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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:51:15 AM EDT
I thought I'd share a pic of my spring garden.
 I have 12 tomato plants, 6 bell pepper plants, some radishes, some yellow crook-neck squash, and finally a row of cucumbers. The cucumbers are small as the first ones were burnt by a frost and I had to replant them. There's nothing like fresh tomatoes from the garden.  I lost my big tree in Hurricane Rita and had to replant a new tree. I planted a Red Maple and have flowers planted around it.  It'll be a few years before I have much shade, but it's a start. I love spring. 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:52:51 AM EDT
[#1]
Looks good
Cept, where's the okra? |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:54:06 AM EDT
[#2]
In this part of Texas, we plant okra later in the year, after the heat is too much for the other stuff. I'll plow under a couple of rows and plant okra later. 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:56:47 AM EDT
[#3]
Ah. I'm not a farmer by any means. I just plant and water 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:58:33 AM EDT
[#4]
If those are footprints (the holes) in the picture, you've got some well-tilled soil there! |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:59:04 AM EDT
[#5]
Fucking okry.  I don't know what the hell is wrong with you people. Edit: Sory O_P, but that stuff is absolutely disgusting, and my dad always made me eat my vegetables growing up. Yuck. He loved it, so I ate so much slimy okry that I couldn't keep my socks up. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:59:37 AM EDT
[#6]
What kind of tomatoes? I have an itch for Jersey or Beefsteak. I trade ya a box of ammo for one
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:06:36 AM EDT
[#7]
Our ground is still frozen.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:12:23 AM EDT
[#8]
Not in the west metro
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:17:08 AM EDT
[#9]
Yep, those are my footprints. I use a Troy Built Tiller and the garden is soft and loomey for a foot deep or more. A great piece of equipment.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:17:44 AM EDT
[#10]
That's very cool, O_P!
I just salivated thinking about those tomatoes! HH |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:18:43 AM EDT
[#11]
I've never liked boiled okra either. But I love it fried and in gumbo. It ain't gumbo without okra. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:19:43 AM EDT
[#12]
I have some Better Boys and some Big Boys. I love tomatoes. 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:22:05 AM EDT
[#13]
There is nothing better that eating a fresh, still-warm-from-the-sun tomato.
Oops, I just drooled on my keyboard. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:22:15 AM EDT
[#14]
Garden of Truth: Cucumbers or Carrots?
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:24:19 AM EDT
[#15]
I can hardly wait until it is time to plant here.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:29:47 AM EDT
[#16]
Try some Sweet 100 tomatoes. They are small salad tomato usually from a nickel to quarter size and will produce until first frost. I love them.
Nice garden. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:29:57 AM EDT
[#17]
Just imagine a fresh bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. I'm drooling here. 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:57:15 AM EDT
[#18]
There is nothing better than that BLT made with the first tomato of the year from the garden! 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:00:08 AM EDT
[#19]
rabbits beware
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:04:54 AM EDT
[#20]
man I wish I could have a garden like that but it'd take an awful high fence to keep the hordes of deer out.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:05:52 AM EDT
[#21]
Try a leaf lettuce. It's not the heading variety you get at the store. Leaf lettuce can be picked once the leaves start to mature. The plant will continue to grow and produce more leaves. You will end up with a tall shaft with the later leaves at the top, but you'll get a much longer 'season' than head lettuce.
The leaf lettuce has a stronger taste than iceberg, but they're great for sammiches and a hardy salad. I'm in MN, so I'm not sure which leaf lettuce would be best down there. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:30:30 AM EDT
[#22]
You're doign well.
Remember all, a fibered colon is a happy colon!!! |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:31:17 AM EDT
[#23]
Is that soil sandy?
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:44:01 AM EDT
[#24]
Now I want a tomato sandwich.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:48:59 AM EDT
[#25]
We still have time before we start our garden. Yours looks good.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:50:02 AM EDT
[#26]
Garden O' Truth??
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:58:07 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:04:45 AM EDT
[#28]
We normally have a dark, thick soil here that is locally called "Gumbo". I have added a lot of leaves and other mulch to the garden. But after the hurricane, I had a big hole in the yard where the tree was lost. I ordered a dumptruck load of 60-40 sand to fill the holes in the yard. I put the remaining sand in the garden. It sure makes a fine mixture. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:04:59 AM EDT
[#29]
Have you ever planted carrots?
