couple got nipped, so added collars... fairing well. planted up two in pots. upper RH corner
2021 garden season
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your peppers look great S/b... think u are ahead of me in that dept! lol... noted one of my peppers had shown up. banana type think it is...
cukes have done ok. started with seeds. two types. finally got them into the garden. perm location... one is marketplace cucumber. dug their location with garden fork. soil so friable! and added 5 gallons from the compost pile.
i would like to do a soil test on my garden. the ag dept over at Texas A&M offers the service. but last check it was $35!
and that buys a lot of 
! i could do a DIY, but just havent. i loose a garden gig from time to time! Mother Nature is not always predictable. but overall, whatever the actual acidity of my soils are... good enuff for my needs. crop rotation is important in my garden planning. i have several hi % sacks of N, P & K. like 0-46-0... i use mostly to amp root crops. but not doing potatoes much these days. wonder if i will ever use up that 40# sack on N! yesterday; onions still doing well... guess they like the soil. always get more than i can eat... 1015's... like apples!
potted up some basil in homemade potting mix screened from the compost pile. thot the cluster was kinda neat, so its still intact. added the dills. no rosemary. not optimistic. prob just buy couple plants...
cilantro finally bolted. got one sprig left from pot of 3. hasn't bolted yet, but i can see it wants to. don't need any more coriander seeds... but mite let these seed up...
the QB is out in Calif close to the coast... Mother's Day thing with D and the g/ks... when they were last here on their coast to coast move/relocation... job related... they got some seeds. mostly lima beans as they were done. she said the littlest is so proud of his lima bean plants... bit cooler out there. was 55 yesterday morning... made me smile!
back in so Tx.... bean patch
lol well for a fib like that we may forgive you as long as we all get a fresh "BLT" ???.gettin' so one can hardly believe a word i say!i was wrong again, of course... more so like twice the size of an egg!
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Those home soil test are not very accurate. They only check for water solubile nutrients. Plant root exudate acids and can take up much more nutrients than your soil test shows to be available. Tons of misleading info about soil test reports from different soil testing companies. There are so may different acids used to determine nutrient levels and fertilization models that no two companies will give the same recommendations for the same soil sample. Best to pick a soil testing company and stick with it and watch the actual results in your field. Your field results wont lie. The biggest detriment to your soil fertility is the mining of the soil thru harvest. The larger the harvest the more nutrients that have to be replaced. The addition of your compost replaces nutrients lost thru harvest. Composted materials are recycled nutrients that are easily absorded by the plants. That 0-46-0 high phosphorous fertilizer will only stay available to your plants for about 2 to 4 weeks and will become totally locked up in the soil profile in as little as 8 weeks.i would like to do a soil test on my garden. the ag dept over at Texas A&M offers the service. but last check it was $35!
I started my peppers in February against everybody’s advice, so bored and want to grow stuff. I lost about a dozen which wasn’t too bad, tomatoes, did the same and lost about the same. I don’t have the growing season you do down south, I miss living and growing in Victoria TX. These are Santo Domingo and Kalugurista peppers that I’m growing in pots.
I did carrot and Parsnip in a half wine cask with a few onion cause I read in an old book that the onion would keep carrot pest away. Have no idea as I have not ever had luck growing the carrot and parsnip.
I never had any pests on parsnips or carrots here but what I do have this year is a problem with the seed coming up! --- I am thinking soil insects attacking the seed. Need a good soil insecticide this year as nothing winter killed in the ground.
Finally after almost 2 weeks we got stuff in the ground. 150 maters,72 cabbage plants and almost 800 peppers.
red beans, peas an green beans in the ground and a weeks wait to see if it turns into corn? lol
4 kinds of potatoes, about 5 or 6 varieties of hard beans, green and yellow beans, tomatoes, peppers, spinach and other salady things, oregano, thyme, peas,...and several others
oh ya, radishes coming up along with beans, corn, and other stuff
onions, tarragon, parsley, squash, carrots, parsnip and other stuff too
some in the greenhouse and some outside. Gotta wait till the end of the month to plant the rest of outside. Greenhouse just about planted. Yay! Almost lost the cucumbers a week ago in the greenhouse with frosts, but they are recovering nicely.
planting small batches of each for variety and to get some seed hopefully. Almost all old varieties of everything. Some of the little gardening seed packs are 25 years old. Using them and getting germination. Three kinds of pepper plant seed we had laying around for about 20-25 years showed better than 50% germination. Cool. Some of the herb seeds are about the same vintage. Wifey kept pulling seed out of her ... hat.
my hands smell like dirt. Aaahh..Awesome!
oh ya, radishes coming up along with beans, corn, and other stuff
onions, tarragon, parsley, squash, carrots, parsnip and other stuff too
some in the greenhouse and some outside. Gotta wait till the end of the month to plant the rest of outside. Greenhouse just about planted. Yay! Almost lost the cucumbers a week ago in the greenhouse with frosts, but they are recovering nicely.
planting small batches of each for variety and to get some seed hopefully. Almost all old varieties of everything. Some of the little gardening seed packs are 25 years old. Using them and getting germination. Three kinds of pepper plant seed we had laying around for about 20-25 years showed better than 50% germination. Cool. Some of the herb seeds are about the same vintage. Wifey kept pulling seed out of her ... hat.
my hands smell like dirt. Aaahh..Awesome!
Tatoes, onions and cabbage so far.--- and rhubarb! Have radishes ready and not much else is growing. Seeds are not sprouting very good this year. Have replanted twice and still nothing on some of the stuff. Next time it dries out, tomato plants go in and all remaining seeds as well.----last ditch attempt for this year!
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might could, the scrounged maters from other day looking good. saving for tomato sams... but maybe one should go for a BLT!thanks for reminding me... lol. plenty bacon in refer.
caught a cooking show other nite. chef said cilantro flowers very tasty and nice. so, since i had one bolting, thot i'd taste one. yum! so added to some medallions last nite if fried up.
