Today I just wanted to give you an update on my community garden plot.
The potatoes are up and growing pretty well. I have 6 rows of potatoes there, 5 of them are red potatoes, and the last row is white potatoes of some kind. They were given to me by a gardener who also has a plot at the community garden. I hope I get enough red potatoes this year to can a few quarts.
I can't keep the reds in the basement much past December because they start to sprout and get soft, so we usually eat them first. The white potatoes and the Yukon Golds last a lot longer, the Yukons lasting the longest for me. I have a corner of the basement that is walled off and insulated on the inner walls to try to keep the little room as cool as possible, sort of an indoor root cellar. I can't get the temperature any lower than about 45 degrees in the coldest part of the winter, so that doesn't keep the potatoes as well as I would like, but it's certainly better than just having them in the 65 degree basement.
Anyway, that's my little update on the community garden plot for this week.
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Love me a fellow yooper. I'm tempted to upvote every thing you post lol not to mention I sell fertilizer for a career and can't garden this year due to being single full time dad. lol good stuff ambery hope it yields great! Get some Humic acid in there "totally organic it's a carbon source and then micro biology in the soil will flourish" trust me ;)
And make sure those taters get plenty of phos early and calcium to last the year. Nitrogen weekly spoon feed until die off. Don't over feed the Petioles late tho. U want the potatos to die off early enough to bulk..... You'll get lots of spuds. I niche in potato agronomy lol and we are in most the potato farms in the Midwest. Any questions u ever have feel free to ask
Well, I put bunny poop on them, does that help? :-)
Yes. But not as much as u think. But for sure yes. free source of especially nitrogen. Might not be most efficient. But. U got bunnys use it lol! Depending how much u put down in a small spot and how consistent is big too ur def building a good long term base. Nutrients release and tie up and become unavailable etc. it's wild the chemistry involved and positive negative charges just. Yeah ;)
is that positive/negative charge thing called cations?
Yes. Well cations would be positive and anions negative. But yes
This is the reason for "tie up" so to speak. Molecules attract. Soil is negative charged and has lots of "exchange sites". And so on gets pretty in depth when u tak farming these days.
your lucky you get to play with brix meters
Yeah, gardening does take a fair amount of time. Being a single dad takes a lot of time. They don't always mix as well as we would like.
I'm pretty sure that I can get humic acid at the local hydroponics store, I'll have to check it out.
Please don't pay 100 dollars. Please. If ur anywhere near esky I can get it to u for a fraction those stores are crazy!!!!!! We sell 100,000s of gallons to farms. Even if I have to ship it to u don't please don't pay 100 for a gallon of anything :) pay 10 to 20 otherwise reply on a post of mine I'll help u out
I'm in the Iron Mountain area.
I can't imagine paying 100 dollars for a gallon of any fertilizer. Even if I could imagine it, I couldn't afford it.
Yeah online it's 25 a quart 100 a gallon. lol and they'll tell u to use some tiny rate to boot. Check ur local place. If u can't buy a GAllon for 25 or less don't. Sooner the better with potato as it helps the potato utilize phos. Super hard nutrient to get and wants it early
Coming along nicely and all of the greeness around your square looks so healthy!! I'm sure that soil is awesome! Thanks for updating us :) !!
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The soil there is fairly black, sandy, and full of pebbles. I've never picked so many rocks out of a garden anywhere else. It does grow good potatoes though. I had some huge ones from there last year.
I need to cut the grass around my plot...
No, it looks really good. Its expensive here to have grass at all.. let alone really green, nice grass
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Planting in the garden can really be productive and at the same time a stress reliever. Especially you already see the fruits of your labor, Thanks for sharing! Followed you...
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community gardens are the best idea and the future -- i reckon it is great - i am now following too
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thank you for sharing
Upvote and follow. Keep the updates coming.
Lookin' good! Spuds are my favorite, so I'll be cheering extra hard for this patch to produce. ;~D
good job. I wish I can grow my own stuff one day. the #whalepower tag brought me here. if you would like to do the same for me: https://steemit.com/steemsilvergold/@hgmsilvergold/wow-steemit-officially-has-a-gold-and-silver-community-join-here
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I'll check out your post.
Awesome to hear! Keep up the great work. I'm all about community gardens. Just followed ya.
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That looks really good! I'm following to see how they turn out. :)
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Nice plot, looks good.