Gardening with Rabbits
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Very nice HPQ! Your cucumber trellis is great! I am thinking if taller how that would work for pole beans.
would like to see your 2013 garden
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dewdropsinwv
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that is an awesome idea!!!! been out in the garden all morning trying to get the weeds under control again. I needed some food and a drink.
Jared77
Garden Addicted
That is a cool trellis HPQ!
One trick I've learned with pole beans is to train them horizontally or at an angle to help them take up more space instead of just going vertical. 2 years ago my Kentucky Wonders were so long that I tied lines of bailing twine between the teepees trained them onto that, and let them climb away. Took advantage of available space and increased my yield. Had to be careful though when harvesting since it was just tied on but if you held the twine when you picked it was fine.
Weather here hasn't been bad. The field corn is shoulder high on me and I'm 5'10". Daily afternoon or early morning showers then it clears up and the sun comes out its great growing weather here. The soil where my garden is needs some amending but I knew that when I first planted. Location took priority over soil quality since I can fix soil quality.
But the dang deer have come to visit and have sampled all my tomato plants. There is damage to every single plant. They took each of my Early Pinks and literally ate 1/2 of them down and they were LOADED with blossoms. I've got some tomatoes though, but I'm not holding out much hope for a great harvest. This year was kind of a "throw something out there and see what we get" anyway but its frustrating to see what could have been go to feed the local wildlife.
There were plans for a fence which is coming next spring but this year I just didn't have the time along with soil amendments that I know are needed. I'm going to get a sample sent to the Ag dept here soon so I can plan for next year.
I've got some green tomatoes ripening, including EGs, Black Krims, Black Cherries which are shaped more like a grape than a cherry but this it my first year with them so we'll see. I've got a couple yellow squash that are growing and I've got some slicing cukes growing too.
One trick I've learned with pole beans is to train them horizontally or at an angle to help them take up more space instead of just going vertical. 2 years ago my Kentucky Wonders were so long that I tied lines of bailing twine between the teepees trained them onto that, and let them climb away. Took advantage of available space and increased my yield. Had to be careful though when harvesting since it was just tied on but if you held the twine when you picked it was fine.
Weather here hasn't been bad. The field corn is shoulder high on me and I'm 5'10". Daily afternoon or early morning showers then it clears up and the sun comes out its great growing weather here. The soil where my garden is needs some amending but I knew that when I first planted. Location took priority over soil quality since I can fix soil quality.
But the dang deer have come to visit and have sampled all my tomato plants. There is damage to every single plant. They took each of my Early Pinks and literally ate 1/2 of them down and they were LOADED with blossoms. I've got some tomatoes though, but I'm not holding out much hope for a great harvest. This year was kind of a "throw something out there and see what we get" anyway but its frustrating to see what could have been go to feed the local wildlife.
There were plans for a fence which is coming next spring but this year I just didn't have the time along with soil amendments that I know are needed. I'm going to get a sample sent to the Ag dept here soon so I can plan for next year.
I've got some green tomatoes ripening, including EGs, Black Krims, Black Cherries which are shaped more like a grape than a cherry but this it my first year with them so we'll see. I've got a couple yellow squash that are growing and I've got some slicing cukes growing too.
so lucky
Garden Master
Jared, could you put a temporary chicken wire cage around your remaining tomato plants? Or some electric fence? These could be used later for something else.
Jared77
Garden Addicted
I've been looking into it. I've got a radio out there on talk radio so we'll see. My problem is I'm going to do a serious expansion of the garden so this year may just be a wash. I wasn't expecting a huge crop anyway given that I literally mowed the area flat, planted, and keep mulching over the whole area to keep the weeds down. I do weed the garden too but the grass clipping mulch is working good.
HotPepperQueen
Deeply Rooted
I may build another one for my pole beans next year. This sucker is over 6ft tall!
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majorcatfish
Garden Master
now thats a bunch of bell pepper and not grown in texas......
and dw modeling one of the green bells
still had to throw a bunch away due to all this 40 day and 40 night rain we have been getting
and dw modeling one of the green bells
still had to throw a bunch away due to all this 40 day and 40 night rain we have been getting
journey11
Garden Master
I'd like to see those stuffed, Major! 
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majorcatfish
Garden Master
well pack up the family and come for dinner this weekend....journey11 said:I'd like to see those stuffed, Major!
