2025 Garden season
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Sinahuisa Pepper, Zapotec Jalapeno, ***** De Valle Pepper, Targu Mures Paprika, Dieghito Jalapeno Pepper, Thai Dragon Pepper, Pasilla Bajio-Chilaca Pepper, Red Savina Hot Pepper, Snow White Habanero, Hawaiian chili pepper, and Datil pepper is what I’m going to try and grow this year. I am sure my brother in law will give me a few varieties as well like he always does.
I haven’t seen that variety here. Where do you get the seeds from? Fairly disease resistant?Leftover from the 2024 garden thread. Picked this guy around Thanksgiving? Pure green. Put it on the counter in the kitchen and it was either ripen or rot.Ripened nicely and was stihl firm when I sliced it. Flavor was actually pretty good. Red Duece was the variety.
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I just buy plants from my greenhouse guy. It's one of the favorites of the big tomato growers around here. I did look and they are available online from various sources.
sand sock
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Tomatoes like high pH? Add just a little?
I'd love to had topsoil that deep. I have a clay base with about 6"-12" topsoil.
@sand sock. My buddy just bought one of these and we're planning on using it for sweet potatoes. Makes a raised bed,lays drip and plastic all in one pass.
I found these in a box in the corner. What should I do with them? Place whole in water or pluck off the sprouts and put in water?
They like a target PH of about 6.5. They like the potash in the wood ashes.. I'm experimenting this year to see how they grow.
I started working on next years garden this past Fall. Early this Spring, I'll finish the 'tote' raised beds for the sweet potatoes.
Last year I planted replacement asparagus plants only to have them flood out. The trenches half-filled with water and due to my clay base, didn't drain.
I trenched in a drain pipe perpendicular and sloped it down hill. The I backfilled. The buckets are surrounding the places to plant the new plants, acting as dikes, so I can backfill the rest with compost/topsoil. New plants coming next month.
My garden is stair stepped so I rebuilt the retaining wall along my deer cage. Will finish backfilling this Spring with compost/topsoil, giving me another row to plant trellising crops.
It was nice to have a dry Fall so I could get a lot done.
I've also got Heritage Raspberry plant coming. Looking to buy two Montmorency Cherry trees too.
Last year I planted replacement asparagus plants only to have them flood out. The trenches half-filled with water and due to my clay base, didn't drain.
I trenched in a drain pipe perpendicular and sloped it down hill. The I backfilled. The buckets are surrounding the places to plant the new plants, acting as dikes, so I can backfill the rest with compost/topsoil. New plants coming next month.
My garden is stair stepped so I rebuilt the retaining wall along my deer cage. Will finish backfilling this Spring with compost/topsoil, giving me another row to plant trellising crops.
It was nice to have a dry Fall so I could get a lot done.
I've also got Heritage Raspberry plant coming. Looking to buy two Montmorency Cherry trees too.
sand sock
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my brother usually starts ours, he drops them in a glass ina windowsill. after they leaf out, he snaps it off and puts it in dirt. i wish i had a hiller for sweet potatoes. teh higher and wider you can hill up the soil. the better S/P do in heavy soil. if you can work with the natural slope of the terrain. you can capture alot of runoff.
It pretty much eliminates blossom end rot along with helping prevent blight.
@farmer steve is very knowledgeable on what works for what
JSMississippi
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My wife and I are looking to start our first one this year. For sure some taters, maters, and squash/zucchini. Nice to know AS has a gardening forum! I'll post a thread so as not to hijack this one, since I've got many questions.
You are not hijacking this thread! Its open to all so jump in and welcome!
I've got the sweet potatoes half submerged in water, that I'll change daily, and let the sprouts leaf out. Then I'll break them off and place in water so they will generate roots.
JSMississippi
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Thank you for the warm welcome! As a preface, I am VERY green on this, so assume I know almost nothing. I remember one year as a kid in TN my family did a few rows in our backyard and only had success with a few things, okra for sure (made the mistake of planting a whole row - instead of feeding a family of 3, we fed the whole neighborhood!).
