Garden 2008
We got started on our garden yesterday ,
Last year we had to have some septic work done ( 450' of leach line put in ) , so NO garden as we were just trying to get and keep the side yard stabilized , ( dirt and grass to hold it in place ) .
So yesterday I put togather some above ground boxes ( the leach line are NOT that deep ) (1) 8'x16' (1) 4'x16' (1) 4'x8' , and we ordered a load of dirt , well the dirt came yesterday afternoon , so we were planning a full day of moveing and smoothing dirt ,
we were doing pretty good ,
When a Niebor came up with his tractor with a front bucket saying " Ya'll need a hand ??" ,
He got done in 30-45 minets what would have taken us Hours if not days !!!!!!
And refused payment for his time and diesel !!! Saying Thats what neibors are for !!
This man and his wife are FIRST in line for Goodys from the garden !!!
I'll keep you posted on our progress .
Oh a quick update , Carol was looking in the farmers Almanac , it said that today was THE day to plant peas , so in go the sugar snap peas !!!
Happy gardening Zip. I hope you remember to update this thread as the season goes on. :)
Zip. I planted my sugar snaps today. Not by the farmers Almanac, just to lazy. Lots of work left to do.
but but but we've got six 1/2 a foot of snow on the ground.
You guyz remind me to order seeds for when our planting time comes around
Icy snow and -12 windchill this morning...its that whole in-like-a-lion thing. I have begun to gather my seed packets where I can see them every morning. Peas, mixed lettuces, to start, nasturtiums, zinnies... hmmm...plan out the Friend's School plant sale strategy, and try to imagine the yard green and lush. Kale, more kale.:)
but but but we've got six 1/2 a foot of snow on the ground.
Does anyone know where last years garden thread is? (the search function didn't bring anything up 'cept this one)
I lost the list of the plants I wanted for my deck this year and I think I may have posted my list on it. Maybe not but it is worth a chance. thanks in advance
Here's
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Ok , so its been raining like a BYOTCH !!! Carol cought a little slack in the rain and got some stuff in the ground .
Maters , Pappers , egg plants , tec,,,
Squash and Cucumber land ( planted at the edges and we will see what reaches the middle first ,
Carol in Pea and Lettuce land , the sugar snaps are doing FINE ,
the lettuce is starting to sprout ,
and the Aspergoose is coming back Like gang busters !!!
I'll keep ya'll up dated .
Aw man you got asparagoose! I am not patient enough.
I used to live in a desert area when I was a yongster. My mom and I would go to where the prarie dogs live and find it growing wild. :drool: That was a good memory.
Apparantly you've never tasted aspergers until you've eaten it within 30 minutes of being harvested.
So I've never tasted it!
I will take a picture of my garden to impress you all. Ahem, my plastic planter with a small catnip plant I mean. Bet even that dies :(
Started the garden yesterday!! We are sharing the plot with the woman who lives downstairs....For now I am just watching, but will be expected to be doing the weeding this year! The third row from the back will be lettuce which is the only thing I'm really interested in that my husband decided on. I'm not a big fan of beets and there are 2 rows of it!! (the two rows in the back) I will be adding some photos from the apple orchard because the blooms are pretty!! (I guess I'll be eating lots of apples this year):D
I liked my husband's new method of irrigation as he got the water to snake through the entirety rather then just disperse in rows. We do ground water irrigation out here so it's important to figure it out before the acequia runs through it. The acequia can be powerful so you have to figure it out as much as possible because the force of the water can destroy what you have planted. :)
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Like Apples?!?:D
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Lovely blossom - everyone keep us updated on the gardens please!
Catnip update - the seeds I bought have done 100% of nothing so far.
The seedling that came though the post settled in well. I took it home and the boys seemed quite ambivilant, unless I plucked or broke a leaf in some way, then they went mad for the smell on my fingers.
So I put it outside. Within a day it had been knocked over, the compost strewn about the yard and the plant looking quite sickly in the middle. Obviously discovered by neighbourhood thug cats.
So it's back inside for a while (repotted). I'm thinking of taking it back to the work yard as the fox there might discourage any cat activity. Then I can just harvest it for my boys as and when it gets big enough not to miss a few leaves.
I told you I'd kill it.
lol @ you watching, cic
Make lot's of apple pie! yum-o
I want to see a plastic covered catnip plant SG. At least we can pretend spring is comming. Even if it dies.
I too have a small plot available across town @ my sisters house. We'll see.
If you're going to be successful, you need a target, a goal. Here's one.
umm those look like body snatcher pods :eek:
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lol You sound like my friend...where as I would stop to make a salad.
