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one organic kitchen garden in southern from spain

Hi all.I am spanish.I would like to share whith you my experiences with the organic vegetable garden in this area.I use normally raiser bed successfully and several organic remedys for the bugs.I would like to learn with you too.
My climate is hot and sunny.I will upload pictures soon from my garden.

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I'm looking forward to it!

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This is one photo of my raiser bed with litle plants (cabbage)
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Very nice setup glad to have you on-board, we can all learn a lot from each other. Are those bottles some sort of gravity fed watering system?

Welcome to HG, now lets garden. :D

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and what are your boxes framed with? Looks like some kind of tongue and groove product. Plastic?

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Marlingardener wrote:Wow! When you make raised beds, you sure do make beautiful ones! We are just now setting out cabbage transplants (tiny plants, about 3 inches tall) and also broccoli. Please post pictures as your gardens mature.
We are using composted chicken manure with rotted grass clippings--stuff we pulled out of the coop. What fertilizer do you use?
Hi Marlingadener. I'm using composted horse manure and rotted grass clipping too.
Also rest kitchen( rotted potatoes,tomatoes etc)

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". Are those bottles some sort of gravity fed watering system? "

Could be. I have some of these:

[url=https://www.gardeners.com/Aqua-Cones/VegetableGardening_TerrificTomatoes,18034,default,cp.html]soda bottle watering[/url]

But you can do the same thing just by punching a few small holes in the bottom of a 2 liter bottle. Fill the bottom third or so of the bottle with sand (helps the water percolate through more slowly), bury the bottle with just the top sticking up. When you want to water just take the lid off and fill the bottle.

Slow irrigation system that puts the water down by the roots.

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rainbowgardener wrote:". Are those bottles some sort of gravity fed watering system? "
Slow irrigation system that puts the water down by the roots.

MG, there are videos by a guy that lives near my father-in-law in Avoyelles Parish, La. He goes by the screen name "Bayou Gardener" and his system for watering tomatoes is pretty good. He uses Concrete Wire Mesh for his cages. He takes 1 1/2" PVC pipe about 6 ft. long, puts an end cap on it without glue, drills a couple small holes in the end cap then places the pipe with the end cap next to the base of the tomato plants. He uses a golf cart with a large water tank strapped to it that is gravity fed to put water in the PVC pipe (a little more than 1 qt.) and lets gravity do the rest.

Check out some of his videos on u-tube. He does have a huge operation with all the bells and whistles and is quite the gardener.

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gixxerific wrote:Very nice setup glad to have you on-board, we can all learn a lot from each other. Are those bottles some sort of gravity fed watering system?

Welcome to HG, now lets garden. :D

Dono
The bottles are for frighten way the birds.I use also music cd hanging.The shine frighten way its.

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DoubleDogFarm wrote:and what are your boxes framed with? Looks like some kind of tongue and groove product. Plastic?

Eric
Hi.The boxes framed with building materials.I don't know his name in english.The builder use its for to buil the roofs.I think his name is ceramics brick wall.

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Tomatoes in this summer
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he is my dad with bigs tomatoes in the hands.

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Looking GREAT, Julio. What variety tomatoes are they? They look like they might be an heirloom type. Do you save seeds from year to year?

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Very awesome everything looks great.

Those tomatoes are huge you are definitely doing something right. :wink:

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...¡(Ji)tomates grandes y hermosos! ...¿Deliciosos también?

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applestar wrote:Looking GREAT, Julio. What variety tomatoes are they? They look like they might be an heirloom type. Do you save seeds from year to year?
Hi all
they are marmande cuarenteno tomatoes and the big tomatoes are tomatoes from Granada (Andalucia).
this tomatoes from andalucía are heirloom type.
Yes I save the seeds from years to years because they are not hybrids.
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Now some eggplants.they are two varietys black beauty and purple.

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cynthia_h wrote:...¡(Ji)tomates grandes y hermosos! ...¿Deliciosos también?

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Yes cynthia very very delicious.Very sweet.And without chemicals.All ecologic.
Si cynthia son muy buenos.Dulces y poco ácidos.Y sobre todo sin ningún tipo de pesticida químico.Todo ecológico.

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Some melons
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carrots
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cucumber
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zucchini
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acelga,radicheta.
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taking seeds from a zucchini.

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after I put the seeds to dry up.

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Very nice, but the last pictures are not what we would call zucchini ( = calabacin). Zucchinis are summer squash, green, thinner skinned, lots less seeds. Yours is some kind of winter squash, looks like related to butternut but not the same.

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rainbowgardener wrote:Very nice, but the last pictures are not what we would call zucchini ( = calabacin). Zucchinis are summer squash, green, thinner skinned, lots less seeds. Yours is some kind of winter squash, looks like related to butternut but not the same.
Hi .The last pictures are the white zucchinis(calabacín blanco) here.They are a lots of seeds because are very ripe.
The zucchini you say is here green zucchini.(calabacín verde).
When the zucchini is for to eat,It harvest more little,whitout seeds.

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Lovely garden, Julio! I miss your corner of the world. My grandparents lived in Jimena de la Frontera when I was a kid.

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sprout wrote:Lovely garden, Julio! I miss your corner of the world. My grandparents lived in Jimena de la Frontera when I was a kid.
Beautiful town. Jimena de la frontera is near here,in Cadiz too.

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Beautiful garden. I think Ilove your automatic watering system. Is this something one must have to grow this sort of garden in Spain?
Raiser beds have been a great help to my garden, also, but I have never grown tomatos like that and in such abundance! :D

When do you plant your garden and how many "crops" can you get from it in a season?
Thanks for posting the photos. :) You make me wish it was April here in Ohio, not the end of Sept. :( Oh well, we have winter to plan for next year.

