How does your garden grow: 2012 Edition!

[Dawgboy]

Making progress here, The seedlings that did make it are doing well in the boxes, and I got 1/4 of the 10x20 plot planted in beans. Also all the tomatoes and peppers I direct sowed are all 2-3" tall and looking happy.



Crookneck squash

[OTTB]

My lemons seem to be pulling through whatever was messing them up. Have a few largeish lemons that look quite promising. Strawberry bushes are doing better now that the heat has arrived, tomato plant is doing ok, not producing like I thought it would.

[2005RedTJ]

I got everything into the ground after we got back from our honeymoon. Currently, the green beans, corn and cucumbers (all put straight into the ground as seed) are outperforming most of the stuff I started indoors ahead of time. The peppers are doing okay, a couple of the tomatoes too. The carrots, onions, potatoes are just now sprouting. And the one head of lettuce that made it from indoors to outside is doing well, the rest I just started from seed.

I'll get pics up one day of the garden and irrigation system I put together with a 1" PVC main line and 1/2" PVC rows with three 1/16" holes drilled every 6" along their length. The main has a shutoff valve at each end and each row has it's own shutoff.

[Silent Kube]

Finally got my main bed planted yesterday. I should have done it a month ago but I've been dealing with a back injury. Hey, better late than never right?

Planted 2 types of tomatoes, red & green bells, zucchini, peas, beans, 3 kinds of cukes, acorn squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, & jalapeños. I also have some summer squash in pots that I'll transfer when it gets a little bigger.

Also in pots are more cukes, zucchini, tomatoes, peas, beans, & peppers that I'm planning to grow upside down. If I still have any plants after that I have a second bed I can put them in after I get it prepared. I'll post a pic of my main bed tomorrow.

[NamelessStain]

All my plants have flowers on them now, except for the cayenne peppers and the citrus trees (which will be 2 years or so). The eggplants had awesome purple blossoms!

[slannesh]

A late start compared to most here but since it's just now staying above freezing at night most of the time there really wasn't much point in doing anything earlier

Transferred some seedlings that I'd purchased earlier in the week into bigger pots, it was all herbs for those, a couple of rosemary plants, basil, cilantro and parsley. And using the seedling pots they came in I planted some seeds from last year that I don't know if they'll be OK or not since they spent the winter in our storage unit. Zucchini, Sugar snap peas, yellow wax beans, green beans and spaghetti squash. Time will tell if they'll germinate or not but since I had them and the pots anyway I figured what the heck?

We've been busy getting the new house in order and my garage still looks like the Hulk had a play date in there with Thor, so I haven't really had any time to prep gardening stuff. Now that it's a bit warmer I'm planning on getting some 5 gallon buckets to do some self watering planters with. I've checked a few restaurants in the area but everyone looks at me oddly when I ask if they have any buckets I can have. My one line on cheap food grade ones didn't pan out so I'll be looking into other options or just buying a few in the near future.

The local greenhouses are in full swing and one of the ladies that runs one of them lives just up the street from me which is great since all I really know is that we're zone 3 and where my sunny spots in my yard are currently. I'm hoping to get more done in the next week before the long weekend. Pics to follow

[curryman]

1 foot gap between driveway and wall to backyard. Now full of peppers and tomatos. On wall are the Collards and cauliflower.




$8 auto waterer.






More later.

Curryman

[Dawgboy]

Really love your watering system Curryman. I have a bunch of drip, but it's not in as yet.

got my Kugel bed finally finished with the last of the composted Manure and 4" of topsoil. and then 15 heirloom watermelon and muskmelon vines I started from seed. The idea is all the old rotten Yucca trunks and brush and other yard debris will absorb a lot of moisture and rot faster, and keep the roots moist.


Also cut out 3 more beds that are getting Black eyed Peas in them tomorrow. each is 5'x5', for a total of 75 sqft.

[curryman]

Really love your watering system Curryman. I have a bunch of drip, but it's not in as yet.

Thanks, I'll use screws to tap the holes next time so I can close them if needed.

You should put pole beans on that chain link fence. Or watermelons.

[curryman]

Before:


Nine pots of Yukon Gold potatoes. Planted in about 5" of soil and added more as they grew.
After:


Wall of Cukes and Squash.


No pesticides here. Lionel the bug eating lizard.


Corn, peppers, stevia, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, tomatoes and cukes.


Second wall of squash and cukes. If you look close you'll find corn, basil, peppers and pole beans


You guys really have to try this stuff. Purple popcorn for the win. Grew a bunch last year. Great baby sized for stir fry.


