2011 Veggies

billcollector99 said:

Beans and peas are vine plants, how would they make good ground cover?

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lol, i read it closer than i had thought:
http://https://www.rollitup.org/gardening/420198-starting-fresh-8.html#post5752495

i would imagine that once you're done picking your seeds you can pull the stakes and cover the ground with the vines? idk. 420god would know though.

mellokitty said:

i hear ya on the grass, i have about 25 x 50 that was lawn until 2 weeks ago, holy weeding nightmare batman! i was working on it last night and i was pulling up a whole black cloning tray *overflowing* with grass roots every other row. and now my seedlings are starting to come through so i can only pull the ones i know *for *sure are weeds.... *sigh*
i remember reading somewhere that peas and beans are good groundcover for overwintering your garden, i'm gonna try planting an army of kale and radicchio once my summer/fall crops are done.

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clovers make a really good cover crop for winter, they are a great nitrogen fix for the soil. the farm i work on we will be using clover for all the fields as a cover crop, it grows very fast to.
and also beans also help add nitrogen but i dont think they grow well in the winter

Hi mcpurple. Beautiful pics. It's great how with the 3sisters' garden, the squash really does keep the weeds at bay. Looking forward to seeing pics of this years crop.

thanks for stopping in fumble, but remember not all these pics in here are mine. just so you know, we got a few great gardeners in this here thread.


ok i planted my kong sunflowers 2 days ago now. they were almost three ft tall and stretched so i burried them about a half foot xtra. i got the whole row filled, i have smaller color full sunflowers between each big sunflower, i added a bunch of manure to it as well. i am gonna be getting free aged horse manure all summer long delivered and for free.

any way i will do a video update for real this time my next day off to show you guys how much every thign has grown.

if i took pics of it all, id have about 100 pics, a video i can use up 5 minutes and explain it all as well


peace guys

awesome row of sunflowers!!

thank you LG. ima bit worried that the smaller ones that are supposed to only grow to 18 inches are gonna get a bit to shaded, but what ever, what happens happens, i havent been in my garden much lately with this new job, but at least im still around plants, i have 6 xtra kong sunflower starts, i wish i could give them to some one on here, but i dont think any one is close enough. i was thinking of selling them for 3 bucks a pop though, the seeds were 13 i think the pots are only .25 cents each, plus the dirt used, and all the love i put into them.

does 3 bucks sound to high to you guys, i see them at stores for like 5 and they look like shit

I;ll buy em for 5! but im far as hell away lol Mine are almost 4 inches tall yay!

I think you could sell them for 5 depending on the container size and soil but Im sure you put lots of love into them.

id most likely just give them to you if i ever met you. they are in a half gal pot, with organic soil and benifical fungi in it.

i just remembered to that i saw a outdoor grow on here who used shopped trout in the bottoms of their pots and it seemed to do better then the ones with out. so i tried it, about a month ago i threw 3 good sized chopped trout in one side of my sunflowers and then covered them in roots oregonisms to help speed things up and covered them, they dont stink and i dug 1 up to see if they were decomposing at a decent rate, and to my surprise they where most mushy slime looking shit, so i think it is going well.
only about 5 plants will be using the fish though, i ran into a root in the bed that i could not get through, it is like a wall.

I saw the tread you are talking about I think, this dude was in australia and had some MONSTER plants... it works lol

EDIT: If you tried to give them to me I would flat out refuse them unless you accepted some mulla from me lol Thanks lol

Spooky night shots lol

whodat, i might take a small sample of your smoke in return for the plants, your bud always looks bomb.

the garden looks to be doing good as well, and ya kinda are spooky night shots. i see you got a net over the toms for support, i need to get some thing for mine, i just staked them up but i dont think they will hold to long, i have cash for cages for the other 6 now but i dont think i will get the cages around the plants now, they are getting very big and bushy exactly the way i dont like my woman, but plants is fine

whodat- those beds are going to be full in a couple weeks!! looking good buddy!

MC- 5$ should be fine and if you dont get people to by them drop down to 4$.

well i should have put them up for five or asked you guys before i posted them on CL, i got a call about 5 minutes after posting them for 3 or all 6 for 15, i got a buyer who wants them all, not alot of cash but its more then i put into them so its cool, 15 bucks gets me a 30 pack of beer yee haaaa

haha what u drinking? some natty ice?

littlegrower2004 said:

haha what u drinking? some natty ice?

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lolol or highlife i drink highlife sometimes.

When i was a kid we ate tons of fish, the ol man always had a trench we buried the guts n heads in. the next yr we would row plant over the trench line. it was rotated every yr so it was spread around. in the winter we also planted red clover in the garden area that was not growing greens n such. both fixed nitrogan in the soil. with composted chicken poop n rabbit droppings we always had a really healthy garden.
when i was a pup i really didnt enjoy gardening as it was a job that was required. as i got older i found i missed growing n harvesting n started back gardening in my own garden. its theraputic now where as before it took up time i thought would be better used doing something else. i was also very luckey to have a father that was able to mentor me through the areas that i must not have been paying attention to.
didnt mean to babble so much lol

indoor gardening has also become a passion over the years. the last 2 pics are plants that are 30 yrs old. they have been cut, devided, transplanted, and shared over the many years i have had them. my gf and i have proly a hundred plants or so inside year round. some are tiny some are big, but they all have a story behind them. 99% of them were either rooted from cuttings or were gifts from family or friends. it seems when people know you love to grow they always have this great plant the was given them by someone and the story goes on lol

Whats this?

its a begonia, rex type. ive got several different varieties. the first and 3rd pic are also begonias, but angle wing types. the anglewings get huge, the rex not so big. all aer easily rooted n ive proly 20 starts i give away all the time. some i start in a glass of water the others i just stick in a pot of soil.
bill you gona have to show me how to post big pics.im tech challanged n cant seem to figure it out.

4tatude said:

its a begonia, rex type. ive got several different varieties. the first and 3rd pic are also begonias, but angle wing types. the anglewings get huge, the rex not so big. all aer easily rooted n ive proly 20 starts i give away all the time. some i start in a glass of water the others i just stick in a pot of soil.
bill you gona have to show me how to post big pics.im tech challanged n cant seem to figure it out.

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I upload my pics to a host site, then use the image url to embed the image full size in the page. I rarely use the uploader any more, it is too much of PITA for me.


basically it would look like this

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minus the parentheses


On a side note, here is a shot of my red bell just fruiting





and the yellow squash