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TJinMT
True Blue Farmgirl
211 Posts
TJ
Billings
MT
USA
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 Posted - May 28 2010 : 3:30:40 PM
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... the little volunteers that spring up in an established garden? Dill, arugula, radishes, swiss chard, etc! It's like a little extra smooch from God to find them peering up at you first thing in the morning, cup of hot tea in one hand and the other already slightly muddy from here-and-there weeding... too neat!!
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -CS Lewis |
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1407 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
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Posted - May 28 2010 : 3:48:28 PM
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Yes, I do. I have a mass of dill that will need to be pulled up. I also have one volunteer potato and garlic. Most of it has got to go so I will have room for tomatoes. The strawberries are ripening and my DIL and I had some lip-smacking ones the other day.
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - May 28 2010 : 4:45:24 PM
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It sure is nice to see the,. But why can't they come up in a nice neat row? I actually hace a squash that came up in the corn row and a few sunflowers in the bean rows. But other than that they are always in the middle of the row and have to be either tilled under or moved. But that's the way it goes. Oh, and a potato at the end of the bean row.
And welcome, TJ.
Kris
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
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Posted - May 28 2010 : 8:19:34 PM
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I have had almost a forty foot row that is entirely volunteer potatoes! My DH and I missed a ton of tiny marble sized baby potatoes last year cause that's what we have found as we've dug them all up. We were very short on garden funds this year and skimped on the potatoes hoping for some leftovers from family members. Well, God gave us what we needed and then sent Uncle Bob with a 5 gallon bucket of taters and a brand new local community garden to plant them in. My Dad couldn't plant potatoes this year with a leg surgery due in the middle of the summer, so now we have enough for us, him, and the farmers market! I love the little blessings that grow to be huge!
Farmgirl Sister #1438
God - Gardening - Family - Is anything else important? |
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - May 28 2010 : 8:35:26 PM
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i do love all the volenteers. they are always ahead of what i plant too. happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
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Posted - May 29 2010 : 4:20:47 PM
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I love it too - last year I had a cucumber, a type I had never planted before, quite peculiar!!
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2976 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
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Posted - May 30 2010 : 4:15:59 PM
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OK, I am not a row gardener..My garden has stuff every which way but loose. It is kinda like my personality. I had some volunteer potatoes come up in a random fashion, so I just planted more potatoes, some peppers & some eggplant all around it.
Tossed in some zinnia seed & sunflower seed & see how she blows!
I even tried planting some peas in rows & only a few came up, so I will be "random planting" in that bed as well...
Amy Grace, that will happen with hybrid seeds... |
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phonelady
True Blue Farmgirl
323 Posts
Carla
Loveland
Colorado
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Posted - May 30 2010 : 10:34:42 PM
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I'm another random planter.
I'm grateful if it grows there! Lots of work on this ruined ground.
There was a couple of volunteers from last year though. Breakfast radishes.
I didn't eat the one's I grew last year because they where so danged hot!
They where supposed to be French Breakfast Radishes. I think they could have been used in Mexican Hot Salsa.
So that one that grew up this year is still in the ground [maybe it'll keep the bugs away ;)
Carla
It's not just life-
It's an adventure!
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - May 31 2010 : 08:21:25 AM
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Of course!! - thank you Lisa, I hadn't even thought of that. I have purchased heirlooms the last 3 years but 4 years ago I bought plant starts and I'm sure they must have been hybrids. There is one mystery of my life solved:)
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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TJinMT
True Blue Farmgirl
211 Posts
TJ
Billings
MT
USA
211 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2010 : 3:21:44 PM
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I'm an, ahem, "Intensive Planter" too, by which I mean that I always WAAAAY overseed and/or end up sneaking way too many veggie seedlings into the family budget and my small gardens are planted helter-skelter. I love Companion Planting for that reason - it justifies the process that comes naturally to me! grin...
I can't figure out the swiss chard though, because although I've gotten volunteers for the past 2 years, I never have let a plant go to seed??! and my garden was yard before I re-purposed it. Wild! But I love swiss chard!!!
So far from having extra potatoes this year, we had a flickertail (ground squirrel) join our community garden and ate an entire row of my Yukon Golds. Rascal! I'm definitely thinking it's too late to replant, even for zone 5 (possibly 4b, from the exposure of the property), so may just go with a bunch of extra pole beans in that spot. I'm not sure why he picked MY plot to move into, but I guess I'm flattered?!
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -CS Lewis |
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Butterscotch Grove
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Melissa
Fairbanks
AK
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Posted - Jun 04 2010 : 09:49:52 AM
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TJ - I love your quote from CS Lewis, though for me it'd probably be coffee.
I wish I had veggie volunteers. There aren't too many that'll survive a winter here (zone 1 or 2, depending on which way you squint at the zone map). We do get new iris, rose, trolius, delphinium, lilies, and raspberry plants, though. Wow - that list looks way more impressive than it seems in my yard!
Melissa
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