Gardening

Abalone · 04-13-2007, 12:27 PM

I suppose everybody is too busy fishing to bother with the Gardening ?
It's that time of year you know..

So what are you planting this year ?

Any landscape designers of IFISH ? After I got out of the Navy I took the landscape design class at PCC with Maddox. Getting married forced me to change careers and I have always wondered What if ? .......

My veggie garden has gotten too shady to plant Tomato's so I need to find another place for them. I am not sure if I will put all the annuals in this year either.... too much other stuff to do..

I have a huge yard and am laying out a new design for my yard that will reduce the amount of Turf I have to mow.

If it weren't for all this other stuff like fishing and hunting I could easily be a full time gardener.

cptdarel · 04-13-2007, 12:47 PM

oh yea my other love, I usualy plant Tomatoes, green beans, cuks, onion, and Artichokes, YUM! limon, limes, oranges, figs, strawberry, Italian squash, I cut the squash down to 2 plants as my neighbors get tired of the squash sacks i give them

FrogPond · 04-13-2007, 01:07 PM

Any idea where I can go to get a irrigation system designed for my back yard? I will build it myself, but I don't know anything about spray patters or reach.

I will be moving into my first house (new const) the first week of May and need to put in the back yard. I have planned out what I want (planters, shrubs, trees, bulbs, and sod), but I haven't looked into the irrigation options yet. I am sure the brands, applications are just about endless...

Any suggestions?

Abalone · 04-13-2007, 01:44 PM

It's not that hard to do an irrigation design really. The key thing is to know your water supply. Determine how much flow you have available and you will be able to determine how many heads to put on a Zone. After that it a matter of overlapping the patterns. There is a place on Airport way that will do it for free if you buy the materials from them but the only use Commercial grade stuff. Was going to use them but the 5000 series Rainbirds are a bit of an overkill for residential. $22.00 per head for rotors as a opposed to $10.00 per head for an SA32 or SA42. Spray head a only
$2.00 - $3.00 a piece.

Other then that Orbis has a download you can use to send you drawing or Rainbird has a mail in $29.00 that has to be drawn on their Graph Paper at 10 20 or 30 inches per foot.

I am doing it myself cause it aint that big a deal.

Got my Backflow on my Pressure regulator last week.

If you want the name of that business PM me and I will send it to you next week. I forgot their name.

mustang66 · 04-13-2007, 01:54 PM

Ahh yes, the ol' garden. Just harvested my first salad of the year last night!

My wife had never had FRESH lettuce before. She thought it was great. I'm looking forward to a little warmer weather so I can get some good growth going on my other veggies. This is the first garden I've had in years, as we just bought our house last year. I managed to get approx 300 sq ft dedicated to the garden. Nothing like homegrown produce!

ampersat · 04-13-2007, 04:13 PM

I'll be putting in a couple of tomato plants and some herbs, perhaps this weekend depending on the weather. My strawberries wintered over and are starting to move again. I'm considering putting in a second bed on top of an old tree stump that was taken flush to the ground but not ground out. I'm thinking a bed on top of it for a few years will help it rot away and keep the bugs out of it.

I'm cooking up plans to landscape the front yard too. I've got a lot of grass to mow up there and it's just not doing me any good. I'd rather fill it with a tree, some shrubs and ground cover, as well as a new walk and a fresh design to the front porch.

SandyRiverFisher · 04-14-2007, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Abalone

If it weren't for all this other stuff like fishing and hunting I could easily be a full time gardener.

Ill second that. We're renting right now, but with any luck will soon be building a new house in the woods. I envy all who have a yard to work in this time of year. If I still had a yard Id be growing tomatoes, peppers, and cilantro for fresh homemade salsa, cucumbers for my wife, peas, onions, garlic, and fresh herbs.

Keeper · 04-14-2007, 07:40 AM

The tomato starts are on the dining room table...all 30 of them! I always assume they won't grow

They have hit the four inch mark which means it is time for bigger pots...guess what I am doing today?!

I have tilled the raised beds, bought the manure and if it ever stops raining I need to bring in some sandy loam and till it all over again.

Planning on walla walla onions, tomatoes, cilantro, beans, peas, lettuce and acorn squash(no more than 2!). I still might buy a few pepper plants but never seem to have good luck with them. I also have nine dwarf fruit trees that are in their third year.

I spend too much time watering so this year I want to put in an above ground drip irrigation system

I picked up a booklet at Home Depot from DIG; it says I can use one spigot and one main line to do all the beds...at once. This I gotta have!

swampy · 04-14-2007, 05:39 PM

I enjoy my vegetable garden. Ya gotta' have stuff for salsa. I read some where that garlic will develop a flavor unique to your conditions. I have been harvesting and replanting the same garlic for three years and have to say that it is unique and very good. We grow stuff for dill pickles except the cukes which we buy in bulk when our other stuff is ready to go. Dill , peppers,garlic and grape leaves.
I scaled back on the zukes last year and both plants died !!!

Went from an abundance to zero !!!
I like to grow some fun stuff. Kids always liked the indian corn and pumpkins. And some stuff to share with nature like sunflower seeds . we grow enough strawberries to keep us in jam all year with a couple of crates for the homeless shelter that we deliver with whipping cream and short cake stuff. Herbs and stuff that can be expensive is always good.
I think i got my passion from my grandpa...and today i look out the window and find my son working the beds !!

duckcall · 04-14-2007, 08:18 PM

We plant a large garden and can and freeze for year round use. Peas and onions are up, asparagus is just starting. Tomato and pepper starts will be ready for next month. Corn in the freezer, beans and tomatoes in the jar. Even grow our own popcorn. We really rely on our garden. "He who plants a seed beneath the sod, beleives in God." Good therapy too!

Wing Locked · 04-18-2007, 10:15 AM

Hopefully with be finishing my raised beds this weekend. I've had the problem of my lab getting into my tomatoes when they are green and playing with them like they are tennis balls.

Decided to build raised beds since the little ornamental fence I put up, she just jumps over. It's amazing how high they can jump. Anyways...we'll see if it works this year.

For me it's tomato's, green beans, bush peas, cuks, zuccini, acorn squash, and corn. Miss picking corn right off the stock and cooking it up for dinner...I'm hungry