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Food gardening
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Seeker of Rock
Let’s Go Brandon!
I’m a Landscape Architect by profession and have grown my own food with compost fertilizer and hand weeding techniques. The best peppers, tomatoes and watermelons ever…pumpkins, sweet potatoes, squash, avocados, mangos, starfruit, lychees, limes, kale, cabbage, lemons and grapefruit. I don’t have the time or space right now but always buy produce from local Florida farmers and use what they have in stock.
Mick Doobie
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I don't necessarily agree, everyone is entitled to an opinion....but I have to say the recipe drenched in red sauce is kind of cringe.
60's guy
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I have this lone 30-35 year old peach tree on the south side of my property. It's old and weather beaten. Heavy snowfalls and ice here in northern CT have taken their toll on the old tree, but it refuses to die. Used to be, years ago, in full sunlight until my neighbor planted 5 ft tall Aborvity trees 25 years ago that are now 25 foot tall and blocking the southern sunshine. It still keeps producing fruit, though. Gotta a couple hundred 1/2" baby peaches on it now, but a lot of em usually fall off before they mature. Had a few dozen mature peaches on it last season but the frigging squirrels ate every damn peach because the woman in charge round here told me stop filling bird feeders up with sunflower seeds a hundred feet away from that peach tree. Big mistake! Squirrels follow birds wherever they dine...and ignore that peach tree when otherwise occupied elsewhere.
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Mick Doobie
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It's something, isn't it. You plant or have an existing tree, fruit grows, ripens, you eat the fruit. Should be that simple, but it is not. Diseases, bugs, wildlife, a grab bag of uncertainty and the potential for disappointment. The apple, cherry, peach trees I planted are outgrowing the cages. Peaches, it's loaded, too many really, the weight. Some have little red spots, disease, fungal I think. It'll get worse if I don't intervene, might be too late this year. I say peach, but that one also has another graft on it, pretty sure plum. It has one single plum, I think single because the wind blew off the blossoms while first flowering. Cherry tree seems to be growing well, although there does seem to be some leaf curl. Maybe those leaves are just young as of yet. Though it is still in a cage, the deer are eating it, the overgrowth. The 3 in 1 apple trees, cedar-apple rust. I've sprayed them once, should again. So far so good, small apples.
There is a tree fallen over the property line onto my property, suspected peach last year, but no fruit. This year I think it was pollinated from my peach ("fruit cocktail") tree. Maybe. It just needed a friend. Peaches are too high for the deer to reach, some, maybe. Might get some peaches from it, if the birds don't pick holes in them. Squirrels stay inside the wood line or others areas where there are hickory nuts, acorns. 3 groundhogs caught feeding on the wildflower patch I made for the wife. Bastards. Moles, or voles, around and in my vegetable garden. I'm thinking cayenne pepper, sprinkled, or perhaps a tea with garlic added. Bugs not too far off in the future, learned that shit last year. Gotta take a more proactive approach this year.
In short, it ain't as simple as sticking things in the ground and later simply enjoying the fruits of your efforts, and labor, expense. Grew things back in the city, except for tomatoes attracting rats, which I had never seen one before then, not much of a problem. Pretty corn, perfect. Out here there is diversity, if there isn't one thing there is another. Definitely have to stay more on it.
Oh, the aborvitae(sp?), we have one planted by previous owner. Bagworms. Never heard of such a thing. Have eaten the pointy top. Always something.
Good luck with your peaches.
There is a tree fallen over the property line onto my property, suspected peach last year, but no fruit. This year I think it was pollinated from my peach ("fruit cocktail") tree. Maybe. It just needed a friend. Peaches are too high for the deer to reach, some, maybe. Might get some peaches from it, if the birds don't pick holes in them. Squirrels stay inside the wood line or others areas where there are hickory nuts, acorns. 3 groundhogs caught feeding on the wildflower patch I made for the wife. Bastards. Moles, or voles, around and in my vegetable garden. I'm thinking cayenne pepper, sprinkled, or perhaps a tea with garlic added. Bugs not too far off in the future, learned that shit last year. Gotta take a more proactive approach this year.
