Gardening

[Kujo]

Our garden has a nice start this year...other than Kujo's discovery of chicken compost and replanting new corn starts after he dug them up...everything else is very happy!

Pineapple tomato, cherry tomato, 2 kinds of zucchini, 4 kinds of beans, 3 kinds of peppers, cucumber, eggplant, garlic, red and yellow onion, corn, celery, lettuce, carrots, and some stray asparagus popping up everywhere.

 

[Robtouw]

Nice Kujo!

I've already harvested a good number of tasty radishes an am pretty pleased! I have corn, green beans, lettuce, white onions, garlic, carrots, peppers, cucumbers, cantaloupe, and tomatoes growing and I am anxious to see the results! I will be adding some herbs and marigolds soon.

Ruth, you are inspiring me to grow a good deal more than I usually attempt! No container gardening this year, I have a nice little fenced in garden and I work in it each evening.

 

[ruthcatrin]

I wish I had your climate to grow in! Dispite original predictions of no frosts this week I had to cover the garden last night and will again tonight! Hopefully this weekend though I can finish planting everything except the corn. Corn will have to wait at least onemore week till I'm sure we're done with frosts!

 

[alejandro]

Nice orchad, like i posted i don't have space for food so i don't even try, i collect orchjd and those are the fruits of my garden.

 

[alejandro]

<some more

 

[ruthcatrin]

Pretty Alejandro! Have you considered trying to do any food plants in pots? I know some stuff, like the peppers and tomatoes can frequently be done in pots as long as you pay attention.

 

[Robtouw]

Beautiful Alejandro! I love flowers!

 

[Robtouw]

My first radishes this spring!



Columbine

 

[alejandro]

My problem is not with space exactly but with the sun, i have a couple big trees and tall houses all around. Those radishes look real tasty Robtouw like they're about to pop.

 

[Robtouw]

They are pretty tangy! My green onions are pretty tasty too! I'm looking forward to eating a whole salad from my garden.

 

[alejandro]

Here's couple more

 

[Robtouw]

Beautiful Alejandro! Are you on Facebook?

Poppy's In my Garden.

 

[alejandro]

No i don't use Facebook, love the colors form the poppy in the middle.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Current garden picture:



In the silver tubs, from left to right are carrots, onions & carrots, carrots & cucumbers, carrots & jalapenos, and garlic

In the tires behind the tubs (which you can't really see in this picture), from left to right are the white watermelons, Masquerade potatoes, pumpkins, more potatoes, one type of cantaloupe and a tire of flowering plants to help pull in the bees.

The two lone tires all the way to the left contain Purple majesty potatoes

From left to right, the tires you can see by row, Sugar Snap Peas, Sweet peppers & another variety of cantaloupe and flowers, more sweet peppers and flowers, tomatoes and zucchini, mixed peppers (we had a greenhouse accident resulting in a bunch of the peppers loosing their labels, since they'll cross pollinate I just planted all those together) and the Sugar Baby Watermelons.

I really wanted to expand the garden using more of the tubs (cause that technique works REALLY well), but they're expensive to buy new and I wasn't able to track down any used ones via craigslist, so I cut the sides out of a bunch of used (free) tires of various sizes and used them instead.

 

[alejandro]

Nice, looks like you have lots of space, so jeaulous of your sunny pacht.

 

[ruthcatrin]

2acres, mostly cleared. The ground sucks to grow in though, clay dirt and VERY VERY wet. Anything planted directly in the ground had better like standing water! Hence the tires for raised beds. Next year the corn will go in tires too, I ran out of energy this year!

 

[alejandro]

Maybe you could build like long soil boxes with wood boards, anyway it looks like you can really get a meal out of it.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Thought about it, but I'd have to pay for the board and the tires are free, they just take more work lol

 

[ruthcatrin]

Plus the tires actually do a decent job of holding in the heat in the spring and fall. I planted strawberries last year in a huge tractor tire, and it was definitely warmer (and thus the strawberries growing) earlier this year than anything else.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Here's the strawberry tractor tire. In the middle I planted purple Blazing Star flowers and a few Iris because I wasn't sure how fast the strawberries would spread, but the strawberries are so happy growing there that next year I'll likely to have to move at least some of the flowers! I wish I'd taken pictures over the winter too, the tire definetly held in the warmth, even in the sub-zero days, cause snow never lasted on it.