The Endzone Garden Thread

[VolNExile]

Are you doing vegetables?

Those are all vegetables, plus a few companion plants to attract pollinators (borage, lavender hyssop, etc), plus some Thai basil and lemon basil for the sale.

 

[joevol33]

Those are all vegetables, plus a few companion plants to attract pollinators (borage, lavender hyssop, etc), plus some Thai basil and lemon basil for the sale.

Cool. Gonna need you to post your address when they ready to eat

 

[VolNExile]

Cool. Gonna need you to post your address when they ready to eat

lol

I’ll have too many tomatoes as usual, but I think I’ve managed to restrain myself on the others this year.

 

[Behr]

I brought my 22 new pepper plants out Wednesday at 7am to start the hardening process. Remembered them around 4pm.

Between the wind and the sun, I think 6 will make it.

 

[VolNExile]

I brought my 22 new pepper plants out Wednesday at 7am to start the hardening process. Remembered them around 4pm.

Between the wind and the sun, I think 6 will make it.

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Noooo!!! Good luck! Peppers are surprisingly tough.

 

[Behr]

Lulz. Most aren't even there anymore, I mean they burnt up and blew away. Several of the bigger ones stem broke and the tops gone. The rest are just dried and fried.

 

[Tin Man]

@VolNExile, alas, the first two seeds didn’t come up. I will try the others.

 

[VolNExile]

@VolNExile, alas, the first two seeds didn’t come up. I will try the others.

If you have heat mats, or even something like the top of the fridge with a warm top, use that. (My heat mats raise the temp 10° above whatever the ambient air temp is.) Peppers are even worse than tomatoes for wanting warm soil to germinate. I planted five seeds and after a ridiculously long time, they finally came up.

“Ridiculously long time” = 20 days for the very first ones, another 4-5 days for the rest; on heat 24 hours/ nearly every day. The heat seems to be an even bigger deal than light.

 

[Behr]

I had no luck with these super hot peppers without a heating pad.

I bought a cheap one [$11] that I can't adjust the temp on but it keeps the soil right at 90° 24/7.

 

[VolNExile]

Those of us with outdoor lighting who wondered last year where all the lightning bugs had gone: time to turn off the outside lights, which badly confuse helpful insects in your garden.

All our motion detector lights sense anyway are rain, wind, and tall vehicles going by. I’m just as happy not waking up at 4 a.m. to see a patch of light on the wall.

2016 WBIR article, and the science is confirming the problem:
Lights off for the love of lightning bugs

 

[Behr]

This is the Moruga Scorpion plant that I had in one of those fabric pots. I kinda left it alone on the side of the tool shed and forgot about. Last week I decide to put it in the ground because it had so many peppers on it.




Here's a couple that got fried but not blown away. RIP.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Got my blackberry farm planted today
Pics tomorrow

 

[Orangeslice13]

Herbs and stuff

 

[Orangeslice13]

Blackberry hill

 

[VolNExile]

Blackberry hill View attachment 450150

Nice! I’ll be planting blackberries and raspberries in the fall, and I’ll want to pick your brain, so please take notes!

 

[VolNExile]

This is the Moruga Scorpion plant that I had in one of those fabric pots. I kinda left it alone on the side of the tool shed and forgot about. Last week I decide to put it in the ground because it had so many peppers on it.

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Here's a couple that got fried but not blown away. RIP. View attachment 449598

How are you liking the fabric pots? It’s obvious that your plants like them.

Do they take a lot more watering than plants in the ground? - daily, twice daily, alternate days etc.

RIP your 2022 starts.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Nice! I’ll be planting blackberries and raspberries in the fall, and I’ll want to pick your brain, so please take notes!

Well, you need to plant now. After the fruit is done July/August you cut them back to about 6 inches tall. Next spring you cut them off at about 30 inches tall and keep them there for the season. They only produce fruit on the 2nd year growth. If you plant in the fall you will likely have very few berries next year.

blackberries I’m pretty good at. Those are from my dad’s garden. I had to get them before they were gone. I’m just hoping they survive. These are the descendants of 40 years growing by JayBird. If they don’t make it we’re starting over and I’ll be very sad.

 

[VolNExile]

Well, you need to plant now. After the fruit is done July/August you cut them back to about 6 inches tall. Next spring you cut them off at about 30 inches tall and keep them there for the season. They only produce fruit on the 2nd year growth. If you plant in the fall you will likely have very few berries next year.

blackberries I’m pretty good at. Those are from my dad’s garden. I had to get them before they were gone. I’m just hoping they survive. These are the descendants of 40 years growing by JayBird. If they don’t make it we’re starting over and I’ll be very sad.

Really, no fall planting option? I know that they take a while to get going. I’m in no particular hurry.

I’m putting them in the former tomato bed, which was Disease City last year (every viral and fungal blight that Florida could send our way), and I’m letting it lay fallow this season under cover crops.

Good luck with Jay’s blueberries. That’s the ultimate definition of an heirloom plant.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Really, no fall planting option? I know that they take a while to get going. I’m in no particular hurry.

I’m putting them in the former tomato bed, which was Disease City last year (every viral and fungal blight that Florida could send our way), and I’m letting it lay fallow this season under cover crops.

Good luck with Jay’s blueberries. That’s the ultimate definition of an heirloom plant.

You can absolutely start in the fall. They just won’t do great the first year

 

[VolNExile]

You can absolutely start in the fall. They just won’t do great the first year

Oh, sure. Like any other woody plant (shrubs and trees), I expect not much at first.

Year 1: sleep
Year 2: creep
Year 3: leap

 

[Behr]

How are you liking the fabric pots? It’s obvious that your plants like them.

Do they take a lot more watering than plants in the ground? - daily, twice daily, alternate days etc.

RIP your 2022 starts.

I'm sold on the pots. They're greeeeeeat. Didn't seem to need any more water than if in the ground, I literally forgot about it for 2-3 months.

I bought them because they were so inexpensive and I could plant them with the plant in them, but I wanted to see if I could reuse them. No problem.

 

[VolNExile]

I'm sold on the pots. They're greeeeeeat. Didn't seem to need any more water than if in the ground, I literally forgot about it for 2-3 months.

I bought them because they were so inexpensive and I could plant them with the plant in them, but I wanted to see if I could reuse them. No problem.

Nice. I may go with them instead of the resin pots for the big stuff.

 

[Behr]

They ain't "pretty", but I don't need them to be.

 

[82_VOL_83]

Well, you need to plant now. After the fruit is done July/August you cut them back to about 6 inches tall. Next spring you cut them off at about 30 inches tall and keep them there for the season. They only produce fruit on the 2nd year growth. If you plant in the fall you will likely have very few berries next year.

blackberries I’m pretty good at. Those are from my dad’s garden. I had to get them before they were gone. I’m just hoping they survive. These are the descendants of 40 years growing by JayBird. If they don’t make it we’re starting over and I’ll be very sad.

Slice, if they do survive and we finally get to meet, I would love an offshoot. Jaybird can spread to KY.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Slice, if they do survive and we finally get to meet, I would love an offshoot. Jaybird can spread to KY.

I’m going to attempt to get some more and start them in pots as backups. If everything survives I’ll hook you up with a couple of the reserves.