How does your garden grow?

[Sysop]

Don't be embarrassed, that is a beautiful berry off an apparently healthy bush. Not all breeds are the same. Some of my bushes produce the smaller berries like you have and they are MUCH better for pancakes and muffins whereas the fat ones are better in cereal and fruit salads and the sorts. Some bushes grow over 10 feet tall, and some stay just a couple feet. The bushes that produce smaller/firmer berries also stay fresher longer. It also seems on my bushes, the ones that produce the smaller berries produce a much higher number of berries relative to the size of the bush. I have 15 bushes, and if any two are the same breed, you couldn't tell by what they produce. I've found the key to good production each year is good pruning practices.

 

[thepumpguysc]

There are 148 PAGES on this thread & I don't really have time to read them all, so I'll just ask..
Anyone grow LEMON Cukes?? They are about the size of baseballs or softball, turn yellow & are delicious..
How about Arminain Cukes?? They grow about 2-3 ft long & are delicious.. BUT you gotta give the Yellows ALOT of room & the Arminians grow on a trellis.. Check'em out..
The wife bought 2 "climbing" tomato plants from a catalogue that says they grows 25 FEET.??!!! We'll see.. I installed a trellis just incase..

 

[ssandersjr]

There are 148 PAGES on this thread & I don't really have time to read them all, so I'll just ask..
Anyone grow LEMON Cukes?? They are about the size of baseballs or softball, turn yellow & are delicious..
How about Arminain Cukes?? They grow about 2-3 ft long & are delicious.. BUT you gotta give the Yellows ALOT of room & the Arminians grow on a trellis.. Check'em out..
The wife bought 2 "climbing" tomato plants from a catalogue that says they grows 25 FEET.??!!! We'll see.. I installed a trellis just incase..

I k ow I have seen lemon cukes mentioned in this thread somewhere

 

[Sysop]

A search for the word Lemon in this thread only turned up a handful of results, none were lemon cucumbers.

 

[DFB]

Love Armenian cukes!

Some of best I ever have had

Used to grow them for my farmers market along with other stuff like cousa squash. cubanelle peppers and eggplant. Many Americans are clueless to those varieties and don't really know them.


Thought Darro was the one that did those lemon cukes before?

 

[Sigarms]

Things are finally starting to grow! Added we have the soaker hose in place now.



Any ideas for killing grass without pesticides? We only have 4 raised beds up now, but that will grow next year. We have plenty of room in the fence area to add more, but dealing with grass right now. Don't want to clear it completely at this point as with the heavy rains, it becomes a mad bath with just clay, yet even with adding mulch, we'll get grass growing.

Using a torch right now to keep the weeds at bay, but I'm finding it's a never ending process. Trying to stay away from hard labor and just pulling everything out by the roots if possible LOL

 

[DFB]

Things are finally starting to grow! Added we have the soaker hose in place now.

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Any ideas for killing grass without pesticides? We only have 4 raised beds up now, but that will grow next year. We have plenty of room in the fence area to add more, but dealing with grass right now. Don't want to clear it completely at this point as with the heavy rains, it becomes a mad bath with just clay, yet even with adding mulch, we'll get grass growing.

Using a torch right now to keep the weeds at bay, but I'm finding it's a never ending process. Trying to stay away from hard labor and just pulling everything out by the roots if possible LOL

Those weeds the ones on the ground are those the ones your dealing with? I would use a landscape fabric on the ground. That's what we use to line all the greenhouse floors and under all the benches and pathways for the outdoor display areas. We have a heavy commercial grade but at home I have two rolls of a more lightweight grade maybe from HD I used in my own greenhouse. Decent stuff worth the investment IMO and then you can mulch over it with any material of your choice

 

[robbyr]

Things are finally starting to grow! Added we have the soaker hose in place now.

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Any ideas for killing grass without pesticides? We only have 4 raised beds up now, but that will grow next year. We have plenty of room in the fence area to add more, but dealing with grass right now. Don't want to clear it completely at this point as with the heavy rains, it becomes a mad bath with just clay, yet even with adding mulch, we'll get grass growing.

Using a torch right now to keep the weeds at bay, but I'm finding it's a never ending process. Trying to stay away from hard labor and just pulling everything out by the roots if possible LOL

I have raised beds also. Was thinking about mulching with hay after plants got tall enough but never did. Ended up watering with a shower nozzle at least every other day. Would hoe them with one of those four pronged hoes/rakes then pull weeds by hand. After doing this a couple times it was easy and quick to keep it under control.

On another note I saw a mix you can make that supposedly works good on grass/weeds. It was water, Epsom salts, and vinegar I believe. Was gonna try it but haven't. Google that and you should find it. If not let me know and I will.

 

[MossRoad]

Any ideas for killing grass without pesticides? ...

Stop growing vegetables and the rabbits will eat the grass..... at least, that's how its going at our place right now... bumper crop of rabbits.

 

[thepumpguysc]

Rabbits?? do what I did.. talk your neighbor into growing green beans.. he's closest to the woods.. lol.. the rabbits got ALL HIS & left mine alone.. JUST ALITTLE on the dirty side, I know.. BUT HEY> we're talkin GREEN BEANS!!! Lol