Gardens (1 Viewer)

[colter ripton]

Who else has a vegetable garden going?

I put in the raised bed last year, but have been gardening for a few years now. I might start canning and pickling this year.


Let's see your gardens......and maybe share some tips/tricks about gardening.

For some reason it won't let me post pics right now....... I'll post when I can.

Colter

 

[Ghoti]

Nice! Pics?

We bought a house in September and really started getting the yard together this spring. I finished the vegetable garden about a month ago. So we're new at this. We also planted a bunch of fruit trees and bushes which have been doing pretty well. But my wife's parents and grandparents have been gardening their whole lives, so I just ask them about everything. I haven't bought pickles since I moved here about 9 years ago--they make the best and always have plenty. Here's a few shots:

We have some zucchini, green beans, pumkin, radishes, lettuce, paprika, Chili's, herbs and cucumbers. There are even 2 watermelons in there because the neighbor family just planted some seeds they had from a watermelon and ended up with 26 plants! We'll see if they bear any fruit.

 

[colter ripton]

Nice! Pics?

We bought a house in September and really started getting the yard together this spring. I finished the vegetable garden about a month ago. So we're new at this. We also planted a bunch of fruit trees and bushes which have been doing pretty well. But my wife's parents and grandparents have been gardening their whole lives, so I just ask them about everything. I haven't bought pickles since I moved here about 9 years ago--they make the best and always have plenty. Here's a few shots:


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We have some zucchini, green beans, pumkin, radishes, lettuce, paprika, Chili's, herbs and cucumbers. There are even 2 watermelons in there because the neighbor family just planted some seeds they had from a watermelon and ended up with 26 plants! We'll see if they bear any fruit.

Nice

What's the middle row?

 

[Mripton3]

@colter ripton

 

[Ghoti]

Some kind of lettuce called Lolla Rossa. I'm not sure what it's called English. Radishes are crazy little things, though. The lettuce I all bought as tiny little leafy plants already, and the radishes were just seeds. I planted them all at the same time and, as you can see, the leaves of the radishes are already bigger than some of the lettuce. Crazy how fast some of this stuff grows. The green beans are a bit slower. Planted 6 around each one of those posts and only three have reared their heads until now.

 

[colter ripton]

Ok

Here's a few pics.

Put in this big ass garden last year and took out my other 3 beds....... it's still a work in progress, but has been producing pretty good..... just put in a few more rows of greens yesterday.

 

[colter ripton]

Some kind of lettuce called Lolla Rossa. I'm not sure what it's called English. Radishes are crazy little things, though. The lettuce I all bought as tiny little leafy plants already, and the radishes were just seeds. I planted them all at the same time and, as you can see, the leaves of the radishes are already bigger than some of the lettuce. Crazy how fast some of this stuff grows. The green beans are a bit slower. Planted 6 around each one of those posts and only three have reared their heads until now.

Yeah I'm getting a lot of radishes already too....... I can plant radishes like 2 or 3 times in a growing season

 

[Ghoti]

Wow! That's the real deal. If I only had the space.

 

[colter ripton]

My squash and zucchini have gotten huge..... probably planted too many

 

[detroitdad]

I don't garden anymore. I used to have a 1000 square foot garden. We didn't use pesticides for the bugs. I put a bird bath, bird feeders, and roosts. I let the birds eat the insects

Keep the garden weeded, well fed, and give them plenty of room to grow and you'll be successful. I enjoyed it when I did it.

We also canned and pickled all kinds of shit.

 

[Anthony Martino]

No garden but I did just make a flower bed

 

[mattduck]

 

[duffman]

I used to grow hot peppers. At the time, the bhut jolokia (ghost pepper) was the hottest in the world. Had a nice assortment as well as some hybrid types. Would love to eventually grow some hops. I know at @Irish has an impressive hop garden. How's the crop growing this season?

 

[mattduck]

I got 5 different pepper plants growing at this point. 3 plants made it through winter and added 2 more.

Going outside and working the garden after work keeps me more sane, liking working out.