I'm so ready for fresh squash.

Curryman

[curryman]

I went absolutely pepper crazy this year.

Thai red cherry
Golden cayenne
Mild jalapeno
mucho nacho jalapeno
Sante Fe Grande red
Sante Fe Grande green
Cowhorn
NM red
NM green
Big Jim red
Big Jim green
cayenne
Tabasco
Hot Banana
Mild banana
Hot red cherry
Cubanelle sweet

Buy P&G stock because the toilet paper supply will be low this year.

Curryman

[the_alias]

Balcony grow. Edible stuff is the big pot of beans and peas and the lettuce. Tomatoes need to be germinated soon. The major hurdle we have is high winds wrecking the garden.

I've stickied this now as well for the year.

[Dawgboy]

First harvest: Nevada lettuce. it was great on top of Haystacks last night, even my Girlfriend's 7 year old gobbled it up.


Here is where the Watermelons and Muskmelons are. I have 7 vines that will grow out of the Hugelkultur mound, which is about 5'x10' and 3 feet high in the center. Going to throw some sunflowers in there too. I have a plan for suspending the vines and melons once they get larger and grow off the hill.

[OTTB]

Curryman how are your potatos doing? I wanted to try some in a pot at my future in-laws but I was told that potatos just take over your whole yard. Also their garden is going crazy, they have three boxes about 4tf high, 2ft wide and 5ft long that I'll have to post pictures of.

[Silent Kube]

Curryman how are your potatos doing? I wanted to try some in a pot at my future in-laws but I was told that potatos just take over your whole yard. Also their garden is going crazy, they have three boxes about 4tf high, 2ft wide and 5ft long that I'll have to post pictures of.

I've never grown potatoes but I think that's only the case if you plant them in the ground. If you do them in a pot or a garbage can they should be limited to the container.

[Dawgboy]

I'm growing potatoes in wire bins. So far, so good. Seen some flowers too.

[curryman]

Curryman how are your potatos doing? I wanted to try some in a pot at my future in-laws but I was told that potatos just take over your whole yard. Also their garden is going crazy, they have three boxes about 4tf high, 2ft wide and 5ft long that I'll have to post pictures of.

I think they do well in pots. Easier to harvest at least. When ready I just dump the dirt out in my pile and pick up the yum yums.

Curryman

[Dawgboy]

My yellow squash is looking very happy.

[curryman]

My yellow squash is looking very happy.

I'll see your one squash and raise you one:


Well it's started. picked 2 on Sunday. This was this morning:


If I remember last year correctly there will be about 20 on Thursday and 230 on Saturday. By next Monday something around 17,453,000.

Hot red cherry pepper. About the size of a golf ball.


Curryman

[CarolinaPeach]

Our garden has: green beans, okra, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, eggplant, red peppers, banana peppers and two kinds of tomato plants. After this season, we'll do beets, turnip greens, collards and some Swiss chard. Our back yard is ringed with Mulberry trees and every year there is a bumper crop for the birds. We also have a fig bush but the ants always get the figs before we even know they're there.

[OTTB]

My garden has grown by 2 plants, a blackberry bush and a blueberry bush. Tomato plant is still not doing so well. It's going to be transplated at my future in-laws this weekend.

[2005RedTJ]

1 foot gap between driveway and wall to backyard. Now full of peppers and tomatos. On wall are the Collards and cauliflower.
More later.

Curryman

I never thought about staking the lines up off the ground to make them level. My system covers 5 rows of 20' long each, but it's so far off level that it has a hard time watering evenly. I might have to try your idea since my ground is so uneven.

[Dawgboy]

Some progress pics. All plants are from seed. Also planted the 3 5'x5' beds with green Lentils to both condition the soil and increase my seed stock. Also planted seeds for Cilantro(Corriander) Basil, Marjoram, Oregano, Fennel, and Cumin in the "Herb Garden". Pics on that later.

Tomatoes:


Corno Di Toro, and Red Globe Peppers: (It took forever to get this big, but now they are just shooting up)


Yellow Squash:


Armenian and Japanese Cucumbers:


More squash:


Nevada Lettuce: As you can tell by the gap, it's great!

[curryman]

Nice. Where did you get the weiner dog plant? On a lighter note: all the fucking european cucumber plants I planted from seed somehow morphed into butternut squash plants. WTF. Called burpee and bitched. I'll update later.

Curryman