aarolar
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75 of this year's tomatoes
How does your garden grow?
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Larro Darro
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I like to lay down cardboard in the garden during the Winter and cut it in the Spring. Margie ask me if I could use shredded paper from her office {and the Courthouse in general}. I figured if cardboard is a good soil builder, paper can't be bad. I don't like the fact it's white {bleached}, but look at my dirt. It's pretty bleached too.
aarolar
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I was thinking that looked like you were planting on a beach.
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Larro Darro
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What kinds have you got? I have three kinds going so far, and am waiting with baited breath on the Pruden's Purple seeds to sprout.
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Larro Darro
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Sand I have plenty of. If I could find a market for prickly pears I would have it made.
aarolar
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I know the feeling when I adopted this place I'm on I had tons of them but after liberal amounts of lime and fertilizer they are pretty much non existent now.
It's a highly disease resistant variety from Twilley seed. We had excellent results from them last year and decided to try them again. I'll be starting another flat in the next week or so of another variety and I'm still undecided as to what.
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Larro Darro
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I have found the more you mow, the fewer of the prickly pear you have. I'm not a big fan of mowing though. I've spent a good deal of my professional life cutting grass. Golf courses, ball fields, hay-fields, pastures and yards.
We have had a couple of three bad years with tomatoes. Late last year I picked up a pack of Pruden's Purple seeds and ran them in grow bags in a {redneck} rain gutter grow system. They did really well, and we liked them a lot. I have 5 or 6 kinds of tomato seeds, but most of mine this year will be PP.
We have had a couple of three bad years with tomatoes. Late last year I picked up a pack of Pruden's Purple seeds and ran them in grow bags in a {redneck} rain gutter grow system. They did really well, and we liked them a lot. I have 5 or 6 kinds of tomato seeds, but most of mine this year will be PP.
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Larro Darro
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I set out a few onion sets today. Transplanted 7 Hungarian Wax into cups and 2 Beef Steak tomatoes into grow bags and put them into the trench. Also laid off rows for planting peas and corn tomorrow.
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Larro, you are really making me feel like I'm way way behind. Nothing yet going in my wife's greenhouse! :ashamed: I'm going to have to crack the whip. 
aarolar
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Thinking about putting some sweet corn in the dirt this week sometime, the weather looks real nice but I'm sure as soon as I do it'll be 30* again.
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Larro Darro
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Larro, you are really making me feel like I'm way way behind. Nothing yet going in my wife's greenhouse! :ashamed: I'm going to have to crack the whip.
I may be too early, I just got tired of waiting.
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Larro Darro
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We are still getting light frosts. My Acorn squash got touched up pretty good a few nights ago. And this planting of corn and peas will be small, so if it does get frosted, I won't lose too much. I like to plant peas ever 21 days anyway. That is about as long as a patch will last before tapering off.
aarolar
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I do the same thing every year Larro, first sign of warm I'm in the garden then I end up regretting it before it's all said and done.
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Larro Darro
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All you have to lose is time and money
My garden is big enough I can plant a little now, then a little more in a couple of weeks.aarolar
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Really? We haven't seen a frost in about two weeks now and you're way farther south than us. Forecast is all mid 70s and low 80s coming up with 50* lows.
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Larro Darro
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Most mornings it's just on the roof, but we did get one on the ground a few nights back. The Larro Ranchero is in a cold spot. Blountstown, where wunderground has it's station, is only 10 miles from the house, but we are always 2-4 degrees colder. As far as TV weather goes, the Dothan Alabama forecast is closer to us than Panama City or Tallahassee.
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lakngulf
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I am getting antsy to get something in the ground. Yesterday I eyed a spot that is getting good sunshine now and thought that it would be worth a try with sweet corn. And I have some tomatoes large enough to plant. With temps in the 80s high and 60s low, I may try something next week.
In the mean time I have plans this year to give the raccoons and squirrels an additional challenge. I have completely enclosed my small pier with corrugated tin and hope the animals cannot traverse it.
I know they are very resourceful, and will likely find the weak link, but at least I want it to be a challenge. Maybe someday in the future the old raccoons will say to the little grandkids "What do you mean you cannot get into that corn patch? Why let me tell you how I maneuvered some slippery tin back in 2016!"
In the mean time I have plans this year to give the raccoons and squirrels an additional challenge. I have completely enclosed my small pier with corrugated tin and hope the animals cannot traverse it.
I know they are very resourceful, and will likely find the weak link, but at least I want it to be a challenge. Maybe someday in the future the old raccoons will say to the little grandkids "What do you mean you cannot get into that corn patch? Why let me tell you how I maneuvered some slippery tin back in 2016!"
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Larro Darro
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I see it's getting here on Saturday and Sunday. Not as much as you are going to get though.
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Larro Darro
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I am getting antsy to get something in the ground. Yesterday I eyed a spot that is getting good sunshine now and thought that it would be worth a try with sweet corn. And I have some tomatoes large enough to plant. With temps in the 80s high and 60s low, I may try something next week.
In the mean time I have plans this year to give the raccoons and squirrels an additional challenge. I have completely enclosed my small pier with corrugated tin and hope the animals cannot traverse it.
I know they are very resourceful, and will likely find the weak link, but at least I want it to be a challenge. Maybe someday in the future the old raccoons will say to the little grandkids "What do you mean you cannot get into that corn patch? Why let me tell you how I maneuvered some slippery tin back in 2016!"
Looks pretty challenging. I hope it keeps the two legged animals that come on boats at bay too.
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