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[cubby]

Hey 4u2smoke,
Your gardens looking pretty nice already, especialy that favorite herb.
In your salsa garden pics I noticed some recessed pulls in the floor of the deck, is that a root cellar? I have always wanted a real root cellar, right now I using a pit I dug in a detached garage. I store my root veggies in shopping bags with peatmoss then store them in large wicker laudry baskets set down in the pits and covered with rigid insulation attached to plywood. It's not perfect but it does what's needed.
I'll be watching your garden here. I think it will be interesting to see how long it takes for your plants to outgrow those cages.
Best of luck with your garden.

 

[IRISH]

momma frosting is looking very nice 4u2.

wheres those pics cubby? ...

can't wait to see yours also zip. ...

 

[4u2sm0ke]

Hey 4u2smoke,
Your gardens looking pretty nice already, especialy that favorite herb.
In your salsa garden pics I noticed some recessed pulls in the floor of the deck, is that a root cellar? I have always wanted a real root cellar, right now I using a pit I dug in a detached garage. I store my root veggies in shopping bags with peatmoss then store them in large wicker laudry baskets set down in the pits and covered with rigid insulation attached to plywood. It's not perfect but it does what's needed.
I'll be watching your garden here. I think it will be interesting to see how long it takes for your plants to outgrow those cages.
Best of luck with your garden.

Thanks for the kind words cubby.. that is the access to the cellar..i store my jars of fruits and veggies..its about 12 feet wide and 8 feet long and 6 feet high..works nice..always nice and cool on hot summer days..go down smoke a bowl or 3..:fly: oh and a few shelfs of that special herb:giggle:..yours sound good on how you store them..I store my bulbs and veggie seeds in saw clipping from wood shop..and in burlap sack..coffee beans come in..and down in cellar until spring..lots of garden i havent shown too..I grow Lillys..and Dahlias..Huge Dinner plate ones..Late summer..so stay tuned..as for my Yard garden..soon it will be all green another couple weeks and the straw will go down for moister control..end july early aug very dry and hot..then I mix it in to soil in fall..I been liveing here now 5 years and have my garden same place now..I useually grow my Giant pumkins in this area..but chose to drop out this year for my outdoor scrog..that plant is sure to be a sight to see finish..again stay tuned my friend..and get us some pics of yer garden..even if its filled with weeds:rofl:

 

[cubby]

The first pic is my green house. It's accualy sold as a temporary garage, but I took off the white plastic cover and removed some of the poles so I could shrink it down to not show to much over the fence.
The next pic is my hot peppers in a raised bed, there's 14 of them ( different types)
Next is my 4 cherry tomatoes. I grew these from seed, they turned out realy nice.
Pic 4 is my sweet peppers I have 40 of them in that box. I'm trying a system called square foot gardening by Mel Bartholamew. Supposedly get more veggies from less space. I'll see how it goes. I also have 220 onions interplanted with the peppers.
In pic 5 the toms on the left are beefsteak type on right is romas ( the flower you see is spider wort I can't get rid of that stuff.
Pic 6 romas
Pic 7 my asiatic lillies against the fence, thier not flowering yet obviously, my lawn is looking really bad (note the sprinkler).
Next is one of my hosta beds. I love hostas they grow great with no fuss. I pulled about 50 clumps of Daylillys from there this past week end.
Lastly front yard, more bad lawn and hostas and daylilly border. There's also three large white rose bushes along that side but they havent even started growing yet. Across the yard I have my tropical garden with Castor bean plants, over a hundred Cannas, a dozen Elephant ears, more asiatic lillies, and if all goes well when I transplant my Bannana plants I'll have a few of those in there too.

 

[zipflip]

