Whos getting ready for 2012 Veggie Season :-D !!!

[Canniwhatsis]

All ready started my Hot peppers for the summer run, got Thai, Kung Pao, SuperChilli, Hawwian and Tricolors already flowering and producing peppers.

Time has come to start the tomatoes and the rest of the peppers, I've scored almost 20 strains of tomatoes, can't run em all, but the red and yellow pears are going in, beef steak, early girl, romas, and cherry's to name a few.

Peppers include Bell, Anahime, New mexico big jim, Habanero, Jalapeno, serrano, Hot bannana, Wax, and San Marconi (sp?)

Vines,.... Man did I get a shit ton of cucumbers this season,.... 14 strains, not running all of em, but the container one has my eye. And lemon and apple cucumbers on the more exotic end are getting run without a doubt.

Also doing standard pumpkins, button squash and Zucchini.


Got a fist full of carrot's and radish,..... and haven't gotten a good Root bed set up yet!!! Last years roots SUCKED! I'm gonna have to do a raised bed for roots with the local soil conditions.


And corn, again scored more kinds than I can possibly run unless I do a single stalk of each.... So I'm probably gonna just run 4-6 stalks of 3-4 kinds.





It's gonna be a crowded and busy vegie garden season this year!!!!

 

[Nader]

Can't wait to try the Charentais Melon.

It's AMAZING. The most intensely-flavoured melon ever. Make sure that you do not water much in the last few weeks. It's ready to pick when the fragrance is potent on the blossom-end.

 

[GP73LPC]

chickens love extra unwanted salads and all sorts of other kitchen waste as well,,

chicken will eat almost anything from what i've seen...

a buddy has about a dozen at his weekend cabin. i'd hate to be a bug out there. in fact, the killer chickens have already extinguished the bug population.

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

chicken will eat almost anything from what i've seen...

a buddy has about a dozen at his weekend cabin. i'd hate to be a bug out there. in fact, the killer chickens have already extinguished the bug population.

Here's a neat little tip for you all your gardeners out there
that like to use animals to help aid you in the garden.


Lots of different animals can be used for different LABORIOUS
tasks...
For instance.

Tilling and land clearing. Pretty much all vegetation and
small saplings.
You would fence in the area and let loose the following animals.
-Goats
-Chickens
-Pigs
EVERYTHING will be eaten... even the poison ivy.

Now if you want to have some bug control
youll want to get yourself some DUCKS.. they can safely
be left within the garden because they wont eat your plants like chickens will.

:-D My friend uses ducks, hes going to give me some eggs this season if im ready for them :-D Cant wait to have a Mr. Bills hahahah

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Ducks?


I thought it was the summer 2012 vegetable run,.... not what foul and live stock you were running thread!

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

Ducks?


I thought it was the summer 2012 vegetable run,.... not what foul and live stock you were running thread!

Veggies and Animals go hand in hand my friend :-D

If your as serious about gardening as I am... you'd work in method of producing energy from what you have on hand, and with some piggies around youll have a lot of crap to use.

IE- Im buying 4 piggies this season and building myself a
biogas digester so I can collect some methane and use that
as an energy source to either heat my greenhouses or
heat my fish tanks if need be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=but5ntRMQQc&feature=related

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Honestly I'd love to! But I'm in Suburbia, and livestock is not allowed. The city gets pissy about livestock as pets too, so no miniature pigs or anything.

 

[Maxime]

Tomatoes :
Costoluto Genovese
Costoluto Fiorentino
Velvet Red
Provenzano
Martinos Roma
San Marzano Lampadina
San Marzano Nano
Palla di fuoco
Canestrino 1
Bisignano 2
Saint Pierre
Fiaschetto
Snowstorm
Anna russe

Peppers
Aji Dulce
Arbol
Anaheim
A guarda ciello
Cerise Fort
Jalapeno
Hanabero
Piment D'espelette

Others :

Zucchini Romanesco
Zucchini Rond de nice
Anis
Cerise de terre petites lanternes
Basilic Genovese
Marjolaine Douce
Mélisse
Concombre Tondo Liscio
Basilic pourpre
Cataire

Sorry most or them are in french, i dont know their name in english

 

[Weird]

just ordered a bunch of heirlooms

 

[Weird]

Amish Paste
Black Cherry Tomato
Black from Tula Tomato

Marketmore 76 Cucumber
Japanese Long Cucumber
Delikatesse Cucumber

Early Prolific Straightneck Squash
Cocozella Di Napoli

Pink Beauty Radish

Lincoln Garden Pea

Rocky Top Lettuce Mix

European Mesclun Mix

Danvers 126 Half Long Carrot
Little Finger Carrot

Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach

 

[s13sr20det]

how to grow a square watermelon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJCpiAhBHe4&feature=share

 

[BornToBeWild]

Germinated 100 Big Boy tomato seeds and put them in dixie cups took me forever! Have them in garage by the window, and want to sew some sweet corn yum!

 

[Nader]

March 2 and 3 are especially good days to sow seeds for aboveground crops!

