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    Good on you guys with the gardens! I can't take care of one any more. Maybe after some more surgery? We'll see. But I come from a long line of good old Scots farmers who literally carved good, working farms out of a swamp and tangles of woods. For much of our tenure here, we've labored just to have enough for ourselves. And both Mom and Dad were heavily into gardening. Both had seen some very lean times, and it was such a joy to them to just give away half or more of what they grew to friends and anyone in need. I wish I could give a report on a garden myself, because nothing tastes as good as stuff you've grown yourself and picked fresh, and prepared really well with old family recipes. Ain't nothin' better, so y'all just enjoy it, and the battle with weather and the bugs. It's as honorable and enjoyable endeavor as any that exist in this world. I envy you.

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    You just hang in there , things will get better...I just know they will. Scots don't go down easy , they is too stubborn . My mom's family is Scottish decent and they lived through the great depression of the 1930's . Mom said if her Daddy had not been good at shooting armadillo's they would have starved slap to death. East Texas was a hard place to survive then but they made it.
    In my mind two tomato plants is a garden. I once filled two 5 gallon buckets with bagged garden soil, planted a tomato plant in each and it was a great garden.
    Good luck ,
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    Quote Originally Posted by farmerjim View Post
    When did you plant your tomatoes? I planted mine Feb 14 and still have a couple of weeks before I get my first large tomato. I do have a couple of sunsugar cherry tomatoes ripening to be picked this afternoon.
    iirc beginning of febuarary I put the first 2 plants in and the rest a week later. They are all cherry/pear tomato varieties for my son and wife to eat fresh off the vine. Most are still in the green/forming phase.

    Ha, that's funny reading the "scots" comments above. My wife is scottish and son is 1/2 . I usually have garden going just depends on if its vegetables or weeds.

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    it snow 2 days ago, not much, but cold

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    I picked my first large tomato of the season yesterday. My record for early tomato at this location is April 27, done three years ago. If you want the earliest tomato in your area, try the variety sunstart. Most of the other growers around here use Primo Red for their early crop, but sunstart beats it by 10 to 15 days. At farmers markets around here, If you are the first with good "homegrown" tomatoes, you get the most of the business for the rest of the season. I am growing my early tomatoes with low tunnels, If I were 10 years younger I would go to high tunnels ( essentially a single plastic layer greenhouse over soil where the crops are planted) for my early tomatoes.
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    Since I live in a rented mobile home, I try to make use of any and all existing flower beds. Two jalapenos are planted in the dirt filled tounge. The tounge is encirled with a stone flower bed so this got 8 hills of asst straighneck and zuchinni squash. 7 buckets in the porch have better Bush and large cherry tomatos in em. The landlord's not keen on me tilling the yard for a garden bed. Oh well, here's to a productive summer garden.

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    gooseberry bushes, cranberry bushes, sea berry bush, peach tree, a few plum trees, and a assortment of salad greens.

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    We have mustard habanero, chocolate habanero, red caribbean, anaheim, tennessee cheese, sweet red bell, italian red bell, two other kinds of long red pepper that will make crushed red pepper flakes. I think we are full up on peppers!

    blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, black raspberries, I think we are full up on berries..

    Parks Whopper improved, German johnson, Celebrity hybrid and some other kind of tomato, cannot wait for tomatoes to come in!

    We have a chocolate persimmon tree planted that HAD set blossoms and then fruit last year, and the dang lawn care guys got it with the weed trimmer, lost all the fruit, now it's setting new branches down low so I dunno... It's not dead and I found a connection for Hachiya Persimmons when they are ready in the fall so I won't go without.

    We have a tart cherry tree that I grew from a seedling with ONE solitary leaf, about 4" tall, now it's almost 10' tall and getting quite big across so maybe it will set cherries for the first time next year?
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    Well, I left my garlic in the ground too long and it started sprouting again. Half of them were salvagable (20 heads or so) which means I more than broke even on my expenditure (I bought 3 heads to plant from grocery store). Will be tilling the ground under and replacing with squash next weekend. Our pumpkin patch has taken over the back and has ~half dozen young fruits on it.

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    2 more plum trees

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    Trying a big experiment in Baton Rouge !
    My son brought over a grape vine for me to plant. A hybrid , purple grape , not a muscadine or scuppernog that commonly grows around here. supposed to be a real , bunching grape that will grow in Louisiana.
    I planted it so we will see. I'm not holding out any hope for it though. I dug a hole , planted it , so it's root hog or die, It's all up to the vine to make it .
    It's a Champanel Grape - Ladder. The info says, large, vigorous American hybrid black grape with high heat and drought tolerance and tolerant of alkaline soils. " Well adapted to gardens in the South and Southwest. "
    So there you have it, we'll see if they will grow in the South...Louisiana don't get much more south !
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    Absolutely nothing. I tilled the winter rye under three weeks ago. And tilled a yard of compost in a week and half ago. It's been cold and rainy here so the ground is still cold.

    Went and bought potatoes today to plant next weekend. Also bought string bean seeds that will get planted. I'm holding off on everything else until Memorial Day weekend. This is typically when most people plant. I sill hold off a week or two after that to plant the peppers. They've done terribly the past two years so hopefully planting later when it's warmer will help.

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    Tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and cantaloupe. Also the peach tree is in full bloom, first time in 4 years we might have peaches.

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    Tomatoes, cucumbers, zuchinni, lettuce, other greens, various beans, potatoes, corn, probably forgetting something. No peppers this year, bags of them in the freezer and more dried.

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    How do you keep deer from eating up your garden?? I live were we cannot shoot the darling critters LOL

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    a very high well built fence

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    10 service berry bushes ,10 chockcherry bushes and 30 garlic cloves went in to day. 3 pounds of alfalfa seed behind the deck to cover bare spots.

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    Potatoes are in, waiting for warmer weather before I plant the rest.

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    Not enough ...but I did get 360 feet of okra in ermm and some yellow bell peppers that I have little hope for ( so far sweet peppers don't do good here but ..the hotter cultivars do thankfully )
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    Green bell peppers, two varieties of Jalepeno, Habanero, Cayenne, Ghost pepper, Carolina Reapers.

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