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My Veggie seedlings this year.

Sweet Peepers, Red Onion and Leeks Tomatoes, pole and bush Beans and Squashes: cucumbers, zucchini, cantaloupe, yellow, butternut and more.

Again, As usual. I am not growing any more tomatoes for the deer herd sleeps in my yard anymore. Seriously, though I complain a lot. I have every year gotten 1 tomato. So deer can be somewhat considerate. Considering.

I traded for some more fence so I'm going to try one more time before I give up. Last year I tried to get my easy and use wire as a gate.

Duh....

Hey... experiments!

Don't always succeed.

Also. A very unusual cold spell came in late this morning. Frosted so any early tomato plants were in danger. Grandpa always said. "Don't plant till May 15th." spit baccy. Then he'd lift up his leg and fart a long practiced one and say, "Now thats a fizzle boys."

He was a mountain man and proud of his farts. Bragging rights amongst his coon hunting buddys.

But then he lived in the mountains so until now. I live in the flatlands. I thought here that date didn't count. So just goes to show you.

You know what they say.

I give My tithe to particularly nasty grey squirrel. he cut the 2 of my tomato plants down last year, chomped the stem. then hitting up some green tomatoes, he also has penchant for young bean shoots, reducing their production. That is why i double down on the planting, one for the animals and bad luck, the other for me.
The birds take their share of apples and plums. the deer are keep at bay with a fence

Funny, May 15 IS my planned planting date. Like right now, when i get off the machine here i'll be starting, beans first, then canna, then the rest of the mess.

Cabbage, leeks and a couple of daily harvests, So far zucchinis, bush beans and cabbage and herbs.
Temps are in 100F plus now for a week, at least another 5 days of it. The dogs don't like it, but the garden is loving it.

courgettes* look good

thats zucchini for the americans lol

I've wonder why the two different names for the same plant. I do know it, as most squashes, are native to the Americas.

maybe the brits like French cuisine and yanks like Italian cooking better?

But zucchini is the correct one.

Origin
1930s: from French, diminutive of courge ‘gourd’, from Latin cucurbita.

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Intrinsic wrote:I've wonder why the two different names for the same plant. I do know it, as most squashes, are native to the Americas.

maybe the brits like French cuisine and yanks like Italian cooking better?

the most popular foods in UK are indian/pakistani food , curries, biryanis etc and then its usually chinese!!!

i cant remember the last time i saw a french restaurant, in my area indian/pakistani food is the most popular back to back fast food places....

i guess 200 years of the british empire in india helped a little !!!

French restaurants aren't all that easy to find in France anymore. Easy to find some Pad Thai, a cheeseburger, kebab or a pizza though.

Mild red chili pepper Green chilies Glacier Tomato just loaded after not picking anything for a week while in Utah. Beef steak toms. Whoo-Hoo!

the tomatoes look great,, must be a few kilos

gonna try these next march, flower is attractive and they are heirloom variety !!


Pea Seeds - Blauwschokker

Blauwschokker! the name is interesting enough. looks yummy!
I like to see how they go, but it 'll have to be after the fact, won't be around next summer. gonna close the garden and go on another walk-about, dreaming about fresh veggies

I'm growing Acid and some old-school Sensi Star. Actually, it's not old-school as they are feminised (so obviously not the same as the originals).

This is my first grow in three years. I made some LED lights to veg under in a small tent. I'm building some bigger LEDs for my flowering tent. I decided to try out a bit of modern tech to see how it compared against the old HPS vertical set-up. I'm planning to go vertical with my LEDs, too, but for now it's just an orthodox horizontal grow.

Here they are just over three weeks (Acid) and two weeks (Sensi Star). The two Sensi Stars are the plants bang in the middle, side-by-side. They're outgrowing the Acid. It's coming up summer here, so I thought I'd grow some indicas so I don't have to worry about mold or heat-induced stretch that can be an issue with sativas when the weather warms up. The LEDs throw off very little heat, and so far I am pretty impressed. The above set-up is just an alloy frame I made with 40x25x3mm U-channel, about 345w of 5000K Samsung LED strips, and a 240w adjustable Mean Well driver that is currently running them at about 210w (about 65%). The driver can be overdriven to about 260w if I want, which would drive the LEDs at about 75%.

