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You're going to be drowning in zucchini. I hope you have lots of friends to share it with. Good for you though, looks like fun 
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Chili powder shouldn't hurt the earth in your garden. It's just organic material. It only affects us the way it does because of the chemistry of our mouths and taste buds. Alternatively you could put a mesh cage around your plants since it's just on a porch. Small enough to keep the tree rat out, but big enough that it won't block the sun.
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Mar 31, 2009 21:27
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ChaoticSeven posted:Zucchini, The Beginning 4 days from now this picture will be wall to wall vegetable.
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Apr 1, 2009 23:56
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They might be fruit flies, do you have any food laying around that they could be eating?
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Apr 14, 2009 16:25
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Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you had cheetos laying about in the carpet, I meant like a bowl on the counter with apples and bananas in it. Hmm, do you have room to build a little tent of screen material over the planters? Maybe if you isolate them as a habitat it might be easier to find out where the bugs are coming from.
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Apr 14, 2009 16:32
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I bought 2 kilos of white clover seeds. 40 loving dollars. The lady at the garden centre said it will only do about 1000 sqft on its own, but if I plant some grass first, wait a few weeks, and then plant the clover, the seed will go a lot farther. Anyone had any experience with that?
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Apr 30, 2009 04:12
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I am. Grass is terrible stuff, I want the clover because it doesn't grow too high and it will feed bees.
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Apr 30, 2009 05:02
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I have the grass seed too, I just wanted to know if the advice the lady gave me was sound  So you would say seed them at the same time then?
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Apr 30, 2009 05:22
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Good idea. My acreage is basically going to be a giant experimental farm.
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Apr 30, 2009 06:12
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Tequila Mockingbird posted:I live in Calgary. They make really inexpensive wire trellises that stick right in the ground for sweet peas. It's fun to watch them climb up the wall all year.
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May 11, 2009 02:28
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Tequila Mockingbird posted:Do you live down in the states? Up in Calgary we aren't supposed to plant until this weekend because frost is usually done.. but wouldn't you know it, forecast says mixed rain and snow for tomorrow now and it's looking like next weekend would've been the best time to plant. Oh good, I didn't miss the planting weekend then. Maybe I can get something done when I get home now 
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May 17, 2009 19:59
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It's going to be a shock to return to Calgary after two weeks of this:
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May 17, 2009 22:24
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ChaoticSeven posted:Maybe a canning thread with recipes or what not would be good here or in Goons with Spoons. Please do it here. Canning is usually a self-sufficiency thing and that falls pretty well 100% under DIY.
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Jun 22, 2009 05:16
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Just put it in the microwave. Or that "put it in a jar and let it starve surrounded by food" idea was great too.
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Jun 29, 2009 03:03
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Raspberries are basically a weed here. You almost have to salt the earth surrounding them to try and curb their expansion throughout the yard.
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Jul 13, 2009 23:11
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Anubis posted:If everyone in America planted a dozen hills of zucchini world hunger might just be defeated. Although, I think it might hurt international relations when we dump a cargo ship of zucchini in a Canadian harbor and run away, in the middle of the night. We're perfectly capable of growing retardedly huge amounts of zucchini ourselves.  Go dump it somewhere else, like Australia. Unless you bake it into cake first, then we'll take it.
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Jul 30, 2009 18:02
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madlilnerd posted:Behold! The fruits of my labour! What are you on about, beets are delicious. If you don't like them boiled, then you should pickle them or something. They're pretty good.
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Sep 4, 2009 00:10
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You guys all busy harvesting or something? Let's see some more gardening pictures god dammit 
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Oct 1, 2009 23:31
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Nice stuff Jovial, looks like the family had a fun time
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Oct 2, 2009 04:23
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My office is on a big green kick lately and wants to start collecting compost from the kitchens. We produce an awful lot of coffee grounds and other material and I would love to collect that and set it to work. Problem is, those blue bins kinda suck for collecting that poo poo. Bags are no good (wasteful, plastic sucks, pain to clean if you want to re-use them) so I'd like to have a smooth-lined plastic bin, enameled bucket, or a stainless steel bin with a lid that I could collect it all in. I'm having trouble finding one big enough to handle the waste, small enough to carry by myself every night after work, and sturdy enough to last for a few years. I've seen those little 4 litre kitchen ones which is the same theme as what I'd like, just bigger. Wheeled stainless bins would be ok too, but I can't find those anywhere. Do you guys have any suggestions?
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Dec 10, 2009 01:12
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Kilersquirrel posted:A nice diaper pail could be your solution. If it can hold back the stench of aging baby poo, it should do the trick for compost. Some of them even have holders for baking soda/charcoal stink-reducers. That's a great idea! Thank you!
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Dec 15, 2009 17:38
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Where do you guys order your seeds from? Or do you re-grow your own every year? I got half an acre I want to plant...
