Vegtable garden?

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clapiana

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Just got my garden in this weekend (25x15x15 triangle) i wanted to get it in last week but busy busy busy and a crazy amount of rain this month. I planted some Pickeling cukes, 4 kinds of hot peppers, zukes, summer squash and 5 kinds of tomatoes (2 determinate and 3 indeterminate). I redid my 5' tall deer fence too. Still debating on what to make a cage out of for the tomatoes I tried getting them to climb last year which was a huge headache. This year i plan on putting in a home made drip system for the tomatoes to see how it works vs a few sprinkler heads. What are you guys and gals doing in your vegetable gardens?
 
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We are kinda limited on what we can plant and expect something out of. We have cabbage, broccoli, spinach, pumpkins, rutabaga, potatoes, rhubarb, carrots and onions going. We raise peppers and tomatoes in the house. On the property we also have several berry patches, raspberry, wild straw berry, several wild edible greens and a bunch of wild mushrooms we pick. I inoculated several logs with mushroom spores/samples I collected from the area, it will be interesting to see if they take.
 

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Shrooms are mainly a fall harvest here......but the boys got some amazing eats right in front of him!

We actually do well with tomatoes as long as we dont try to move them outside. They love our front window!
 
Our garden is huge this year.
We have zucchini, squash, and pickling cucumbers coming out of our ears right now. We had one zucchini that was about as tall as my 2-year-old. It's crazy.
I've also got about 40 tomato plants going strong right now. I plan on making LOTS of homemade salsa this year. Also have a few rows of corn, a big watermelon patch, jalapeno peppers, onions, green bell peppers, broccoli, sweet peas, and some lettuce.
Everything is growing big and crazy. I'm sure my neighbors love me since I have this huge garden and live in a subdivision. Haha!
We also have 3 peach trees in the backyard and my wife made homemade peach cobbler last night. It was GOOD!!!
Something you ought to invest in is a Food Saver Vacuum Sealer. That way, you can seal up your veggies for later use. I don't know how well they'll keep, since I've never tried it before, but I figure it's better than letting them sit in the fridge and rot because we have so many that we can't eat them all.
 
We only have a few places you can dig a hole deep enough to plant a tree. None are in the fenced areas! After years of the moose doing this to my fruit trees I have decided to grow them in 1/2 of a black plastic 55 gallon drum. That way they can go in the fenced area.
 

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Rick P,

I can relate to critter damage. I live in a subdivision named Deer Run and I would like to re-name it to Deer Overrun. It's not uncommon to see four or five in my front yard on any evening. I only purchase Deer Resistant plants for my ornamentals like Iris and Butterfly bushes etc., but they eat them like candy. My vegtable garden is limited to tomatoes and Cucumbers and I have to keep them completely fenced as they eat them leaves fruit and all.

Georgia has so many Whitetail deer the annual limit is 12; two bucks and ten does. The wildlife is lovely to see (in someone else's yard)

Jim Smith
 
WOW!

Between them and hogs I might need to do a meat trip down your way! I have freinds we would love to see in the area too. One of the best pit meals for a large group I have ever had; take a medium whole hog and split the ribs next to the spine so it lays out flat and spice, put a small whole white tail buck on a spit and spice. Lay that hog over/around it. Tie off well and roast over fruit woods till it reaches a core temp of 160.........
 
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Have put up over 60 pints of green beans. Picked approx 80+ lbs of yellow squash. Only planted 5 lbs of potatoes and dug about 40. More peppers and tomatoes than I can make salsa out of. Okra is about to come off. Black eyed peas in about 4 weeks. Hope everyones does as well as mine has. Complete contrast to last year.
 
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Still debating on what to make a cage out of for the tomatoes I tried getting them to climb last year which was a huge headache.
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Hey Craig...I had the same problem as you. It was a pain to have to keep tying up the ever growing new branches to keep them off the ground, or from breaking. I came up with this solution several years ago and it has worked perfectly. Basically, its just a stand, made of pressure treated lumber, with 4 shelves covered in wire fencing that has 4" x 4" openings. The tomato plants grow up through the shelving, and the shelving supports the branches. If I notice a branch growing outside of the shelf supports, I just redirect the errant branch through one of the 4" holes and I'm done. I originally built it to knock down and store for the Winter, but I've been too lazy to do that. It is weathering but it'll probably sill last 10 years even if I do nothing to it. I bet this would work really great for true vine plants. The lighter colored boards on the ends were added recently to help control racking.

We're early into the tomato season here in the N.E., my plants are only through the 1st shelf. By mid-July they'll be through the 3rd shelf and we'll have more grape tomatoes than we'll know what to do with.

 
Drip works very well. You will lose less water to evaporation, reduce chance of diseases from getting leaves wet & if you cover the lines with mulch and you will have to water much less often.

I've got sweet corn, few different tomato varieties, couple lettuce variety, Leeks, Zucchini, beans, cucumber (which I'll turn into pickles), eggplant, peppers, celery, honeydew, spinach and a variety of herbs. Have to reseed some more beans and peas, and I'm going to take a barrel and do some root vegetables. Probably onions, carrots and potatoes. Might fill in some spots in main garden areas with radish as well as that grows super fast.
 
Nothing this year, but in the past I've done mostly peppers, usually jalapeno, habanero, chile, bell, maybe a few other types. We've also done cucumbers, maybe some roma tomatoes, broccoli, maybe a few others...
 
Dad and my brother caned quart jars 20 + yesterday, I am waiting on the purple hull peas, now that I bought a pea sheller, peas, butterbeans, no more allday shelling,pick in morning, stack bread racks full to dry out then shelll in the evening or next morning, then do it again on 3 day,I hate green bean
carpblater
 
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