 

[DrStrange]

Death, decay, desiccation . . . . . That is my garden this year here in the middle of no where Texas..

No significant rain in months. Unseasonably late cold followed by early hot weather. We cracked 100 degrees in May.

Many varieties of vegetables / fruit stop setting at some point as it gets warmer. We got two tomatoes this year. Most years we get hundreds of tomatoes even after the dog eats what he can reach. No peppers. The fig tree is barely holding fruit, even the leaves are dropping off the tree in distress. The established herbs are ok but the replanted herbs are 100% dead.

It is understood that the hottest part of summer generally ends the gardening season. Maybe the peppers will make it through ok. Perhaps one or two others can be nursed through. The Herbs are likely ok if given enough water. Not this year. We skipped spring and early summer. Basically it went from unseasonable cold to way too hot in six weeks.

Better luck next year - - - - - Except I am moving and will not have room for a garden like I have now.

DrStrange

 

[colter ripton]

Death, decay, desiccation . . . . . That is my garden this year here in the middle of no where Texas..

No significant rain in months. Unseasonably late cold followed by early hot weather. We cracked 100 degrees in May.

Many varieties of vegetables / fruit stop setting at some point as it gets warmer. We got two tomatoes this year. Most years we get hundreds of tomatoes even after the dog eats what he can reach. No peppers. The fig tree is barely holding fruit, even the leaves are dropping off the tree in distress. The established herbs are ok but the replanted herbs are 100% dead.

It is understood that the hottest part of summer generally ends the gardening season. Maybe the peppers will make it through ok. Perhaps one or two others can be nursed through. The Herbs are likely ok if given enough water. Not this year. We skipped spring and early summer. Basically it went from unseasonable cold to way too hot in six weeks.

Better luck next year - - - - - Except I am moving and will not have room for a garden like I have now.

DrStrange

It's been really hot here in Nebraska also. We have had some rain though and I water the shit out of them when it's in the upper 90s. My pepper plants aren't doing great, and my beets are still pretty small. A lot of the other plants are growing really good though.

I've found that when it's really hot there is a fine line between watering enough, and watering too much. I try to water every morning so I can at least go out there and see how everything is doing. I also have a drip hose set up on a timer.

I don't use any pesticides, or chemicals at all. I have started experimenting with putting different plants together too keep the bugs off. I have also started putting certain flowers in the garden that bugs don't like. I also think they help draw in the pollinators. So far the only thing that has been getting eaten is my cabbages. They always do though for some reason. I am thinking about sprinkling them with some diatomaceous earth. I haven't used it before but I read good things.

 

[colter ripton]

I used to grow hot peppers. At the time, the bhut jolokia (ghost pepper) was the hottest in the world. Had a nice assortment as well as some hybrid types. Would love to eventually grow some hops. I know at @Irish has an impressive hop garden. How's the crop growing this season?

I had some ghost peppers one year when the kids were younger. I told them we were going to raise them on anger to make them hotter. We use to yell insults at them when we were in the garden. Lol it's because of that Burger King commercial with the angry onions a few years back.

 

[ejot]

This is the last garden I did at home a couple years ago. Maters, peppers, squash, cukes, and tried watermelon. Got ... one.

We also did bhut jolokia. I took about a half-pepper sized bite out of one. That was a BIG mistake!

Last year and this year I put in a huge garden at my mom's. It was kind of a disaster last year so we scaled it back, but it's still pretty big. She doesn't really like weeding, so I'm gonna see how the landscapers fabric and hay work.

We got a late start, this was a couple weeks back. 19 maters.

 

[Payback]

Weed garden on the right as the plot was massive and we don't need it all. On the left we have everything from tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, cantelope, pumpkins, and my boys pride and joy. His sunflowers which are now taller than he is. Trying to figure out what will work in this region.

 

[Irish]

I know at @Irish has an impressive hop garden. How's the crop growing this season?