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Jan 25, 2010 20:45
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Zeta Taskforce posted:Half an acre? What is your goal with all of that? To grow as many vegetables and chickens as I can look after to feed myself / friends. It's pretty bald prairie:  That lump of dirt is backfill once they finish building my house. I live in dry Alberta, so I don't expect to get a whole lot of veggies out of it. I'll water when I can, but I don't want to waste well water if I can avoid it, so I will definitely have giant plastic bins catching all the rainwater off the house and eventually the shop. The worst part is, the land lengthwise on an east/west orientation, that picture is looking east. So the garden area will get plenty of sun in the morning, but later in the evening the house (2 story) will block a fair bit of it. Luckily I'm far enough north that I get some pretty insanely long days in the summer, so maybe it will balance out, I dunno. In terms of row orientation, is east/west the way to go? Seems logical to me, all the plants of the same height will receive roughly the same amount of light. Thanks for the link, those varieties look pretty appealing to me
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Jan 25, 2010 22:38
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Thanks for the links guys, though I bought a shitload of stuff from superseeds yesterday. Veseys looks great, I wish I had known about them earlier. I'll probably try their stuff next year if these ones don't work out. Has anyone here used one of these earthway seeders? http://www.veseys.com/ca/en/store/tools/gardeningaids/earthway  I want to get something like that to do my garden with. I think I'll have everything I need to prep the rows. Buying a C-tine cultivator for the tractor tonight hopefully, I've got a disc harrow to smooth out the dirt the cultivator leaves behind, a chain harrow to flatten that out, and a goosefoot cultivator to keep weeds in check. My folks have an old poly water tank roller that ruptured a few years ago that I could probably have. I'd just patch up the crack with some steel and fill it with sand. Do you guys think it would be worth it, or is rolling the soil a waste of effort?
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Jan 26, 2010 18:03
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We've got a really nice 11hp troybuilt my parents bought 10 years ago when we moved onto their acreage. The thing is a cast-iron leviathan with electric start. They didn't know any better and got the type where the tines rotates the same as the tire direction. When working on unbroken, hard packed prairie ex-pasture, it didn't work all that well. We tried to prepare beds, and failed, for a year and a half with the troybuilt and eventually had to get a super-cheap sears branded counter rotating one to actually break the soil with. We promptly broke two of the sears ones in a four year span, but we knew that was going to happen, because, poo poo, the transmission was made of stamped steel plates. We picked sears because they had the best warranty so we could just drop it off and pick up a new one. Once the initial breakup was done, the troybuilt was great for keeping it tilled and working in the garden., though the gearbox does like to leak a bit of crankcase oil from time to time, which the dirt immediately sticks to and makes it difficult to keep clean. Also, we hit some large rocks buried in the dirt and broke the tine axles, easily fixed by the dealer. However, that said, I don't see any reason to have two tillers. If you're only going to get one good tiller, buy a counter-rotating one because it can do everything.
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Feb 4, 2010 18:30
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Zuph posted:Got my seeds from Fedco today. I think I might have over ordered a little. Most of this should last a couple years, at least, though. What's up, ordering-too-many-seeds buddy?  
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Feb 17, 2010 18:37
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How coarse is the soil on that Wonder Soil stuff? I've seen people take a sifter or a fine-screen sieve and run the top inch or so of earth from their potters through it so the topmost bit is really fine, and then plant the seeds in that. Apparently, it makes it easier for them to get the right combo of water, heat, and air if you just bottom water. I've never done it though, so this is all hearsay.
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Feb 24, 2010 18:48
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mischief posted:
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Mar 8, 2010 18:08
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I would be interested to know what kind of nutrient drain zucchinis are on the soil. If they get most of their material from the atmosphere, they might be a good candidate for a green manure crop. Anyone know?
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Mar 19, 2010 23:15
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madlilnerd posted:Of course, you have a Rotavator, so it probably wouldn't be too much of a problem for you. And if you had a few goats, this blog says that you can offload a harvested glut on them, and then would only have the plants to dig in. Well, actually, I didn't have a tiller. Until friday that is. 
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Mar 21, 2010 02:37
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Clover seed is loving expensive though. I do have a big bag of it, but nothing grows here during winter. Thanks for the advice though guys.
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Mar 21, 2010 03:17
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Got a used earthway for 60 bucks. Hot drat.
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Mar 25, 2010 03:27
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Cerri posted:I'm signed up as Cerri on myfolia...would there be interest in a Goons in Gardens group? No. Quit trying to make me join other forums. 
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Mar 26, 2010 20:32
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I have never seen a 29cc four cycle engine before. That's awesome that it was able to handle your clay.
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Apr 4, 2010 04:35
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Cage em quick, before the birds get at them.
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Apr 9, 2010 21:47
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Costello Jello posted:It wouldn't be so bad if birds would just eat a whole strawberry or tomato, instead of goring a hole in every single one. loving birds. OOH A SEED *stabs* OOH A SEED *stabs* OOH A BUG *flies off and leaves fruit to rot* *is a loving chickadee*
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Apr 10, 2010 00:18
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kid sinister posted:Around here we also have to worry about box turtles. Somehow they manage to get into my dad's raised beds. What? How do they get up there? Are you sure they're not orcs in disguise? 
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Apr 10, 2010 00:21
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Nice. Didn't even notice the change at first.
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Apr 10, 2010 07:17
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By "dispose of" you mean "incinerate" right? (I hope.)
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It snowed here again today. I hate you guys with your perfect climates
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