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GROWING VEGGIES.

                START READING THE OLDEST BLOG IF YOU ARE NEW AT GARDENING, LOTS OF IMPORTANT INFO STARTING THERE.

First garden dinner!

6/30/2017

 
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Scissor off the Swiss chard leaves, yank the one tomato, shred all and put into butter sizzling with garlic for a few moments, and dinner is served. Free. No trip to store on way home last night. No poopie fingers on my food. No washing before cooking. No chemicals. No carbon footprint other than my huffing and puffing bending over to harvest them. Growing your own food!

Last night felt pretty damn good, breaking the stop and shop habit with food from the garden. Now I wonder how often that patch of ground can provide my meals?

ps-The grass clippings really really help. Everywhere I had them the soil was still moist underneath. In places where they had blown off or were thin, the soil was bone dry. Bone dry soil=dead soil. Dead soil=dead plants.

Tabasco insecticide

6/25/2017

 
A customer today told me his father uses Tabasco sauce as an insecticide on his garden plants-swears by it. I had never heard of it before so I looked it up and this is what I found.

Here is the link:

​http://homeguides.sfgate.com/tabasco-insecticide-83416.html

Morning inspection

6/25/2017

 
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Beautiful Swiss chard
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Chomp on pieces as you inspect the garden- it's like candy!
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Better than Whole Foods! No chemicals!
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Result of spraying weeds with roundup on a too-windy day. Temporary damage.
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Whatever did this did it in the last three days. I'll find it and KILLLLL ITTTTT!
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Tomato planted Memorial Day is almost three feet, right on schedule.
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Well-fed pepper plants, shiny dark green foliage
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Healthiest foliage I've ever had on broccoli
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First bean of the season! Gotta trellice 'em somehow
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No weeds yet
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Potatoes coming up. June said hers are already three feet tall, stems covered for maximum "potatoage"
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Squash flower as beautiful as any annual flower!
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So far, so good. One insect problem on tomato.

Garden progressing

6/24/2017

 
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Rows and rows of food
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All fed, protected, fenced
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Now it's time to observe for fungus, insects and mammals who want to share. I'm ready to kill anything that messes with my food. Thinking that I could be a vegetarian during the summer, wonder if I'll lose weight?

Swiss chard leaf miner

6/22/2017

 
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This insect will ruin your plants. At first sign remove affected leaf and toss far away. PAC man-like worm tunnels between leaf surfaces and ruins whole plant then drops into soil to pupate for many generations during the year. No chemical control, just daily checking and removal (or else!).

Curious tonight

6/21/2017

 
I walked through the veggie garden tonight just before dark and ate leaves and checked on stuff. Looks like everything is in order. Cabbage leaves tasted like candy. Swiss chard like lettuce. Hot peppers getting hot. Plants growing back after the DAMN DEER stripped them. Can't wait till tomatoes are ready. Won't be long!

Plants (weeds too) growing fast

6/18/2017

 
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Fencing up. Lotsa work but it looks neat and clean. Chinese blueberry netting, extremely high quality!
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Better stake up your stuff today before it gets flattened by upcoming storm
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Restaurant quality Swiss chard. Look out for leaf miners! Growing FAST!
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Stake tomatoes in more than one place for strength
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Crabgrass. Get off the couch before these little problems turn into GRANDE PROBLEMO!!

Temp fence up

6/16/2017

 
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Not the first time I've worked in the rain. Posts lined up matching and netting temporarily up for the night, shoulda done this first before anything else.

DEER

6/15/2017

 
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I did not know I was doing all this work for the GD deer. I was going to fence it in when I "felt like it" but the deer felt like eating the ballistic foliage before I felt like fencing it in!!! It's war. Between the weeping elm they ate, my hydrangeas, deer ticks, Lyme disease, now my tomatoes, I have absolutely zero sympathy for them or any other herbivore that wants to have his way with my efforts. Now I am feeling kinship with western cattle ranchers who shoot wolves. Not that I would ever shoot a wolf, but if one puts great effort into something and something else comes along and destroys that effort, ITS WAR!!!!!

Feeding and mulching new veggies

6/14/2017

 
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No food in hole nor under plant yet
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Half handful of Harrell's fertilizer
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Pepper plant that had grass clippings since last week and Harrell's food placed in hole during planting
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HEALTHY cauliflower mulched and in hole fertilizer
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Fed and mulched one week tomatoes with BALLISTIC healthy foliage
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Fertilizer top-dressed about to be mulched with grass clippings. As soon as this is done, they will grow twice as fast per day
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Didn't really feel like doing this today but it's DONE now. Those little plants need a daddy, and it's me. I'm going to nurture them, pretend I'm one of them, and give to them what I would want if I were a plant. From experience, I know that what goes around comes around, and come harvest time they will be giving me my Father's Day present in the form of five star harvests of the highest quality food available on the planet.
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  • Home
  • Wildflower meadows as an option to toxic lawns
  • How To Grow Birches
  • How to Save The Monarch Butterfly
  • FALL HORTICULTURE
  • Planting
    • Planting
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  • Products
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      • Trees
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      • Firewood
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