Garden!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CatDaddy]

Question for the garden experts, I want to add some already seasoned horse waste to a garden, is it better to do it now or wait till this fall? Again the material is already been sitting in a pile for years and will be mixed in with the original soil.

Same question but with cow patties from the grasslands - can I just pick up some dried poo and mix it in?

 

[measure-it]

Careful with horse dung, you might end up with gluey plants. Now if you add cow patties, that will beef things up!

 

[Retired-Guy]

I know from experience that even long rotted horse manure holds many weed seeds that will still germinate if spread on a garden.

 

[wslayer]

Get it mixed in now. Just about guaranteed you'll be fighting weeds but should pan out for you. When weeds starts emerging cover with grass clippings "only" if grass has not been sprayed for dandelions and such.

Edit: far from an expert but have done this in the past.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Planted potatoes yesterday, most are purple, but also yukon gold and reds...

Also planted all my grafted apple trees a few days ago. They will be moved to their permanent location next spring probably.

 

[Retired-Guy]

Nice work Lycan!

 

[johnr]

Did the fish juice work out on that nice garden?

 

[Lycanthrope]

Did the fish juice work out on that nice garden?

I havent used it yet, but it should be good and aged by now! I did make a few 5 gallon buckets of emulsion from my ice fishing fish this winter that should be close to ready by now also

 

[Davy Crockett]

Planted potatoes yesterday, most are purple, but also yukon gold and reds...

Boy, you have nice loose soil the way it looks. Heavy clay here so I do hills but rather than plant in the furrow, I plant in the mound. I till in the fall and use a 3 point blade to mound the hills on top of the hard pan . The mounds shed snow earlier and warm up way faster than flat ground and I keep tilling between the mounds all summer and use the angle blade to bed them as they grow . In the fall they pull right out the sides of the furrow with bare hands. It works with carrots too, they don't root onto hard pan so they pull out easy by the tops. I planted about a dozen potatoes on good friday and they popped right out and need hilling before the frost that's coming . Crossing my fingers. Fun stuff, I'd like to find a good old antique single row digger .

 

[Davy Crockett]

Boy, you have nice loose soil the way it looks. Heavy clay here so I do hills but rather than plant in the furrow, I plant in the mound. I till in the fall and use a 3 point blade to mound the hills on top of the hard pan . The mounds shed snow earlier and warm up way faster than flat ground and I keep tilling between the mounds all summer and use the angle blade to bed them as they grow . In the fall they pull right out the sides of the furrow with bare hands. It works with carrots too, they don't root onto hard pan so they pull out easy by the tops. I planted about a dozen potatoes on good friday and they popped right out and need hilling before the frost that's coming . Crossing my fingers. Fun stuff, I'd like to find a good old antique single row digger .

 

[lunkerslayer]

This is a long thread that being said does anyone recommend growing their cucumber on somesort of vertical growing method? also I love baby dill pickles and would love to be able to grow,to grow a variety that produces only the smaller variety, if that's possible. Also one more question, I would like to grow the cucumbers to match my jalapeno peppers to make a hot and spicy dill pickles. Does anyone have any experience in these type of questions I would truly be grateful for some advice.

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

This is a long thread that being said does anyone recommend growing their cucumber on somesort of vertical growing method? also I love baby dill pickles and would love to be able to grow,to grow a variety that produces only the smaller variety, if that's possible. Also one more question, I would like to grow the cucumbers to match my jalapeno peppers to make a hot and spicy dill pickles. Does anyone have any experience in these type of questions I would truly be grateful for some advice.

Yes to the vertical for cucumbers. Just use the 36 inch hog panels from Runnings or TSC. They come in 16 foot panels but a bolt cutter will cut them to whatever length you need. They might actually sell shorter length now days. Makes them much easier to weed, see and pick. Plant the jalapeno plants and cucumber seeds at the same time. Buy some smaller pepper plants and more mature plants if you can to stagger pepper production a little. If you plant a pickler variety cucumber and pick at the size you want you should be good. If you leave them too long, they turn yellow on the vine and are pretty much chicken feed.

 

[guywhofishes]

This is a long thread that being said does anyone recommend growing their cucumber on somesort of vertical growing method? also I love baby dill pickles and would love to be able to grow,to grow a variety that produces only the smaller variety, if that's possible. Also one more question, I would like to grow the cucumbers to match my jalapeno peppers to make a hot and spicy dill pickles. Does anyone have any experience in these type of questions I would truly be grateful for some advice.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/84e1...ages.pdf?rlkey=478l9mzuw0it9n7gugwtlqvhq&dl=0

 

[Rowdie]

 

[guywhofishes]

 

[Davy Crockett]

You got that right , Garden is ok because I plant enough for the deer too but the trees. They love aronia and juneberry bushes

 

[wslayer]

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/84e1...ages.pdf?rlkey=478l9mzuw0it9n7gugwtlqvhq&dl=0

I use the same panels for my cuc's to climb

 

[Davy Crockett]

I'm going to try companion planting cucumbers with sunflowers for the fun of it and see how that works.

 

[LBrandt]

I'm going to try companion planting cucumbers with sunflowers for the fun of it and see how that works.

It works as long as your sunflowers grow a good root system so they dont blow over in the wind. I tried it and in my sandy soil they will blow down. LB

 

[Davy Crockett]

Heavy clay here they root in pretty good, Have you tried pole beans and sunflowers ? I planted some a couple years ago that grew like crazy I'm going to try making a teepee for the grandkids if the weather ever straightens out. It's been a good year for the weeds , get rid of one flush of them before I plant anyway.