LithiaWx
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Me standing next to my banana pepper plant. I'm almost 6 feet tall. This guy did particularly well this season.
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First harvest of the season! You can't really judge scale but let me tell you that zucchini is yuuuuugggggge. Tomatoes are all green and most of my peppers are not quite mature.
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Planted last Sunday. tomatoes, peppers, squash varieties. All in all 14 plants. First time planting in ground this year. I found a small space that has been used previously that has some extremely rich soil. This is a property I bought in December, the previous owner must have been a gardener.
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I've got weeds growing in this heat. Makes me want to plant a few things. Looking forward to the last freeze so I can start planting. I have a new property this year where I can actually plant in the ground instead of pots. Also scored some tomato seeds from my grandfather that he planted every year when he was still here.
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The deep freeze is coming. Greenland is about to be in the grasp of the long, cold, and dark winter season. I love this time of year as the cold builds, snow falls and summer retreats.
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Yes, a huge turnaround. We went from way above average melt to average/ very slightly below average melt. His call of 55 - 65% looked pretty good to me based on melt percentage, it's not like he busted. I'm not sure what the point of your posts were. The story of 2015 Greenland melt will be the highly anomolous melt in June/July. It won't be the near average melt that followed.
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The western GIS looks ugly.
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Nice work man, I've had success here as well just last week my tomatoes finally turned red and I got to pick some!
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Great pics guys!! I've been harvesting hot peppers for a few weeks now. My bell peppers are about ready to get picked. Tomatoes are all green but I anticipate more than I know what to do with in about a week or two. I plan on harvesting my first zucchini thhis weekend as well. I've had to water by hand nearly every play though, all in all I've found this to be a very rewarding and relaxing hobby. I get home from work and tend to my garden, it's "dirt therapy"
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And caging ~ can anyone give me tips on when or when not to use them? Currently I have them on my two tomato plants and my two oldest & largest pepper plants.
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Thanks man, I appreciate the tips. Luckily I had read about the extensive root structures of tomato plants and placed them in the largest containers. I did plant the two tomato plants in different sized containers and am finding that the one in the bigger pot is becoming a larger plant. You are correct as well the large containers are expensive, I'm going to try and look out for what you mentioned so next season I can give my plants even more room to grow as I do think I will run into an issue with constraint in at least one of the pots.
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Here is my update guys : The weather has gotten wet over the last few days and my plants are loving the natural rain! I now have 2 tomato plants (big boy), 1 cowhorn hot pepper, 1 green bell, 1 mexibell, 1 big bertha bell, 1 Zucchini, Lavender & chocolate mint. If anyone has some suggestions for my setup please let me know! All tips would be appreciated. I have since changed my method and am only growing one plant per pot. When I began I paired a few of them and it became apparent I needed to pick a winner and cut the weakest plants at the base. The other plants responded nicely to this change and began producing much more fruit buds.
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Impressive, very nice sir!
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Nice work carvers and stove.... My next property will include a medium sized area for gardening...
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Here is a look at my garden. Two tomato plants, three bell pepper varieties and one pot with hot peppers on it. This is my first year at container gardening and I'm already learning from mistakes.
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Thank you sir. My first attempt, I want to learn
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I hope I did the pairing correctly.....
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Oh on another note. My local lowes and home depot got hit HARD last night from the freeze. 80% of their veggies and herbs got wiped out from the freeze. It was a slaughter.
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I bought a few new flowers to add to the garden out front. One to replace my burned plant, he definitely bit the dust in the freeze last night. Also purchased two new veggies this time I went with green bell peppers. I'll post some pictures of the progress of my plants once the green bells get used to their new spot. Bonnie's best with their pots that you plant sure do seem to limit the transplant shock. Whoever has a patent on those made some serious bank.
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Hit 26 last night. All of the plants appear ok except for one of my snap dragons on the end got nipped pretty good... May have lost that guy but the rest appear to have survived with little to no damage. Thank you to all who helped me come up with ideas in how to possibly save them
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I've got some tulips that are about to bloom. I really hope they do ok.
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Well brought my potted plants indoors. Heavily watered my outdoor flower garden and staked it up and placed some sheets over my plants. THe next two nights should be interesting to see if I can escape with no damage to them.
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Thank you folks!
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ok s it's looking more and more likely like I will be dealing with a freeze this weekend.... I can move my potted plants indoors but what about my flowers? Is there anything I can do to protect them from the freeze besides making sure they get watered heavily before I go to sleep? I anticipate the worst case scenario being 25-28 for a lowest reading and being below freezing for no longer than 4-5 hours. Any tips are most welcome. Thank you!