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:06:15 AM EDT
[#30]
I've grown leaf lettuce before and you are correct. It is great. Problem here is that it gets so hot so quickly that the letuce doesn't last long. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:10:04 AM EDT
[#31]
Yep. me and the granddaughter planted some for her a few years back. For some reason, they were short and stubby and not very pretty. Carrots are one of those things that sure look better at the produce section of the grocery store. Tomatoes and cucumbers however, don't taste nearly as good as home grown. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:11:34 AM EDT
[#32]
Cool. Our soil mostly sucks. Lots of clay, nothing grows worth a darn. Have to use tons of topsoil and fertilizer. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:16:45 AM EDT
[#33]
The garden looks great OP. Did you plant the pansies or did Mrs. OP? We can't put much in the ground till after monthers day.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:17:58 AM EDT
[#34]
Mine also had lots of clay. That's what is so good about Troy Built Tillers. You can put all kinds of leaves, grass clippings, and other organic stuff on the garden and "turn it in" with the tiller. The more stuff you till in, the better the soil gets. I usually add a little fertilizer and sometimes a little lime or gypsum. As noted earlier, my soil is very lose and "fluffs up" when I till it. Doesn't take much skill to grow stuff in dirt like that. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:19:59 AM EDT
[#35]
I planted the flowers, as there isn't a Mrs. Painless. (That's fixing to change, but that's a seperate thread. )Just before Easter is usually the general time for planting here. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:24:46 AM EDT
[#36]
BLAM! Honey, is there any room left in the freezer? |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:27:26 AM EDT
[#37]
That's a beautifully tilled bed.
My TroyBilt Super Bronco will be turning under the rye and clover cover crop in my garden in about a week or two. It won't look that nice with all of the clay in my garden! |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:31:16 AM EDT
[#38]
My apologies, no pansy jokes then. If I don't make the "seperate" thread, my best to you and the soon to be Mrs OP. May the good lord bless you both with many years of happiness together. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:38:18 AM EDT
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OP, nice lookin garden,I've got to get on the ball. As I've gotten older, planting in the Spring has become one of the things I enjoy most. There is nothing like planting, tending to, then enjoying the vegatables of your labor. As a side note. A friend I hunt with is the manager of one of the local sewage treatment plants, you should see the tomatos they have at the plant. He says, in the Summer they will get one of the low guys to pick several every morning, they refrigerate them, and eat mater sammiches for lunch everyday, he claims they are the absolute best tomatos you can get. I've only seen pictures of the plants, and see him during the winter, so I can't speak from experience.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 1:13:21 PM EDT
[#40]
Ah, gumbo. It has about 35 minutes between the time it is too wet to till, and the time it is too dry to work. The only thing I have found gumbo good for, is tracking in the house. I'm glad I moved to where I live now. I have sandy loam. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 1:16:35 PM EDT
[#41]
O. P. For PRESIDENT
He's for the environment! brought to you by the people of ARFCOM for OP in 08' |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 2:04:31 PM EDT
[#42]
Looks good O_P!
I will be planting (in May) tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, green beans, zucchini, and yellow squash. I usually have so much that I give a lot away. My favorites by far are the tomatoes and cucumbers.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 2:41:26 PM EDT
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Doggonit! I have the best Campaign Manager there is! Keep up the great work UH_SALT_RIFLE. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:06:47 PM EDT
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Old Painless - Your yard looks nice, and hauntingly familiar. I have always wondered one question - do you live near where that flag comes from? Just curious - if so we might have grew up in the same neighborhood of TX.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:10:29 PM EDT
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That is, of course, the Gonzales Flag. And a proud one it is. But I live in Nederland, between Port Arthur and Beaumont. God's country.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:16:11 PM EDT
[#46]
You're makin me hungry... I really want one of these right now:
 edited for a better photoserver |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:51:56 PM EDT
[#47]
Start collecting the bacon and makin's. I'll have the tomatoes in a few weeks or so.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 4:03:06 PM EDT
[#48]
I grew sweet 100's last year.... I don't even like cherry-type tomatoes, but they were great for salads and there were literally thousands of them. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:43:00 PM EDT
[#49]
There's this bread bakery in town here that sells this awesome Italian Asiago cheese bread... It makes a mean sammich!! |
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