PLANTING TIME

[jml]

How often does a garden need to be watered?

[HIPOCKETS]

real dog,,, you only do that if your gonna make pecante sause.
That kinda like,,, If you moved next door to me,,,WOULD THAT MAKE YOU A HOG HUNTER

[aladatrot]

OK, so to the goats the cabbage will go. I don't have the space to do a "maybe" crop. How much room for those purple hull peas? I'll be sure to get photos of my little garden today. I'm cramped for space as of right now, and so have to make good on fast maturing crops to plant and get harvested before my real crops start to crowd them out.

At this point, we haven't yet installed "phase two" of the garden so I need to investigate how much room we will need.
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[kp]

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I disc'd up about a 1/2 acre back in March, just before the SNOW!  A couple weeks ago we went and put out Sunflowers, Watermelons, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Jalapenos, and lord knows what else along the edges of the field.  I reckon the hogs will come tear it all up, but I don't care, they aren't mine.  I told the plant-er that she needed to put some fencing around it to keep the critters out...but what do I know.  :-) 

The reason I disc'd that 1/2 acre up was to plant sunflowers, sorghum, and milo.  This little spot is near a small tank, and I'm hoping to gather some Mourning Dove to that field.  We are covered up in dove right now.  I also disc'd up one side of the driveway from the road to the house.  Will probably put the same bird-mix there as well.  Powerlines run along the opposite side of the driveway. 

And...while I had it rigged up, I disc'd up around the well house and spread wild flower seeds.  That'll probably be the only thing that grows!  LOL

kp

[HIPOCKETS]

KP,,, You might want to do a little checking with TPWD on planting for migratory birds (DOVE). I know you can hunt on grain fields that humans harvest for food such as MILO,RICE,CORN & SOY BEANS,,WHEAT,,ECC...THERE IS CERTAIN THING THATS ILLEGLE TO HUNT OVER,,,i think. COYOTIES ARE BAD to eat watermellons..a fence wont help much , just too many critters that like fresh veggies also. deer,,rats,,birds,,yotes,,hogs,,possums,,coons,,rabbits,,bugs of all kinds and fire-ants are really bad.they will eat the blooms plus the fruit.

[mley1]

    Lee-von is it true if you plant tomatoes and peppers beside one another or your maters will be a little spicy?and if so what distance is safe cuz i like mine sweet.

  Spicy tomatoes....could be good! I need to get me some more pepper plants!!

[Flatbroke]

Mley1,  all you would need then is an onion and chips   

KP,  if you hunt off of that field, The law might be on you like white on rice, GUILTY AS CHARGED

SAME AS SELLING DOPE.. LOL

[mley1]

I think what that regulation is designed to do is stop folks from hunting over grain that was dumped out specifically for drawing the birds in. Planting a crop of sunflowers or other grains and leaving them stand is a common practice in area's where dove hunting is common. The prison units do it all the time so the officers and guests have good hunting. It's not a problem. I've also seen it done in the national forrests with certain areas planted in food plots that include grains to draw doves in. In fact, many of the fields in the APH hunting program have small plots of planted sunflowers and other grains to draw the birds in. I've hunted over several. As long as it is a planted and grown crop of grain it follows the law.

The thing you have to avoid, and will get ticketed for, is hunting over grain that is thrown out on the ground.

[HIPOCKETS]

Plowed my garden up today. Got abour 200 lbs of carrots and about 200 plus lbs of turnips left over from the winter garden.I'm gonna try to plant next week if it don't rain a lot.My ground has been wet and i'm running a little late this year. Gave carrots and turnips to my neighbors. I kelp 1 bucket of carrots for the freezer.

