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    Huzzah! Harvested my first 6 ears of corn, very first try. I did a 4x4 sq ft garden sowed double deep. Not the largest cobs, but hey I'm happy I got edible product even with all the horrible rain. Was a bi-color variety, I forgot the name already. Also picked a dozen serrano peppers, debating whether to dry them or use fresh. Garlic was a smashing success even with me using grocery store bulbs for seed. Over 3 dozen heads of garlic harvested, onions did not fare as well. My original "purchased" tomato plants are kaput but my compost pile has a handful of volunteers that sprouted and just started fruiting again. high hopes!

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    I have Mustard Habanero, Chocolate Habanero, Red Caribbean, Red Sovina, Hatch Chiles, Tennessee Cheese, and two other red peppers that grow long pods when dried, crushed, and mixed together make awesome crushed red pepper. GF has Red Italian and Red Bell peppers. That about covers all the peppers.

    Then we have 4 kinds of tomatoes, beets, cucumbers, garlic, green onions, strawberries, blueberries, black raspberries and blackberries. We have Lovage which is an herb that tastes like a cross between celery and parsley, it's great in soups and beans and especially good in crab cakes, and we have sweet basil for making pesto, and African Blue Basil which we dry and crush onto pork and chicken that's headed to the grill.

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    Rats with Antlers have attacked my peppers. I have 3 1/2 , 300 foot rows of peppers. The deer have eaten the tops off 90% of the back row (the 1/2 row) and about 15% of the other 3 rows. I have put wire just above the plants on all the rows and have a good fence charger on them. This has stopped them in the past. They usually don't get into the peppers until August. The back row is mostly hot peppers. The flowers and foliage must taste good to them as they will strip every leaf off of even habanero peppers if I do not protect them. There is a 8 1/2 foot field fence ( 6 in squares) around the entire field to keep the deer out, but I have seen them jump it several times. They can and have done several thousand dollars in a single night. Now I will just have to remember to turn the fence off before I pick. I have been shockingly reminded when I have forgotten.
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    Just went to tie the heat set tomatoes up front. Half the tops eaten off. Most of the flowers on determinate tomatoes are on the top. This is a $ 2,000 hit! I usually only harvest 2 deer a year off my property ( 31 acres) This year wife who does not hunt will get a license. I will harvest 12 deer if I can.
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    is it possible to have a guard dog out their as i had the same trouble up in n.dak. then i got a pyrenese for sheep and he kept the deer out of my large garden of tomatoes. also went after musk rats like nuts. their must be a type of dog or two that can help you out.

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    Standard stuff:
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    Quote Originally Posted by johnson1942 View Post
    is it possible to have a guard dog out their as i had the same trouble up in n.dak. then i got a pyrenese for sheep and he kept the deer out of my large garden of tomatoes. also went after musk rats like nuts. their must be a type of dog or two that can help you out.
    A free roaming dog would be the best deterrent for deer, But it would be all over by the time I got one. I have put electric fence wires over all the plants that the deer will attack. There has been no damage in the last 2 nights. The peppers will recover, I will still get 1/2 of my heat set tomatoes.
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    holy cow, my okra survived the flooding and flourished in the weeds! I thought it was all jungle in the back yard until my wife spotted a few more ears of corn and okra plants hiding in between them. Should have enough for some fried okra soon.

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    My Garden is coming right along. The Tomatoes are just starting to bloom. No one has disturbed my Boulevard plants yet, the cantaloupe plants are still real small, I fear they will be over taken by the Yellow summer squash, if I don't take action. It's gonna be a grand year for my two Pear trees, the mature tree is loaded, the younger tree has fruit on it, for the first time ever...I hope to see what they taste like.







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    "No one has disturbed my Boulevard plants yet," "Yet" is the key word. Like deer, they will wait till the cantaloupe are ripe before they take them.
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    The Boulevard planting is an experiment. We're not suppose to garden on the Boulevard in this town. Anyway, next year, there will be total street and water/sewer/storm sewer utility replacement on my street, so everything will be tore up/sidewalk removed and soil will be replaced/reseeded afterward.

    They did a neighborhood one block east of me last year, and they are doing the neighborhood one block west of me this year. My block was the staging area last year, and I suspect it'll be a staging area this year too. I figure if they are gonna do that and plug up my street parking with concrete storm sewer pipe and piles of rock, I may as well ignore the city's rule about gardening there. Honestly, I don't get much foot traffic, so I think I'll be good.
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    I didn't plant them but a cantaloupe vine(s) has started growing in the bed my eggplants are in !
    I thought they might be squash , then they started climbing up the cages around the eggplants, They now have oval tennis ball sized green fruit growing .... they ain't no squash .
    The last time I tried growing cantaloupe , every blamed one rotted on the vine before they turned nice and ripe. I told the wife I'm going to ignore them....last time I worked so hard growing them and not a darn one would ripen...not this year....they can all just rot!

    The tomatoes and eggplant are doing nicely , they co-operate !
    The green onions did excellant but garlic was a no go.....they didn't make any bulbs . Giving up on garlic.
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    "but garlic was a no go.....they didn't make any bulbs . Giving up on garlic."

