Any gardners this year?

[bfreebern]

I expanded my garden to about 10x14 and it's going well. Planted onions, potatoes, broccoli, tomatoes, carrots, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumber, bell peppers, jalapenos.....think that's it. Finally was able to grow some broccoli, and had a damn good potato yield (first year growing them). I've pulled about 8 yellow squash, 3 jalapenos, cherry tomatoes, sunburst tomatoes.

Anyone else growing a vegetable garden and have pictures of them?

 

[Nashkicker]

I started a small 4x4 garden with 16 plants this year along with about 8 or 9 potted plants. Various peppers and 2 tomato plants. I have garden fever now! Can't wait till next year. i already have a plan to expand to Four 4x4 beds and a rack for beans and peas. pics on my facebook. Next time I update the photos I will post one here.

 

[robbiex0r]

My garden is about 20 x 6.5. This year I have 3 hop varieties, Chinook, Cascade, Centennial. I've got a vegetal mix of Broccoli, hot peppers, jalapenos, two kinds of tomatoes, tomatillos, a ton of lettuce, sugar snap peas, and what I thought were zucchini, but turned out to be pumpkins from the compost bin.

Here's a pic from June 7th:

Everything has tripled in size since then.
see? added a few things too

 

[vortex]

"I've seen this before. It happens to old people."

Sounds great, Brandon! We have tomato, strawberry, and green pepper plants.

 

[bfreebern]

I started a small 4x4 garden with 16 plants this year along with about 8 or 9 potted plants. Various peppers and 2 tomato plants. I have garden fever now! Can't wait till next year. i already have a plan to expand to Four 4x4 beds and a rack for beans and peas. pics on my facebook. Next time I update the photos I will post one here.

Yeah, it's the first thing I do when I get up in the morning and first thing I do when I get home from work. Not sure why, but I really enjoy it.

"I've seen this before. It happens to old people."

Sounds great, Brandon! We have tomato, strawberry, and green pepper plants.

For sure. The older I get, the more I do things that I would have laughed at myself for doing, 10 years ago :sign:



Looking good Robbie. Never thought about growing hops.

 

[Set-In-Stone]

This is my second growing season in NY. I made two raised beds 5' x 8' x 20". This year, I tried Mel Bartholomew's square foot. technique and nearly tripled my garden this year... I have 2 zucchini, 6 Sweet Bananas, 8 Cali-Wonders, 6 Jalapenoes, 2 cucumbers, 4 tomato, tons of carrots, basil, 8 Cubanelle, 3 Kestone Green Peppers, 4 Cherry hots, 4 HoleMoles, 18 garlic, 2 chives plants, lettuce, 4 Eggplant, Marigolds.... A lot of produce in these beds

 

[bfreebern]

Here are some of mine:

My garden security:

Hornworms that I pulled off my tomatoes yesterday, these things can eat a plant in a day or two, crazy things:

 

[nfulton]

This is my second growing season in NY. I made two raised beds 5' x 8' x 20". This year, I tried Mel Bartholomew's square foot. technique and nearly tripled my garden this year... I have 2 zucchini, 6 Sweet Bananas, 8 Cali-Wonders, 6 Jalapenoes, 2 cucumbers, 4 tomato, tons of carrots, basil, 8 Cubanelle, 3 Kestone Green Peppers, 4 Cherry hots, 4 HoleMoles, 18 garlic, 2 chives plants, lettuce, 4 Eggplant, Marigolds.... A lot of produce in these beds

Very pretty set up you have there. Is that coleus in the corner? Is it just for looks or do you actually use it :laugh:?

 

[2K6TBSS]

I would like to have a garden, but I don't have an area in my yard with enough sun to plant anything. I do have 2 tomato plants in pots sitting on my patio though.

 

[Set-In-Stone]

This is my second growing season in NY. I made two raised beds 5' x 8' x 20". This year, I tried Mel Bartholomew's square foot. technique and nearly tripled my garden this year... I have 2 zucchini, 6 Sweet Bananas, 8 Cali-Wonders, 6 Jalapenoes, 2 cucumbers, 4 tomato, tons of carrots, basil, 8 Cubanelle, 3 Kestone Green Peppers, 4 Cherry hots, 4 HoleMoles, 18 garlic, 2 chives plants, lettuce, 4 Eggplant, Marigolds.... A lot of produce in these beds

Very pretty set up you have there. Is that coleus in the corner? Is it just for looks or do you actually use it :laugh:?

Thanks a bunch... I am enjoying it very much. (sorry if the pics are a little big, I just learned how to resize them) I come from a long line of farmers,
unfortunately I just dont have the space like they did ! lol I also made a vertical garden for my lettuce out of rain gutters. It helped save space in my beds,
and was fun to build. To answer your Q, yes it is coleus, and i just like the way it looks. Needed a little something other than vegetables in there....