hey 4U<<<< thanks for sharin the pix man.
sorry all that i aint been puttin pix up yet. i never remember to grab my camer when outside wit them . lol plus im still debatin on the security so say of postin pix o the confines of my yard an neighbors bein it on his property too.... but when they get bigger i'll definately be postin pix up. i'll just have to get closer shots not showin any surroundings is all.
granted nothin i've posted thus far has landed me any trouble i just lil iffy on it all.
i also bought one them topsy turvy things but dummy me when i planted my toms i forgot to save one for it. lol
but bein they only been in ground a couple days i was thinkin of diggin one back up an puttin it in there maybe yet but dont know.
who knows i might grow somethin else in it too. ...
any ideas of wat might be ok to grow in one them.
like i said before i have absolutely no exp in the gardening world lol.
but you an cubby i like both ya setups guys.
really nice i must say.
next year for sure i'll be more prepared etc for this. lol
but i also got a neighbor buddy whos a big gardener to help me now n then now too.
but i will get pix up soon. they not all that big yet either.
the neibor told me when i plant them that i should plant them sideways up to wat i want out the ground by bendin it slightly upward. he told me it better than buryin them deeper to cover all the stem an that roots will develop on the stem that i buried under ground too. so that was how i done it. i also dug out bout 2 gallons of dirt per hole and mixed in 1/2 gallon garden soil from the bag, and couple handfulls compost/manure mix(bag) as well as couple pinches blood an bone meal around in the dirt too.
i did the same wit all 16 my pepper plants(8 cali bells and 8 kaleidescope bells)
my grandmother made some jars of pickled bell peppers cut, and man was that some tasty stuff. i know wat i'll be doin wit some my bells now.
but please be nice when i post pix up guys. lol im still a real beginner her lol. this more so gonna be the learning run on the gardening thing for me.

 

[4u2sm0ke]

cubby...looks great man..I had a garden like that a few years back..does the sun shine down the side of yard? cant wait to see this in another month..Nice job


Zip...no worries on pics my friend..just be sure to edit them in paint b4 uploading...this is a big world we live in and hard to pinpoint by souroundings in my opinion..I state that i live in Seattle and even thats a huge city..I just make sure no addys..licen plates..ect are in shot..if so..i black out in paint b4 resizing..cant wait to see you setup..take care and be safe

 

[cubby]

Hey 4u,
The side of the house with my green house is south facing and it gets total sun, no trees anywhere. A few years ago I grew 4 MJ plants up against the house they grew beutiful. I kept them tied down to a section of fencing. They ended up looking like a sea monster, just a series of humps stretching the lenght of the house.
This site is perfect for my tomatos, peppers, and herb(s). I've got some MJ started under 250 HPS that I will be moving out there in big planters. First I have to clone to check for sex. I have 9 plants but I only want to put out 3 max. I'm gonna try a little experiment combining outside light (sun) with a flood and drain hydro unit. I think I'll run a grow journal for that.
I also grow alot of ornamental plants. In my front yard I have a side bed thats 8x30. That bed is all tropical looking. Right now it looks like bare ground because everything is either really tiny or still has'nt broke soil yet. I'll post some pics when they start taking off.
You say you grow Daliahs, I envy you, I have tried a few times but for some reason I just can't seem to get anywhere with them.

 

[zipflip]

LOL 4U.... sorry but i wouldnt call my setup really a setup just yet. its actually a lil embarrassin as i havent done much the tidy work that makes it look like a garden yet. only thing that looks almost neat is my crooked almost zig zag wagging rows of toms an peppers lol. sorry but i have bad visual probs. i try to laugh at it wit as much humor as possibletho.
so if anyone who sees or knwos my craftsmanship from pix ive posted etc.. plese keep in mind i cant see all too well an i do try do my best i can ..
but definately 4u i didnt think of the paint part even when i do edit my indoor photos alot wit it. duhh me huh.
maybe today i'll get some up.
its kinda ghetto cuz i did rake thru it all after tillin it. i mena i tilled up a spot of yard that was grass and a bit of weeds too. raked most the crap out the best i could but the more i did things like involvin movin dirt around i noticed i had ten times more crap layin in top the dirt every where. lol
but i got a friend who has a yard thats sod he just had laid last week. an he said when he moxs he'll save his clippings for me as its nothin but good grass an no weeds etc... and i'll be bedding it all round my plants to keep weeds from comin up the best i can.
if i used my own lawn clippings i'd have a garden of weed, n not the good kind lol
i might wait til most the other seeds i planted come up to do pix. that way it'll have that life in it look an not just a plot of dirt wit random grass in the dirt and crooked *** row of toms an peppers lol.
im buzzin good this mornin. and most definately now finally off my own personal stash. its so dam nice ......
time to get teh java on too

 

