Finally got the greenhouse buttoned up and moved the first round of starters in
Growing anything other than weed?
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Finally got the greenhouse buttoned up and moved the first round of starters in
Dis
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Looking good!
Fluffy Butt
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This spring I ordered some vines I've been curious about for a while now. Here they are next to my Triskits;
Blue tape = Actinidia kolomikta, the arctic beauty kiwi. This one is a "Pasha" male.
Red tape = Actinidia kolomikta, also an arctic beauty. This one's a female, "September Sun" variety.
Orange tape = Schisandra Chinensis, also known as the climbing magnolia. This one's an "Eastern Prince" variety.
My goal will be to keep them alive until I can attempt to take cuttings from them. After that I hope to one day get them to fruit, though it seems like that may be a challenge in a zone 4 climate. As you can see from the picture, they already got hit hard by a late frost. They all lost all their leaves, and I wrote them off as dead. Now all three are showing signs of recovery!
Blue tape = Actinidia kolomikta, the arctic beauty kiwi. This one is a "Pasha" male.
Red tape = Actinidia kolomikta, also an arctic beauty. This one's a female, "September Sun" variety.
Orange tape = Schisandra Chinensis, also known as the climbing magnolia. This one's an "Eastern Prince" variety.
My goal will be to keep them alive until I can attempt to take cuttings from them. After that I hope to one day get them to fruit, though it seems like that may be a challenge in a zone 4 climate. As you can see from the picture, they already got hit hard by a late frost. They all lost all their leaves, and I wrote them off as dead. Now all three are showing signs of recovery!
Didn't plant as much as usual this year but it's kind of nice. Lot less crowded.
Tomatoes..
Hot Peppers...
Garlic patch... (with a few stray horseradish plants. We tilled it into the garden one year, now they just pop up randomly lol)
Not plants but these chicks are sure growing... almost time to join the main flock!
Tomatoes..
Hot Peppers...
Garlic patch... (with a few stray horseradish plants. We tilled it into the garden one year, now they just pop up randomly lol)
Not plants but these chicks are sure growing... almost time to join the main flock!
Dis
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Looks great!
trichomepony
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My kind of post. 3 types of tomatoes, 4 types of cucumbers, kale, romaine, buttercrunch, black seeded simpson, okra, 3 types of corn, basil, parsley, cilantro, dill, cauliflower, broccoli, cantaloupe, strawberry crown squash, strawberries.
And weed.
And weed.
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TreeFarmerCharlie
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Here's my garden this year. First time doing raised beds so I've been pretty anal with the beds.
Closest bed has cucumbers, red onions, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, and beef steak tomatoes
Bed to the right of that has beets, carrot, and peppers
Middle left bed has romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, and cabbage
Middle right has eggplant and green beans
Rear left has zucchini
Rear right has yellow squash
Closest bed has cucumbers, red onions, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, and beef steak tomatoes
Bed to the right of that has beets, carrot, and peppers
Middle left bed has romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, and cabbage
Middle right has eggplant and green beans
Rear left has zucchini
Rear right has yellow squash
Manidoo
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There's a valid reason why I coined the Collective I founded Growzitall...
We all grow medicine, food and more..
Myself I prefer capturing photos of flowers I grow more than anything else because they are the spirit of the plant expressing itself.
Here's a glimpse of some flowers and Rhubarb planted in a ten gallon squat of self sustaining living soil at the 5 year marker as well as Beebalm and Prairie Sage..
We all grow medicine, food and more..
Myself I prefer capturing photos of flowers I grow more than anything else because they are the spirit of the plant expressing itself.
Here's a glimpse of some flowers and Rhubarb planted in a ten gallon squat of self sustaining living soil at the 5 year marker as well as Beebalm and Prairie Sage..
Manidoo
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Within the Collective we have members with fields, gardens and greenhouse's, so between us all we can really growitall.. I will post some pictures of my other crops soon, but for now they're just starting late this year getting hardend off two weeks later than usual like these seedlings
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Collards, watermelons, muskmelons , asparagus, starberries , pumpkin , sandwich like beef tomato’s , salad aka cherries & sauce tomatoes , sweet and hot peppers , onions , okra , eggplants , cucumber , greenbeans, snow peas , Bok choy , cilantro, spinach & spinach
prolly missing a few things, pictures coming soon
prolly missing a few things, pictures coming soon
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Yessss! Your a bit ahead of me, mine just started appearing, not quite ready to cut. I'm excited though, love scape seasonView attachment 70024 View attachment 70025 View attachment 70026 Garlic scapes are coming in.............
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Manidoo
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I don't give the starts any pampering, but I have a theory and I have learned that the plants when stressed early in come back stronger than those pampered once the weather patterns get extreme.
2 weeks in the 10 gallon squats and they're off. I don't like determinate types in general besides the rare ones. Same thing with the Star Plants, nothing like growing a plant for months and months just to see it stall in growth and never stretch. But hey those have a place in the world of course and they fit perfectly in many places and situations like the determinate tomato.
2 weeks in the 10 gallon squats and they're off. I don't like determinate types in general besides the rare ones. Same thing with the Star Plants, nothing like growing a plant for months and months just to see it stall in growth and never stretch. But hey those have a place in the world of course and they fit perfectly in many places and situations like the determinate tomato.
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Manidoo
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2021 is definitely shaping up to be a challenging one so far. Heat extremes and drought in the West and North West. Droughts across the country and the extreme of summer has yet to arrive full force.
With the torrential rain across Michigan we are soaked and the insects are now spreading out and laying eggs in masses while the fungi sets into the crops unprotected. I hang out with the farmer's at the co-op and I am all ears when they talk about it all. Drought damage had been bad here too.
Cucumbers are finally rooting and now comes those obnoxious cucumber beetles. It really pays to scout daily and scout harder each day into the harvest.
With the torrential rain across Michigan we are soaked and the insects are now spreading out and laying eggs in masses while the fungi sets into the crops unprotected. I hang out with the farmer's at the co-op and I am all ears when they talk about it all. Drought damage had been bad here too.
Cucumbers are finally rooting and now comes those obnoxious cucumber beetles. It really pays to scout daily and scout harder each day into the harvest.
I blinked and the kale and chard exploded!
And we have some tomatoes getting going! I think this is the earliest my plums have ever come in
Manidoo
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First it was my Old Red Family Pitbull digging in the dirt pulling up the starts during the drought. Then a week of hand combat with the Striped Cucumber Beetles and now excessive rain and cold weather.
So far so what , is my attitude. Should be eating cucumbers in a few weeks one way or another ?
So far so what , is my attitude. Should be eating cucumbers in a few weeks one way or another ?
