What Are Your Garden Tricks?
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That's just what we call the orange 5gal buckets we sell at the Home Depot. The cartoon character's name on the bucket is "Homer D. Poe". Below is a pict of the ones on my back porch. Also, the black 'file cabinet' is my home made smoker. Does a great job with about a $10 investment!
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Yup that's what I was thinking. Thanks for pic. But what are we gonna do about the ELEPHANTS?
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I think that in Oklahoma, the biggest advantage for a bucket garden is that I can get the plants under cover when our frequent hail storms are predicted --- like this coming Tuesday evening.......
Also, as I understand it, El-ef-fonts are not fond of garlic or unicorns (long, nasty story, there). So, a garlic eating unicorn will solve any el-ef-font issues. I usually charge for this advice, but I'll let it go as a 'public service' donation. Tax deductible, of course.
Also, as I understand it, El-ef-fonts are not fond of garlic or unicorns (long, nasty story, there). So, a garlic eating unicorn will solve any el-ef-font issues. I usually charge for this advice, but I'll let it go as a 'public service' donation. Tax deductible, of course.
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Makes perfect sense. I can protect from weather and bring them into garage if I needed to. Frost not hailstorms are my concern in east/central Maine. Although not so much beyond May 1 till Oct. 1.
I'll put a plastic Unicorn (you know they are not real) and grow garlic in the garden. You think that'll do?
I'm picking blueberries often to avoid splitting of the berries. Also water the ground not the berries and leaves. Today got 3 cups. So far this year about 5 cups total. Maybe over a gallon of berries for the year the way it looks. Low strength fertilizer organic granules I'm continue to use. I saw a crow fly over as I ducked under the bird netting. They must be watching how, they are smart!
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Fresh blueberries may be my favorite berry to eat fresh out of the garden (with blackberries being a close second)...I'm sure that bird netting comes in handy! Happy harvesting!
First time I had to release a bird inside the netting happened this morning. The netting around the base of the structure had a gap. Even though it was very small, the creature was also. It was on a corner where I bunch up the netting as it is not fitted. The other along the straight aways I put bamboo poles and weighted them down. A few bricks at each corner to approximate a curve and that should keep em out. The one I set free was not eating any blueberries when I saw it. I expect it won't want to be back again anyway.
Finally I had had so much harvest from blueberry plants, the use in waffles is not enough to use them before they go bad. I harvest about 5 cups a week now. Time for a pie with combined total last an current harvest 9.5 cups.
Blackberries also gaining strength and it is probably going to not be as near as much as the blueberries harvest. This year I think maybe blueberries will amount to 3 gallons.
Also the hops I have had come back from dormancy, to small growth, to now climbing up and grabbing on.
I understand the plant needs wood stakes and horizontal wires that you tie it to. They call it a bine. Right now I am just using thin jute twine and thin sticks. The first few years the young plant will not probably have any harvest of seed cones. That is the part that is good for beer if it is a good variety of hops.
Will be another year to tell. All I ever saw was leaves so far from last season seedling. All the top was gone, just the crown and root stays over Winter.
I got it at a Whole Foods Market store front. It was from a local nursery in the North Bay if I remember. I hope it is not just ornamental. Only the female plant is used for hop flavor. The male is needed only to get seeds to make a hybrid. Otherwise rhizomes are used to propagate the exact same species. But it takes an older plant to be OK to get those.
Hops likes 6.5 to 8 pH. I know blueberries I adjusted the soil lower to 5.5 to 6 pH. This hops maybe I'll adjust higher from normal slightly acidic soil 6.5 pH and get in more in middle of range.
The hops is the darker leaf plant in front. I may remove the spearmint plant that is sort of a weed in background no stick needed to climb on. Leaves landing on the soil of the spearmint plant just create roots and grow a new plant. Amazing!
Tomatoes 2 variety are going, but the striped red/yellow heirloom is a slow start. The other almost has a beef steak tomato ripening to eat.
Drum player in picture by hops is to wake it up from dormancy.
Blackberries also gaining strength and it is probably going to not be as near as much as the blueberries harvest. This year I think maybe blueberries will amount to 3 gallons.
Also the hops I have had come back from dormancy, to small growth, to now climbing up and grabbing on.
I understand the plant needs wood stakes and horizontal wires that you tie it to. They call it a bine. Right now I am just using thin jute twine and thin sticks. The first few years the young plant will not probably have any harvest of seed cones. That is the part that is good for beer if it is a good variety of hops.
Will be another year to tell. All I ever saw was leaves so far from last season seedling. All the top was gone, just the crown and root stays over Winter.
