Brown Thumb
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Potatoes are so cheap I never figured it was worth the hassle.
How many potatoes can you get out of a bale
I might give tis a try.
How many potatoes can you get out of a bale
I might give tis a try.
let's see your veggie garden {pics}
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Smokin Harley
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Not sure yet BT. Haven't grown taters in a few years, this is my first try at SBG (straw bale gardening). Good ,bad or indifferent- I'll post at harvest time.
ChinaVoodoo
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Potatoes are so cheap I never figured it was worth the hassle.
How many potatoes can you get out of a bale
I might give tis a try.
Potatoes, like much other produce, tastes better when it's homegrown. Someone brought the price point up with me once. I've considered it, and I'm sure it's worth it. My potatoes are good.
Gavroche
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I crashed seeds of potatoes, nothing, I threw(cast) the rest in my tub to kitchen waste (my fertilizer stamping machine(composter)) that grows incredible..
ChinaVoodoo
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Are you supposed to pick off the flowers from potato plants?
squeezyjohn
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I've never done it and I can't believe I'd get a bigger crop if I did. Potatoes naturally divert most of their energy in to making tubers and rarely set much in the way of fruit ... however you can grow different varieties together and save the seeds from the small green fruits if they do set to try and create your own hybrid potatoes.
squeezyjohn
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The key to really tasty new potatoes is how fresh you can eat them if you grown them yourself ... cooked within hours of picking there is no bigger delicacy in the vegetable world ... I think it's on a par with fresh sweetcorn and fresh asparagus.
That's what all the books say. I've done it both ways and there is no difference
ChinaVoodoo
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I saved seed one time. That year i grew three different types, but the resulting potatoes from the seed the following year didn't seem to be a hybrid. I imagine you need to be very intentional about crossing potatoes.
The fruits are pretty neat.
Starting potato from seed must require either a very early start or two full years. I only got very tiny ones from them.
squeezyjohn
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It takes 2 years normally ... you get micro tubers the first year which you save and re-plant to give you some bigger ones ... only in the 3rd year will you get a full sized plant. I think relying on insect pollination is insufficient to get decent crossing and you have to do it by hand.
Like tobacco, potatoes are mostly self-pollinated. So crossing would need to be done manually.
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Here is a photo of my front yard. In the foreground is my Nicotiana alata, orientals and half of my Costello. Behind that is the garden boxes my nephew and I built. Further still is my potato and onion hill.
In the back, I have my first attempt at mushroom logs. No oak available around here. I'm making due. Nothing fruiting yet. I have lions mane, shiitake, an oyster that grows on conifer and an oyster that grows on hardwood.
There's tomatoes and peas in the back yard also. Not shown are the new fruit vines, trees and shrubs- grapes, kiwi, sea buckthorn, blueberries, and apricot, oh, and strawberries, pumpkin, zucchini.
In the back, I have my first attempt at mushroom logs. No oak available around here. I'm making due. Nothing fruiting yet. I have lions mane, shiitake, an oyster that grows on conifer and an oyster that grows on hardwood.
There's tomatoes and peas in the back yard also. Not shown are the new fruit vines, trees and shrubs- grapes, kiwi, sea buckthorn, blueberries, and apricot, oh, and strawberries, pumpkin, zucchini.
Very nice.
Bob
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Have you looked into growing mushroomsous in another medium besides a log.?
Its explained how on a mushroomsous site using a wide mouth Mason jar..brown rice flour..and a long hyperdermic needle to colonize the medium with.
And yes I've grown some shrooms before..but not the type.you put on a pizza
Its explained how on a mushroomsous site using a wide mouth Mason jar..brown rice flour..and a long hyperdermic needle to colonize the medium with.
And yes I've grown some shrooms before..but not the type.you put on a pizza
ChinaVoodoo
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Growing on media like that requires sterile environments. I'm not into growing in boxes or jars. You can't just use sawdust out in the open because it'd get colonized by a million other things. After hammering in an inoculated dowel, these fungi take time to colonize logs and eventually fruit as they would in nature.
Smokin Harley
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Corn and okra
Broccoli trying to make a comeback after the rabbits took it as a salad buffet. Thats a cabbage next to them. Rabbits won't touch it. Tomatoes full of blooms and green tomatoes some the size of tennis balls. Next time I plant broccoli I need to plant mint closer to it. The beans which usually get mowed down within days of sprouting leaves haven't been touched,mint only a few feet away.
Cabbage looking good. front one had wilted outer leaves after the scorching heat,those dead leaves are pulled ,just acting as a weed barrier now.
Zucchini doing wonderfully. Picked 2 nice torpedoes off it so far.
Smokin Harley
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Workhorse...have you tried growing the Baby Bubba okra yet? same or better yield as Clemson Spineless, less plant.
True..but if you'd like to have a huge crop of shrooms..doing it my way is a guarantee sucess..i grew them on a bed of permitte in a plastic Tote with grow lights..
Do you use spores for your shrooms. And colonize your medium with them ?
ChinaVoodoo
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No. You buy these dowels that are maybe 3/16" diameter and an inch long. They have been inoculated already. You just have to drill holes in an appropriate log and hammer them in. It's way less involved or specialized than what you were doing. And it only works with species that grow on wood. What you were doing, you can grow a greater number of species, for sure.
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