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wv hillbilly · 07-06-2012, 10:10 AM

mine is holding its own. i pulled all the blue lakes. i still have 2 30' rows of beets growing. i will soon be picking the bird eggs. and hopefully my limas will produce this fall. right now they are loaded with bloom.
getting a few cukes, tomatos, squash and peppers. i dug one hill of potatoes and got 9 very nice spuds (having them for supper)

Zhurh · 07-06-2012, 10:54 AM

We had a drought May & June; here it is July and I have taters just coming up, worst year out of the last 12. So I have a few plants flowering and majority too small to matter. I planted 400 lb seed tatoes, usually get 3500 lb; be lucky if I get 2000 lb of smallish taters; but they sure are good fried. Brocculli, iceberg, carrots, cabbage doing OK, I was able to water them some.

Bought a new troy built this Spring; $2800; last one was $1800 and got 22 years out of her. This new one should outlive my butt. I still could have bought a few nice guns with the money, which is a downer now that it has been such a bad garden year so far.

If my garden ever gets super nice, I'll take some picts.

Woodnut · 07-06-2012, 11:22 AM

I just had a small garden with tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and all kinds of peppers, sweet, jalapeños , Cayenne, banana, and some okra and other stuff. My garden is only about 40 by 90, so you can visualize the size of it. Anyway we have had a bad dry spell and nothing grew even after watering it about twice a week. My tomatoes only got about 24 inches high, and that is a stretch. Had a few tomatoes on the vines and the birds had a ball with them when they were red. So I got a little angry and mowed the whole thing down. Gonna sell my tiller and raise tomatoes in pots on the patio and wrap them with nettings.

I bought an Owl Decoy and placed it in several places around the tomatoes in the garden and it did not help a bit. I don't think they have Owls in this part of the country, so the birds are not afraid of it because they don't know what it is. Since then I have 4 plants in large pots and the first fruit was eaten by birds. I thought by getting so close to the house they would not bother them. Again I placed the Owl in all positions. It does not work. So I wraped them in netting and so far it is working. I have about 25 green tomatoes now, so I will wait until they get red then see what happens. I never had a problem growing a large beautiful garden in Tennessee, and I was very rural, animals and birds of all kinds. The deer was easy to get rid of after about 4 or 5, if you know what I mean. I have about had it with growing a garden in Mississippi.

I think I will set the Owl on a tomato stick out back and use it for target practice by shooting it with my pellet gun. I might even kill one of the birds that is setting on top of the Owl.
One Tiller for sale Cheap.

Ledslnger · 07-06-2012, 11:38 AM

Did you get one of the owls that have the head that kind of rocks, floats, and rotates? Those work pretty decent.

ole95 · 07-06-2012, 11:50 AM

Holding it's own just now getting some rain after a week of 104 -107
Getting a few peppers grandkids setting on ready waiting on the mators

jjmitchell60 · 07-06-2012, 11:59 AM

Excellent being we are watering every other night. Water bill was $5 shy of double this month!!!! All but 2 heads of cabbage in freezer, several bags of green beans in freezer (we vacum seal all we freeze), corn is 1 week from all being pulled, onions need to be pulled now, and tomatoss are over your head LOADED with green tomatos (we put them in cages made of concrete wire thus they go way up). We planted 2 cucumber "bushes" thus they do not vine however they do keep cucumbers onthem all season. Now to till and figure out what to plant as alate crop, turnips for sure but maybe a late green bean?

22WRF · 07-06-2012, 12:02 PM

Hurtin' .47" of rain last mo. 2 weeks of 100+.Water melons got so hot they split. Getting maters, zucchini and few cucumbers. Maybe rain and cooler next week will save the okra. Water restrictions so can only water 2 days a week.

BETH · 07-06-2012, 12:05 PM

i don't have a garden but there is a farm around the corner so far all they have is lettuce?

gdmoody · 07-06-2012, 12:21 PM

Burnin up! Watered every evening but we need some real rain to help it out.

wv hillbilly · 07-06-2012, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by jjmitchell60

Excellent being we are watering every other night. Water bill was $5 shy of double this month!!!! All but 2 heads of cabbage in freezer, several bags of green beans in freezer (we vacum seal all we freeze), corn is 1 week from all being pulled, onions need to be pulled now, and tomatoss are over your head LOADED with green tomatos (we put them in cages made of concrete wire thus they go way up). We planted 2 cucumber "bushes" thus they do not vine however they do keep cucumbers onthem all season. Now to till and figure out what to plant as alate crop, turnips for sure but maybe a late green bean?

how about greens. mustard, lettuce, spinach, kale,collards. maybe some radishes,rutabaga

wv hillbilly · 07-06-2012, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by BETH

i don't have a garden but there is a farm around the corner so far all they have is lettuce?

do you sneek a little?

hogger129 · 07-06-2012, 06:02 PM

The grass is dead throughout most of our yard.