[zipflip]

well heres couple shots of how my toms are lookin. nothin to write home bout just yet anyway.
im still leary of even postin whole garden shots on here even edited. cuz i mean if someone is tryin to follow me along and trolling for me on here. and call me paranoid i dont care but i got a weird feelin some lets jus say jerks are tryin to corner me into somethin via pm's etc askin for my email aski me to email them askin me questions that all us normal commen sense growers wit any street smarts especially be able to pick up on it. ya knwo us stoners aint just some burnt out mind wasting idiotic fools. we're actually more brilliant than most think jmo.
but i just worried that maybe even if someone would be focussing on me all they'd have to do is get a look at garden and check the rows corresponding to wat i posted etc even if edited so i'll continue updates wit single plant shots mostly.
the first pic my cat decided he was gonna try attackin teh strap danglin off my camera. thats his whickers in the pic. i had to edit him out as well to protect his identity too
2nd pic is another tom pl;ant. and teh third are some romas that a family member give me. they started them from seed well over a month ago. i've had em for over 2 qweeks now.
they said they just cant get em to grow for nothin ever and told me tt give em a try an see if i can save em lol.
anyway. tehy were all wilted and yellow dieing etc. lookin when got em so replaced teh existin soil wit new soil same as i use on my mj girl;s. and they havent grown aa dam iota in height in over two weeks. only get green and look better in color like only.
any idea on these romas wats up.

 

[HippyInEngland]

well heres couple shots of how my toms are lookin. nothin to write home bout just yet anyway.
im still leary of even postin whole garden shots on here even edited. cuz i mean if someone is tryin to follow me along and trolling for me on here. and call me paranoid i dont care but i got a weird feelin some lets jus say jerks are tryin to corner me into somethin via pm's etc askin for my email aski me to email them askin me questions that all us normal commen sense growers wit any street smarts especially be able to pick up on it. ya knwo us stoners aint just some burnt out mind wasting idiotic fools. we're actually more brilliant than most think jmo.

ZIP Forward your PM's to a Mod

Everyone I know who doesnt smoke seems to have this idea that people who smoke MJ are layabouts, I know to some degree this is true, but were not all like it

It reminds me of The young ones (UK sitcom)

hXXp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series)

Neil was always my favourite (surprising how people change with time)

Anyway, back on track.

I planted these little babies out yesterday, if I get more than 5 toms off them, I have done better than last year :rofl:

eace:

 

[zipflip]

well i have since deleted them as i got em not thinkin as to forward to mod but i willl be sure to do so if happens again. i just dont wanna sound like some para scizzo or turn out like boy who cried woldf if im freakin ovr nothin.
but yeah.
good look toms tho .

 

[4u2sm0ke]

update garden doing well...lots of sunn but no rain now for all most two wweks..hope everyone is doing well


Zip....you this parrranoid when not smokeing MJ? :rofl: what ever makes you feel safe my friend..we here 4u:aok:

 

[zipflip]

:holysheep: 4U them look fantastic . i really wish i woulda went with containers tho. oh well mother nature can lend a hand now an then now too. i been so preoccupied takin care the girls inside ya know. im startin to catch on to all this mj bizz now hey. IMO i think the main ingredient is PATIENCE, like waitin for the plant to tell yu wat it needs before ya go jus givin it juice n stuff . i been doin this all anong so far. wit the girls. i wait for them to start to give a slite droop then i know they want water. and i wait for the bottom leaves now to start showin signs of lacking before i feed too. before i just wanted to just play mad scientist and just start pumpin their veins wit super juice lol.
but anyway, went off turn there. lol
am i this noid sober u ask? not exactly. i don know.... i just always been a type person so long as i can remember things back to im just a very cautious person who tends to psychoanalyze alot of **** in life and sometimes i my close friends say im wierd but in a good way. unique wierd i guess lol. i just have this bad cass of .. i cant think of wat it'd be called now dangit. just always observing and always alert etc etc.. that kind thing. nothing gets past me if out of the norm especially in my home or in my known surroundings .
its all just that i been experiencing alot of new members wit like 1 or 0 posts all complimenting my grow an askin for my email to send me pix of theys and askin really up front questions like dumb ?'s that us stoners know not to just flapp about etc..
it just been makin me nerv as hek

 

[4u2sm0ke]

hey zip...i get those stupid PMs too..I just delete them..and forget them..I wouldnt give them sattisfaction of replying..esspecially if asking for personal info...sometimes i just reply.. "try and find me :cop:" :rofl: anyway take care and be safe

 

[leafminer]

I treat my toms the same as my other things in the same family. Here are my toms right now...

