Misc Official 2011 Gardening Thread

MOhillbilly · 11:11 AM

The times gettin close for indoor seeders & planning for early varaties.

tips, tricks, varaties you like. Where to buy. What to buy. Does & donts.

Your personal picks.

All things gardening.

What you got?

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 12-21-2010, 11:11 AM

2011 is going to be shit. I would've just skipped to 2012 too. Remember though, shit needs to harvest before December. The world is ending then.

MOhillbilly · 12-21-2010, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

2011 is going to be shit. I would've just skipped to 2012 too. Remember though, shit needs to harvest before December. The world is ending then.

Hydrae · 12-21-2010, 11:13 AM

I have already turned the garden over and expanded it by a few feet. Being in central Texas I should have planted a second round but was too lazy in August. I will go back in a couple of months and rototill in some fertilizer and be ready to start dropping seeds by late March.

MOhillbilly · 12-21-2010, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Hydrae

I have already turned the garden over and expanded it by a few feet. Being in central Texas I should have planted a second round but was too lazy in August. I will go back in a couple of months and rototill in some fertilizer and be ready to start dropping seeds by late March.

im puttin taters & cabbage starts in by st. pattys day.

Guy showed me that if you cut the bottom out of 5 gallon buckets and put the bucket over the cabbage you can just put a lid on it when you have a chance of frost.
excellent trick imo.

wont turn mine over until the early march. Like you im gonna expand mine to take up most of the back half of the yard.

**2112** · 12-21-2010, 11:18 AM

The best compost mix I have used was 50% top soil/40%Compost/10%Sand. rototill about 4 inches of that shit into the ground and it makes everything happy. I also use steroids for my Annuals. Growers mix/Terra sorb and slow release fert.

MOhillbilly · 12-21-2010, 11:35 AM

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The best compost mix I have used was 50% top soil/40%Compost/10%Sand. rototill about 4 inches of that shit into the ground and it makes everything happy. I also use steroids for my Annuals. Growers mix/Terra sorb and slow release fert.

what zone? what kind of annuals?

**2112** · 12-21-2010, 03:02 PM

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what zone? what kind of annuals?

Northeast (New Jersey) Vincas and Begonias. I planted begonias one year and put the steroids in the holes with them and they hardly even grew. have shitty soil in the area, a lot of shale and clay and the bed is sloped on a downward angle. so when I d water the flowers the water would run right down the bed and not go into the soil. the flowers hardly grew all year.

The next year I rototilled my compost mix in and threw the steroids in, and by September the begonias were 2ft high (as big as a smallshrub). the sand was the key for drainage, after I did all that I watered the flowers and the water wouldnt run down the bed anymore. it just sunk in.

MOhillbilly · 12-21-2010, 11:14 AM

http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/cor...rod000664.html

my pick for early sweet corn this year is early sun glow hybrid. 63 days,OP, had some last year. need to plant it on high well drained soil to mu spring rain will stunt growth.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 12-21-2010, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by MOhillbilly

http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/cor...rod000664.html

my pick for early sweet corn this year is early sun glow hybrid. 63 days,OP, had some last year. need to plant it on high well drained soil to mu spring rain will stunt growth.

I really need to come over to your place for dinner sometime. Freshly grown veggies are the shit. Maybe this is the year I get some stuff planted in the ground. If I'm around anyways. Hopefully I'll be on the road, but if not, now that I have the yard, I think I'll go for it.

MOhillbilly · 12-21-2010, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

I really need to come over to your place for dinner sometime. Freshly grown veggies are the shit. Maybe this is the year I get some stuff planted in the ground. If I'm around anyways. Hopefully I'll be on the road, but if not, now that I have the yard, I think I'll go for it.

Dude i will have plenty. If you need your ground turned up i have a monster tiller.

My plan this year is to start all the early stuff in the house.

Im not gonna do alot of lettuce and carrots like last year. For sow in row im gonna stick with pole/bush beans,corn,taters,& tomatos. Might put a row of sweet radish and a hill of black seed lettuce.
Only gonna do the ox heart heirlooms this year.

Gonna try these
http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/tom...rod000988.html
& a yellow variety i cant recall the name of for early tomato & stick with beefsteak and better boy for mid season. I gonna make BBQ sauce & juice by the quart.

Groves · 12-21-2010, 11:20 AM

I need to download MO's gardening brain to my kids somehow. C'mon technology!

MOhillbilly · 12-21-2010, 11:36 AM

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I need to download MO's gardening brain to my kids somehow. C'mon technology!

you have my number vato

come get some hens.

Hydrae · 12-21-2010, 11:24 AM

I had a hard time with stink bugs all over my tomatoes this year. I am going to try a trick I read about and plant marigolds around that part of the garden. Supposedly they are attracted to the yellow flowers and stay out of the maters.

MOhillbilly · 12-21-2010, 11:32 AM

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I had a hard time with stink bugs all over my tomatoes this year. I am going to try a trick I read about and plant marigolds around that part of the garden. Supposedly they are attracted to the yellow flowers and stay out of the maters.

do some research on chewing & sucking garden pests.

liquid 7,malathion,permethrins, are about all i can find. Hummert int. can sometimes get the old school hardcore pesticides.

12-21-2010, 11:09 AM	Topic Starter
MOhillbilly Mama Tried Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Missouri Casino cash: $9949903	Official 2011 Gardening Thread The times gettin close for indoor seeders & planning for early varaties. tips, tricks, varaties you like. Where to buy. What to buy. Does & donts. Your personal picks. All things gardening. What you got? Last edited by MOhillbilly; 12-21-2010 at 11:11 AM.. Reason: shit wrong year. jfc.
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12-21-2010, 11:13 AM	#4
Hydrae Sandbox: Leander Lasercats Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Austin, Tx Casino cash: $1967000	I have already turned the garden over and expanded it by a few feet. Being in central Texas I should have planted a second round but was too lazy in August. I will go back in a couple of months and rototill in some fertilizer and be ready to start dropping seeds by late March.
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12-21-2010, 11:14 AM	#9
MOhillbilly Mama Tried Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Missouri Casino cash: $9949903	http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/cor...rod000664.html my pick for early sweet corn this year is early sun glow hybrid. 63 days,OP, had some last year. need to plant it on high well drained soil to mu spring rain will stunt growth. __________________ True Son of Liberty
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12-21-2010, 11:20 AM	#12
Groves Turning the Corner Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Springfield, Missouri Casino cash: $2038541	I need to download MO's gardening brain to my kids somehow. C'mon technology!
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12-21-2010, 11:24 AM	#14
Hydrae Sandbox: Leander Lasercats Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Austin, Tx Casino cash: $1967000	I had a hard time with stink bugs all over my tomatoes this year. I am going to try a trick I read about and plant marigolds around that part of the garden. Supposedly they are attracted to the yellow flowers and stay out of the maters.
Posts: 14,698