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Gardening => Gardeners Chat => Topic started by: bayou girl on Apr 18, 2013, 09:31:54 PM
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sunflowers coming up
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blueberry bush 1
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blueberry bush 2
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fig tree
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Looking very good. I wish you luck with all of it.
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I do too.
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How are the sunflowers? I've got 2 rows in the garden that are coming along.
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the first box of them are up to about 12 inches (or more, that was a couple days ago) and the rest of them are coming along. i did put one in each of the buckets that had climbers in, and those are not doing as well as the ones in boxes on the ground. go figure :ScratchHead:
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I think a bucket garden or a straw bale garden is the way to go. Your buckets are looking good and my straw bale squash is doing great. No tilling, now weeds, no drought, no bugs. I'm thinking about planting everything one of these ways next year.
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can the blueberry bush stay in the bucket cuz they get really big around here.
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There are two types of blueberry bushes. One is low growing and one is high. The high is frequently used in commercial orchards.
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can the blueberry bush stay in the bucket cuz they get really big around here.
no. it is a rabbiteye (one of the high bush varieties). but it can stay there another year if need be. they get up to about 6' tall and make great hedges. i am trying to decide where i want to put them. i was going to put them in back, but i think i want them somewhere more convenient. i will get another one or two next year.
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6 feet wow. Choose a place you have a good line of sight for so you can shoot the rabbits that come calling. Don't I sound like Elmer Fudd?
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6 feet wow. Choose a place you have a good line of sight for so you can shoot the rabbits that come calling. Don't I sound like Elmer Fudd?
:giggle: actually, they are called rabbiteye, because they get big, and dark blue, like a rabbit's eye. but rabbits can't eat them, they aren't tall enough to reach. last time i picked blueberries (from a friend's bushes) they were the perfect height to just reach out and grab. not much bending at all. but, they are the perfect height for deer to nibble. of course, i prefer venison to rabbit anyway :giggle:
my plants are older than their height suggests. but they were cut back hard to ship to the store, so they will get big again. and i will leave them in the buckets this year (i think). they are happy though, and growing. i will put up pictures this evening.
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convenient is good. You can grab a handful on the way to work when they produce.
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the bucket garden as of last week, give or take a few days.
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Looking very good.
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Looks good. Where do you find all the buckets?
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That's a bunch of soil. Is it from your garden or did you get potting soil or something?
I bought my buckets from the hardware store but I think resturants get some of their stuff in them too and you could probably ask them for their empties.
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are you going to tie the tomatoes to your trellis? have you noticed any bees? I hand pollinated my squash this morning and didn't see one flying or crawling bug.
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we have bees and other bugs, i'm not too worried about the pollination. i didn't think about putting the tomato against the lattice, but i think i will. or maybe, i have a small trellis i can use instead of buying a tomato cage.
as for the source of the buckets, i made friends with a girl at the restaurant where i usually have lunch. those are all pickle buckets. most restaurants will give them to you if you ask. you have to wash them yourself (or do what i did, just dump the contents into the compost pile), but they are free, and food grade. and it keeps them out of the landfill, so a triple win.
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Jen, I thought about you when Johnny and I were working in the yard with a flashlight. We've had a virus and just didn't feel like getting out until late. It was so nice. There are NO bugs. It's nice but strange. We usually hear crickets at night but not tonight. Maybe the mockingbirds have eaten them all or have they all taken cover because the cicadas are on the way?
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Looks great!
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thanks penny! sheri, i have no idea. with the wetland behind my house, i have bugs nearly 24/7
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I dont know why i never thought of using buckets like that....great way to recycle, and when the season is done, wash them up and store until next year.
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I dont know why i never thought of using buckets like that....great way to recycle, and when the season is done, wash them up and store until next year.
there are a couple of buckets that i actually used in my original bucket garden back in 2004. they were protected from the sun and held up just fine.
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are you having to constantly water?
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Good question. I know my potted stuff is requiring a great deal of watering.
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robert waters daily but it isn't absolutely necessary. some days it gets skipped and if we have good rain for a few days, we skip more than a day or two. the buckets are deep enough that they don't dry out the way regular pots do.
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the "garden" as of around 1 pm today. looking good.
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Yup, looking good. I have a brown thumb. Trying to get rid of the stickers, I killed the whole yard, including where the grass was growing nicely. lol
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I looks great!
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that is the view as i look left from my driveway. i took some individual pictures i'll try to get posted in the next day or two.
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I agree they are looking good.
Barb I'm afraid that will happen to my lawn too when I finally start working on it.
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jen, a day or two has passed.
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Are you eating from the buckets yet????
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Are you eating from the buckets yet????
Hopefully she is.....just beans and peas here, lots of tiny tomatoes, but not nearly ready yet.
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for as good as it looks... these were a couple of months ago. there are 3 watermelons, but they are not ripening right. not a single cantaloup in spite of lots of blooms. 3 tiny squash. the tomato split. the okra went from not ripe at all to dried out and i'm just waiting on seed. and so it goes. i think it just got too much water, robert thinks he over watered on days it didn't rain. we still have one fig (not quite time for it to be ready) and we have been nibbling a blueberry here and there. the sunflowers are not even happy anymore.
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I've got your cantaloupes. I didn't plant a vine but I've got one growing and it's full of cantaloupes that will be ready in a day or two. I don't even like cantaloupes.
Are you going to plant that fig tree in the fall? We've got tons of figs but they're watery. Never been like that before. They taste good, I actually like them better because they aren't so sweet, but I have to be careful getting them off the tree or they fall apart from the moisture.
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yes, the fig tree and blueberry bushes will go in the ground in october i think. i think it will still be too warm before then. but we'll see. i'm also hoping the ground will dry out a little as well.