 

[zipflip]

:holysheep: you got toms on the vine already?
lookin good tho.
now i gotta get update pix up too. i gott resize them first lol.
my gardens comin along great too as well as my toms.
i just mixed when i planted them in the ground some blood and bone meal, compost/manure some perlite, peat moss and some powdered in a blender (eggshells) for the calcium as well as lime.
did the same treatment on my peppers too.

 

[zipflip]

heres couple pix i took last week. its stormin out like a mo fo right now so i aint goin out there gettin new pix right now lol.
been gettin hella rain tho lately. its been a decen summer so far here as far as moisture goes.
im not a huge fan of pullin weeds in the garden so my mother come over one nite an helped me a bit wit it . but started to rainaagin so there a patch we left an will ull later. if it wasnt fo my mom helpin me i'd prolly have 6 foot weed by now. an not the good kind either lol.
but below the onions to the left not in picture i got a couple honey dew melons and a few zuchini squash and 3 spaghetti squash.
got some strawberries on the other corner i never go into the picture.
as well as bout a dozen cucumbers- some spacemaster bush cucumbers an some strait 8"s
and i got some flowers startin to come in round the border on top i cut off in photo i think lol.
and for sum reason my carrots dont seem to dig the whole show. only 3 came up an the seeds been out for over a month now. lol.
and in there somewhere i got bout 6 cherry toms scattered i put in later on as space fillers. the ones i tried to revive that a family member gave me after just about killin em lol. but i saved them.
my grandmother looked at me an says "how in the hell you get them to come back an grow" lol i guess she can never get them to grow in her garden.
an shes been garden in oldschool for over 45 yrs lol.
i think i may have touched a nerve in her somewhere lol. but its all good. i'll give her ome the cherries when they done for sure tho.
bu thats my very first vegie garden ever.

 

[zipflip]

5n1/2 wks later... :holysheep:
i woulda never thunk i could grow toms this huge in my life. especially my first time. i know my garden looks a lil ghetto wit the weeds an all but i hate pullin them buggers. i usually call my mother to come over to help me wit that. besides i miss half them terds anyway i cant see em well.
but all i did was when i planted everythin i just ammended the soil where i planted them relly wit just bone blood an kelp meal. some lime eggshells and now usin alaskan fish emulsions on them. im hopin the powdered eggshells i blended up will help prevent blossom end rot wit the calcium tho.
but i got other stuff too
my pepers thatnext the toms dont seem to be goin too quick as the toms tho. but they were thirsty tho. i watered them all after i took pix and they perked bak up now.
but im in awe over the thickness of their stalks mostly and sid branch stems.
my grandmother whos been gardenin for over 40 years came by erlier today to check see how my garden was goin an she jealous she said. LOL
i mixed her up some the blood bone an kelp and hooked ehr up wit some lime an eggshell powder and half a jug of fish emulsions. an told her thats all i used other than some compost mixed in hole at time of planting them outsiode was all.
the pic wit my finger next to the stem was off one the side branches, not the main stalk. im a grab a shot the main stalk tomorrow i thinnk. they like dang tree trunks guys. i an never grown toms before so its a new world to me. lol


these are beef steak toms

 

[cubby]

Nice toms there Zip. For a first time veggie grower your doing just fine. The only problem is next year you'll be looking to go bigger, and more diverse. The garden bug will have bitten. I like the fact that you put so much effort into ammending the soil. I just add manuer, home made compost and dead fish from the previous seaon.
In my pics below you can see some of my plants from this years garden. I've posted others in the thread titled "garden shots"
The first pic here is some beefsteak type tomatos, with onions growing in front of them.
The second is my small hot pepper garden, there are 24 plants in this small raised bed.
The third pic is some of my hot peppers (I ate these in chili right after taking the pic). those thick floppy looking things in the pepper beds are'nt weeds, their onions. The more good plants you can squeeze in the less room there is for weeds to grow.
The fourth pic is my raised bed of sweet peppers, 40 in all (and more onions)

 

[zipflip]

thanks cubby!

i already have more ideas for next year.
one thing i got remember is to space my toms out a lil more next year. lol
and i thought i put them too far apart the way they were at first. never woulda thunk they'd be that close to each other this soon in. lol
wats that in ya 3rd picture? bananna peppers?
looks good there too cubby.