Garden Geeks thread

[leswp1]

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I think that will be next year's plan. I am awaiting permission to dig up the death bush in my backyard plot (I'm not sure if I need permission from the Condo Association, but I figure better to ask permission in this case). I will probably enrich the soil and then plant in that bed next year. Whatever bush is there now is gross - it's growing like crazy (I didn't prune it last year because I didn't know how). It has tiny yellow flowers that have all bloomed and died and the dead blooms smell like rot. I aggressively cut it back already, but I'd like to just dig it out at the roots and start fresh.

It will all be here. Probably bigger

[Fishman'81]

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Short term, try tossing a bunch of mothballs under the shed. Long term, wait until late summer and bury a fence down 12” around the shed. A pellet gun is easier and cheaper. ��

Back when I lived in town, I used to have to employ the ole Crosman 760 at very very close range, and directly between the eyes, to obtain the desired results... But, as we all know, the whistle-pigs are able critters, and don't give up on life easily. I camped-out right next to their hidey-holes for hours, and still failed to deliver the coup de grace at times.(Chuck fever, I suppose.)

Since 2015 I've been where I could discharge a .22. and that sure works better. Shot 8 of the little ******** before anything even came up this year. But, there's always another woodchuck coming down the pike.

So, we decided that maybe a fence would be easier (and less gory). Got some of those metal posts with the hooks on them, and a couple hundred feet of fruit tree netting to string along it. Left about a foot of it along the outside, weighted with rocks.

So far, so good. (And the deer and rabbits and turkies have all laid-off, too.)

[dxmnkd316]

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Are turkeys really a problem? We have tons of them in my neighborhood and never had an issue.

[alfablue]

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Are turkeys really a problem? We have tons of them in my neighborhood and never had an issue.

They do attack people. My wife was chased for quite a while until she was able to chance down a maintenance truck to help her get away. Nasty creatures.

[leswp1]

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Back when I lived in town, I used to have to employ the ole Crosman 760 at very very close range, and directly between the eyes, to obtain the desired results... But, as we all know, the whistle-pigs are able critters, and don't give up on life easily. I camped-out right next to their hidey-holes for hours, and still failed to deliver the coup de grace at times.(Chuck fever, I suppose.)

Since 2015 I've been where I could discharge a .22. and that sure works better. Shot 8 of the little ******** before anything even came up this year. But, there's always another woodchuck coming down the pike.

So, we decided that maybe a fence would be easier (and less gory). Got some of those metal posts with the hooks on them, and a couple hundred feet of fruit tree netting to string along it. Left about a foot of it along the outside, weighted with rocks.

So far, so good. (And the deer and rabbits and turkies have all laid-off, too.)

We put the black net fencing draped on and over the hardware cloth fencing and zip tied it at intervals. We then put in tall green poles and put further black fencing around each raised bed. We are still picking lettuce. Picked my first green beans and cuke today. Tons of tomatoes coming. Fingers crossed

[Fishman'81]

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Are turkeys really a problem? We have tons of them in my neighborhood and never had an issue.

We have turkeys nesting in the Back 40 regularly, and we actually enjoy having them here... But the hens and poults will devour bean and corn seedlings in the garden as if it was manna from Heaven. (As in, one very short morning session.) They seem to leave the other crops alone, though.

Again, the flimsy fence is working this time around. It's a cheap and effective.

So far, nothing is in there, aside from the GD cabbage butterflies. But they seem to do (mostly) cosmetic damage here. We harvested a ton of cabbage last year, butterflies or not. Peeled-off a few outer leaves, and we were good.

[joecct]

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War on Poverty? Nope!
War on Terror? Not a chance.

DEATH TO LIZARD!!!

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[leswp1]

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We ate our first harvest of green beans. Yay. ALso a few cukes. More tomatoes than should be possible but all are green still.

[Fishman'81]

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We ate our first harvest of green beans. Yay. ALso a few cukes. More tomatoes than should be possible but all are green still.

Had them tonight as well, and the wax beans too. Stuffed bell peppers, fresh cukes, Boston lettuce.

Thing is, it was all at my father-in-law's, who's a competitive gardener and always plants in early May.

He always out-does me, but I can live with it. Good eats are good eats.

I'll catch-up soon enough.

[jen]

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I have lots of tomatoes. But there is no sign of them turning red. Anything I can do besides wait?

[dxmnkd316]

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Food coloring?

[leswp1]

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I have lots of tomatoes. But there is no sign of them turning red. Anything I can do besides wait?

Nope.

[Fishman'81]

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I have lots of tomatoes. But there is no sign of them turning red. Anything I can do besides wait?

You can pick them while green, and put them in a closed paper bag. Many will ripen that way, and adding a slice of apple will speed that process along.

It hasn't been a good season for tomatoes in the NE, but what with the early-blight and the typical weather here, it's what we got most seasons.

Green tomatoes are great for pickling in a sweet/hot mustard brine, though. Try that, too, and add some cukes, peppers, cauliflower and onions.

Feckin' delish!

[leswp1]

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You can pick them while green, and put them in a closed paper bag. Many will ripen that way, and adding a slice of apple will speed that process along.

It hasn't been a good season for tomatoes in the NE, but what with the early-blight and the typical weather here, it's what we got most seasons.

Green tomatoes are great for pickling in a sweet/hot mustard brine, though. Try that, too, and add some cukes, peppers, cauliflower and onions.

Feckin' delish!

they ripen but they don't seem to taste as good. For the first year in many we managed to get a lot of tomatoes, cukes. Lost the Summer squash plants- again- and the beans really struggled. Weird. They are usually the only thing that makes it.

[alfablue]

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Made another batch of gazpacho with tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden tonight. Great year for tomatoes and cuc's this year- although I think that's more a factor of getting the growing system to be better. This is the first real year of no-dig self watering container growing. And it's working great.