2023 Gardening Thread

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Made four passes with the tiller. Kept hitting Roots including a few sequoia trees that **** near bucked me off. Now I got to figure out if I'm just going to make my rows with the tractor tire or buy another implement

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Dang Bobby, that looks real good!! One suggestion, go back now and till it at 90 degrees from your original track.
As far as rows, I would not use the tractor tires for rows. That will compact your soil. With the way you have that plot tilled up, you can pull some strings as a guide and just use a hoe. In that high ground, you won’t need raised rows. Furrows will work well and your plants will be able to take up water better.

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Dang Bobby, that looks real good!! One suggestion, go back now and till it at 90 degrees from your original track.
As far as rows, I would not use the tractor tires for rows. That will compact your soil. With the way you have that plot tilled up, you can pull some strings as a guide and just use a hoe. In that high ground, you won’t need raised rows. Furrows will work well and your plants will be able to take up water better.

All right I'm going to sound stupid here but what's the difference between a row and a furrow

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Do jalapeno plants come in different veriety?

I've gotten mine from Home Depot, and while they do ok. They never seem to get big (good for stuffing and jalapeno poppers).

I've held back picking them, but they begin to turn red on the vine.

We grew Colossus Jalapeno's last year and those jokers get BIG!! Perfect popper peppers. The longer you leave them on the plant, the hotter they get. If yo pick them when they're about like a normal jalapeno, they're not hot at all... Let 'em get a little red on 'em n they'll light you up!! Great tasting pepper too. We hope to plant a bunch of them this year. Gonna try our hand at making Jalapeno Jelly...

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Okay I looked up furrow planting. So you don't do anything with the high parts of the soil just plant in the trench/furrow?

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Got our main in-ground plots almost ready to plant. Here's a pic of the rows I did with my Hoss Tools high arch wheel hoe, then put in my drip tape system.











About to check it for leaks, then cover it. It will be ready to plant... First will be a double row of pole beans, and a double row of beets. Think we will put in a double row of cukes too. We did a lot of amendments to the soil this past Fall and I'm thinking the cukes will do well. We will be planting a ginoecous variety so need quite a few plants to make sure we get some of the male producing seeds to go along with the main seeds which produce all female blooms... Those suckers make LOTS and LOTS of cukes, but you have to have a few plants of a similar variety that had male blooms for pollination... Didn't realize that last year so we planted them in bags. Fortunately, we had more than one variety so had pollinator plants too...

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This will be our first year of in-ground garden without raised rows... Got my fingers crossed on that one...

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Drip tape looks awesome. I think we're going to do sprinklers on a timer this year but may try that next year

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Made four passes with the tiller. Kept hitting Roots including a few sequoia trees that **** near bucked me off. Now I got to figure out if I'm just going to make my rows with the tractor tire or buy another implement

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Sounds like a good excuse to buy a new implement .

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I did a little more tweaking with adjusting that wheel hoe, and man that sucker is the cats meow!! Dark caught me, but I got one plot covered and rowed up. It's ready to plant! That wheel hoe will bury the drip tape and make a row on top of it about as fast as I can walk and push it!! I was amazed. I can tell, I'm gonna love this thing. It is the way to go for a small plot once you get your ground ready for growing stuff.

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All right I'm going to sound stupid here but what's the difference between a row and a furrow

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A furrow is the trench/ditch you plant your seeds or transplants into. Raised rows are what a bedder makes and what I have always done in the past, then you put a small furrow in the top of the raised row and plant in that. For your garden, you can just use the corner of a hoe and drag a little trench and plant in that. Essentially, that's what we're doing this year. I have a little raised row, but only because I buried my drip tape with the wheel hoe. Most plants I will plant on top of the drip tape, but a few things like the green beans and beets I will plant in the little furrows on either side of the drip tape. That's called a double row... gives you twice the plants and more production per square foot of ground for small plants or vinning plants such as beans or cucumbers. We will plant those in a double row with a cattle panel trellis on top of the drip tape.

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A furrow is the trench/ditch you plant your seeds or transplants into. Raised rows are what a bedder makes and what I have always done in the past, then you put a small furrow in the top of the raised row and plant in that. For your garden, you can just use the corner of a hoe and drag a little trench and plant in that. Essentially, that's what we're doing this year. I have a little raised row, but only because I buried my drip tape with the wheel hoe. Most plants I will plant on top of the drip tape, but a few things like the green beans and beets I will plant in the little furrows on either side of the drip tape. That's called a double row... gives you twice the plants and more production per square foot of ground for small plants or vinning plants such as beans or cucumbers. We will plant those in a double row with a cattle panel trellis on top of the drip tape.

So where can you walk if you've got a raised row in between your two furrows that have seedlings in them?

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See the last pic in my post above... all that space between the rows is for walking and working the rows. If I wasn't using drip tape, I'd just need a simple trench to plant in like what you need...

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Mr Charlie,
Thanks for sharing your gardening techniques with pictures for examples. I like the double row idea on each side of the drip tape and look forward to seeing your progress. That drip tape is on my agenda along with one of those hoss high wheel hoes.