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Lost my 10 tomato and pepper plants, first year the frost got em. Looks like I need to find store bought.
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Tough luck. Happened to me last year. No frost in the forecast, but they got hammered the second night after I put them in. Luckily, I had a few left inside and my cousin hooked me up with a few of his spares.
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06-01-2021, 05:33 PM
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Planting garden
We used to plant certain seeds in the fall after the temperature dropped enough that the seeds would not sprout. If they sprouted then they would die in the winter. I think we planted onion sets, garlic, peas. radish,carrots,turnip and I can`t remember what else. Similar to how wild plants work.
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06-04-2021, 05:50 PM
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Everything seems to have made it threw the snow.   
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06-06-2021, 01:26 PM
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Less than a week later:
And damn near all of them are going now!
The strawberries also decided to give them a run for being first harvest:
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06-07-2021, 09:12 PM
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Lo of 3c here tonight in Calgary,really getting sick of moving everything.Cold frames are OK for the veggies its all the wife's begonias etc.That gotta go into the garage.
Lets hope this is the last sub 5c night.
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06-11-2021, 09:08 AM
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where am I going wrong???
maybe need to try a different fertilizer?
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06-14-2021, 05:40 AM
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The heat is making things grow and ripen  
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06-14-2021, 05:52 PM
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Potato wilting hot today,everything of mine is so far behind ill be harvesting frozen veggies ha.
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06-14-2021, 10:15 PM
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Potato wilting hot today,everything of mine is so far behind ill be harvesting frozen veggies ha.
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They will catch up. 
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06-14-2021, 10:33 PM
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I just filled a couple buckets of weeds and mounded my potatoes.
When weeding the potato’s I found someone dug up one of the mounds to get to a bunch of perch.
So... now my two skunk traps are set with dead perch chunks.
Man I need to buy a trail cam.
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06-21-2021, 10:31 PM
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Anyone use clean wood ash in their garden or compost?
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06-21-2021, 11:30 PM
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A first for me!!
Yep, those are garlic scapes forming. On the first of June?? WTH??
They've topped four feet already, and have a nice average diameter:
But I've never even heard of scapes being developed this early, ever.
Methinks that signals we are in for a somewhat early harvest.
Hope the weather stays warm...
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So I planted garlic late. Had some old Cloves in the fridge. They have sprouted above ground. So now they won’t create edible garlic cloves until next year or will I have some in the Fall?
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06-22-2021, 07:48 AM
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Anyone use clean wood ash in their garden or compost?
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Good source of potassium,Ca and Mg.Will also bring pH up.Ive added it to compost but never directly to plants.
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06-22-2021, 08:37 AM
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Good source of potassium,Ca and Mg.Will also bring pH up.Ive added it to compost but never directly to plants.
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I've added wood ash for years, now my PH is a TOO high and I'm trying to get it down. It's a good idea to do a PH test before adding anything
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06-22-2021, 11:18 AM
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I've added wood ash for years, now my PH is a TOO high and I'm trying to get it down. It's a good idea to do a PH test before adding anything
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My ph is good or could use a little more sulphur.
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06-22-2021, 06:06 PM
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Potatoes are coming along. Just a few for supper
 
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06-22-2021, 07:10 PM
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Potatoes are coming along. Just a few for supper
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Very nice. My plants are looking good.
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My ph is good or could use a little more sulphur.
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If you ph is good then you can add directly to soil, but not too much. Also keep it away from spuds, it promotes scab fungus.
Dont add ash from news paper burning - it has r3sidual chemicals you dont want in your soil.
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06-22-2021, 07:32 PM
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I built a greenhouse this year and finding that the tomotoes are doing much better. Also i have put my cucumbers in hanging baskets and they seem to like it. I read that the cukes grow straighter if they hang vertically and they tak3 up less space. If i can figure out how to post a picture i will add.
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06-23-2021, 08:58 AM
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A bumper crop of strawberries. Strawberrie jam on the way. 
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06-23-2021, 03:19 PM
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Does anyone add anything to their soil after their potatoes have sprouted and /or when mounding them? I’d like to know if there is something that I should be doing to increase my harvest and/or increase the size of the potatoes. I grow mine in tires and only water once a week and mound them when it’s time.
Would adding blood meal to the soil that I use to mound them help accomplish that?
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06-23-2021, 03:50 PM
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Isn't blood meal mostly nitrogen so it would help grow bigger tops but I don't know if that would translate to more potatoes or just bigger tops. But this is my first year of conventional gardening.
For me I rented a plot just out of town the potatos onions and beans are going ok, along with the cabbage and pumpkin I transplanted last week, but I probably lost one of the pumpkin.
None of my carrots beets or cucumbers sprouted so I have replanted them and I am making sure that I am out watering at least every second day especially with next week's heat.
In the yard it looks like I will get some haskap berries soon. I even got a berry or two on last years new additions.
I should get a reasonable amount of cherries but that cold snap may have messed the pollination so rather than having more than I can use I will get some for a batch or two of jam, but time will tell.
Most of the raspberries I planted last year did not return but the ones that did are already throwing suckers so another year or two for those.
I was pleasantly surprised by how many of my strawberries survived me pulling the landscape fabric out of the beds. Now without the fabric messing up the runners I should get the beds properly ground covered with strawberries.
This years grow of that other plant is going ok but the new pup has developed a hate on for one pot and keeps digging out the seedling from that one pot.
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06-23-2021, 06:41 PM
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Does anyone add anything to their soil after their potatoes have sprouted and /or when mounding them? I’d like to know if there is something that I should be doing to increase my harvest and/or increase the size of the potatoes. I grow mine in tires and only water once a week and mound them when it’s time.
Would adding blood meal to the soil that I use to mound them help accomplish that?
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No,potatoes like all root vegetables like more P and K.Blood meal is 10-0-0 ish,you want more of a 5-10-10.Blood meal will also attract dogs/yotes to dig.
Bone meal would be a better choice,but organic means you fertilize for next year so maybe to late to get it to break down for this year.Some water soluble stuff would kick them into high gear the quickest.
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So I planted garlic late. Had some old Cloves in the fridge. They have sprouted above ground. So now they won’t create edible garlic cloves until next year or will I have some in the Fall?
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Plant those right now.
They will be somewhat late, but serviceable.
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06-23-2021, 11:47 PM
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Plant those right now.
They will be somewhat late, but serviceable.
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Done. Some are growing up already. I read that the leaves can be cooked like chives for a mild garlic flavour.
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Lots of heat and sun coming. Hopefully no thunderstorms.
I’m thinking watering morning and night with some fertilizer and heat should really make the garden grow
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Heat Coming
We had +37 in the Hat a couple weeks ago, It scalded the spinach and beet leaves and made the lettuce bolt and go to seed
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06-25-2021, 08:57 AM
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We had +37 in the Hat a couple weeks ago, It scalded the spinach and beet leaves and made the lettuce bolt and go to seed
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Yikes. Maybe I need to buy more shade cover.
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We pulled all the radishes and planted a second crop. Wifey made pickled radishes for the first time , very tasty!
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Its been a good year so far. Asparagus has been amazing, tomato/carrots/peas are coming along. We had an issue with rodents in horticulture mounds last couple years. Started transplanting snakes in to them and its been great. No more rodents.
We now have way more haskaps than the 6 of us can eat, guna start drying them, saskatoons bushes are full, going to get my first cherries this year, apple grafts are taking good, did have some die back on some of last years grafts, and my pear on Saskatoon grafts, but no die back on appricot grafts. Looking forward to next year, hope some of these fruit trees get in to production 
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