TOR Victory Gardens

[Oswego]

My mom's not into actual farming or gardening for production or results I'm finding out. Think it's more of just the work she likes. She's never taken a scientific approach to it and that blows my mind. She never catalogs anything she does or plants. No notes, nothing. Every year plants bought from a different big box store. I spent 2 hrs with her yesterday just explaining the basics of how she needs to start a garden journal and note watering times, feedings, species, dates planted, location, etc. She will have a good year and a bad year and no idea what was done differently or how to replicate the good results or avoid the bad.

Crazy how into this stuff one can get. I enjoy digging into stuff as I'm sure everyone knows by now so I'm getting a ton of joy out of the research. I can't imagine how happy Ill be once I start actually getting positive feedback with real life growth....or tweaking things when I notice things turning bad. Ive learned a ton just patching some dirt spots with grass seed, planting a windflower bed, and starting my little berry patch. Made a TON of mistakes up front and leanred that research needs to come first and I can't be guessing with this stuff if I want positive results.

I got Dr Earth for the granular fertilizer & went with a base of Fox Farms Ocean Forest Potting soil with some local sifted soil I added in.

My berry patch has gone crazy with new growth. Guessing 6" on just about every plant. I just hope the root growth underground matches what I see above ground. If all keeps well next year I should have jars and jars of berries

 

[Taco Loco]

My mom's not into actual farming or gardening for production or results I'm finding out. Think it's more of just the work she likes. She's never taken a scientific approach to it and that blows my mind. She never catalogs anything she does or plants. No notes, nothing. Every year plants bought from a different big box store. I spent 2 hrs with her yesterday just explaining the basics of how she needs to start a garden journal and note watering times, feedings, species, dates planted, location, etc. She will have a good year and a bad year and no idea what was done differently or how to replicate the good results or avoid the bad.

Crazy how into this stuff one can get. I enjoy digging into stuff as I'm sure everyone knows by now so I'm getting a ton of joy out of the research. I can't imagine how happy Ill be once I start actually getting positive feedback with real life growth....or tweaking things when I notice things turning bad. Ive learned a ton just patching some dirt spots with grass seed, planting a windflower bed, and starting my little berry patch. Made a TON of mistakes up front and leanred that research needs to come first and I can't be guessing with this stuff if I want positive results.

I got Dr Earth for the granular fertilizer & went with a base of Fox Farms Ocean Forest Potting soil with some local sifted soil I added in.

My berry patch has gone crazy with new growth. Guessing 6" on just about every plant. I just hope the root growth underground matches what I see above ground. If all keeps well next year I should have jars and jars of berries

I need to find a way to blueprint my garden, very odd shape, and then keep better track of when things are planted till fruit maturity.

 

[Oswego]

I know a guy who has CAD and has drawn out the locations to plant over 120 bulbs and where they go in a 500sqft bed he is so OCD ....

You feed me the dims and I can document it for you and send you a PDF. Better yet if you have a plot plan to start with.

& we have a pro land surveyor in our mix to help as well cause I'm used to drafting architectural drawings not topographic or land survey.

 

[Taco Loco]

I know a guy who has CAD and has drawn out the locations to plant over 120 bulbs and where they go in a 500sqft bed he is so OCD ....

You feed me the dims and I can document it for you and send you a PDF. Better yet if you have a plot plan to start with.

& we have a land surveyor in our mix to help as well.

I might just do that, I will have to measure the inside rows, I could then embed the Pdf map on Excel for reference and log the data.

 

[Silverback]

Do you have room for a golf cart with the Tacoma, off road trailer, tables and my shelf bed in your garage?

I do

 

[Anathollo]

This is TOR. Every thread is a BS thread.

@Taco Loco is right. We do need to try to keep threads on topic. The BS thread is here for BS.

 

[CowboyTaco]

@Taco Loco is right. We do need to try to keep threads on topic. The BS thread is here for BS.

Oh, I completely agree. I do wish we could keep threads on topic a little more, but I started a thread about fuel additives and @Taco Loco was the first response with a picture of Gatorade.

Just the pot here, callin' the kettle like I see it.

 

[Oswego]

Statistically we aren't as bad as one would think. Over 100,000 posts in general discussion sub forum's and only 15k in the builds. Seems legit

This time next year the subsistence threads will RULE ALL

 

[Anathollo]

Oh, I completely agree. I do wish we could keep threads on topic a little more, but I started a thread about fuel additives and @Taco Loco was the first response with a picture of Gatorade.

Just the pot here, callin' the kettle like I see it.

