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    Default 2017 Garden Thread

    Turbo is slacking so I figured I'd start it off. Small garden this year for me. 19 cucumber plants(pickling, slicing, and burpless), half a row of red taters, 6 jalapeno plants, 6 better boy mater plants, 12 straight neck squash and 4 zucchini squash. Put baskets on the cucumbers yesterday. Maters are blooming and the rain has been plentiful. Will post pictures later this evening if the rain holds off. What's everybody else got this year?

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    Have a small raised bed at the house that is doing great so far

    1 better boy tomato, 1 big boy tomato, 3 okra, 1 bell pepper, 1 straight neck squash, and 1 cucumber.
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    You slackin', fool.

    I need to snap pictures, for sure.

    I've got 22 tomato plants, a pile of okrees, maybe 8 squash/zucchini each, three half rows of corn (no idea how many... probably 75' total, maybe), some cantaloupe, watermelon, eggplant, and ton of peppers.

    Corn's popping nicely. Squash and zucchini about the same. Tomatoes look good. I always wait a little late for the carrots, but I'm giving them another try.

    What else you fools got going on?
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    Nick, I didn't know you had a green thumb?

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    All split between two gardens, one at house, one at farm:

    40 tomato plants (Cherokee Purple, Big Boy, Better Boy, 4th of July, SunSugar, Sungold)

    40 pepper plants (bell, jalapeno, poblano, banana, habanero, ghost, and a few others)

    Two rows of summer squash (crookneck and zucchini)

    About 20 cucumbers

    Lots of bush snap beans

    Some bush lima beans

    A few cantaloupes (need to find room for some more melons)

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    I wish I had some sunsugars.

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    I just did about 40 blue lakes and 20 watermelons
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    Just started getting mine planted at the farm.

    I've got 30 Celebrity Tomato plants (started from seed), 4 rows of Silver Queen corn, burpless cucumbers, summer squash, butter beans, green beans, cantaloupe, watermelon, and peppers.

    I'll post up a better pick once I finish planting this week.


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    Quote Originally Posted by mallardman25 View Post
    Nick, I didn't know you had a green thumb?

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    More of a yellow but it's better than no thumb.

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    Maters, 2 rows of pretty red taters, peppers, cukes,squash etc. What's up the Marion Maters this year. Could not find anything but single plants. The dude said some to the effect you are lucky you getting um one at the time. I bought Rutgers and better boys.
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    Planted mine a little late this year but got it finished last week. I do a raised bed with drip irrigation around all the plants and some micro spray heads on the beans.

    Tomatoes--- Better boy, Celebrity, Roma, Marion and cherry

    Peppers--- Yellow and Green bells, Jalapenos

    Straight neck squash

    Zucchini

    Blue Lake beans

    Burbless Cucumbers

    Charleston Grey Watermelon for the kids

    We have been eating strawberries for a month now. This is the 3rd year for these plants I put in and they are finally making enough to pick.

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    Sweet corn patch as always, a few maters in the raised beds and my blueberries and blackberries.



    My little girl working in the sweet corn

    cut\'em

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    what's the best pickling cucumber to plant?
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    I haven't found one I love yet.

    I will.
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    Quote Originally Posted by turbo View Post
    I haven't found one I love yet.

    I will.
    my grandma makes the best homemade pickles you will ever put in your mouth. But she doesn't plant a garden, someone always gives her the cucumbers. no cucumbers = no pickles. We always have regular cucumbers but this year I am going to do both to ensure I get some pickles
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    I haven't quite figured out the process/variety combo that yields those glorious Clausen pickles.

    I think the heat from the picklin' bath softens them up a bit, but I orta be able to get close, right?
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    Alum and ice bath before you jar them. I buy the darkest cucumbers I can find, as they work better than the yellow/light green.
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    Have any of y'all planted magda squash.
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    - all organic and right out the back door -
    looks like Sanford N Son's with the assorted fencing around them because the armadillos been giving me hell

    130sq' of raised bed boxes
    60sq' of asparagus
    12sq' of potatoes above ground in straw
    a handful of 3-20 gal pots for tomato, kales, sweet taters, and a wire bin of potatoes

    1) Better Boy tomato - in a 6gal pot to keep it in check
    2) Straightneck yellow squash
    2) Crookneck yellow squash
    3) Black Beauty zucchini's
    2) Burpless cucumbers - some hybrid from Bonnie, suppose to be bush cukes but showing very early signs of vining
    1) Black Beauty eggplant
    x) staggered plantings of Contender green beans
    4) Beauregard sweet potatoes - in an orange shrimp culling basket
    x) staggered plantings of purple, red, and Yukon Gold taters
    3) spaghetti squashes - transplanted from the compost pile


    -several leftover Swiss Chard plants, Dino Kale and Red Russian Kales, as well as Brussels Sprouts, carrots, and red onions.
    -picked a few shoots for a couple meals of asparagus from some 5yr earthen asparagus beds.
    -some spinach still hanging in there

    -strawberries been putting out for 3 weeks
    -Muscadine vine is trucking along with some baby clusters forming
    -got some peaches making on my two 3yo trees
    -short a cross pollinator for my 2yo Mandarin tree, and did not buy one so wont be any oranges
    -3yo pear trees are happy but no signs of fruiting yet.
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