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Strategic Growth Plan 2022

Johnny Lunchbucket May 01 2022 08:44 AM

Garden this year: Carrots, green beans, bok choy, broccoli raab, various herbs. Early shoots of the latter three inching up. Beans went in this morning. TRying to overcome a bad 2021 (brussels, other lettuces got all moldy and diseased). If you guys need sage come on over we could feed the world with that.

Edgy MD May 01 2022 10:27 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

Brussels take some special effort.

kcmets May 01 2022 11:57 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

I'm way behind schedule. It's been cold here and we've had frost warnings several nights still. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. Need to get crackin', It's May 1st!

Johnny Lunchbucket May 01 2022 12:11 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

Edgy MD wrote: Brussels take some special effort. We're not doing them this year after results of the last 2. In 20 we got 1 or 2 stalks of small sprouts out of several plants, the rest got moldy. Last year they grew big but produced only mold.

metsmarathon May 01 2022 01:47 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

i'm going to do tomatoes, snap peas, lettuce, zucchini, pumpkins, and watermelons. i hope. gonna try out a new spot for the squashes and the watermelons. hoping to keep them out of the way of the rest of the yard & garden

kcmets Jun 03 2022 10:22 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

June 3rd, and still not quite done... On or around the day that Piggie passed I put in 8 tomato plants. Did something I never did before, planting 4 varieties of big tomatoes in one row and 4 varieties of cherry tomatoes in another row. Have a row of the surviving thyme, oregano and a mint plant that just appeared out of the blue but right in line. I've never planted mint, so I guess it migrated from next door because they have it in their flower beds. Need to get a basil plant over the weekend to round out that row. This morning I got four pepper plants; poblano hot, hot cayenne, tabasco hot and red chili. They are in the front row. No crawly stuff this year like cukes or zucchini. Have a small area I usually stick something, haven't gotten the mojo yet.

Ceetar Jun 03 2022 10:49 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

*he says after slipping on the hill and landing on his butt* outdoor stuff has been a lot harder with one arm. I can do stuff now but anything that physically uses the right arm requires at least twice as much effort (like turning over dirt even) I just got the hop strings up, and lost my shed key in the process. Still haven't put the netting around the raised garden though, which has some tomatoes, pepper, oregano, mint, and some eaten strawberry plants. got a bunch of seeds that I should sprout/germinate/whatever. I'd love to grow Watermelon or Pumpkin but I think it's extremely unlikely that they wouldn't get eaten.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 03 2022 12:56 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

We ate mustard greens from the garden last weekend, sautéed with bacon. Boj choy and broccoli Rabe was planted way too close together but plan is to eat the first of those leaves this weekend. Some carrots and pole bean vines are doing quite well -- others destroyed by squirrels using the bed to hide shit, and/or cats using it as a shitter, so replanted a bunch of both then covered with netting and quite hopeful for much of both. Mint is just growing wild

Chad ochoseis Jun 03 2022 03:42 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

Snap peas, carrots, and basil. The basil is barely coming up, and it's nearly impossible not to grow basil. I'm guessing I've depleted the soil by growing basil in the same spot for the past 4-5 years.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 29 2022 09:03 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

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MFS62 Jun 29 2022 09:46 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

We planted marigolds around our other flowers to keep the rabbits from eating them. Later

seawolf17 Jun 29 2022 10:51 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

=MFS62 post_id=97724 time=1656517599 user_id=60] We planted marigolds around our other flowers to keep the rabbits from eating them. Later

We did that this year too, and it appears to have worked.

Lefty Specialist Jun 29 2022 03:52 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

I always put netting around my veggies and it's working so far this year. Cucumbers are popping as are tomatoes. Broccoli a little slow and carrots are taking their time. Sunflowers topped 8 feet last week and are looking good as well. Weather's been favorable so far.

kcmets Jun 30 2022 08:01 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

Tomatoes are kinda slow here this year. Usually a foot higher by the last day of June. But everything is green and growing. Gotta get in there this afternoon and do some serious weeding. Last year the weeds took over and I vowed to not lose that battle again... [FIMG=650]https://thecranepool.net/images/Garden063022.png[/FIMG]

kcmets Jul 05 2022 07:35 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

I weeded yesterday. No picture, you'll have to believe me... Got some sunburn. I'm a stroke waiting to happen some days.

kcmets Aug 09 2022 03:41 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

Just brought some crap out to the garage and a squirrel is sitting on the patio frozen on his hind legs with a cherry tomato in his mouth staring at me. I said, "what ya got there Mr. McNutty?" He was like, "found this next door."

