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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 16, 2014 8:45:20 GMT -5
Welcome, MJC! I'm glad to see that you are already feeling at home and you've jumped right into the conversations!
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Post by stratcat on Apr 16, 2014 10:43:06 GMT -5
Hi there, MJC. Welcome!
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 16, 2014 11:02:08 GMT -5
Gee...for some reason, I never knew about here, before. I just found about it last night. But there are quite a number of familiar faces here, so it feels like home, already. Well howdydo mjc26250, glad you found us and that you feel right at home here, that's the feeling we want all to feel here... If you don't mind me asking, how did you find us, and wouldn't be against you inviting friends...
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Post by mjc26250 on Apr 16, 2014 11:11:41 GMT -5
Spacecase0 told me about here...
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 18, 2014 9:54:02 GMT -5
Spacecase0 told me about here... Thank you spacecase0, tell more people about us... lol, wait... if everyone here told someone about us, then they told someone else, we would grow as a vegetable gardening forum... right?
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Post by timothyt on Apr 18, 2014 13:25:42 GMT -5
Hey MJC !
Delighted to see you joined us and jumped right in! Have always enjoyed your knowledge and sharing elsewhere in the past. You've had quite a winter up there in WV this time around, eh?
TimothyT/PrudensPurple
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 16:19:42 GMT -5
Hi everyone! I'm hailing you from Kansas. I've been gardening for as long as I can remember. Nice to find a forum where I can share my gardening woes and joys.
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Post by daylilydude on May 30, 2014 16:28:01 GMT -5
Welcome @growmyown to our growing gardening forum, just prop your feet up and jump in any where you like and tell us about your gardening woes and joys...
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Post by bestofour on May 30, 2014 21:18:51 GMT -5
Hi growmyown. Tell us about your garden.
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Post by stratcat on May 30, 2014 22:00:20 GMT -5
Hi there, growmyown. Welcome to NJT. What do you like to grow?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 17:00:34 GMT -5
I'm currently growing my garden in containers. I have loads of assorted squash and melon blossom at this time. Some of my peppers and chilies are blooming. I have Sweet Million tomatoes ripening and lots of blossoms on several other varieties. I'm using companion gardening to repel pests and eggshells for slugs. So far my garden looks wonderful. I saw tower gardening on you tube and am trying that for the first time. I'll be setting up a wall garden in the living room. For that, I'll focus on shade loving edibles like hosta, lettuce, endive, kale and some fragrant mints, nasturtiums, marigolds, violas and pansies for pest control and salad yums. My new neighbors have shown enthusiasm for very large variety of unusuals in my garden so we've worked out sharing agreements. I have lots of herbs, fruits, vegetables and trees that my neighbors haven't seen before. Great way to start conversations.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 17:12:52 GMT -5
I am from north central Indiana and I am looking forward to learning new things on this forum. I have been gardening for over 30 years and I just love growing anything. I have no particular favourite thing to grow but I am found of miniature roses and tomatoes. Probably a lot of peoples favorites. I do love rescuing plants and finding long lost plants on abandoned farms or where old houses used to be. I enjoy taking cuttings and growing plants from seed. This year I am going to try growing alpine strawberrys from seed. Also I am helping my oldest son with his first bee hive. Thanks ZigTzig My hubby's family lives near Indianapolis. Not sure if you know, but roses and tomatoes make good companions. I too enjoy rescuing plants. Local nurseries give me the plants they believe they can't salvage. I'm teaching my son and hubby how to grow plants from cuttings and taught my son the art of grafting last year. He was excited to see that some of his grafts on the crabapple tree are blooming. I am lacking a beehive. Since I want to experiment with floral flavored honey, I'll have to get my men to find me some salvaged materials to make a hive. Welcome and great to meet you!
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Post by elliemater on Jun 21, 2014 16:09:50 GMT -5
Hi everyone, I hope you don't mind if I join this beautiful and diverse forum. Some of you I know from another forum and it sure is good to see familiar "faces." Daylilydude told me about this place and held the door open (a gentlemanly thing to do, thank you!).
I garden in Florida, just east of Pensacola. It is an interesting place to grow things. In one of the historical tours given downtown, the tour guide explains how the early Spaniard explorers nearly starved when trying to colonize this area...the sandy, acid soil was so poor and the conditions so harsh. Things have only gotten more interesting since then with imported insects (brown marmorated stinkbug) and diseases (TSWV, bacterial wilt etc). I tell you what though, it really makes things even more rewarding when I do harvest that lovely zucchini or "mess" of beans or sweet tomato.
It will be so nice to meet the rest of you and to greet again my friends here.
PS. Yes, Daylilydude, I can give you a whoop whoop!
