Anyone else planting a garden this year?
It's my 5th year, my neighbour and I are sharing the 'plantation' in my back yard/rear garden. This year I'm doing the usual beets and cucumbers with the new additions of carrots, yellow zucchini and watermelon. My neighbour's ½ is bitter beans, tomatoes and cherry tomatoes.
Last year I tried out red and green peppers to no avail. I also grew sunflowers. HUGE mistake. The local squirrels treated it as a buffet, sunzabitches. Yeah, no more feeding the bastards this year.
I'll post some pics later but what of you lot? New planters? Old hats?
Nice,, love to see them pictures,, I took over a house from a very old man who tended the garden alot,, very beautiful flowers, I just dont have the time to do so much about it. So i got rid of most of it. But kept the strawberries, They are just heaven,, Best strawberries i have ever tasted..
About a month ago, I got a piece of land in a local park at 6x3m, in a urban gardening project. Pretty sweet project, real nice people too and a good oppurtunity to grow some crops of your own, whilst living in an appartment. - Last year, i grew tomatoes, onions and some herbs on my balcony, but I really didn't have much space to grow anything big, nor was the placement great for sunlight.
Im currently growing potatoes, beetroot, carrots, basil, rosemary, thyme, parsley, radishes, two kinds of pees, tomatoes, four kinds of chilies, rocket (rucola), a couple of other types of salad and some string beans. I haven't really got any pictures, but I'll get some when the raised beds are begining to look good.
#1533947 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-06-18 00:57:39 (1 month ago) - [Report]
Corn,onions,beans,strawberries,cantaloupe,watermelon,tomato (5 kinds),zucchini/butternut/acorn squash.
For fruit trees... apples,peach,plums,cherry,nectarine.
My share of Pot is grown by a collective about 1 1/2 mile from me (already 3-4 foot tall and 4 months left before harvest).
Ok, so me and my neighbour dug up most of the ¼-down a few years back to put in the soil. We thought going down 20 inches would be fine; not so much. Anyways, the crop still comes in every year, but there is a fair bit of rock in the garden. So while this week's picture features what looks like a rock garden hold judgement til the season's over.
First pic here shows the first buds of a few items and the cucumber fence.
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Next we have the bitter beans and tomatoes.
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Now just the tomatoes.
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Timex & fsugusu I would love to see some pics of your grows. (except the pot grow op, keep that to yourself brother) I was thinking I'd try to do weekly pics to see the growth. I figure in another 2 weeks it'll be mostly green in my backyard.
I used to have a huge garden in Florida but here in Italy I found it was pointless once I realized all my neighbour's have gardens and really low fences.
The only thing I grow in Italy are peppers, Scotch Bonnets, Hungarian Wax peppers, Pepperincini, and others with varying success.
Uberrig: Looks a bit like a gravel road man, looking forward to seeing some greener pics. Seems like the tomatoes aren't getting that much sunlight.
It's too bad, it's amost impossible to grow decent tomatoes outdoors here, I've got a couple of plants, but I'm not really expecting anything from them, unless I get around building sort of a mini greenhouse to place over a part of my raised bed, but at the moment exams are taking up most of my spare time.
I havent got much to post at this moment, I got this, and a pic of me watering some dirt, that is about it. I might take some pics later today tho'.
This was before i got the topsoil in.
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Don't worry fsugusu my rock patch grows just fine. As for the too much shade... uh-uh, that back yard gets a solid 10 hours of direct daylight. I do like your setup. One of my brothers does the same in his backyard with the elevated beds.
VBG, too bad about not having your usual size but it's a plus to have low fences and neighbours that don't feel the need to build bigger ones. My neighbour grows the Scotch Bonnets as well, but only on his back porch in individual pots. Gets himself a huge crop of those every year. I asked why not in the garden and he's worried about his uncle doing a drive-by thieving if they're out in the open. Under lock 'n key is his motto for those beauties.
#1534025 by unknown[81460] at 2013-06-18 21:27:47 (1 month ago) - [Report]
I'm mulching 2 raised beds for next year, this year I'm concentrating on landscaping instead.
edit, slugs destroyed my crops last year , next time I will use egg shells as protection.
I'm mulching 2 raised beds for next year, this year I'm concentrating on landscaping instead.
edit, slugs destroyed my crops last year , next time I will use egg shells as protection.
solution for you specially if you're still trying to stop smoking.
Take a pack of cigarettes that you are trying to give up, open them up and put them in about a gallon of water and let it soak for about 24 hours. The water should be the colour of tea with milk added to it if it's too dark add more water. Put it in a spray bottle and it will kill slugs and just about any other pest in the garden and the good thing is it's only toxic for about a day.
#1534075 by unknown[81460] at 2013-06-19 19:10:13 (1 month ago) - [Report]
at £8 + for 20 fags id rather smash the slugs with a brick daily
I was forced to plant some kohlrabi, I love those things and the only supermarket in town doesn't carry them. If they grow or not is anybody's guess.
OK, I had to google that one. DAMN it's an interesting looking veggie. If it grows you gotta take pics of it for us. Then be the guinea pig and taste test it to see if it's any good.
#1534210 by DMDH (Power User) at 2013-06-20 18:08:49 (1 month ago) - [Report]
mbodnar wrote:
I was forced to plant some kohlrabi, I love those things and the only supermarket in town doesn't carry them. If they grow or not is anybody's guess.
It's common as heck over here. And good. Did you know cabbage, sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi and god knows what else are just variants of the same plant, brassica oleracea? The more you know!
Excellent fsugusu, just tell that single bean to stop being a cheeky bastard for sprouting before the others.
It's pretty lame, the others won't sprout, but what the hell.
I've just been in my garden, the weather has been pretty shitty the last week or so, so not much have happened. - But it's looking better.
Potatoes and carrots in between
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Potato
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Potato
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Beetroots
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Some herbs
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Radishes
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Chilies. It looks like Large Red Cherry, but I'm not sure yet.
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Same
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Tomatoes
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Salads
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String beans. Sadly only two have sprouted, and one of them are half eaten by something.
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fsugusu, I see you have rosemary, thyme, basil and flat leaf parsley in that herb picture, but what are the ones that has only had the cotyledons develop so far?
fsugusu, I see you have rosemary, thyme, basil and flat leaf parsley in that herb picture, but what are the ones that has only had the cotyledons develop so far?
Had to look "cotyledons" up. If we're talking about the same thing, I believe it's the radishes, which is also on the following picture.
Yeah me too actually Alright, I'm growing herbs myself so I didn't pay attention to the other pictures, sorry. Anyway, I'll see if I can upload a picture of my herbs...
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Seems like the tomatoes aren't getting that much sunlight.
, next time I will use egg shells as protection.
