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Post  newbeone 4/29/2017, 3:39 pm

Wow sorry to here You're having so much trouble with Your tomatoes Last year no water this year no sun, What's Up with Sunny California? as far as the carrots I saw it somewhere they took a paper towel placed dots of Elmer's glue then placed the seeds in the dots then placed the towel on the square a little mix on the towel to hold it in place add water and watch them grow. again apologize for using someone else's idea but I thought it was a good one and I will try it for my fall garden it's to hot now I'm showing 93* at the surface
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Post  sanderson 4/30/2017, 4:01 am

The wind has stopped so I should be able to sow carrots and lettuce without losing them. :-) Today I did what I have been procrastinating - rebuilt and started the compost pile. What a Face It was filled with ants and their nurseries, worms, and grubs. I combined the fizzled hot pile and the cold pile (seeds were sprouting in it), the mowed alfalfa hay and some blood meal. Watered well as I built it. Tomorrow I should be sore as I haven't been active for almost 4 months. I hope to have it finished before the end of May and top dress all the beds, then add some straw mulch. The emergency bagged compost was better than nothing but I love my chunky Berkeley hot compost. And the Red Wigglers love it, also.

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Post  trolleydriver 4/30/2017, 8:44 am

sanderson wrote:.. Today I did what I have been procrastinating - rebuilt and started the compost pile. What a Face  ...  Tomorrow I should be sore ...
I emptied my plastic compost bin and my hardware cloth (hwc) bin. I relocated the contents onto a tarp and have a pile over 3 feet high. A lot of what I took out of the hwc bin was very wet. Anyway it's all fluffed up now.  And I woke up this morning feeling very sore.
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Post  countrynaturals 4/30/2017, 10:41 am

sanderson wrote:Tomorrow I should be sore as I haven't been active for almost 4 months.  
I have been filling, moving, dumping, and spreading wheelbarrow loads of wood chips for a couple of weeks. At first I could only do 3 a day and it just about did me in. Now I can do 5-6 with ease. 

Yesterday, with help from Hubby and son-in-law, I got my asparagus bed and strawberry patch set up in the BTE. Whew! Pics, later. Today I'm just going to piddle around and take a light duty day (Yeah, well I'm probably lying about that part -- we'll see how it goes.) Rolling Eyes
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Post  sanderson 5/13/2017, 3:12 am

It's been almost 2 weeks since I have posted here.  The cool weather has been a boon to my tomatoes.  Who knows, this Californian may actually have tomatoes this year. Razz  Here are 2 photos, one of 7 indeterminate in the 2x7 TT, and the other in my son's 2 x 4 rolling bed that I am baby sitting.  Do you think a few years of homemade compost, red wigglers, crab and kelp meal in the 2 x 7 TT makes a difference?  I'm really going to work on his 2 beds and see if I can improve it. California - What are you doing this month? - Page 40 Tomato19
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Tomato wise, the ones in the TTs are the best, followed by the 7 in buckets, followed by the 9 in the BTE strip and in last place, my son's rooling box.  Today, I tied the tall ones up with overhead gardener's tape.  Some of the suckers were starting to get flowers but I had to remove anything over 2 suckers per plant.  There are little green petite pea-size tomatoes!

The winter squash and cantaloupe that I had to direct sow because I forgot to start the seedlings?  Well, they are doing well.  7 winter squash and lower left is a watermelon.  I think I will move the 2 inner trellises over the inner plants.  First time there will be 4 trellises on both the winter squash and the melon beds. A photo of the melon bed to follow soon. California - What are you doing this month? - Page 40 Winter24

Five okra, both corns and most of the sorghum are up. Now the watch for the pesky squirrels.

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Post  sanderson 5/15/2017, 5:20 pm

I had a nightmare last night that the grasshoppers were back!  What a Face  Nope, just a dream, but I will have to watch for their arrival.

BTE strip May 15.  South end with 9 tomatoes plus 5 in buckets waiting for their cages.
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North end with SQ corn, sorghum, Gem corn, okra and a few sunflowers interspersed. California - What are you doing this month? - Page 40 Bte_sq10

Longer view facing North.  I copied Yolos and added second trellises on the 2 bean boxes so that they are trellised in a sandwich manner.  They are grabbing and climbing so, so much better!
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Post  trolleydriver 5/15/2017, 5:39 pm

I'm always amazed at how well you use the available space. Lookin' real good.
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Post  sanderson 5/15/2017, 9:47 pm

Thank you. But, didn't Pharaoh have 7 dreams, flying grasshoppers being one? Wink They are coming.

The darker black hose down the middle of the strip is a new 1/2 drip line with 9" space for the holes. I put a Y fitting on the hose bib and a female tube-to-hose fitting on the tube, connecting them with a short hose. It's manually watered but with clay underneath the organic layers, a good watering lasts for a few days. So, I can leave for a few days without worrying about this strip. The rest of the plants are on auto drip lines.

