Farm Garden Braggin' Rights & pictures!!

[ioujc]

OK, all you gardeners, lets hear ya brag about what's comin' up in your garden and we LOVE to see pictures!!
We have a raised bed dedicated to strawberries, a BUNCH of broccoli, cauliflower and several cabbages. Some 'maters and peppers already transplanted and gettin' some height on 'em. Also got a couple of melons transplanted today. 'Taters are starting to bloom as of today!! Also got beets up and goin' and we been eatin' lettuce and radish salads for about a month now!! YUM! Let's see...what else?? Oh yeah, planted second crop of lettuce and radishes earlier this week and re-planted most of the green beans (they came up real "spotty" in the rows). Also re-planted cukes cause they were just not comin' up.

 

[Publius]

I don't have much planted yet as our last frost date is May 15. Have some potatoes in the ground and more to plant as soon as the ground dries out.

A few photos from about two years back of the garden area.
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/atta...nt.php?attachmentid=119314&stc=1&d=1431218358

 

[FireDance]

Wow Publius. That's a heck of a garden spot.

So far I have maters (green now) and so many hot peppers I'll have to sell some. Trying Carolina Reaper this year. They're VERY slow growers but should be interesting. Have Habenaros out our ears and then several others that I can't remember right off hand. Saved seed from grocery peppers bought in the winter and will see what happens with those. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. Also took cuttings from a fig tree last year and so far only lost one - so have those coming out my ears. Oh and took Rosemary cuttings and those suckers are going great guns. I'm all about free when it comes to this stuff. The tomatoes I planted were from some nice tomatoes I cut at someone's house last year. Had 15 plants come out of that. I'm swamped with everything but greens and will probably wait on those until frost and plant turnip greens. Dunno though. We just came out of the "too cool at night" zone last week. It appears that now we will go straight into summer. Sigh

 

[ioujc]

Publius>>>>>THAT is no GARDEN>>>THAT is a FARM!! AWESOME!! And here I thought my 3 X 60 foot rows of green beans were great last year! Well, we did can 160 quarts from them, but good grief, you have a HUGE area! Did you do the whole thing with that Cub Cadet?? YOU are AWESOME!!

 

[Publius]

Yeah I tilled it with that Cub Cadet and so far its been the best till I've owned yet, had a few minor issues with it and the engine and the gas cap needed a slight modification so it vents air better.

 

[moldy]

We've had a couple messes of asparagus and a rhubarb pie. Potatoes are sprouting, strawberries are putting on (but still white). I've fixed some burdock roots (for tea) and dandelion greens.

While I've got maters and peppers in the greenhouse, the raised beds and potatoes are the only things outside it. Holy cow - we had 2 inches of snow last Sunday!

 

[Publius]

Update With Photos

We're gotten some heavy rains and its kept me from getting things planted in a timely manner. But I just keep plugging along when the soil is dry enough to let me work it. To date I have five rows of potatoes planted two got planted earlier and had to waite to plant the other three rows and their coming up. Got four rows of blue lake green beans started, one row of beets and some onions. I got more to do yet.
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=119884&stc=1&d=1432483072
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/atta...nt.php?attachmentid=119888&stc=1&d=1432483198

 

[Publius]

We've had rain on and off for more than a week and cannot get into the garden to do any work, I did manage to get some summer squash and zuks along with two more rows of beets and a row of rutabagas planted.

Once the rain stops it will take four to five days for the clay to dry out enough to allow working of the clay soil, first thing is rototilling to kill off some weeds and mounding up my potatoes.

I have about 95 tomato plants and 50 bell peppers to transplant.

 

[TerriHaute]

It's been a struggle to get the garden all planted here too. The weather has been cool and rainy and then family issues kept me away from home. Not to mention, I have to wait for the snapping turtles from the neighbor's pond to lay their eggs. They seem to prefer my garden and dig big holes in the process. Fortunately, they all lay their eggs on the same day. Now that everything is settled down weather-wise and family-wise, and the turtles laid their eggs this past weekend, I can finish up the garden.

I have about three dozen tomato plants in and caged, with about a dozen or so to go. There are some healthy looking volunteer tomatoes that I am going to stake up too. The peppers are all planted: 4 jalapeno, 4 tobasco, and a dozen sweet bell peppers with one peter pepper for fun. Sugar snap peas are blossoming and the few strawberries that made it are turning red. The chickens found those today though, so none left for me.

I lost the battle with bermuda grass in the strawberry raised bed, and so DH is going to build me another taller one that I will line with landscape cloth to be the new strawberry bed. The old one will get nuked with black plastic. I'll dig it all out, line it with landscape cloth too, and make it my lettuce and greens bed next spring.

Other stuff that is planted and looking great after this past rainy weekend is Swiss chard, beets, Walla Walla onions, cucumbers, herbs, tomatillos, sweet potatoes, okra, zucchini, sweet corn, zinnias, and several kinds of bush beans. Still to plant: bloody butcher corn, another round of sweet corn, pole beans, melons, turnips, and kale.

Perennial garden stuff that is going gangbusters: asparagus, rhubarb, grapes, red raspberries, herbs, walking onions, goji berries, blueberries. There are going to be more red raspberries this year than I can ever remember having, all the bushes are loaded. I dosed everything with worm tea a couple of times and it all looks amazing. Wish I had started doing that years ago. Now we need some consistent summer weather.

 

[Siskiyoumom]

Well our garden has not been tended to as much as we had hoped due to my working full time till late June and hubby feeling very tired and ill and having muscle strains.

Finally got him to get a Physical Therapy appointment and he dutifully doing the prescribed stretching exercises.

We got two figs off of our fig bush planted two years ago.

We have been dealing with leaf curl on the peaches and have gotten two peaches so far this year. The one we got today had been bird pecked so we picked it and I plan to just got out the ucky parts.

Harvest the last of the Elderberry! Now I need to figure out if I will freeze them or dehydrate them. I need to check out recipes for that. Hubby wants elderberry jelly without white sugar so I have to find a good recipe for that.

The apple trees are going gangbuster on us and I had to convince hubby to let me thin some of the branches as they were so heavily weighted down with fruit the branches were at the point of breaking.

I did convince him to put stakes under the most threatened branches.

Got the peas pulled and will now be dealing with shelling them. Hubby wants to keep the best looking peas for seed for next year.

The blueberries were pretty well decimated by the birds. We are still in the polite "debate" mode of how to cover the dwarf fruit trees and berries to prevent theft by birds.

We have about 18 tomato plants and hubby was not able to get them staked up caged so I worked on that today. He was worried I would stress them too much.

Never got onion sets in so we are bummed by that!

The garlic harvest was good but hubby pulled them and laid them on the deck and a lot spoiled due to the high heat this month.

We are now working on getting the fall planting done.

So we are hanging in here and hoping to get a good harvest of the variety of peppers he planted.