What's in the Garden?

[TheGreekTitan]

Looks awesome Jamie! That's great you make such a large garden. A lot of work, but I'm sure it's worth it.

Another year for me not having the time to get the garden going. Probably not too late, but I see no available time to make it happen in the near future.

I do get to bury another fish in the garden today when I get home though. Found her suffering laying on the bottom of the pond last night, so I put her into quarantine. I think she was pregnant and having problems passing the eggs. Well, she was dead this morning. Sucks!!!! She's one we've had for about 10 years and really big and beautiful.

[ashauler]

Looks awesome Jamie! That's great you make such a large garden. A lot of work, but I'm sure it's worth it.

Another year for me not having the time to get the garden going. Probably not too late, but I see no available time to make it happen in the near future.

I do get to bury another fish in the garden today when I get home though. Found her suffering laying on the bottom of the pond last night, so I put her into quarantine. I think she was pregnant and having problems passing the eggs. Well, she was dead this morning. Sucks!!!! She's one we've had for about 10 years and really big and beautiful.

Damn sorry about the fish man! I'll be hitting you up for some pond building advice soon though!

[TheGreekTitan]

Damn sorry about the fish man! I'll be hitting you up for some pond building advice soon though!

Thank you for the condolences. I realize most people don't see fish as a pet, but we do. Especially after so many years they really do become friendly and excited to see you. No comparison to dogs, but you'd be surprised. I'd enjoy chatting about a pond build, you have a great set up to build something awesome. It's a very cool hobby, and I think you would truly enjoy it.

Sorry to thread jack btw. I am very much interested in the progress of your small farm over there. It already looks great, I can't imagine when it takes off.

[badwhale]

Here's some of my shit from a couple weeks ago:



That's an Azalea that has been there since I bought the house. This is my artistic bonsai shot...



These are my tomato plant's that are giving me problems, and 4 pepper plants in the middle. They seem to be doing ok.



Here's a couple more. The one on the left as of today is about 1' higher than that cage you see. These are doing good compared to the others.



These are my pear trees. Bosc on the end, and Bartlett in the middle. This is their third year, and while growing like nuts, they have not budded or produced fruit yet.

[badwhale]

Here's a dense spot. 3rd year Asparagus in the back. In front of them, 4 broccoli plants, and then 4 (if you can spot them) cucumber plants, and a lone tomato plant. Everyone here is growing slowly, but well. One cucumber plant is really taking off. Got a cucumber off it tonight, and harvested some broccoli the other week.

[ashauler]

Very nice Will!!

These are about a week or a little more old. I'll take some new ones this weekend after I till the weeds in again.

Heirloom sweet corn. 6 total rows. The first 4 rows from the right of the frame are about 2 1/2 weeks older than the last two rows.


The row just to the right of the sprinkler is Okra...another heirloom. To the left of the Okra begins the tobacco patch. The first plants seen are about 3 weeks behind the taller plants to their left. It is a mixed bed of an ancient rustica, Walker broadleaf, CT broadleaf, and an oriental variety called Bafra. As far as the rustica goes, interesting, at least to me, is the growth habit of this plant. It grows much like a bush, and it's nicotine content is very high. For reference, typical cigar tobacco is roughly 2-5% nicotine content depending on the fermenting processes used, and the rustica is somewhere between 5-9%. Strong, strong, stuff. Might be fun. Or not. We'll see.


In the foreground here are 4 pepper plants. From the left - green sweet peppers / red-yellow sweet peppers / green sweet peppers.....just behind them and not seen well is a jalapeno and a habanero. They all appear to be doing very well and are putting on peppers to beat the band. Behind and just to the left of the peppers, the small green twiggy like things are carrots, 2 varieties, 4 rows. I'm disappointed in them, but it is most likely due to poor planting and watering on my part. Lesson learned. The tee-pee thing is green beans....as it the re-purposed windmill tower. The beans were all planted at 2 week intervals around the "trellises" over an 8 week period. Should have beans well into the summer/fall.


Beyond the carrots and to the left of the beans are 3 tomato plants. 1 early producer hybrid, 1 heirloom grape tomato, 1 heirloom large tomato. The potatoes are behind the tomatos and the peas are to the left of them. Both of these are gone now, potatoes in the basement and the peas have all been eaten. I was very disappointed in the production of the peas, and one of the varieties of potato that I planted. Peas were most likely my fault....potatoes not so much.

[ashauler]

The two spiky looking things in the very front of this bed are lettuce plants....too hot for them now in the day time, so they've been pulled now. I'll re-till and set this up to plant in late August or early September for fall greens. Behind them is cauliflower / broccoli / cabbage. Have yet to harvest any of them, though I could have been getting cabbage for a couple of weeks now. Just letting them get bigger. Something is amiss with the cauliflower and broccoli. No evidence of flower heads being produced at all....I think maybe the broccoli was mislabeled and is in fact cabbage. They sure look like it to me, but different in some ways. I'll try to get closer pic's this weekend.


Man, I've let the weeds creep ever farther into the garden. I'll fix that this weekend. I want to lay some mulch down and arrange the soaker hoses for the heat of the summer anyway.