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Post  yolos 5/16/2017, 12:33 am

Everything looks good and healthy so far.  I like your corn rows but with only two rows you may have to hand pollinate.  Have you ever grown corn before.???
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Post  sanderson 5/16/2017, 2:56 am

Yolos, yes I have. Nothing to write home about. Sweetie, dear cat, used to chew on the stalks until they fell over! The next year I planted them in a table top and surrounded with chicken wire.

The 2 corn, and other tall plants, planted along the strip are just for neighborhood entertainment. They loved the sunflowers and Sun Gold tomatoes that grew over the fence last summer.

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Post  Turan 5/16/2017, 12:00 pm

I was thinking the same thing, wondering about pollination of the corn. If a breeze flows down that passage it should work. Heck, just walking down that path will rustle the corn enough to cause pollen to fly. DHs grandparents in Madera (just up the road from Sanderson) would plant a double row of pretty tightly spaced corn down their side yard and get very good pollination.

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Post  countrynaturals 5/16/2017, 12:55 pm

Turan wrote:I was thinking the same thing, wondering about pollination of the corn.  If a breeze flows down that passage it should work.  Heck, just walking down that path will rustle the corn enough to cause pollen to fly. DHs grandparents in Madera (just up the road from Sanderson) would plant a double row of pretty tightly spaced corn down their side yard and get very good pollination.
I will have 2 rows set up like this, about 3' apart. Will that be close enough for pollination? I haven't planted the 2 row yet, so I could close it in and not have a path between. Should I do that?
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Post  Turan 5/16/2017, 1:45 pm

countrynaturals wrote: I will have 2 rows set up like this, about 3' apart. Will that be close enough for pollination? I haven't planted the 2 row yet, so I could close it in and not have a path between. Should I do that?

I am guessing you have a 5 foot wide strip to plant? Can you walk along each side of the strip or is it along a fence like Sanderson's? I would plant them about 6-12 inches apart in a double or triple row or quadruple row depending on if you can walk along the both sides or not. Closer for early varieties (they are smaller usually) and further for late varieties (being larger they take up more room per plant).
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Post  countrynaturals 5/16/2017, 2:09 pm

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countrynaturals wrote: I will have 2 rows set up like this, about 3' apart. Will that be close enough for pollination? I haven't planted the 2 row yet, so I could close it in and not have a path between. Should I do that?

I am guessing you have a 5 foot wide strip to plant? Can you walk along each side of the strip or is it along a fence like Sanderson's? I would plant them about 6-12 inches apart in a double or triple row or quadruple row depending on if you can walk along the both sides or not.  Closer for early varieties (they are smaller usually) and further for late varieties (being larger they take up more room per plant).  
I hope that helps.
I'm so glad this came up today. I would have done it all wrong. Yes, I can walk along both sides, so I will set up the other double row right next to the first one. At least I spaced the plants right -- about 12" apart. Thx, Turan. California - What are you doing this month? - Page 40 3170584802
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Post  countrynaturals 5/16/2017, 8:31 pm

Rained all day, today. Wasn't supposed to, but I'm glad. Could be the last rain we'll see until October. Fire in the woodstove. Probably the last one of those until October, too. Could hit triple-digits next week. AARRGGHH!!!!! I'm not ready for that! Evil or Very Mad
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Post  yolos 5/16/2017, 9:38 pm

sanderson wrote:Yolos, yes I have.   Nothing to write home about.  Sweetie, dear cat, used to chew on the stalks until they fell over!  The next year I planted them in a table top and surrounded with chicken wire.

The 2 corn, and other tall plants, planted along the strip are just for neighborhood entertainment.  They loved the sunflowers and Sun Gold tomatoes that grew over the fence last summer.
I was out in the garden today hand pollinating a few ears of corn.  I cut the top tassle off and rubbed it on the silks.  I have 4 rows in a 3 x 8 bed so I decided to help them along.

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Post  sanderson 1/12/2020, 5:39 pm

January is the month to go through the catalogs and order seeds.  Next month is when seedlings are started indoors.  So, this is a peaceful time in the garden for most of California.

