Topic: so who grows their own?? (Read 5575 times)

xhippie · « **on:** Apr 06, 2009, 02:17 PM »

vegtables i'm talking vegtables here. my garlic is just starting to poke through the ground.
i'm also getting ready to plant some lettuce and spinach.they can handle the cold weather and they grow pretty quick.
that will be followed by tomatoes,corn,oregano,and of course garlic lots of garlic.(i like making my own tomato sauce come august.).
towards the end of the summer(thats about mid august up here in new hampshire!) i will plant another run of lettuce and spinach.
that should be ready by late mid/ september.
then in october i will plant my next years garlic it stays in the ground all winter and is ready for harvest the following august.

so what do you grow?

melba the disco queen · « **Reply #1 on:** Apr 06, 2009, 02:50 PM »

I remember you mentioned growing garlic on the other TPB forum, it's cool that you grow so many other things!
This is my first attempt at a vegetable garden this year; I will be trying radish, snow peas, tomatoes, cucumbers & carrots. Yesterday, I worked to expand the small garden area in my backyard. It's interesting that you can plant next year's garlic in October, I will really think about doing this.

Dirty Dancin · « **Reply #2 on:** Apr 06, 2009, 03:40 PM »

Me, if the weather ever warms up and STAYS warm. It's supposed to be 25F tonight. Put out tomatoes and cilantro a couple of weeks ago, but with the ups and downs in the temperature, not sure they're gonna make it. Bought a couple more tomato plants over the weekend, but I'm keeping them inside until the end of this week. I'll also be planting oregano, dill, parsley and fennel. Some for my kitchen and some for my butterfly garden.

xhippie · « **Reply #3 on:** Apr 06, 2009, 04:02 PM »

Quote from: melba the disco queen on Apr 06, 2009, 02:50 PM

I remember you mentioned growing garlic on the other TPB forum, it's cool that you grow so many other things!
This is my first attempt at a vegetable garden this year; I will be trying radish, snow peas, tomatoes, cucumbers & carrots. Yesterday, I worked to expand the small garden area in my backyard. It's interesting that you can plant next year's garlic in October, I will really think about doing this.

ahh the old trailerpark.net that place was a trainwreck..but it was fun (the site crashed so many times due to lack of funding!)i used to do my garlic giveaways and send em all over the place!
semi funny story time...i will try to make it short and sweet..
i sent some garlic to a friend in nova scotia but i forgot to put his name on it! so it went to the address i put on it (it was some address in a secondary school).so as a goof i put the name randy lahey as a return address...so the school upon receiving the package with no name on it ,opened it up and saw that it was only garlic,and says this message over the loudspeaker,"if anyone knows a RANDY LAHEY,please come to the office your garlic is here!"

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   so he knew it was his...he said like five people in his class snickered when they heard it..

   about the garden thing though..garlic is super easy to grow i grow the hardiest strain i can find it is called "german extra hardy" it can tolerate super cold during the winter which is good because i live in the mountains of new hampshire where the temp got down to -26F (-34C) last year.think of it as planting a tulip or any other bulbed flower you plant them in the fall (about an inch deep in the soil) put a bunch of mulch(i use the leaves that are abundant in october)over the top and thats it you don't water it or anything.
   then in the springtime(right about now actually) they start sending up their shoots (garlic greens)...garlic greens is the first thing i harvest out of my garden in about a month from now.good luck with the it

if you want come august i could send you a couple of heads with complete instructions on how to grow them.

Shit machine gun · « **Reply #4 on:** Apr 06, 2009, 07:54 PM »

I can't wait to move to a place with no squirrels cause I want to grow some garden shit.

XH, drove through NH not to long ago coming back to Ontario from Maine.

Sudsman · « **Reply #5 on:** Apr 07, 2009, 05:02 PM »

My wife and I never grow garlic because it's cheap as hell at the store. But we grow tomatoes, peppers (different varieites, sweet and hot), mixed greens, squash, peas, green beans, various herbs...and the asparagus should produce more this year, as it's the third year it's been in. I LOVE asparagus, even though it makes my pee smell funny.

melba the disco queen · « **Reply #6 on:** Apr 07, 2009, 05:21 PM »

Quote from: xhippie on Apr 06, 2009, 04:02 PM

if you want come august i could send you a couple of heads with complete instructions on how to grow them.

