posted Sat, 07/28/2018 - 02:52
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Meatheads have gardens too
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Who here has a garden this year? How’s it doing? What have you got going. Fresh real veggies make eating clean so much easier. I don’t crave processed foods as much when we have real fresh food we grow.
We’ve been pickling our cucumbers. Finally nailed a recipe that our family/friends are addicted too.
Our tomatoes are just turning color now. Got a damn worm in a couple plants that I can’t find and don’t want to spray them.
The peppers (Serrano, bell, and jalapeño) are doing well this year.
The strawberries and mint are both growing like weeds.
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I miss my garden, now that kiddos are at a helping age and reading this, I need to bring it back to life. I do still have my fruit trees (tangerine, lemon, blood orange, orange, kumquat, peach, muscadine and meyer lemons).
I like picking wild mint and mushrooms.
Nothing better than hunting and gathering.
I grow corn, cucumbers, potatoes (obviously), radish, carrots, broccoli, spinach, onions, tomatoes,peppers, apples, strawberries, and we harvest blackberries from the roadside brambles. The frozen berries, potatoes and onions last for months on end.
Its great for getting the kids to connect with the earth and it grounds me. Everything tastes better. I wish I could grow more corn though, but it just takes up too much space, same with potatoes.
yum yum nom nom nom.
‘Connecting with the earth/grounds me.’ Well said. Thumbs up for a great selection of fruits/veggies
My garden is full of weeds... I keep trying to smoke them out but I can't keep up.
Can I have your address please, coming down lol
Lmfao....reminds me of a story once my uncle told me......we were in fire season where i lived at the time and there were jobs out for smokejumpers...I asked my uncle about the job and He said he was a smoke jumper. He said" I smoke one then jump in the pool"!!
Probobly more funny in person but hey, maybe someone else may get a laugh..
Puff puff give Greg. Stop being greedy
I’m from the Appalachian Mountains, & gardens are traditional both as a sustainable food source & also for extra income. We couldn’t make it without a garden! Between gardening, fishing & hunting, that’s how we keep our heads above water in this economy.
I’m big on gardening! Now I have very young children I had to drop the allotment but once they’re more capable I’ll start work on it again and they can help me while learning about the process. Or I’ll put a chicken coop on it and have some tasty eggs instead.
We have huge gardens.
JayD718I really enjoy growing vegetables, and gardening in general very much! It's actually a real passion of mine. This year, I kind of slacked off a little bit in the vegetable department, but I did plant a bunch of new tulip, daffodils, and other bulbs in the front of my house, bordering my beautiful multi-colored, and multi-species Lily garden, with pink hydrangeas on both sides. This year I do have just a few Big Beef and Cherry tomato plants in the yard, but nothing like I'm used to. But I usually, also have my huge Beefstake and Heirloom tomato's, red, orange, and green peppers, eggplants, basil, cherry tomatoes, and zucchini growing in my backyard. The zucchini just get too damn big though, and you need lots of room.
Yeah, there's nothing like fresh vegetables straight from the garden, that's for sure. My favorite would have to be the tomatoes and eggplant. My Beefstake tomato plants usually get about 7-8ft high, and I keep them supported by 8ft poles and gardening twine. The tomatoes grow almost to the size of softballs. Like 16-20oz tomatoes. There's nothing like fresh sliced tomato on a sandwich, or making gravy with fresh tomatoes! I never tried growing strawberries, are they hard to grow?
My tomato plants would grow so high and full, that I actually used them to help hide my "herb garden", when I lived at my last house. I would keep the "herb garden", tied down to just below the height of the tomato canopy. Even though my neighbors could see into my backyard, all they could make out was the huge tomato plants. Especially when all the huge tomatoes were growing all over these huge plants, you couldn't see anything inside of this wall of tomato plants. I was taking as good of care of the tomato plants, as I was of the herb garden, so these plants were so very healthy and huge! I had so many tomatoes, that I was always giving them to family, friends, and my neighbors.
