Anyone doin veggies this year? Progress? 😁

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So, I decided to do some veggies in buckets on my porch this year. There’s an awful lot of critters round here that make growing in the ground difficult. I’ve had lots of experience with root veggies and rabbits/moles/etc eating stuff. I had rounded up some buckets and planted some different things. Few diffferent tomato variety’s, peppers, squash, cucumbers and such. Having them up on the porch means I can keep the deer off them and they do get a crazy amount of sun. Close by so waterings a breeze. The porch is pretty substantial, up on 6x6’s with concrete footers, so I’m not to worried about weight. Square footage is limited, but next year I think I’m gonna get a bunch more :grin: I was thinkin about lookin for some old horse or farm animal feeding troughs for said project and going hard with it next year. Regardless, having them so close by is making it easy to control the environment. Anyone on their way out the door can water them. :grin:

The squash are looking good, getting a bit too big for the bucket. Anywho, how bout yall? Anyone else doing veggies this year? If not, it’s a great time to get started what with groceries costing what they are. Plus, I’m having a lot of fun with it. Learning a bunch! For those who may be growing stuff, Pictures? How goes it? :grin:

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fwiw my buddy is growing lots of veggies, mostly gourds, cukes and ocra, but he planted a strawberry bush near them and all the critters go for the strawberries and leave the other stuff. maybe he’s onto something, maybe it’s a fluke or just correlation but i figured it worth mentioning :man_shrugging:

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I’ll have to try and remember to get a picture uploaded in here. My dad and I put together a little garden every year at his house. I think we have tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and a bunch of herbs this year. There’s something really cool about getting to eat fruits and veggies you watched grow for months lmao. It’s like unlocking a primitive reward system :person_bowing:

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No doubt! It’s nice to have an actual connection with your food, at least some of it anyways. It’s something we take for granted to be sure.

I’d love some pics when ya have a chance. Talking with others and learning their methods is a big part of it for me. :+1:

It’s really been a lot of fun. Watching them grow, watching flowers and fruit develop. :grin:

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Pole beans, bush beans, tomatoes, straw berries, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, squash and 50,000 zinnia seeds.

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so this is technically a veggie. i found some sprouting potatoes in the back of a cupboard in maybe january? they werent rotting so i kept them, thinking when the snow melted i’d try and put them into the ground. surprise, i completely forgot until like 2 weeks ago. i literally kicked em into the dirt not expecting anything but im seeing some pretty healthy looking shoots coming up now! im pretty impressed considering they were probably close to a year old

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Doing a few, tomatoes, onions, peppers, and asparagus. Oh, and some herbs.

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TL;DR: yes. :slight_smile:

In my garden: potatoes, tomatoes, butternuts, peas, corn, onions, carrots. Mrs. rEvolve has onions, cherry toms, joi choi, soybeans, green beans, broccoli, shallots, leeks, and a boatload of herbs.

Slowin’ down. Only 65 hills of potatoes this year. Not growing oats, barley, buckwheat, rye or wheat. Harvesting grains with a scythe-and-cradle, threshing on a treadle thresher…that’s a young person’s game.

Also not doing hay this year, again because slowing down. Did that the old-fashioned way with a scythe. Raked and fluffed by hand, carried in batches on a hay fork to be piled on a platform and covered with a tarp.

We also have an orchard: apples, pears, plums, peaches, apricots, cherries, cranberries, walnuts, filberts, almonds and Saskatoons. Also wild Saskatoons and chokecherry on the place; bears get the stuff up the hill, I get the stuff down the hill.

If it all comes in we’ll eat like kings.

rEvolve

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That’s impressive. :+1:
I used to have a 20x20 ft garden, but then the trees in my yard got too tall and started shading it. Tomatoes didn’t ripen until mid to late September so I gave it up. Had the usual mix of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, beans, radishes and carrots.

Tried pots on the patio a couple of years but the squirrels and the rabbits got the best of me. Now I rely on the local farmer roadside stands.

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This is our second summer in this, our first home that we bought. :blush:

We are right next to the woods. If you look aerial we are right at the edge of where the mountains meet the city. So we have herds of deer, squirrels in the high hundreds, rabbits, bobcats, coyotes, and even bears, and the yard is shaded by the most massive oak you’ve ever seen in your life. We are giving it a go to see what works this year. I’ll get pics up soon.

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Awesome folks! Thanks for posting. Seems like lots of us are trying our luck this year! That’s great! I really like all the different methods, variety’s, and other nfo I’m gettin.

This is a random shot of one side of my yard. Actually, you can see a deer in the upper left :grin: Just one of the many reasons I gotta do them in buckets up on my porch. There’s just to many critters on my property. After all, they gotta eat too. I look at it as my responsibility to grow my plants in a way where I’m not using chemical fert, repellant, or any adulterant’s. Back when I was a young teenager and I was growing.. vegetables back in a clearing in the woods, we would just urinate all around the area to deter them but that was predominantly for deer, and didn’t work very well anyhow. Chicken wire obviously doesn’t stop things underground and short of building some sort of large planters out in my yard, buckets will have to do. “If ya can’t buck it…” :wink:

Anyways, once harvest time comes show us how ya did! Annnnd progress pictures are always cool. Watching how they grows one of the best parts :hugs::hugs::hugs:

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Yup. Here’s a portion of what we’re up against. The video is from last year. I’ve not seen fawns yet this year. Only bucks actually. They got our first little experiment last night. Made a small terraced planter in the front. Imgur: The magic of the Internet

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Awesome Steve! That’s a good lookin planter there. Gotta get some chicken wire round it. :+1:

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But… it wasn’t chickens that got in there…:nerd_face:

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Sorry to hear that. June 1 is the start of fawning season around here (North Thompson, BC) so we’re seeing a few. We leave our back fence gate open so the does can come in and fawn. It’s a safe space for them, lots of forage and water, fences to keep out coyotes and one very cranky old man who can step in to restore the peace. :slight_smile:

Around our gardens and orchard we put 10-foot wildlife exclusion fences years ago. They work but DANG that was a lot of money. Deer are the usual thing, but we also get bears and the fences keep them out, too.

rEvolve

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I grow super hot peppers every year. This is the first flower on my Pockmark Cream.

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There you are!!

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Mrs. rEvolve went down to the orchard this morning and picked fresh Montmorency tart cherries. Then she came back up to the house and made clafouti with them. I have pledged my undying love for this. :slight_smile:

Shortly, once the sun’s below the ridge to the west, we’ll go get the rest of them. The birds watch them as close as we do. Saskatoons are on a week early, too, so I’ll be grabbing more of them tonight to help us get through the winter.

Veggies coming along. Worked this afternoon setting up watering systems. Everything looks good but the potato beetles are waking up. Pick 'em and smoosh 'em for the next couple of weeks. Garden life, y’all.

rEvolve

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Here’s the first baby this year.

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BEHOLD! The fruits of my labor! Honestly though, feels like they did most of the hard work. :grin:

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The cucumber I think I’m just gonna chill it, slice it, salt it, an eat it. However I’ve never really cooked zucchini squash before. Anyone have any good recommendations? I was thinkin bout just tossin em in oil an SP and broilin em. Not real Sure bout temp, 425 maybe? Maybe parm cheese too?

I dunno, whaddya do with em? :grin:

*clementine for scale

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