2011 Veggies

mcpurple

mcpurple

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Ok i took down my raised beds last year and tossed the wood thinking i was moving. so now this year i am going all my plants in pots witch kinda sucks but its ok. i will be using mixed soils of what i have from last years garden plus added bags of whatever i can get for free or cheap ( i have no cash for this garden it is all being done with no cash) then i will set on tarp and mix in alot pf powdered eggshells to the soil for calcium and used coffee grounds for nitrogen, also i am getting a few samples of some gauno to use. i am trying to keep this all organic this year. i still have a few months before spring but it is time to get things started and i am bored. i will start some seeds most likely next month to get them ready for the outdoors.
i will be doing tomatoes, peppers, radishes and pretty much everything i did last year except the corn. every thing will be in pots except the sunflowers.
i also have non veggie plants this year, i got a hoya,2 jade plants, 2 new spider plants in 1 pot, and a new foot tall cedar tree that i am going to make into a bonsia over time:-P. i will post pics when their is somthing to post. \peace
 
GodSlave

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Awesome! My plot is about to be tilled next week for the coming season. Going to bring in a load of compost mulch this year too.
I'm growing the usual, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, black eyed peas, green beans, squash, zucchini, carrots, onions, watermelon, and cantaloupe.
The pictures are from last year, but I thought it was a good way to kick off this thread... overlook the weeds, they took over when our work schedule got hectic and didn't have as much time to spend in the garden, weeds are a bitch!
Nothing like fresh veggies!








 
Canniwhatsis

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Ohhh man that was a purdy garden!!!!! I'm not totally set up for my garden just yet, but I did manage to get a 12x20 space tilled and amended for peppers and tomatoes, and I've got a 3x15 strip set aside for corn this season,.... prolly do tomatoes there next year since corn rips the soil so bad.

I've got 17 strains of peppers alone, and only 4 strains of tomatoes. A friend gave me 5 strains of squash she wants me to grow, but I've got nowhere for em! :( I have the room,... just haven't got the clay amended to anything that resembles soil.
 
The White Buffalo

The White Buffalo

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Nice gardens!

MCPurple-I'm doing a garden of mostly container veggies this year as well too. I'm curious what variety of tomato's you have had good luck with? I think we might be in similar climate? Stupice were the only ones that thrived for me last year but it might have been do to location more than anything. No real mold or fungus problems but just a general failure to thrive. The horribly late spring certainly did not help.
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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well i did some abe lincons and then some cherry tomatoes. they all were pulled a few weeks after planting do to having blight, i planted at the right time but the summer last year was awkward and after i planted it rained for almost to weeks giving me blight. this year i do not know what typed i am doing, prob some abe's, Cherri matoes, and mabye some others i will buy as starts. it was my first year last year doing veggies so i have not had luck with them at all really since the blight, they did grow great though even though it had blight they were about 4 ft tall when pulled. last year was messed up for alot of growers of all typed do to the weird waether, this year im hoping is better.

i see your from the oregon coast. what part?
im from southern oregon her in grants pass. it has a almost perfect climate here for all typed of growing
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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alright i got some pics of what i got so far.
i got plants that not veggies as well.
pics in order.
1.spider plant, jade,hoya and then running bamboo that i am cloning or at least trying to.
2.Jade plant that i am going to start to make into a Bonsai this summer
3.spider plant
4.Hoya plant. it has been doing bad for awhile now. it does really good and then slowly dies then comes back again. i need to figure this plant out. ANY SUGGESTIONS?
5.running bamboo plant im trying to clone.
6.my strawberries from last 2 years, they have made it all year outside in the winter again. i repotted them this year with new soil.
7.I think it is a baby cedar or red wood but i found it so i uprooted it and planted it and once its roots are established i will start to bonsai it.:mrgreen:
8.the holes i will fill in with good dirt for my sun flowers. these are the only plants not going in pots.
9. this is the soil i am using and steer manure,soil conditioner, and reg soil all organic and very cheap and full of organic matter.
10. re-planted strawberries and they are already starting to bloom cuz it seems like we are having a way early spring here in oregon.
11. the small planter box i made was made out of a old bench we were throwing away so i took it apart and made a planter box. its not pretty but it works and it was free to make.

