2018 gardening thread

[Blood]

I've got some 1 1/2" sheet insulation left over from the metal roof-over.
I'm thinking of slapping up an 8x12 grow room in the basement to get some seeds started in a couple of months.
I think we had something like 250 - 300 tomato starts last year and obviously we gave most of them away.

I'm going to try some sub-artic tomatoes this year from Baker Creek.
Here's a link to their catalog.

 

[dave350]

Where do we post about the garlic that was planted in 2017?

I knew this was gonna be a thing.

It’s a whole big damn thing now.

 

[Injun]

Where do we post about the garlic that was planted in 2017?

I knew this was gonna be a thing.

It’s a whole big damn thing now.

If you harvest it this year, this thread. If you harvested it last year, that other thread.

I have some in that grew from seed last year and I didn't harvest and I have some seeds in that I took off three plants that flowered last summer.

 

[Blood]

Where do we post about the garlic that was planted in 2017?

I knew this was gonna be a thing.

It’s a whole big damn thing now.

THIS. \/ ... numbnuts!!

If you harvest it this year, this thread. If you harvested it last year, that other thread.

I have some in that grew from seed last year and I didn't harvest and I have some seeds in that I took off three plants that flowered last summer.

 

[Keendriver]

Wow....4 posts in before the name calling starts.


Disappointed......I guess best sums it up.

 

[Injun]

Wow....4 posts in before the name calling starts.


Disappointed......I guess best sums it up.

Yeah! What took 'em so long?

 

[Rigjockey]

Wow....4 posts in before the name calling starts.


Disappointed......I guess best sums it up.

This is EXACTLY why I don't want to start a garden! Name calling!
Also a lack of land.
But focus on the on the first part and my faux outrage

 

[GAnthony]

that garlic clove i planted in a pot last year, (the old thread with pics) grew, the stalk withered away as per they do, but the garlic clove was all shrunk and dead.

i cannot say for sure the garden garlic, i have that covered in burlap. but i'd hope that there would be "some sprouts" under there. if not, then in spring time, i hope to see something then.

 

[dave350]

I don’t have anything popping up in my garlic bed. I checked the other day. I hope this doesn’t turn into a complete failure. I was excited about growing some garlic.

 

[GAnthony]

I don’t have anything popping up in my garlic bed. I checked the other day. I hope this doesn’t turn into a complete failure. I was excited about growing some garlic.

strange but every year, we hold out hope. one year, i got more growing than i know what to do with. the next, nada, but the next after that? some pop up from the last season that didn't before.

has nothing to do with soil conditions. nothing to do with the weather. i see it as the garlic themselves. either we get a good garlic for planting, or not. then i have seen some garlic "sleep" for about 3 years, and i had growth in my Impatience flower area.

who knows. not even The Shadow knows.......

The Shadow - Wikipedia

 

[Duck]

My gardening plan for this year is to switch from buying produce from Walmart to Berkots. It's a tad more expensive but way better.

Either that or I'll modify my retarded rototiller.

Seriously.... What moron designs a rototiller with the tines in front? You gotta hold upwards on the handles or it just rests on that stupid keel/rudder/skeg looking thing. And that kills my shoulders fast. Not only that but the engine being directly on top of the tines doesn't weight it enough to chop up virgin soil, and it's also the only weight that can be applied.

I want one of the tillers where the engine hangs off the front and the tines are in the rear, so you hold downward pressure on it to counter the weight of the engine. Easier on the shoulders and also more weight on the tines so they dig in better.

I mainly just want to use it to bust up the steep side of the ditch so I can drag all that dirt uphill and out, to widen the ditch while shallowing out the grade so I don't have to side-saddle the mower so it doesn't tip over.

 

[GAnthony]

My gardening plan for this year is to switch from buying produce from Walmart to Berkots. It's a tad more expensive but way better.

Either that or I'll modify my retarded rototiller.