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Post by daylilydude on Jun 21, 2014 20:18:28 GMT -5
Welcome elliemater, I'm glad you joined our little gardening forum... make yourself at home here, take your shoes off, prop your feet up and jump in anywhere you like...
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Post by stratcat on Jun 21, 2014 21:50:38 GMT -5
Hi there, elliemater. Welcome to NJT!
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Post by elliemater on Jun 22, 2014 7:19:59 GMT -5
Thank you!
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Post by timothyt on Jun 22, 2014 13:49:04 GMT -5
Well looky, looky, Miss Ellie is here! Cool beans! Welcome and glad you joined us! Look forward to your enthusiastic and well informed posts!
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Post by elliemater on Jun 22, 2014 14:47:33 GMT -5
timothyt Miss Ellie. I sound like the Grandma on Dallas.
Hahahaha! When I saw that you post here I was so very happy to join. Anywhere you are is a good place to be. (Except near the sumac!)
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Post by timothyt on Jun 22, 2014 14:54:39 GMT -5
Well then, How about Young Dr. Miss Ellie May! <grin> Not even smoked and sauteed sumac?
PS: love your tagline by Duncan Hines!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 23, 2014 11:41:45 GMT -5
Welcome, Ellie!
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Post by joep on Jun 28, 2014 18:17:27 GMT -5
New member from Missouri. Basic gardening at home, try to manage community garden at church, and work in sustainable food production in Haiti to help folks do a better job at feeding themselves. So if you have ideas for crops that will grow in poor rocky soil with too much sun and not enough rain let me know. One of our methods is building shade houses to concentrate resources and block sun and UV rays.
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Post by elliemater on Jun 28, 2014 19:11:51 GMT -5
New member from Missouri. Basic gardening at home, try to manage community garden at church, and work in sustainable food production in Haiti to help folks do a better job at feeding themselves. So if you have ideas for crops that will grow in poor rocky soil with too much sun and not enough rain let me know. One of our methods is building shade houses to concentrate resources and block sun and UV rays. Welcome joep!
Tepary beans grow in the hot and dry US southwest...an old bean from the native peoples. Being legumes, they also might leave the soil better than they found it. They are reportedly one of the healthiest beans there is.
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Post by stratcat on Jun 28, 2014 23:55:41 GMT -5
Hi there, joep! Welcome to NJT.
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Post by daylilydude on Jun 29, 2014 5:03:34 GMT -5
Howdy joep, Welcome to our vegetable gardening forum... just make yourself at home here, pull your shoes off... prop up your feet... and jump in anywhere you like and tell us all about your gardening adventures.
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Post by elliemater on Jun 29, 2014 8:19:48 GMT -5
joep And also an Australian pea called Dundale, reportedly does well in hot and dry locations with poor soil (again, being a legume, can help to improve the soil).
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Post by joep on Jun 29, 2014 11:05:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip on the beans and peas. Beans and rice being the staple in the Haitian diet, a good growing bean or pea is quite valuable.
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Post by kctomato on Jun 29, 2014 12:47:00 GMT -5
Welcome joep
I havent been to Haiti but have some other friends, through missionary work, that have spent quite a bit of time there.
They found it difficult to adapt/introduce new crops. Mostly because the people there did not show enough interest in adapting to the change. So they found it best to work with what they already used and try to research/introduce new lines or other methods to help production. From several talks I got something that may help would be to introduce and try to find better adapted varieties (which still doesnt mean people there will accept them for a number of reasons).
I dont recall the specific crop they mentioned but it seems like they were working mostly with root crops. I do recall beans because my thinking was to try to develop a rotation with the beans to build soil fertility. But that is tough to do in tropical climates because of heat and rain. There also seem to be a learning curve on "seasons" for growing there.
Just some things I thought about after reading. There are some Tropical Gene banks groups that are likely familiar or already doing some work there. I would suggest connecting with them and maybe you could work/or acquire material through them.
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Post by joep on Jun 30, 2014 10:09:31 GMT -5
yes, change comes slowly. We did find that mustard and collards were accepted pretty well. They cook a dish called Legim with all sorts of greens. They also like the tough leaves on cabbage. It turns out sort of like southern greens. We found the cabbage, Golden Acre, to work out really well since it only takes about 60 dayes to mature, it is a smaller head but that is 2 weeks earlier than most other types which you don't have to worry about watering. And their root crops are very good. Sweet potatoes, manioc, and yam are big there. Their yam is nothing even close to a sweet potato. But we are always interseted in anythig that can endure heat and scant water, so thanks for all comments and suggestions.
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Post by timothyt on Jul 1, 2014 12:31:41 GMT -5
And another hardy welcome to joep!!!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 1, 2014 22:46:48 GMT -5
Welcome, Joep!
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