Touche

 

[Oswego]

Dang rabbit has been chewing my blueberry bush's right at the base. Now I'm thinking of taking the 12" tall 150' roll of chicken wire I got and protecting the base of each bush individually just in case they jump over the 4' perimeter fence. They hit two bush's and both are bad enough to really piss me off. I won't be able to use the 12" tall roll as a sacrificial base to bury and rot away under the 4' roll I got but I'd hate to lose any shoots when they are growing so good right now.

picking up the t posts and cable tomorrow so I can put it up late afternoon. Curved stakes I got next to EZ-UP's HD black flat POS stake.

 

[Taco Loco]

@tex cow peas dark green row.

 

[Taco Loco]

 

[tex]

Nice looking cow peas.

 

[Oswego]

Curbside P/U @ tractor supply isn't all it's cracked up to be. only store to have the hd t posts was 1+hr away. Ordered last night for P/U today. Got a text mid afternoon telling me the order is ready for p/u. Get there and they don't have the round posts I ordered to hang the gate from ....derp. Guy tells me I need to go into the store for a refund. I do and go to customer service where I wait in line. Get up front and the CSR tells me I need to go to the register. Wait in line again. Think I may just take down the barrier I have everything leaning up against and use those 4x4's. I never planted the vines for that barrier and robbed a few 2x6's from it to fix my deck already. I do not feel like standing in another line today & the barrier/trellis is goofy anyway. Got (2) 10' t posts for birdhouses/motion lights/trail cameras

 

[Silverback]

I put a tarp out next to the stock tank and dig out all the dirt from it(all but maybe 2" of rock and dirt on bottom) and placed on the tarp. Lined tank with 6 mil black plastic, poked holes in bottom and duct taped around the top. Put dirt back in. Only took about an hour but damn it was hot! I made the mistake of grabbing my black aluminum shovel without a glove on.. it was hot! LOL Waiting on TSC to call me and tell me the other two tanks I ordered are in. Need to get this garden done!

 

[Oswego]

IDK how you guys do it down there in that heat. I'm taking a break for the day & it's only 90* here & with humidity they say it feels like 100*. Just gotta got get some beer and my tasks are done. Wanted to get more done, but it is what it is.

Once it turns dusk and cools down Ill start laying out my corners and fence elevations with my laser. It's green but still hard to see in full sun at the distances I need to shoot it. This way I can start tomorrow off running full speed and it's gonna be 10* cooler tom so the manual labor will be easier.

 

[Taco Loco]

IDK how you guys do it down there in that heat. I'm taking a break for the day & it's only 90* here & with humidity they say it feels like 100*. Just gotta got get some beer and my tasks are done. Wanted to get more done, but it is what it is.

Once it turns dusk and cools down Ill start laying out my corners and fence elevations with my laser. It's green but still hard to see in full sun at the distances I need to shoot it. This way I can start tomorrow off running full speed and it's gonna be 10* cooler tom so the manual labor will be easier.

Currently 94, feels like temp at 102* here, and I will still get in the 105* Jacuzzi, .

A lot seniors don’t retire here and more up North... their age, slower circulation and arthritis tells them otherwise and when Yankees retire, a lot of them move South for a reason... now you know the rest of the story.

Sister N law lives in central/North Maine, 6 months winter, and ~3 weeks ago they had 4 or 5in of snow... hmm, no thank you.

 

[Oswego]

Somehow we are in a humid subtropical climate in my region thats supposedly similar to Houston.....IDK - Rich could speak to that comparison.

2 hrs drive N with few hundred feet elevation gain and that changes drastically. Can go camping 2hrs away in the Pocanno Mts and have it be 90* in the day but 50's at night w/fog in the worst of July heat waves. Here it stays hoter overnight.

Just trimmed some more of my blueberry and rose bush's. I never had a clue how much growth you can get when you do some proper pruning. I'm amazed. Now I feel bad I neglected my rose bush's for so long. If my head wasn't in the sand for a decade they would of been epic botanical masterpieces by now not 4' tall straggly OK looking bush's

 

[Anathollo]

IDK how you guys do it down there in that heat. I'm taking a break for the day & it's only 90* here & with humidity they say it feels like 100*. Just gotta got get some beer and my tasks are done. Wanted to get more done, but it is what it is.

Once it turns dusk and cools down Ill start laying out my corners and fence elevations with my laser. It's green but still hard to see in full sun at the distances I need to shoot it. This way I can start tomorrow off running full speed and it's gonna be 10* cooler tom so the manual labor will be easier.

You have to take little siestas to cool off. Just too damn hot down here to work all day long right now.

 

[Taco Loco]

16lbs of cucumbers and onions; yielded 12 pints of Bread n Butter pickles and 6 quarts of Refrigerated Dill pickles, 1.5lbs of sweet peppers; yielded 3 quarts.