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 Re: TFF Gardening Thread
[Re: DHFisher]
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05/04/10 01:34 PM
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jeff.m
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Well, I've given in to the fact that the onions aren't going to make it. Any suggestions on something I can put in their place? Whatever it is won't be able to crawl or sprawl. It's a square foot garden and whatever I put there can't be very tall and I don't want to wait for the fall. Do you have carrots or lettuce yet? Those would probably both work.
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
[Re: jeff.m]
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05/04/10 01:43 PM
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Well, I've given in to the fact that the onions aren't going to make it. Any suggestions on something I can put in their place? Whatever it is won't be able to crawl or sprawl. It's a square foot garden and whatever I put there can't be very tall and I don't want to wait for the fall. Do you have carrots or lettuce yet? Those would probably both work. Carrots are doing ok and the lettuce never got bigger than the first couple leaves after a month so I turned em under and planted more peppers. On another note, my roma II bush beans put on about 20 blooms yesterday and they are about a foot tall. I might try more of those.
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
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05/04/10 03:01 PM
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It's not to late for okra and it does really well in the heat. Yes, but in the type of garden he is talking about, there really isn't enough room for okra...Unless he can find a dwarf plant...Most okra plants get between 4 feet tall and 9 feet tall...Not to mention the width... I bought some okra before I read this. It's so small in the pot. I can't believe it will get that big! Does it grow like a bush?
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
[Re: Bass_Bustin_Texan]
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05/04/10 03:08 PM
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It's not to late for okra and it does really well in the heat. Yes, but in the type of garden he is talking about, there really isn't enough room for okra...Unless he can find a dwarf plant...Most okra plants get between 4 feet tall and 9 feet tall...Not to mention the width... I bought some okra before I read this. It's so small in the pot. I can't believe it will get that big! Does it grow like a bush? It really depends on the variety...You can trim it back, okra is almost impossible to kill, to keep it in more of a bush form...
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
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05/04/10 03:23 PM
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Thanks. I'm planting this in a small raised bed. I got scared imagining something 9' tall in there!
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
[Re: Bass_Bustin_Texan]
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05/04/10 03:48 PM
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Thanks. I'm planting this in a small raised bed. I got scared imagining something 9' tall in there! They start producing when they are about 1' tall. The first year I planted okra, it was over 8' tall and over 6' wide...They were like trees...
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
[Re: LoneStarSon]
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05/04/10 03:58 PM
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Thanks. I'm planting this in a small raised bed. I got scared imagining something 9' tall in there! They start producing when they are about 1' tall. The first year I planted okra, it was over 8' tall and over 6' wide...They were like trees... Just dawned on me, I must have seen okra peeking over my neighbors fence last year. I've been wondering what that was for a while!
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
[Re: DHFisher]
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05/04/10 09:02 PM
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WTH is wrong with me? I went to a local nursery today looking for some sweet potato vines for one of the flowerbeds...However, what did I do? I made the mistake of going into the veggie greenhouse and found 2 more pepper plant varieties that haven't made it into my garden yet...So what did I do? That's right, I bought 12 more pepper plants...  Now I have to figure out where they are going to go... I guess I'll take out a row of onions, but dang it I need HELP!!!!!!!!
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
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05/04/10 09:51 PM
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Might be castor beans. They kinda remind me of okra. I have some as a screen that are about 12' high. They reseed freely and alledgedly repel gophers but all parts are very poisonous (especially the "beans").
They're also an annual and leave a huge woody stem to remove.
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
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05/04/10 09:54 PM
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
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05/05/10 01:17 PM
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My Red Noreland potato plants are all but dead. I haven't posted it up here, but it started a couple weeks ago. A few leaves started turning yellow, then brown, then dead, then they just kept dying. They've been in the ground for ~65 days.
The weird part is, it's only the Red Noreland that are dying. The Yukon Gold, which are between the Red potatoes, are perfectly fine.
Any idea why?
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
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05/05/10 01:37 PM
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My Red Noreland potato plants are all but dead. I haven't posted it up here, but it started a couple weeks ago. A few leaves started turning yellow, then brown, then dead, then they just kept dying. They've been in the ground for ~65 days.
The weird part is, it's only the Red Noreland that are dying. The Yukon Gold, which are between the Red potatoes, are perfectly fine.
Any idea why? Stop peeing on them? I have no idea. I've never grown potatoes...
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
[Re: LoneStarSon]
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05/05/10 01:43 PM
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DHFisher
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I think you should do a little diggin around in there to see if the Red Norelands have produced. I dug around in mine a week ago and found a perfect potato about the size of a large egg. I would guess the container is crammed full of em. Also, just so you know, my Red Norelands are also turning brown and my Yukon Golds are just fine. If my Reds keep turning brown, I'm gonna harvest, maybe it's that time....
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
[Re: DHFisher]
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05/05/10 01:48 PM
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DHFisher
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Also, I just read that sometimes the Reds don't bloom and they mature early. Dig one up. It's probably time to harvest.
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Re: TFF Gardening Thread
[Re: DHFisher]
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05/05/10 01:51 PM
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mysavioreigns
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Alright, will do DH. It can't hurt, because if they didn't grow then I can plant some more stuff there 
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