Baymule's 2018 Garden

[majorcatfish]

love your mator plants @baymule

 

[Collector]

Bay, are those the New Yorkers? They look great.

 

[thistlebloom]

The kohlrabi and Brussel sprouts I consider to be a fail. The broccoli looks like this too. I guess they don’t like LED grow lights.

Bay, have you found an answer to this?
I had a really terrible germination rate and slow emergence problem that I was doodling around online about. I happened on this discussion and thought of your brassicas.
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Q. I have read in technical papers that one failure can be leaving seedlings too long in the “germination chamber,” which in my home setup would very roughly mean on the heating mat and under a plastic dome.


A. I have a germination chamber in which I have messed up many times. It provides humid heat at 80°F, so the seeds germinate really well. If it is done right germination is fast and uniform, and the plants do really well later.


But if the cotyledons so much as peek up above the soil surface in there, they are a lost cause. They put up thread-thin hypocotyls very fast, and those will never survive in the greenhouse air. With brassica crops, for example, I need to get them out of the chamber in 36 hours.

That info was found here.

 

[baymule]

Thanks thistle, I have grown brassica seedlings before, on the kitchen table under a fluorescent shop light. They did well. They hate my new set up.....sniff....wah.....LOL

Today I worked on rabbit proofing the garden. I raked away 4” of rich black soil from the fence. It came from the pine shavings we put down 3 years ago.

I sprawled our in the dirt, hog ringing chicken wire to the garden fence.

I had help.

I got 50’ of chicken wire hog ringed to the fence and 25’ of plastic coated chicken wire hog ringed to the bottom of the fence, laid flat on the ground to keep the VARMITS from digging under.

 

[baymule]

@Collector those are Cherokee Purple, the New Yorkers are the same size. The tomato plants got a little wind and sun burned yesterday. Today was cloudy and they stayed in their greenhouse.

 

[baymule]

Today DH joined me on working on the rabbit fence. I rolled out another roll of green plastic coated chicken wire on the ground and hog ringed it to the bottom of the garden fence. DH laid paper Feed sacks and cardboard over what I laid yesterday and covered it with wood chip mulch.

He had to dump mulch in the wagon and take to the end.

Dumping from the tractor is much easier!

Almost done.

A good days work! I have used almost three pounds of hog rings. My right hand is sore.

 

[Collector]

You guys are getting your spring projects well under way. We still have a ton of snow here but spring is coming some day. I’m totally jealous.

 

[thistlebloom]

Those bunnies are going to be so shocked and disappointed in your project. Looks good!
It's awesome that you have all those wood chips. I bet you will run out of them long before you run out of places to use them.

 

[flowerbug]

Thanks thistle, I have grown brassica seedlings before, on the kitchen table under a fluorescent shop light. They did well. They hate my new set up.....sniff....wah.....LOL

Today I worked on rabbit proofing the garden. I raked away 4” of rich black soil from the fence. It came from the pine shavings we put down 3 years ago.

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I sprawled our in the dirt, hog ringing chicken wire to the garden fence.

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I had help.

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I got 50’ of chicken wire hog ringed to the fence and 25’ of plastic coated chicken wire hog ringed to the bottom of the fence, laid flat on the ground to keep the VARMITS from digging under.

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yep! that's the way to do it for those pesky wabbits.

love your helper there too.

 

[majorcatfish]

Love your helper. Yes the black fury one