I got it at a Whole Foods Market store front. It was from a local nursery in the North Bay if I remember. I hope it is not just ornamental. Only the female plant is used for hop flavor. The male is needed only to get seeds to make a hybrid. Otherwise rhizomes are used to propagate the exact same species. But it takes an older plant to be OK to get those.
Hops likes 6.5 to 8 pH. I know blueberries I adjusted the soil lower to 5.5 to 6 pH. This hops maybe I'll adjust higher from normal slightly acidic soil 6.5 pH and get in more in middle of range.
The hops is the darker leaf plant in front. I may remove the spearmint plant that is sort of a weed in background no stick needed to climb on. Leaves landing on the soil of the spearmint plant just create roots and grow a new plant. Amazing!
Tomatoes 2 variety are going, but the striped red/yellow heirloom is a slow start. The other almost has a beef steak tomato ripening to eat.
Drum player in picture by hops is to wake it up from dormancy.
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Strawberries are in here the past couple weeks. Also getting daily harvest of radishes, onions, lettuce, broccoli, carrots(soon), and hopefully some early tomatoes in a couple weeks. Wonderful to be able to grow and eat out of the garden most every day.
Dan
Dan
Got a free plant of Cascade Hops from a home brew shop that said they were not wanting it. Actually I just took about a 1/4 of the plant and think with the care I took to replant quick it will take. I already have 1 plant unknown, but might be Horizon Hops as from lightly colored green leaves.
Later in the year maybe or next year can see if I can harvest any hops cones. Leaves are not used and although it is a small plant I have heard some with just the second year can get them producing cones for use in beer an ale.
I use organic fertilizer granules of a weak type I bought for my citrus (Valencia Orange Tree Dwarf). I also put mulch that was free from city that they offer. I also used transplant shock prevention solution (actually just a liquid fertilizer with some other nutrients?).
The left one with darker leaves is the new transplant Cascade Hops.
Growing Beer!
Later in the year maybe or next year can see if I can harvest any hops cones. Leaves are not used and although it is a small plant I have heard some with just the second year can get them producing cones for use in beer an ale.
I use organic fertilizer granules of a weak type I bought for my citrus (Valencia Orange Tree Dwarf). I also put mulch that was free from city that they offer. I also used transplant shock prevention solution (actually just a liquid fertilizer with some other nutrients?).
The left one with darker leaves is the new transplant Cascade Hops.
Growing Beer!
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I created a structure to have the hops bine grow on. The transplanted hops lost all the leaves, but I keep it watered as I see the rhizome is still green under the soil and it will be OK for next season. The other hops also had a problem where I accidentally ripped the bine near the lead leaf. Now it just stopped climbing but remains green. There is nothing that I hear can be done for that. They say it slows the growth, but I see it just stopped. Still it lives just no extra growth. I'll be more careful now that I know this about finicky hops plants. The other of the bines from this hops plant continues to be growing upward. There are two bines from the hops plant that I had now for the second season that came out of Winter dormancy around February and will see if it provides any cones this season.
I also became aware of varmints, not seeing them but evidence of stealing not just ripe tomatoes but also smaller green ones too. I put netting up for the tomatoes, but blueberries are done so birds can have what is not worth picking now.
I picked up a seedling sunflower plant and found that it was shocked too much during transplant. I used the warranty and got another free bringing back the one I had. The seedling are quite root bound, so freeing up the roots before transplanting is not something that can be done by separating them some before they take hold in the new transplant soil as I ordinarily do. This second sunflower plant I got a few days ago transplanted well and so far is doing great.
Also I used the old standby idea when choosing another replacement plant, that seedling height should not be more than 1.5 its width or it will be stressed the rest of its life. The smaller plant is in the best soil I just got.
The cheap soil I returned when I found it to be actually had more wood chips in it than the free mulch that is offered by the city. Good soil cost twice to three times as much as the stuff I brought back.
I also became aware of varmints, not seeing them but evidence of stealing not just ripe tomatoes but also smaller green ones too. I put netting up for the tomatoes, but blueberries are done so birds can have what is not worth picking now.
I picked up a seedling sunflower plant and found that it was shocked too much during transplant. I used the warranty and got another free bringing back the one I had. The seedling are quite root bound, so freeing up the roots before transplanting is not something that can be done by separating them some before they take hold in the new transplant soil as I ordinarily do. This second sunflower plant I got a few days ago transplanted well and so far is doing great.
Also I used the old standby idea when choosing another replacement plant, that seedling height should not be more than 1.5 its width or it will be stressed the rest of its life. The smaller plant is in the best soil I just got.
The cheap soil I returned when I found it to be actually had more wood chips in it than the free mulch that is offered by the city. Good soil cost twice to three times as much as the stuff I brought back.
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