MFS62 Aug 09 2022 03:53 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

=kcmets post_id=98302 time=1657028152 user_id=53] I weeded yesterday. No picture, you'll have to believe me... Got some sunburn. I'm a stroke waiting to happen some days.

Hey! Just saw this, Case.

Be careful. I had my heart attack when I was working on my garden on a very hot day. I was carrying around heavy bags of mulch.

Don't overdo it. If you have to carry heavy stuff for a distance, use a wheelbarrow.



Later

Frayed Knot Aug 09 2022 04:23 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

=MFS62 post_id=103178 time=1660082032 user_id=60] Be careful. I had my heart attack when I was working on my garden on a very hot day.

So did Vito Corleone

Edgy MD Aug 09 2022 04:42 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

I shopped for my veggie seedlings on a very hot day. I remembered to get bigger eggplantss than last year, but the sun must have been in my eyes and sweat pouring down my face, because generally I got miniatures. I have peppers the size of quarters and tomatoes the size of dimes. These aren't cherry tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes laugh at these tomatoes. I'm building a dollhouse, just to make my home-grown produce look big.

kcmets Aug 09 2022 06:45 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

The best eggplants I grew one year were called 'Japanese eggplants.' 7-8" and the plant wasn't crazy. Haven't seen them since, 6-7 years ago.

kcmets Aug 10 2022 08:51 AM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

=MFS62 post_id=103178 time=1660082032 user_id=60] Hey! Just saw this, Case. Be careful. I had my heart attack when I was working on my garden on a very hot day. I was carrying around heavy bags of mulch. Don't overdo it. If you have to carry heavy stuff for a distance, use a wheelbarrow.

I'm pretty low risk for a heart attack. (not to to put the whammy on myself) My

recent EKG was excellent, knocking on 60's door in a few weeks. I have a wagon,

wheelbarrows and my back problems would be a disaster waiting to happen.

metsmarathon Aug 10 2022 01:39 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52271132229_3abef36b28_z.jpg> my tomatoes are starting to come in, rabbits not withstanding. i have one or two other varieties of tomato hiding in the garden, too, but i'm waiting for them to ripen still. mostly, i have mostly the black cherry variety. the lumpy tomato plant (i forget the variety) isn't terribly productive, and may be nearly done for the season. i had one other plant grow big tomatoes, but it grew exactly one tomato that a rabbit got to first. sigh. i have one other plant growing medium-sized red tomatoes, but they're not ready yet. so it's mostly all cherries of varying shades of red. my pumpkins, having been moved to a less productive location, ain't doing shit. they need better spoil and more moisture than i gave them. my spaghetti squash is also a big sad face. i'm hoping that i get something out of my zucchinis besides one meager zuke. and eventually i may see a watermelon start to grow. but damn, can i grow cherry tomatoes.

kcmets Aug 10 2022 01:57 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

I was wondering about one of the cherry tomato plants I have and they are dark and almost purplish when ripe. I didn't write down what I got. I have four different big tomato and four different cherry tomato plants.

whippoorwill Aug 10 2022 02:50 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

Just brought some crap out to the garage and a squirrel is sitting on the patio frozen on his hind legs with a cherry tomato in his mouth staring at me. I said, "what ya got there Mr. McNutty?" He was like, "found this next door." Squirrels ate all my Peaches this year, again I've had a couple of cherry tomatoes. No pepper flowers yet. Neighbors have some awesome looking pumpkins My best crop so far this year is hollyhocks, towards next year I don't know why my phone insists on capitalizing peaches

kcmets Aug 10 2022 03:14 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

Maybe it thinks it's a proper noun, like Peaches the stripper?

whippoorwill Aug 10 2022 05:03 PM Re: Strategic Growth Plan 2022

Lol I actually wondered if that's what it's programmed to think