Gardens

Bagt said:
Man no one grows okra any more I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned in this whole thread or I missed it one
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i usually grow okra every year got plants from lowes last year. but that stuff grows grazy one morning the okra will be to little to pick and the next is 6" long.
 
No Garden this year. decided my little lot was to small for a small garden with two dogs now running wild.
dont have the time to turn the ground at some families property this spring, its a shame i worked a deal with one of our cabinet makers for all heirloom seeds of just about anything you could want. hopefully next year we will get everything started and have a "family" garden that should feed us, my parents, my girlfriends parents, and our grandparents and some friends.
 
Back before we moved into an HOA :rolleyes: I had one every year. Had one growing up as well. It was about 1/2 acre, and I HATED snapping beans :kaioken:

Will have one next year when we're out of the HOA

My biggest question NOW is, where do you all get seeds now?

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CasterTroy said:
Back before we moved into an HOA :rolleyes: I had one every year. Had one growing up as well. It was about 1/2 acre, and I HATED snapping beans :kaioken:

Will have one next year when we're out of the HOA

My biggest question NOW is, where do you all get seeds now?

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I can get you all the seeds ya gonna need brother. Remember the wife works at the garden center at the farmers market.
 
When I lived with my old man after moving down from VA in 2006 I used to do a pretty big garden each year (probably about an acre or so). We'd do corn, squash, zucchini, jalapenos, hot banana peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes (typically cherries, beefsteak, and german johnsons), okra, green beans (if the damn rabbits and deer let them get out of the ground), watermelons, cantaloupe and typically some mammoth sunflowers simply b/c my girlfriend at the time (wife now) loves them. Since we've lived in Charlotte we've tried to do some stuff here and there and have marginal luck. We just live in an older neighborhood with a lot of old, large oaks so it doesn't get enough sunlight.

Below is a haul from one morning I went out and picked...this is a fairly large pick, but I'd typically have this (or slightly less) about every day or two in the prime of things. We'd eat and can a lot of it but I ended up giving a shit ton of it away too...I just enjoy watching the stuff grow. I've got a few other pictures somewhere...I'll try to find them and post up.

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CasterTroy said:
Had one growing up as well. It was about 1/2 acre, and I HATED snapping beans :kaioken:
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This sounds JUST like my dad. My grandparents grew a lot of green beans and I can't tell you how many times I've heard him talk about it and the fact that he'll never snap another bean in his life!

CasterTroy said:
My biggest question NOW is, where do you all get seeds now?
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It's a little more expensive (but really not much at all and IMO totally worth it), but I've always had really good luck just buying the baby plants from Hills in Thomasville. Absolutely love that place and one of the things my wife and I are very much looking forward to once we get moved back up there.
 
On my side of town we have both a Tractor Supply and Lowe's almost right across the street from one another. The TSC is a new location still trying to come up so they're trying to outdo the Lowes. It works out great for anyone like me browsing through their seed/plant selection. I'll do a quick browse through and go tell the manager that the competitors stuff looked healthier and watered better. You wanna see some employees take off running full speed fighting over a water hose?
Try it sometime. :lol:
 
I have a 2’x6’ raised bed beside my shop door. Cherry tomatoes and beefsteak. Cherries are closest to the door. Great shop snack.
 
We always have one. Tomatoes, green beans, bell peppers, banana pepper, jalapeño, onions, zucinni, cucumbers and corn. Last couple of years the corn has been terrible for some reason. We put up (can) tomato juice, green beans, relish, pickles to carry us over to the next year. Have had no luck with water melon.
 
Being able to get off work every day, walk through the garden and pick 5 to 10 vegetables to throw together to make a salad to go with dinner every night is really paying off. My next door neighbor is loving it too and recently we've been doing a lot of trading back and forth, this for that. Her garden is nearly as large as mine.
I love some leafy greens. Can't wait for potatoes and onions! I've also got seven different types of peppers they're almost ready to start picking.
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Not really a garden but I got a little sunflower plot set up. Didnt take any pics after I rowed and planted but I think it turned out pretty good. Hopefully the critters like it.
 
XJsavage said:
Being able to get off work every day, walk through the garden and pick 5 to 10 vegetables to throw together to make a salad to go with dinner every night is really paying off. My next door neighbor is loving it too and recently we've been doing a lot of trading back and forth, this for that. Her garden is nearly as large as mine.
I love some leafy greens. Can't wait for potatoes and onions! I've also got seven different types of peppers they're almost ready to start picking.
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Damn your already picking stuff and o haven’t even got my plants in the ground. Couple thousand feet in elevation make a big difference


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I haven't had a garden for about 3 years due to knee surgeries but I got started a little late this year and the wet weather hampered me some so no taters or onions! I decided to try something different and planted rye grass in the open areas to reduce weeding. It's a lush green carpet now! As it grows I'll trample it down and knock it over. As the heat comes on it will burn out and will be a mulch that will smother out weeds. I have 6 rows of supersweet corn, maters,, peppers, squash and zucchini, and cukes.
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I tried a few varieties of tomatoes this year that I've never tried before. Cherokee purple, Chocolate sprinkles, Patio and Pink Brandywine are all bearing fruit. It's about to be a tomater ho-down.
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obullfish said:
Cherokee purple is my mater of choice.
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I've been babying this thing since March. I wish I had grown more than one plant but this is just a trial run.
 
rattlecanpaint said:
My Dad is an avid gardener. He always has 10x what they can eat and can so he gives most of it away.
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This is one of the reasons why we don't garden.Every bodies stuff will come in around the same (give or take a couple of weeks) and their is usually a glut of tomatoes,cucmubers,corn and green beans that folks are giving away or can be hard at the farmers market for cheap.I get and understand the feeling of having grown your own food and the need to teach your kids where it comes from and how its grown but from a dollars and cents standpoint it doesn't make much sense to me.Even if your canning,and without doin the math,it looks like it would be cheaper to buy from the farmers market than grow your own.
 
Cucumbers getting rowdy.
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