2025 garden

[dennishoddy]

Gardening soured you Dennis! LOL!

I can buy 5 lbs of taters for $3 on sale. We don’t eat 20 lbs a year, but I’d still have a garden planted if we weren’t on the road so much. I loved growing things and eating what was grown as personal satisfaction. Gave most of the harvest away to friends and family as we couldn’t eat it all.
Canned what we wanted to preserve.
The little failures like the gophers eating the taters and watching a cabbage wiggle while it was being eaten from underneath was a challenge, but getting to dump 8 rounds from a .45acp into the ground where the cabbage was located and it stop wriggling brought a small smile to my face.
The cabbage plant died. What was eating it died as well evidently as no other cabbage plants died subsequently.

 

[Mr.Glock]

Anyone gonna get nipped by the cold front coming? You daring Gardners!

 

[dennishoddy]

Anyone gonna get nipped by the cold front coming? You daring Gardners!

I was always guilty of planting too early. Freezes got me most years but continued to be optimistic and hopeful that a late freeze wouldn’t happen.

 

[2busy]

Nope. Most of the cool season stuff won't be planted till the 17th.

 

[Mr.Glock]

We have been rearranging some yard. Moving and thinning several beds of Daffodils, Naked Ladies and Irises. Last year was good to our yard, everything got multiple bulbs off of last summer multiple rains. We have been lining driveways with daffodils for the last few years.

 

[2busy]

Went ahead and planted beets, mustard, spinach and turnips.

 

[dennishoddy]

I took some of the advice on here about growing cantaloupe on bowed cattle panels and gave two panels to buddy that’s planting a huge garden to try the technique. It sounds promising.

 

[tynyphil]

I took some of the advice on here about growing cantaloupe on bowed cattle panels and gave two panels to buddy that’s planting a huge garden to try the technique. It sounds promising.

I've done this for years. Sometimes I get some really large cantaloupe forming ......I've never had one bust open when it dropped but to make me feel better I sometimes make a hammock ( use bird netting or what ever you have) attached with zip ties for the big feller to chill in.

 

[Mr.Glock]

I've done this for years. Sometimes I get some really large cantaloupe forming ......I've never had one bust open when it dropped but to make me feel better I sometimes make a hammock ( use bird netting or what ever you have) attached with zip ties for the big feller to chill in.

We too have never tried this. But we are now! Assuming to plant the Cantaloupes right along of the edge of the bent cattle panel?

 

[OKRuss]

We used some 2' wide trellis(6 total) and leaned against the fence on one side of the garden(same concept). One or two mounds of cantaloupe at the base then as the vines get long just move them over to the cattle panel and they'll attach and grow up. The key is to create a hammock or put straw down under the melon or inevitably when they're ripe it will fall and break open approximately an hour after the last time you checked on it.