Garden 2006
 

The 2005 thread was in Quality Images, but there doesn't have to be an image to post to this thread. I just thought I would maybe keep a garden thread again and if anyone else has things growing, you post them along too.

Jacquelita and I bought the seeds for this year, the plan involves:

1. BASIL MARSEILLE
2. THYME ENGLISH
3. ORGANIC HERB - ITALIAN OREGANO
4. BROCCOLI PACKMAN HYBRID
5. BRUSSELS SPROUTS DIABLO HYBRID
6. CARROT POT O GOLD HYBRID
7. CARROT SCARLET NANTES
8. SPINACH MELODY HYBRID
9. SQUASH CREAMY IMPROVED II HYB.
10. TOMATO PLUM DANDY HYBRID
11. TOMATO BIG BEEF VFFNT
12. TOMATO GLORY

I think I could handle a third 8x3' bed. Let's see, one tomato and herbs, one broccoli and carrots and squash, one spinach and brussels sprouts.

No zucc on this order. The squash will be enough.

Thanks UT. I'll try to hold up my redneck garden end. But goodfriday is late this year. Most old folks around here never plant till then. I might cheat.

Good Friday? :eek: Up home we couldn't plant anything but peas before Memorial day.

right now.. I have seedling started for

red peppers
sweet basil
royal opal basil
fennel
dill weed
roma and grape tomatoes
shallots (well.. not seedlings obviously)
elephant garlic

living down here gives me access to about a 1/4 acre of prime georgia soil. although I don't have the time to work that much land.. the idea surely is tempting.

on a side note, my father who knows quite a bit about plants and gardening brought this little tid-bit to my attention.. apple trees don't breed true to species.. which has me wanting to plant a ton of apple trees just to see what I get. jhonny appleseed be damned!

I've got a few going... I winter sowed some Nigella and Convolvulus. It's my first time winter sowing, so we'll see what happens.
Downstairs I have some Imperial Star artichokes (one popped up today!!), and some Beaverlodge plum tomatoes (which all popped up in about three days and have grown 1/2" just today - freaky).
Tonight my son planted some misc. annual seeds.
I have all of my materials on order for the greenhouse I'm going to build in the back yard, but they won't make it until the next barge which is 2 weeks away. :( I hope I can get it done before we take off on our trip.

This is the first year that I will be able to garden since our house burned down, so I am probably going to be giving my soul to the local garden center. (but seeing that my soul is probably overdrawn, it won't do them much good).

You are all very ambitious, dedicated gardners. I am going with more lavender, sage, climbing rose (red one--my house is white with black shutters), pumpkins and new peonies in the back and maybe some new evergreen bushes (holly?) for front.

Perhaps some hardy daisy type thing for next to the driveway.

I imagine we'll have several bean and pea varieties, some carrots, maybe corn (although we lose so much corn to the raccoons it's hardly worth it). Green onions, red onions, tomatoes, some cilantro, cayenne or habanero peppers, and if i'm lucky, some okra. Growing okra in Colorado is pretty hilarious -- you get a knee-high plant, if you're lucky, with maybe 2 okras a week on it. Our cousins in MS get a kick out of that -- they send pics of okra plants that are 7 feet tall.

Gardening time is the only time I get jealous of all my southern relatives.

Blimey, didn't realise we had a horticultural section here as well!

The wife's the expert here - she has a penchant for growing cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets amongst other things (I think peppers are in there somewhere, but in normal pots as opposed to being suspended and hanging several feet above ground level) - the greenhouse is about due for its spring clean and seeding session I believe. Flower-wise it was geraniums mainly last year - not sure what's in store for 2006 -I'll try to get a rundown to add to those above...

The soil is poor in upstate NY. Still...getting my hands dirty is one thing I miss a lot. Three or four pots of tomatoes and such will have to suffice.

Extracting some info from SWMBO - hanging basket tomatoes are Tumbling Toms which will be repeated this year - excellent heavy croppers , very sweet. Waiting for the decision on the variety to be potted at ground level - last year's didn't have the flavour. Also learned that the pots need to be thoroughly cleaned and compost changed to prevent any return of last year's leaf blight. Looks like peppers in the green house - again waiting to learn which variety.

Sounds nice. I, however, have a black thumb. If it can't make a noise to tell me it needs food or water then I will forget it exists.

Just have to plug our community garden for seniors that won a 2005 greening award. Here is a bike basket delivery shot from last summer. Going to plan more for this year.

Meanwhile, an 8" wet march snowstorm just pinned some of my baby trees to the mat this morning. awful pretty though.

