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Growing your own vegetables

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Originally Posted by foodguy
there are a couple of really good books about working edibles into landscaping. herbs are a natural, of course. artichokes, as we mentioned before ... tehre's lots that can be done if you stop thinking of vegetable plants as utilitarian. check out a woman named rosalind creasy.

Yet another great resource. You are a veritable goldmine of information, foodguy.
 

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One day I'd love a little lemon tree, avocado tree, tomatoes, and extensive herb garden. Would grow other things too, but those are the ones I'd love the most.
 

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We have a couple lemon trees and a lime tree. The latter is too young to produce good fruit, but we use the lemons all the time. The only tomatoes we can grow are the little pea sized ones, and even that goes badly. I think we have a pear tree as well, but I can't remember using it.
 

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we've got a monstrous avocado tree ... nothing like really tree-ripened fruit (not technically accurate, because it doesn't ripen, but it does collect oil). we've got a tangelo tree. every other year the fruit is good, other times it's hard and dry. and we've got a meyer lemon tha'ts gotta be 50 years old and, i'm afraid, is on it's last legs. i've also got a new fig tree (the panache, or tiger fig). it's only a couple years old and too young to bear reliably.
 

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Originally Posted by edinatlanta
stop it uve jumped the shark as a troll

I don't troll, it's not my style. Why are you in the gardening section if you have no reason to be here? The soil that is sold in most stores is processed and filled with chemicals, I do not want that in my fuckn garden.
 

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Originally Posted by Nosu3
I don't troll, it's not my style. Why are you in the gardening section if you have no reason to be here? The soil that is sold in most stores is processed and filled with chemicals, I do not want that in my fuckn garden.
There is an "organic" nursery down the road from me that supplies only to landscapers and contractors, but I used to work there for a while when I was younger, so they'll sell to me. They have great, rich soil that makes the stuff you'd find at Home Depot look like desert sand. I'd recommend checking out your local nurseries.
 

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Originally Posted by mm84321
There is an "organic" nursery down the road from me that supplies only to landscapers and contractors, but I used to work there for a while when I was younger, so they'll sell to me. They have great rich soil that makes the stuff you'd find at Home Depot look like desert sand. I'd recommend checking out your local nurseries.

Thanks, didn't even think to check the nursery yet (have been waiting until later in the season for other supplies). I was caught up looking in places like Home Depot.
 

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Originally Posted by Nosu3
Thanks, didn't even think to check the nursery yet (have been waiting until later in the season for other supplies). I was caught up looking in places like Home Depot.
Yeah, that bagged stuff is really pretty ******. The health of your vegetables will depend greatly on the health of the soil you plant them in. If you decide to do raised beds, let me know. I have some rudimentary experience with carpentry work and what not, but it would be nice to share some of our plans.
 

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Originally Posted by Nosu3
Thanks, didn't even think to check the nursery yet (have been waiting until later in the season for other supplies). I was caught up looking in places like Home Depot.

Two great resources are a local ag university and the county extension agency.
 

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Ugh. My tomatoes germinated but I don't think they are growing any more.
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Only used five seeds though, can't complain.
 

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tomatoes are the worst. i always buy plants anymore. too much drama from seed.
 

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I planted three different types of radish last week. Today, various lettuce.
 

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did that this weekend. no luxury like being able to go out and harvest salad. sounds crazy but the flavor really pops. and it's kind of silly, but i LOVE radishes. i usually have an easter egg combination and a french breakfast mix in the garden. want to add watermelon radishes one of these days, too.
 

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I really look forward to making my first salad with my own personally harvested lettuce. I planted icicle, french breakfast, and watermelon radish varieties. I had such a hard time hunting down the watermelon radish last year at different farmer's markets, and enjoyed it so much when I finally did manage to find it, so I decided to just plant it myself this year.
 

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good call. i did icicles last year and really enjoyed them. i live fairly close to the ocean, in an area that stays cool and cloud until early august and sometimes later. after years of struggle, i think i'm going to pare my tomato crop way back this year and go with beans -- green, lima, shelly -- and leave the tomatoes to the farmers who have to suffer through all those 100-degree days. i honestly think that half (maybe more) of the fun of a vegetable garden is game-planning it.
 

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