What's growing? The garden thread.
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I considered a dog somehow and a kennel makes sense. We actually feed cats daily around our machinery storage buildings to keep rodents out of the machinery. Mice are attracted to the plastic coated electric wiring and the cats do a good job of eliminating the mice.
Lead poisoning.
If you don't let other animals near the garden
Golden Maldrin and coke mixed together used to work but I was told they changed something so it is no longer effective.
Years ago a guy I knew put pans of anti freeze with sugar in it in his sweet corn patch. Raccons never got 5 foot away from the pan. Place smell horrible for the longest time. He must have cleaned house on the raccoon. Guy told us we could go out and get sweet corn if we wanted it. I passed on it before I passed out from the stench!
Great advice about weed control. Common Purslane is my worst weed. I've found that I need to cut/pull AND remove these or they'll often re-root. I've also noticed they will flower and produce seed without being rooted and they average 50,000 seeds per weed!
Did you get a good spinach stand? My Fall garden is looking pretty good except for my spinach. I remember reading spinach germ is only about 25% in soil above 72*.
I weeded out purslane everywhere but wildflower garden. Early on, it was lush there. It’s supposed to retain soil moisture so I left it until the flower seeds came up. I was planning to harvest and eat it as it is supposed to be super healthy and I thought I could throw it in a salad. However, husband probably overseeded the wildflowers. They got huge quickly and appear to have killed the purslane before I harvested much. Somehow it tasted kind of salty.
I have been gardening for many years, but not so much with fall gardening. Seems farming harvest (earning a living) interfered with gardening (hobby). I was not aware of the ground temp interference on spinach germ. And no, I didn't get a good stand. I was eliminating some purslane last evening and stuck a soil temp probe in the ground while doing so, The 2 inch soil depth temp exceeded 80 degrees at 6:30--likely higher at planting depth especially earlier in the afternoon. I must have been fortunate with prior attempts. Since our cool down is not imminent my next plan will be to start some indoors in some 72 hole flats and transplant the established "plugs" at a later date. Probably pushing the planting window for my area for an optimum fall harvest and hoping they make it through the winter.. Just hoping it's not an exercise in futility. Will be interested to see if more of my first planting will germ when the soil cools down or if the seeds will have rotted in the ground by then. Does the heat kill the germination or just delay it?
Can't answer that, but I imagine the seed hasn't enough vigor to germinate properly and dies.
See if this link works for you...
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GERMINATION CHART PERCENTAGE OF NORMAL VEGETABLE SEEDLINGS PRODUCED AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES
Not the best year for a Fall garden but I harvested some spinach, arugula, radishes and lettuce Saturday...
.25" of rain yesterday settled the dust. It was the first rain we've had here in September.
I planted some more seeds yesterday that I found on sale at ACE. We are about the same Latitude as Ames...
.25" of rain yesterday settled the dust. It was the first rain we've had here in September.
I planted some more seeds yesterday that I found on sale at ACE. We are about the same Latitude as Ames...
Big garden I'm guessing you do either farmers market or the farm share box type thing? Do you run drip lines?Not the best year for a Fall garden but I harvested some spinach, arugula, radishes and lettuce Saturday...
.25" of rain yesterday settled the dust. It was the first rain we've had here in September.
I planted some more seeds yesterday that I found on sale at ACE. We are about the same Latitude as Ames...
Just a serious home gardener but we have sold sweet corn for years but both kids in college now so this may be the last year for that. We use much of what we grow and give/donate/pitch surplus. Soaker hoses and sprinklers cans on veggies, impulse sprinklers on our corn, but most years Mother Nature provides most of our water needs.
Everyone is excited about our last corn patch...
Everyone is excited about our last corn patch...
What’s growing?, only the Spinach is left. I canned 18 pints of carrots and fridged some larger ones for roasting. Filled all our tomato needs and gave away seven or eight 5-gallon buckets of them plus what was consumed/gifted during the season. Also gathered around 150 green/slightly turning tomatoes prior to our killing frost a couple days ago so will have BLT’s for a month or more. Excess will be juiced before they expire
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It's raining in Madison! I hope the birds didn't get all my cover crop seeds!
In my first year of trying to grow vegetables, I learned exactly why more people don't have a garden. Hat's off to you experts, though!
Raining here also our first measurable since August 28. Built my Compost rows Yesterday to plant next springs potatoes in. Should be able to plant in any soil conditions because I won’t have to till As I plant directly into the compost. Still enjoying tomatoes that I harvested green ahead of our killing frost on the 16th. They taste surprisingly good!
In my first year of trying to grow vegetables, I learned exactly why more people don't have a garden. Hat's off to you experts, though!
Raining here also our first measurable since August 28. Built my Compost rows Yesterday to plant next springs potatoes in. Should be able to plant in any soil conditions because I won’t have to till As I plant directly into the compost. Still enjoying tomatoes that I harvested green ahead of our killing frost on the 16th. They taste surprisingly good!
