Official Coli Gardening Thread..Vegetables/Fruits/Herbs/Spices..Freshest Thread Ever

[HarlemHottie]

Hardware cloth works for rabbits and sometimes woodchucks but you need part of it underground. If you have a rabbit/woodchuck issue, setting up the hardware cloth you need to dig a trench of sorts and have it sticking 3-6" in the ground around the perimeter to prevent the animals from digging under it which they will do.

Squirrels are a wild card since they can climb readily

Interesting. We're doing a huge concrete planter and a (closed) mesh (1/4" hardware cloth) cage. We have mostly birds and cats, a few opposum, and possibly mice and/or voles.

A lot of people impose what works for them on to you but you know your technique and your plants best.

I have no technique and don't know these plants whatsoever. This is a maiden voyage.

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

I have no technique and don't know these plants whatsoever. This is a maiden voyage.

I see. Peppers are really easy, just start fertilizing once flowers start showing up. Every flower becomes a pepper so you'll likely be overwhelmed. Save some gloves for your harvests. You'll probably** get two large ones before the frost.

** means one larger harvest is late july then another one late October. In dc I try and have everything cut or inside by Halloween

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

I have a question with collards and cabbage. I’m creating potting soil, I have garden soil, dessert sand, cow manure, coco coir, and perlite.

What combination should I use and also at what ratios?

I'd be reluctant to start planting those kinda crops right now unless you live north of me (DMV). Those are all flowering now and going to seed and then bugs come for the rest of what's left and they EAT WELL.

I'd do a 5:2:1 mix of soil:perlite:manure and you can cover the top layer of the soil with the sand to prevent other bugs from messing with it as much. Look up "sand as a top-dress" or something like that

 

[HarlemHottie]

I see. Peppers are really easy, just start fertilizing once flowers start showing up. Every flower becomes a pepper so you'll likely be overwhelmed. Save some gloves for your harvests. You'll probably** get two large ones before the frost.

** means one larger harvest is late july then another one late October. In dc I try and have everything cut or inside by Halloween

That was funny.

By Halloween, i should have my greenhouse, fingers crossed against this Corona.

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

That was funny.

By Halloween, i should have my greenhouse, fingers crossed against this Corona.

That would be awesome. Im jealous

 

[HarlemHottie]

That would be awesome. Im jealous

What kinda space you got? Cuz, tbh, I'm a tad overwhelmed. We intended to move to the country, yeah, but eventually. To go from a life of apts to a house with a yard to 'welp, guess we gotta grow our own salads' is a bit much.

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

Garden confessions: Sometimes I’m afraid to pick my tomatoes b/c I see some pretty scary looking mofos on em.

I hate bugs

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Garden confessions: Sometimes I’m afraid to pick my tomatoes b/c I see some pretty scary looking mofos on em.

I hate bugs

I spray neem oil on them at sundown. And sometimes I put cayenne pepper on them to keep the critters away.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I planted some cucumber and green bean seeds, along with two slices of tomatoes to grow beefsteaks and Campari. There hasn’t been a lot of sun here, so I’m not seeing anything come up yet.

I was ready to order a new raised bed to expand my garden, but Home Depot doesn’t deliver soil and mulch. I could order it online, and go pick it up, but they are only opening the pro entrance, and there’s a long ass line you have to wait in to get anything.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

almost time

What do you put in the grow bags?

 

[newarkhiphop]

What do you put in the grow bags?

peppers (any kind), I tried kale one year but it didn't work out, most of them are 5 or 7 gallon bags

 

[DrBanneker]

I'd be reluctant to start planting those kinda crops right now unless you live north of me (DMV). Those are all flowering now and going to seed and then bugs come for the rest of what's left and they EAT WELL.

I'd do a 5:2:1 mix of soil:perlite:manure and you can cover the top layer of the soil with the sand to prevent other bugs from messing with it as much. Look up "sand as a top-dress" or something like that

I agree except if he isn't starting from seed and is getting like a small plant from a nursery, the collards at least should work. When I lived in Upstate NY I would buy and plant small collards around Memorial Day Never failed me. I actually have the least flower issues from collards of any brassica but maybe it was the variety of Georgia Collards I was buying.

Broccolli is almost a definite no-no at this point though from seed. Once it gets hot it flowers and you are done. I have never done cabbage.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

peppers (any kind), I tried kale one year but it didn't work out, most of them are 5 or 7 gallon bags

I did bell peppers last year in my raised bed, and the amount of space didn’t justify the amount of time it took to produce, or the small amount of peppers. So I gave up on them this year. The grow bags might be another option

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I was able to order soil directly from Miracle Gro, and they had free shipping, since Home Depot and Lowe’s don’t deliver soil.


But I don’t know how long it’s going to take to get here.

 

[hashmander]

any of you compost? i have like 4 bins. my city (orlando) gives them to residents within the city limits for free. suppose to be one per household but few actually utilize it that if you want more they'll give it to you (deliver it to your house).