Seriously.... What moron designs a rototiller with the tines in front? You gotta hold upwards on the handles or it just rests on that stupid keel/rudder/skeg looking thing. And that kills my shoulders fast. Not only that but the engine being directly on top of the tines doesn't weight it enough to chop up virgin soil, and it's also the only weight that can be applied.

I want one of the tillers where the engine hangs off the front and the tines are in the rear, so you hold downward pressure on it to counter the weight of the engine. Easier on the shoulders and also more weight on the tines so they dig in better.

I mainly just want to use it to bust up the steep side of the ditch so I can drag all that dirt uphill and out, to widen the ditch while shallowing out the grade so I don't have to side-saddle the mower so it doesn't tip over.

i have one of those mini tillers. very old now. last year i had to replace the fuel lines, thanks in part to the ethanol rotting them out. but once that machine gets running, it runs like an assaulted ape.

it does have the tines in the back, and i have to pull the tiller backwards for it to do it's job.

but my garden measures about 15' x 15', so not a really big issue.

this year, i will however be planting less vegetables and more long lasting flowers, like geraniums.

i am losing interest in the garden, so little each year, i cut back.

 

[Duck]

i have one of those mini tillers. very old now. last year i had to replace the fuel lines, thanks in part to the ethanol rotting them out. but once that machine gets running, it runs like an assaulted ape.

it does have the tines in the back, and i have to pull the tiller backwards for it to do it's job.

but my garden measures about 15' x 15', so not a really big issue.

this year, i will however be planting less vegetables and more long lasting flowers, like geraniums.

i am losing interest in the garden, so little each year, i cut back.

They've come out with a new type of fuel line that ethanol won't eat. What I don't know yet is if it's made out of mouse food though.

I put a 6 inch piece of it outside next to the shop door and pinned it down with a stiff wire. It's only been a few weeks, and it's winter. But so far it hasn't been eaten yet.

 

[GAnthony]

They've come out with a new type of fuel line that ethanol won't eat. What I don't know yet is if it's made out of mouse food though.

I put a 6 inch piece of it outside next to the shop door and pinned it down with a stiff wire. It's only been a few weeks, and it's winter. But so far it hasn't been eaten yet.

yeah, soy based wires and tubing.

when i installed the new lines, i got about 2 feet of it from the Toro dealer. i made each line about 1 inch longer, to lessen the damage that could be done by vibrations as well.

didn;t cost much, dealer said they have been replacing fuel lines on nearly every gas engine that comes in, damned ethanol.

so now, not only do i buy 2 cycle oil, and Stabil, i also buy another product that protects engines form the ethanol.

only a few ounces per gallon.

 

[tommyh]

I have a old Merry Tiller.Tines in front,I use a drag bar in back.Turn on a dime
I usually just plant a dozen or so tomatoes.I downsized my garden untill I get a tractor with rear diggers

 

[dave350]

I got an old snapper tiller. Front tines. Beat ya to death. I don’t need it with my raised beds though. I basically store it for people to borrow.

 

[Injun]

I till my soil with a spade and a rake.

 

[dave350]

When I mixed the soil for my raised beds I put in vermiculite as a 1/3 of the mixture. When spring hits and it’s planting time I can just reach in by hand and make a hole. Vermiculite is a little costly but it’s good stuff. Makes for good carrot growing if the rabbits don’t eat the plants.

 

[GAnthony]

I till my soil with a spade and a rake.

i used to do that. but the older i had gotten, the less hard labor i wanted to do.

well, when i popped outta the womb, i didn't wanna work hard much after that.

i never saw the percentages in it for me.

 

[Injun]

i used to do that. but the older i had gotten, the less hard labor i wanted to do.

well, when i popped outta the womb, i didn't wanna work hard much after that.

i never saw the percentages in it for me.

I enjoy the hands-on. I've worked it so thoroughly that it's easy to dig and turn. I have sandy loam and I keep adding organic material to it. Horse poop, some chicken crap, composted yard waste, straw.. This year, I'll have the rest of it sifted and I'll fill it in with a mix of plain topsoil and garden/seed-start blend. Depending on the blend, I might add a little vermiculite.