Helix_FR · 07-06-2012, 06:06 PM

Well I have no garden but I was on vacation for a week and my back yard looks like the sahara desert. everything is dead.

Zhurh · 07-07-2012, 12:37 AM

We don't plant until moon change early-mid June, one of our iceberg beds & brocculli. Usually start in hot frames. I have friends that heat the ground and are eating outta their gardens in Alaska already; I just don't get that serious. We always plant 300-500 plants of most everything, but only maybe 100 cabbage.

wv hillbilly · 07-07-2012, 06:53 AM

surely you dont eat all that lettuce

Zhurh · 07-07-2012, 05:31 PM

We have an old Indian Village, not far from our place; been close to them for years. Iceberg at our local store is $4-5 /head, they fly it in; everything is 3X the price. Indians spend all the money they get from govt on booze, they never buy much White Mans food from the store; so they really appreciate when I give them all kinds of what I grow, no joke. That bed in the picture ain't my only iceberg bed either. Just wish I could grow corn like I did back east. I planted 15K carrots, 400 lb seed tatoes, brocc, cabbage, iceberg, and yellow beans this year.

Funny thing, the Indian's grandparents all had huge gardens (I've seen all the pictures and even checked out the dirt where their gardens were), they cut wood, trapped, ect; wasn't any govt money back then; if they didn't make some money, they went hungry. In 1960's, feds started dumping money on the Indians. I'm not saying the Indians don't need some help, they do; but the govt destroyed them as a people with welfare. Now the Indians have it in their mind money from govt is just how it's done in America; mayeb they are right? But all the fed dollars gets wasted for most part and the Indians keep dying from alcohol, kinda modern day genocide. Once they all die off, the govt will have their land. Govt should have the Indians run all the nat parks, blm lands, ect ect. Give it to them to operate, they'd do a much better job than feds now do. Sorry, off track.

07-06-2012, 10:10 AM	#1
wv hillbilly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: mountains of wv. Posts: 2,016	how's your garden doin mine is holding its own. i pulled all the blue lakes. i still have 2 30' rows of beets growing. i will soon be picking the bird eggs. and hopefully my limas will produce this fall. right now they are loaded with bloom. getting a few cukes, tomatos, squash and peppers. i dug one hill of potatoes and got 9 very nice spuds (having them for supper) --> Last edited by wv hillbilly; 07-06-2012 at 10:58 AM..

07-06-2012, 10:54 AM	#2
Zhurh Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Upper Yukon, Alaska Posts: 1,817	Re: how's your garden doin We had a drought May & June; here it is July and I have taters just coming up, worst year out of the last 12. So I have a few plants flowering and majority too small to matter. I planted 400 lb seed tatoes, usually get 3500 lb; be lucky if I get 2000 lb of smallish taters; but they sure are good fried. Brocculli, iceberg, carrots, cabbage doing OK, I was able to water them some. Bought a new troy built this Spring; $2800; last one was $1800 and got 22 years out of her. This new one should outlive my butt. I still could have bought a few nice guns with the money, which is a downer now that it has been such a bad garden year so far. If my garden ever gets super nice, I'll take some picts.

07-06-2012, 11:22 AM	#3
Woodnut Forum Sponsor Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Diamondhead, MS Contributor Posts: 2,172	Re: how's your garden doin I just had a small garden with tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and all kinds of peppers, sweet, jalapeños , Cayenne, banana, and some okra and other stuff. My garden is only about 40 by 90, so you can visualize the size of it. Anyway we have had a bad dry spell and nothing grew even after watering it about twice a week. My tomatoes only got about 24 inches high, and that is a stretch. Had a few tomatoes on the vines and the birds had a ball with them when they were red. So I got a little angry and mowed the whole thing down. Gonna sell my tiller and raise tomatoes in pots on the patio and wrap them with nettings. I bought an Owl Decoy and placed it in several places around the tomatoes in the garden and it did not help a bit. I don't think they have Owls in this part of the country, so the birds are not afraid of it because they don't know what it is. Since then I have 4 plants in large pots and the first fruit was eaten by birds. I thought by getting so close to the house they would not bother them. Again I placed the Owl in all positions. It does not work. So I wraped them in netting and so far it is working. I have about 25 green tomatoes now, so I will wait until they get red then see what happens. I never had a problem growing a large beautiful garden in Tennessee, and I was very rural, animals and birds of all kinds. The deer was easy to get rid of after about 4 or 5, if you know what I mean. I have about had it with growing a garden in Mississippi. I think I will set the Owl on a tomato stick out back and use it for target practice by shooting it with my pellet gun. I might even kill one of the birds that is setting on top of the Owl. One Tiller for sale Cheap. __________________ Carl Never doubt the beauty of wood. Carl’s Album www.cwgrips.com Web site Updated 01/01/2013 NRA Life Member

07-06-2012, 11:38 AM	#4
Ledslnger V.I.P. Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: N Central, IA Posts: 415	Re: how's your garden doin Did you get one of the owls that have the head that kind of rocks, floats, and rotates? Those work pretty decent.

