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  1. Al Smith

    Gardening 2012

    That link indicated they have margold tomato seeds .Rare to find these days . I usually just buy Burpees simpley because that's what's available . My tomato plants I set from seeds were potted just a little too late but they are starting to take off in the garden now .However just like last...
  2. Al Smith

    Gardening 2012

    It's all planted .I do need to install the soaker hoses yet then let nature take it's course .
  3. Al Smith

    Gardening 2012

    Wood ash does alkaline the soil . I had a dumbazz attack as few years back and forgot my high school chemistry and wood ashed the raised bed in hopes of raising the acidity . Really screwed it up big time .Lime has a tendency to neutralize the soil . I most generally add a few inchs of...
  4. Al Smith

    Gardening 2012

    Garlic will go to seed like an onion .It forms a little seed pod thing in the top of the stalk with little bitty garlic seeds .You can plant these if you like and they will grow . We've got some that just comes up every year in one of the flower beds .Whatever kind it is though the cloves are...
  5. Al Smith

    Gardening 2012

    Do what you want but as a general rule you are better off with any manure if it's had some time to compost .If not it will "burn " up whatever you put it on . The faster it decomposes in it's uncomposted state the "hotter" it is .Poultry is the hottest .Goat or sheep is probabley the best .Hogs...
  6. Al Smith

    Gardening 2012

    Anything will work .A piece of woven wire fence, couple pieces of rebar ,old section of ladder . Once in town the cucumber vine shot a runner behind all my tomatoes and up the corner of my garden shed .Damned thing gave birth to a pickle under the trim board and blew it right off the shed .
  7. Al Smith

    Gardening 2012

    Yeah I've had cucumbers on a trellis for years .Mine is just a wooden affair . I just got the cucumber seeds a few days ago so they must be planted in peat pots for later transplant to the raised bed .No sense setting plants around here until around mid to late May .
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