The hops are doing pretty well, 2 have just about made the full trellis climb, a third is almost there and one didn't fair so well (I got a late start training the bines, I think I snapped the last one). Cascade, Centennial, Fuggles and

I also have a veggie garden, off to a pretty good start considering we had a very cool (snow in April) and overabundantly wet spring here. The biggest problem with all the rain has been the weeds, they have really gotten out of hand (to the point where I'm fairly embarrassed to post pics ....). Everything here was started from seeds in my basement. (y) :thumbsup:

I don't have a huge yard (very jealous of some of the photos here), right now I have three 4'x8' raised beds, two 2'x8' raised beds and the hop garden. 2/3 the garden is encased in a hoop style green house. The growing season here in Jersey is a bit limited (May-August/September), the greenhouse gets me an early start and I'm still getting tomatoes up until ~Halloween. The "outside" bed get the cukes and zucchini. Two years ago, I lost nearly all my tomatoes to a late season blight (very muggy August). So last year I installed a drip irrigation system to help keep everything above ground drier, what a huge difference and incredible time saver. They're fairly cheap, I'd highly recommend them if you're looking to upgrade (or are short on maintenance time).

Greenhouse portion of the garden:

Inside, just finished harvesting the last of the lettuce, with grew like crazy with the cool weather.

Tomatoes inter-planted with green beans:

Peppers (struggling so far, it's been cool up until the last couple of weeks)

San Marzano tomatoes (seeds from Italy):

 

[Irish]

Nice! Pics?

We bought a house in September and really started getting the yard together this spring. I finished the vegetable garden about a month ago. So we're new at this. We also planted a bunch of fruit trees and bushes which have been doing pretty well. But my wife's parents and grandparents have been gardening their whole lives, so I just ask them about everything. I haven't bought pickles since I moved here about 9 years ago--they make the best and always have plenty. Here's a few shots:


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We have some zucchini, green beans, pumkin, radishes, lettuce, paprika, Chili's, herbs and cucumbers. There are even 2 watermelons in there because the neighbor family just planted some seeds they had from a watermelon and ended up with 26 plants! We'll see if they bear any fruit.

Dude that has to be the cleanest, neatest, most organized garden I've ever seen. (y) :thumbsup: Are you an engineer or an accountant?

 

[Lemonzest]

we have veggies n stuff but the calla lillies pump me up!

 

[colter ripton]

A few updates pics

Producing alot of veggies. Havent been able to give away/ eat them all so started donating the extras.

 

[Mripton3]

And the sprinkler system works great! Lol

A few updates pics

Producing alot of veggies. Havent been able to give away/ eat them all so started donating the extras.


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[colter ripton]

 

[Payback]

 

[xxmurrxx]

No pics as of now but been running 4 raised gardens for veggies the last couple of years. Been going crazy with the hot peppers, making homemade salsas, hot sauce, jalapeno poppers, etc.

Only tips I could offer would be to save your old coffee grinds, use them to fertilize the dirt, also you can bake old egg shells to add to your dirt.
At the end of the season try and collect some old seaweed from a marina, Plant this and it will really fertilize your dirt for the next year.

 

[FriendlyDonkey]

Some nice looking gardens here. I have been gardening for many years, but decided to take the year off since I am busy with work and falling behind on other projects, as well as, a frustrating 2017 season; excessive heat followed by an excess of rain, pests, and disease. It's frustrating to work hard on something for months and then have it fall apart at peak, though the fruits of the labor are priceless. I'll try to pull up some photos of past seasons and share later.

 

[Lemonzest]

No pics as of now but been running 4 raised gardens for veggies the last couple of years. Been going crazy with the hot peppers, making homemade salsas, hot sauce, jalapeno poppers, etc.

Only tips I could offer would be to save your old coffee grinds, use them to fertilize the dirt, also you can bake old egg shells to add to your dirt.
At the end of the season try and collect some old seaweed from a marina, Plant this and it will really fertilize your dirt for the next year.

I knew about the eggshells and coffee grounds but didn't know about seaweed! Good tip!

 

[pltrgyst]

Am I the only one dumb enough to keep returning to this thread thinking the title is "Gardenas"?