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SO you stole $2 tomato cages from Walmart? For real?
volume discount.... volume was too high for them to bother to count.
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SO you stole $2 tomato cages from Walmart? For real?
volume discount.... volume was too high for them to bother to count.
SO lying to the cashier about the number is a volume discount? That is pretty sad.
Just rototilled today.
Early season stuff will be planted soon.
Ok I started my seeds in doors in plastic cups and not sure when to transplant then into the ground. The onions and tomatoes are really growing.
I got my 1980 Troy Bilt Horse running like a champ this past weekend and got 36 Broccoli plants and 12 Lettuce plants in the ground.
That tiller does an amazing job once it was tuned and the belts fixed on it. This year should be much better than last as far as soil cultivation goes.
I plan to do a raised garden bed on top of my lawn in a section i don't care about but it gets plenty of sun. My plan is to grow cucumbers, bush beans and maybe tomatoes.
Who has a raised garden bed and how high off the ground is it? I was thinking 2x8 would be plenty high with some cage on the bottom to keep moles out.
That sounds about right... I believe I used 2x8s (converted to raised beds last year). Everything grew great and it was a lot less maintenance after the initial build. I don't have mole problems, so I didn't put screening on the bottom, but I did put landscaping fabric, which I recommend... that way nothing can grow from below your beds that you don't want and 8" is deep enough for anything you're planing (event the 9' sun flowers I grew last year!).
I plan to do a raised garden bed on top of my lawn in a section i don't care about but it gets plenty of sun. My plan is to grow cucumbers, bush beans and maybe tomatoes.
Who has a raised garden bed and how high off the ground is it? I was thinking 2x8 would be plenty high with some cage on the bottom to keep moles out.
Do you have a problem with cabbage worms at all? I can't grow anything cabbage related (broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, etc) because cabbage worms devour the leaves and just about kill the plants. I had given up on growing any of those this year.
That sounds about right... I believe I used 2x8s (converted to raised beds last year). Everything grew great and it was a lot less maintenance after the initial build. I don't have mole problems, so I didn't put screening on the bottom, but I did put landscaping fabric, which I recommend... that way nothing can grow from below your beds that you don't want and 8" is deep enough for anything you're planing (event the 9' sun flowers I grew last year!).
Yes, I hate them they are evil, I usually check my plants morning and evening every day and squish the worms. If I go away for a weekend sometimes they will get a couple leaves but as long as I keep up with it I don't lose much. I try not to do pesticides so it requires a lot of attention instead.
Dammit - I was hoping you'd have some wisdom for me that I was unaware of. Unfortunately I either don't have the time or patience that you do, so no brussel sprouts for me this year! I'll be interested to see how the corn I planted instead does.
We'll be working on putting raised beds in here at the new place later this summer, but today we spent the day putting in the trees and bushes:
5 apple trees
2 pear trees
1 peach tree
4 blueberry bushes
2 types of raspberry
Elderberry bushes
2 Chestnuts
1 walnut
Yikes. Lots of digging. New rock wall underway.![]()