Spent three hours today cutting back blackberrys and green briars. I've got to rebuild two raised bed frames. Went into the woods and checked the over flow on one of our wells and it's putting out at least four gallons a minute. Good clean water.Sure is nice to be working in the dirt.
@WaterNerd If you have some of the Tequila Sunrise, I wouldn't mind trying to grow some. Question though, how do you think they would grow in the Northwest in pots?
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@WaterNerd If you have some of the Tequila Sunrise, I wouldn't mind trying to grow some. Question though, how do you think they would grow in the Northwest in pots?
Oh yea you can grow peppers in the Pacific North West. I'm guessing Washington/Oregon? Pots is the way to go. Most use 5 gallon buckets since the root balls are so large but TBH buckets are really ugly. I always look for sales and go to garage sales and buy pots. I get them on the cheap. PM me your info and I'll get some seeds to you. If you want more let me know. Costs the same to mail them
Your citrus trees are looking great. All of mine are in bloom and the whole back yard smells like a citrus orchard. Love this time of year!
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Momma won't allow buckets. She says they are too tacky. LOL! I'll PM you, as I have some questions.
I consider myself lucky on the citrus, as these are supposed to be hardy for the Pacific Northwest, but most folks have a hard time getting them to do much, so getting the mandarin to bloom as much as it has is promising. And there is something satisfying about growing your own fruit.
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@WaterNerd do you make salsa out of those Ghost peppers? Helluva kick. Bet you wear gloves when handling them. My dad used to grow Habanero peppers and dehydrate them.
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@yakster Yes. I try and grow everything for salsa in the garden but if I'm out of something I just go down to the farmers market and pick up a few things. So much better than anything you can buy at the store
Yes I have to dry the peppers since I get so many. I give away a lot to friends and family but still end up drying most. Makes it easier to add dried peppers to your salsa
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YEEHAWWW!!!! The seeds arrived yesterday, Allan. I'll get them to my DIL this weekend. She's gonna be a happy camper but I don't know about my stepson - what with the extra work he'll have to do planting all those extra seeds you sent. LOL.
Thanks again for your generosity, kind sir. Youze iz a good kid...
Broke ground on the raised beds today. I'm getting the wire grass and weeds out first and then compost, three bags of mushroom compost, a half a bag of pettetized lime and a touch of high phosphorus fertilizer in each bed. Will be starting lettuce, kale, nappa cabbage, and swiss chard in flats next week. Yukon Gold potatoes will be in on Good Friday as will sugar snaps and english peas. Also have to fill in all the holes our dog dug in the yard this winter. I think dog dug out all the voles and moles that tunneled under our bird feeders.
I'm scaling back this year but I did pick up some fivers of 4" pots, tomatoes Goliath and yellow cherry, purple and red bell peppers. jalapeño and habanero, zucchini, cantaloupe and cucumbers, a package each of crook necks and blue lakes.
@jgibvYour 4x4 pots should be fine. That's what I plant my peppers in and take them straight to the garden after the last frost in April. You might have to start feeding them soon. I use the Alaska Fish Fertilizer about once a week when the plants get big to keep them healthy and strong. Down side is the smell.
Keep the photos coming
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@jgibvYour 4x4 pots should be fine. That's what I plant my peppers in and take them straight to the garden after the last frost in April. You might have to start feeding them soon. I use the Alaska Fish Fertilizer about once a week when the plants get big to keep them healthy and strong. Down side is the smell.
Keep the photos coming
@WaterNerd; i was just thinking that same thing when i watered them last night. they need fertilized soon but i was worried that if i do it before they're outside that they will shoot up like weeds and won't fit on that shelf anymore. might give them a little bit of fertilizer next week, depending on how they look.
i use espoma brand fertilizer for all our edibles and it works pretty good. our soil is pretty good so i don't have to use too much fertilizer, got a huge bag on sale a couple seasons ago and still have a good amount left. it sure does have a smell to it though, the dog is always trying to stick her nose in the bag lol.
Getting ready to get ready, just turned the garden over first time this spring. Will till it over probably two more times in the next couple weeks then plant. Usually do 18 to 24 tomatoe plants along with 3 to 4 rows sweet corn, some potatoes, cabbage and a row of carrots and green onions. Will usually do some leaf lettuce and arugula as well.
I just pulled a mess of dandelions. We always have dandelions in the spring to welcome the growing season. Lucy likes them wilted in a cast iron skillet with a hot bacon, onion,and olive oil vinaigrette. The unopened flower buds are like capers. yum.yum.
the negative correlation with the woodchuck's prediction has proved true again, got the lettuce seedlings covered with bubblewrap to protect them from the arctic air and sleet/snow/rain/snow we are getting today and for a few days to come. The'll make it OK and the other crops are pretty cold hardy. Those prognosticating 'chucks are a devious lot.
Well we got 3-5 inches of snow and 50mph gusts coming tonight with a low of 19 tomorrow night. I just bought a pound of sweet onion sets at the hardwear store. I guess I'll hold off setting them out till next week. Spring has to be somewhere.
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If you have some of the Tequila Sunrise, I wouldn't mind trying to grow some.
Question though, how do you think they would grow in the Northwest in pots?
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
The bloom is my newest lemon coming in.
The green fruits are mandarins.
I don't know why, but I get a kick out of being able to grow citrus in the Pacific Northwest.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Your citrus trees are looking great. All of mine are in bloom and the whole back yard smells like a citrus orchard. Love this time of year!
I'll PM you, as I have some questions.
I consider myself lucky on the citrus, as these are supposed to be hardy for the Pacific Northwest, but most folks have a hard time getting them to do much, so getting the mandarin to bloom as much as it has is promising.
And there is something satisfying about growing your own fruit.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Yes I have to dry the peppers since I get so many. I give away a lot to friends and family but still end up drying most. Makes it easier to add dried peppers to your salsa
tomatoes and lettuces are getting big.
had to repot them last night into individual 3x3 and 4x4 pots.
tomatoes are almost a foot tall now.
spring is in the air, will have to prep the beds soon.
excited to get back outside and work in the garden, tired of being cooped up inside all winter.
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Thanks again for your generosity, kind sir. Youze iz a good kid...
definitely started them a little too early this year.
started another tray of tomatoes & tomatillo too.....
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won't be able to transplant outdoors until mid-April at the absolute earliest so i'm hoping these 4x4 pots are big enough until then.
keeping my fingers crossed for a big harvest this year; had some blight last year so trying the tomatoes in a new location this season.
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Keep the photos coming
they need fertilized soon but i was worried that if i do it before they're outside that they will shoot up like weeds and won't fit on that shelf anymore. might give them a little bit of fertilizer next week, depending on how they look.
i use espoma brand fertilizer for all our edibles and it works pretty good. our soil is pretty good so i don't have to use too much fertilizer, got a huge bag on sale a couple seasons ago and still have a good amount left. it sure does have a smell to it though, the dog is always trying to stick her nose in the bag lol.
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Hopefully, there will be more to come, but while the tree seems to be doing well, it just doesn't bloom a lot.
It's amazing how good stuff you grew tastes.
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and found some morels
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