ebinmaine 67,460 #101 Posted May 31, 2022 More shovelin'. More transportin'. More dumpin' out. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #102 Posted June 3, 2022 Here's the garden divided into growing rows. And a slug. 😀 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,551 #103 Posted June 3, 2022 10 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: And a slug. Watch dog duties? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #104 Posted June 3, 2022 11 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said: Watch dog duties? Yeah he's keepin' an eye out for pests. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #105 Posted June 3, 2022 Oh by the way... All the rows were hand hoed by the BBT. Even she got a workout doing that. The chunks of wood are mostly hemlock. They'll be to line the base below the wire fence. Makes the bottom harder to dig at and raises the height 15, 16" or so. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #106 Posted June 4, 2022 Busy day today. Went for a 5+ mile hike this morning and worked in the garden this afternoon. BBT and her mom planted some various seeds. More wood cut and placed as the base. Likely the wire fence will be installed tomorrow. Possibly also plant all the baby plants they been growing and buying. 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #107 Posted June 6, 2022 THE GARDEN IS IN !!! Today the BBT, her mom, and a 🐻 me.... Spent much of the day getting everything all set up. We cut a hole in the backyard fence and put in a "gate" (screen door). Trina and her mom built the gate for the garden area. All of us got the wood base finished up, wire fence installed. The two womens folk planted all the sprouts we had and the plants they'd been picking up at stores. I added the orange tapes which will function as a visual deturent for the 🦌 deer. We'll also be adding sliced mylar for the same reason. Here's a video update/description: Here's a Bear 🐻 moving wood. @Lee1977 and @squonk here's to you. 😂😂. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,551 #108 Posted June 6, 2022 In “deerish” that fence reads: “Eb’s and BBT’s Eats - Good Food and Better Times”… Looks great! Hope it has good yields!!! 1 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #109 Posted June 6, 2022 7 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said: In “deerish” that fence reads: “Eb’s and BBT’s Eats - Good Food and Better Times”… Looks great! Hope it has good yields!!! We're hoping it'll keep them out for the most part. We have a fair amount of them around here but they're all so very well fed in the wild and even the neighbors with no fencing at all don't have very many problems. I'm probably also going to hang mylar strips from some slightly taller sticks. Another thing I was reading about just yesterday is to put a twist in the mylar because it has a very particular buzzing and rattling sound in the wind that most wild animals are not at all fond of. It'll be a learning process for sure. Like Trina says, it'll either work or it won't. 😀 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darb1964 1,042 #110 Posted June 6, 2022 Irish spring soap keeps the deer out, just slice it up and put around the edge. Crushed up egg shells help keep the slugs out, other soft skinned bugs also. Like razor blades to them, good for the soil also. Good luck, looking fantastic. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #111 Posted June 6, 2022 2 hours ago, Darb1964 said: Irish spring soap keeps the deer out, just slice it up and put around the edge. Crushed up egg shells help keep the slugs out, other soft skinned bugs also. Like razor blades to them, good for the soil also. Good luck, looking fantastic. Thanks darb! We'll pick up some Irish spring. Plenty of eggs around here. We don't get too awful concerned about bugs and slugs because Trina checks the garden once or twice every day and so does her mom. Always good to have that extra help though. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horse Newbie 7,069 #112 Posted June 7, 2022 The slugs will do their thing at night… and by morning be gone… Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #113 Posted June 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, Horse Newbie said: The slugs will do their thing at night… and by morning be gone… We need slug sized security lighting. 😂 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horse Newbie 7,069 #114 Posted June 7, 2022 On 5/31/2022 at 7:03 PM, ebinmaine said: More shovelin'. More transportin'. More dumpin' out. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Hey you put back wheels on front ! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #115 Posted June 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, Horse Newbie said: Hey you put back wheels on front ! Yessir I did! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #116 Posted November 16, 2022 Well we had some great success and learned a lot this year. The fence worked great but we really don't need much more than a visual reminder to keep deerseses out. We kept 2 solar lights out there. Charge during daylight and motion sensor dusk to dawn or battery run-out. BBT was watering as we figured we needed for a good month or so. She was noticing a low growth amount and discoloration. We did some research and found that we had too much water. Turns out that one of the streams goes right near the garden so the soil is quite wet all the time. Ain't no hosin' needed. We got some tomatoes. Piles of beans both pole and bush. Other plants didn't do amazing but we learned about them. Earlier this year Trina had cut up a 'tater that showed growth right out of the grocery store bag and planted it. She grew a few tiny little potatoes! Carrots we knew the soil was too hard but left them to go about their business. Also got a good assortment. Small but deeeeelicious. Next year... More crops. More learning. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snoopy11 5,714 #117 Posted November 16, 2022 We love to grow crookneck squash. Nothing like squash casserole! We grow other types of squash and zucchini as well... which I grill (the only way that my family likes zucchini is if I grill it... ) We grow potatoes in standing garden boxes... Tomatoes seem to grow better in pots for some reason... We grow cucumbers and pickles, which the female lady women are kind enough to can and provide for me to eat (1 jar of pickles per sitting, they are THAT good). We try to grow peppers and such... never have much luck. The most thing we grow though... is weeds. Don 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snoopy11 5,714 #118 Posted November 16, 2022 Oh, and I am sitting here eating a homemade apple fritter made with apples from our orchard... courtesy of the female lady women... (I call it an orchard... it is really about 9 trees... t'was 12 before the cherry trees died for whatever reason...) Don 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,217 #119 Posted November 16, 2022 Nice summary of a pretty darn good year! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horse Newbie 7,069 #120 Posted November 16, 2022 20 hours ago, Snoopy11 said: We grow cucumbers and pickles You grow pickles ? 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #121 Posted November 16, 2022 47 minutes ago, Handy Don said: Nice summary of a pretty darn good year! Here's the current status of the garden. 1 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snoopy11 5,714 #122 Posted November 16, 2022 (edited) 47 minutes ago, Horse Newbie said: You grow pickles ? Okay, okay *pickling cucumbers... Don Edited November 16, 2022 by Snoopy11 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #123 Posted April 14, 2023 Well everyone, It's 2023 growing season!! The BBT and the Momma planted 2 kinds of peas a week or so ago. They also pit in a BUNCH of seeds to grow in the basement, then greenhouse, then garden. Cucumbers. Lettuce. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Oldskool 6,644 #124 Posted April 14, 2023 Looks like things are poppin. Looking good. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,460 #125 Posted April 27, 2023 WE HAVE FROG'S EGGS!!!!! There are 3 masses in the pond. We'll have tadpoles wiggling all over the place in a couple months. We also have a few little ferns growing in and out of the greenhouse. Here's my row of peas. And a bonus daffodil from up by the house. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
