How does your garden grow?

[TomSeller]

I planted 750 one year and had them coming out of my ears...

You must be able to hear really well. 750 onions in your ears is a lot.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

How many feet of row is 200# of potatoes?

The onions I know because I planted 750 one year and had them coming out of my ears. 1000 onions is really impressive..

The rows are 150-180', 9 rows. Most of the potatoes were cut once some twice. I planted closer than I normally do to try and keep them smaller. The people at the Farmers Market want small potatoes. I planted 100# last year and sold every potato I could dig.:thumbsup:

 

[sixdogs]

You guys are killing me. Four below Zero F this morning and two and a half feet of frozen corn snow on the gardens. Even the maple sap isn't running yet. Is there a sweet corn variety that matures in forty five days?

When I lived in Maine it was common to start sweet corn indoors in those tree seedling flats for softwoods. There were maybe 150 plug holes to a flat. After an early transplant some might also hot cap or run plastic tunnels over the corn. I never did corn like that but lots of others did and it worked well. A little extra work but not much to do in late winter in the North. The corn came out great that way.

You must be able to hear really well. 750 onions in your ears is a lot.

I can hear fine. It's the remembering part that has me stumped. What were we talking about?

The rows are 150-180', 9 rows. Most of the potatoes were cut once some twice. I planted closer than I normally do to try and keep them smaller. The people at the Farmers Market want small potatoes. I planted 100# last year and sold every potato I could dig.:thumbsup:

I plant one eye to a plant and can get a huge yield of slightly smaller potatoes that way. Your nine rows at 150' to 180' ft is an admirable achievement. Don't tell me you plant these by hand?

 

[Jstpssng]

I planted a few seeds inside last week; tomatoes, peppers, celery, lettuce.
It will be a while though before the 2 feet of snow leaves my garden.

 

[Larro Darro]

I have a few hills of acorn squash coming up.



With a little more help from Bad Word than I wanted, I was able to rig up some recycled hay string for the sugar-snap peas to run on.



I used the hand plow to work the green beans this afternoon. They are coming along pretty good. Another couple of weeks and I will side dress them and lay down the soaker hoses.



This Thursday through Saturday the signs are in the breast, so that is when I'm doing the bulk of my planting. I have peas, corn, cukes, squash, melons, banana cantaloupe and no telling what else in my big seed bag. If my luck holds, I will even have Friday and Saturday off from work, so I might even finish it.

Larro

 

[vtsnowedin]

With a little more help from Bad Word than I wanted, I was able to rig up some recycled hay string for the sugar-snap peas to run on.

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Larro

He thinks you have made him one deluxe litter box complete with entertainment center.
I occasional till up toys I lost in the garden "helping" my mother garden when I was about four.

 

[Larro Darro]

He thinks you have made him one deluxe litter box complete with entertainment center.
I occasional till up toys I lost in the garden "helping" my mother garden when I was about four.

You are right about the litter box. The cats are doing their part to 'green' up the garden.

 

[lakngulf]

This year I am trying a Bean Lean. I grow veggies, mainly tomatoes, on a short pier because it gets full sun before the rest of the garden. Problem is it gets too much sun in July / August. This year I am planting the Rattlesnake Beans on the west side of the pier, and will let them grow as high as possible to provide some afternoon shade for the tomatoes on the east side.

the Bean Lean



I have some more wire and will put another row at the top

 

[The Suburban Farmer]

I addition to our "regular" garden, this year my wife and I are going to try "square foot gardening" in the beds closer to the house. From what we've read, and from our neighbors' experience, it seems like you can get a pretty attractive yield out of a little bit of dirt this way.

I'm not 100% convinced since I grew up plowing the garden patch every year instead of putting seeds in raised beds with grids, but we'll give it a try this year and see how it goes. Probably something like pic attached:

 

[Larro Darro]

I addition to our "regular" garden, this year my wife and I are going to try "square foot gardening" in the beds closer to the house.

I'll be doing some "round foot gardening". Last year most of our tomatoes got early wilt, so we are going to try pots with potting soil this year.