PLANTING TIME

[HIPOCKETS]

Its now time to plant your garden.g ot any questions ..I'll  do my best to answer them for you.

LAVON

[jml]

My wife and I planted our first garden yesterday, out were I live the ground is gumbo so I tilled from 8 in the morning til about 4 yesterday. My wife raises rabbits so we used some poop from them and also from the chickens, finally got all that gumbo chopped up real nice. We planted tomatoes, bell peppers, okra, egg plant, green beans, squash, and z squash.

[Flatbroke]

I fired the rototiller up today.

[mley1]

My wife and I are putting together some planters made out of old tires. Talk about redneck! We're just cutting one side out of them. We got one done already and planted two tomato plants and a jalapeno plant in it. Hipockets you got any suggestions for good veggies or fruit to plant in a set up like that? Any suggestions on fertilizing it also. We don't have a tiller or nothing. But, we got lots of dirt and lots of old tires. I'll have to take some pics in the next few day's to give you an idea of how we're doing it.

[HIPOCKETS]

My wife and I planted our first garden yesterday, out were I live the ground is gumbo so I tilled from 8 in the morning til about 4 yesterday. My wife raises rabbits so we used some poop from them and also from the chickens, finally got all that gumbo chopped up real nice. We planted tomatoes, bell peppers, okra, egg plant, green beans, squash, and z squash.

CAREFULL ---CAREFULL With rabbit poo,, its the strongest fert. that i know of. you can burn your plant up so go light.

[HIPOCKETS]

My wife and I are putting together some planters made out of old tires. Talk about redneck! We're just cutting one side out of them. We got one done already and planted two tomato plants and a jalapeno plant in it. Hipockets you got any suggestions for good veggies or fruit to plant in a set up like that? Any suggestions on fertilizing it also. We don't have a tiller or nothing. But, we got lots of dirt and lots of old tires. I'll have to take some pics in the next few day's to give you an idea of how we're doing it.

12/24/12 is the best fert. on the market. any garden supply has it . i would use bout 2 cups fert. for each tire.cucombers will do great in a tire.  plant about 8 seeds per tire . they will run everywhere. plant you some blk seeded simson leaf leutuce in 1 tire.when the leutuce gets bout 8 in. tall pinch the bigest leaves off to eat. it will continue to grow. don't pull the plant up . plant 3 squash seeds in a tire . 3 pepper plants per tire. you could buy you a few landscape timbers for about 5 bucks each and make you a big bed,,, thats what i would do to go with the tires.with 2 cattle pannels and 3 t post you can break you a row up with a shovel and a hoe as long as uour pannels and drive your post and stand your pannels up like a fenct and plant kentucky wanders green snapp beans. get the poll beans not the bush beans, plant them along the bottom of your fence about 4 ins. apart. fert. with 12/24/12. you will have so many grean beans you'll be feeding them to the hogs.lol them beans will cover that whole fence solid. when planting seeds , after they come up you will have skipps (seeds that wont come up) go back and plant your skipps, they will catch up with the rest of them.radishes will do good in a tire.

[mley1]

My wife and I planted our first garden yesterday, out were I live the ground is gumbo so I tilled from 8 in the morning til about 4 yesterday. My wife raises rabbits so we used some poop from them and also from the chickens, finally got all that gumbo chopped up real nice. We planted tomatoes, bell peppers, okra, egg plant, green beans, squash, and z squash.

CAREFULL ---CAREFULL With rabbit poo,, its the strongest fert. that i know of. you can burn your plant up so go light.

Speaking of rabbit poo. JML, Melissa and the kids done got two more of them mini rex's. The first little black one I was telling your wife about turned out to have a tuft of white hair on the bottom of her tail so the fella who sold her to us gave us another one of our choice to make up for it.

Hipockets, like JML, I also have a few rabbits and some chickens. I was thinking of using the poo from both as fertilizer as well. I use wood chips in the chicken coop for bedding and on the floor. What do you think of me just scooping it up after clean up and using it in our tire gardens?

[mley1]

Thanks for the suggestions Hipockets! I just happen to have some old chain link fence gates that might just work like your talking about with the tposts holding them up. I appreciate the info Hipockets. Thanks again man.

