let's see your veggie garden {pics} 2021-25
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GreenDragon
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Zach your setups are always impressive! I've got genuine pepper envy right now looking at your seedlings. I had to replant my pepper seeds over the weekend as half the varieties I started never germinated.
Is that cat litter under the dripper nozzle?
Is that cat litter under the dripper nozzle?
It is dry organic fertilizer. One of the challenges of using bato buckets outdoors, especially with coco, is that rain can make it too wet to fertigate but the plants are getting no nutrition from the media, by adding something slow release I'm hoping to bridge that gap.
Don't do this, it was a disaster better to incorporate it in.
Bob
48 hours ago (Thursday afternoon), my asparagus patch was barren. This evening, I found these sprouting there.
Bob
Bob
It's exponential! While my age continues to increase linearly, the effort I have to expend in order to complete simple tasks in the garden grows exponentially. I don't need a graph to figure out what putting in a small garden will feel like next year.
This morning, I placed 2 tomato plants into a small garden bed, and 2 yellow scallop squash plants into the end of one of my remaining two larger beds. I planted 10—Count them! 10!—seeds for green bush beans. Whew! I had two leftover tomato plants. Like the grumpy codger that I am, I removed them from their little pots, and threw them heartlessly over the fence. Bye!
Once I had returned to the house, and scrubbed the dirt from my hands, I didn't have the energy to walk back out to the garden with my camera. Maybe I'll wait until after the biblical rain that is forecast for the next 3 days. Might still have a garden. Might not.
Bob
This morning, I placed 2 tomato plants into a small garden bed, and 2 yellow scallop squash plants into the end of one of my remaining two larger beds. I planted 10—Count them! 10!—seeds for green bush beans. Whew! I had two leftover tomato plants. Like the grumpy codger that I am, I removed them from their little pots, and threw them heartlessly over the fence. Bye!
Once I had returned to the house, and scrubbed the dirt from my hands, I didn't have the energy to walk back out to the garden with my camera. Maybe I'll wait until after the biblical rain that is forecast for the next 3 days. Might still have a garden. Might not.
Bob
MadFarmer
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Yesterday my uncle loaned his truck and help in picking up garden soil from the local landfill. I still need to test the soil Ph ( soil from this company was too alkaline before) and purchase some amendments My wife reminded me to level out the sides and corners - which I wanted to do before, but you have to move when the truck is loanable.
This bed will be for peppers, okra, greens and other vegetables that strike our fancy. The beds in back have tomatoes, garlic and onions.
Early Girl
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This bed will be for peppers, okra, greens and other vegetables that strike our fancy. The beds in back have tomatoes, garlic and onions.
Early Girl
Cream Sausage
The oregano, below, has been ignored since last summer. I just mow around it, to keep it from taking over the world.
The stems of the two Big Beef tomatoes were over 15 inches long. I dug a trench for each one (roughly the pattern of the water I poured over them), stripped away all the lower leaf stems, and buried all but the top end. One of them snapped off just above the ground. We'll see how well it recovers, compared to the intact tomato plant.
One of the goals of my vegetable garden is to produce no more than I can eat fresh. I am done with canning and with pickling. (Hmm. I said that last year, and still ended up with a gallon jug of pickled cukes.)
Bob
Didn’t have enough room indoors to start pepper or tomato plants from seed so I bought seedlings from the local Tractor Supply and transplanted them today. Watermelon and shallots were planted yesterday when I transplanted the tobacco. 1 pepperocini, 1 habanero, 2 green bell pepper, 1 cayenne pepper, 1 Thai basil, 1 better boy tomato, 1 Roma tomato, 1 yellow sweet grape tomato and 2 sweet snap peas. Eggplant, green beans and cucumbers going in tomorrow after work.
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A row of sprouted beans at the end (trellis goes up this weekend, if the weather permits).
A row of 8 bell peppers, then 3 zucchini, then 2 rows of potatoes.
All done this morning in 3 hours.
It’s a start!
This is, except for two windowsill pepper plants, the only vegetables I’ve ever grown.
A row of 8 bell peppers, then 3 zucchini, then 2 rows of potatoes.
