Pic garden 2014

Garden is doing GREAT again this year. If all the produce comes along, we will be sharing with folks. Son worked his buns off getting it all in and planted. Oh yes he fired up the 706 and cultivator and earthway planter, and Troy built tiller. Hows your garden doing?
regards LOU.

Not as well as yours! The weeds are thriving but that's about all. Yours looks awesome.

Just put ours in. Looks better this year since the Troybuilt is working again. Not quite like yours though.

looks great,,,,nice job!,,,,I havent seen mine in two weeks,might let you know how it is this weekend hopefully

Lou- That garden looks awesome!

Greg

good looking garden and great looking soil. how do your potatoes do in the tree line? like your abutment also. mind if i share some from a few hundred miles south of you?

pete black,
Enjoyed your garden pictures. How many hundred of miles South of us are you? Looks like tropical paradise to me.lol.The potato's do great,only shaded part of the day,and the rest of the day gets sun,when available. We tried different approaches to the abutment,but this one worked out the best, and it was free. The only disappointment this year was the peach tree's died they made it 3 years,but this year we had a warm up for about a week, and then back to cold and snow until summer came.(no spring).

I was wondering how many people in your household does your garden feed? We have 6 in our household,plus a few friends that receive from our garden.This year look like the local food pantry will be the recipient of our produce,(free corn like Rusted Nuts claims)lol. Thanks again for your pictures,nice looking garden.
Regards,
LOU

Larry,
You'll catch up, just make sure to post some pictures when you get to your garden,when able. Your garden always looks spectacular.Take care,
Regards,
LOU

Dave,
Aren't those Troybilts nice, they make easy work of tilling. Thanks for your reply,
Regards,
LOU

Appreciate the comments, the garden is the thing you have to keep after, but sometimes other things take precident over it and is understandable. You keep trying,it will all work out.
Regards,
LOU

nw corner of Alabama. just wife and I at home but both sons live close, also large gardens attract birds, bugs, pests and friends. 40 tomatoes plants but 8 different varieties. pole beans with red blossoms are a heirloom variety from the late 1800's planted for fun, although good to eat. red blossoms attract bees and humming birds. thanks for your interest.

Lou, always fun to see yours, Larry's and anyone's for that matter! I look forward to it more every year. Pete's is well advanced LOL !!!

Well my upper is mostly planted need to toss the mulch on, won't have any weeds at all, works good, and I just got a nice $100 CL find, tow behind lawn sweeper, model with the roller chain, hopefully no issues, so I'll haul as much cuttings as I need from the adjacent field, I have plenty of that at least, the lower I just missed planting the corn with all this rain, been really busy and well, I'll have it late, but I've got 64, 70 and 90 day corn, and I have one row in the upper, planted, just coming up, so it won't be bad, I'll have to fool with it for pollination, it'll work out. Darned job search and helping others, kind of delayed me, but it won't hurt anything, I'm on a hill facing south, or the gardens are, and I have some plants well advanced, patio tomatoes, some larger bell pepper plants etc. usually works out, glad to say, and I should be freezing a bunch of broccoli this year!

Troy Bilt Horse, 7HP Kohler K161T- one pull start every time, earthway planter- I want a planet junior, or cole or something of that quality, I need it in these soils, 1 Bottom 110 plow, and a ferguson #25 disc harrow, and my old 850 ford, still earning its keep.

Billy NY,
Swell hearing from you, we to use mulch and compost. Neighbor has a horse farm with tons of manure that he lets us have. Son takes the 706 over and I drive the 1 ton truck with a dump box. We have a 2 shredders one on a lawn vacuum, the other is a small stand up. We shred a lot of leaves and layer in horse manure on top of each leaf bed. It sets all winter from August on til next spring when its spread on the garden and worked under. We use additional commercial fertilizer 10-10-10 plus others with ammonium sulfate. A different commercial fertilizer for the spuds.

This year only watered once, rain did the rest.We staggered our corn when planting by about two weeks apart. Now that means I have to get my new choppers in and working,as I dearly love my tomatoes and fresh corn. My mouth is barely healing,due to the diabetes,but I'm gaining on it,other than that I'm looking forward to harvest. Sounds like your under some pressure with job search and helping others,you just have to watch you don't over extend yourself.It's nice to help people isn't it? We do when we can. Truly hope your gardens makes out so you can enjoy the fresh veggies.
With warmest regards,
LOU

pete black,
That figures.lol. I sure wish we had your weather growing season, as we lost our peach trees. We had a three year growth on them,wham come that nasty winter this year,killed them both, we have one left and it to will probably croak. SIL drives truck and picks up fresh peaches from your neck of the woods and Georgia and brings them back up when he can, they sure are tasty. We might try some Bing cherry trees for replacement of our dead peach trees,sure like them too.If you can't beatem, join em.lol.

We cut back on our tomatoes this year, only have 8 tomatoes, 4 peppers, 4 cabbage, 8 broccoli plants. We put in 13 sweet potatoes (Georgia Jet), one year before last they grew to 4 lb one and a lot of 2-3 lb ones. Been eating the ones my wife canned from the garden all winter long . Tryed a small pumpkin patch this year,so we can watch for the great pumpkin to appear.lol. Thanks again for the swell post.
Regards,
LOU

Thanks Lou, hope you heal up soon, does not sound like a lot of fun what you are dealing with.

I spoke too soon, something got under the cyclone fence last night and ripped up all my roma/plum tomato plants, disrupted part of my row of corn, looks like I can reset them though, not nipped off, pulled out, been raining for 3 days now, and this is what always happens, can't work on the garden, back is turned and something sneaks in, the draw is the dried blood and bone meal I am sure, as I place that at the bottom of each plant, so it wasn't a 'chuck either, they just tossed the plants aside, possibly a skunk, raccoon or possum, will be one of those three, I think a possum, no discerning tracks, coon would be heavier and leave tracks. Hopefully the rain stops so I can deal with it, this is when I lose my patience completely, I will wire that darned fence up with leg traps, snares, booby traps and whatever I can, still my fault I forgot about a small gap on the bottom on just one side, starts raining, had a meeting with a recruiter yesterday, that went well. Got soaked this am blocking it off. 5' cyclone fence around it, with sharp edges on the bottom, must have been the gap, one good thing is I can illuminate the entire thing and if something is in there, like shooting ducks in a barrel, hope it ain't a skunk though LOL !!

Darned critters !!! Caught and released 2 adult chucks, where they won't come back, but one of the young which I saw with them remains, so I have to get him now too, or my wood shed posts are in danger, these darned critters just don't give up for nothing.

Your garden looks great. Since there's just my wife and me we've cutback on the garden size. My wife also has Earth boxes full of veggies. Our daughter started that 4 or 5years ago. I grew
the tomato plants from seed. Have about 24 planted. Had to fence in the one section to keep out the rabbits and ground hogs where the beans and beets are planted. Hal