That would be great!

xhippie · « **Reply #7 on:** Apr 08, 2009, 10:05 AM »

^ ok coo.l when the time comes i will ask you for an address.
the cool part is you can replant what you grow..so you can have more next year!

Cogglesz · « **Reply #8 on:** Apr 14, 2009, 12:10 PM »

me and my brother farm tomato plants of the arjans haze number one strain, there really juicy and have a great taste

xhippie · « **Reply #9 on:** Apr 14, 2009, 03:30 PM »

i just planted my spring mix of lettuce today..and dug up the next section of the garden..about five square feet,it will probably be the tomato section.(roma paste tomatoes).

xhippie · « **Reply #10 on:** Apr 24, 2009, 05:35 PM »

so i got about 100 garlic plants going and about 40 spinach plants going.

Lost_Mainer · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2009, 10:30 PM »

Well lets see here between the fuckin black flies and mosquitoes and all the other animals like deer bear and squirrels I couldnt if I wanted to we have plenty of all the above. Hunting season is nice though always get my walkin freezer filled top to bottom.
Oh and by the way those green plants help control the black flies keeps them out of the house anyways

TheFave · « **Reply #12 on:** May 20, 2009, 06:42 PM »

I'm a gardener so I thought I would try to start some plants from some old seeds my husband had ... I guess they were too old because I couldn't get them to sprout... I thought it would make a nice father's day gift and I've always wanted to try my hand at it.

So... I bought some zone 5 bamboo instead!

xhippie · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2009, 11:19 AM »

are you growing the bamboo in pots or are they outdoors 24/7?
i never tried that ....yet.

GmeAFuckinR · « **Reply #14 on:** Jun 02, 2009, 01:09 AM »

Here's a hunk of burnin bud from last years crop

Shit machine gun · « **Reply #15 on:** Jun 02, 2009, 07:15 AM »

That's the weirdest garlic I've ever seen.

melba the disco queen · « **Reply #16 on:** Jun 02, 2009, 04:34 PM »

Indeed that is the strangest vegetable I've ever seen!

My radishes will be ready VERY soon! I picked a small one today just to taste, it was quite hot but very juicy! My snow peas are out of control. The carrots, cucumbers & tomatoes are doing nicely as well.

GmeAFuckinR · « **Reply #17 on:** Jun 03, 2009, 12:43 AM »

Quote from: melba the disco queen on Jun 02, 2009, 04:34 PM

Indeed that is the strangest vegetable I've ever seen! :p

I swear I planted garlic seeds, but mars & the moon where aligned with earth for the 1st time in 40,000 years, It's mars it pulled this cocksucker right up out of the ground

Ranger · « **Reply #18 on:** Jun 03, 2009, 06:25 AM »

You poor Guy! I'm sure you were disappointed about no garlic! Hopefully,you made due with what you did have instead.

Sa2ah · « **Reply #19 on:** Sep 15, 2009, 03:00 PM »

we have a garden, growing, lettace, carrots, radish, beens.
annnnd, a a couple of those funny green plants

xhippie · « **Reply #20 on:** Sep 27, 2009, 09:16 PM »

all in all it was my worst garden ever..we got pummeled with rain the first half of the summer (most of my garlic rotted) sorry melba i am going to replant all i harvested and hopefully next year i will get lots more.

melba the disco queen · « **Reply #21 on:** Sep 27, 2009, 09:32 PM »

Dang! That sucks xhippie. I can wait, hopefully you'll have a bumper crop next year!

xhippie · « **Reply #22 on:** Sep 27, 2009, 10:04 PM »

yeah ive been growing this same strain for about ten years(from my own stock) ..and it is dangerously low.

Dirty Dancin · « **Reply #23 on:** Sep 28, 2009, 10:25 AM »

I had a very poor showing this year as well. Many of the tomatoes I managed to grow were only golf ball sized. The herbs rotted from excessive rain. Was thinking about trying carrots this Fall, but I've lost confidence. On the other hand, for a first year garden, my shrubs and flowers did quite well. I wish now I'd taken more pictures because everything is going to seed and it's looking mighty rough out there. The birds are enjoying it, so I shouldn't complain.

xhippie · « **Reply #24 on:** Sep 30, 2009, 02:45 PM »

i just bought a shovel yesterday so i will be turning the soil so the next crop of garlic can go in soon.

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