Let's see those '11 gardens!

[jjirons69]

Nice Arties, Lance!

My squash are loaded. I figure I'll get 25-30 in about a week. Saw some cherrie tomatoes about marble-sized. Peppers are flowering. Also dug a few potatoes from the compost bin.

[thebayratt]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

I finished plumbing the PVC for the irrigation yesterday. Now the watering can be automated. I recycle PVC that has been used for many things before. It's starting to get a lot of unions in it.
Nothing in the ground yet, but that should change by the end of the week.
I'm planting one box with perennials. Mostly berries, maybe asparagus if it grows here. Everbearing strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, so far.

Thats what I want to try out next year. Run PVC pipes and a few sprinklers/drips for better water control. That and make another 10x20' addition to my garden.


I have gotten about 4+gallons of snap beans. I got 2gallons, the nieghbors got a gallon each and I probably got 3-4more gallons left growing.
My carrots are about pencil thick and 3" long.
The cukes have umpteen blossoms and minis showing up.
The Lima beans have tons of bloom and a few beens popping up.
The Soybeans will be picked either the end of this week or next week.

[Ahbroody]

Going to transplant the tomatoes today. Wife wanted them in individual containers. Got everything today.

[AUguy]

This is my entire garden until this summer.



Just some sweet basil in my hotel room. I have way more than I will ever be able to use by myself. I think I am going to start drying some to save. I am fighting the flower buds. It seems like every time I turn around it tries to bloom.


In about 10 weeks I will be able to grow some tomatoes and peppers. The only problem is that by then the heat will really stress out the plants so I will not have great yields. Maybe next year I will be able to get a "normal" job so I can plant the garden I have been day dreaming about for the last several years.

[SvilleKid]

Sweet Corn, Tomatoes (6 varieties), Peppers (only 2 varieties this year), new potatoes, Green Beans, Butterpeas, Sweet Potatoes, Pink-eye purple hull peas, squash, zucchini, cucumber, okra, sweet Texas yellow onions. I think that about gets all in the pics.

[Mr B]

Nice pics. Totally jealous of the size of some of your yards!

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by Mr B

Nice pics. Totally jealous of the size of some of your yards!

LOL! With 6 acres total (maybe 4 in woods), the garden is a productive and tasty way of having LESS grass to cut/care for!

[Volusianator]

Damn, everytime I see this thread, I read it as, "Let's See Those 11 foot Gardens" and I think to myself, "is there some sort of special garden thats only 11'?

[gvarsity]

Love looking at the garden pics. Hopefully when the ankle biters are knee biters I'll have time to start a garden and they can help. Till then just do a CSA share for veggies and fruit.

[shilala]

I put three more bushes in out front today.
I also tore apart an old workbench and have 2-2'(?)x8'x4" frames that will work perfect for a micro lady garden.
I guess something is better than nothing, right? I'll find a spot to put them in the back yard and start filling them with poop and dirt. There's tons of silt that washed out of the empty lot next door, plus Lowe's is aching to sell me more poop, so I'm gonna run on over there after a bit and gank some poop.
I'm really thrilled to put in a zuchini and maybe a couple tomatos and some lettuce and cukes. Just enough for salads, ya know?

Currently under construction

[Fordman4ever]

not really a garden, but when you live in base housing its pretty much all you can do.

Originally Posted by Fordman4ever

not really a garden, but when you live in base housing its pretty much all you can do.

Is that a tomato growing down through the bottom?

[Fordman4ever]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

Is that a tomato growing down through the bottom?

Yep.

The dogs tore up all the newly planted tomatoes to get to the fish meal in the bottom of the holes. So I spent the day yesterday putting up a fence because we planted a lot more. Beans, peas (even though I think it's too late), melons, onions, cucumbers, squash, peppers, eggplant and more tomatoes is what I can remember. I have a lot of seeds to plant too. Carrots, more beans, corn, beets, bok choi and something else.

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

The dogs tore up all the newly planted tomatoes to get to the fish meal in the bottom of the holes.

My mom has similar problems with the bonemeal for her flower bulbs. But it was squirrels that were digging up bulbs for meal, not dogs! Depending on where you are, it's probably NOTtoo late for re-plantings. You might need to use some sevin dust later on to limit bug damage and extend harvest times as it gets hotter. Just depends. Vine wasps for squash come to mind off the bat. Good luck!

[OLS]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

So I spent the day yesterday putting up a fence

I think some will hate me for this, but you know what costs the same as putting up a fence
and works better?? A little electric fence unit. You can get em at farm supply stores, and they
provide a very educational pop. Testing them is fun, too, haha. But if you hang little streamers or
cds from the shock wire, you can trun the shock unit off after a few pops and I promise you they
won't go near it the rest of the season.

Originally Posted by OLS

I think some will hate me for this, but you know what costs the same as putting up a fence
and works better?? A little electric fence unit. You can get em at farm supply stores, and they
provide a very educational pop. Testing them is fun, too, haha. But if you hang little streamers or
cds from the shock wire, you can trun the shock unit off after a few pops and I promise you they
won't go near it the rest of the season.

Yep, that's next.

[OLS]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

Yep, that's next.

Best thing about the elctric fence is it has so many uses, well, all of them are teaching dogs a hard
lesson, but the wire is so cheap you can run that shizzle everywhere you want to control behavior
and man, does it work. Done training the garden gnomes, string some up off the fence line. The one
lesson I need to teach right now is the pond is not a pool for dogs OR a drinking fountain.

We have had a long cold winter followed be a cold spring here. Everything is late.