Devv's 2014- Stick a fork in me, I'm done....

Pinoy83 · Mar 15, 2014

Devv said:
Thanks Jeff!

Just 100 or so more to plant...

Here's the shots that show the slope we talked about:

i just wish i have this in my backyard..............

maximumcapsicum · Mar 16, 2014

Your efforts are inspiring Scott. You got all the ladies in the ground yet? How are the ones who have been settled for a couple days enjoying their new home? Noticed you got some wind and rain coming soon.

Devv · Mar 16, 2014

Pinoy83 said:
i just wish i have this in my backyard..............

Thanks Jericson!

We've been here 25 years and still feel like we have a ton to do.

maximumcapsicum said:
Your efforts are inspiring Scott. You got all the ladies in the ground yet? How are the ones who have been settled for a couple days enjoying their new home? Noticed you got some wind and rain coming soon.

Thanks Adam!

I have 11 of the plants in 1 gal containers I haven't planted, they're all doubles. I'm waiting for the (mostly) Annuum's in the solo cups to harden, they're close. The ones in the garden are doing fine. I hit them with a light foliar feeding of some goodies yesterday.

I'm concerned about the wind, I have wind breaks on the North and East sides. This wind is supposed to come from the NNW, I stood some scrap plywood against the fence on the West side. No rain yet, but rumbling!

JJJessee · Mar 16, 2014

Windbreak is a good idea. I guess they are all too big to go under a gallon jug. I've thought about building a length of fence on my west side to fend off wind.
This time of year, we'll get a bright sunny day, with a steady wind and that's mas harsh on baby plants. It thinned out my little kale seedlings in about a half hour on Friday.
But what can a Virginian tell a Texan about wind :think:

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Lookin' good, Scott. Keep the faith.

Devv · Mar 16, 2014

JJJessee said:
Windbreak is a good idea. I guess they are all too big to go under a gallon jug. I've thought about building a length of fence on my west side to fend off wind.
This time of year, we'll get a bright sunny day, with a steady wind and that's mas harsh on baby plants. It thinned out my little kale seedlings in about a half hour on Friday.
But what can a Virginian tell a Texan about wind ?
Lookin' good, Scott. Keep the faith.

Thanks JJJ!

It got pretty windy the other day while we were at my G-Daughters B-day party in the next town. I had three picture perfect Manzano's outside under an Oak tree so they wouldn't sunburn. The wind just burned them up.

Fence certainly won't hurt, I see that in the future as the wind breaks won't last forever.

It's crazy windy here now, hope the plants hang!!

Here's a shot of half the garden showing the wind breaks.

stickman · Mar 16, 2014

You say the wind burned up 3 Manzanos... did you mean dead? :shocked:

sorry to hear that if so. We get lots of wind in March and April too, and that's another reason I leave the poly on the low row covers until the weather levels out in May. If you want wind protection but don't need the poly to trap warmth at night you can swap it out for spun-bonded agricultural fabric like Agribon 19. I know money's tight this year, but thought I'd pass it along for next year. The plants inside the enclosure look great Scott, and the onions look like they're growing well too. Cheers!

Jeff H · Mar 16, 2014

Scott, that is a great shot of the garden in 825. The wind breaks look like fabric. How well does that work? The plywood sounds like it would work better as long as you have enough.

Wind is about the only thing I don't really have to deal with. The prevailing winds will hit my house 1st and are pretty diminished by the time they get to the garden.

meatfreak · Mar 16, 2014

That's an beautiful shot of the garden, Scott. I can see you did a lot of work getting everything so organised and inground, great job!

Devv · Mar 16, 2014

stickman said:
You say the wind burned up 3 Manzanos... did you mean dead? sorry to hear that if so. We get lots of wind in March and April too, and that's another reason I leave the poly on the low row covers until the weather levels out in May. If you want wind protection but don't need the poly to trap warmth at night you can swap it out for spun-bonded agricultural fabric like Agribon 19. I know money's tight this year, but thought I'd pass it along for next year. The plants inside the enclosure look great Scott, and the onions look like they're growing well too. Cheers!

Hi Rick,

They're fine, just not very photogenic at the moment. The wind breaks do a decent job but some is getting under them, I need to make some stakes and tie the bottoms down.

Thanks for the positive notes!

Jeff H said:
Scott, that is a great shot of the garden in 825. The wind breaks look like fabric. How well does that work? The plywood sounds like it would work better as long as you have enough.

Wind is about the only thing I don't really have to deal with. The prevailing winds will hit my house 1st and are pretty diminished by the time they get to the garden.

Thanks Jeff!

They work quite well, the plants are getting some wind, but not like they would if the breaks weren't there. The school district I work for used them for the girls softball field, and tossed them. I did a little dumpster diving

It was one 10' tall 50' long piece, I shortened it to 5' so I could have 100'. Last season the North piece was at the North fence, and I used plywood screwed to the sunshade frame, but it fell apart after it was rained on. So I moved the fabric to the frame.