In short, it ain't as simple as sticking things in the ground and later simply enjoying the fruits of your efforts, and labor, expense. Grew things back in the city, except for tomatoes attracting rats, which I had never seen one before then, not much of a problem. Pretty corn, perfect. Out here there is diversity, if there isn't one thing there is another. Definitely have to stay more on it.
Oh, the aborvitae(sp?), we have one planted by previous owner. Bagworms. Never heard of such a thing. Have eaten the pointy top. Always something.
Good luck with your peaches.
Mick Doobie
Maderator
Was gardening out back today getting some more things in the ground before rain tomorrow evening. Will be busy with other things tomorrow so figured I should get the grass mowed. Done in sections, around the perimeter and round & round towards the center. Close to the center, there it was. Snake, Copperhead. Fark. About a foot and a half, small, juvenile. Where there's one there's probably others? Black snakes no problem. Copperhead, I ain't diggin' it.
Ran over it with the rider.
Ran over it with the rider.
PorterhouseMusic
Mitakuye Oyasin
Lots of rain this season has us off to a great start. It's my wife's labor of love.
Squash
Tomatoes
Okra
Jalapeños
Thyme
Squash
Tomatoes
Okra
Jalapeños
Thyme
dogooder
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I tend to have a green thumb? Whatever I stick in the ground seems to grow? There is nothing but red clay down here and everything still grows. N.Y. had way richer soil.
dogooder
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I am at the point where I will have to do something about my barn. Either tear part of it down or fix it? I don't use it. 3/4s of it is on a concrete foundation that could be built on. The roof is coming off the left side of it and the rafters are rotted out and there is nothing left to nail to. I can't do the work any more so I am inclined to tear that section down. I should be able to repurpose the wood or sell it? There is no concrete foundation on that left side. The foundation can be seen in the photo.
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Slouching Raymond
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Last year was meagre, but it looks like a good crop of blueberries this year.
It was in the back garden, but I installed an above ground pool there (it is gone now) 20+ years ago,
and moved it to the front garden. It grows slowly, but may gove a mugful of berries on a good year.
It was in the back garden, but I installed an above ground pool there (it is gone now) 20+ years ago,
and moved it to the front garden. It grows slowly, but may gove a mugful of berries on a good year.
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Seeker of Rock
Let’s Go Brandon!
You have the drums elevated or just let the water pressure from the top trickle push it out?
dogooder
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The barn sits probably eight feet or more higher than the garden. I built about a two foot high stand for the barrel to sit on. The water collects from a gutter on the side of the barn, fed into a 55 gallon drum which in turn feeds another barrel at the garden. I have a splitter on that barrel so I can feed water down to the yard. Everything is gravity fed and works quite well. I have also gotten around to start to put the plastic on the roof of the "greenhouse."
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Seeker of Rock
Let’s Go Brandon!
Sweet! Good job, man. You could do some cool things with that wood and metal roofing.
dogooder
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I finally found some guys that will actually show up and do some work so I will probably fix the roof.
Seeker of Rock
Let’s Go Brandon!
Even better!
The slab alone is worth its weight in concrete
Actually and then some…prep, form, deliver, screed, finish. $$$$Geek spoiler alert, but concrete is my favorite of the many construction materials out there. Steel/aluminum/titanium are next but I’ve never worked with them except as fasteners or rebar.
dogooder
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We decided on an easier fix without taking any roof off. The rafters are solid, the joists are rotted out on the ends where they poke out to the eaves and there is nothing there to nail to. We will slide some shorter joists in next to the existing ones so they poke out into the eaves, affix them to the rafters, and then nail the roof down to them and put new facia on. Probably cut out the rotten sections on the end to slow it down from creeping back. Should outlast my sorry ass. I could fit a couple of cars in that thing with a little work lol.Even better!
The slab alone is worth its weight in concrete
Geek spoiler alert, but concrete is my favorite of the many construction materials out there. Steel/aluminum/titanium are next but I’ve never worked with them except as fasteners or rebar.
Seeker of Rock
Let’s Go Brandon!
I helped a buddy do something similar years ago. All you need is the nailer splice and your golden. Rafters are most important.
Sky Blue Lou
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Why the fuck would you put a car in a garage?