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Originally posted by flyinghigh4 rows totaling 600 feet sweet corn, 150 foot row yellow squash,35 tomatoes,12 eggplants, 120ft. Row watermelons, 450ft of row of pinkeye crowder peas, so far. Still have to plant sweet potatoes, peanuts and okra. Will plant more peas an butter beans later in the summer for fall harvest.
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A garden may cost more, but you can’t buy anything at the store that tastes as good as food fresh from the garden. It’s not even close. I miss having a garden. I made the mistake of agreeing to buying a house with lots of trees in the backyard. The shade is nice, but eliminates the possibility of growing veggies.
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Trying 3 of these with different maters this year, no hoin’ goin on here 
Weather fishes, when it the hottest weather hits, be prepared to water a bunch. Tried them and wasn’t impressed, buckets like Rap has seems to do better.
Every things up, so far have had onions, broccoli, collards and Kale.
best sweep peas yet, be ready to pick in a week.
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This is my new garden. The old one was where that swing set is. I planted beets and turnips last weekend in January. Turnips are doing real well. Only about half the beets came up and they are growing slow. I really want to get spring garden in soon. We may be having a beet green salad soon.
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Looking good, jipride!
We had a swing set like that until a thunderstorm knocked down a tree in our backyard last week.
Everybody is fine including the dogs and chickens. No harm to the garden, either. That was our biggest tree and best source of shade. I’m thinking about planting a fruit tree of some sort in its place.
Earlier that morning I finished the install on my new rain barrel. I was hoping for a little rain that day to test it out, but I wasn’t expecting that strong of a storm would come through.
Anybody want to recommend a fruit tree that will do well in our climate? The only kind I don’t want is a pear tree. I’m thinking apple, plum, or peach.
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Peaches and plums grow real well around here, apples not so much. My favorite is the fig tree. That thing is loaded every year and I love fig preseves.
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Oh man that is no bueno Hoof! Glad no one was hurt. Were you able to fix any of the swing? We had a similar problem last June. This came down on the swimming pool my wife and daughter were playing in just minutes before it dropped. Pretty scary stuff.
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Hoof, what tigerfin said. I’ve tried and tried with apples but never had any success. Our climate is too warm… I guess.
The down side to plums are they will put up shoots all over and spread if you have smaller area. Try some Blueberries and use Miracle grow Acid loving fertilizer. The secret is to plant enough for you and the birds. They seem to really like Live Oak leaves as top cover, which release some tanic acid as they decompose.
Your beets look good, they have always been a slow grower for me and don’t like our hot summers. Try planting in September and pre-soak the seeds overnight before planting.
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jipride, no it crushed and creased lots of the plastic and broke a lot of the bolt holes. The swing bar got bent too. I saved the baby swings for the next swing set we buy. If that tree had fallen in either direction to the side of where it landed, it could have broken some windows, landed on the chicken coop, or broken the fence. The swing set was one we got off of Craigslist for $50. I’ll get another deal like that soon.
Fred, I’ve been wanting to plant blueberries for a long time, but I need something that’s going to grow somewhat high for a little shade too. My brother has a male and female tree just a few houses down my street, so I’m thinking a female peach tree might work for me. I’m going to do some more research before I make a decision. Thanks for the advice. 
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I finally got my garden planted this past week. I was afraid to plant too early because it has been so cool and a new boat has been getting the way . I cut back this year, though. 32 tomato plants (split up among 6 varieties), 2 20’ rows of crookneck, 2 20’ rows of zucchini, 10’ trellis of cukes, and 4 bell pepper plants. No sweet corn this year because my friend is planting ~2 acres of Ambrosia so I’ll have all that I can want or need. The rest will have to come from the farmer’s market.
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Man ji that’s an intense pic of that fallen tree. I have some HUGE trees in my back yard. Big fear of mine… Veggies are lookin good though
Ill post some pics of my garden soon. Been happy with the growth so far
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Mmmm…turnips. Nice looking purple tops.
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Hoof, ever been to Champney’s blueberry farm on 17 just past red top? they have great picking, and sell their plants too. some real tall rows there and i imagine they’d be taller if folks brought stepladders with them to pick! now that we own a place, the lime tree needs to go in the ground, and i want some blueberry bushes too.
this 7yr old plant was the offspring of one from georgetown, fruited for the first time last fall
I grew pineapples for years. Very cool plants. Never got to the fruit stage. This pic makes me want to try again.
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Originally posted by northchuckyMan ji that’s an intense pic of that fallen tree. I have some HUGE trees in my back yard. Big fear of mine… Veggies are lookin good though
Ill post some pics of my garden soon. Been happy with the growth so far
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Pretty scary stuff. Just days after that came down the rest of it started going. We had to take the whole tree down.
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Originally posted by barbawangHoof, ever been to Champney’s blueberry farm on 17 just past red top? they have great picking, and sell their plants too. some real tall rows there and i imagine they’d be taller if folks brought stepladders with them to pick! now that we own a place, the lime tree needs to go in the ground, and i want some blueberry bushes too.
this 7yr old plant was the offspring of one from georgetown, fruited for the first time last fall
You grew a pineapple in Charleston? I had no idea that was possible. Now I’m curious to try – any tips?
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Originally posted by SirSpear You grew a pineapple in Charleston? I had no idea that was possible. Now I'm curious to try -- any tips?
yeah, tons of em- and sharp too!
sorry, couldn’t resist SS… these were started as tops off other fruits grown in SC. they like neglect and tons of sunshine, water them but not too often. winter (anything below 40-45 for any period of time) is the hard part, giving them a sunny window inside is best in my case, but supplemental light is often the only thing that keeps them from dying back. i left mine outside too long through a couple hard frosts and that’s probably why it took 7 years to fruit. buddy took one of the same stock to columbia for 2 years where it was ailing, then moved to tampa and it fruited in the first year there. try it- they’re low maintenance if nothing else!