2022 Garden Thread

[Back Cast]

Looking great everyone. I got a later start this year than I would have liked but the lettuce is up and we’re starting to get nice strawberries. The Onions seem to be doing pretty well. I had a real hard time with peppers in the ground last year so I chose to plant them in pots on my deck. I was thinking potting soil will drain better and I can keep them more on the dry side. 

[Bonefreak]

4 hours ago, Back Cast said:

Looking great everyone. I got a later start this year than I would have liked but the lettuce is up and we’re starting to get nice strawberries. The Onions seem to be doing pretty well. I had a real hard time with peppers in the ground last year so I chose to plant them in pots on my deck. I was thinking potting soil will drain better and I can keep them more on the dry side. 

 Beautiful garden BC!!!  

[Haskell_Hunter]

11 hours ago, Back Cast said:

Looking great everyone. I got a later start this year than I would have liked but the lettuce is up and we’re starting to get nice strawberries. The Onions seem to be doing pretty well. I had a real hard time with peppers in the ground last year so I chose to plant them in pots on my deck. I was thinking potting soil will drain better and I can keep them more on the dry side. 

Strawberries look awesome!  Great garden!

[JFC1]

Although nowhere near as attractive and geometrical as any of the other photos, I'm psyched about this future persimoon/pawpaw patch I'm putting in in the ruins of some ashes I removed.  Sloppy and cheap is my style. 

Not only do I expect to get fruit, but it's set up in relation to an old cedar perfect for a stand and my deer paths--the deer are already being guided just where I want them, by the wire enclosures.

I'm about to start some persimmon seeds. Anyone who wants some for fall planting, feel free to PM any time.  Trees typically take 6-7 years to bear fruit and the ones a buck led me to 3 seasons ago appear to be a hardy, wild, native Central NJ cultivar 

Thanks to Roon for pawpaw seeds that will go into ground too, to augment existing ones here and then spread all along edge of woods. 

[Bonefreak]

It’s the same story the crow told me…

 

[Woodsman416]

 

Despite what Murphy says, there's no legal weeds in my garden.

Edited June 12, 2022 by Woodsman416

[Back Cast]

 
Despite what Murphy says, there's no legal weeds in my garden.

Great looking garden. Looks like you should have quite the bounty soon!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Greybeard]

How do I get my zucchini plants to blossom like that?  My plants are as big and not one flower yet.  I get huge plants with very little fruit each year

 

New blueberry bushes are producing more this year

 

sunflowers.  Squirrels keep breaking them(got the crossbow sighted in last night).   Pumpkins have broke ground

 

[Woodsman416]

5 hours ago, Greybeard said:

How do I get my zucchini plants to blossom like that?  My plants are as big and not one flower yet.  I get huge plants with very little fruit each year

 

I'm not really sure. I was pretty late in getting most of my stuff in the ground this year. I start everything from seed and the seed on zucs, bn squash and spg squash all come from last years fruits. The soil, especially in that bed, is very rich, Every year I add composted horse manure, mulched up fall leaves and wood ash from my stove through out the winter, I till the ground after harvest, again before freeze up and at least four times in the spring before planting.

[Greybeard]

2 hours ago, Woodsman416 said:

I'm not really sure. I was pretty late in getting most of my stuff in the ground this year. I start everything from seed and the seed on zucs, bn squash and spg squash all come from last years fruits. The soil, especially in that bed, is very rich, Every year I add composted horse manure, mulched up fall leaves and wood ash from my stove through out the winter, I till the ground after harvest, again before freeze up and at least four times in the spring before planting.

I have/do pretty much the same.  Soil is all from compost.  Plants will grow 5-6 feet wide.  I think too much energy is being taken up into growing the leaves.  My son has plants a third the size with a lot of fruits when I only get a few off a plant,  Sometimes they start to grow then the fruit gets the life sucked out of it.  Hope it's better this year or I'm going to try cutting the larger leaf stalks back 

[Haskell_Hunter]

Just now, Greybeard said:

I have/do pretty much the same.  Soil is all from compost.  Plants will grow 5-6 feet wide.  I think too much energy is being taken up into growing the leaves.  My son has plants a third the size with a lot of fruits when I only get a few off a plant,  Sometimes they start to grow then the fruit gets the life sucked out of it.  Hope it's better this year or I'm going to try cutting the larger leaf stalks back 

You might have too much nitrogen in your soil or are using a fertilizer with a lot of nitrogen.  N will grow big, green plants but not a lot of fruits.

[Greybeard]

Just now, Haskell_Hunter said:

You might have too much nitrogen in your soil or are using a fertilizer with a lot of nitrogen.  N will grow big, green plants but not a lot of fruits.

Thanks.  I'll have to look into reducing that

[Greybeard]

Couple days growth. Still no flowers

[Greybeard]

Can't eat the lettuce fast enough . Wife won't want it until it's too old.

[hunterbob1]

1 hour ago, Greybeard said:

Can't eat the lettuce fast enough . Wife won't want it until it's too old.

https://www.projectselfsufficiency.org/food