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My Shreveport Garden 2016
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
At least you have those healthy looking seedlings. Hope Mother Nature is nicer to you the rest of the season. You have already had your share.
Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Beautiful! And I really like your labels. By the each, makes sense!
Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8687
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
The heavy rains may have washed out the soil nutrients. Try amending with compost or fertilizer.katjohn83 wrote:Update on my garden...
My lettuce bed just is not performing. Not sure what is going on there.
CitizenKate- Posts : 844
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Location : Northeast KS, USA; Zone 6a
Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Scorpio Rising wrote:Beautiful! And I really like your labels. By the each, makes sense!
I found those on Amazon for about $6 for 150. I like them so much I already ordered a new supply.
katjohn83- Posts : 53
Join date : 2014-01-23
Location : Shreveport, LA
Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
CitizenKate wrote:The heavy rains may have washed out the soil nutrients. Try amending with compost or fertilizer.katjohn83 wrote:Update on my garden...
My lettuce bed just is not performing. Not sure what is going on there.
Someone had mentioned that in an earlier post, but I have had issues before all of the rains. I do need to add some nutrients though for the few plants I do have. Thanks for the reminder.
katjohn83- Posts : 53
Join date : 2014-01-23
Location : Shreveport, LA
Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Update.
Everything seems to be growing very well. I have harvested turnip greens several times, some swiss chard and lettuce as well. I have already harvested about a dozen Jalapenos, one broccoli head , a cucumber and a couple of yellow squash. Tomato plants are loaded. Green beans and purple hull peas look amazing.
Everything seems to be growing very well. I have harvested turnip greens several times, some swiss chard and lettuce as well. I have already harvested about a dozen Jalapenos, one broccoli head , a cucumber and a couple of yellow squash. Tomato plants are loaded. Green beans and purple hull peas look amazing.
katjohn83- Posts : 53
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Location : Shreveport, LA
Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Very nice.
Zmoore- Posts : 225
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Beautiful! And everything is so healthy looking. What do you use for edging between the grass and the cedar chips?
CC
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
What a great looking garden. It's clean, full and healthy. Ten out of ten points from me.
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
WOW! I can't wait for my garden to grow up and look like yours. What an inspiration!
Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Holy cow! Your garden looks like something out of a fancy magazine. Nice job!
Windmere- Posts : 1425
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Looks fantastic.
yolos- Posts : 4152
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
So lush! Love it -- and I like the 5-gallon bucket add-ons peeking out from underneath everything. I have a few of those, but they're on my porch instead of in my garden. Do you use them for specific deeper-rooted vegetables, or just as additional squares? (Or am I mis-seeing things and those are your water buckets?)
BeetlesPerSqFt- Posts : 1440
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Location : Centre Hall, PA Zone 5b/6a LF:5/11-FF:10/10
Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
CapeCoddess wrote:Beautiful! And everything is so healthy looking. What do you use for edging between the grass and the cedar chips?
CC
IT is just a green metal edging from Home Depot that I cut to fit in between the boxes.
katjohn83- Posts : 53
Join date : 2014-01-23
Location : Shreveport, LA
Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
All but one bucket have potatoes. The other has a mum that I kept from my Mothers funeral. I put it in that bucket until I could build a more permanent home for it. That was 2 years ago. LOLBeetlesPerSqFt wrote:So lush! Love it -- and I like the 5-gallon bucket add-ons peeking out from underneath everything. I have a few of those, but they're on my porch instead of in my garden. Do you use them for specific deeper-rooted vegetables, or just as additional squares? (Or am I mis-seeing things and those are your water buckets?)
katjohn83- Posts : 53
Join date : 2014-01-23
Location : Shreveport, LA
Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Potatoes makes a lot of sense. Much easier to dump a bucket on a tarp than fishing around and potentially disturbing other squares. This year will be my first attempt at growing potatoes. I'll be trying the laundry basket method this year, and I'll try something else next year if that doesn't work.katjohn83 wrote:All but one bucket have potatoes. The other has a mum that I kept from my Mothers funeral. I put it in that bucket until I could build a more permanent home for it. That was 2 years ago. LOLBeetlesPerSqFt wrote:So lush! Love it -- and I like the 5-gallon bucket add-ons peeking out from underneath everything. I have a few of those, but they're on my porch instead of in my garden. Do you use them for specific deeper-rooted vegetables, or just as additional squares? (Or am I mis-seeing things and those are your water buckets?)
That's a nice way to remember your mom. I have an aloe from my late grandmother, but it stays inside.
BeetlesPerSqFt- Posts : 1440
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Here was my latest harvest. anyone know why some of my cucumbers are yellow?
katjohn83- Posts : 53
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Could the cucumbers be overripe. They look kind of big.
yolos- Posts : 4152
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Nice harvest kat.
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
katjohn83 wrote:
Here was my latest harvest. anyone know why some of my cucumbers are yellow?
Judging by the size it looks like they may have stayed on the vine too long. At the end of the season, if it's an heirloom type and you want to save seeds, then you're supposed to leave the last one or two on the plant until it turns all yellow and it will, because I've done it. It will get huge. If the plant is especially prolific it's easy to miss them until they start to get overly ripe on the vine. When they stay on like that, the plant starts to cut back on production.
I'm basing this on not knowing what type you're growing, so just a guess.
FeedMeSeeMore- Posts : 143
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Nice haul, kat!
Yeah, if the cukes are all the same variety, the yellow ones are just overripe.
Yeah, if the cukes are all the same variety, the yellow ones are just overripe.
Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8687
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Re: My Shreveport Garden 2016
Yup, over ripe cukes. Use that all yellow one for seed saving if not hybrids.
Great harvest!
CC
Great harvest!
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
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