    Gary,
    what garlic did you try to grow. The only ones that do any good down here are Creole, Italian, and Elephant garlic. Many of the chain stores will sell sets that do not do well in their area.
    Don't give up. I used to grow about a 1/4 acre of Elephant garlic up here.

    I can give you some toes this fall if you want them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by farmerjim View Post
    "but garlic was a no go.....they didn't make any bulbs . Giving up on garlic."

    Gary,
    what garlic did you try to grow. The only ones that do any good down here are Creole, Italian, and Elephant garlic. Many of the chain stores will sell sets that do not do well in their area.
    Don't give up. I used to grow about a 1/4 acre of Elephant garlic up here.
    That's a shame! I used 3 generic bulbs from the 99c store and harvested ~16 heads of garlic with no effort at all! My onions didn't fare nearly as well, only got about a dozen out of the 2 full sets I planted, and my tomatoes plants were destroyed by the weather. On the plus side it appears if I can find some more okra transplants I'm still within season to start a few more plants. Nothing like fried okra fresh off the plant!

    When I get back from this current business trip I need to rototill my entire plot again just to kill off all the weeds, thanks to all our rain it has been too mushy to run the lawn mower out back and I got lazy. Cucumbers and pumpkins are still doing gangbusters though.


    To be fair, I do add about 6 cu yards of fresh compost everytime I rototill, dang yard waste stacks up so fast! I tried the tumbler method for getting it broken down faster, but just dumping it in a 4x4 pallet square is my method. Nothing like seeing a nice steaming pile of compost cooking down all that waste I didn't have to put in a landfill.
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    Had lots of stuff growing in the kitchen shelves so I planted sweet potatoes from the shoots coming off, onions from those growing in fridge, ginger, garlic, cabbage from the center stem, & the lettuce stalk from the end of the head of lettuce. Also the top from a pineapple, all in buckets on the porch.


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    The garlic was from the Naylor's Hardware / Garden Center where I got the green onion sets. Don't remember name . Two cardboard boxes, with garlic on one and green onions on the other. I broke the garlic bulbs into individule cloves and planted each thinking they would make new bulbs/heads of garlic. They didn't. Will try Elephant Garlic next time. I like that variety.

    farmerjim - When is good time to plant garlic around here and what do you do with 1/4 acre of garlic ! That's a lot of garlic.
    I'm going to look at LSU AG Center web site and see what I did wrong...evidently you don't plant garlic like you plant green onions. Each divided green onion set developed many bulbs. The garlic didn't make a big clove ?
    I have a lot to learn about farming.
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    erm thats the exact process I used, I broke all the bulbs apart and planted each one root end down. My mistake was not harvesting them in time, the new heads started sprouting again. They still dried out nicely and I have them hanging in the dark in my pantry. In Houston I planted mine in the fall and harvested in the spring. Due to our weird weather they never actually went dormant and just grew straight thru the winter.

    They needed a lot more space than i gave them and my weeds took over slowly. My garden is only ~12x12 with a few flower beds in use as well though.

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    Gary, here is a link to the 2016 southeastern Vegetable Growers Guide. It is written by all the southeastern Agg school workers. It is what I use as my main reference book.
    http://www.thepacker.com/sites/produ...Guide_2016.pdf
    Plant garlic in south Louisiana in October for May-June harvest.
    I sold the garlic from the 1/4 acre. Elephant Garlic planted from a small toe will make a single round hard bulb. A large toe, or bulb will grow a large multi sectioned bulb. It can also be grown from seed, but this can take at least 2 years. Elephant garlic is not garlic. It is a Leek/onion that resembles and tastes like garlic.
    Onions (large Bulb type )are better grown from seed or plants. For this area plant short day seed in early to mid October and transplant in December. If you buy plants Put them in in late December to early Jan. See post #87 for a pix of my onions starting to swell. I got 1,000 lbs out of that row.
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    Thanks for the link farmerjim !
    I had no idea Elephant Garlic wasn't a true garlic , a leek you say ! I'm going to plant a whole bulb to get that large multi-sectioned bulb , those are impressive .
    The green onions I grew had the word bunching on the box and they made bunches , I was happy with them. I want to find out the proper way to keep some for replanting the next year. I let okra pods mature , and dry on the plant , remove the dried seeds , and use them the next year...I like this red okra plant and can grow it every year.....
    Can probably do the same with Elephant garlic , just has to be done correctly I'm sure.
    Lots of info on planting green onions but little on how to save it for next year planting.

    I'm learning...Gary

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    talk about leeks, i have about 50 of them planted in a old compostfilled cattle tank. they will be huge by fall. nothing better than leek and potato soup. finally got some rain. the garden sure likes the water from the sky better than the water from the gound. had a 100 mile an hour wind striagt out of the north the other night. my two huge colorado blue spruce made it through the storm but they are leaning more to the south than they were before. didnt lose one tree or bush. the garden is very protected so didnt do anything to that. made my wife and i very nervous, thank God for prayer.

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