Well...finally.....garden is IN!!!

[Mr. 16 gauge]

With all the wet weather we've had recently, working the ground has been like turning wet concrete!:rolleyes: Finally got a few days without rain and some sunshine & wind to dry things up a bit. Put the last of my plants in yesterday, and it rained last night!:p This year I put in all new varieites of old favorites (cucumbers, tomatos, green beans) and a few new items (watermelons, cantelopes). Going to try corn again this year.....need to take out the local squirrels before they take out my crop!
Anyone else here planting a garden this summer?

[Rapier]

16,
I think this year I will drive down the road to a farm about 2 miles from my farm and buy fresh veggies from them.

My clay will do great for millet and wheat but anything needing a PH above 4.5 is a non starter until I put out about 2 tons of lime. Every time I get to that point, it rains and my clay is that 6 inch stuff, you get 6 inches taller walking on it plus it is slick as.......
Ed

[toxic111]

No veg garden for me, but will have some flower beds in the front yard, that will go in after the may long, we can still get frost here till June...

Will also be laying sod in the back yard later this summer as well.

[Adam Helmer]

Mr. 16 gauge,

I finally tilled Garden #2 yesterday. It has been wet for the last 6 weeks here and we will get another week of rain starting tomorrow. This happened a few years ago and ALL my seeds ROTTED! I had to replant both gardens.

Best of luck with your garden. Our planting will be delayed until the ground dries a bit.

Adam

[skeet]

Garden is started..corn taters beets beans(green, yellow, pole and bush) maters peppers squash watermelon cantelope..lots of other things...Brocolli . Gonna do a few herbs this year too. Try something new. Raspberries are looking good..both red and Black. Cherry trees are looking good gonna be bloomin in a week. We had snow Monday..but I have plastic. I can plant under it. LOL My only real problem is the wabbits...lots and lots of wabbits. Time to start shootin 'em

[Mr. 16 gauge]

My only real problem is the wabbits...lots and lots of wabbits. Time to start shootin 'em

....and then you put 'em in a pot with the corn, taters, beans, maters, ect!;)

[GoodOlBoy]

Most of mine is planted in pots, planters, and topsey turveys hanging on my porch.

Cayenne, sweet banana peppers, and maters. Later on I may actually break some ground up so I can put me a bunch of squash in. Last few times I tried corn I was just spinning my wheels, but I might give it another shot this year.

GoodOlBoy

[buckhunter]

Mine will go in a a couple of weeks. My garden is only for pumpkins for the grandkids. They like watching them grow and its the first place they hit when they come to visit. I will put a fense up this year as the furry critters with big ears are everywhere plus a few of the things they call rats.

[skeet]

Only problem with that is i gotta do the wabbits months before the beans corn maters etc are ready..if not..I won't have any beans corn maters etc etc. And I don't think I would like to have to eat THAT many wabbits.. but yote bait may work.. or wolfie bait..we got 'em both here.. Hunting wabbits is vewy vewy stwenuous.hahahahaha

[Mr. 16 gauge]

Only problem with that is i gotta do the wabbits months before the beans corn maters etc are ready..if not..I won't have any beans corn maters etc etc.

Freeze 'em or can 'em.....then put 'em in the pot when the time comes.;)

My garden is only for pumpkins for the grandkids. They like watching them grow and its the first place they hit when they come to visit.

You might want to consider putting in some green beans as well....kids usually enjoy planting them and they grow rather quickly.....kids seem to like 'eating what they grow'; good way to get kids turned on to veggies (but not exclusively!;))

[skeet]

Weeelll.. Tell ya what. You come and shoot 'em clean 'em can or freeze em and eat 'em when yer garden starts yielding.. I kinda like wabbits....but not fer eatin or gardening..LOL!! Well one or two are ok for eating. But I'll bet I have at least 100....just round the house/garden area.

[Mr. 16 gauge]

ell one or two are ok for eating. But I'll bet I have at least 100....just round the house/garden area.

I suppose that the grass is always greener, but I would KILL for that kind of hunting! All my rabbit spots have dried up.....either the dang hawks/predators have gotten them, the tapeworms have finsihed 'em off, or someone decided that there needed to be a strip mall on that spot!:mad: Haven't flushed a rabbit while hunting in several years now.

[GoodOlBoy]

Well Skeet, two things. One I agree fill up the freezer and use em for late winter stew meat, and two live trap a batch of 'em and see if folks won't buy 'em off of you live. More than a few of them around here will. Me I like rabbit fixed a batch of different ways. Including I used to raise 'em. One good way to boost the meat quality on a pen of tame rabbit fryers is to live catch a few little wild ones, raise them in with your fryers, and let 'em muddy the bloodlines a little. Of course you don't wanna do that with fancy purebred breeding stock, but around my house purebreeds eat almost as well as wild ones. I would still like to try crossing flemish giants and some of the swamp bunnies around here. Nothing like breeding a rabbit that you can ride if you have a mind too :p Saves on gas money ya know....

If I was close to ya I would come spend a few weekends helping you out with that problemo there buddy. :D

GoodOlBoy

[skeet]

Well you'd be more'n welcome to come thin the herd a bit. Only thing is we ain't sposed to kill 'em er catch 'em cept in season. But I guess I can do a few because they are depredating on my FOOD. Heck if they would just go out to the dry ground and leave the garden alone..I'd leave them alone. I wouldn't mix tame and wild together.. Wild carry wayyy too many diseases..and if they get loose...the game peeple might get a little peeved. Remember the hog problem. Wabbits could be worse..Ask the Aussies

[GoodOlBoy]

Yeah you have to watch them when you mix, some of the tame breeds have been out of the disease market so long they have NO resilience. I always kept mine in outside pens. Introducing them to the wild ones was a multi month multi step process that started with them being in a distant cage row, and gradually introducing them closer and closer, all the while dosing the both the tame rabbits and wild rabbits water with a add-in medicine to help fight the various sicknesses they might have.

GoodOlBoy

[popplecop]

Tame or wild they all make a great German dish called hausenpheffer. My mother was great for making it with cottontails and snowshoes when I was a kid.