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Those are the smallest size cage. They said I got the last box of small ones when I ordered and they don't make them any more. Who knows.
Another of the new beds. Swiss Chard and Zucchini.
I have Peaches!! This tree was planted last year.
Mustards,Romaine, Red Leaf, and Buttercrunch.
Cabbage. They were planted at the same time. The top pic is in the pure compost peat mix. The bottom is in an older bed with compost mixed in the sand. Big difference in size of the plants.
In the never ending battle with the brutal Florida sun I am finally going to employ a new weapon that I say I am going to do every year but never get around to. One day the greens are doing fine and the next day it feels like mid summer.
The swiss chard falls over and completely lays almost flat on the ground in the full sun which can't be good . So I ordered a large roll of 30% shade cloth. This way I can use it as is or double it up if I have to.
The frames are the same ones I use for a trellis. Electrical conduit set over rebar which is pounded into the ground. The chard began to perk right up soon after I put the shade cloth on.
This is the same chard in the bed which earlier had lettuce growing with it. Now I have 3 tomatoes where the lettuce used to be.
Now I should be able to get cooler season things going earlier and keep them going later.
@monkeybird. They are all about the same depth. The shallower looking ones are just dug deeper down. As I replace the smaller wood with blocks then they will be deeper but they all start out about 15 - 18 inches deep with the bottom forked another 3 or so inches.
Things are growing well even though March has had temps like the end of April usually is.
Strawberries coming along
Zucchini starting to bloom
Zucchini and chard
Chard under shade doing much better
Cucumbers. Planted at the same time. I don't know why the front ones are so much smaller than the back. They will be thinned to one plant in each corner.
Eggplant and peppers
2nd crop of green beans. The back bed is new. It is where a peach tree died from last year. I will be planting 2 blue berry bushes there. I have 3 varieties coming total which all have real low chill requirements so they should do good down here.
Toms and beets
Beet ready to pick
Peaches coming along
Okra front bed watermelons back bed
New blueberry bed construction. My berries all died last year. I don't think the soil was acid enough so this year I am making special beds for them with compost and much more peat mixed in than the other beds. Also am mixing in some sulfur which lowers the ph. I will mainly be using cottonseed meal to fertilize them which helps acidify the soil.
Blackberries behind are blooming. I am going to train them up into the new fence I had installed a couple weeks ago.
Cabbages heading up nice
serenade for disease control and spinosad for caterpillars and bugs. I will alternate the spinosad and thuricide for the caterpillars. Now that it is warm they have already hit the tomatoes pretty good and I lost several large green tomatoes.
Here in VA we just got hit by a freak winter storm that dumped 2" of snow on everyones "just breaking up through the soil" gardens... AArrghhhh!
We will see how that affects our produce this year... I know many peach farmers are sweating and praying...
But I still don't know if I could go back to Florida... lol!
Well I was born down here so it's all I know. When I worked at Publix I told my wife I will never live somewhere where it gets colder outside than the freezers and coolers I worked in. Nooo way!! We have a lot more leeway when it comes to the weather and get several crops in year round. Hope your garden comes out all right.
If anyone hasn't read it yet, they should!
Thanks for the blog.
I've got my tomatoes coming in right now, cucumbers too. Herbs out the wazoo, although, I think think I let my basil get a little out of control.
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HV FN ES 73! http://skattagun.blogspot.com
"3. you cannot count on your adversary sucking. to do so invites disaster."
--Spock
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I've got one brandywine vine, and three (4, but the fourth is kinda an experiment...) homestead bushes. I also have one hybrid, a better boy that I've started, but I think I started it a little too late, it's to the point now where it's getting tall, and starting to look like something, but I'm afraid that the heat will get it before it makes. My garden is partial sun, gets sun from about 9:30-1 or 2, and then for about 1-2 hours before sunset.
I like growing romas, and in the fall, I think I'm going to plant some of them, if I can get some heirloom seeds. I also want to keep my homestead line alive through ****** propagation. Not much luck there, but I got three stems soaking in water that are starting to make roots!
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HV FN ES 73! http://skattagun.blogspot.com
"3. you cannot count on your adversary sucking. to do so invites disaster."
--Spock
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tr,
this is a little off track...
what kind of reaction do you get from neighbors?
you have a great looking garden and the solar panels.
anybody that you think will steal if things got tought?
just curious about attitudes of others.
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I seem to be like just a curiosity to them. I give them some produce which they all enjoy and I like sharing. The house right behind us is up for sale like a lot of them in the area and when people come to look at it when I am out back they always have a lot of questions and are amazed at the garden.
As far as the solar panels people are either really interested in the system or they aren't. One of my neighbors laughed when I first started building the system. He said what do you think the electric grid is going to go down. Then when it got real cold the year before last several areas around here had thousands who lost power for almost a week because the grid could not handle it. So I said to him now do you see how fragile the grid is.
In 2 weeks I am having a 6 camera video security system put in with night time cameras and will post in several places around the property that it is under video surveillance.
I don't think people would be a problem at first but in a longer term grid out event yeah there would be problems. If people with generators couldn't get fuel then I would be the only one with power and the ability to pump water from my well. See how long that lasts before problems start. It sure is something to think about.
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