A good morning in the garden

larrodarro

Hey guys. It finally calmed down enough here at the Larro Ranchero that I got back to my regularly scheduled psychotherapy session this morning. That is a good sweat in the garden. I side dressed the melons and cantaloupe, and go them hoed out good. I plowed the peas, but couldn't remember if I had side dressed them earlier, so I waited until I could check on my garden thread at my tractor site. {that is how I keep up with planting dates, and the like} Also hoed part of the corn, but it got a little too sweaty, so I called it a day before I finished that.

Now for a few pictures. This is just on the way to the garden, but Orange is just too cute not post this. We have farm cats and not many of them are friendly, but Orange is one of the friendly ones.



Before and after shots of the melons.

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The Banana cantaloupe were a whole lot less weedy than the melons. There are a few volunteer melons that had come up after I tilled in the melon patch, and I left the best looking ones.

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This planting of peas is where the first planting of Banana cantaloupe were. I had plowed them once, and thought I had cleared out most of the volunteer cantaloupes, but I was mistaken.





Against my better judgment, I saved a few of the volunteer cantaloupes. When I'm hopping around on one foot trying to pick the peas I will regret it. But they just looked too pretty to plow all of them up. Like I said before, I couldn't remember if I had side dressed the peas or not, so I waited.

likitisplit

Yum!

Anahita_Swims

you garden looks amazing! i moved in to my house in december and I'm working on renovating it its a slow process here is mine so far

I spend most sunny days there





its just going to take a long time to get right

its obviously not sunny today

MariadfdCruz

Nice photos! I did a little of my back garden and front-garden... It is nice to share

bugaboo_sue

My garden:







A small portion of what we've harvested. We have done a LOT of canning and freezing:

muggzie399

Nice! Having a so called hobby with something to produced to show for it! Cool!

CJisinShape

Gardening IS so wonderfully theraputic. But, two things:

1) lugging 50lb bags of dirt/mulch/whatever is, literally a drag and

2) helicopter parenting cucumbers (is that a dent in the stem?! Oh no, call the garden center!).

Your gardens look great! Enjoy!

Gawanne

I envy you so much all that space. My garden is very small but I love it and all the little critters who live in it. Chipmunks, possums, etc. Reminded me of an old verse

A garden is a blessing, but the job was never done,
By saying "oh how wonderful"' and sitting in the sun.

larrodarro

you garden looks amazing! i moved in to my house in december and I'm working on renovating it its a slow process here is mine so far

I spend most sunny days there



its just going to take a long time to get right

its obviously not sunny today

You are off to a good start. This is my biggest garden in years. It has been a joy, but it has been hard keeping up with it too.

larrodarro

My garden:

Very nice tomatoes. I had six rows of 12-15 plants per row that I grew from seed. They were cherry, beefsteak, Roma and Rutgers. The cherry's did best, but all of them suffered from early wilt, and I picked the last of them about a week ago. I bought some Cherokee Purple tomato plants, and they are blooming already. But I'm afraid they are going to get the wilt too. I guess I will have to grow tomatoes in containers.

sistrsprkl

Some great looking gardens on here! I love gardening but we recently sold our house in the mountains and with it, my ever-growing garden. We're temporarily in a rental that has a sunroom, here's my little container garden. At least there are lots of fruit trees in the backyard!



And yesterday's bounty:

larrodarro

Some great looking gardens on here! I love gardening but we recently sold our house in the mountains and with it, my ever-growing garden. We're temporarily in a rental that has a sunroom, here's my little container garden. At least there are lots of fruit trees in the backyard!

And yesterday's bounty:

Those are great looking plants. We did more container gardening year before last.

rowlandsw

Sure beats our garden, the weather's been so weird that not much has grown. For a while we didn't think we were going to have tomatoes but now we can't pick them fast enough. Something got thru the fence and ate the asparagus we had planeted. Our cats help with the garden work by laying where you want to dig, attacking you and the plants as you weed, and using any of the plants they can get under as shade.

larrodarro

I got out just before dark and picked a few peppers, cucumbers and squash. This is my 2nd planting of cucumbers and squash. I grew all the peppers from seed, except for a few Jalapeno.

This is one of the hottest peppers there are, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper. I'm not really into hot hot peppers, but a friend gave me a few seeds.



We had a bad thunderstorm this afternoon, and the pepper plants are short. So there is sand splashed up on all of them. These are some bells.



The same bells, with Cayenne in the background. I also have New Mexico Chili's and Jalapeno.



Straightneck squash,

sistrsprkl

Great looking peppers. This is the first year I've had success with them. I just did bell, fresno, and the chartreuse ones in my pic, forgot what they're called. I cut up a fresno in my lunch and then must have not washed my hands very well before I rubbed my eye. Ouch!!!

larrodarro

Sure beats our garden, the weather's been so weird that not much has grown. For a while we didn't think we were going to have tomatoes but now we can't pick them fast enough. Something got thru the fence and ate the asparagus we had planeted. Our cats help with the garden work by laying where you want to dig, attacking you and the plants as you weed, and using any of the plants they can get under as shade.

I know about cats getting in the way. We have one who changed her name {well, I guess I changed it for her} to Hell B!tch. This summer when my 7 year old grand niece came from Colorado, I had to change it to Bad Word. She will rub against the plants until they break off if I don't chase her off.

This is when I was side dressing the 1st planting of Crimson Sweets. She wouldn't move, so I covered her front legs up with dirt. It didn't seem to bother her much.

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Here is Bad Word helping check on the Pinto Beans.

larrodarro

Great looking peppers. This is the first year I've had success with them. I just did bell, fresno, and the chartreuse ones in my pic, forgot what they're called. I cut up a fresno in my lunch and then must have not washed my hands very well before I rubbed my eye. Ouch!!!

I did that with a chili pepper. I had been telling my wife how mild they were, that it was alright to add two to the salad. I ended up rubbing my eyes and as mild as they were, it still burned like the devil.

Anahita_Swims

its 40C on my patio in the sun guess what im doing today

MSeel1984

I envy you...mine didn't take off this year like I wish it had.

larrodarro

its 40C on my patio in the sun guess what im doing today

That's hot. I hope you are in the shade.

Anahita_Swims

he ambien temp was only 22 still got sunburnt neck and back

Notreadytoquit

Lovely curves really give character to that very linear space. Just gorgeous. You obviously have skills.

I like to do a major project every spring & fall plus culling invasives when bees & snakes are dormant. It's amazing how much you can get done over the years (30+ now).

j4nash

jealous! my garden is sprouts

Notreadytoquit

I love to garden but haven't gotten hang of posting.

larrodarro

I was looking back at some of my garden photos this morning. My 2nd plantings of everything is doing bad compared to the first time around. This was back in June when everything was coming on like gangbusters. Midas, the back yard cat, was helping my that day.

Included in the photo, corn, squash, onion, tomatoes, flowers and pinto beans.

larrodarro

Some of my peppers.





And the 1st couple of melons on the volunteer Crimson Sweet vines.

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Margie and I clipped most of the gourds this afternoon. These are the snake gourds. The darker ones were clipped a couple of weeks ago. I hope the newer ones don't turn black too.



And the dipper gourds.

larrodarro

It looks like what I was calling the volunteer Crimson Sweets are not Crimson Sweets. Maybe I crossbred the melons and Banana Cantaloupe. Time will tell. {I forgot to offset the picture when I was taking it. Sorry}