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  1. velocetwo

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    Anyone have your our garden? Show us what you have.
     
  2. velocetwo

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    Wow were off to a interesting start. Doesn't look like there are any cover crops :) just a

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  3. Jedi

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    I'll shoot some pix later today to post... just getting the garden started though
    so not much to see just yet, except in the greenhouse.

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    Outdoor - 1/2 dozen each - from seed
    Tomato - pic - http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?p=140404638#post140404638
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    Indoor - windowsill - Round 2 from seed - to move outdoors
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    Indoor - windowsill - from seed - to stay indoors
    Basil - 6
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    We haven't had warm enough weather yet to move any of mine out of the house. Will be doing a little soil work today and tomorrow though. Testing today and amending tomorrow. If the weather ever warms up enough I have a bunch of tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, and some herbs all started and just about ready to go outside.
     
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    Those tomatoes are big for this time of year! Fresno Hot's and habaneros.
     
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    Found some shots of last years garden. The weather here didn't turn out too well last year and the garden showed it. The leaf lettuce did well and was tasty, but not much else did well. Thought about putting in another bed this year, but the weather doesn't seem to be shaping up much better. Have a bunch of seeds in this year but it's still been really cool here. We'll see how it goes!??
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    Thanks. Just lots of water, and some old leaf compost :D It got down to 34 last week, was worried..
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    I do arugula, basil, carrots, brussel spouts, and tomatoes. This year, Luca got a small section for some watermelon and cantaloupe.

    We've been using the arugula and basil on pizza for about a week now (we make great dough in a Panasonic bread maker, then grill the dough on the outdoor grill, before dressing and baking). All the other "crops" still have a ways to go. Nothing showing on the tomato yet except for some initial flowers.
     
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    Ben, can you post up a picture of your garden there? I have a spot I'd like to build up in my backyard and always looking for ideas in our strange climate and not so deep soil in central Texas.
     
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    I am not too sure yet. I just have an itch for a green thumb. Your backyard is similar to what I'm looking at doing.
     
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    I would try peppers, they're very easy to do, and will produce for several months. On the tomatos, I water mine once in the morning, and once in the evening. I've been told this can stunt root growth, but figured that isn't a big deal as long as I water them :)

    If you try tomatoes, I wouldn't put them in full sun. I've tried in the past, and they tend to yellow if I do that. Where they are at now, they only get real direct sun for 4 or 5 hours a day.

    As for soil, when I tilled mine up, I mixed in some leafs that had been composting behind the fence for around a year.

    Do you have real sandy soil, or is it nice and blackish?
     
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    Neither. I have thin soil, so I'd build up. Even the grass in the other part of the yard is still recovering from last year's crab grass infestation, which I hope is mostly gone away this year. The neighbors' yards (on two sides) let theirs go, and it killed my yard. There are rocks, more like small pebbles from the thin ground on half of the backyard, which are under the shade. In that area, I also have a tree that drops annoying berries all over the place. Growing grass and doing something with those berries (in small bushels) are difficult to deal with. If I hung a net, that would be the answer but that ain't happening.
     
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    Try raised beds at least a foot high. Tomatoes like full sun, your friend may have had yellow from overwatering, once a day should be fine. it's ok if they get a little wilt in the afternoon. Don't mix in un composted green waste (leaves) promotes bad fungus. buy a good bagged compost to mix with your soil.

    Toss the man made fertilizers out, use a natural product like fish bone meal, Dr Earth is a good brand, it has a half life ten times longer than standard bone meals, so you only have to fertilize twice a year, once when you plant and once in July. water it in real good for a day or two, then it will do it's thing, slow release......You will have nice tomatoes.

    PS you have to replace at least 25% of your soil the next year if you plant in the same place tomatoes suck up a lot of nutrients.
     
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    Large for this early in the year and you almost had frost? That makes for tricky gardening. I just got the last of my vegetables in.
     
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    Not normally a concern, it actually set the record low for that day
     
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    Al Gore warned us that we would have these problems
     
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    I picked around 60 or so tomatos over the past three weeks. There are a few more going, but I think it's too hot now to make too many more.

    How is everyone elses garden going?

    :D
     
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    Kinda wilty.
     
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    Dry there too? Rick Perry (governor) called for 3 days of prayer a while back for rain......it didn't work :(
     

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