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How does your garden grow?
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Duwop
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Good looking beets Larro. Today I took a stroll thru the garden and since the garden season is winding down I got a couple of pic for the thread. Seems that the broccoli is coming along nice. Anne has been robbing the broccoli for dinners a lot lately. The lettuce is providing well also but the red cabbage has been slow to head. Anyways hope all of you enjoy our pic seeing how you can't taste the fruits.
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Larro Darro
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Dragoneggs' wife is the beet farmer. I'm betting it gets too hot here for good beets.
Your stuff is looking good, and I always enjoy garden pictures,. I planted broccoli the other day for the first time. I started them under the lights then set them out. I know I'm way late, but I'll see what happens. {I may build the green house around them} Do you guys eat the leaves off the broccoli? I've heard they make good salad material.
Duwop
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Haven't eat the leaves yet but just the other I was wondering if and why one couldn't. Thought about contacting extension agent about it. Beets do well here too and we freeze and eat the leaves off them. The entire plant is a super food but you shouldn't eat them more than a couple three times a week. We find that we have more options for our winter diet with them. My father in law live in Hawthorne Fl and tried to grow beets but said it was a waste of time. We buy our broccoli slips from a local grower for some reason I don't do well with small seeds I think it's the clay loam here it keeps the seeds to wet and they just rot. But I am in the process of putting up a 12x30 foot green house for my wife. Frame is all built in my shop but is to heavy for me to drag out and have been waiting for enough of my kids to show up to get it down to the garden, placed and squared then it's off to Roanoke to a landscape suppy for 11 mil sheeting. Pics to come later. All in all the total cost will be at about 600 bucks can't buy a prefab for that price giving the sq ft
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Larro Darro
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We talked with a contractor who had done work for us before about a nice green house/garden shed. {15X24/12X24} He is so busy he hasn't got back with us, and frost isn't that far off. So I'm going to cobble together a cheapo greenhouse with plastic sheeting over 4X4 posts and chicken wire. I bought some standard 6 mil sheeting today, and I have been asking around for any used UV protected plastic I can score from local growers. So far I have came up empty, but if you don't ask you will never get it. I did get a promise of some black shade-cloth, which will come in handy next summer.
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Larro Darro
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Turnips, chocolate bell pepper {with a couple of wind blown turnips}, ACP, Cilantro {going to seed}, the deer found my garden, Pruden's Purple, collard plants, Mini Sweet peppers and yesterday's picking.
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Larro Darro
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Today's picking. We sliced a tomato for supper tonight. Mighty good.
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Larro Darro
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And I did get some free greenhouse material. It was freeze-cloth, not shade cloth. Never used it before, so I need to Google before I start building. It looks too thick to let much light through. I might try to make the sides with plastic sheeting, and make the top with freeze-cloth, but make it where it can be taken off and put back on. It has the feel of a mild winter, so hopefully I won't need it too badly.
TomSeller
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Nice looking tomato !!
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Larro Darro
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It's pretty sad that my first good looking tomato of the year comes a third of the way through November. Next year I will be using the grow bags of Darro Dirt and some sort of sub-irrigation from the start.
