2026 Gardens!

[MossRoad]

Had to do the same…

Wife and I joked about spending $500 on electric fence to protect $28 worth of vegetables.

 

[jyoutz]

Wife and I joked about spending $500 on electric fence to protect $28 worth of vegetables.

Hopefully a garden will produce far more than $28 worth of produce.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

I have probably $300 into the fence, but pumpkins alone are $700+ per year, another several hundred in corn, beans, tomatoes and peppers

 

[Torvy]

Saw an Anaheim pepper a few inches long already.

Blackberries are starting to go from green to red. Bushes are loaded.

We've foraged some wild dewberries and blackberries already. Lots of wild strawberries this year, too.

Tomatoes are still growing. This year I'm making a point of training them into the cages so they get more support.

 

[MossRoad]

Hopefully a garden will produce far more than $28 worth of produce.

I doubt it.... but I will produce about 200# of ground chuck, ah, err, woodchuck!

I tell her we'll never starve. We might not like it, but we'll never starve.

 

[Torvy]

Just discovered one of our red mulberry trees is fruiting, too. So we get another gift, at least if the birds leave us some.

 

[jyoutz]

Just discovered one of our red mulberry trees is fruiting, too. So we get another gift, at least if the birds leave us some.

I’ve never had those. What do they taste like?

 

[DJ54]

Wife and I joked about spending $500 on electric fence to protect $28 worth of vegetables.

I tried that 5-6 years ago, it worked for a couple years then the Deer started jumping over it. Got tired of weed eating around the fence, so just took it down.

I experimented 10 years ago making a living hedge fence from Sunflowers, multiple rows (6-8) 3' wide. Worked very well around a sweet corn patch. Theory is, a Deer will not jump over anything it cannot see the other side of. I tried it completely around the garden the last 2 years, but seed aren't what they used to be and got a very poor stand.

So today I'm trying something different. I planted around 8-10 rows of Sudan Grass/Sorghum around the garden. Supposed to grow 10' -12' high, I left a 10' opening at one end where I will put a small electric fence gate in to access it with tractors, and to pick. It is supposed to mature in 30 days so it should be full growth before much of anything will be interesting to the Deer.

Hope it works, took less than $4 worth of seed.

 

[fatjay]

Last year and the year before, I got overrun by weeds. I till under twice a year.

I did pumpkins, corn, cabbage.

Any suggestions?

 

[jyoutz]

Last year and the year before, I got overrun by weeds. I till under twice a year.

I did pumpkins, corn, cabbage.

Any suggestions?

For pumpkins and corn you could lay down weed barrier fabric and cut holes for your plants. For corn, you just have to weed until the corn is tall enough to overcome the weeds.

 

[fatjay]

For pumpkins and corn you could lay down weed barrier fabric and cut holes for your plants. For corn, you just have to weed until the corn is tall enough to overcome the weeds.

Any chance I can till that weed barrier fabric under after season? It's a pretty long stretch.

 

[rswyan]

Yup - sure is a chance.

Check out the compostable mulches from johnnyseeds (.com)

Amazon has other products as well.