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MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
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These two raised beds are my eggplants, tomatoes, and pitiful peppers. The fern looking things are asparagus.......oh, and cukes in the foreground. That empty bed with the grass stays in the shade.....for lettece later this fall, and greens.....
On the left are bush beans and okra.
These two raised beds are my eggplants, tomatoes, and pitiful peppers. The fern looking things are asparagus.......oh, and cukes in the foreground. That empty bed with the grass stays in the shade.....for lettece later this fall, and greens.....
On the left are bush beans and okra.
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Cyclonemom
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Is your pole bean trellis made from a cattle or hog panel? Or something else? It looks really neat!
ioujc
MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
Hey Cyclonemom>>>>it is made from 3 >>>>>5' X 16" cattle panels. I don't know if I will do it that way next year>>>>it's really hard to reach the beans on top. I used a ladder this morning, but you have to lean waaaaaaayyyyy over to reach the top beans. Kinda scary. But it is very pretty!
Always before I have raised them on a flat row of cattle panels.
It's easy to get the beans on the sides and inside, but up on top is tough. If I "just let them go and don't pick the top ones, the whole plant will die and then it will be UGLY!!
Always before I have raised them on a flat row of cattle panels.
It's easy to get the beans on the sides and inside, but up on top is tough. If I "just let them go and don't pick the top ones, the whole plant will die and then it will be UGLY!!
imaginative
keep your eye on the ball
Nice pics- thanks for sharing.
I do a pole bean tunnel also- it is tall enough to walk under which really makes the picking easy as most of the beans hang down.
How are you Paw-Paws doing?
I do a pole bean tunnel also- it is tall enough to walk under which really makes the picking easy as most of the beans hang down.
How are you Paw-Paws doing?
ioujc
MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
I have them planted in pots until fall.
I tired planting apples, peaches, cherries, and plums and they all died>>>>>too hot and too dry by the time I got them.
So I put the rest of the trees in pots and will get them in when it cools off. By putting them in pots I can place them in cut off milk cartons and they have a constant water supply by filling the milk "saucers."
I tired planting apples, peaches, cherries, and plums and they all died>>>>>too hot and too dry by the time I got them.
So I put the rest of the trees in pots and will get them in when it cools off. By putting them in pots I can place them in cut off milk cartons and they have a constant water supply by filling the milk "saucers."
imaginative
keep your eye on the ball
Good luck w/ the rest of the trees.
PawPaws have a deep root system- typically being planted in a deep cone-shaped planter because most of the initial growth is downward
https://www.starkbros.com/growing-guide/how-to-grow/fruit-trees/pawpaw-trees
7 more weeks until the Great American Paw-Paw festival
https://ohiopawpawfest.com/
PawPaws have a deep root system- typically being planted in a deep cone-shaped planter because most of the initial growth is downward
https://www.starkbros.com/growing-guide/how-to-grow/fruit-trees/pawpaw-trees
7 more weeks until the Great American Paw-Paw festival
https://ohiopawpawfest.com/
Martinhouse
Deceased
When I arched 16' cattle panels for vines, I put the ends 8 feet apart and the overhead part was still hard to reach.
I grew squash on the arch, too, at other times, and even medium-sized pumpkins. You'd be amazed at how tough their stems are. I grew cantaloupes on a panel that was standing horizontally. I wouldn't dare wade around in vines to pick any of these things, as there are snakes here.
I never had to tie any of this stuff to support it. Not even 8" or 9" melons.
I grew squash on the arch, too, at other times, and even medium-sized pumpkins. You'd be amazed at how tough their stems are. I grew cantaloupes on a panel that was standing horizontally. I wouldn't dare wade around in vines to pick any of these things, as there are snakes here.
I never had to tie any of this stuff to support it. Not even 8" or 9" melons.
Lived by an old farmer years ago. His beans were such that you had to gather via ladder. Well one day he fell. Went to hospital and died there. Personally I'd go low on that these days.
Beautiful garden by the way. Wish mine looked even THOUGHT it was a garden. Brother.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
We have cattle panels attached vertically to 8 foot tall t-posts and they're in a straight line, not arched, this works very well for us.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Thank you for sharing, mine is over run with weeds right now, as OC likes to say it's not PBS ready!
