The Gardening Thread

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Tin Man said:
@GVF, Hal Mumme coached at Valdosta State 1992-1996 (40-17-1). From there, he went to Kentucky.
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I remember when he made the switch. He was a great offensive mind but didn't transfer over to a solid HC. Then again he started his HC career at KY. I think The Pirate and a host of others branched off his open offense tree.
 
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GVF said:
I remember when he made the switch. He was a great offensive mind but didn't transfer over to a solid HC. Then again he started his HC career at KY. I think The Pirate and a host of others branched off his open offense tree.
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He accepted the job at Kentucky. 😜
 
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Timing is everything. Should have waited till later in week when storms passed to plant my seedling tomatoes. They been on the porch a couple weeks but haven't hardened off as much as I thought and planted yesterday anyway at lunch break. Quite healthy but still a bit soft.

I have a bag of bamboo skewers that comes in handy when plants aren;t big enough for other stake supports. So this morning before work I had to go out and skewer stake my tomatoes and get them back upright till they are big enough to pin to the trellis. The store bought Better Boy didn't even know anything was happening.
 
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So far so good. The garden has survived the storms. Or what little is planted so far. Only one mater struggling. and it probably would have anyway. Should have held back on planting that one. But, it was just a Korean Long saucer and I got a better boy that can step in for some canning. I was curious how it would have been. I might leave it a day or two and see if it responds.
 
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Leaving work early today since I have some time built up to go home and finally get my pepper plants in their grow bags. I should have done this last weekend because they are beyond ready (and I’ve been busy) but also glad I didn’t because of the storms this week. This next week looks fantastic for newly planted, hardening off plants. Except for maybe the low-50 nights.
 
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Made some good headway planting yesterday. Garden is now planted in :

Tomatoes, broccoli, brussells, peppers, 2nd onion patch, turnips, cantelopes, cal bush sweet watermelon (3 ft vines), yellow squash, cocozelle zucchini, honey bush butternut, cut and come again celery, green beans, potatoes, Various carrots, golden beats.

Left to plant:
Corn, sweet peas, radish, white acre peas, okra, eggplant, sunflowers. That may be all. Plus I will add some pumpkin to trial grow for my step son.

minimizing my weed maintenance this year with landscape cloth in several areas. Will straw mulch the tomatoes and deal with the corn and sunflowers. Everything else pretty well covered.


Edit: Update to my weed reduction experiment...landscape cloth. Seems to be pros and cons, expecially if using around your landscaping. After an inital concern of water passing thru it seems after a good rain or soaking it appears to become very permeable for the water to pass. Plus, I plan to roll it up at end of season for re-use and soil replenishment.
 
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GVF said:
We are in that eerie quiet period where all the gardens are planted, but nothing to show off yet.
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I'm in that eerie quiet period where we come back from a trip and find that the groundhog has munched through all the peas. The tomatoes and peppers are apparently not yet interesting. Calling the pros now.
 
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VolNExile said:
I'm in that eerie quiet period where we come back from a trip and find that the groundhog has munched through all the peas. The tomatoes and peppers are apparently not yet interesting. Calling the pros now.
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Haven't had to turn the new garden irrigation on since we installed it. Only to make sure it all worked and no leaks. Hasn't been on since. No clue how the garden is gonna grow. We finally get a full week with no rain, and the temp stays under 80 at the end of May.
 
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each of my tomato plants has decent to almost full grown fruit on them. wouldn't be surprised if some started to ripen soon.

I may have to prune the best fruit on my bell pepper plants, they are low to the ground.
 
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LouderVol said:
each of my tomato plants has decent to almost full grown fruit on them. wouldn't be surprised if some started to ripen soon.

I may have to prune the best fruit on my bell pepper plants, they are low to the ground.
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I was always able to get tomatoes going early up in Hartwell. I had just started doing my own garden back then and didn't have a huge garden. Maybe 6x12. That red clay was tough on the 2-stroke tiller. Mostly tomatoes, with some peppers, and squash and attempts at beans.
 
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Been a while since I’ve been on this site.

Update:

Blueberry bushes grew a lot, but gonna have a lower than normal berry count because I was an idiot last year and tried to save them from that late hard April frost we had by putting a tarp over them (all I had).

Raspberry bushes are literally a hedge now. Got fruit on them and will probably have a ton moving forward until late fall like last year.

I need to put a reminder in my phone to fertilize my berries.

Peppers are in their grow bags and sitting in the yard where they get full sun. Doing quite well and have been picking off all fruit growth. This coming weekend I will stop doing that and start allowing peppers to grow.

I got 2 cherry bushes (1 Juliet and 1 Romeo). They are in the ground now and came with good bud growth. The buds have since popped and growing leafy greens. Won’t get any cherries this year as it is way too late so hopefully they grow well this year for some cherries next year.

The 2 peach trees I purchased from Arbor Day are a disappointment. Came in as bareroot and painted them within 3 days. Both lost their leaves (the few each had). One had growth on it at the base but it wilted away after about 1 week. The other has growth at the base and it’s still there at ~2” in length. So quite discouraging. I was honestly hoping for a much much better start. I don’t want to pay out the wazoo for 5-6’ trees, but may have to. And not sure this is the best time to plant fruit trees so this year may be a wash.
 
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LouderVol said:
each of my tomato plants has decent to almost full grown fruit on them. wouldn't be surprised if some started to ripen soon.

I may have to prune the best fruit on my bell pepper plants, they are low to the ground.
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Eat em. We always start picking the early when small. They seem to come on quickly.
 
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When low hanging peppers touch the wheat straw, I pick and eat them green or varicolored. The peppers on the higher branches will ripen to red. If a branch is too heavy with fruit, then I’ll support it. 👍🏼
 
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