Attn: Rednecks/Farmers

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I am interested in growing a couple vegetables over the summer if I get this house...not much area to grow...maybe 15 sq ft or so.

I am wanting to grow about 3 tomato plants, a couple plants of green beans on a trellis, then some eggplant.

I am hoping that is enough room. Do I have enough room for radishes as well? Also, do I simply water/fertilze? Do the plants require different soil conditions?

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[craigzter 10+ year member]

we grow everything up here at the house, and our soil is real rocky and hard to keep moist unless it rains for a few days straight.

you should be alright just get them watered and fertilize maybe once a week. Chicken shit works real good, as well as rabbit and coon shit

oh, and yes u should have room for radishes, keep them away from the maters tho.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif they will eat them, not really but keep them away from the tomatoes

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I do not have access to those things...pretty much limited to what local stores carry.

But what about spacing and soil types? Would that be enough room or no?

 

[GLN305 10+ year member]

I am interested in growing a couple vegetables over the summer if I get this house...not much area to grow...maybe 15 sq ft or so.
I am wanting to grow about 3 tomato plants, a couple plants of green beans on a trellis, then some eggplant.

I am hoping that is enough room. Do I have enough room for radishes as well? Also, do I simply water/fertilze? Do the plants require different soil conditions?

Not a redneck or a farmer, but my suggestions would be to go to the gardening section of Home Depot and check out the seed packets, they have very good instructions on them. Also try and find a copy of the farmer's alminac. As far as room, my grandfather had a garden and a tomato plant need a space of about

2.5 x 2.5 ft for space to root and branch out, so each plant needs about 6 square feet. I'm sure you could make that space a little smaller but you would probablt sacrifice quality for quantity. Oh, and one of the most efficient methods of growing green beans is to use a piece of large mesh harware cloth (openings about 6" x 6") and make a round trellis out of that, works excellent for tomatoes, green beans and any other climbing plant. Good luck.

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

well roughly saying you will have a area with side 4ft on each side...so if you stick to tomatoes, radishes and maybe some kind of greens for example, you will be fine.

You want your soil moist and not to clod up and form "dirt clods". Just water them everyday, as in taking the water hose and letting it flow down hill a little, if possible. Water them for maybe 10-15 mins a day. but if the soil tends to mud up the next day after watering, STOP watering immediately for about 24-36 hours.

basically all you gotta do is keep them watered and keep the weeds and animals out of it and you will be fine.

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

i would go to another forum for something like this to be honest.

 

[pitbull12887 10+ year member]

if you have decent soil you probally wouldnt even need fertalizer. We grow tomoatoes, corn, green peppers, cabbage, and cucumbers behind our house. Just got done tilling up the garden and planting corn yesterday...

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Gotcha...makes pretty good sense...Maybe just two tomato plants then...

I may need a visual on this round trellis...off to google.

 

[pitbull12887 10+ year member]

oh yea and you need stakes for your tomato plants in order for them to stand up as they grow

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

if you have decent soil you probally wouldnt even need fertalizer. We grow tomoatoes, corn, green peppers, cabbage, and cucumbers behind our house. Just got done tilling up the garden and planting corn yesterday...

How much area?

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

How much area?

ours is about 110ft long and 45ft wide. not your typical garden

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

you do realize you can find all of this information on the internet right......Im not sure why you find the CAforumn to be your scource

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

you do realize you can find all of this information on the internet right......Im not sure why you find the CAforumn to be your scource

You do realize that every piece of information pertaining to car audio has already been published on a website somewhere, correct?

I use ca.com because it is where I am....why register for another forum when the advice I get here would be about as good?

 

[whammy]

First off, make sure you have some good top soil. When you plant your seeds, put some 50/50 in the hole with them and scatter in the enitre area after planting. Keep ground moist, never muddy or completely dry. Once you get some action, go ahead and run some miracle grow over them and keep an eye out for bugs.

If your soil sucks, go get bags of good top soil and some pots. don't forget the 50/50 though.