The veg seedlings I have under my "Inda-gro Pro PAR" are growing so fast and zero stretch with just 11.5 hours of light. Once my bud is ripe, I'll obviously bring the hours up. I've gotta get myself another one of these pimp ass lights... they started designing ones now for greenhouse use... they auto-adjust the intensity based on the amount of sunlight present, so that the plants are never under or over lit.

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

March 2 and 3 are especially good days to sow seeds for aboveground crops!

The veg seedlings I have under my "Inda-gro Pro PAR" are growing so fast and zero stretch with just 11.5 hours of light. Once my bud is ripe, I'll obviously bring the hours up. I've gotta get myself another one of these pimp ass lights... they started designing ones now for greenhouse use... they auto-adjust the intensity based on the amount of sunlight present, so that the plants are never under or over lit.

Tis why I am starting to plant my seeds tonight.
I got over 1000 to get into my dishes to germ um out.

Link to lights please?
I would like to read a little about the tech they have involved with
the solar sensors.

I was thinking about building solar sensors on motorized solar panels to follow the sun. Should be able to work that into controlling light intensity from artificial lights in greenhouse scenarios. Thanks for that :-D Just added to the efficiency my friend hehe

 

[GP73LPC]

I got over 1000 to get into my dishes to germ um out.

:jawdrop:

 

[Nader]

I can't count how many seeds I germinated last night

Here's the link to the "greenhouse" light option http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8veVFwKxRM

Can't wait to get another inda-gro!!

 

[bonecarver_OG]

wow u guys are serious about growing veggies so big lists of varieties! half of them cant propably handle the heat here..

this year ill even skip growing tomatoes since its a hustle in the hot summers. dont know really what all im gonna plant, but chilis are obviouslly allready planted and growing waiting for warmer temps outside! im going to plant more sweet peppers and hot chilis this month..

gonna be a nice year i hope!

peace all

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

wow u guys are serious about growing veggies so big lists of varieties! half of them cant propably handle the heat here..

this year ill even skip growing tomatoes since its a hustle in the hot summers. dont know really what all im gonna plant, but chilis are obviouslly allready planted and growing waiting for warmer temps outside! im going to plant more sweet peppers and hot chilis this month..

gonna be a nice year i hope!

peace all

If you don't mind me doing so, id like to give you a little tip about tomatoes... in my mind if you grow anything outside...you HAVE to grow toms with it :-D

Toms can handle A LOT OF HEAT... and the LOVE heat at night.
HOT nights is a healthy trigger for toms to start ripening.


But if you say you got to hot of temps.. plant her in an area
that gets some shade, since im sure your sun is intense and 5-6 hours if direct sun in your area would be GREAT for them.

and also.. the #1 key thing, which is why i suspect you might not
want to plant toms is water... you probably have to water like crazy and that's a hassle sometimes im sure. SO... if you read this thread, you'd see this, but ill say it again.

IF you want to avoid having to water your your plants EVERY WEEK...yes i said it im lazy and I don't even want to have to water one time a week.. I water my garden only 1 time every 2-3 weeks.

MULCH MULCH MULCH MULCH ..

Mulch at a minimum depth of 6 inches.. THE BARE MIN..
I personally do 8-12 inches of mulch.

My mulch consists of EVERYTHING...
Mainly things that are already starting to decompose..
so you can say I mulch with compost :-D

-Leaves.
-Small twigs branches(add great aeration and drainage)
-Rotten STRAW(can be purchased from any landscape supplier or farmer, they usually will give it away or charge like 50cents a bail)


NEVER USE PLASTIC or FELT in the garden... they are pointless unless you pull them up every year. dont waste money on the thin ones if you do use them... get the 6mil+ thickness.
But I still dont advocate purchasing these to prevent weeds or hold moisture in. In my opinion they cause more harm then good...

 

[bonecarver_OG]

yes its true - the only ones that do get along well here are the ones that are grown in the shade. i live in one of europes hottest places, and this is the 2nd most sunny spot on earth. not all veggies like continues sun with no clouds, specially when temperatures go above 40ºC. anyhow - tomatoes and peppers are comercially grown here during winter in greenhouses. im considering for some coming year a small greenhouse for tomatoes etc, but atm the cost of covering the greenhouse structure i got is too much hehe

here in summer any vegetable needs to get watered minimum once a week. tomatoes and peppers need to get watered each day.

water is scarce here and costs much. three is even limits on usage. i got warned last summer from the authorities for using too much water for my veggie plot.. hehe

i aply mulch several times during the season. its for sure a life saver. i dont even dare to imagine the usage of water without mulch. i do pretty much as u do, using garden scraps, but i also do use coco fiber and compost and when season is over i turn it all in to the soil.

this year im concentrating even more on chillies and peppers than last year and the task of the summer will be to keep the heat-sensitive rocotos healthy thru the summer

anyway good points and tips. even if its not new to me im sure it will help ppl who want to grow veggies

peace!

 

[Tom Hill]

Ready? Set? Go!!