Chicken Mama
Veteran Member
Thanks for the photos. Hubby picked beans Thursday and this morning, and I got 18 quarts canned last night and today. We're swimming in cherry tomatoes, and the brussels sprouts are doing well this year. We've only gotten a half dozen full sized tomatoes so far though, and that fried egg sandwich with tomato this morning was delicious.
ioujc
MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
You are VERY observant Bobinky!!
I have used cardboard to cover the space in between plants in the raised beds, you can only see it in one of them. This is because we have Devil Grass or Quack grass and I have pulled and Pulled and PULLED it out>>>>>but there is always MORE!! The cardboard is an attempt after pulling as much of the stuff as possible, to keep it from growing back. This is an experiment and I am going to see how it works. Thus far it is working well.
The white stuff you see covering the edges of the raised beds are the ends to the Barge Covers that the raised beds are piled into. Once again, the grass is horrible>>>it grows through almost anything>>>cardboard, plastic, newspaper, you name it, with in just a month of two the stuff is growing all through the beds.
The rizomes on the nasty DEVIL WEED is POINTED and actually CUTS through anything that it is possible to tear, cut or pierce.
One year, I tried putting all my composted manure and soil on top of an old canopy. I raised the sides up over the tops of the concrete blocks and WALA!! Had almost no grass growing in the beds!
Sooo>>>> I found someone selling barge covers at our local Sale Barn. These are used on the river barges on the Mississippi, which is not that far from us. Bought about 5 of them and planted 3 so far. They are about 15 - 20 feet wide and about 50 feet long. I set them on the ground, place all my soil inside the barge cover and then rim the outside with concrete blocks. There is a tremendous amount of barge cover left. About 1/2 of it. I have cut it to "fit" the block form. What is left over is more of the cover and some netting, which I will use to shroud my fruit trees if I can ever get any to grow!! Also, next time I will not place the beds in the center of the OOPS!! I mean barge cover, but off to one side and have more available to use for more beds......
I have used cardboard to cover the space in between plants in the raised beds, you can only see it in one of them. This is because we have Devil Grass or Quack grass and I have pulled and Pulled and PULLED it out>>>>>but there is always MORE!! The cardboard is an attempt after pulling as much of the stuff as possible, to keep it from growing back. This is an experiment and I am going to see how it works. Thus far it is working well.
The white stuff you see covering the edges of the raised beds are the ends to the Barge Covers that the raised beds are piled into. Once again, the grass is horrible>>>it grows through almost anything>>>cardboard, plastic, newspaper, you name it, with in just a month of two the stuff is growing all through the beds.
The rizomes on the nasty DEVIL WEED is POINTED and actually CUTS through anything that it is possible to tear, cut or pierce.
One year, I tried putting all my composted manure and soil on top of an old canopy. I raised the sides up over the tops of the concrete blocks and WALA!! Had almost no grass growing in the beds!
Sooo>>>> I found someone selling barge covers at our local Sale Barn. These are used on the river barges on the Mississippi, which is not that far from us. Bought about 5 of them and planted 3 so far. They are about 15 - 20 feet wide and about 50 feet long. I set them on the ground, place all my soil inside the barge cover and then rim the outside with concrete blocks. There is a tremendous amount of barge cover left. About 1/2 of it. I have cut it to "fit" the block form. What is left over is more of the cover and some netting, which I will use to shroud my fruit trees if I can ever get any to grow!! Also, next time I will not place the beds in the center of the OOPS!! I mean barge cover, but off to one side and have more available to use for more beds......
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Siskiyoumom
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Hubby is using road sign canvas he got for free off of Craigs List.
It is from billboards that are now banned in most of Humboldt County for being eyesores.
So the ad Rep had a lot to get rid of. He has used it as a replacement cover for his tractor shed/carport and as the vapor barrier for the floor of a shed he built.
It is from billboards that are now banned in most of Humboldt County for being eyesores.
So the ad Rep had a lot to get rid of. He has used it as a replacement cover for his tractor shed/carport and as the vapor barrier for the floor of a shed he built.