That's a hell of a basket. A load of zucchinis could blow out the tire.:lol:

Its true. Mostly beans, carrots, tomatos, peppers, and herbs. If we had the UT/Jax bumper of zuchs, it would require a trailer.

all the raw ingredients for homemade salsa are headed for our garden:

roma tomatoes
tomatillos (yes, together!)
bell peppers (green, red, yellow)
jalapenos (and other hot ones: cowhorns, anaheims, pimentos...)
garlic
onions
cilantro (aka coriander)
basil
limes (still have to come from the store)

I can't wait to fire up the ol' cuisinart! The 2 of us can go thru a 1/2 gal. container in a single standing.

habaneros!

Are you standing because of the "hot ones", you had the day before? :lol:

yes, the one's that burn at both ends...

gosh, i miss my garden so much it hurts! this will be my 2nd year without one (i'm in a disgusting rental) and i think i feel more of a lack of identity because of it than i do because of my divorce! (geez, that would be a whole 'nother thread, huh). but anywhoo...my all-time faves are:
--old flame tomato, red with yellow/orange stripes and intense tomato flavor
--sungold cherry tomato, little orange beauties so sweet even my tomato-gagging son ate them right out of the garden
--silver and golden queen sweet corn, yes, i know -SO overdone- but just performed so well and tasted so good
--red oakleaf lettuce, i don't know if the taste was all that great, but i had such good luck with it

i think i've tried everything under the sun (other than okra, cuz...ucky).
this year i'll have to try things in pots again. does anybody have any recommendations for tasty tomatoes, beans, or other garden goodies? i sucked at that game last year.:headshake

I've had nothing but bad luck growing things in pots... other than houseplants and herbs.. but michigan bulb company has some good deals on strawberries/golden raspberries and blueberries that are made to grow in pots.. check the website out, they are a good company.. and the lifetime guarantee is toot-sweet

i've never ordered from them cuz a few years ago they were voted "absolute worst" in quality of plants and customer service along with springhill nursery on some gardening forum i stumbled onto. but...not everyone had a bad experience, just most people. the thing is, for the price, maybe what you get is what you should expect. like shopping at wally-world compared to saks. have you tried any of their fruits or veggies? i'd at least like tomatoes and green beans!:yum:

I have 23 maters. 8 better bush, 1 grape, 1 cherry sweet 100, some marion, celebirty and arkansas traveler.
3 cayenne, 3 habanero, 3 jalapeno. 3 black beauty eggplants, 3 ichidan.
12 cucumbers and 40 ft. of LA. purple pod beans.
No rain here in 2 weeks and none in forcast. Hello water and sewer bill.
This one tells me that server is busy, forget it. :smack:

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Tomatoes in front, broccoli in back. It seems warm but the last frost danger is still two weeks away.

Our spring is late this year - this is the first weekend without a frost. Mrs CF is getting ready to pot sow her tomatoes only now. Our Star Magnolia is finally out in bloom - will try to get a photo when it reaches its peak. Still alot more to flower - Cherry blossom a long way off, Camelias just coming out along with Forsythia.

PS - you've no time for gardening, UT, what with all them rock bands to sort out and all....

The pics of the Star Magnolia - a little way to go, but not far off best as some of the existing blooms will disappear as others open, now - one picture from each side:

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Today's picture is certainly showing even more flowers (plus opportunity to try out the new camera!):

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CF - oh my gosh that is so beautiful!!! Do the flowers have any scent?

them is pirty pics, cylefrance....


But Im with warch: habeneros

(although I like the low maintance stuff: impatients, perry winkles, boston ferns, snap dragons, mexican heather, honeysuckle vines, wondering jews, mexican sage, dewberry vines, grapevines, weeds, sun flowers, xtra large elephant ears, popcorn trees, and some half dozen things i got at walmart, I forget their names... )

Know what you mean Tiddy, but Have to leave that to Mrs CF - she's the expert there (put herself through an RHS cours as well) - me, I'm more likely to finish them off if I get near plants. My gardening is limited to mowing the lawn, chopping up logs, any heavy pruning that's needed, and erecting any structures that Mrs CF wants - oh, and, of course, managing the bonfires!

AhhhHUMMMMMM Mr Cycle:


"erecting any structures that Mrs CF wants - oh, and, of course, managing the bonfires!"


Now where might those pics be, please?


You can trust me, I wouldn't be a posting those pics where the 989 guests might be observing the erectal of the day images.

Meant to post these last week - final shot of the star magnolia - about as good as it gets, now the leaves are taking over - and two pics of the camelias which are at their peak as well.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks or so the rhododendrons will be out - we had an amazing display last year and it looks as though there may be a repeat this year....

