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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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 Posted - May 19 2012 : 1:16:05 PM
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Yay!!! Potatoes are planted. Next are the squashes and pumkins. Mowed lawn yesterday. Weed wacked today. The wind has been just right for keeping the black flies somewhat at bay. Now if we can keep the potato bugs at bay.
Patience is worth a bushel of brains...from a chinese fortune cookie |
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Wauka Mountain Mama
True Blue Farmgirl
239 Posts
Fran
Fairburn
Ga
USA
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Posted - May 19 2012 : 2:04:44 PM
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Sounds delightful!
I had to move my garden to the front yard & for my DH's peace of mind over what looks neat & pretty in the front yard changed to raised beds...Suckers are hard to fill with dirt! I just brought home 6 bags & thats not even enough for one bed...Luckly I have a good amount of compost. Iam hoping to have one bed filled & planted by the weeks end. :)
Live simply. So that others may simply live.
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - May 19 2012 : 4:05:56 PM
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I love to read about gardens. Ours is coming along great. We've picked beans already; enough to cook for supper. Fran, we have raised beds; I know what you mean about needing lots of dirt to fill them. We use lots of compost, too.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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texdane
Farmgirl Legend Chapter Leader Chapter Guru
4658 Posts
Nicole
Sandy Hook
CT
USA
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Posted - May 19 2012 : 4:52:20 PM
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Fun! I put a few things in the veggie garden about two weeks ago, will be adding more this week. We, too are spending the day tomorrow mowing and weed-wacking. Can't wait...I got a new weed-wacker for Mother's Day (what I asked for). Love to make the garden nice. Was it as warm in ME as it was today in CT?
Nicole
Farmgirl Sister #1155
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3331 Posts
marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW
Washington State
USA
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Posted - May 20 2012 : 01:46:32 AM
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I got my first two tomato plants in today. LOVE the smell of tomato plants. Sigh.
The peas and beans are going pretty good. They look pretty happy.
Got my zukes, cukes and pumpkins started inside and have started to harden them off.
My herbs are struggling a bit...I never have good luck with them.
Happy gardening,
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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
985 Posts
Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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Posted - May 20 2012 : 06:27:09 AM
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Saw a picture on my FB page that showed where someone had planted his garden between pallet slats. If I had smaller garden plots, I'd consider it myself. How ingeneous.
Patience is worth a bushel of brains...from a chinese fortune cookie |
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
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Posted - May 21 2012 : 07:10:34 AM
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So what is the purpose of planting a garden between pallet slats? Was he using the pallets for walkways or were there little short rows in the pallet?
I have picked 4 cherry tomatoes already. Ate them before I got to the house. Harvesting snow peas and will pick the first filet greenbeans later this week. Already finished up the first planting of salad greens and second planting is about ready to start picking. I love this time of year when everytime you go out you can find something ready to be harvested. I hate this time of year because everytime you go out something needs sprayed because the bugs are already invaded. Then I have to put up with deer, coons and oposums.
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laurentany
True Blue Farmgirl
3259 Posts
Laurie
Patchogue
NY
USA
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Posted - May 21 2012 : 1:19:40 PM
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Hmmm, interesting- a garden planted between pallet slats... I just might have to google that and research it a little. Lord knows we have access to plenty of pallets~ could be very interesting indeed!
Good Luck with your gardens ladies. I just LOVE this time of year!
Hugs,
~Laurie
"Little Hen House on the Island"
Farmgirl Sister#1403
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Sue Feely
True Blue Farmgirl
1044 Posts
Sue
Buffalo
New York
USA
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Posted - May 22 2012 : 06:39:13 AM
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| Our weather is now permissable to plant. Yea! Slowly starting to get my veggies in too! |
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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - May 22 2012 : 1:57:57 PM
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Sounds like your gardens are coming along. I picked some volunteer lettuce yesterday from my last years garden at my mother's house. We had a wonderful garden there. Not very big, but very productive. I gardened there for 3 years, then we moved back up to the ranch last fall. Everywhere that is flat, we have either built a building, or poured gravel for driveways. So I am gardening this year in containers in an old calf pen. Years ago we had rocked this area so our little calves weren't in too much mud. It is fenced and close to a faucet. It is a little too far from the house, next to our old milk barn, but in a nice protected spot. So far I have two old rusted out galvinized watering troughs, and some cattle protein suppliment tubs. I have planted tomatoes in one trough, I will put egg plants and peppers in the other, but need to wait awhile. I have lettuce and onions and garlic in the tubs. I need to fill lots more containers. We are having a salad tonight with the first of the lettuce, can't wait. We have been away from the ranch for 5 years, and garlic that I had left escaped from the bed it was in a has spread into surprising places. The heads are really small, but quite powerful. We have been digging them since early this spring and eating them tops and all. They are pretty good. I have things I need to move from my Mom's, rhubarb, walking onions, strawberries, and a gooseberry bush. I just need to get enough places worked up, and with fixing fence, and getting the hay fields back in shape there isn't much time for gardening.
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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
985 Posts
Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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Posted - May 22 2012 : 6:07:07 PM
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I think the pallets are used to reduce weeding. Maybe used more for smaller garden plots/raised beds?
Patience is worth a bushel of brains...from a chinese fortune cookie |
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