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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:39 pm
by dill786
okra( ladies fingers) is my fave vegetable to eat in curry sauce its awesome, but cant really grow them in UK without a greenhouse they love the heat..
we have a farm here where i live, PYO farm ( pick your own) i love it there, you can wonder up to the corn field and pick the cobs and all other veggies, i always take my nephews and nieces with me, they love picking the cherry tomatoes of and putting them in plastic bags lol
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:29 pm
by WhiteHotAfterburner
dill786 wrote:okra( ladies fingers) is my fave vegetable to eat in curry sauce its awesome, but cant really grow them in UK without a greenhouse they love the heat..
we have a farm here where i live, PYO farm ( pick your own) i love it there, you can wonder up to the corn field and pick the cobs and all other veggies, i always take my nephews and nieces with me, they love picking the cherry tomatoes of and putting them in plastic bags lol
Well, it's certainly hot enough here for them. Me and the heat don't get along, though. I dread it and desperately await the approach of Winter
Okra is not a favorite of mine. That whole family of vegetables...Okra, Zucchini...is not even in my list of possible favorites
However, they are loved by many...including the folks here. Pickled, fried, boiled etc...they may like them as much as I like sweet corn, Asparagus, Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts....at least they seem to
That sounds like a wonderful way to spend the day with nephews and nieces
You must be a favored or favorite uncle
In the states there are many such farms (Community Gardens) and mostly in Urban areas. I don't know if there are any around here....but there isn't a real need for them as nearly everyone with their own home has a garden.
Good night, dill!,
WHAB
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:38 pm
by dill786
hey whab.
you like pistachios.. you should get a few saplings, one male and a few females.. id love that in my garden but we dont have the weather... i love pistachios, yummy!!!!
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:30 am
by Sun
You should grow some dope, dig a hole and bury yourself about balls deep.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:48 am
by Sun
You Might be WHAB the Gardener If:
You mow your lawn and find a wheelbarrow.
A half moon reminds you of your fat husband pulling weeds.
You think a chain saw is a musical instrument.
You move your refrigerator and the grass underneath it is yellow.
Kudzu covers your arbor.
You don't water your front yard rather than mow it.
You know how many bags of fertilizer your car can hold.
You've ever cleaned your house with a leaf blower.
You empty the trash when you have enough to fill up the pickup.
You can amuse yourself for more that an hour with a hose.
You've been cited for reckless driving on a riding lawn mower.
You move your weed-eater to take a bath.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:12 pm
by WhiteHotAfterburner
dill786 wrote:hey whab.
you like pistachios.. you should get a few saplings, one male and a few females.. id love that in my garden but we dont have the weather... i love pistachios, yummy!!!!
I do, dill. I like them very much. I'll look into it, thanks!
Take care,
,
WHAB
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:47 pm
by WhiteHotAfterburner
In the melon patch we added watering tubes. They are 6" pvc tubing/pipe cut into 14" long pieces with holes either drilled in one side or three sides. The ones with holes on one side are for the melons and the ones with hole drilled on three sides are for the cucumbers. The melons and Cantaloupes are one plant per hillock and the Cucumbers are three plants per hillock. They allow for nearly direct watering of the roots without eroding the hillocks they are on.
The rest of the garden is doing really well.
The grapes are Red Caco on the right and Concord Blue on the left (I took pictures of the labels but they didn't come out...blurry). I'm surprised they're still alive. I read the instructions to them and they did it their way anyway. It said not to put the seedlings in fertilized potting soil....they put them in fertilized potting soil
So, I'll be quite surprised if they bear fruit at all this season....maybe next
Then we put up a tomato arbor made of four 16' wire fence panels with paper feed sacks lining the bottom for weed control...
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That should hold them up nicely for the rest of the season.
Then, we've added some Sweet Banana peppers, Brussels Sprouts and some more tomatoes (Early Girls) in the last row (far right--not in pictures yet....we planted them after I took these pictures).
,
WHAB
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:02 am
by Butcher Bob
Nice
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:56 pm
by dill786
hey whab,
how was the 2011 season for you, did the corn grow well and the melons !!!?
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:44 am
by twilson
Very nice but how do you manage to protect that garden with no fence.
Around here the deer would clean you out in two nights