this morning, things are finally rollin' in.

Randall · July 21, 2016

All looks amazing!

peebee · July 22, 2016

Pixl, where did you get those nice containers that are on the bottom of your grow bags? My bags are either in a kiddie pool or in random plastic containers but they are ugly.
Nice harvest you got there, finally! I know you are in heaven now.
Yeah, doxies are definitely not picky eaters. I fed mine some fresh cucumber slices today at work but the other dogs there, labs and a shepard, all eagerly put them in their mouths and immediately spit them out. Jazzy was busy underfoot, eating up all their rejects.

pixlpush · July 22, 2016

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Originally Posted by peebee

Pixl, where did you get those nice containers that are on the bottom of your grow bags? My bags are either in a kiddie pool or in random plastic containers but they are ugly.

they're called tubtrugs. They have all different sizes but the 9 gallon short ones work great for 15 gallon grow bags. I got mine on Amazon, they're out of the black ones at the moment. https://amzn.com/B000UJWNZG

July 12, 2016	#31
peebee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Southern CA Posts: 1,714	They sorta look like Blush, in reverse--blush is golden with red stripes. It also has a droopy growth habit, w/ wispy leaves. I love them, as do all my neighbors. I have a couple of 10 gal. grow bags but this year just for fun I have 4 tomatoes in random fabric shopping bags (Sprouts, Walmart, Whole Foods) in a kiddie pool that I half fill maybe once a week. Also have a few bags with Japanese eggplants. But they can't compare to the eggplants I have in an Earthbox. I think I will buy at least one more next time there is a sale. I'm amazed you can still grow lettuce in the summer. I live a few miles from you but it's too hot by end of spring, and I don't have much shade in my garden. Maybe I'll try them in a grow bag next year, I have enough room for that.

July 14, 2016	#33
MajorTom Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Missouri Posts: 35	pixlpush: Wow! Gorgeous boxes! Nice work!

July 14, 2016	#34
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Nice work but where is Tim? Love the dog pictures. Worth

July 15, 2016	#35
peebee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Southern CA Posts: 1,714	Wow I can see that you are handy with the tools, beautiful set up! Thanks for the Alaskan bucket link, I started looking at the next video, and the next one...you know how that goes. I must've lost myself in them for an hour at least before I came back here. Hey Yeah, like Worth says, where's Tim? I'm telling you, every time you post a pic he has to be in there somewhere. He's your model.

July 17, 2016	#38
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Sweet puppy. Worth

July 17, 2016	#39
jhp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Danbury, CT Posts: 492	Very cool! Love it! Thanks for posting. Jen

July 18, 2016	#40
peebee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Southern CA Posts: 1,714	Does Tim like tomatoes?

July 21, 2016	#43
Randall Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: 6a Posts: 396	All looks amazing!

July 22, 2016	#44
peebee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Southern CA Posts: 1,714	Pixl, where did you get those nice containers that are on the bottom of your grow bags? My bags are either in a kiddie pool or in random plastic containers but they are ugly. Nice harvest you got there, finally! I know you are in heaven now. Yeah, doxies are definitely not picky eaters. I fed mine some fresh cucumber slices today at work but the other dogs there, labs and a shepard, all eagerly put them in their mouths and immediately spit them out. Jazzy was busy underfoot, eating up all their rejects.