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Veggie starts

Category: Spring 2010 | Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 7:10 pm

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I started my Tomatoes, Peppers, Broccoli, Eggplant, Squash & Pumpkins last week 25/Apr/10.



Squash,Broccoli & Peppers ( photo / image / picture from dawgdrvr's Garden )






Heirloom Tom's & Peppers ( photo / image / picture from dawgdrvr's Garden )


seeds started on 25/apr/10
in the dome tray under grow light W bottom heat
Eggplant:

'BlackBeauty'

Tomatoes:

Hybrid 'Super Sweet 100'
'Roma' VF
Heirloom 'San Marzano' (roma type)
Heirloom 'Bradley'
Heirloom 'Rainbow Heirloom mix'
A: Omars Lebanese (red)
B: Dutchman (pink)
C: D'Jena Lee's Golden Girl (Orange)
D:Golden Sunburst (Yellow)
E: Aunt Ruby's German Green (Green)
F: Black Russian (Purple)

Pepper:

'California Wonder'
Heirloom 'Hungarian HOT Yellow Wax


Broccoli:

Heirloom 'Calabrese Green Sprouting'

Pumpkin:
'Connecticut field'

Cucumber:
'Marketmore76'
'Poinsett 76'

Squash:

Zucchini 'Jackpot'

Acorn Squash 'Table King'

SQUASH 'Waltham Butternut '

SQUASH 'Summerpac Crookneck ' (bush)

Squash 'Clarinette Lebanese' (bush Typ)

Squash 'Saffron Prolific Straightneck'

Squash 'Spaghetti'



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trip to MT.

Category: Spring 2010 | Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:45 pm

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I took a 10 day vacation to North Eastern Montana. To visit my stepson. The Town of Plentywood, is about a mile square with about 4,500 people. To say that it is a 'one horse town' is stretching the truth a bit. The nearest Walmart or department store is 110 miles away in North Dakota.

While there I helped my stepson Christopher with his first MT. garden. Plentywood is USDA zone 3. While there I went to the forums and asked what veggies grew in zone3 (Thanx to all who responded to my ?).
Chris is a recent transplant from SW Washington (Kelso) So he was used to nice rich loam that Kelso,Wa is known for, due to its location next to 3 rivers. I bought him some seeds that will do well there in his area. The photo below is a 25x60 garden area we tilled. Notice the fine silt.(fine grained sand looking dirt) the pic was taken before we amended with peat & Vermiculite.


Christphers garden ( photo / image / picture from dawgdrvr's Garden )





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First day of spring

Category: Spring 2010 | Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:01 pm

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58* sunny in the AM but blustery in the evening.

After 3 days of working the ground by my septic tank. My tire garden is ready to fill and plant.I took 3 truck loads of grass, weeds and sod to the compost pile. I removed all the large rocks and anything that will poke through the visqueen plastic. I marked the lid to the septic with a 1x1 . I kept a 3 ft. area around it as an access point.

I have three rows of 10 tires and 6 double stacked low profile racing tires for my Tomatoes. The tops of the tires that I cut,off, I am going to use as tree rings in my orchard. I will have to get a diamond blade for my Sawz-All to cut through the tire beads, the carbide ones just dull to fast.


Tomato DBL stack2 ( photo / image / picture from dawgdrvr's Garden )






Tire garden durring9 ( photo / image / picture from dawgdrvr's Garden )






Tire garden 10 ( photo / image / picture from dawgdrvr's Garden )





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Veggie Tire garden

Category: Spring 2010 | Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:12 pm

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46* overcast

Today I started on the Vegetable garden . So far I have removed 4 roses that we lost to the heavy freeze last year ,I have 5 or 6 more to go .

I am planning on two rows of 6 truck tires.

the Photo is a before pic.


Veggie Garden before ,what a mess ( photo / image / picture from dawgdrvr's Garden )





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First blog @ Garden Stew

Category: Spring 2010 | Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:51 am

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Ok here it goes. I have been blooging about my Orchard/Garden on another web site. I found this Web Site (GardenStew) last night while googling 'Quinault Strawberries. I must have spent 4 hours here looking at the Forums and reading others blog's. I like this ,They have Spell Check.

44* windy with drizzle.

Today I got 125 tires from Brent (My stepson) they range in size from 13's to 18's or Datsun to Kennworth size,lol. you might be thinking "What in the heck is he going to do with all those tires?" well they are going along my fence line. Mostly to keep our dogs Toby & Nikita from digging under the fence and running down the road . Nikita is good at that.
Some I am going to use as Planters for Tomatoes and other veggies. I have a good Sawz-All with carbide blades to cut through the steel belts. I am planning on picking up a truck load of well seasoned horse Compost from Black Lake. mix it with Vermiculite and peat moss and fill the tires with it, and plant. some are also going around the windbreak trees (Hybrid Poplar)

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