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lily51 wrote:Beautiful garden. I think Ilove your automatic watering system. Is this something one must have to grow this sort of garden in Spain?
Raiser beds have been a great help to my garden, also, but I have never grown tomatos like that and in such abundance! :D

When do you plant your garden and how many "crops" can you get from it in a season?
Thanks for posting the photos. :) You make me wish it was April here in Ohio, not the end of Sept. :( Oh well, we have winter to plan for next year.
Thank you lily51.I have got automatic watering system, but it isn't necessary here.The guys water with the hosepipe too.I water all days in the summer because the weather is very hot.
I don't understand the question of the crops.I plant tomatoes in the spring and I take its during all the season.The secrets to a good crop are: a good variety of tomatoes,enought water and a good fertilized with manure and compost.Of course to remove the bugs and to prevent the illness.

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Since we live on a farm in Ohio and my husband plants 100's of acres of crops, I call the vegetables in my little garden "crops" too. :)
We plant peas early in March becasue they like cool weather, but then they are done early too, so I can take them out and plant something in their place like beans or squash. I didn't know if your climate was too hot to do such planting or not. Our tomatoes take all summer, also.

This was my first year to try heirlooms, but looked nothing like yours.
Shall try different types next year, as yours inspire me.
Do you start your seeds inside or can you just plant the seeds in the garden?

Thanks for sharing from across the ocean.

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lily51 wrote:Since we live on a farm in Ohio and my husband plants 100's of acres of crops, I call the vegetables in my little garden "crops" too. :)
We plant peas early in March becasue they like cool weather, but then they are done early too, so I can take them out and plant something in their place like beans or squash. I didn't know if your climate was too hot to do such planting or not. Our tomatoes take all summer, also.

This was my first year to try heirlooms, but looked nothing like yours.
Shall try different types next year, as yours inspire me.
Do you start your seeds inside or can you just plant the seeds in the garden?

Thanks for sharing from across the ocean.
Hi lily51.
I plant the tomatoes in the garden in February and other time in May,so they take all summer.Two crops in the season.There are vey varietys of heirlooms you must choose the appropiate.
Yes I start my seeds inside in January.Look at the photo
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My home-made seed germinator.

[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z368/julio110/25%20septiembre%202010/P300910_1909_01640x480.jpg[/img]

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Hey Julio,

Looks great - super nice produce! Do you grow sweet potatoes?

A proposito, soy 'amigogringo' nel infojardin.

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scyther wrote:Hey Julio,

Looks great - super nice produce! Do you grow sweet potatoes?

A proposito, soy 'amigogringo' nel infojardin.
Thank you scyther.I don't grow sweet potatoes.I don't like them.
Amigogringo yo soy " Jalio" en infojardín.Participo mucho en el hilo de " hay andaluces por aqui".Allí me encontrarás.

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Hi family.
Yellow eggs of the white butterfly on the cabbage.I discovered its today.
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z368/julio110/25%20septiembre%202010/P031010_1228640x480.jpg[/img]

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Julio, that cabbage white butterfly is the bane of my gardening existence. We have it very bad here, it infests all the Brassica crops.

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scyther wrote:Julio, that cabbage white butterfly is the bane of my gardening existence. We have it very bad here, it infests all the Brassica crops.
Hi,scyther.
I use normally bacillus thuringensis.it's a naturally remedy for the caterpillar from the white butterfly.Also to prevent I apply soaked garlic.

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Hi all.it's a cloudy day in Cádiz today,but it's hot.I show you other photos of my garden for to liven up the post.
This is my home-made greenhouse.It's of iron whith a plastic film.
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z368/julio110/20082010001640x480640x480.jpg[/img]

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Howdy,

I got tired of spraying bt. Now I let the plants sink or swim.

How will you vent the invernodora on warm winter days, to avoid killing the plants?

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scyther wrote:Howdy,

I got tired of spraying bt. Now I let the plants sink or swim.

How will you vent the invernodora on warm winter days, to avoid killing the plants?
Hi amigogringo.
The warm winter days I open the door totally.I close it only a few days during the winter.
Today I saw the first tomatoes in the greenhouse.Its are tiny.I hope its grow without problem.
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z368/julio110/25%20septiembre%202010/P101010_1312640x480.jpg[/img]
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Hi all.
Uffff.A bad weekend in this area.It's raining cats an dogs. :shock:

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Hi guys.Today I harvested the first succhini in the fall.Althougt the temperature is a little cold, he grow it very good still.
here it is.
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z368/julio110/25%20septiembre%202010/P301010_1150_01640x480.jpg[/img]

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Hi all.
I show you some trees I have.
orange tree.Juice very sweet.
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Other orange.I don't know his name in english.In spanish I say mandarino.
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z368/julio110/25%20septiembre%202010/PICT1140640x480.jpg[/img]
Olive tree
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lemon tree
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I don't know the name of this fruit either.In spanish I say Granado.
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z368/julio110/25%20septiembre%202010/PICT1144640x480.jpg[/img].

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NICE! I would need a heated greenhouse/frost free large enclosed area to grow those fruits! Mandarin Oranges I think, and the last one is called Pomegranate. My kids LOVE them. I bought some at the market last week and they savored every little one -- "Look, look! they look like jewels in sunlight!" "They're like rubies...." :D

I do have seedling citruses and pomegranates that I'm growing for fun. I recently brought the citruses indoors and will be bringing in the pomegranates after they go dormant -- frost is coming! Probably starting tonight. We'll see minus single digits ºF by January. :shock:



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