Garden 2024

[Michael_Js]

I know it's not a lot, however, it's my little corn patch and it's doing very well! Last year was a bust, because of a lot of issue...mainly, me...

[Sasquatch]

I actually spent the better half of today taking my garden back. Because of being on Vacation and having other things to do around the house grass had taken over my entire garden. That and some Chinese weed. Those all got evicted today.

I know it's not a lot, however, it's my little corn patch and it's doing very well! Last year was a bust, because of a lot of issue...mainly, me...

Better than mine. I planted 5 and got two to grow.

[T-Man 1066]

I actually spent the better half of today taking my garden back. Because of being on Vacation and having other things to do around the house grass had taken over my entire garden. That and some Chinese weed. Those all got evicted today.



Better than mine. I planted 5 and got two to grow.

Cant just plant a few and get much out of them. Even planting 3 or 4 short rows would help alot.

Corn is not asexual, and needs to cross pollinate with other corn. The tassle is the male part, the silk is the female part. Kinda like people, having sex with yourself is not productive to procreation. Plus corn is a grass, so unless you got Roundup Ready corn, keep the glysophate far away...

[Michael_Js]

The garden is really producing now! Lots of stuff slowly coming in! My corn has Never been SO high!

First squash and cauliflower:

[Mad Trapper]

Cant just plant a few and get much out of them. Even planting 3 or 4 short rows would help alot.

Corn is not asexual, and needs to cross pollinate with other corn. The tassle is the male part, the silk is the female part. Kinda like people, having sex with yourself is not productive to procreation. Plus corn is a grass, so unless you got Roundup Ready corn, keep the glysophate far away...

Yep wind pollinated. Never used roundup/GMO corn seeds.

An alternative is to do hills, with a dozen or so corn, will get good cross pollination. I do that Indian style, with pole beans and squashes in same hill. Indians are the people who developed corn for food. The beans are legumes and feed the corn and squashes nitrogen.

I add poles for the beans so they don't take down the corn. The squash will climb too, I've had butternut and acorns I picked 3 feet off the ground. I usually have to put a loop of welded wire around the hills to keep the deer/coons out. Dam squirrels still try to get at the corn but it makes it easier to shoot them and they can't run away with whole ears of corn. If you get the wire fence with the small openings it helps with the squirrels.

The beans/squash will also use the fence to climb/for support.

[1skrewsloose]

Do your morning ritual in a bucket and use it to fertilize your garden, Save money and you're doing your part by recycling! When I was a teenager, I would take home all the carp I caught and bury them in my own private garden. I had the sweetest sweet corn ever. Natural fertilizer are better than store bought.

[Mad Trapper]

Do your morning ritual in a bucket and use it to fertilize your garden, Save money and you're doing your part by recycling! When I was a teenager, I would take home all the carp I caught and bury them in my own private garden. I had the sweetest sweet corn ever. Natural fertilizer are better than store bought.

The morning ritual will also repel some garden varmints.

[Michael_Js]

She's a beauty! I've already eaten 1 of the Napa cabbages, gave away 2, and just harvested this one. There are several left
Made my salads for this week all from the garden, expect for the onion: Kale, arugula, cabbage, snap peas, purslane, carrots, Romaine

[Inor]

About 3-4 years ago when our oldest grandson was visiting, he and I went out tromping through the desert and chopped off a pad from a nice looking prickly pear cactus a ways from M.T. Acres. I put it in a 5 gal. bucket with some dirt to root, then planted it in the yard. Today, Mrs Inor picked the first batch of pears from it!



I'm not sure if there are enough of them to make prickly pear jelly or if she is planning on just making candy. Either way, it is GREAT stuff! By next year, I expect we will be getting more pears from it than we know what to do with!

We have another that we started from a pad that we stole from the rental house the first year we were in AZ. It has a TON of pears on it as well, but those are not quite ready for harvest yet.

[Mad Trapper]

My garden is going to hell.

I dislocated my shoulder and have in terrible pain since. Doctor won't prescribe pain meds