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rose of a year ago

Because I live across the road from the beach I only grow sand, gull feathers and chip wrappers here, but down at the allotment there is spinach, cabbage, new potatoes, toms of various sorts, courgettes, carrots, peppers, mint & parsley, sunflowers, and a little something to add interest to winter stews and summer kebabs.

we planted this Asperagus last year , bu next year we should be able to start cuttin some of it ,
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Oh and Oliver just had to be in the pic as well !!!

What oliver? What picture? :eyebrow:

The tomato seedlings that we started are all dead now. I had forgotten to harden them before transplanting. This is where you leave the indoor plants outdoors for a few hours at a time, so they get used to it, until they are fully ready to transplant.

So instead, we have now put in pre-started plantings, now we'll see how hardy these things are. It surprised me to see that Bonnie Plants uses the same hybrid tomato plant that the seed company offered.

Carrots are planted and little shoots are showing. We are going to have too many. On purpose.

UT what the HELL is up , I can't seem to post pics !!!

No more HTML my friend, it allows a few holes which the hackers have been able to bother us with. Try using the Go Advanced editor and use the image button to enter the http address.

Roger that !!!
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Try #2

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try #3

Asparagus is a very cool looking plant. I'm to shady to grow it, though.

I had to finally chop down my ailing birch tree clump this past weekend. Snif. It was in major dieback. I replaced it with a native pagoda dogwood sproutlet. Had to put it in a wire cage to discourage the herd of bunnies from chomping it.

Planted tomatos, Kale, cabages, and herbs. Oh, and lots of nasturtums.
I have a clematis that is about to pop, I will try and share a picture.

I think we just ducked a hard frost here last night. I got out early and sprinkled the plants just in case. We've got tomatoes and peppers growing and a bunch of salad stuff ready to sprout along with beans squash cukes and potatoes. Asparagus I need to check on, we've eaten some but our beds just don't appear that productive.

Warch, zone 4 represent!

We haven't had enough warm weather, Griff. :headshake

Poor neighbors.:yeldead:

I love those boston terriers, they crack me up.

Are you going to get some seeds? :redface:

you must be a boston terrier

We had frost on the windshields but the 'maters still stand! Of course, the chickens were in the garden excavating so who knows what seeds are left.:mad:

Rhododendrons just about ready to give their best - will get an up-to-date photo tomorrow, but meantime here are two showing them first two weeks ago, and then last week:

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And a close up of the light pink ones that seem to be bloom early:

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I do, I do represent zone 4!

I need to get a camera rollin' 'cause its prime lovely time here: Peonies flopping their flouncy thangs; Japanese Iris starting, cranes bill, honeysuckles, mock orange, coral bells, yah!

It has been so beautiful here, not too too hot, just enough rain but not too much. the greens are loving it. Friday, and time to lounge in the Beer Garten!

I am going Saturday to work on the community veggie plot. We have baby pea spriglets a plenty, the herb patch is rockin, the salad greens are rocketing, and we'll will slam in some tomato freebie starts.

I love this time of year.

Possibly the last pics of the rhododendrons - I think they're at their peak now. Look good but were better last year - more abundant. Maybe 2007 will be better...

First pic taken at the weekend and second one taken today

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Carrots

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Brussels Sprouts, which already have that sort of Brusselly Sprouty leaf to them.

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Tomatoes, from Bonnie Plants plants. We have a ton of these vines in and I expect by fall we will be marketing Cellar Brand Spaghetti Sauce.

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Rosemary, also Bonnie. We also have in basil, sage, oregano, thyme, spinach and beets.

Good, you can cater your reception. ;)

I've picked 7 maters so far. About 12 gals. purple beans. 7 gals. cucumbers and some hot pepper. A few eggplants. No rain in about 6 weeks.

Seven gallons of cukes? DAMN. My cukes just got in the ground a few days ago, only two true leaves. Today I lifted the row covers to have a peak and one entire row of pickling cukes was completely GONE. not a trace. the other row was just leaf skeletons. Oddly whoever didn't eat the cotyledons, just the true leaves.

I'm too stressed to care. I'm looking at next year.

Also a new bastard woodchuck has taken up residnece under my shed, He ate 2/3 of my parsnip plant that I am letting go to seed. Today the brazen rodent kept running out to eat things whenever I went to the other side of the house to get a tool. I walked up to him with the paslode framing nailer and from about five feet I fired a couple of 3 1/2 framing nails at him. Since the thing doesn't really have sights, per se, my aim was a bit high and the nail missed him.

That's my gardening story this year.