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<blockquote data-quote="justanotherpatriot" data-source="post: 1791001" data-attributes="member: 24587"><p>I am a noob and I was hoping someone was as into gardening as I am. Just a quick plug for a different style of gardening (google 'back to eden garden') It will totally change how you garden. I have been working on some raised bed gardens the last two years. right now I have 2 4x18, 1 5x25 and 1 3x40 along a privacy fence. I have 10 or 12 heirloom tomatoes, some mortgage lifters and some others, cabbage, turnips, beets, radishes, peppers, eggplant, more cabbages, squash, zucchini, limas, dragonhead beans, black beans, sunflowers, garlic, red and white onions, lots of spinach, trying some blueberries and I started a 4x8 herb garden for my wife with cilantro, German thyme, basil, lemon balm, savory, sage, margoram, chives, parsley and 5 kinds of mint in separate pots. On your tomatoes producing, the two main things you HAVE to do is keep the suckers pulled off on a weekly basis and tomatoes REQUIRE 1" of water per week. If you have an evaporation rate of 1/4" of water per day that equals the equivalent of 2 3/4" of water per week. I got almost 100 lbs of tomatoes off of 6 tomatoe plants in raised beds last year. NO BS. A micro drip irrigation system is both cheap, easy and indispensible. My tomatoes stopped producing during the height of the heat but when it started being around 100 to 105ish I was getting lots of flowers but no fruit setting. I figured about how many sets I wanted to try to mature before frost and cut everything beyond that off. I had 56 tomatoes set the next week. Dont understand it and havent heard of it before but it worked. I got another harvest off of them before frost. One of the great benefits of the raised beds is that you have little to no weeding, tilling and if you use a mixture of 1/3 compost, vermeculite, and peat moss by volume with a weed barrier like 5-6 layers of newspaper under, it holds massive amounts of water, you cant overwater because it is raised, no weeds because the only thing that could have weeds is the compost and it will get hot enough to kill the seeds, and with the compost you have an incredible source of nutrients for whatever you are growing. By the way, I like the idea of the winter root veggies. Ill have to try it this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="justanotherpatriot, post: 1791001, member: 24587"] I am a noob and I was hoping someone was as into gardening as I am. Just a quick plug for a different style of gardening (google 'back to eden garden') It will totally change how you garden. I have been working on some raised bed gardens the last two years. right now I have 2 4x18, 1 5x25 and 1 3x40 along a privacy fence. I have 10 or 12 heirloom tomatoes, some mortgage lifters and some others, cabbage, turnips, beets, radishes, peppers, eggplant, more cabbages, squash, zucchini, limas, dragonhead beans, black beans, sunflowers, garlic, red and white onions, lots of spinach, trying some blueberries and I started a 4x8 herb garden for my wife with cilantro, German thyme, basil, lemon balm, savory, sage, margoram, chives, parsley and 5 kinds of mint in separate pots. On your tomatoes producing, the two main things you HAVE to do is keep the suckers pulled off on a weekly basis and tomatoes REQUIRE 1" of water per week. If you have an evaporation rate of 1/4" of water per day that equals the equivalent of 2 3/4" of water per week. I got almost 100 lbs of tomatoes off of 6 tomatoe plants in raised beds last year. NO BS. A micro drip irrigation system is both cheap, easy and indispensible. My tomatoes stopped producing during the height of the heat but when it started being around 100 to 105ish I was getting lots of flowers but no fruit setting. I figured about how many sets I wanted to try to mature before frost and cut everything beyond that off. I had 56 tomatoes set the next week. Dont understand it and havent heard of it before but it worked. I got another harvest off of them before frost. One of the great benefits of the raised beds is that you have little to no weeding, tilling and if you use a mixture of 1/3 compost, vermeculite, and peat moss by volume with a weed barrier like 5-6 layers of newspaper under, it holds massive amounts of water, you cant overwater because it is raised, no weeds because the only thing that could have weeds is the compost and it will get hot enough to kill the seeds, and with the compost you have an incredible source of nutrients for whatever you are growing. By the way, I like the idea of the winter root veggies. Ill have to try it this year. [/QUOTE]
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