[Lawless]

My Garden is in the ground and I am waiting for some fruit from my labor. I have 7 different tomato varieties, 2 of basil, 4 of cucumbers and 4 of peppers with a lone zucchini thrown in as well :biggrin:

I have 2 rows of green beans and 2 of butterbeans too. First time doing veggie gardening on my own. I usually do some stuff in a friend's garden, but I wanted to fly alone this time. It is just a small 20x30, but it is good to my soul.

 

[snubbie]

That's a good looking garden space there. You're going to love it. I've piddled along over the years, a couple of tomato or pepper plants is about all. This year I'm (really)growing for the first time too. We'll see how it goes.

 

[Warning Shot]

My garden is about the same size and you can grow a ton of stuff in it. Looks like you've got clay soils- mine is 105% sand so I really have to keep the water to it. Everything we discard from the house that's organic gets thrown in the garden including fish heads and guts (I bury them). If you do that long enough, it really helps.

 

[Lawless]

The pic makes it look like clay (had been a little wet when I raked it), but it is Eastern Carolina dirt. I am starting a mulch pile too.

 

[cwtitan]

Looks great. I have a few rows of plants that we put out. Hoping to get some green beans and squash and cucumbers this year! Good luck!

 

[NCshooter26]

Looking good so far. I have a soft spot for that sandy-loam type soil, as that's what my grandpa always farmed in. My garden is coming along fairly well. I planted 6 more tomato plants Friday, and spread a little more fertilizer. Unfortunately, I've been having to water it almost everyday this past week, because it was so hot, but the rainstorms we got last night saturated the ground pretty well, so I should be good for a few days.

 

[Lawless]

Yeah, we got a little rain tonight. They are saying tomorrow will bring some more. I am still waiting for my string and butter beans to pop through. It has been 5 days.

 

[TheGunMagnetGuy]

Good luck on your garden! I wish I had the time to do one. I keep saying "maybe next year!" Hope it turns out some good grub for you!

Aaron
www.PredatorShootingProducts.com

 

[rantingredneck]

I added 12 (3 varieties, 4 plants each) pepper plants to mine Saturday along with 4 canteloupe plants. Local greenhouse had trays of 4 for 1.00 ea. We'd sowed pepper seeds earlier in the season but they've done nada. We've got 6 tomato plants, 2 varieties of squash, zucchini, eggplant, watermelon, and 2 varieties of cucumbers, all coming along nicely. No beans or onions this year, maybe next........

In the "orchard" we've got 2 peach trees that are loaded this year along with a native plum variety and concord and muscadine grapes. Our one lonely Granny Smith tree has more apples this year than previous years and I've just planted a Celeste Fig tree and 3 varieities of blueberries (which so far don't look too good, but the jury's still out).

 

[-06]

We have quit(except for corn and a few melons) row gardening and have gone to raised beds. We put down a row of bricks then added two layers of treated 4X6s edge ways. We ended up with a 40" X 10' bed filled with 8" of rotted horse manure, 4" of topsoil, and a couple inches of white sand. We tilled all that and now we have squash about an inch long, radish almost ready to pick, garden peas about three feet tall, lettuce we are eating already along with strawberries, two "growings" of onions, beans, okra, butterbeans, cukes, cabbage, red/green peppers, four Better Boy tomatoes, several Romas, and beets. Was putting on the strings for the running beans but got rained out this afternoon.
we put in a new orchard a few yrs back and the trees are finally producing. Pears finally survived and are loaded, peaches, plums, and a few apples. All the trees are dwarf or half drawf. Below the orchard we put in the thornless blackberries and this fall we will put in our Blue berry bushes--taking out three large Oaks for firewood. Sure is nice to look out the window and see the beds, rose garden, and orchard. Across the drive we put in wild grapes. Will know next year if they are any good. Will be moving our old vinyard up close also. We put in pecan trees but they died so will be doing it again soon. Our first is doing well and probably thirty feet tall. Now to keep the squirrels at bay. Guess I will have to be having squirrel stews again. lol.
Best to you with your garden. A bud has about a 20X30 and they feed the family out of it plus canning a lot. Am excited about our raised beds. I believe they will produce much more than my big old style garden if I keep the moisture right. A bud is making me some drip nozzle lines that should solve that problem. One step at the time. Next year I hope to have a drum reservoir system to catch rainwater from the gutters. A bud has one with about a dozen 55 gal. barrels. Ugh, so much to do and so little time to do it in. When the crops start coming in it is worth it all. And no pesticides to cause ADHD.

 

[Lawless]

We have had 2 days of hard rain. I hope it didnt drown my beans before they could pop up....:001_unsure:

 

[Lawless]

Beans are up are reaching for the sun. I feel like a proud papa :thumbup:

 

[chiefjason]

We have a few blooms on the tomatoes, cukes, and squash. Waiting for it to warm up to get the okra going. We expanded a bit this year. 4 cukes, 4 squash, 8 tomatoes, 5 peppers, corn, okra, and a few sunflowers for the girls. The corn is an experiment really. If we get a few ears I'll be happy. We put ours in early, then the cool snap moved in. It just seemed to stunt everything.

This year I grew some from seed in one of the mini plastic greenhouses. Kind of cool. But the okra seems weaker from the greenhouse than what I planted from seed in the ground. A lot of them just fell over or the wind pushed them over. Guess I'm down to about 20 okra plants. We halfheartedly planted the sunflowers and they are growing better than anything. Go figure.

Might have to expand again next year. Who need a back yard anyway.