Garden time...Oh boy!

[Bird]

Jim, the heat won't hurt them at all as long as they have enough water.

 

[RobJ]

Here is what I have after 4 weeks. The red potatoes love it here. The corn is doing ok. Not much rain since planting so this weekend I cranked up the pump and watered from the pond. Usually 3 hours watering in each zone. I'm goinging on a smaller scale this year. Also planted some more corn just in case.

You can also see my weed friends coming up. I knocked them down after this pic.

 

[jinman]

Rob, that sure looks like good soil for potatoes. We used to grow them in a place that had sand about 4 feet deep. Watermelons loved that sand too...and careless weeds, and bermuda grass, and.... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Bird: We've given the stuff plenty of water. The first inch is dry on our gage, but below that everything looks wet. If the tomatoes keep growing like they are, they'll be a foot tall by next weekend. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[HEC]

Nice looking garden Jim , it will be quite awhile before I can get mine in up here in Maine.I have planted a few tomato seeds in the house to get a head start on things , that way I can get the different varieties I like.I plant mine deep also it seems to work fine for me. Your tiller did a fine job of breaking up that new sod , you would have had a hard time to get it like that with a dics harrow for sure.I would like to have some sand on my property like yours.I know what you mean about gardens in our younger years,what a drag that was,now I love it.I grow way more than I need , just give it away.
Enjoy,
Herb

 

[gsganzer]

I found some un-opened pumpkin seeds from last year. When are you supposed to plant pumpkins? These are the giant, goliath, get the front end loader variety.

 

[jinman]

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I believe they advertise those as needing 120 days to mature. If I were planting those, I'd back up 4-1/2 to 5 months from the date I wanted to pick them. Probably anytime in May would be good.

But hey...I'm the guy who didn't plant tomatoes right, so I'm not a recommeded source of planting info. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[jinman]

Oh yes! One other thing. Sometimes I get busy with projects and forget to take pictures. That's the case on a little side project at the garden area. We needed to move the driveway across the barrow ditch before we put up the fence. There's an exisiting corner post near one end of the fence and rather than having to put in two gate posts, I want to run a continuous fence up to a single post and then put in the gate to the corner post. The existing driveway across the ditch was out of place and had a 6" diameter fiberglass pipe. What some folks get away with for culvert amazes me. I had an old 12" culvert and decided to dig up the old culvert and replace it at the new driveway location to the garden.

Here's a couple of shots of the finished project. It only took a little over 1 hour to do, start to finish.

 

[BB_TX]

As Jim said, check the time to maturity if the package has it on it. I bought some pumpkin seed last year from the feed store in a generic package (no info on time to mature) and planted them end of July/1st of Aug. First time I ever tried them. They matured just in time for the grandkids to pick them about a week before Halloween. Smaller variety though, more like the size you get in grocery stores.

 

[jinman]

Different view.

 

[flusher]

Re: chicken wire

I decided to try my hand this year at no-till, weedless gardening. Got four 3'x30' beds prepared starting last month.

Decided to use 2'-high poultry netting around each bed. The kicker is that the fencing has to be removable to work on the plants. Solution: use 1/2" PVC pipe and fittings as a frame for the wire and 3/8" rebar stakes to hold the sections in place. Don't have deer around here, but there are a few rabbits and some gophers (soon to be eradicated). Hope 2 feet is high enough, but can always add more sections to raise the fence.