What's in the Garden?

[CptnBlues63]

My neighbors employ this method (you bums.)

Jamie, lookin' great bro. I am such a dumbass to never think of the phased planting to get waves of crops. Remember, I'm a rogue gardener with absolutely no tutor or training!

Also, any of the decorative plants you see around are wifey's. She' a big perennial fan, and has been enhancing our little spot on the planet for years now. She's not doing much maintenance this year though, that's all me.

I'm really enjoying garden / yard time this year. Love going out after I get home from work and just looking around, maybe pruning some stuff etc. And I really like the hour after the yard is mowed which is usually Sunday, and I can sit for about an hour with a beer / cigar and bask in my gardening inefficiency!

LOL

Your approach to yard work/gardening sounds a lot like mine Will.

Sadly where I live, I get about 4 to 6 inches of topsoil and then it's this clay that reminds me of concrete....both in color and consistency. Some years back in an effort to appease my wife, I built a 10' x 10' raised garden/flower bed and put a couple yards of topsoil in it. Even with the extra topsoil, we still had little luck growing a garden so in the spring of 2012 wifey planted a tree in the middle of it. This year, she put some pepper plants in with the tree and surprisingly, they're doing well.

Our 6' x 6' greenhouse is full of lovely flowers that are doing great (again, thanks to my wife) and we have 4 half whiskey barrels around the pergola with assorted things in them. One has small pumpkins that are going absolutely crazy!

I always plan my lawn mowing (I say "lawn" loosely, the back yard is about 50% dandelions thanks to the town I live in never spraying for them. It's not worth my while to try to kill them all in my yard when they'll all be right back there a week later thanks to some nearby town land that is completely covered....but I digress) around being able to sit and have a cigar afterwards in my yard. Usually under the pergola.

We're adding a privacy wall on one side of the pergola and a couple more privacy screens to it on the other side and I'm hoping that gets done this week. I plan on taking some pics of the yard after that to share.

I really like your pics Jamie and Will. Once the new privacy stuff is up on the pergola I'll try to remember to take some of our backyard to share. Of course, other than cutting the grass, my input as to what we have and where it goes is minimal. I leave that up to the creative member of my team......lol....as my wife likes to remind me when it comes to yard stuff.....I'm just muscle.

[bretted432]

I use a small community garden, but I think mine is the best one there (in my HUMBLE opinion).

Carrots
Swiss Char
Crabgrass
Garlic
Tomatoes
Butternut Squash
Bok Choy

and a whole lot of purdy flowers for the misses.

[ashauler]

Did some pickin' the other day:

[badwhale]

I did some pickin' today:







These were the Nugget hops. These are juvenile, and only yielded probably 1/2# of cones, but that's a 20qt pot, so maybe 10 qts? I'm very pleased with their progress this year. I'll do the Cascades tomorrow, hopefully.

Will

[badwhale]

Here's a couple shots of the garden from this week. Things really changed in a month. Two of my tomato plants are getting brown spots all over them (leaves & stems) but the fruit seems to be ok, and they all got pretty big. Just waiting for them to ripen.

Did a bunch of tomato soup already this year (the bulk with a double peck of tomatoes from the farmer's market) Looking forward to some spaghetti sauce from scratch.

The ones that got what I think was a virus earlier in the year, actually turned out ok, but didn't make a lot of fruit. Can't really complain about the peppers either, and I might get another batch from them.

I cut back the broccoli for a fall harvest.



That is a spaghetti squash. I have two on the vine.



There's my last plant that didn't get any sort of disease this year.