Greybeard Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Pickling cukes today. Not a good year growing them,but have enough for 10 pints. Rusty, Live to Hunt, Swamprat and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Live to Hunt, Swamprat, madeinuk and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 1 down, 2 mounds to go. madeinuk, Rusty, hunterbob1 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Got some beauts in mound 2 Live to Hunt, Rusty and Woodsman416 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyboy32 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Live to Hunt, Rusty and Greybeard 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madeinuk Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 17 hours ago, Greybeard said: 1 down, 2 mounds to go. Nothing quite like the taste of a good home grown potato fresh out of the ground! hunterbob1 and Greybeard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck154 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 My watermelons are doing pretty good. Have 3 melons all about size of soccer balls. Tomatoes are do just ok. Some plants are already dying and others are doing good. Cucumber were great and have picked over 200. Way to many Bonefreak, Greybeard, madeinuk and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterbob1 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 2:07 PM, Greybeard said: Got some beauts in mound 2 Awesome Bob! 1 hour ago, Buck154 said: My watermelons are doing pretty good. Have 3 melons all about size of soccer balls. Tomatoes are do just ok. Some plants are already dying and others are doing good. Cucumber were great and have picked over 200. Way to many Nice melons buck! To any members here if you live near sussex,especially if you have youngins.I had good times moons ago when in my travels up north 23,sign's pick her own exit stage right,ny?One of the best turns I've ever made. https://www.localharvest.org/warwick-ny/farms Bonefreak and Buck154 2 “In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.” -Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Rusty, Buck154 and Bonefreak 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Rusty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHC Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 The soil in my yard isn't the best, so how many inches of good top soil would I need for a garden of vegetables? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 9 minutes ago, BHC said: The soil in my yard isn't the best, so how many inches of good top soil would I need for a garden of vegetables? Till in compost to the depth of the tiller . I'd say at least 6-8" . Rake it into mounds when planting to make it deeper, and so plants don't get flooded. It also helps keep weeds down if you put mulch or grass clippings between the mounded rows, then till all that into the soil in the fall. hunterbob1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHC Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, Greybeard said: Till in compost to the depth of the tiller . I'd say at least 6-8" . Rake it into mounds when planting to make it deeper, and so plants don't get flooded. It also helps keep weeds down if you put mulch or grass clippings between the mounded rows, then till all that into the soil in the fall. Yeah that's how we did it years ago , we never added any top soil, but the dirt here at my current house isn't good even though it use to be a farm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonefreak Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Cantaloupe!!! Rusty, hunterbob1, Buck154 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 17 minutes ago, BHC said: Yeah that's how we did it years ago , we never added any top soil, but the dirt here at my current house isn't good even though it use to be a farm My garden is compost dumped on top of the grass. It took a long time for the grass to grow there because it was all clay underneath. The topsoil was bulldozed off to fill in the old RR bed trench that was in the back yard. Garden is nothing but grass, leaf and other compost on top of clay. Started out with a lot of hay and goat dropping compost, and kept adding to it each year. I get a pickup load of wood chips for free at the landfill each year, put them in the chicken pen for a year, throw in scraps from the table, chickens work what they don't eat into the chips that rot into soil. They keep mixing the dirt and chips up as they dig. Next year that goes into the garden and new stuff goes down for the chickens. They also have compost at the landfill that has been composted already into dirt, but that's from leafs people dump there, and then you're getting weed seeds that got raked in with the leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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