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kadiyaker

Its nice not having to rely on overpriced market produce, right! Now only if I could get an avocado tree to produce here. How's the garden looking? Any rain lately? It DRY here.
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Bluffer · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject:

My Garden is slowly fading away. Only Maters & peppers doing good in this heat. Need rain here also but water is not a problem, have a well. Idea

No contaminated anything either. really paid off this year. almost 3doz sweet corn in the freezer, Squash, lettuce & green-beans earlier.So many tomatos been making ghetti sauce & pico just to use em up.

Looking forward to the fall Maters going in the ground this Sept.
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ironmanstan · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:13 am Post subject:

We all better start practicing our garden techniques, the future could be headed to the past. High gas prices, and vegetables that make you sick. Just look at what a little extra effort yeilded for Bluffer and Kadiyacker. Nice gardens and plenty of fresh goodies thats called reaping the bounty of your labor. Besides, if you think about it , how long has it been since our families before us all had garden plots in their backyard. A rear tine tiller might be a good investment. I usually grow tomatos every year, this i did not....bad move on my part. However i have never planted for the fall, this year may be my first. Very Happy

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CastnBlast · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:32 am Post subject:

Same here - I planted a harvested a 1lb 12 oz beefmaster tomato this year. Bigger than a grapefruit. I should've taken a picture, but didn't think about it till it was too late. I suppose I could've taken a pic afterword, but It wouldn't 've looked like a tomato-more like fertilizer Shocked

. Anyway I picked up 2 pickup truck loads of compost from the dump this spring - that stuff is awesome & it's free. If you want a great garden go buy the brush recycling area at the dump & pick some up. you have to load yourself, but it only takes a few minutes. The piles are high, just drop your tailgate back right up to it and load'er up.
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kadiyaker · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:54 am Post subject:

When I was kid my grandma had a garden that was every bit of acre to an acre and a half. If it could grow in Hostyn, TX you could find it in her garden. The garden has gotten smaller and smaller as she has gotten older, its down to a little patch by the well. Now at 90, when I asked her about a garden this year she said not anymore, too much work - in an old czech accent. Learned a lot from her and she still makes the best kolaches I have ever had.
My tomatoes are finally coming in - picked about 20lbs yesterday, will pick another 20 this weekend. We've got fungal blight up here that eats the plants from the ground up, so if the heat doesn't get them the blight does.
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Uncle D · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:01 am Post subject:

Looks like we will need a new topic. Gardeners Corner... Tips from the pros.

Castnblast...is that compost at the city dump at the crosstown extension? Sound like just what I need.

2salty4U · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

Bluffer · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:48 am Post subject:

funmeters1 · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 319

Can't grow a decent tomato on the island and it has been 6 years since I have had a good tomato. The baseballs you get in the store just ain't cuttin it.

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texmike · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:47 am Post subject:

Can't have a garden here. But I sure can supply the deer meat. Then I can have a garden.
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Bluffer · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:40 am Post subject:

kadiyaker · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:25 pm Post subject:

texmike- I'd be willing to trade for some axis meat. I don't think I've had a better tasting game animal.
I'm sure you can grow something between all that rock???
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:07 am Post subject:

Amend the soil and they will grow. Good old compost works everywhere and actually makes for a more disease free crop than just using fertilizer. In the heat and humidity of the coastal bend it doesn't take long to have some ready to use [ compost, that is]. Wink

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