Anyone Garden?
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It takes a few years for them to get established. This is the fourth year. Last year was the beginning of a nice harvest but this year has been much better. Leave the skinny ones alone. I stake around the perimeter of the bed when they appear and support them with string surrounding the bed.
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toasters, refrigerators, smartphones, I refuse to have any phone that's smarter than me.
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I'm envious too. It takes some patience for asparagras (sic). That's another crop that Eastern Wa is famous for. Hard to beat.
At my age I'm happy to have a phone that has a better memory than I have.
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i need to get the yard filled in before I can put the garden in. I should have it ready by next weekend. I missed our garden last year, since we didn't have time to grow much. This year i have 17 seedlings started at a friends green house (tomatoes, peppers, zuchinni, cukes, basil, eggplant, brussel sprouts), and i need to plant my spinach, lettuce, arugula, beets, carrots, chard, radishes and mixed greens.
Right now, this is the only thing growing in my garden.
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Right now, this is the only thing growing in my garden.
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Mostly tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse waiting for warmer nights.
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Transplanting some apple mint and chocolate mint. Its great in Iced tea, just discovering uses for it ,it grows and spreads fast.
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I'm not familiar with the various mint varieties, but we have a mint here that spreads so fast, we can hardly control it. Keep an eye on it....
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Yup. Very funny, especially if you've had to deal with invasive mint. I'll have to listen to other Vinyl Cafe stuff I guess...
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I enjoy listening to the Vinyl Cafe too
You folks are so far ahead of of growing season-wise. Strawberries are just peaking through now. Frost danger still in effect.i am the only person I know that kills mint on a regular basis... and I love it!
Since April 1st things have been warm and dry. We started picking strawberries a few days ago.I enjoy listening to the Vinyl Cafe too
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Rub it in ... we got light snow flurries today
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Not to rub it in or anything, but I swear the first few strawberries we picked last week were the sweetest ones I've tasted ever....
From the greenhouse. The outside ones, not yet.
From the greenhouse. The outside ones, not yet.
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All I can tell you is that they are a June-bearing variety. We have June and Everbearing varieties outside in a raised bed, but the everbearing ones have been a lttle disappointing as far as size and flavor in the past. I think we'll stick with Junes and preserve them.
The greenhouse definitely helped the early maturity this year. I hope they continue to produce. They actually came from runners from the outdoor plants. The plants look better than the outside ones do.
We don't grow June bearing too much any more though Shucksums are wonderful. For everbearing we grow Tri-Stars and Albions. The Tri-Stars have smaller berries but great flavor. The Albions are big and beautiful.
That said, we have some heirloom Marshalls that we are trying out. They were the strawb of choice during the 30's to 50's.
That said, we have some heirloom Marshalls that we are trying out. They were the strawb of choice during the 30's to 50's.
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We'll keep the Shucksums and Albions in mind. The Tristars didn't do well last year, so were disappointing.
As for heirloom varieties, I can only comment on roses. I miss the fragrance of older roses. They seem to have bred the traditional fragrance right out of them in favor of other characteristics.
Here are my June berries in the greenhouse. I made a few beds out of cedar fence pickets from HD. Easy but works nicely. Single rows about 5'long.![[Hearth.com] Anyone Garden?](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/178/178766-a6adc5c2331e4e28020ee401e8ab8959.jpg?hash=bSgqONdmcv "[Hearth.com] Anyone Garden?")
As for heirloom varieties, I can only comment on roses. I miss the fragrance of older roses. They seem to have bred the traditional fragrance right out of them in favor of other characteristics.
Here are my June berries in the greenhouse. I made a few beds out of cedar fence pickets from HD. Easy but works nicely. Single rows about 5'long.
I planted 24 crowns last year. I had a decent amount of tiny sprouts last summer that were constantly being blown down by the wind. So far this spring I've had some really nice finger thick sprouts come up but I've been able to exercise enough restraint to not pick them. I'm planning on letting everything grow this year and harvesting next year.
To prevent the thin plants from blowing over I stake a temporary perimeter around the bed and run some string around it at multiple levels, like 18" and 36". That holds them up pretty well.
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