Last night I took these photos of the active part of the SFG by the light of the perennial white Christmas lights.  I had to harvest some herbs for the minestrone soup and it was so beautiful. For you observant folks, yes I have to replace one string of light. Embarassed

Sweet potato totes, October-planted garlic and Strike Bush Beans.
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Artichoke plant left background, salad bed and a bush pea in the right background that I won't plant again.  Small pot of spearmint I trimmed back yesterday and the 12" pot where the ginger grew.
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Mulched walkway!  Another view of the peas I won't grow again, the long  bed of cool weather veggies, and another view of the salad bed on the right.
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Square salad bed on the left, the square perennial herb bed on the right and the back side of the cool weather crops in the center.  The tall plant is cilantro.  It bolted because the fall/winter was so warm until recently.  Well, at least the early pollinators will like it.  Shocked
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Post  yolos 1/13/2020, 12:08 am

Why are you not planting peas again.  What is the variety you are not planting.  My fall planted English peas were planted so late due to the heat in September.  They did not become harvest-able.  We have had two - three nights of freezing weather over the last month or so.  The freezes damaged the pods and the flowers.  They do much better in the early spring due to the fact that they will not flower or set pods until after the last freeze.

PS - you have a lot growing in there.
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Post  countrynaturals 1/13/2020, 10:53 am

I'm hibernating. Next Sunday, when we get another turn with the sun, I'll take the camera out and post an update. Rolling Eyes
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Post  Yardslave 1/13/2020, 1:37 pm

I'm clearing out my zucchini, onion, and bean beds. Will be prepping one bed for onion seedlings that volunteered, and thinning the chive patch. I have a few tomatoes and peppers that are surviving the cold, damp weather, and don't know if I should let them overwinter or just yank them and start with new seedlings. I'm inclined to yank them out so I can thoroughly refresh the MM rather than try to get by with a side dressing. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Post  sanderson 1/13/2020, 3:01 pm

yolos wrote:Why are you not planting peas again.  What is the variety you are not planting. 
Oh, no.  I WILL plant Strike peas again (first photo), but not the other variety.  Snappy? I bought Snappy off the shelf as a whim.

Thank you for introducing me to Strike peas.

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Post  sanderson 1/13/2020, 3:10 pm

Yardslave wrote:I'm clearing out my zucchini, onion, and bean beds. . . I have a few tomatoes and peppers that are surviving the cold, damp weather, and don't know if I should let them overwinter or just yank them and start with new seedlings. I'm inclined to yank them out so I can thoroughly refresh the MM rather than try to get by with a side dressing. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
When you say, "refresh", do you mean just top off with more compost or mix it in?

I like to rough-mix-in the compost to get some new compost throughout the MM. Dump buckets of mixed compost over the whole bed and just crudely turn over a deep trowel full here and there.

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Post  countrynaturals 1/14/2020, 12:52 pm

countrynaturals wrote:I'm hibernating. Next Sunday, when we get another turn with the sun, I'll take the camera out and post an update. Rolling Eyes
Sun came out for a few minutes this morning, so here's mine:

Here are the cherry toms, still hanging from dead vines. If we hadn't had that hard frost in November, I think they'd still be alive. I snacked on one of these and it was fine. (The green is volunteer catnip.)
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Here are my potato onions. I bought 3, but one had a baby. I planted sugar snap peas all the way around, but only 1 sprouted. The healthy green plant is some kind of lettuce?
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Everything else is even more boring. Embarassed
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Post  Yardslave 1/14/2020, 1:06 pm

sanderson: wrote:When you say, "refresh", do you mean just top off with more compost or mix it in?

I like to rough-mix-in the compost to get some new compost throughout the MM.  Dump buckets of mixed compost over the whole bed and just crudely turn over a deep trowel full here and there.
Do you leave any plants still in the beds? If so, do you work the compost in around them, or lift them out, trim the roots a bit (like one does when re-potting a plant) to freshen the mix.
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Post  sanderson 3/10/2020, 4:51 am

YS,  I never answered your question! Embarassed I literally remove the winter plants and amend a whole bed.  The only exception is the perennial herb bed.  For that one, I just prune back the plants some, remove rooted runners (oregano is the worst offender), top dress around the plants and work in compost in some empty squares.

I got a little late start on the indoor seedlings what with flying out to Missouri, followed by the flu.  But, 3/4 of them are up and even getting a little sunshine on warmer afternoons.  This year, I used the heat mats set around 70*F AND covered with dry cleaner bags.  It really improved the speed of germination.  Two peppers germinated in 12 days, which is a record for me!  California - What are you doing this month? - Page 40 Seedli17
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With threat (or promise) of rain rofl I hustled with getting all of the empty beds amended with blended compost.  Total of 78 square feet.  Another 54 are still planted.  The ginger is planted and the sweet potato slips are growing on the the potato halves set in water.  California - What are you doing this month? - Page 40 Grids_12

The garlic in the background bed needs top dressing. I'm concerned because some of the leaves are already dying but there are no bulbs, yet.
California - What are you doing this month? - Page 40 Grids_13

Still on "our" honey do list: Repair trellises with zip ties, rebuild a 3'x2' table top bed that is falling apart, finish a little weeding in the general flower beds and spread the last of the wood chips. Finish pruning the dwarf Washington Navel tree and wash it before the flower buds open.

What are the rest of you doing?

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