Garden 2009 - Page 2

skysidhe · 05-26-2009, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Pie

Love the ducks, sky!

Thanks! I keep waiting for a mama duck to bring over any babies.

Beestie · 05-26-2009, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Tomatoes, yellow squash, cucumber, and pimiento pepper from Bonnie plants; carrots, basil, and dill from seeds.

Is that a modified version of Mel's Square Foot Gardening? I sure wish I could grow a garden. I don't know what to do with myself - I love growing stuff but I absolutely suck at it.

Undertoad · 05-26-2009, 09:52 PM

No but I wish I had thought to put some vermiculite or perlite into the mix before starting. That just makes sense. Well let's see what happens.

Anyone can prob'ly grow a container tomato plant. Get a big ol pot, a bag of potting soil enough to fill it, and a tomato plant that is "determinate", ie, grows to a certain size, which is better for container growing. Some of the tomato plants are even called "bush" as they grow into a bush size, determinate. And then after two months of growing, when you want a tomato, just go pick one.

Undertoad · 06-04-2009, 04:02 PM

On schedule, the carrots poke out. Nasty weed fights for dominance... and lost, five seconds after this shot.

Growing from plants is more expensive but you do get early results. The first pepper is here, and probably angry about the cold, wet weather.

And the first tomato even shows, from the varietal called "Early Girl". It's meant to be your first crop. The vines are about 2 weeks away from needing support.

Over here is the newly-planted flower garden, J's section, featuring Asiatic lilies and sunflowers. The sunflowers are the mopey stalky things. We hope they come back. Some of them are standing.

Pie · 06-04-2009, 04:17 PM

Aha! This ties back into one of my mystery garden questions -- the asiatic lilies look a bit like one of my mystery weeds (but without flowers, natch). Thanks!

kerosene · 06-04-2009, 05:59 PM

Nice, T. Your tomatoes are much happier than mine. Of course, yours aren't sitting in 3 inches of water for the last 2 weeks, either, so that might explain something. Still, great job on your growing stuff!

Juniper · 06-04-2009, 07:05 PM

I just came in from the garden. Got tons of lettuce, a little spinach (now done for the year and all yanked out), a bunch of peas, about a pint of strawberries (what I get about every other day). Yanked weeds and fed 'em to the chickens. They love weeds!

My perennials and herbs are doing well too, though that front bed is very weedy too. I just don't feel like doing it tonight.

Undertoad · 06-14-2009, 04:00 PM

The rain around here has been simply ideal for the early plants. The difference from ten days ago is stunning.

Carrots await thinning.

Basil starts up. Even at this point, if you pull a leaf and crush it in your hand, it smells like basil.

That pepper! And cool: in the background, lower right, you can see how easy it is to grow herbs. It's dill, in an area previously planted with dill... and then completely dug out and had 5 inches of rich soil dumped on top of it. Another patch of dill has been started, but this hardy single survivor is a testament. Can't kill dill!

Tomatoes are coming out, and the vines will be staked tomorrow.

And the sunflowers, which seemed to wimpy to survive, all pretty much did survive and have developed secondary leaves.

Pie · 06-14-2009, 05:18 PM

I need to get some herbs going. When I get back from Arizona. Which will be in July. *sob*

warch · 06-15-2009, 07:59 PM

Dang UT, you've a good harvest shaping up. I just got my first digi camera...yes I am slow. Here's the back fire pit and the small veggie patch. Tomatoes, lettuces, kale, peppers, cabbage, and herbs. lots of shade to contend with. You can see by the brown grass its been very dry this year. I'll water veggies, but not grass.

warch · 06-15-2009, 08:10 PM

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busterb · 06-15-2009, 09:15 PM

UT. Rain! What's that. None around here in weeks and none in forecast. Sucks. Heat index around 97 today.

Undertoad · 07-04-2009, 01:39 PM

Rain keeps going, everything has gone nuts! An early cucumber appears. Now it's time for the sun to come a ripen it all.

jinx · 07-04-2009, 03:36 PM

Do you ever eat the squash blossoms?
You gonna make pesto or just lotsa caprese?

Someone on my home school list is giving away their strawberry plants... I'm thinking of going and getting some tomorrow if Jim will help. We gave up on our garden though so I don't even know where I'd put them...

