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Replying to: sky23213 (Mar 27, 2009 12:20 am) Our neighbors in Long Prairie raised cucumbers for commercial pickles. They would end up with too many big ones and we ate more cucumbers than I like to think about. The little ones bring the best price. I could not find any news on flooding. I will have to call back there and check. Our farm is right on the Long Prairie River. We have about 50 acres of low land while the rest is up quite a bit higher. I have not been to visit the place in 25 years. They say it is changed a lot as I planted 3000 blue spruce around the property for Christmas trees then went back to Alaska. They should be pretty good sized by now. Hope you get loads of Tomatoes. They are so good for us men. I eat at least one a day as they are cheap here most of the year.
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Replying to: gagrice (Mar 27, 2009 5:30 pm)
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Replying to: sky23213 (Apr 05, 2009 9:08 pm) 
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 22, 2009 4:30 am)  Last frost date here is May 10, so I'm not in any hurry. Plus my neighbor put in a huge (well huge to me) raised bed garden and he's going to have lots of cherry tomatoes. I used to share mine with him so he owes me. I think the raised bed is a mistake in our hot climate, but he does have automatic sprinklers on it. He gave me the deer in the headlights look when I asked him if he was going to fence the bed off to keep the deer out. 
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Replying to: steve_ (Apr 22, 2009 8:19 am) You are right about raised beds using more water. I have about half my tomatoes in plastic barrels cut in half. The rest in two separate gardens. My purple potatoes planted in Miracle Grow potting soil are already about a foot tall. The ones in the garden are just coming up. I transplanted out of the gallon pots into the garden. I have about 20 purple potato plants of the two different varieties I found in the stores. My wife made purple potato salad for a gathering and it was a big hit. I'll try to get pics of the plants in the next couple days.
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Well I got it into my head to dig up some friend's bamboo and re-plant it into pots so it wouldn't go hog wild. This is not as easy as it sounds. I did separate the root system as instructed and got three bunches into pots, but they look pretty sorry after 2 days. Maybe they'll perk up? Maybe I should have just bought some, but MAN bamboo, even in 5 gal pots, is not CHEAP--- a 6 foot bunch could set you back $60 bucks!
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 23, 2009 8:49 pm) Do you need to have really loose soil for potatoes to grow well? |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Apr 24, 2009 10:17 am) You should have been here a couple of years ago. None of our bamboo thrives and we dug up most of the smaller ones - probably a dozen plants - and gave them away on craigslist. I had to take the ad down almost immediately, and gave them to someone who lived near the river where they could find some water. They aren't cheap to buy here either. The purple taters never did much for me, but your kids would probably love 'em Juice. We grew Yukon Golds up north in a tilled raised bed, but it just seems silly to plant spuds in Idaho.  The kiddo across the street would come over every fall and help us dig them, starting when she was 9. It was like an Easter Egg hunt and a great memory maker. Especially when the kids grab onto a rotten one, lol. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Apr 24, 2009 11:31 am) I hird some people who spent a couple of days digging it out and making it go away. Just before I sold it, it started coming back. I was on the verge of buying a panda, as that seems the only way to get rid of it around here.
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