2012 Garden Thread

[fishleclair]

Just startin my garden, Tilled it yesterday, Bought some hangers too. Going to plant Carrots and radishes in em. 2 others have herbs in em and that will leave me 2 to plant dunno what in em yet?

Main garden is going to be peas, bean, taters, maters, zuc's and dunno what else. Corn grows good but the earwigs make a mess of em.

[tinknocker1]

my raised beds are doing great i been eating salads for over a month now .. taters are comming along also as well as my carrots ate all my radishes but have some more that will be ready in a couple weeks ;D

[patricimo54]

Your beds are looking really good. I have a small bed of brussel sprouts that the bugs have done a number on. Three out of my 10 tomato plants are looking promising, the other seven don't look so hot.

[tinknocker1]

May 13, 2012 21:50:03 GMT -5 patricimo54 said:

Your beds are looking really good. I have a small bed of brussel sprouts that the bugs have done a number on. Three out of my 10 tomato plants are looking promising, the other seven don't look so hot.

thanks .... i been having problems with slugs. i have not put any tomatos out yet i have 6 in the window that i started from seed and they are doing well ..i'm going to wait till the end of the month before i put my peppers and tomatos out ..

[Admin]

Those beds look awesome ;D
Looking great man. Thanks for sharing your gardening success with us.

[ninedeer]

hilled my potatoes fro the first time got bout 200 hills started,onions are looking good.got the rest of my seed to get put in hopefully this week.All my veggie plants are setting their waiting for me to get them in the ground.so many irons in the fire it crazy

[tinknocker1]

May 14, 2012 6:52:26 GMT -5 Admin said:

Those beds look awesome ;D
Looking great man. Thanks for sharing your gardening success with us.

thanks JC i have great success with raised beds you have better control with early season crops ! they warm faster and seeds germinate faster .. the right dirt and moisture control also ..i use the square foot gardening method....

[mike692]

I put the rest of my transplants out last week. I have a few odds and ends in the way of seeds to get in yet and that's it. Then it will just be weeding and harvesting. We've been getting a good many strawberries, and the raspberry plants are loaded. Nothing else out of the main garden but some greens. The asparagus is pretty much done as well.

[mike692]

Things are really moving along here now. We're swimming in peas. Both shell, and snow. We've also been putting up broccoli. The first round of potatoes are starting to die back, I've pulled some garlic, and soon the zucchini will be ready. And with the heat and periodic rain this has been a great garden so far.

[Nutso]

My goodness Mike, your garden is a thing of beauty!! I am totally embarrassed by my measly 2 tomato plants.

Keep the pictures coming!! ;D

[Ipostbulls**t]

Nice garden! We need rain so bad it's not even funny

[patricimo54]

Looking real good Mike ;D What little I got growing, (tomatoes, habaneros, and chilitepens) are doing okay, but wished I would have gotten my potatoes and brussel sprouts in a bit earlier. No squash for me this year. Too many distractions, a demanding job.

I hope I sound a little envious because I am. It has been awhile since I have had a garden like yours

[mike692]

I appreciate all the kind commments. Thank you!

This month I need to start thinking about the fall garden. I'll need to get some transplants going. Chinese cabbage, leaf cabbage, kale, and some others. Those things will probably go in the potato beds as soon as they're harvested.

[Admin]

Heck of a garden ya got there Mike. ;D

This has been a good year for me too. The best garden ever so far.

[ninedeer]

my garden has been doing really good too.Kohlrabi,red radishes,onions,leaf lettuce and Red Potatoes we have been eating.sure is nice eating fresh veggies out of the garden ;D

[mike692]

Well, Friday night was our first hard freeze. It killed pretty much everything that's frost sensitive. Even the plants in the greenhouse.
The fall garden is moving along. I have carrots, chard, some hardy herbs, turnips, beets, lettuce, green onions, leeks, daikon, broccoli, kale, and spinach.

The garden was mostly a success, although it didn't live up to the expectations I had for it earlier in June. My tomatoes all died. They got an early blight and I couldn't get it stopped. Fortunately I was able to harvest some tomatoes. Enough to make some sauce and salsa. Cucumbers were a bust.
The biggest producers were raspberries, peas, winter squash, summer squash, and popcorn. I have squash and corn everywhere in my basement right now! The potato harvest wasn't too bad either, although with all the moisture the later crops had some rotting issues. Peppers did well too.

Everything needs cleaned off now, and I need to plant garlic. And then it's just planning next years garden. I want to plant more fruit trees. Maybe some peaches. Definately blueberries and grapes. My current grapes are getting pulled and burnt. They've been there for over 6 years and they've never produced a crop. I'm trying a new location and a different variety.
The seed catalogs will be arriving soon. I can't wait!

[tinknocker1]

few things made it through the frost lettuce ,spinach ,carrots, radishes second round of cabbage and broch also have a zuc plant that got burnt pretty bad but has a couple little zuc that is going to make it

[woodsman416]

Nice looking garden you have there tinknocker. I picked my last veggies a week ago. Looks like you'll have it going for a while yet. ;D

[tinknocker1]

Oct 27, 2012 10:58:14 GMT -5 woodsman416 said:

Nice looking garden you have there tinknocker. I picked my last veggies a week ago. Looks like you'll have it going for a while yet. ;D

thanks man yea i'm going to try and keep the salad greens going for a while they like this cold rainy weather we have in the forcast ..

[trapperbud]

Pulled the last of my tomatoes today and burnt some piles of leaves in my garden plot . Going to put some chicken litter in my plot and till it in this weekend and let it break down over the winter . Hope to get a head start on my garden before spring .

[tinknocker1]

still pick'n a few things from the garden even after a day after thanksgiving ... brocc ,carrots ,lettuce ,radishes and spinach ;D

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Nov 23, 2012 12:39:52 GMT -5 tinknocker1 said:

still pick'n a few things from the garden even after a day after thanksgiving ... brocc ,carrots ,lettuce ,radishes and spinach ;D

Ain't nothing wrong with that ;D

[woodsman416]

Nov 23, 2012 15:21:16 GMT -5 @charder said:

Nov 23, 2012 12:39:52 GMT -5 tinknocker1 said:

still pick'n a few things from the garden even after a day after thanksgiving ... brocc ,carrots ,lettuce ,radishes and spinach ;D

Ain't nothing wrong with that ;D

I gotta agree with Charder there! ;D I've had brussel sprouts until Christmas but never had so many things still going on this late in the year. I'm givin' you a karma for keeping with it.

[tinknocker1]

Nov 23, 2012 17:09:08 GMT -5 woodsman416 said:

Nov 23, 2012 15:21:16 GMT -5 @charder said:

Ain't nothing wrong with that ;D

I gotta agree with Charder there! ;D I've had brussel sprouts until Christmas but never had so many things still going on this late in the year. I'm givin' you a karma for keeping with it.

thanks man i wacheda video on youtube a guy picking brussel sprouts under about a foot of snow pretty cool ;D

[trapperbud]

Let a few orka pods dry . I ripped them open this evening and saved the seeds . Got enough seeds to last a couple of years . Never saved seeds before if it works out I'm going to start saving a lot more next season .

[tinknocker1]

picked some carrots today







;D

[woodsman416]

Looks great! ;D

[patricimo54]

Looking good ;D

[Admin]

You're the gardening Guru here at the swamp. WTG man ;D

[tinknocker1]

thanks Bossman when i'm done mess'n in the garden i'm going to put out a couple lil grizzes and catch a couple coons i found a local buyer a county over see how he does ..prolly just freeze them and sell them green i have a knife and fleshing board along with the boards to put them up just don't have a place to do it right now....