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Post by restless on Jul 18, 2015 8:18:08 GMT -5
Octave, I am with you on the needing to grow fewer plants. I put so many in the garden that some needed to be removed after a month so a jungle didn't occur.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2015 8:27:22 GMT -5
I promise not to overrun the garden with vines. Having said that last year, this year I only planted one variety of winter squash, 2 Midget melons, bush zucchini and 8 bushy cucumber plants. I was pretty proud of myself. However, Vines love rain and rain we've got...
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Post by desertwoman on Jul 18, 2015 8:42:53 GMT -5
I did good, laying around and recuperating. In the mean time, the gardens are out of control, jungles of beans, tomatoes and chiles not growing as well as usual, and weeds out of control due to more rain then we've had in 4 years.
So it is. There's next year....
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Post by ahntjudy on Jul 18, 2015 8:47:27 GMT -5
Overplanted...but that's nothing new here...gets jungley but it works out...
Kind of neglected the bush green beans so far...maybe it's due to all the rain, but the plants are enormous this year and sending out more 'runners' than I have ever had...especially this early... They have sprawled over their low fencing into the walking paths...spent time yesterday carefully manipulating them back under control... Would have been easier if I had kept at it before they got so big...
That's a 'next year, do it better'...
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 18, 2015 8:49:19 GMT -5
I have resorted to using my tarps and fabric cloth for ground control with all the rain we have had since beginning of June. More expected today but I am putting in some fall veggies so the rain has to wait till I am done with that. (In my head I hear....It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!) Those would be rutabaga, parsnips and brussels sprouts so far. Will add a picture after I post this you will see! This is the rutabaga I just planted with tarp between them and potatoes This is a floor mat I didn't like in my house...too hard to keep clean 3 tarps around my squashes and melons
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Post by datgirl on Jul 18, 2015 9:06:10 GMT -5
I just came in from the garden and had to add another one for next year. Plant markers. This year I think a few got planted with the plant. I used old mini blinds cut up. So far most of the names have faded to the point I can't read the names. The ones I could read I rewrote. I guess some of the tomatoes will be a surprise. I'll do better next year.
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Post by desertwoman on Jul 18, 2015 9:47:44 GMT -5
I place my plant makers facing north. It keeps direct sun off of them and the fading is minimized
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 18, 2015 10:07:54 GMT -5
I don't use plant markers though I should when it comes to the different squashes/pumpkins I grow. I have learned what I used to but then when I am shaping my garden as to what goes where I know where the bush things are as to the vine type things to the rows. And I know what variety of what I am growing so most the time I don't need the markers.
The only time I use markers is for the seedlings which I have a way of making mistakes there!! I found that I mixed the cabbages with my broccoli so I don't have as many broccoli plants this year as I usually do because I mismarked the seedlings. There are cabbages growing in my broccoli row...hhmmphh!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2015 10:14:57 GMT -5
I mixed the cabbages with my broccoli so I don't have as many broccoli plants this year as I usually do because I mismarked the seedlings. There are cabbages growing in my broccoli row...hhmmphh! Lilolpeapicker, I'm so happy to hear that I'm not the only one who mixes things up. I've had a terrible time this year with plants. I had wanted to put zucchini in one area and the winter squash in another. And the midget melons apart from the cucumbers. Not paying attention to what I was doing, I mixed and matched so that I have one cucumber with the melons, and one zucchini in with the winter squash as well as a winter squash in with the other zucchinis. This of course, has complicated matters further with the vines overtaking the garden.
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Post by tbird on Jul 18, 2015 10:49:02 GMT -5
Lol! lilolpeapicker and @bluelacedredhead! I usually start out with carefully labeled seedlings and such and end up with the "mystery garden"... think I'm doing a bit better this year, mainly because I did less variety and more of the same plants and just remember where I put things.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2015 11:10:03 GMT -5
Congrats on this year's successes TBird
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Post by datgirl on Jul 18, 2015 11:40:17 GMT -5
What I thought was a zucchini, is now vining and showing small round fruit. Definitely not a zucchini.
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Post by tbird on Jul 18, 2015 11:43:07 GMT -5
What I thought was a zucchini, is now vining and showing small round fruit. Definitely not a zucchini. was it seed out of a packet? do you think some kind of mellon - or - some bastard squash of uncertain paternity?
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Post by datgirl on Jul 18, 2015 11:47:20 GMT -5
It came from an open package, but I have a habit of spilling the packets then putting what I think are all the same seed back in the packet. I wonder if there was a squash or cantaloupe seed around that got mixed in. Oh well no zucchini for me this year. Maybe I'll just throw in another seed somewhere and hope.
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Post by tbird on Jul 18, 2015 11:50:39 GMT -5
but I have a habit of spilling the packets then putting what I think are all the same seed back in the packet. me too! but - I don't put them back, I have some seeds on the bottom of the box and sometimes I will plant them for a surprise....generally - of course you can tell what family it is from. at least you can be fairly sure it will be edible! good luck!
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