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Oh thank you! I’m making a list. Since I’m old, we’ll likely go with the less expensive screws. I tried taking a pallet apart today. The genius who assembled it drove the nails in at an angle so it wasn’t a pleasant experience. On the plus side, my barrage of texts to my husband from the... -
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@gtaus So if you don't mind a stupid question....what size and type of screw do I need to go buy to make a pallet raised bed? I am going to try my hand at it next week while hubby is out of town. And how many for one bed? -
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I love how nice your planters are. Radishes would work well, if you like radishes. I do and I have been planting a row every week wherever I can get one in. What about peas? If you have a trellis setup, they wouldn't depend so much on a deeper root to support themselves. I have mine planted in... -
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I don’t consider myself an actual real gardener, but I finally found the packet of Black- eyed Susan seeds I have been looking for since 2009. I planted them in starter pots and have them all toasty in the windowsill. We’ll see. I had a hanging basket of them once and it was just beautiful... -
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I'm going to be planting this week. It's pretty warm and while it's about 3 weeks earlier than usual, my starts are chomping at the bit and I have lots of "Wall of Water" plant protectors to put around the plants. My tomatoes are Oregon Spring variety and the website claims they can take some... -
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Before I knew what I was doing when we moved to a rural property ala Green Acres :lol: , I got a load of horse manure, dumped in in front of the house and planted bare root roses in it. They were the most beautiful roses I ever saw. The manure was pretty fresh. -
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Hey all! How’s your gardens going? I got my radishes, peas and carrots planted out in the beds and started tomatoes, sunflowers, cukes and sweet pea flowers indoors. It’s so nice to see the iris, peonies, and other perennials poking their leaves up. -
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I got all my seeds a few weeks ago. I'll be starting them toward the end of next month as we don't plant here til the end of May after frost danger is about over. I really miss the long growing season of San Diego county where I grew up. I'm expanding from the tomatoes, onions and cukes of last... -
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I got my new beds last week and have assembled the 2 round ones and one oblong. I have the oblong bed ready to plant the garlic I ordered to be here next month. We had a couple nights of frost last weekend, so the season is starting to wind down. I covered the tomatoes, but I will be picking the... -
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I like the metal bed I used this year. When we had our handful of 100+ degree days, I checked the soil twice a day and watered as appropriate. The metal got warm, but the tomatoes loved it. I used plastic kiddie pools leftover from the ducks to grow cukes and squash. It worked pretty well. They... -
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I just harvested all my onions and they are drying for winter. Tomato plants are loaded but not ripening quickly. I have bacon and sourdough bread in the freezer ready for BLTs. Oh, except my cherry tomato. It's taken over like "The Thing That Ate The Bronx". I have to burrow into it to get in... -
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I hope to add another bed next year. I only planted 3 tomato plants and a pony pack of onions in the raised bed. Looking at it, you would think all I had in there was one cherry tomato plant. It exploded during the record heat we have been getting. I have a pile of logs ready to go into a new... -
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@gtaus and @Sally PB, I'm sorry you are having such a hard time this year with rude critters. Knowing how much time, work and money goes into maintaining a growing garden, you both must be disappointed and devastated. At our first house in Oregon, I remember babying a tiny patch of asparagus... -
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Today's menu includes tomato-onion sandwich and sautéed crookneck. -
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Thanks for an informative reply! We have an electric little chainsaw. It's very easy to use. My intention was to con hubby into trimming for me, but he saw through my helpless little old lady act and instructed me as I used it after giving me the safety talk. :lol: I'm really sorry about the... -
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Well, I'm excited beyond reasonability. :lol: I picked our first onion at salad size a couple days ago and another yesterday. I also have a yellow crookneck squash about the size of my pinky fingernail. The cherry tomato is exploding with growth. I have blossoms on my cucumber and my Northern... -
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Here’s my bed and a kiddie pool I am going to plant squash in next weekend. Pardon the mess. Our mower is being serviced and the weed whacker only goes so far. That area is a south facing basement foundation extension that was never finished by the original owner/builder. It’s perfect for a... -
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I got my bed all filled. I didn't have as many logs as I thought. I put in as many as I could find and added branches and whatnot. Then we cleaned out the goose garage and filled the bed with straw. I got a half yard of good dirt and it was so nice and pretty and full until I watered it. So I... -
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It's been a minute since I posted here. Yesterday I got my raised bed assembled. My husband got it for me for Christmas after I asked if he would help make beds from all the pallets we have around. 🤣 I put it on a huge piece of cardboard as a weed block and will start filling it with old logs... -
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A 4 week extension with a cold frame would make a huge difference. One year, I was crushed by the arrival of an unexpected early hard frost in late August that wiped out the tomatoes I had been dreaming of all year. The deer eat anything not nailed down, except certain flowers, which are all I...