Garden Time, JINMAN ??????

[Bird]

Jim, I sure understand that situation; sun and water will do it. The house we had before I retired in Dallas had the front door recessed in far enough that it only got sun on the bottom half, but it also got wet when I watered the yard, so eventually I took it down and refinished it, and added a glass storm door. And now the one step and 3 or 4 feet of the south end of our 12' x 22' deck gets the sun every afternoon and gets wet when I water the yard. I put an extra coat of Sikkens Cetol Dek on the whole deck about a year and a half ago and Margaret told me this past week that I need to work on that end of the deck again. I had noticed that, but just haven't done it.

 

[Egon]

Good morning Thomas. Are you getting the same impression as I that several "Chiels" are applying some salt to our cold sores!!

 

[BB_TX]

Hey BB_TX (Bill)! You started this thread and now I haven't heard much from you. How is your garden going? How about some pictures. I'm not going to let you off that easy.

All I have done so far is till it all and put my onions in.
I was so impressed with your garden last year I wanted to make sure you documented it again.

 

[Thomas]

Good morning Thomas. Are you getting the same impression as I that several "Chiels" are applying some salt to our cold sores!!

Morning Egon.
Naaaa,can't believe those's southern gentlemen would do such a thing...wellll maybe tiny tad,

Enjoy these warm temps,gotta feeling old man winter not done w/us yet.

 

[Bird]

Well, that 100% chance of rain forecast for last night did happen, I guess. I got about .15", a power outage for a couple of hours during the night (with no wind, thunder, or lightning ) and the 100% chance forecast for today has now been reduced to a 30% chance and I think that's overly optimistic, so I just now turned the sprinklers on. At least there's still no wind at all and it's 62F out side.

 

[jinman]

Well, I've chronicled the rain we got in the Photos forum, but here is a shot of my tator patch experiment. I decided to leave the hay in place to see just how it would work out. Getting potatoes to come up through a foot of hay is slow in comparison to getting them to sprout from dirt, but I'm pretty excited about our success so far. I have potatoes over a foot tall. I hope they are making lots of tubers below ground/hay too.

 

[Egon]

I'm gonna try the potato method if I can scare up some mown dead grass from last year.

 

[BTDT]

In this pic, the 20" tire to the left of the tomato cage (the tire with the other tire leaning on it), is where I am going to try the potato in the tire growing suggestion. As the plant comes up, you add more hay, soil, etc. Then you add more tires, more hay, until harvest, then just kick the whole thing over and pick potatoes up off of ground. We'll see.

 

[jinman]

I'm gonna try the potato method if I can scare up some mown dead grass from last year.

Egon, remember this is "super hay." It's been walked on by a donkey, layed on by two old dogs, and all of them did unmentionable things into and around the hay. That makes it magical.

 

[Egon]

Well, maybe I should try some seaweed?