Growing "herb gardens" was actually how I first learned about horticulture, but it actually turned into a true life-long passion of growing everything! At one point, I was actually considering starting my own landscaping company, but where I live, we have a cold winter season also, and there wouldn't be any work during that period, so I decided to take a different path.
Btw, for your worm problem, have you considered an all-natural approach, such as a spray, or treatment made from cayenne pepper or neem oil? Also, there are many other 100% natural remedies for insect or worm problems. I've had a lot of success treating fungal, pest, and insect problems with all-natural neem tree oil. And, one of the good things about treating your tomatoes with whatever all-natural remedy you choose, is that you can simply wash it off after picking them! If you ever want a second opinion, or have a question about gardening, just send me a pm. I do have years of horticulture research and experience from my "herb gardens".
Thanks for the advice. I’ve used neem oil in the past for spider mites on herbs but never on veggies. My tomatoes are flowering now; if I sprayed neem everywhere it’d seem like it’d get on the fruit ? Thanks brotha
My veggies and tomatoes would never be able to cover my flowers I had my ladies in 600 gallon pots ooooooooweeeee I’m getting flash backs. I always had the finest sours or OGs genetics
JayD718600 gallon pots!!! WOW. I never even knew that pots came that large! One of my favorite outdoor strains was Big Bud/White Widow.
Yup 600 gal If u want trees u need huge roots that get oxygen also aerate the water huge results. I would veg indoor for about 5-6 months throw them outdoor when the sun was right and bam I would have trees like huge bushes I would need ladders to reach the tops.
I would range anywhere from 8-12 lbs per plant
JayD718That's great! Where I was at, like I was saying, I had to keep my girls hidden, so I couldn't let them grow to their full potential. I had to keep them trained and trimmed, but they were still monsters. With a strain like BigBud/WhiteWidow, I'd still average about 5lbs per plant. And if you were doing this where I think, I was on the whole other side, so it's a lot different, ya know.
Very different lol that strain is made for weight and quality very commercial but still one of the original top strains for sure. 5lbs is still a nice result some dudes don’t get even an oz
JayD718Or some nice Durban strains.
Gardening is the shit I did for a living when I was younger but it was all medicinal :-) there’s lots of organic pesticides bro look into neem oil. I would suggest for you to go to the stoner hydroponic shops they got way better shit than Home Depot. They have some nice lines of organic fertilizers like botanicare, gen hydro, Humboldt, bat guano etc make sure you top ur tomatoes u will have monster bushes. For the strawberries grab some covers. Sun is really hot and the weather is really weird I would also suggest a green house
JayD718Yeah, neem oil is one all-natural product that I recommend as well. It was always very effective for me! And what's best about it, is it's a fungicide, pesticide, and miticide all in one natural form!
This is the first year I didn’t do a garden, and I hate it. Business is so crazy, I’m barely keeping the yard mowed. I’m not complaining. “ blessed to be stressed”, but I miss going out there and dragging the bounties in.
JayD718Cutting the grass is the one thing I don't do. I'm in a condo now, and there's a guy that comes and does the whole area. But, even cutting grass is enjoyable for me! I used to love doing it at my last house.
JayD718Yeah right! It's like, it just gets in your blood after having a couple successful harvests! I feel so relaxed, with my hands in the dirt, the sun shining on my face, and the beautiful smell of the outdoors! Awwww!!
I am a gardener as well.It is one of the best ways to have clean foods.I have tomatoes,okra,peas,and as it gets cooler kale,cabbage ,broccoli ,yams and purple potatos.
Copper sulfate may help with the worms but they make a two day spray that is very effective and is gone in five days,as long as it’s sunny.
Nice I’d like to try growing okra next year. Thanks for advice on the spray; been very sunny
JayD718How do broccoli grow, I'm curious? That's something that I've never even seen growing.
StevebCold weather crop