The wind cooks through here, we're 200' above town. It does help during the summer as we usually have a breeze.

meatfreak said:
That's an beautiful shot of the garden, Scott. I can see you did a lot of work getting everything so organised and inground, great job!

Thanks Stefan!

A ton of work but good for the brain!

Devv · Mar 16, 2014

It's been blowing like crazy since 5AM, not helping things around here. At first it was out of the NNE, and the wind breaks helped a bunch. Now it's out of the NNW, and I just have a few plywood scraps setup.

Our weather station in town shows 18mph, with 35mph gusts, probably can add some to that because of the lack of structures out here and being high on a ridge. Great for beating frost, but not winds.

Hoping this crap ends soon! I have one plant that blew over, and the rest I can see are hurting from the moisture loss the wind is creating. It's still 65°, so we're OK with temps. Well I did want to trim a few....

HillBilly Jeff · Mar 16, 2014

Liking your garden set up with the wind breaks. That must really help a lot when plants are first put out.

I don't need the seed. I was just trying to give it a go since I had some cells open in the tray and thought I'd give it a shot.

Devv · Mar 17, 2014

HillBilly Jeff said:
Liking your garden set up with the wind breaks. That must really help a lot when plants are first put out.

I don't need the seed. I was just trying to give it a go since I had some cells open in the tray and thought I'd give it a shot.

Thanks Jeff!

They really help, we had gusts up to 40mph yesterday. The gals are a little roughed up but they made it. I'm going to leave them up until the fronts stop rolling in.

I tried to get a pic of a plant in full wind but every shot was blurry because the plant was moving so much.

maximumcapsicum · Mar 17, 2014

Oh man, hoping the wind settles down for yeah. Plants should come out stronger on the other end... Sending good vibes your way!

Jeff H · Mar 18, 2014

Hope they all survived the wind storm intact.

jedisushi06 · Mar 18, 2014

The wind blew my plants up last year but they recovered after it and were real bushy, so I guess it's not too bad a thing! I'm hoping all this wind we have here right now goes away by the time I can plant too. Looks like your MOA is crossed or mislabeled

Devv · Mar 18, 2014

maximumcapsicum said:
Oh man, hoping the wind settles down for yeah. Plants should come out stronger on the other end... Sending good vibes your way!

Thanks Adam!

Only one laid over, and I put a tom cage around it. A few leaves missing and rustled.

Jeff H said:
Hope they all survived the wind storm intact.

Thanks Jeff!

The wind breaks did me good!

jedisushi06 said:
The wind blew my plants up last year but they recovered after it and were real bushy, so I guess it's not too bad a thing! I'm hoping all this wind we have here right now goes away by the time I can plant too. Looks like your MOA is crossed or mislabeled

I agree with the MoA, reasonably sure I didn't screw up the labels, but anything is possible with me

Been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off since January..

So I did get 18-19 more planted today.

Brown 7 Pot
Couple of Green Hornets
Nage Brain
Datil
Scotch Bonnet Indian Red
couple of Bishops Crown
Tobago Treasure
Couple of Urfa Biber
Couple of Jal Colima
Couple of Jal Gigiantica
Couple of Jal Coyame
Jimmy Nardello

I've come to the conclusion I won't be able to plant everything I started...so I'll be gifting after I plant the next row.

I did save 2 places for the Growndown winners

Also worked on getting the flow correct for the irrigation, it takes a few runs down the trenches to get things squared away.

HillBilly Jeff · Mar 18, 2014

More plants than you can plant is better than the alternative.

Devv · Mar 19, 2014

HillBilly Jeff said:
More plants than you can plant is better than the alternative.

Oh yeah!

Now the hard part is decided what to plant with what's left. I have one row left, and some space on the East, and a little on the North, these will be in full sun. But not the last row. I guess the OW's will go there, they should set up pretty quick.

Here's a pic of where I'm at with the South half of the garden.

The cups on the bubblers cut the spray pattern way down so it's easier to route the water. After supper the gals get a weak dose of a foliar feed, it's a less than 50% dose of Fish Emulsion, Seaweed Extract, and Hasta Gro.

The corn and Beans are up, today I made 2 more short rows for the beans and planted some more Marigolds and 4 Cilantro plants.

North is to the left, and we have wind again, but so far it's nothing like last time. On the far East I brought in a few of the OW's, they're in the 5 gal white buckets and that's where they will be planted.

The plants haven't really done anything yet, I feel they're in the adjustment phase.

I can see this is going to be a serious jungle again this season!

JJJessee · Mar 19, 2014

Hope everything comes through in good order. Shaping up nicely. I could use some irrigation now, but we still have a hard freeze coming and it could crack a check valve. Again. Is that bubbler designed to sprinke or flood the row?

We're getting that wind too. I should have covered the onions after I watered them, just in case.

HillBilly Jeff · Mar 19, 2014

You can always grow some in containers