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| BarefootGoatGirl |
Posted - Jan 05 2007 : 09:20:33 AM
Last year I got bogged down with too much garden, animals, housework, children, etc... So this year I am trying to scale down and the garden is being down sized. In trying to decide which varrieties to keep and which to do away with, I started wondering what others saw as essential veggies. Right now I am leaning toward cucumbers (no contest there...leave out the cukes and my kids would riot), early greens, raddishes, corn, tomatoes, and peppers. I would love to grow zucchini and beans, but we have an aweful time with fungus  in those plants the past few years. We also consume a lot of onions and carrots which I would like to grow, but have not built up our poor soil enough for it to be proffitable.
Trina
Trina
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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Proverbs 27:23 |
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| BarefootGoatGirl |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 1:38:42 PM
Thanks for the advice...after I posted this I got really busy and compleatly forgot to think garden (especially when we got our first taste of winter). Hubby has decided that he doesn't want me to cut back too much and has come up with a plan for trellesing using cattle panels and t posts, just after he came up with the idea it was featured in Countryside magazine. Now that we've had a week of good freezes to qualsh weeds and bugs, I am starting to feel more optimistic about the garden. I am working on scrounging cynder blocks to make raised beds, but the progress is slow...maybe next year I'll have enough.
As for kids in the garden, I wouldn't or couldn't do it with out them. Many mornings, my 6 and 8 year old are out with the watering buckets before I even have breakfast finished...they just love it and I never have trouble getting any of them to eat veggies.
Thanks, again. Trina
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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Proverbs 27:23 |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jan 05 2007 : 11:05:31 AM
Trina -- how about trellising the plants you're having fungal problems with? You can do them on tomato cages. It might help with air circulation -- especially in your humid climate.
Your garden plans sound wonderful. Try reading Square Foot Gardening -- it's a great way to plant in a small space -- kind of what Bramble is talking about.
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| bramble |
Posted - Jan 05 2007 : 10:28:39 AM
What about doubling up some of your crops? There is a book from awhile ago called "Carrots Love Tomatoes...) where you maximize planting with doubling up certain crops. Rotating beds seems to keep them doing well from year to year with a topdressing of compost and some manure or fish emulsion tea every now and then. Until this house we have always had clay or rocky shale based soils and this worked for us. I have cut way back on alot of specialty crops not because we didn't enjoy them but maintaining them in prolonged 100+ degree weather was very difficult. Or how about raised beds for root crops so you can work the soil to your liking without a pick axe!
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| Annab |
Posted - Jan 05 2007 : 09:56:14 AM
Sounds about what we plant too....but in abundance it seems!
We also do watermelon
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