07-06-2012, 11:50 AM	#5
ole95 Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: down south Roll TIDE! Posts: 2	Re: how's your garden doin Holding it's own just now getting some rain after a week of 104 -107 Getting a few peppers grandkids setting on ready waiting on the mators

07-06-2012, 11:59 AM	#6
jjmitchell60 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Raised in Buzzard Roost near Frog Town in hillls of Kentucky Contributor Posts: 1,471	Re: how's your garden doin Excellent being we are watering every other night. Water bill was $5 shy of double this month!!!! All but 2 heads of cabbage in freezer, several bags of green beans in freezer (we vacum seal all we freeze), corn is 1 week from all being pulled, onions need to be pulled now, and tomatoss are over your head LOADED with green tomatos (we put them in cages made of concrete wire thus they go way up). We planted 2 cucumber "bushes" thus they do not vine however they do keep cucumbers onthem all season. Now to till and figure out what to plant as alate crop, turnips for sure but maybe a late green bean? __________________ Oath Keepers NOT ON OUR WATCH www.oathkeepers.org 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes Duty... Thomas Jefferson

07-06-2012, 12:02 PM	#7
22WRF Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pea Ridge, FL Contributor Posts: 4,251	Re: how's your garden doin Hurtin' .47" of rain last mo. 2 weeks of 100+.Water melons got so hot they split. Getting maters, zucchini and few cucumbers. Maybe rain and cooler next week will save the okra. Water restrictions so can only water 2 days a week. __________________ NRA GOA CCRKBA Happiness is a warm barrel

07-06-2012, 12:05 PM	#8
BETH Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: naugatuck,Ct. Contributor Posts: 6,668	Re: how's your garden doin i don't have a garden but there is a farm around the corner so far all they have is lettuce?

07-06-2012, 12:21 PM	#9
gdmoody Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northeast Georgia Contributor Posts: 6,324	Re: how's your garden doin Burnin up! Watered every evening but we need some real rain to help it out. __________________ NRA Endowment Member GeorgiaCarry.Org Member Retired US Army Postal Worker Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'.....author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

07-06-2012, 06:02 PM	#12
hogger129 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4,064	Re: how's your garden doin The grass is dead throughout most of our yard. __________________ Samuel Adams once said, "among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."

07-06-2012, 06:06 PM	#13
Helix_FR TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Imperial, MO Posts: 3,621	Re: how's your garden doin Well I have no garden but I was on vacation for a week and my back yard looks like the sahara desert. everything is dead. __________________ Only cowards shoot with their eyes closed.... helixgunsmith.com

07-07-2012, 12:37 AM	#14
Zhurh Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Upper Yukon, Alaska Posts: 1,817	Re: how's your garden doin We don't plant until moon change early-mid June, one of our iceberg beds & brocculli. Usually start in hot frames. I have friends that heat the ground and are eating outta their gardens in Alaska already; I just don't get that serious. We always plant 300-500 plants of most everything, but only maybe 100 cabbage.

07-07-2012, 06:53 AM	#15
wv hillbilly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: mountains of wv. Posts: 2,016	Re: how's your garden doin surely you dont eat all that lettuce

07-07-2012, 05:31 PM	#16
Zhurh Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Upper Yukon, Alaska Posts: 1,817	Re: how's your garden doin We have an old Indian Village, not far from our place; been close to them for years. Iceberg at our local store is $4-5 /head, they fly it in; everything is 3X the price. Indians spend all the money they get from govt on booze, they never buy much White Mans food from the store; so they really appreciate when I give them all kinds of what I grow, no joke. That bed in the picture ain't my only iceberg bed either. Just wish I could grow corn like I did back east. I planted 15K carrots, 400 lb seed tatoes, brocc, cabbage, iceberg, and yellow beans this year. Funny thing, the Indian's grandparents all had huge gardens (I've seen all the pictures and even checked out the dirt where their gardens were), they cut wood, trapped, ect; wasn't any govt money back then; if they didn't make some money, they went hungry. In 1960's, feds started dumping money on the Indians. I'm not saying the Indians don't need some help, they do; but the govt destroyed them as a people with welfare. Now the Indians have it in their mind money from govt is just how it's done in America; mayeb they are right? But all the fed dollars gets wasted for most part and the Indians keep dying from alcohol, kinda modern day genocide. Once they all die off, the govt will have their land. Govt should have the Indians run all the nat parks, blm lands, ect ect. Give it to them to operate, they'd do a much better job than feds now do. Sorry, off track.