As you guys probably know, LEDs run more efficiently if you underdrive them. The flowering lights will be similar to the above set-up but x2 in 3000K for a 4x2' space. Plants are just starting to get smelly.

Should be interesting. I just for the first time (knowingly, at any rate) bought some weed, an Amnesia Haze, that I knew to be both vegged and flowered completely under LEDs. It looked quite nice and even had good potency for the line, but the bud had a weird gummy texture and smoked kinda hard and funny too. i have no idea if the LEDs were the cause, but it might be something to look out for.

A lot of LED growers use 3000-4000K lights (hard to get decent 2000-2500K LED strips), so the buds seem to grow pretty tight with the extra blue. I've noticed my plants are growing pretty tight noded considering they are not getting hammered with high intensity light.

Also, most white/full spectrum LEDs have almost no UVA/UVB - unlike HIDs - so that might affect cannabinoid production. I guess I'll find out in a couple of months, as I've just switched to 12/12 under the veg light while I finish the flowering lights.

They look good enough to eat now in a salad.

i wish i could grow moringa tree in UK, the whole tree is edible including the roots and has lots of health benefits too, they grow wild in india and philipines !!!

the whole plant is edible: the roots as a horseradish substitute, the mustard-flavoured leaves, twigs and flowers raw in salads or cooked in curries

seen some moringa tree seeds, a dwarf plant/tree on ebay,

was gonna buy them but just left it for now. dunno if i can do the plant justice indoors in UK

espalier...

@ intrinsic, nice chillies.

And sorry my camera is refusing to hook up to the comp, so no pics of my 2 foot zucchinis or my 1k squash or my huge corn. This year/last week I lost most of my garden to blight. Both late and early. Sprayed it all with copper on the weekend and now just wait and see how many tom's there are that can be harvested.
I think my may cacti have been effected by the blight also, have managed to keep it away from the medicinal plants at this point.
It feels good to feed the family healthy food for the cost of seed fert and love.

RaroRangiReturns wrote: It feels good to feed the family healthy food for the cost of seed fert and love.

Ya know it Best heath insurance money can buy.

.4 types of chinese cabbage seeds to sow in mid may.. cant wait !!!!

Hey i grew a couple types of some napa cabbage last year. my first successful cabbage grow. when i go day hiking I like to use cabbage in sandwiches cause it doesn't wilt as lettuce does.

..and of coarse the napa was great steamed with salt and butter.

I guess what wouldn't taste good with enough crème and butter but I discovered lettuce soup a few years ago after googling recipe and then what was the content of my fridge at the time

I love cabbage
my grandma made it a number of way and one of my dreams is making sauerkraut

a lot of polish people eat sauerkraut, it has health benefits to

cant you grow these ben in you area??

my xmas cactus flowered in late feb...

aloe

how often do they flower dill?

helped a friend move this once
he had an extensive orchid collection and we strung ropes back and forth in the back of the rider truck and hung dozens of his orchid for the a couple hour drive

when we got there one had flowered and he exclaimed he had it for 10 years and it had never flower

figured the stress did it

they flower once a year around xmas time and then they go into hibernation..

yea it was probably the stress, you can stress the xmas cactus to flower by manipulating the water and light cycles

sowed my tomato and pumpkin seeds today in seedling pots, gonna sow more stuff tomorrow !!!

got my pumpkin, bitter gourd, tomato seedlings ready still indoor enjoying the hps light. gonna plant them all out in mid may....

veg patch needs weeding and i need to turn over the soil after it has been compacted all through late summer last year


i have to grow extra seedlings for grandma who lives right opposite me, shes an old woman who i chat to about gardening so every season i gave her all the veg seedlings that she needs......