Reclaimed/Repurposed Garden

[MyMrSir1112]

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New garden, my fingers are crossed.
What you see here is $0.50 out of pocket, not counting the seeds. 99.9% reclaimed mats. I had to buy some screws. I found some at a garage sale for $1.00 and used about half of them.
The wood came from pallets and other wood I found. The bricks were found in a pile above the rock wall in the back. The mulch is from an oak stump that we had ground down. I even found a place that gives away compost.
I may post more pics and details later.
thank you for looking.

[mscratch]

nicely prepared and very thrifty! what will you be trellising? I hope the frame is sturdy enough.

[jal_ut]

I am impressed. What a nice garden for $0.50.

[MyMrSir1112]

I'm growing snap peas and baby sugar bush melons on the tresill I may put some more support later if I see it's a problem, now that you mentioned it.

I have a side garden too, I'll post pics later. Nothing but dirt and rows right now.
I'm trying "Big Max" pumpkins for the first time, my daughters b-day is in the fall so we will have them ready for a carving party.

[Jeremy brua]

I love it! I might have to do somthing like that next year.

[MyMrSir1112]

Mollie's --Cantaloupe--Beans/Sunflwr--Beans/Garlic--Purp\Yell Onions

Beans-----Sweet Corn/Cukes/Marigolds----Purp\Orng Carrots

Cukes--Zucc\--Icebrg--BigBoy

BB/SweetSnack/100's--Herbs--100's

Mariglds/SnapPeas/BabySgrBush--Trellis--BabySgrBush/SnapPeas/Mariglds

These are the different veggies and the location of each one. The planters are seperated by --. Mollie's box is the upper left corner.

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And by the way that's "Orange" Carrots not "Oh My God" Carrots. lol. I am using some 33" tomato cages for my zucc and bush cukes, I don't know how well it will work but I'll see. So my $.50 garden is no longer. Oh well, I once had a $.50 garden that you had to see to believe.
I'm going out now to cover my potatos 1/2 way. I'll post pics of how I do it below.

[MyMrSir1112]

This Tater Tower is about 21"sq.
After reading more about growing potatos, I knew I needed to thin the towers. I planted the seed, I grew them up from nothing, hell yeah I hated thinning them!
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Choosing the ones to thin was done by cutting one of two stems from the same seed potato, leaving only one stem per seed.
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I want new potatos for seed and to eat so from what I read this is about where I want to be as far as the overcrowding.
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I covered the stems about half way up with dirt not enriched with any extra npk.
Finally I covered the new soil with a thin layer of pine needle mulch to help keep the moisture and acid up. Potaos like acid. Hmmm, with all those eyes, I bet.
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I watered with the water I collected from the rain a couple days ago and enjoyed the moment. Then picked up that cig butt and three more just like it, where could that have come from? Hunny? Sweety?
I'll be more than happy to get advice from anyboby, about the taters not the wife. This is my first year growing potatos. Please comment.

[MyMrSir1112]

This is an update on the garden, I'm happy with it so far. That's the neighbors weekend/summer house in the background but their never there.
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100's, they all have little bitty buds on them. They were started 4/4/12 from seed and I put them outside on 5/4/12. I noticed the first buds at 6 weeks 3 days on 5/21. That's a sucker in the middle. I'm just goofing off with it.
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These are sweet snacks, my left over 100s and big boy plants. The 4 close ones are planted with the trench method. I'll be able to see for myself if there is a benifit to doing it that way. I need to get some mulch for these tomato plants. The soil is nice but the weed seed seems to be coming on strong.
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Purple and orange carrots with belle radishes in the middle. we've eaten greens and roots from the radish. all started on the 4/26.
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Tater Towers, almost time to hill them and add another board.
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That's all for now. I've been thinking about aquaponics.