[HIPOCKETS]

MARTY,,, If the wood chips are pine ,and more than likly they are,, i would'nt use it. nothing grows good around pine. grass wont even grow under most pine trees  ,,lol

[HIPOCKETS]

You can buy a fabric at a garden supply that comes in 3 ft wide rolls that is porous and lets water in but keeps weed and grass from growing, just cut a x in the fabric and insert your plant and you will never have grass or weeds. would work good on your tires, marty think its called weed guard.

[mley1]

Ok, thanks. As you can tell I don't know much about this stuff. The chips we're using are pine. They work good in the chicken coop, but I guess we'll have to keep it out of the garden.

[elliscountyhog]

I am thinkin of planting my first garden.  It is gonna be a sight to see Not sure what to plant yet. I know i want tomatoes,cucombers, I was thinkin of two more.

[Flatbroke]

I like to plant squash and zuchinni, they both BBQ great when sliced and marinated in Italian dressing. You get lots of quantity out of one plant too

[capt jack]

i like my way of planting a garden better. i just go to hipockets house and look hungry and he gives me all of the veggies i want.

[Circle C]

capt jack,

    We have a farrier that we use for that same reason. He is an artist with hooves, but the real treat is the fresh veggies

  Lee,Von

   Beans?

   What type of beans do you plant? bush? pole? stringless?    What kind of yield do you see per plant?

[HIPOCKETS]

I plant pole beans on a fence,, Each plant runs and runs, and runs some more, Don't know how many bean per plant you get but you get lots of beans, I'll get Cpt Jack to count them this season and give us a report on the yeild per plant,, BEAN COUNTER,,LOL JACK ON THE BEAN STALK  HEE--HEE HE

[Flatbroke]

JACK BE NIMBLE JACK BE QUICK

[hoghugger]

i like my way of planting a garden better. i just go to hipockets house and look hungry and he gives me all of the veggies i want.

That sounds like a plan...Hipockets let us know when the garden is ready and we can come pick our own...LOL...

[aladatrot]

Lee Von (just read about the Jude post),  I've got some green cabbages planted. Do you think it's getting too warm for them? SHould I just uproot them and use the space for something more likely to succeed?

Here's what I have going -

A lettuce tub with loose leaf and Mesclun (the spicy stuff)
A tub with bush bean and eggplant seedlings (waiting on garden addition to transplant these)
Mint in a pot
Cillantro and Thyme in an herb container
Hot peppers in pots (need to transplant to the garden in a week or two)
Cabbages
Tomatoes
Sugar Snap Peas
Zuchinni
More bush beans
Radishes

I went a little nuts with the bush beans. I'm going to plant pole beans, but I need to get rid of some weed like decorative plants first. Is there a problem if I let those pole beans climb the north side of my deck? They could have the railing, I'll just have to give them a pole to climb to get them up on the railing. Is that an issue? The area is just about full sun all the time.

Thanks!
M

[HIPOCKETS]

Lee Von (just read about the Jude post),  I've got some green cabbages planted. Do you think it's getting too warm for them? SHould I just uproot them and use the space for something more likely to succeed?

Here's what I have going -

A lettuce tub with loose leaf and Mesclun (the spicy stuff)
A tub with bush bean and eggplant seedlings (waiting on garden addition to transplant these)
Mint in a pot
Cillantro and Thyme in an herb container
Hot peppers in pots (need to transplant to the garden in a week or two)
Cabbages
Tomatoes
Sugar Snap Peas
Zuchinni
More bush beans
Radishes

I went a little nuts with the bush beans. I'm going to plant pole beans, but I need to get rid of some weed like decorative plants first. Is there a problem if I let those pole beans climb the north side of my deck? They could have the railing, I'll just have to give them a pole to climb to get them up on the railing. Is that an issue? The area is just about full sun all the time.

Thanks!
M

YELLOW SQUASH,,,OKRA,,,MUSTARD GREENS,,AND CUCUMBERS.I think its too late for cabbage, cabbage is more of a winter vege, and it grows slow, i'm afraid it will burn up .cattle pannel or any fenceing material makes good for your cucumbers and your poll beans.use 12-24-12 fertalizer,, you cant have too many tomatoes.if you have room you really need a coulple rows of purple hull peas,,,huuuum,, then you need to teach chris how to make cornbread and a big-o picture of ice tea,,,lol i plant lots of different kind of peppers,, sweet & hot bannana,,chyanne,, jal,,longhorn,,chilli,,,cherry.

GOOD LUCK