My 1st use of plastic. Boy the ants love it.
Zippy, You ain't got any pineapple planted! WTF? We've got another 25 days till last frost... My sparrowgusts have been dented by a woodchuck. I set a trap, but he left.
We have had some small sparrowgusts ( Quick Saute with butter YUMMMMMMMY !!!!),
and last nite we had Fresh Lettuce from the garden , Killer
Carol said that the lettuce we had paid for the seeds ,
More to come !!
I need to get some pics
Ok a quick up date ,
Main garden doing OK ,
Cabbage be Cabbage'n
Squash and Zuk land doin fine ,
Baby squish ,
Baby Zuk ,
Lettus and Pea Land ,
And Yes the lettuce is young and fresh ,
Thats it for now .
Oh man you are a month and a day ahead of us. dawg.
Wow, you guys have great looking gardens, already!
Here is has been too cold to do much planting. Until a couple of weeks ago we were still seeing snow. So, the weekend before last, we started our garden. Ours is nowhere near as nice as some of yours, but I thought I would share, anyway.
This is out back outside our backyard fence. mac_tire thought it would be nice to have some sweet corn, so this is what I call "DB's corn patch." It is going to need continual weeding, but it seems like it is going to do well.
On the left is the path on the side of the house...and right up against the house is...nothing yet. I might put some flowers in there or something.
DB is watering our cucumer seeds and just to the left are dill seeds and a few strawberry plants.
We bought tomato plants this year instead of growing them from seeds. We will see how they fare.
You can't completely tell, but there are 9 watermelon piles there.
I am not sure why I put this one in, but it's me.
Anyway, now, we are seeing things sprout a bit. The stuff planted on the side of the house might do really well, actually. The soil around here is mostly clay, but whoever lived here before had gardened there, because it was full of rich topsoil when we dug out the weeds.
You won't get the cultural reference but what the hell - you're even cuter than Felicity Kendal!
Why not get a wildflower (esp butterfly/ bee friendly) mix for your spare bed. Your veggies are going to keep you busy, so a bed you don't have to tend which will end up a riot of shapes, textures and colours woul dbe a welcome relief. The mixed seeds sold for this purpose in the UK are traditional hedgerow/ country flowers which need little tending. I know you're in a very different clime, but you probably have something similar? Ah - thinking of your location, maybe a succulent garden would fare better.
Love to all the gardeners - keep em coming.
The wildflower idea is fantastic. It might help keep the weeds away, too. Perhaps I will try that.
BTW, I looked up Felicity Kendal and this is who I found:
I also read in Wikipedia that she is popular with males because of her cute butt. :blush:
Yes that is a good idea (wildflowers)! Beautiful and low-maintenance!
The gardens look great guys!
We just got done planting the last of it, peppers and such..My husband wants corn but we ran out of room for it! I also got the spinach planted that I wanted.
:)
Spinach, hey that's all I want so uhh, do it!!! I need to get batteries for my camera, then it will be photo time! The poppies are out and awesome!!
Spinach! I need to get back to the store for more seed.
It's not so much the looks (which are dated now).
She was a figure of lust for adolescent boys and men because she appeared so innocent, so wedded to the earth, and yet she had a real woman's figure and a feisty personality (by 70s sitcom standards!)
She was the symbol of growth and fertility - a veritable goddess in denim and wellingtons.
Frost warning in Northeast PA tonight.
Beans and eggplants. Notice the full house at top of eggplants. 1st of year.
Purple beans?!
Super-cool.
I've seen many coloured carrots & potatoes and thought they'd be fantastic to get children to eat veg - but never beans.
Don't you just COMMAND them to eat what's on their plate? :stickpoke
No, sorry, I know better now.
Kids can only eat what they like to eat because anything else it the stoooopidist thing you evah heard.
I'm going to lock you in a 10'x10' room with a chimpazee on amphetamines, and it has a megaphone strapped to it's mouth, and your hands are tied behind your back, and the walls are lined with green beans, purple beans, and grean and purple beans that are fake plastic ones, and the monkey only speaks Swahili and you have to deliver an oral essay on which beans it should eat, and if it eats the wrong ones you get an electric shock to your nipples...except if you're into that, then you only get the shock if the monkey eats the correct beans.
Thread Drift, Mission Accomplished.
I already admitted a defeat of cocktasional proportions.
Lets go back to gardens.
Your that guy on the plane post was funny.