i have mixed all my soil together to let it cook for a few months. i am going to be adding used coffee grounds, powdered eggshells, and a lil epsom salt today to it.

after i add every thing to the soil i need to test the soils PH and mabye adjust it.

how do you change a large amount of soils ph?
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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thanks Baja, i dont have a huge yard but it works, i have a nice big back yard but id have to cut trees to get enough light.
thanks for stopping in man.
 
bajafox

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That's cool, I just clicked the new posts and saw your thread so I stopped by

I plan to retire from growing mmj when my wife gets pregnant but gardening veggies seems like a really fun alternative
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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bajafox said:
That's cool, I just clicked the new posts and saw your thread so I stopped by

I plan to retire from growing mmj when my wife gets pregnant but gardening veggies seems like a really fun alternative
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Retire from growing weed?:-(
im just playing, with a kid in the picture i would think that is great decision, much props to you for putting kids first.

and yes veggies is a great alternative , and house plants as well are cool. ifi see wild plants i like i pick them and plant them or at least try to.:mrgreen:
ive learned alot from growing veggies and plan on using what i learned to grow MJ when i can again.
 
bajafox

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Yea, I'm hoping within a year I'll be in a position where I won't need to grow mmj anymore, although I haven't made a single dollar doing it in the 9 months that I have been growing...lol

What would you recommend as a good indoor house plant? I do have a decent patio where I live and was thinking about putting some lawn chairs and maybe a cactus or some kind of plant out there for the summer
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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well, i have not grown to many house plants and i by no means am any profession Gardner. but so far out of the ones i have i like the hoya the best, it seems hard for me to grow but once i figure it out it will look good. it produces really cool start shaped flowers that produce sugar sap that you can eat. i really like jade plants to. spider plants make good plants for hanging planters. alovera is a good plant to have around, it has good medical benefits and looks cool, and the money plant is another good house plant, those are the ones i have grown before. i will have more eventually. I am pretty sure ferns do good inside as well.

heres a few pics of the hoyas in bloom.:mrgreen:

these are not my plants flowers just from google to show you. mine is not doing so well again
 

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Canniwhatsis

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It's early for Co, but I'm thinking of starting my peppers and tomatoes for the summer run! :D I'd like to have em all in at least quart containers before I harden em off and plug them in the dirt. The corn and squash will have to wait and get sown outdoors since I don't have room under the lights.
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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Canniwhatsis said:
It's early for Co, but I'm thinking of starting my peppers and tomatoes for the summer run! :D I'd like to have em all in at least quart containers before I harden em off and plug them in the dirt. The corn and squash will have to wait and get sown outdoors since I don't have room under the lights.
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its a lil early for oregon to but i am getting a small head start.
i am gonna start a few things inside here in a month or so. and some stuff i will just plant straight into dirt when it is time
 
Canniwhatsis

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Anything special?


I'm planning on several strains of chili peppers, 6 plants each so I can harvest enough for a batch of green chili from each, plus I'll have Hawaiian peppers, and bolivian rainbow peppers to add heat. ;-)

Girlfreind gave me some basil seeds, really small leafed bush that's wicked strong, can't for the life of me remember the name tho. :dunce:
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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well i went to the grow shop today and got some jiffy root shooter and a tray to start my seeds, i still wont start anything for another month or so though. i also got a free bottle of multi zen nutes worth 25. they are chem but i am going to try this on one plant to see if it does any thing. the owner also gave me some free planters to.

i was also thinking of how i could do something different this year and i came up with planting a few tomatoes in my gutters on the house in front. the get sunlight all day, the gutters have not been cleaned so i figure theri is a bunch of decomposed leaf and stuff that can act as a medium and i might add just a hand full of dirt, and keep the gutter moist.

Peace.
 
Canniwhatsis

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I just tried some "Jump start" seed starter plugs from Hydrofarm. Worked awesome! WAY better than trying seeds in rapid rooter plugs. (not outdoor vegies, but the ideas the same ;) )
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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well i got a plant givin to me, it is not a veggy or house plant i dont think. i dont know what it is so if any one knows let me know.

also the other 2 pics are my red cedar tree i am going to bonsia, it has grown a lil bit but not much cuz they grow slow. i took a small piece of moss last week and placed it on the dirt to see if the moss would grow to add some features to the tree and in a week it has grown alot
 
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