Spring Garden-It's time for show and tell

[crosscreekcooter]

Tuesday and today pickins

 

[alcoholica]

Tuesday and today pickins

Ever visit the Baker Creek site?

 

[crosscreekcooter]

Ever visit the Baker Creek site?

I never heard of them until you mentioned their name. Very nice site and I will try to look a little closer at the varieties they offer, their focus seems to be on heirloom seeds. The heritage behind some of the corn and bean cultivars is really old and facinating.
I tried growing a number of heirloom tomato varieties last year including Cherokee Purple, Japanese Black Trifele (actually a purple), and a couple of different cherry varieties alongside a Beefmaster. The purples (mostly originated in Russia) have an outrageous flavor but it seems the heirlooms are more susceptable to all kinds of problems and the yield is substantially less so I decided this year to stick to 2 hybrids. Nothing worse than beginning to germinate seeds in February, do your best to care for them all spring and wind up with a dismaI garden in June. I do have a Cherokee Purple that came up as a volunteer in another pot so I pulled and repotted it. It has one really nice looking tomato on it that should be ready to eat with several more small ones coming.
Do you have a garden?

Glass Gem Corn, and other heirloom jewels of the corn cabinet... - Milkwood: permaculture courses, skills + stories

 

[alcoholica]

I never heard of them until you mentioned their name. Very nice site and I will try to look a little closer at the varieties they offer, their focus seems to be on heirloom seeds. The heritage behind some of the corn and bean cultivars is really old and facinating.
I tried growing a number of heirloom tomato varieties last year including Cherokee Purple, Japanese Black Trifele (actually a purple), and a couple of different cherry varieties alongside a Beefmaster. The purples (mostly originated in Russia) have an outrageous flavor but it seems the heirlooms are more susceptable to all kinds of problems and the yield is substantially less so I decided this year to stick to 2 hybrids. Nothing worse than beginning to germinate seeds in February, do your best to care for them all spring and wind up with a dismaI garden in June. I do have a Cherokee Purple that came up as a volunteer in another pot so I pulled and repotted it. It has one really nice looking tomato on it that should be ready to eat with several more small ones coming.
Do you have a garden?

Glass Gem Corn, and other heirloom jewels of the corn cabinet... - Milkwood: permaculture courses, skills + stories

I do not. I really just don't have time, but I have an Ag background and I love researching stuff. Hope to get a garden going in the next couple years, but it'll be a go big type deal. So I'm heavy researching now, so i have reference points.

 

[alcoholica]

BTW, diatomaceous earth for arthropods

 

[crosscreekcooter]

I do not. I really just don't have time, but I have an Ag background and I love researching stuff. Hope to get a garden going in the next couple years, but it'll be a go big type deal. So I'm heavy researching now, so i have reference points.

Awesome. Get to know Dr. Elaine Ingham and the council she runs with.



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[Albert]

Saturday morning in the big garden applying residual herbicide. I’m going to try and remember to take this picture through the course of the crop as it develops all the way to harvest.

 

[crosscreekcooter]

Saturday morning in the big garden applying residual herbicide. I’m going to try and remember to take this picture through the course of the crop as it develops all the way to harvest.
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Dang that cotton's coming on quick. What do you rotate crops with?

 

[Albert]

Dang that cotton's coming on quick. What do you rotate crops with?

Unfortunately this is the 4th consecutive season my place is in cotton, although my yields have gotten progressively better with only marginally increased input costs. I’d love to rotate to corn or soybeans but the economics just don’t work right now. If all goes to plan it will be in soybeans next year.

 

[Albert]

Small garden this afternoon. Some tomatoes are starting to ripen and it looks like I’m gonna have to turn the boy loose with a pellet rifle if these birds don’t leave them alone. Got some banana, bell and jalapeño’s coming along too.

 

[crosscreekcooter]

Looks like you got a bunch of tomatoes on those bushes. I'm picking mine 3 or 4 days before I really would like cause I know if I don't schit happens. That lone Cherokee Purple I have I found a worm hole in the bottom today.

 

[crosscreekcooter]

 

[LagoonGator68]

Yum.....mater sammich...

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

Some day lilies out back this morning.

 

[crosscreekcooter]

@Okeechobee Joe -nice color, I planted some last year, smaller yellow and white bloom didn't come back this year. There was a patch of lillies that were growing around an old stump here that was about to take over the yard, finally got them and the stump dug out and gave a lot to several neighbors.

 

[crosscreekcooter]

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

This morning. One yellow rose. Looks like a little black dot fungus on the leaves.

 

[Albert]

Creoles for supper.

 

[crosscreekcooter]

Awesome. We've had BLT's 3 of the last 5 days for dinner and I think we're gonna have them again tonight.

 

[Albert]

The taste on the Creoles is amazing. Being from LA, I always heard they wouldn’t do well north of Baton Rouge due to climate and soil ph. That is utter BS. These are the real deal and will make up half my plants next year.