Landscaping / Gardening thread

[milehiiu]

4 hours ago, Leathernecks said:

One of my brandywine tomatoes.

Oh yeah !

Have gown pumpkins in the past.  Put them out front for Halloween.  Too tempting, I guess.  As they were stolen from my front porch.  First and last time for that.  LOL

[rico]

Some shots of the garden and flowers before the heat comes....

 

[Steubenhoosier]

Someone asked to see my pergola when it was done. No, it was not a DIY. Took 2 guys about 7-8 hours 

 

Edited June 19, 2020 by Steubenhoosier

[Lostin76]

9 minutes ago, Steubenhoosier said:

Someone asked to see my pergola when it was done. No, it was not a DIY. Took 2 guys about 7-8 hours 

 

Man, that looks great. Going to leave it clean or plant some trailing plants to take over?

[Steubenhoosier]

1 hour ago, Lostin76 said:

Man, that looks great. Going to leave it clean or plant some trailing plants to take over?

Thanks.

We have English Ivy that’s everywhere so it will probably latch on. My wife wants to hang some pots. I am going to research a weather proof tv to watch football 

[Drroogh]

54 minutes ago, Steubenhoosier said:

Thanks.

We have English Ivy that’s everywhere so it will probably latch on. My wife wants to hang some pots. I am going to research a weather proof tv to watch football 

Well Done!

I forget are you on Lime Lake or Lake Gage? I remember floating around Lime Lake on inner tubes all afternoon with a couple of nice girls and my friend and there weren't any houses that looked anywhere near that nice. Of course it was 45 years ago and I MAY have been more interested in the ladies than the architecture!

Edited June 19, 2020 by Drroogh

[Steubenhoosier]

40 minutes ago, Drroogh said:

Well Done!

I forget are you on Lime Lake or Lake Gage? I remember floating around Lime Lake on inner tubes all afternoon with a couple of nice girls and my friend and there weren't any houses that looked anywhere near that nice. Of course it was 45 years ago and I MAY have been more interested in the ladies than the architecture!

We are on Lime. Peacefulness of the no wake lake with the ability to get onto Gage to take grandkids tubing 

[Drroogh]

3 hours ago, Steubenhoosier said:

We are on Lime. Peacefulness of the no wake lake with the ability to get onto Gage to take grandkids tubing 

Used to live on Crystal Lake about an hour north of Lansing Michigan, where the sound of jet skis could be heard sun up to sun down!. Would take the kids to the close by Duck lake so we could tube without the excess so to speak!  Have a lakeside family cabin of more than 100 years in Northern Wisconsin. Everyone in the family agrees it is the most peaceful place in the world!

Completely understand the peacfulness of Lime Lake, you are blessed my friend!!

[Reacher]

14 hours ago, Steubenhoosier said:

Thanks.

We have English Ivy that’s everywhere so it will probably latch on. My wife wants to hang some pots. I am going to research a weather proof tv to watch football 

My neighbor has one but rarely uses it. I thought about it too, but realized I can just take my indoors one out since I use wifi and not cable. 

I'm at my lake house in MI now. They have quiet hours until noon and after 7pm. Works good. No noisy boats to wake you up and quiet time for the fishermen and kayakers. 

[Leathernecks]

Just finished weeding and watering my garden. Some good news, some bad news.

Fennel

Red cabbage

Bolting basil

My poor beans!!!

Everything

[Drroogh]

On 6/16/2020 at 4:47 PM, rico said:

Some shots of the garden and flowers before the heat comes....

 

How do you keep the deer out? Around here I think they have the squirrels trained to knock the pears out of the top of the tree. They eat everything!

[rico]

51 minutes ago, Drroogh said:

On 6/16/2020 at 4:47 PM, rico said:

Some shots of the garden and flowers before the heat comes....

 

How do you keep the deer out? Around here I think they have the squirrels trained to knock the pears out of the top of the tree. They eat everything!

You don't.  Deer have corn and beans to graze on all summer long from all the farmer's fields here.  Now towns around here do have deer bother gardens and flower beds.  The town of Winona Lake, IN has hunting for deer within city limits to combat the problem.

[mrflynn03]

Garden update. 

So have been able to clear some space by having some early stuff mature.  Added a poblano and baby watermelon plant because why not. 

Also my cucumber fence and herbs. 

[Leathernecks]

Just finished picking some cilantro.  Love the smell of cilantro. I left some that was already bolting, going to see if I can get some coriander seeds out of it.

[Joe_Hoopsier]

Finally my Tomatoes, pumpkins and cantaloupe WERE doing well. Now I am transitioning this to the hunting, fishing, killing freaking deer thread. They are all going into the freezer.. 😀

[bluegrassIU]

7 minutes ago, Joe_Hoopsier said:

Finally my Tomatoes, pumpkins and cantaloupe WERE doing well. Now I am transitioning this to the hunting, fishing, killing freaking deer thread. They are all going into the freezer.. 😀

 

 

[mrflynn03]

My garden needs skywater. It's free, city water is not. Loogootee is a storm resistant.

[rico]

I have 5, count them 5, baby green tomatoes on one plant.  

[Leathernecks]

Pepperoncini pepper going strong.

 

[Lostin76]

My cherry tomatoes (Super Sweet 100s) are going like gangbusters here on the terrace. Pepper plants are kind of odd - a few are doing very little and the other half are going crazy. I had to get them from Burpee and I had never ordered from them before.

[Leathernecks]

8 minutes ago, Lostin76 said:

My cherry tomatoes (Super Sweet 100s) are going like gangbusters here on the terrace. Pepper plants are kind of odd - a few are doing very little and the other half are going crazy. I had to get them from Burpee and I had never ordered from them before.

So I know I have a good starting plant, I'm going to try to harvest seeds from my veggies this year and use them next year. Never done it before, but seed costs can add up, and some companies seem hit or miss on seed quality.

[Lostin76]

9 hours ago, Leathernecks said:

So I know I have a good starting plant, I'm going to try to harvest seeds from my veggies this year and use them next year. Never done it before, but seed costs can add up, and some companies seem hit or miss on seed quality.

Yeah, if you have a good performer save those seeds. No reason to pay someone else when you have the right there.

I've seen people save seeds from a grocery store tomato to plant and I'm like "Why would you want to recreate such a sad experience?"

[Joe_Hoopsier]

1 hour ago, Lostin76 said:

Yeah, if you have a good performer save those seeds. No reason to pay someone else when you have the right there.

I've seen people save seeds from a grocery store tomato to plant and I'm like "Why would you want to recreate such a sad experience?"

Honestly, I used saved seeds from a grocery store tomato in my hydroponic system and it was phenomenal. 
all the defects were breed out of it, just as a skilled farmer from 100 yrs ago would do. 

[Seeking6]

Any Tipton county residents or farmers in this thread? Kind of a gardening question. Curious what the corn fields look like there? There's a corn grower there that says they can start shipping fresh sweet corn to your door by July 7th. Fields here in central Indiana are coming along but don't see anything yielding fresh corn in 12 days.

 

[milehiiu]

1 hour ago, Seeking6 said:

Any Tipton county residents or farmers in this thread? Kind of a gardening question. Curious what the corn fields look like there? There's a corn grower there that says they can start shipping fresh sweet corn to your door by July 7th. Fields here in central Indiana are coming along but don't see anything yielding fresh corn in 12 days.

 

Growing up in Indiana, we had a saying : "knee high by the Fourth of July."  However, with the advances in modern agriculture, I understand that saying is no longer applicable.