How does your garden grow????? Pictures please.

18pancakes

We have a small garden in our backyard. The fence is approx. 8 feet high to keep out the many, many deer in our area. We haven't planted anything yet. I was thinking about filling it with perennials - asparagus or berry bushes maybe.

Dandelie

Oh that is a pretty space. I would love that. I am just starting. We rent, so it can't be too permanent. What did you use on top? Deer netting?

larrodarro

Dandelie wrote: »

What zone do you live in @larrodarro? I live in Zone 7. Our average last frost free day is May 15. I got some seedlings going though. 6 peach trees and 4 apple trees. 4 coffee trees (inside except for summer). Asparagus. And trying to germinate some strawberry seeds. They still haven't come up.

I spent some time outside this morning planting some Alaska peas (yum!) and red/white onion sets. I also noticed that my blueberry bush is starting to leaf out. It is a pink blueberry fruit. It didn't flower last year (bought it last year), so I am looking forward to getting some fruit off it this year. I bought some blueberry seeds to create more bushes, but they are stratifying right now.

I love that it is exercise with the deliciousness of food after all the hard work!

I'm in Zone 8B, about equal distance between Panama City Florida, Tallahassee Florida and Dothan Alabama. Average last frost for Tally is from 3-22 to 4-5 on different sites. I'm betting we had our last one a couple of weeks ago. {I put a lot of seed in the ground yesterday, so I had better be right}

larrodarro

18pancakes wrote: »

We have a small garden in our backyard. The fence is approx. 8 feet high to keep out the many, many deer in our area. We haven't planted anything yet. I was thinking about filling it with perennials - asparagus or berry bushes maybe.

Very nice. After 3 or 4 years of staying out, the deer found out they could jump my fence last fall. I'm going to put up a 2nd fence about 3 feet outside my existing fence. I'm leaning toward electric fencing, with lots of ribbons tied on.

larrodarro

I planted {Armenian, pickling and Marketmore} cucumbers, {Charleston Grey and Crimson Sweet} melons, {zukes, crook neck, straight neck and acorn} squash and banana cantaloupe yesterday. Also put some more Pruden's Purple tomato seeds in peat moss pucks, and planted 48 Chinese orange seed as well as 24 sweet kumquat seeds. Up-potted some tomatoes and put more in cups.

kshama2001

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larrodarro

I haven't checked on this thread for a while. I've got little beef steak tomatoes, acorn squash and crookneck squash. The two pepper plants I over-wintered are making pepper.




The Jalapeno Early {from this spring] has little peppers on it too.

Here is one of the Pruden's Purple tomatoes in my Red Neck Rain Gutter Grow System.



I can't remember what I've posted on here, so if I repeat myself, sorry.

I've got collards, kale, Swiss chard, spinach, five or six kinds of peppers, green beans, two kinds of onions, two kinds of sweet corn, soybeans, field corn {with Filipino pole beans planted with it}, carrots, Armenian cucumbers, acorn squash, banana cantaloupe, two kinds of melons {with sprouts of another kind I have to find space for}, two kinds of cucumbers, straight neck, crook neck and zucchini squash, and three kinds of sweet pumpkin growing in the ground. Still in trays, but needs planting is two kinds of cantaloupe, okra, and a bunch more kinds of peppers.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some of it.

RebeccaLansdown

Nice garden! I do straw bale gardening combined with some containers. This year I have sixteen new bales and a pile of last year's bales that runs down the middle of my garden. The old stuff has sage, onions, potatoes and lemon balm growing in it. So far this year I have red kale, peppermint, spearmint, Cherokee purple tomatoes, curry, lavender, crystal Apple cucumbers, lemon thyme, strawberries, and asparagus growing. I had two flats of seedlings growing inside but the cats are some of them and laid on the rest. Here is a photo of last year's garden followed by some from this year.





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This year's set up.

larrodarro

Looking good Rebecca. I have done a little straw bale research, but haven't got past that stage.

RebeccaLansdown

In my opinion it's the way to go. I got into it because the one flat spot on the property that my garden destroying dog can't get to also happens to have all of our utilities running beneath the ground. I'd love to talk to other gardeners throughout the summer and see how things are going. I don't know how to add people here but if anyone wants to add me I'm up for it.

larrodarro

The silks on my sweet corn is starting to turn. Shouldn't be too much longer now.



My Pink Eyed Purple Hull peas are about ready too.

sparrish531

First of the beets. Also ate sugar snap peas tonight.

Dandelie

Wow...sweet corn already? So jealous. Mine are about 3 inches high. LOL! I just had to pull up my onions because they kept sending up seeds. BUT...I have about 4 bunches of grapes that are starting to swell up. I am getting peas every other day. So far, it is slow. I cannot wait to have a lot of fresh produce!

larrodarro

We have ate corn twice so far, three times for peas and green beans. But we are making peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and squash everyday. My 2nd planting of corn, peas and green beans is doing really well. I planted on the 16th and the corn is about a foot tall. I buried soaker hoses when I planted, and they are liking it.

dozenmonkeyz

Very impressive gardens, guys! Can't beat fresh food grown yourself. I just do some herbs anymore; not enough time to manage veggies these days.

Hornsby

I have nothing on some of y'all but we are trying this year. Some random herbs and some random peppers and lemongrass. Also did a lavender pot near the hot tub.

Headrain

Dandelie wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

Nothing happening yet; two years ago:

I just read an article about direct composting where you dig a hole in your bed and dump your scraps. Within a week (provided you have enough earth worms in your soil), the scraps would be mostly gone. I am interested in this method. I saw you had a composter. I have been toying with that, but we have wild animals like bear, deer, hogs, and turkeys that I REALLY do not want in my yard.

I did direct sow of my compost and it seemed to work great - until the ground sprouted like crazy with tomatoes and a few other veggies that I did not plant! They came from the composted seeds. No lie, about 100 tomato plants. I'm pulling them like weeds.

Mr_Stabbems

synchkat

Mr_Stabbems wrote: »

ha ha ha

I've heard @williammuney is quite a gardener

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larrodarro

Mr_Stabbems wrote: »

If those were flowering and about 8 feet taller, I would expect to see doublejj flashing his thumbs up sign. {look him up on RIU}

larrodarro

Headrain wrote: »

Dandelie wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

Nothing happening yet; two years ago:

I just read an article about direct composting where you dig a hole in your bed and dump your scraps. Within a week (provided you have enough earth worms in your soil), the scraps would be mostly gone. I am interested in this method. I saw you had a composter. I have been toying with that, but we have wild animals like bear, deer, hogs, and turkeys that I REALLY do not want in my yard.

I did direct sow of my compost and it seemed to work great - until the ground sprouted like crazy with tomatoes and a few other veggies that I did not plant! They came from the composted seeds. No lie, about 100 tomato plants. I'm pulling them like weeds.

I'm putting my pea hulls and corn husk in the garden. But everything with seeds in it goes into the compost pile.

larrodarro

Hornsby wrote: »

I have nothing on some of y'all but we are trying this year. Some random herbs and some random peppers and lemongrass. Also did a lavender pot near the hot tub.

Most of my peppers are random this year. The Sharpie washed off the labels, so until the fruit gets ripe, it's a mystery.

larrodarro

Green beans.

larrodarro

Acorn squash, squash and cucumbers from a couple of days ago.

synchkat

Holy smokes...we just planted our garden last weekend. Squash here is a fall crop. guess that's what happens when you live in the great white North