All done this morning in 3 hours.
It’s a start!
This is, except for two windowsill pepper plants, the only vegetables I’ve ever grown.
Thank you.
It’s not actually a yard, as such- it’s a “garden house”. All around Germany you see what looks like tiny subdivisions of small houses on big plots of land. These are owned by various groups (mine is owned by a local church), and long term leased out to people who want a big garden, but live in an apartment. Similar, I think to the British allotment.
We got lucky finding this one- it’s a 6 minute walk from our place, and it’s pretty massive (about 700 square meters), which gives us enough room for the kids to play in, a veggie garden, and my tobacco garden.
The manager of the place was looking for young couples with kids, as the average age of the current population is in the late 70’s, and they wanted “young blood” to keep the place from being disbanded.
This place had been abandoned for 2 years as the previous owners divorced and neither wanted it. We got it last September and got it up and running, which no one expected we could do.
Definitely worth it for the tobacco space, and a place to take the kids when they are bouncing off the walls of the apartment!
How we got it:
How cool!!! Wish there was stuff like that in Canada here!
You have done great! Little piece of paradise!
The garden is a nice gift. Above all love your children. It's easy to get caught up in planting and your hopes and dreams for a few plants in a season that at the end of the day don't mean much. They don't matter. You're kids will be with you 14 maybe 15 seasons helping then go about their merry way - if you're one of the lucky ones. They'll step on your plants and weed out your favorites by accident. You'll be hot and tried and ready to strangle them.
Then the day will come around where they are useful for a few years. Then they'll leave and you'll be asking what am I supposed to do with all this, why am I growing so much? Then in a few more years if you raise them right you'll have a bunch of rug rats with a quarter of your genetic make up stumbling around tearing up their parents prized garden and you'll get to give them some sugar and caffeine and watch the show. Life is fun sometimes, don't lose perspective for what matters
Then the day will come around where they are useful for a few years. Then they'll leave and you'll be asking what am I supposed to do with all this, why am I growing so much? Then in a few more years if you raise them right you'll have a bunch of rug rats with a quarter of your genetic make up stumbling around tearing up their parents prized garden and you'll get to give them some sugar and caffeine and watch the show. Life is fun sometimes, don't lose perspective for what matters
GreenDragon
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The garden this weekend. Harvested our shallots, garlic, and potatoes. Replanted the beds with peanuts and okra.
A view of some of my humble veggie garden today.
Below are my 2 tomato plants (one Big Beef, and the mystery volunteer transferred from the tobacco bed). From the 10 bean seeds (green beans) that I planted, I now have a single, healthy bean plant, plus 4 others that have survived wildlife grazing. In the past, whenever I have attempted to plant only enough that can be consumed fresh, the final result is considerably less than I planned. When I plant too much, to compensate for wildlife munching, they pretty much ingore it, and I end up with more than I can consume. Sigh....
My Persian Red garlic (hard stem) will be dug-up in about a week, after which I will plant...I don't know yet what I will plant there. Above them, are my two decaffeinated Boston Pickling cucumber vines.
I have two yellow scallop squash plants out in the garden, as well as seed planted (not yet germinated) for North Georgia Candy Roaster squash (which, in the past, has stored well for 8 to 10 months indoors).
Bob
Below are my 2 tomato plants (one Big Beef, and the mystery volunteer transferred from the tobacco bed). From the 10 bean seeds (green beans) that I planted, I now have a single, healthy bean plant, plus 4 others that have survived wildlife grazing. In the past, whenever I have attempted to plant only enough that can be consumed fresh, the final result is considerably less than I planned. When I plant too much, to compensate for wildlife munching, they pretty much ingore it, and I end up with more than I can consume. Sigh....
My Persian Red garlic (hard stem) will be dug-up in about a week, after which I will plant...I don't know yet what I will plant there. Above them, are my two decaffeinated Boston Pickling cucumber vines.
I have two yellow scallop squash plants out in the garden, as well as seed planted (not yet germinated) for North Georgia Candy Roaster squash (which, in the past, has stored well for 8 to 10 months indoors).
Bob
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