How is your garden coming?

guido

Well-known Member
Hello,

After some weeding and planting the garden, it is looking pretty good. To-day I added some mulched leafs. It is now raining on it so gently, I'm happy!

Guido.
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My wife calls it a garden, I call it a field. It is just shy of 1/4 an acre and I grow to sell to a friend with a farm stand, and some for us too. We have had a lack of rain and heat, except for the bunch of nights with frost warnings. Summer squash, peppers, zucchini and eggplant are all under the tunnles. Have three rows of beans in there, a row of beets and carrots, and plenty of room to go.
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Hello hotflashjr,

Nice looking garden! Looks like no weeds allowed. My garden is 12 1/2 feet by 22 1/2 feet, yours looks more like a farm to me. Hot and dry here as well, but it is raining here still ever so gently! Selling some make it even
better..........

Guido.
 
About the only thing I have planted is cabbage and broccoli. A friend gave me an 8 x 8 one-piece kennel so I set it up in the garden and wrapped the bottom with chicken wire to keep the rabbits out. Working so far. Hope to plant potatoes this weekend. It's been too cold for seeds to germinate lately.

Larry
 
I have to get my tomato cages on, or I won't be able to. Plants are 2' tall now, cages are 5' tall, then the plants sprawl across the tops. I've got arugula (roquette), wild and domestic (yellow and white flowers) getting ready to set seed, cilantro is blooming like crazy. Both are what winter-over under glass. When it warms up a little more, lettuce will do the same.

Going to have a bumper raspberry crop this year, they liked all the cold and snow we had. These vines are wild, salvaged from a large excavation I did for a client a few years ago. Small berries, huge flavor. And no, never had a bear find them. Maybe they settle for blackberries elsewhere. I discourage bears around the house.

My yuccas apparently enjoyed the cold and snow also, getting ready to put on a big show, though I gave away 40 of them this spring.
 
Guido, Here is a photo of my potatoes Wednesday. Hilled them up the third and last time and will put the water to them this weekend. Hope to can a couple hundred quarts this year.
We love taters.
Richard in NW SC
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Here's 1/2 of my garden last year. I now have tomatoes planted where the beans were grown. I had to install a fence
due to the ground hogs and rabbits. I buried the fence 6 inches deep just in case they started digging. Hal
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Here in western NY tonight I'm covering up my plants - most likely a frost. That's not normal around where I am for this time of year.
 
Hello El Toro,

I have a mole problem, and a rabbit problem as well. For the mole I am going to install the corrugated board you see in the picture. I did the corner already. I cut 12 in. pieces and they are going down 12 in. If the rabbit gets bigger he may not fit the fence. If he goes in now, I'll have to fence the top as well. I lost one plant to the mole, only planted six tomatoes plant, now I got 5!

Guido.
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Guido, I planted my garden using a PHD. Tomatoes and peppers were growing in green house, so no rush to plant. Besides in the past, I've had a late frost at the end of May. This year no frost, but we did get in the 40's. I filled my holes with last years mulch, leafs, grass clippings, hay, horse poo, sawdust, and Ag lime. As you can see I have natural rain barrels, the Post Holes are settling. I only water the holes, not where the weed will grow. Only takes seconds per plant. Don't till either. I figure why make it easier for weeds. The bags in the pic are leafs from last year. In a few weeks, before weeds get growing, I will cover everything with leafs. NO TILLING for me, ever again, I'm NO TILL gardening. Plant, pick and clean off in fall with loader. Put that stuff in mulch pile. Tomatoes vines have a special mulch pile, not for garden use. I wasn't back far enough to show all the garden. I made 20 holes for tomatoes and peppers. The pile of dirt in the back is for pickles and zucchini.

I also included my wild strawberries growing between flowers that line the pole barn. The wild strawberries have a flower and the red berry tastes like dirt. However, they make a nice filler between flowers, no weeding there either, No pulling weeds in flowers. Using nature to work for me.
George
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Hi guido et al, I have 2 gardens, one by the house
and one about 5 or 6 hundred ft away. The house
garden has potatoes 18" tall hilled 3 times. Also beets
carrots, spinach, peas. Peas are 1' tall and climbing
the chicken wire. The big hgarden (80×90) has taters
3 rows hilled once. Planting corn and squash soon,
mostvgoes out thru fruit stand. Don't know how to post
photo. Happy with garden so far. I forgot! I have another
area up the hill for straight 8 cucumbers. Just planted
30*c today. Irrigation on whole orhard . Ed will oliver bc
 

Caged/mulched maters today... Every thang else is coming along good other than the haft runners did not come up...

A bud stopped by with a bag of rabbit poop and told me to try it... SOOO I mix up some into rabbit Tea and could tell a big difference in a couple of days...
 
Hello ed will,

Here two-day was 21*c and sunny. BC as in Btritish Columbia? I need to move from this cold climate,HaHa!

Guido.
 
Hi guido et al, I have 2 gardens, one by the house
and one about 5 or 6 hundred ft away. The house
garden has potatoes 18" tall hilled 3 times. Also beets
carrots, spinach, peas. Peas are 1' tall and climbing
the chicken wire. The big hgarden (80×90) has taters
3 rows hilled once. Planting corn and squash soon,
mostvgoes out thru fruit stand. Don't know how to post
photo. Happy with garden so far. I forgot! I have another
area up the hill for straight 8 cucumbers. Just planted
30*c today. Irrigation on whole orhard . Ed will oliver bc
 
Hi guido et al, I have 2 gardens, one by the house
and one about 5 or 6 hundred ft away. The house
garden has potatoes 18" tall hilled 3 times. Also beets
carrots, spinach, peas. Peas are 1' tall and climbing
the chicken wire. The big hgarden (80×90) has taters
3 rows hilled once. Planting corn and squash soon,
mostvgoes out thru fruit stand. Don't know how to post
photo. Happy with garden so far. I forgot! I have another
area up the hill for straight 8 cucumbers. Just planted
30*c today. Irrigation on whole orhard . Ed will oliver bc
 
guido,


Please try the trap called mole eliminator.....I am not any way attached to the company. Seriously, I have trapped a dozen ( maybe more) last year, got my fourth one this evening. It costs a tad but a fuzzy vermin is caught nearly every time.

D.
 
We are on the opppsite end of the spectrum rain-wise here in NWIA. I have a hard time getting the weeds to die after i till because it rains again and replants them. We have had 9.74" since the first of April. It has come in relatively small amounts, no floods or anything like that, but the frequency of the rains is getting old. The garden plants are doing great. Spuds have been in since April 13 but they are just now taking hold and really growing. We have harvested a little spinach and lettuce but the peas have a long way to go. The beans are just coming out of the ground and the squash is just planted. Sweet corn is three inches tall.
 

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