2018 Vegetable Gardens

[Greybeard]

I see you have a watch cat.   To keep the Squirrels at bay?

[LittleM]

1 minute ago, Greybeard said:

To keep the Squirrels at bay?

They access that pen via my daughters bedroom window.  Always a good time when they catch a chipmunk and race in the window with it.  Happens quite often.

[LPJR]

All look great. I think I am going to start some corn this year. Love to see the stalks growing if nothing else really produces...

[Buck154]

Slow start but wanted to get a fence around it after I made it bigger this year. Just got the post in and concrete around them too. Have to get the weed barrier down then the plants in asap.

[Buck154]

Finally got the plants in. Took hours to put the weed guard down and plant everything.  I have way to many tomato plants 24, 2 kinds of peppers, water melon, green beans,silver queen corn and giant sun flowers

Still have to put fencing up. 

[BowhunterNJ]

Well done! Coming along nicely [emoji106]


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[Live to Hunt]

I knew I liked you LittleM

[Greybeard]

SEEDS... high priced...few in a pack... most don't germinate.   Nothing like they used to be.

[Lunatic]

On ‎5‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 8:37 AM, hammer4reel said:

My fathers garden was his pride and joy.

it was 60' X68'

he fed half his neighborhood out of it .

he always had  over thirty tomatoes plants  about half dozen varieties. Including rutger, big boys ,beef steaks in three colors. And bunch different cherry tomatoes and a few grape tomatoes.

and a variety of giant plum tomatoes that had come from Italy via an old neighbor.( kept that plant going almost 40 years )

he dried seeds from each variety on paper plates to use the following year

peppers, onions, potatoes , peas , snap peas, sweet corn.

cabbage, few types of leaf lettuce.

black berries and razberrys.

 

 

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So did my father. Not too many people, including yours truly, are willing to put this much effort into growing vegies. I plant what I can eat

[HamiltonR&G]

On 5/12/2018 at 8:47 AM, Greybeard said:

What do you all use for insecticide or other chemicals?  I try to do without it, but last year the tomatoes had some sort of brown fungus on the stalks and  on some tomatoes.  Looked like they were dusted with brown flour.  Cut worms are another problem I've dealt with.  I stopped planting broccoli because of the green worms that get into the heads.  Want to use something this year, but not a strong chemical.  Do you treat the soil now with something, instead of directly on the plant?

Agri-Fios fungicide, Any Horti oil

[HamiltonR&G]

Ultra-Pure oil we sell a lot of 

[kuz]

ill be planting monday or tuesday. just tilled everything a week ago.  im a little late this year

 

[DV1]

I get a little carried away with the whole garden-to-table-thing. These pics are from previous year, been raining for 8 days straight so not going out to take pics yet, but it looks about the same each year. Usually do zucchini, yellow squash, 3 varieties of egg plant, a few varieties of tomatoes, including grape and cherry, green bell, jalapeno, pablano, cubanelle and long hot peppers, strawberries, kale, cucumbers, pickles, string beans, yellow wax beans, most years watermelon and cantaloupe, sweet potatoes, broccoli, and I have a row of blue berries in the fence. 

Edited May 19, 2018 by DV1

[DV1]

Also have some blueberry and raspberry beds along the side of the driveway, and apple, peach and cherry trees in the back.

[DV1]

And I grow herbs in the pots and beds near the house: basil, mexican oregano, greek oregano, mint, thyme, rosemary, parsley, and sage. Think that's all.