Garden Thread - 2021

F-Stop · Mar 18, 2021

730dc said:
not sure were you located or if you got or compost for free but check it out i got some a year or two ago https://www.organicmushrooms.com/organic-mushrooms/organic-compost.html

Thanks fir the link. A bit far but I like knowing there are other resources.

I thought about getting a bunch and tilling into my clay yard. Wish I had time to tend 20, 30’ rows.

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on_the_rox · Mar 20, 2021

Trying something new. Putting in a hugelkulture bed. My elderly gardening neighbor suggested it. Been a lot of work so far......

https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelkultur

F-Stop · Mar 20, 2021

Interesting. Looks nice. Never thought about doing this right in the yard. This is how I filled half my raised beds. Then a couple feet of soil.

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on_the_rox · Mar 22, 2021

Added a truckload of slightly aged vow manure yo the hugelkulture bed. This thing talks s taking on a life of it's own. It better pay off in the end.

Alphabrew · Mar 23, 2021

I have a bare spot in my field from where I had some brush piled that I have since moved and burned. It occurred to me that this would be a good spot to experiment with no dig potatoes.

I got some seed taters from TSC and cut them up today, will spread them out and cover them with straw, grass clippings, etc. tomorrow (hopefully). We’ll see what happens...

ArmedInMd · Mar 23, 2021

Alphabrew said:
I have a bare spot in my field from where I had some brush piled that I have since moved and burned. It occurred to me that this would be a good spot to experiment with no dig potatoes.

I got some seed taters from TSC and cut them up today, will spread them out and cover them with straw, grass clippings, etc. tomorrow (hopefully). We’ll see what happens...

It was a little wet to till when I planted my first set of potatoes so I decided to go the no till route as well. First I put down card board and cut some holes for the seeds to go in. Then put compost, straw, compost and some mulch the neighbor gave me. Hope we both have luck!
I am working on putting in another set of potatoes the "traditional" way next to them too see how things work out.

ToBeFree · Mar 23, 2021

Cut the seed potatoes Sunday. Drying some on screen now. Going to dig a trough tonight and cover in black cloth I have on hand. Warm the soil up a day or two and then plant the tubers.
Tilled and put composted chicken sht last Tuesday.
It was nice and dry. Temp of soil was 40F on Sunday.
Need a little warmer.
Got bunch of onions along with carrot and peas seeds.
Pics later

lazarus · Apr 6, 2021

Wife is going nuts(er) with all the starts. A couple more weeks and a bunch can go in the ground. Garage is half filled with pots and grow lights. I just hope the DEA doesn't come by. I just finished my orchard yesterday. Planted some of the trees last spring, a couple more this spring and moved around the little saplings I had gotten last year and I planted intentionally dense. Last year it was fenced only like 25x25 with a 5ft fence and t-posts. This year I buried 10ft 4x4 and got extra fencing. So it is fenced about 46x48ft now and spread out the little saplings (the bigger trees started out properly spaced). I added a couple pear trees.

So it now stands at 4 apples, a plum, a plumcot, 2 cherry, 2 almond, 2 peach, a 5-in-1 peach and 2 pear. All dwarf varieties. Also 4 grapes and a grape arbor (just finished the arbor yesterday, grapes were planted last year up in the garden later in the season. Just transplanted them a week ago).

Also strung wire along the 4x4 posts to keep deer from jumping the 5ft wire fence. Deer had jumped the fence late in the season and ate the 4 apples I allowed to grow on the trees last year. Like seriously the day before I was going to harvest them. Found pieces with deer tooth marks in the orchard. I didn't expect the fence to seriously deter them, but still annoyed. This time it should stop them. I hope. Similar construction has stopped the deer the two years we put up the main garden (5ft fence with 3 rows of wire above that up to 8ft in height).

I do need to move gates. Main garden gate needs hinges, rather than wire, and it is moving down to my orchard. My wife's garden I got some rectangle steel and welded it and cattle panel up to make her a gate for the main garden. I need to weld on hinges and weld the hinges to the fence posts (steel posts are already sunk where the gate is now).

Blacksmith101 · Apr 15, 2021

Picked up a seed catalog today at Gifford's Farm Market in Cecil Co., by the way they had several kinds of seed potatoes and onion sets in stock. The catalog was from Rohrer Seeds Est.1919 located in Lancaster PA.

Looking through the catalog reminded me of a fun thing I used to grow. Popcorn is something the kids really enjoy, you can even pop a whole ear without shucking it for something different. Also grew Broom Corn.
Pop Corn on the cob (No relation to Bidet's Corn Pop)
https://www.giftofcuriosity.com/indian-corn-popcorn-in-your-microwave/

Links
Gifford's (just over 2 miles from J Lowe's Guns/Tactical Shepard)
http://www.giffordsfarm.com/

Rohrer Seeds
https://rohrerseeds.com/

F-Stop · Apr 15, 2021

Is that the place on Red Toad with long driveway?

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Rick Sanchez · Apr 15, 2021

Fruits and herbs!

Blacksmith101 · Apr 16, 2021

F-Stop said:
Is that the place on Red Toad with long driveway?

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Their store is 1553 Biggs Highway Rising Sun, MD 21911 but I once went to their farm, was following someone, to pick up a load of hay and it may have been on Red Toad.

F-Stop · Apr 16, 2021

Blacksmith101 said:
Their store is 1553 Biggs Highway Rising Sun, MD 21911 but I once went to their farm, was following someone, to pick up a load of hay and it may have been on Red Toad.

Thanks. I will research. Last year I got plants from place on Red Toad. They were selling direct to public because all the spring shows and such were cancelled.

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Blacksmith101 · Apr 16, 2021

I was looking up my planting zone and was surprised to see that Maryland runs all the way from zone 5B to 8A quite a spread.
Planting Zones
https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/Default.aspx

I also came across a site that might be helpful to the many varied gardening and homesteading interests of MDS. Gardening, animal raising, canning, even do it yourself chicken pluckers.
Morning Chores
https://morningchores.com/

Joseph · Apr 20, 2021

Start checking on your asparagus plants if you have them. Mine have started coming up. Just a few but they are coming.

FrankOceanXray · Apr 20, 2021

Joseph said:
Start checking on your asparagus plants if you have them. Mine have started coming up. Just a few but they are coming.

Amazing how nature provides. A powerfully nutrient dense plant, deep roots, presenting itself first well ahead of others at the close of winter and rebirth of the growing season.

steves1911 · Apr 20, 2021

Couple more weeks and we can start putting all this in the ground. Germination rate was excellent on everything.

oberyn · Apr 20, 2021

It's looking like it might be a great year to plant early! I just bought a house in the city, but have two 4'x12'x2' and a 3'x28'x1' raised beds that should be good to me this year. Used to having a ton more in-ground space, so we'll see how it goes.
He's a little long winded, but check out The Rusted Garden on YouTube. Great gardener with very helpful videos and is MD based!

FrankOceanXray · Apr 21, 2021

steves1911 said:
Couple more weeks and we can start putting all this in the ground. Germination rate was excellent on everything.

That is lovely!

Blacksmith101 · Apr 22, 2021

Warning!!!
Widespread frost warning for Cecil County for Friday morning It is supposed to go down to 33 tonight. Well we did have snow fluries this morning.

You may want to cover any tender young plants you have.

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