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I just buy most of my vegatables from wrights on 49, really dont have any spots that would get enough sunlight except the front yard,

don did you make the dove field into a garden???

bigwater wrote:don did you make the dove field into a garden???

I hear doves like okre and purple hull peas

duckers wrote:34 rows corn, 8 rows peas, 1 row okra, pintos, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, radishes, cabbages, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, cucumbers, squash, watermelon, cantelope. rows 150 feet long, approx. 2acres.

goin' to feed all of Dundee ???

Got mine started early already got mater's bigger than golf ball size planted around 1st week in april outside,pepper's are blooming eggplant and green bean's looking good.

Don Miller just planted all that stuff to try to be justified in requesting a deer depredation permit. We're on to him. The deer population is to high where he lives to grow a garden. He knows that and we know that. He duck hunts all deer season long and tries to make up for it by deer hunting all summer long

SB wrote:Don Miller just planted all that stuff to try to be justified in requesting a deer depredation permit. We're on to him. The deer population is to high where he lives to grow a garden. He knows that and we know that. He duck hunts all deer season long and tries to make up for it by deer hunting all summer long

I'm prolly gonna put up an electric fence to help with the deer problem. As far as deer go, I get no thrill out shooting them. On the other hand, if I start having mallard depredation, you can come on over and put the handcuffs on because I will be taking no prisoners.

Don and others, take good notes on your gardening experiences. I plan to start one next spring now that I have a place for one. I will likely need some good advice.

Thanks SB for the deer depredation permit idea.

As for doves, I had one of my best dove hunts ever over a large pea patch back in the 80s in Pontotoc County. The doves loved those leftover field peas from a "truck patch".

And speaking of depredating mallards, I have 2 right now inhabiting my one acre pond --- a male and female. While I am sure their immediate intent is procreation, I suspect that later they are plotting to depredate something on my property. I'm gonna keep a sharp eye on them.

26 tomato plants(i give lots away)many diff varieties
corn (g90)
watermelons (8 hills)
okra(buttload)
red, yellow, and green bell peppers
brusselsprouts(another buttload)
egg plants (long purple kind)
peas(purplehull)
zucchini
cucumbers
spaghetti squash
crookneck squash

in near future, more corn, and peanuts
and whatever kinda seeds i can get my hands on

8 tomatoes and 6 bell peppers. Perfect.

Saw my first litte mater on the vine yesterday!!

I've got a question about fertilizing peas and beans. I've had two different locals that have gardened for a long time tell me NOT to fertilize my purple hull peas and butter beans because it will cause them not to produce. Is this true? I don't know that it matters but I'm located in the hills of Grenada Co.

Peas and beans are legumes.......the produce their own N just like soybeans.

Timberjack and your neighbors are correct; peas and butterbeans make their own N. They will do better on poorer ground.

Last summer I planted about 30 acres of cow peas in the bottom of old catfish ponds. Out of 30 acres peas, they only produced about a hand full of pods. I did not get the first pea off them. I couldn't figure it out. The vines were dark green and robust. I called MSU about it. They told me the fish pond bottoms were probably to high in organic matter/natural fertilizer; that the plant would probably put all of its growth into vine rather than pods. They were right. All vine for me and not peas.

I figured the deer would eat their fair share of them, which would be OK too, so I put another pond between the woods and cowpeas to help me out some. Well, the deer never did get in the peas. I lost all the way around!

MemphisStockBroker wrote:I planted three weeks ago. Peppers are already producing, and all the seeds are up out of the ground. Tomatoes will need stakes in another week or so.

I normally try to get everything in the ground by Easter.

When you going out of town I'm hungry