Undertoad · 07-04-2009, 04:41 PM

I love the pesto. It's impossible not to grow too much basil.

It had never occurred to me to eat squash blossoms. Have you?

06-04-2009, 04:17 PM	#20
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Aha! This ties back into one of my mystery garden questions -- the asiatic lilies look a bit like one of my mystery weeds (but without flowers, natch). Thanks! __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

06-14-2009, 05:18 PM	#24
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	I need to get some herbs going. When I get back from Arizona. Which will be in July. sob __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

06-15-2009, 07:59 PM	#25
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	Dang UT, you've a good harvest shaping up. I just got my first digi camera...yes I am slow. Here's the back fire pit and the small veggie patch. Tomatoes, lettuces, kale, peppers, cabbage, and herbs. lots of shade to contend with. You can see by the brown grass its been very dry this year. I'll water veggies, but not grass. Attached Images

06-15-2009, 09:15 PM	#27
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	UT. Rain! What's that. None around here in weeks and none in forecast. Sucks. Heat index around 97 today. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

07-04-2009, 03:36 PM	#29
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Do you ever eat the squash blossoms? You gonna make pesto or just lotsa caprese? Someone on my home school list is giving away their strawberry plants... I'm thinking of going and getting some tomorrow if Jim will help. We gave up on our garden though so I don't even know where I'd put them... __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

05-26-2009, 09:52 PM	#18
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	No but I wish I had thought to put some vermiculite or perlite into the mix before starting. That just makes sense. Well let's see what happens. Anyone can prob'ly grow a container tomato plant. Get a big ol pot, a bag of potting soil enough to fill it, and a tomato plant that is "determinate", ie, grows to a certain size, which is better for container growing. Some of the tomato plants are even called "bush" as they grow into a bush size, determinate. And then after two months of growing, when you want a tomato, just go pick one.

06-04-2009, 04:02 PM	#19
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	On schedule, the carrots poke out. Nasty weed fights for dominance... and lost, five seconds after this shot. Growing from plants is more expensive but you do get early results. The first pepper is here, and probably angry about the cold, wet weather. And the first tomato even shows, from the varietal called "Early Girl". It's meant to be your first crop. The vines are about 2 weeks away from needing support. Over here is the newly-planted flower garden, J's section, featuring Asiatic lilies and sunflowers. The sunflowers are the mopey stalky things. We hope they come back. Some of them are standing.

06-04-2009, 05:59 PM	#21
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	Nice, T. Your tomatoes are much happier than mine. Of course, yours aren't sitting in 3 inches of water for the last 2 weeks, either, so that might explain something. Still, great job on your growing stuff!

06-04-2009, 07:05 PM	#22
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	I just came in from the garden. Got tons of lettuce, a little spinach (now done for the year and all yanked out), a bunch of peas, about a pint of strawberries (what I get about every other day). Yanked weeds and fed 'em to the chickens. They love weeds! My perennials and herbs are doing well too, though that front bed is very weedy too. I just don't feel like doing it tonight.

06-14-2009, 04:00 PM	#23
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The rain around here has been simply ideal for the early plants. The difference from ten days ago is stunning. Carrots await thinning. Basil starts up. Even at this point, if you pull a leaf and crush it in your hand, it smells like basil. That pepper! And cool: in the background, lower right, you can see how easy it is to grow herbs. It's dill, in an area previously planted with dill... and then completely dug out and had 5 inches of rich soil dumped on top of it. Another patch of dill has been started, but this hardy single survivor is a testament. Can't kill dill! Tomatoes are coming out, and the vines will be staked tomorrow. And the sunflowers, which seemed to wimpy to survive, all pretty much did survive and have developed secondary leaves.

06-15-2009, 08:10 PM	#26
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	more pics: a shady garden, the recycled paving, lettuces and mama cardinal hanging out by the veggies. She is tucked into a vine covered fence sitting on two eggs....

07-04-2009, 01:39 PM	#28
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Rain keeps going, everything has gone nuts! An early cucumber appears. Now it's time for the sun to come a ripen it all.

07-04-2009, 04:41 PM	#30
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I love the pesto. It's impossible not to grow too much basil. It had never occurred to me to eat squash blossoms. Have you?

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