[mley1]

Well, me and the missus finally got to work on our tire garden. So far we got tomatoes planted, okra, broccoli, watermelon, cucumbers, cantalopes, onions, and lettuce. The jalapeno pepper plant didn't make it cause my little boy bent it and broke the stem. So we planted the onions with the tomatoes. Don't know how that will work. But, what the heck. It's worth a try. We got okra in one tire and something else for each of the other tires. We figure the plants that will spread out, like the melons and cucumbers can spread under the deck of the stairs or along the side of them. Tommorrow we're gonna get started on the bean and pea fence. I should have some pics of that to put up tommorrow night. But, here's a few of our tire garden as it is now. Hope ya'll enjoy them.

This is me getting some dirt from our dirt piles. We got all them dirt piles from the county when they cleaned out the ditches. I just asked them to give me a few dump trucks full and they were more than happy to oblige.



Here is me cutting up my tires for the planters. I've had these old tires in my shed for several years. I knew sooner or later I'd find a use for them.



Here's a pic of the tires before I got the dirt in most of them.



Here is Melissa and my son Matthew doing some mixing and planting. In the background you can see my ole chicken coop, with some chickens free ranging in the yard. I got ten Road Island Reds, and three little chicks that Matt is raising in the garage right now.



And, here's Melissa putting the finishing touches on the planting for the tires. I got to do the watering just after dark. We're hoping for some good veggies out of the tires. Time will tell. Anybody got an idea on how long it'll take for the plants to start showing up?



I forgot to add that we got some good potting soil from the Home Depot. The bags said it was for flowers and veggies. So, we put the dirt from the piles in the yard on the bottom of the tire planters and mixed in the good stuff from the store on top. We put enough of the good stuff in so there was about two inches or so on the top of the planter and it is mixed in with the stuff on the bottom. Hopefully, that will be good for the plants.

[Sean]

outstanding marty! hope ya'll get some great plants out of those!

oh yeah, and that's pretty cool to get that much stuff out of an old garden lavon!

[HIPOCKETS]

looks good marty. your okra seeds might take a long time to come up cause they wont germanate till the ground warms up. next time soak your okra seeds over night in a bowl of water then lay them between some wet paper towels , for 2 days and they will start to sprout then plant them. this will speed your okra plants up a coulple of weeks.my whole garden is from the county re-digging the ditches. lot of nut grass though.but real good soil.did you fertalize with anything ?

[mley1]

Thanks guy's.

Highpockets, the potting soil we bought said it had plant food in it and didn't need fertilizer. It said it would feed the plants for 3 months. But, what we planned on doing was putting some rabbit poo on them. Shucks, I don't know. Do ya think we still need to fertilize with that fancy potting soil mixed in?

[HIPOCKETS]

I would fert. lightly, with wabbit wacky, wabit wacky is real strong and will burn your plants up if you put to much. so go light. you might want to put you wacky in a 5 gal bucket and fill it with water and dip about a quart out every few days in each tire. this will delute your wacky a little. lol

[mley1]

Ok, sounds like a plan. I got a few buckets. And, the kids are now in charge of rabbit poo. They now have a new responsibility in their job descriptions, rabbit poo collector and plant fertilizer technicians!!

[HIPOCKETS]

Ok, sounds like a plan. I got a few buckets. And, the kids are now in charge of rabbit poo. They now have a new responsibility in their job descriptions, rabbit poo collector and plant fertilizer technicians!!

sounds like your in the early stages of a plant funeral.. lol,, to much wacky per weeky    

then again if you bought your tires at discount tires the insurence will probably cover the funeral expences.. 

[mley1]

Ok, sounds like a plan. I got a few buckets. And, the kids are now in charge of rabbit poo. They now have a new responsibility in their job descriptions, rabbit poo collector and plant fertilizer technicians!!

sounds like your in the early stages of a plant funeral.. lol,, to much wacky per weeky    

then again if you bought your tires at discount tires the insurence will probably cover the funeral expences.. 

  I'll keep you posted on their progress! Might need advice later for plant burial services.......

[jml]

Here are some pics of my garden, the seeds are starting to come up.

[Sean]

looks like it's coming along nicely jason!

[mley1]

Nice garden Jason! I'm officially jealous! looking good bud!!