The garden is starting to shape up... I would have joined in on the Great Pumpkin Contest but I need a few Jack-O-Lanterns... One of my compost bins sprouted a potato plant! Blueberries are getting close... Grapes are coming along... The chicks are doing well also...
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Looking great rhondy, I would be embarrassed to show pics of my weed patch this year. But I've had several zucchini and cucumbers this past 2 weeks and potatoes are blossoming and onions are looking good.
I planted popcorn two years ago, and it was just about fully ripe and the deer herd moved in and wiped out the entire crop in one night. Man was a I mad. Still haven't gotten revenge on them either.
nytrapper23
Global Moderator Swamptalker of the month 7/2013,12/2014
Ok, my garden is finally to the point where it looks like something is actually happening, so I figured I would share it with you all finally.
The first four rows are cabbage, 48 head in total, for sauerkraut later this year. The next row in is my jalepenos and some tomatoes for salsa. Cucumbers for pickles are next, followed by green beans for pickled beans, and another row of roma tomatoes for salsa and juicing. This hot, humid weather has this things going nuts. I think you can just about watch the plants grow.
The only thing showing any signs of producing so far are my grape tomatoes. Can't wait to eat these fresh off the vine.
rendezvous
Swamptalker Extrordinaire 07/15, 12/15 Swamp Talker of the Month - 2015 Swamp Talker of the Year
My wife and I made a move to square foot gardening in raised beds a few years ago. It is an intense way to garden, but makes it so easy to weed and care for. Last year I raised half of our beds an additional foot. That worked out great for tired, sore backs. This year I did the other half. We have four 4x8 beds and two 4x10. Boxes are filled with plain old black dirt, or as my grandfather (a farmer) would have said, black soil. We add a bale of peat and plenty of compost every year.
Peppers are doing well.
Sugar snap pod peas are not liking this heat wave, but for a 8ft row have given us plenty of fresh and a half dozen frozen quarts for cold winter enjoyment. Cucumber plants in front are starting to kick into gear. Nothing like a icy cold cuke salad in the summer.
Six tomato plants fill a 4x8 box, and worth every square inch. Can't wait for the first ripe one of the season.
Green beans are going nuts. Had to screen them because Bambi was eating them to the ground. Netting is a pain to deal with but keeps the deer out. Kept me out for weeding as you can see. Two zucchini plants fill the bed. And they have kicked in as well. Starting to pawn them off on anyone that will take them.
I had a tomato turning red, I checked on it, bottom rot! I had added Bone Meal for bottom rot last fall, maybe not enough? I'll be adding powdered milk in the am...
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
rendezvous
Swamptalker Extrordinaire 07/15, 12/15 Swamp Talker of the Month - 2015 Swamp Talker of the Year
My tomato plants are doing the same thing, last year they didn't? Last year I added lots of calcium via powdered milk and everything was great! I did add some bone meal in the fall as a long term remedy but maybe not enough? I am putting in a mega-dose this fall. I also planted potatoes close by, I now read this is a no-no, potatoes have a negative effect on tomatoes. I also have a Black Walnut near by, I always plant as far away from that tree as possible. Last year the black walnut tree had tons of walnuts(tomatoes did great) and this year no walnuts(Tomatoes not doing well)? I will be keeping track of this, coincident???
Pumpkin plant doing well and again only two pumpkins set so far??? Peppers galore! Onions starting to look good. Corn looking awesome! Potatoes, we'll see?
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
John Gusmano
Swamptalker Extrordinaire SwampTalker of the Month - 03/2015
WOW you guys gardens make mine look puny. lol I planted some of my garden in an X chicken pen this year. This is when it was young. I need to get some more pix now I guess.
I had added Bone Meal for bottom rot last fall, maybe not enough? I'll be adding powdered milk in the am...
