Tonights feature by Ed Will,,gardening tips

larry@stinescorner · Mar 20, 2016

Ed Will wants to see or hear gardening or planting tips of any kind,,,when to plant,etc,,,, Got any for Ed? heres one ,,Not a big tip,but it does save me a lot of walking,, A friend gave me this mailbox, I keep it out in the garden and put all the small stuff in it that is easy to forget to bring out to the garden,markers,string,,(or SweetFeets velcro idea now) I put the seed packs in there just while I was planting,not overnight

Janicholson · Mar 20, 2016

Planting carrots beets and other root crops does not need to be in rows. 30 inch wide plantings with 3 to 4 inch spacing will produce well and the shade will keep weeds down. Beet seeds need to be singled out to prevent multiple plants in the same spot (or pull the smaller ones when emerging) Jim

Cory Schmidt · Mar 20, 2016

(reply to post at 19:19:30 03/20/16)

Around here(Wi lakeshore) We always say don't plant till 1st of June at earliest(some things (radishes, kohlrabi..) you could try), or you are sure to freeze it off. Had a couple years oh yeah its good weather(2nd week of May) going to stay warm, see people that did plant a few weeks later.... YEP FROZE the plants off. Some years even then is questionable.

Then plant in batches so when one should be about done, the next is almost ready. Keep planting till you can't anymore or when you'll have crop till almost a week or too longer then average frost, if you lose it not out much, if you get a longer season you might get a little more out.

Some advice my pa got about growing plants/ running the greenhouse. Find all the books you can about gardening and growing plants, then in dead of winter when freezing your XXX off, toss em in the fire and figure it out as you go.

old · Mar 20, 2016

I know it has been said before but salt on your Asparagus beds will help it grow and slow down weeds.. Also putting a couple table spoon if Epsom salts in the ground before transplanting you tomato plants will help them grow better. Plus if you like pole beans a simple arch made with PCV pipe and rebar in the ground to hold it and fence wire and you have a bean area you can walk under to pick your beans Same Rebar and PVC pipe can be used to make a simple green house just by covering it with plastic

Southern Ray · Mar 20, 2016

my wife has one up for her little garden.

SweetFeet · Mar 20, 2016

Will post this here too in case folks don't read the Tales forum.

My dad gave me this tip quite a few years ago.Garden Velcro is great when staking up plants.

You can easily adjust it if needed, as a plant grows.(Some other YTer's said they've used it and it seems easier on the plants (maybe because it is wider than string?).

Plus you can use it again and again. I just collect it at the end of the season... then wind all the bits back into a neat little roll.

gtractorfan · Mar 20, 2016

Since mailboxes are in vogue, here's one I fixed up to store things by the garden in 2009. Added "settlers" and a team or horses since.

SweetFeet · Mar 20, 2016

P.S. I like everyone's mailboxes for small tool storage.

Going to look for a rusty one that we can "plant" on a post in the rust garden.

John M · Mar 20, 2016

I wish I had pictures of it before it fell in, but Dad used an old gutter that he drilled holes and connected runs of hose to. HE would plant his cucumbers near the edge of the building and had a trellis for them to grow up on. The hose would travel down the trellis and water the cucumbers every time it would rain. Later, he changed the fittings on the gutters to accept a hose, and would run it to various parts of the garden. He also set up one of those big white tote bins to accept water from the gutter, for future use.

teddy52food · Mar 20, 2016

I plant the lettuce and radishes that way too. I plant my onion plants in a grid with the plants about 6 inches apart. Peas, beans and corn go in rows.

jwal10 · Mar 20, 2016

I mix a few radish seeds in with lettuce and carrots planted in wide rows. Pull the radishes when ready, loosens the soil and keeps weeds from starting, especially carrots, seems to help them sprout and keeps from eroding the soil when irrigating....James

Bob Harvey · Mar 20, 2016

Ed is in the land of 'former' huge orchards - apples etc. Now it is mostly vineyards - a shame really. There is waay more money in average to slightly above average wine (but the not so good wine is still more $$ than I would spend) than really fine apples. Pity. $.02

notjustair · Mar 20, 2016

I take T posts and drive them in a row the length of the garden at about a 45 degree angle. Then I lay a cattle panel(s) against them. Then I take another set of T posts and drive them in across from the others leaning the other way. They are driven through one of the panel squares and make an X that crosses about a foot off the ground. Then I lay a hog panel against those posts. What you have is a "trough" of panel about a foot off the ground. I take a piece of baling twine and tie the opposing T posts together at the top so they can't spread further. The setup ends up being about 4 1/2 feet tall and the sides of the V are about three feet apart at the top. I plant my tomatoes under this setup. They grow up through it and all of the vines and fruit are cradled by the fencing and not on the ground.

I also put half a cup of powdered milk in the hole when I plant tomatoes. I haven't had blossom rot since.

37chief · Mar 21, 2016

I was laying a drip line to my Dell plants for the wife's pickles today. It's the black stiff 1/2 inch poly tubing. I used old welding rod bent in U to hold it to the ground. Stan

Arnold Layne · Mar 21, 2016

Salt on asparagus is an old wives tale, it will eventually kill the asparagus and everything around it. People think it's the thing to do 'cause it keeps the weeds down, fact is it just takes a little longer to kill the asparagus.

old · Mar 21, 2016

Sorry your wrong. The stuff grows in brackish water area which means it lives well where there is some salt water getting to it

Arnold Layne · Mar 21, 2016

Yeah, I bet you are sorry! You might want to get in touch with some of the major universitys that have horticulture programs, I bet they would be happy to hear this. They must have gotten all their information from a coffee shop or dive bar or something, and I'm sure you have done decades worth of research and soil testing. You are at least partially correct that it likes slightly salty soil, but that's about it. Oddly enough, everybody that is actually involved with growing asparagus says that salting will kill the weeds, it just kills the asparagus slower than the weeds. http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G6405 is from Missouri, I know, it's probably a lesser Missouri, not the one you live in, and one from U. of NE, likely also a bunch of pretenders. http://lancaster.unl.edu/hort/articles/2011/AsparagusWeeds.shtml

old · Mar 21, 2016

Believe what you want too does not matter to me I just know what I know and yes I got it form a teacher and he teaches horticulture. Ya you can go over board with salt

WI Dan · Mar 21, 2016

Some advice my pa got about growing plants/ running the greenhouse. Find all the books you can about gardening and growing plants, then in dead of winter when freezing your XXX off, toss em in the fire and figure it out as you go.

Love it Cory! That's good advice.

WI Dan · Mar 21, 2016

What you have is a "trough" of panel about a foot off the ground. The setup ends up being about 4 1/2 feet tall. I plant my tomatoes under this setup.
I also put half a cup of powdered milk in the hole when I plant tomatoes.

This is a good idea, thank you.

Cory Schmidt · Mar 21, 2016

That reminds me of another.. mix lettuce in with things like dill and carrots(that look a lot like weeds when short) to make it easier to see the row when cultivating especially when young.

WI Dan · Mar 21, 2016

Nothing earth-shattering from me, but wanted to share anyways:
mound dirt up over the tender LEEK plants:

Leaves, leaves, leaves! Nothing has helped our garden more: (pardon the rows of onions, I saw the other tip) than LEAVES! First they're mulch, then they're soil builders!

Good companions: Marigolds, Basil, and Tomatoes. (no pics)
Cucumbers chase the sugar snap peas and then reverse in the fall garden.

All the garden talk is making me ambitious...

Tonights feature by Ed Will,,gardening tips

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Similar threads