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PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2017 9:23 am 
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If everyone would rather use one of the old gardening threads I don't mind having this one purged but since I will be planting tonight I
figured I'd at least get one going. I didn't do a garden at all last year. This year I turned the dirt, went to the local recycle place and
picked up about 100 lbs of fresh compost to top off my 4 x 8 raised garden. I think I am just going to do 3 tomato plants ( probably
two small grape varieties and one medium sized tomato ) and then a few different kinds of lettuce as well as some basil for my wife.
Pretty simple stuff but looking forward to doing one again. I know some of you guys do quite a bit more so lay it on us. What does
your garden look like this year?

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PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2017 9:28 am 
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6 Cherry Tomato
3 Brandywine

3 Jalapeno
3 Red Chili

2 Basil

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PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2017 9:30 am 
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So domestic partner goes to some garden/farm show last week and comes back with many plants. Cool.

Thing is some old timer told her the trick to max out awesome quality output on the tomato plants and quite honestly I do not get it. Something about pruning the plants up toward the top. Basically it sounds like sacrificing the lower third of the plant? Is this supposed to force more and better nutrients to the top? Just the top getting more sunlight gives better?

Anyone heard of or do this?

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PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2017 2:18 pm 
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40 x 50 with a full load again this year. we did go with less plants and more space to maneuver though. planting alot of sweet corn as well. about triple what we did last year.


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PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2017 2:54 pm 
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hnd wrote:
40 x 50 with a full load again this year.


That's pretty sweet, except for tilling and weeding.

hnd wrote:
we did go with less plants and more space to maneuver though.


Smart move.

hnd wrote:
planting alot of sweet corn as well. about triple what we did last year.


Corn seems like a waste of time. Don't you just get one cob per stalk?

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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2017 11:31 am 
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i have a king cutter 48" tiller on the back of a kubota. takes about 15 minutes. outside of corn, we black matte the entire garden. weeds are basically/theoretically nil. still a little bit.

in my corn rows i use a stirrup hoe
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and it works great. (i used to get roundup ready corn but wife gets all hippy on me)

i can plant 200 corn plants for $2.00. in fresh tilled dirt it takes 15 minutes per 50 (i plant 50 every week) i'll have corn ready from mid august to mid september.

i'll plant 200 and yield like 160-170 good ears.


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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2017 9:42 pm 
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 10:45 am 
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[url]Planted last Tuesday:[/url]
9 tomato plants - grape, cherry and beefsteak
9 pepper plants jalapeno, habanero and bell pepper
3 zucchini
cucumber seeds
green beans seeds

I'm a dumbass bc as I was watering the zucchini last night I noticed they were all wilted and dying. WTF, all the other plants look OK.

Upon closer inspection I discovered I never planted the zucchini into the dirt. When I laid them out in the garden to visualize spacing I planted everything except those 3 zucchini plants. I water at dusk so I never noticed them just sitting on top of the soil. :x


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