Home Gardens

[AMTCM John Long]

Besides myself, does anyone else have a veggie garden at home they tinker around with?

John

[SKC Raymond Kurtz]

My wife does the plantin' and pickin', I do the tilling and heavy lifting.

This is from last year.

[DCCS Todd Holcomb]

Yeah I'm giving it a shot. Don't know how this first year will be. The people we bought the house from last summer didn't have one so I'm starting from scratch. I have dumped a good bit of compost/manure and tilled it and such and have started the planting. We'll see how it goes. I'm holding off for a bit longer before I transplant the tomatoes.

Todd

[BMC Russell Miller]

Besides myself, does anyone else have a veggie garden at home they tinker around with?

John

I had one, but between the Squirrels and my Lab chasing them through it, I did have to laugh watching them run back and forth, dirt and plants flying everywhere, my wife was not happy for some reason :confused: , did not have a whole lot left. I trying to Lab and Squirrel proof my next one.

[AMTCM John Long]

Ray,

That's a nice looking garden. I'll get a pic of mine.

The plants are just starting to sprout up here. After having it for 2 years....I finally figured out how to use my rototiller. I now have more rows inside the same plot. I started some plants indoors about a month ago. I started to do crop rotation too. First picked up on that a few years back and watching a History Channel show about George Washington Carver.

The biggest veggie thieves I had (past tense) were 2 ground hogs. They tore my garden up last year. They were smart too. I shot at one out of the 2nd floor of the house with the .22 and missed. I finally caught him another day with my bow. The 2nd I had to smoke to death when he hid under a shedhouse. Squirells and rabbits will eat the bottom's of new corn plants and then leave them....did I mention I put a better scope on my .22 this year? I've had a few deer tracks in the garden already this year. Kind of tough to get rid of them....till the opener

Here's what I put in this year: red potatoes, two types of corn, squash, watermelon, cantelope, two types of bell peppers, bananna peppers, cukes, string beans, turnip greens, strawberrys, onions and T-maters. I'm lucky in that I have a big garden about 30' x 80'. The other thing I learned to do was provide good drainage for the down pours we get. Two years ago we had a good rain and I had alot of rows washed away. I was a little worried over the past two days with the current storm we had sitting over the top of us but it looks like the drain system worked

Alot of the veggies I will give away to co-workers. I do the garden as a summertime stress reliever. Same thing for hunting. I enjoy doing things outdoors. It counterbalances all the desk flying I do at the office.:cool:

[SKC Raymond Kurtz]

Wow, I don't have the problems you have with critters, we live in a city where they frown upon using guns to kill squirrels. Besides, for some reason they leave our's alone. I don't eat what my wife grows so we give alot of it away to friends and neighbors. I just love to work outside, I would rather be doing that than sitting on the couch watching the TV.

My wife has become quite the expert at this, she even handed out some advice to someone at a home improvement store last week. The best thing I have learned is to use weed block, that way I won't have to pull weeds as much.

[BMCS J Lucas]

My wife and I have been planting a garden for about three years now. This year, I built a rain barrel to collect rain water to water the garden. I have a sand-point well, but have been having troubles with it, so we're trying the rain barrel this year.

As far as critters, I put up a chicken-wire fence around the garden. Haven't had a problem.

[DCCS Keith Wilbee]

Come on now Ray who are you trying to kid. I know on any given Sunday during race season, you would rather be watchin the cars go round and round.

[BMCM Wray Gillette (Ret)]

I know on any given Sunday during race season, you would rather be watchin the cars go round and round.

Who wouldn't.... ;)

I don't have a garden, but my wife grows a few things... We do make our own Kahlua too :D

Wray... :cool:

[SKC Raymond Kurtz]

Come on now Ray who are you trying to kid. I know on any given Sunday during race season, you would rather be watchin the cars go round and round.

Dang straight Skippy! My work is done, all I have to do now is watch the stuff grow which is about as exciting as watching grown men (and ladies) chase a little white dimpled ball around on grass for 18 holes:)

[SKC Raymond Kurtz]

My wife came up with the idea of a cucumber window treatment. Unfortunately the cukes didn't do as well as she hoped, the vines looked pretty good though. The other picture is a shot of my wife standing in fornt of one of two garden boats. She was growing tomatoes at the time the picture was taken, for the last couple of years she has planted onions. I don't have a picture of the other sail boat but she planted strawberries for the past few years.

Yeah, I know we're weird, but we do have a lot of fun :)

[AMTCM John Long]

A few garden pics and a wascally wabbit.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/John623/100_0983.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/John623/100_0984.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/John623/100_0985.jpg

[AMTCM John Long]

Nothing to do with gardens.....I thought this was an an interesting event. Figured I'd add them while I was posting pics. A couple of snappers frolicking in the water.;) You don't see this too often. I wouldn't reach in there!!!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/John623/100_0978.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/John623/100_0980.jpg

[AMTCM John Long]

Slowly but surely....

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/John623/100_0998-1.jpg

[MKCM Jim Bridges (Ret)]

Keeping Varmits out, I have heard that putting Moth Balls around gardens would keep animals out, does anyone know if this is true?

Jim

[AMTCM John Long]

Keeping Varmits out, I have heard that putting Moth Balls around gardens would keep animals out, does anyone know if this is true?

Jim


Jim,

Now that you mention it, I heard of that too. I think I read that in a natural living book I have. The balls are set around the garden. For slugs I think you can put boric powder around the perimeter of the garden. They make a box of that stuff you can sprinkle around garden.

I had a deer come thru last weekend and eat the tops off my tomato plants. I bought some fencing and made enclosures for each plant to discourage the deer.

I found the below site that lists quite a few ideas that might work.

http://www.carolinacountry.com/StoryPages/howtos/deeroutofgarden.html

John