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I saw a video of them doing great in large pots. You plan to pot or ground them ? Do they Bush or climb ? Or both … I’m cucumber ignorant but also plan to plant seeds
 
Mmm fresh cucumber. Is it ok if they stay to the ground?, just harvest them on time I’m guessing
 
Love gardening…Have monkey grass that got out of hand and am pulling it up around my Previts. The grass is also invading my beds with Mexican Heather. I have various colors of the Heather, but the white is my favorite! I have removed my Cannas, yellow, red, pink, and yellow and red combo colors and replanted them! Last week I moved a concrete planter and now am suffering dearly! My back muscles are hurting and making it unbearable to sleep with the pain. Aspirin always helps. But will continue with my plans to remove the monkey grass…it is always nice to get back to nature…oh, near my little tool building, I have an American flag and bought some Morning Glory seeds in Red, White, and Blue to plant in a little flower bed underneath the Flag…wow, won’t this look great! 🇺🇸
 
It sounds great! I hope you can share a pic when you are done and your red white and blue garden is in bloom! 🙂
 
Yes, cucumbers go from just right in the morning to overgrown and compost quality by afternoon. You can almost see them swelling, especially after a good rain.
 
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My vegetable garden arena this year. Just rebuilt my boxes with cedar wood. That’s my dog Stitch. He says hey. For the summer I’ll have tomato’s(because I live in the south and no self respecting southerner grows a garden without tomato’s), cucumber, pole beans, squash, habanero peppers(for my wife), and maybe a few other plants if I have the room.

Late summer I’ll use one box for potato’s and another for “pie” pumpkins for the holidays and start cold weather salad crops in the last.
 
Some caveats to avoid some invasives:

If you plant Lily of the Valley, Ajuga, Ribbon Grass, Creeping Thyme or other such pretties, at first, they’ll be welcome additions to you garden. Within just a few seasons, they’ll spread everywhere and you’ll be forever trying to dig them out. Even if you think you’ve gotten out all the roots, they can spread runners underground and pop up elsewhere

Lily of the Valley is the worst. It spreads by rhizomes, and they are extremely difficult to dig out intact. Ribbon Grass is hard to get rid of ,too.

Watch out for these invasives. They soon cease to be appealing and become 24-carat pests.
 
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I’ll agree on the lily of the valley! My neighbor planted them very carefully around his tree in his front yard. Put metal guards planted about 8” deep to contain them! Ha…he’s out there every year digging them out of his lawn…and swearing up a storm.🤣🤣🤣

I have a purple ash tree in my front yard that sends suckers up all over the area…these are trees so they have a tough woody stem which means that part of the yard is never barefoot walking! Ouch! I hate this tree, too. It’s pretty but those suckers are killer. My final tree is a linden and I love that tree…good shade, small leaves that mulch nicely and small flowers that smell wonderful. The only issue is that wasps love them so we hang traps in them.
 
I don’t really grow annuals or perennials as it’s too much work for me, though the last ones I put in my back garden were some salvias around my rose bushes. So my gardens are established, plus I have some orchids in pots.

Yesterday I potted up 4 tiny tomato seedlings - maybe into too big a pot but it was all I had.

Back in the early 90s I used to enjoy gardening a lot and grew a variety of plants and also had two large veggie gardens. Love fresh veggies from the garden.
 

Plant Your Victory Garden! 🍅🥬🥕🥦​

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Sounds like a worthwhile investment. Get your sons to help haul the cinder blocks!
 
I am not a big tomato person. I’ll eat them, and I like things that are made out of them, but not tomatoes. I think it is a texture thing. My mom, will, however, eat them, so I can still grow them.
 
“You do that now, rabbit. It’s your duty!” As a son. 😉
 
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I’ve thought about this, too! My hubby is very handy and some day I’m going to have him build some platform beds that I can walk around and harvest without bending over. I already use a garden bench that I can carry around to sit on to minimize the bending…even has pockets for gardening implements! But, I still wind up hurting my hips. Glad to see I’m not the only senior planning ahead! 😂😂😂
 
My parents have those types of gardening beds. It is about waist high level so they don’t have to bend over it or kneel.

They grew all sorts of vegetables even giving some away to neighbors throughout the growing season.
 
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Do you know the depth they made the beds? I have a good idea how wide and long I’m going to make them but I want to make sure I give them enough depth. I’m hoping to grow some root veggies so I’m more than willing to make one of them really deep. The herb garden doesn’t have to be very deep at all…heck, I’d even grow corn if I knew how much depth they need! Thanks!
 
It’s about a foot deep not deep enough for corn I think but deep enough for beans, Swiss chard and tomatoes 🍅 .
 
Anyone have any ideas how deep I’d need to make the box for carrots and potatoes…2’ ? I’d only make one that deep. One foot for my beans and tomatoes and 8” for the herbs!
 
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