A little tip for tomato plants: Instead of cages, use the green metal fence stakes, and tie back with nylon stockings. The idea is that the natural
electric field generated in the earth charges up the metal, thru the nylon and into the plant. Apparently it's like "shock therapy" for your plants but
in a very productive way. Be sure to use nylon stockings and not cotton. Cotton fabric strips will absorb or block the flow. Happy Gardening !

 

[jfields]

I live in the hills of West Virginia where there seems to be more Granite than soil. I never had such a hard time getting something to grow in the soil until I moved here. I took last year off and had my neighbor bring in his backhoe to turn it all up so I could pull all the rock out.
Then I dumped all of my grass clippings and ashes from the wood stove on top to till it in this spring along with some organic fertilizer. The results were way more rewarding than two years ago.

We have watermelon, cantaloupe, sugar snap peas, bush green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, red and green bell peppers, jalapenos, eggplant, two different lettuces, tomatoes (better boy, beefsteak, and cherry), lots of corn, sweet basil, chives, garlic, and cucumbers.
The peas and green beans did not come up the first go around after planting to the recommended depth. I replanted about three weeks ago and just put under the surface. It all came up and it just starting to take off. Hopefully, not too hot for the peas.


Planted two rows of corn, then waited two weeks to plant another two rows, and then did the same for the final row. That way it does not all come in at once. It's the only thing I did successfully grow two years ago. A hybrid of yellow/white corn on the same ear called
Sugar Dot. Best corn I have ever eaten. :love:

Made a big pot of squash, zucchini, skinned tomatoes , with fresh garlic and basil last night for dinner. Life is good!

 

[bfreebern]

Damn John, nice job.

Is anyone else having to manually pollinating your squash/zucchini?

 

[LarryH]

Last summer was the first year in my "new" house and all I had were a few tomatoes in some existing raised beds. The soil was a horrible hard reddish clay substance that I attempted to improve with some MG potting soil and peat moss. It helped but not much. I did wind up getting 20 or so tomatoes from the 5 or 6 plants I had.

This spring I began a major project to provide a much better garden. For the primary bed I created a terraced garden using Supersoil. I also removed the soil from the existing raised beds and replaced it with Supersoil and filled some large tubs with Supersoil. I have several varieties of tomatoes including Cherokee Purple, Carbon, Green Giant, Tsar Kolokol, and a bunch more. I also have squash, cucumbers, onions, okra, eggplant, and several kinds of peppers.

Tomatoes with a large unripe Tsar Kolokol on the bottom left. I can't wait! :love:

Squash and the cucumbers are growing up a trellis that is almost seven feet tall.

 

[nfulton]

Damn John, nice job.

Is anyone else having to manually pollinating your squash/zucchini?

Plant some buddleia around the yard. Not only will it look good, it is low maintenance and will attract bees to do your pollinating for you and a great deal of butterflies which do the same, but look cooler.

No squash this year. We got the first of the new stink bugs that are killing all of it instead of eating other pests. Plus I had squash borers that played havoc with all of my vines.

 

[LarryH]

Damn John, nice job.

Is anyone else having to manually pollinating your squash/zucchini?

I haven't thought to try that but I probably will now. I've lost a bunch of my baby squash that rotted on the vine. I know it could be blossom end rot but it can also be from poor pollination. From what I remember it was more the whole fruit rotting not just the end which suggests poor pollination.

 

[bfreebern]

Damn John, nice job.

Is anyone else having to manually pollinating your squash/zucchini?

I haven't thought to try that but I probably will now. I've lost a bunch of my baby squash that rotted on the vine. I know it could be blossom end rot but it can also be from poor pollination. From what I remember it was more the whole fruit rotting not just the end which suggests poor pollination.

I either use a paint brush or Q tip and manually do it, just to ensure it's happening, since I don't have any pollinators. I know mine are poor pollination b/c the ones I don't get to, die off like yours.

Just make sure you're pollinating correctly, LOL. There are 2 different types of flowers. Also, the flowers are open early in the mornings, so that's when I do it.

 

[Dozerhead]

On a lark I decided to do a 3' x 6' garden this Spring. Unfortunately for me, I live in the Houston area which has not gotten any decent rain (until recently) in the past 4 months which is unheard of around these parts. I planted tomatoes, peppers, corn, squash and okra, but they haven't done too well despite watering almost every day. My tomotoes and okra have done okay, but the corn, squash and the peppers haven't done well at all. I've talked to other folks in my area that have gardens and most of them are having the same kind of trouble. I would like to do a Fall garden with some broccoli and winter squash. Hopefully the weather will be better by then.

 

[Set-In-Stone]

Everyones gardens look great !! John, - I deff. have garden envy.
Here is a pic of my vertical garden. I resized this pic so I hope it works??

 

[bfreebern]

I like the vertical garden idea, nicely done for sure.

 

[broblues]

20 tomato plants only this year. Didn't get them in until June 1st due to the extremely wet spring. Damn, I love fresh tomatoes.