Gardeners in the Asylum

[Shawn hines]

Originally Posted by hotreds

soy- about 5 in the picture, but about 15 or so are planted.

Looks like a pretty good crop, How many bushels per acre did you pull?

[OLS]

Nothing but the finest mexican weed.....

[Shawn hines]

This is old pictures from this past summer, but I thought I would post it anyway. This is what I was raised on growing and working on as a kid... Some habits just don't die I guess?

[SvilleKid]

No pix (only fresh turned dirt), but planted a patch of purple top turnip greens (at request of my elderly mom), and added several rows of snow peas for myself. Going to hunt down some spinach seed tomorrow, and add a patch or that for myself (place where I grabbed turnip and snow pea seeds was out of spinach seed.)

[TheCigarNut]

Just found out about this thread! Good to know I'm not the only one on here into plants. No where near the experience you all have tho. I just put some whale spinach, miners lettuce and Paris island lettuce seeds in the starter pots. I have my soil mix with amendments sitting in a home made compost bin right now, hopefully that will be done soon.

You all do the full organic thing, chemicals or a mix? This is my first venture into a full organic setup, hopefully the food tastes better because of it!

Miners lettuce is wild here. I grow organically but I add organic chemical fertilizer and I'm not above using snail bait. I use Azitrol as an insecticide, which is plant derivative but it's a refined chemical. The line to organic can be a little fuzzy. I use compost from horse, chicken, yard waste, worms, and kitchen waste. The plants grow easier, faster and bigger with high potency chemical fertilizer. They taste better because you pick them at the right time and eat them fresh.

[jjirons69]

My peppers are still crushing it! I've given away a ton of them this year. My collards are starting to take root and grow...yum. Also, this weekend we dug peanuts at my dads. We spent most of yesterday washing and boiling in two huge pots. I ended up with 37 FULL quart bags of boiled Valencia peanuts in the freezer. This should get us through the winter. (My fingernails are ruined, BTW)

I just started harvesting these.
When peppers get to a certain point it gets hard to compare them. These are very hard to eat raw. Supposed to be hotter than habaneros. It's very hard to eat habaneros raw too. They taste sweet before the pain hits.

[SvilleKid]

I have never had luck growing onions in the spring and summer. I try it almost every year. I stopped by the county co-op this afternoon looking for spinach seeds. No spinach seeds (they don't carry it in seeds, only plants?????). They did have starter onion bulbs for $1.50 for a pound bag. What the heck, may as well try onions in the fall. Maybe I'll have better luck in the Fall! If not, I've lost a whole buck-fifty!

[hotreds]

The beans are harvested....

[357]

Originally Posted by hotreds

The beans are harvested....

Hugh, where's the deerstands??? I thought on the post-harvest pic we'd be able to see them in the background.

You have to have some kind of loss managment, aka hunting to kill off the deer who eat your crops.

Originally Posted by 357

Hugh, where's the deerstands??? I thought on the post-harvest pic we'd be able to see them in the background.

You have to have some kind of loss managment, aka hunting to kill off the deer who eat your crops.

For some reason, seeing a plowed field makes me think of hunting too.

[TheCigarNut]

nice! Looking very good! Hope it was an excellent crop for you!

[SvilleKid]

I decided to dig one of my dozen sweet potato plants today to see how they were progressing. I think I'm going to have a few more taters than I was planning on! 16 yams from that one plant. The size 10 moccasin is for size comparison!



Think it's time to harvest the rest this week.

I wish we could grow yams here.
I'm starting to get used to those Caribbean Red chilis. Next year it can be ghost peppers.

[jjirons69]

Good looking sweets there, Cliff

Lance, you're a dang madman! Those things would tear my guts up then burn up my backside. I bow to you!

Originally Posted by jjirons69

Lance, you're a dang madman! Those things would tear my guts up then burn up my backside. I bow to you!

I know a lot of people who can eat really strong peppers. The burn in your mouth turns to numbness pretty quick after a while. The burn in your gut goes away after a couple of minutes and it actually improves your digestion and speeds up your metabolism. My lower back pain has gone away. The end burn is very temporary. Capsaicin depletes neurons of the ability to transmit pain and gives you an adrenaline rush so it is a little addictive.

[SvilleKid]

I'm expanding my garden intentions. Many of the sweet tater vinse were putting out roots and the start of tubulars where they were touching ground. I took those vives, and recovered the "roots" with dirt, and am watering them. I'll be interested to see what grows over the fall. I also took a double handful of the smaller remains of my red potatoes (that were starting to sprout), and planted them. If we have another mild winter, I might be eating fresh taters in January!!!

[mmblz]

does grass count? this is what i spend the most energy on

[Mr B]

Originally Posted by mmblz

does grass count? this is what i spend the most energy on

Awesome looking property.