We are in central MS and our back yard is basically sand on top of clay, so we are definitely thinking raised bed. My brother-in-law who lives very close to us has had success with a raised bed for a couple years now (I think he bought one of the Veg-O Garden metal frames).
Wanting to start off small and see how we fare this year. I'll be building the bed, so if we end up doing super well, I can always add more in future years. For size we are thinking maybe 3' or 4' x 8' but not locked in on dimensions yet. Wanting to do two rows, so input would be appreciated on sizing. One concern is one of the long sides will be butted up to our fence, so will only have access to one side reaching over, limiting the width (and # rows).
Wanting to stay relatively low maintenance, as my wife usually works 60+hrs a week and weekends and 40 for me. We definitely want to do some zucchini, potatoes, and maybe a couple tomato plants, peppers, and are open to others depending on room. Again, definitely would appreciate input on this per your experience!
Do you all usually map out your plots or use any sort of app, or use any sort of record keeping system to track/plan?
TL;DR: New to gardening and looking for advice on good species to start with, spacing, and general guidance.
We are in central MS and our back yard is basically sand on top of clay, so we are definitely thinking raised bed. My brother-in-law who lives very close to us has had success with a raised bed for a couple years now (I think he bought one of the Veg-O Garden metal frames).
Wanting to start off small and see how we fare this year. I'll be building the bed, so if we end up doing super well, I can always add more in future years. For size we are thinking maybe 3' or 4' x 8' but not locked in on dimensions yet. Wanting to do two rows, so input would be appreciated on sizing. One concern is one of the long sides will be butted up to our fence, so will only have access to one side reaching over, limiting the width (and # rows).
Wanting to stay relatively low maintenance, as my wife usually works 60+hrs a week and weekends and 40 for me. We definitely want to do some zucchini, potatoes, and maybe a couple tomato plants, peppers, and are open to others depending on room. Again, definitely would appreciate input on this per your experience!
Do you all usually map out your plots or use any sort of app, or use any sort of record keeping system to track/plan?
TL;DR: New to gardening and looking for advice on good species to start with, spacing, and general guidance.
You're not so green as you planted strawberry plants upside down. Had a high school teacher thought the green side goes down. - lol. As for okra, I too had to cut down to a 25' row. Couldn't give it away around here... but I love it.
I grew okra for a few years. Not a big thing here up norf.The Mrs was bugging me to grow some and I found a pack of old burgundy okra seeds I had. Got 4 plants going this past summer. I picked it almost every day for a while till I got word we had enough in the freezer. Probably won't have to grow any this summer.
Welcome to the garden section. Lots of real farmers here and enough of us rookies to keep it interesting. I will offer a few suggestions that some wont agree with, but it works for me. You say you wish to start with raised beds, so my first suggestion is to visit Tractor supply and look at their metal raised beds. They have several sizes and if you dont have extra lumber laying around you can buy the metal ones cheaper than you can buy lumber to build the beds.I bought 2 on sale last fall and have set up full of composted horse poop just waiting for the snow to melt. My second suggestion is to visit a tree nursery and see if you can get some of their old tree pots. The pots are big enough to raise taters, sweet and arsh. I have garlic growing in mine now. I will be planting taters around the middle of march. You being in Miss, you can probably get away with tater planting a few weeks eairlier. I also plant cabbage in smaller pots. Pots are great, what ever you plant in one will usually shade out any weeds so the plants are super easy to maintain. I havent tried corn or Okra in pots or beds, Those crops usually get planted in the ground, but beans, peas, onions, leaf lettuce, tomatoes do great in pots and beds. While things are slow right now, it only a couple of months until everybody will be digging dirt and sowing seeds. I for one will take risk by planting early, sometimes I win and other times I get to replant. Replanting is beds is easy, you dont have to retill and all that sort of thing, just poke a hole and drop a seed.
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