These are purple hull peas. They are very easy to grow and a person could sustain themselves on them if necessary.
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Add some southern cornbread, it doesn’t get any better than that. Yum yum.
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wowza man thats awesome, thats where its at
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Agreed. Impressive.
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That’s an old school base. We do 1/3 coco, 1/3 compost, 1/3 rice hulls. It might need a calcium bump later in the season or if it’s rainy, but it’s solid.
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Any opinions on hemp seed varieties to buy+grow for chicken feed?
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That is a beautiful garden!
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Nice work, Brother!
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That’s some crazy honeysuckle
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OK…now’s the time of year I’m jealous of where you live. A few weeks ago @breadwinner posted photos of his squash plants. That same week I cut my sun burnt gords at their base, because of the 100’ weather… They were DONE…this week goes the tomatoes…potatoes are out of the ground…only 50% of the garden is left…did not plant melons this year, cant preserves them…no more photos untill the end…I’m sure I’ll have over 100 quarts canned…and several frozen…all the time supplying 4 neighbors…minus the potatoes, they have and always will be FOR ME!
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Fuck this thread is awesome.
I wasnt able to do a veggie garden this year so I am living vicariously through this thread.
For next year, I hope to be better situated. I’m going to be looking at greenhouse kits. Would anyone reccomend or warn against any particular manufacturer or style?
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I bought a greenhouse hoop bender for bending locally sourced chain link fence top bars. Means the big box stores eat the shipping on the steel. Saved a bunch and have built quite a few dope hoop houses with it.
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I have built a few top rail structures. A little tip, top rail is tubing, so the inch and three eighths is outside diameter. Metal emt conduit is pipe, and therefore measured by inside diameter. Therefore inch and a half conduit makes great connectors for top rail. I buy a 90 degree conduit angle and cut it in half to make two 45s. Then you can make an a frame structure without bending, or I have also used the 45s on top of chain link posts, to make 4’ vertical sidewalls and attached bent hoops to the posts.
A caveat, heavy snowfall is the grim reaper of greenhouses. 11" of ice pellets smashed a top rail hoophouse of mine one winter, but my expensive clearspan brand structure next to it was fine.
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