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[St. Phatty]

got to keep watering the pots.

fortunately Mother Nature took care of that yesterday.

I love it when it rains enough to give me a break on the watering schedule.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

so the happy frog is available( i know but i hate fox farm products for their fungus gnats) i a finicky soil dude. So middlebury has a mix they are selling at my local coop ill give it a go.

heres the lineup for this year, i have a rel that works at a seed store so i can get most anything folks need

 

[Littleleaf]

Garden is rocking now. Been weeding and found one weed I couldn't pull up. It's a female. She can keep growing in the spinach as long as she wants. 3rd pic

 

[Sunshineinabag]

BAM!

BAM!

Going strong......ain't done yet

and a week or two later.......

 

['Boogieman']

Asparagus

Asparagus

4 of 8 bare root asparagus crowns have shown signs of life! :yay:

 

[Green Squall]

4 of 8 bare root asparagus crowns have shown signs of life! :yay:

Is asparagus a challenging crop to grow? Its one of my favorite vegetables, yet I've never had it in my garden.

 

['Boogieman']

Is asparagus a challenging crop to grow? Its one of my favorite vegetables, yet I've never had it in my garden.

Honestly, I don't know. This is my first time growing asparagus. It's a perennial that produces for 20-30 years from what I read. It's also one of my favorites.

 

[CowboyTed]

Is asparagus a challenging crop to grow? Its one of my favorite vegetables, yet I've never had it in my garden.

I've both started a new asparagus bed (recently) and I also have lived in homes with well-established old asparagus beds.


There's nothing particularly challenging about growing asparagus. It's a game for the patient, though, since you won't eat much asparagus in the first few years if you plant from seed. It takes a few years before the plants are established well enough to form fat spears.



I'm just watching my baby asparagus coming up in the garden, plants that I started from seed last year. They are neat to watch, mostly because year-old asparagus are cute: they are tiny. The fattest spear so far was about 1/8 inch. In years one and two, you just have to watch the spears come up, and let them go to seed. Hopefully, you can eat a few spears in year 3. Each year, the spears get fatter and more numerous.


Far better than starting a new bed is to buy a house that has an old healthy asparagus bed already growing. We did that once, and the asparagus was a complete surprise our first spring in that house. Neither the seller nor the real estate agent mentioned a word about asparagus. We sure enjoyed it, though!

 

[art.spliff]

Victory Gardens Homestead Tour| May2020 Family of Nine Growing FOOD On 3 Acres

Victory Gardens Homestead Tour| May2020 Family of Nine Growing FOOD On 3 Acres

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[caljim]

Bok Choi getting started....

Kales, cabbages and a few lettuce doing their thing....

More cole crops, and other stuff, in a make shift cold frame....

 

[Green Squall]

Hopefully this will keep the critters out lol.

 

[rod58]

what sort of " critters " have you got to warrant that squall ?
we have bulk kangaroos here at the moment but luckily they don't eat my caulis or broccoli . just trample shit !
good looking dirt though .

 

[redlaser]

looks like that would slow down some turtles Green Squall, maybe rabbits if it goes higher. That type of fencing has a nice look to it.

Rod, are you talking about groups of those body building kangaroos moving through your place?

Sounds like science fiction to watch even though I know it happens, guess at least they don’t eat your plants.

 

[Green Squall]

what sort of " critters " have you got to warrant that squall ?
we have bulk kangaroos here at the moment but luckily they don't eat my caulis or broccoli . just trample shit !
good looking dirt though .

Not sure really, but I'm thinking some kind of rodent? You can't see well in the picture, but I have netting around the fence because rabbits were somehow squeezing through.

 

[rod58]

looks like that would slow down some turtles Green Squall, maybe rabbits if it goes higher. That type of fencing has a nice look to it.

Rod, are you talking about groups of those body building kangaroos moving through your place?

Sounds like science fiction to watch even though I know it happens, guess at least they don’t eat your plants.

yeah mate , those ones ! big bastards and the dog just ignores them . probably best thing to do .
soon though and i'll have my .22 and i'll be eating them .
those bloody rabbits are destructive enough squall !

 

[Green Squall]

yeah mate , those ones ! big bastards and the dog just ignores them . probably best thing to do .
soon though and i'll have my .22 and i'll be eating them .
those bloody rabbits are destructive enough squall !

My yard is absolutely saturated with rabbits. It's insane. I've thought about taking down a few with my pellet gun for the meat, but here in the Northern Hemisphere, they say not to eat rabbit in months that don't have an "R" in them. Not sure if this is an old wives tale, but apparently it has to do with risk of parasites.

 

[redlaser]

yeah mate , those ones ! big bastards and the dog just ignores them . probably best thing to do .
soon though and i'll have my .22 and i'll be eating them .
those bloody rabbits are destructive enough squall !

Wow, smart dog I suppose, have to be difficult to overlook those guys.

Seems like you’d have to be ready for a fist fight just checking on your garden. Probably hear them coming though.

Looks like some lean meat once you get it on the plate though, have to wonder what that is like.

Green Squall, can see that netting now that I look closer, we use that on little fruit trees to keep deer from eating leaves.
That woven fence is a lot of work but something about that look makes it more appealing, ties it into the earth visusllymire naturally or something like that

 

[Betterhaff]

chicken wire

 

[starke]

My yard is absolutely saturated with rabbits. It's insane. I've thought about taking down a few with my pellet gun for the meat, but here in the Northern Hemisphere, they say not to eat rabbit in months that don't have an "R" in them. Not sure if this is an old wives tale, but apparently it has to do with risk of parasites.

That's interesting. Here in Florida the same is said about oysters. Has to do with the cooler waters in the fall and winter months.

 

[Green Squall]

That's interesting. Here in Florida the same is said about oysters. Has to do with the cooler waters in the fall and winter months.

I'm not sure I buy into the rule, but think its best to be vigilant and thoroughly inspect all meat or any wild animal for that matter before consumption. I mean, rabbit meat is good to harvest in April but not May?