Here we call them LA. purple pod beans, for snap beans. The purple hull peas are for shelling. I like them because I can see them better. Turn green when cooked.
Here are some pictures of my garden this year. Late start and scaled back, but more than last year. Mrs. Foot and the inch and the millimeter are all on board.
http://picasaweb.google.com/cellarfootYou guys know how I like the Wisteria! Well here it is and the progress on the garden. We ate the first lettuce of the season and tonight my husband pulled some beets (thinning things out already). I am also adding the spot that I like to sit in under the wisteria in the outdoor kitchen. I think it's my favorite spot in the world right now.
:D
Oh and the poppies! Love 'em!
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Looks good Foots , the sugar snap peas in our garden have done there do , we have gotten a hand full of cherry tomatoes, a few Zuks , some squash , the chile pepper plants are full , and the other Mater Plants are Full as well
Cool nights here has stopped my garden. Only some eggplants. loads of maters, but none getting ripe. No snap beans.
Got a big garden going again this year. Always plant more than I need, but it never goes to waste - what I don't eat or sell goes to the chickens. :)
For Cicero: Here's my wisteria. Got it free from Craigslist almost three years ago- had to dig the sucker up myself, but it was worth it. No blooms the first year. A few blooms the second year... and then a second mini-bloom (wtf?). And this year....
The inch asked "Whose garden is that?"
"It's Glinda's"
"The good witch?"
Nice Glinda! The only thing missing under that wisteria is a chair! A great shady sitting spot!
:)
this thread is so intimidating.
My poor tomato plants are nothing compared to this.
At least you have tomato plants. All I have is a collection of way overgrown fig trees, and I hate figs.
But look at all the clothing they give you. :blush:
Thanks for your kind comments, everyone! But I cannot take all the credit. The truth is, my gardening obsession was destined. My mother has always had an interest in gardening and her current yard/garden is out of control - and it seems I inherited all of her green-thumb genes.
When I bought my place, four years ago, it was pretty much a blank slate - previous owners did little more than plant two rose bushes and grow a "lawn" (primarily weeds). Since it was my first place with dirt (condo living is hard on plant lovers!), I went a little crazy.
Funny thing is, I HATED gardening when I was a kid. Mom always made me do the weeding. :mad: How weird is it that 35 years later, I enjoy weeding?
Yes, I am a sick twisted soul. It's part of my charm. :)
Wow - even your plums are different!
I had a friend in middle school who had a plum tree in her garden - it was laden with fruit, but nothing like that!
How low do your plums hang?! ;)
Hope your toms are salmonella free...
Impressive fecundity, well done you.
cool looking garden, zippy! pretty fruits too. just bought some plums this weekend. are yours sweet?
Impressive fecundity, well done you.
Please stop, your vocab is making me hot.
First time in my life. Last night deer got in my maters. Knocked 12 or so off. Eat, ate,??? maybe one.
I think they'er hunting the moister, more than food?? Dry here.
Where in hell was the dog?
The Japanese Beetles assaulted two of my little plum trees.:mad2:
Where in hell was the dog?
Sleep, I guess.
Speaking of deer... I have strong suspicions that one of those evil beasties has been stripping the bark off my dwarf Braeburn apple. Just discovered it yesterday. Now there's one MORE plant in my yard wearing a chicken-wire wrapper.
Grrrr. :mad:
Deer keep stealing my rose buds. They are always hanging out in my yard, but this year I have barely had any roses due to their appetites.
know what you mean case, we had to fence ours, our tortoise eats everything but thorns and roots
Something ate all the unripe blueberries of my new blueberry plants. I think next year I'll get some netting.
Deer keep stealing my rose buds. They are always hanging out in my yard, but this year I have barely had any roses due to their appetites.
Yeah, I had the same problem - stupid deer bite the stems off halfway down but don't
eat them. WTF?!? So I bought a bunch of 1" chicken wire fencing and wrapped them all up.
Now the deer have moved on to the apple tree. What next?!? My yard is starting to look like a concentration camp with all this fencing around my plants. :mad:
what if you fed them *something else* you're willing to sacrifice, since they're there already...
ie: lead
At least you can eat the offending party. Maybe the beetles would be okay in heavy cream...
ie: strychnine
I thought of offering this in my original post...
Actually, the beetles (depending on the beetle) are better boiled in oil.
Something ate all the unripe blueberries of my new blueberry plants. I think next year I'll get some netting.
Pathmark (supermarket) has pints of New Jersey blueberries for $1.28. Cheap, no work and full of blueberryness. ;)
I think beetles should be slow roasted with garlic.
I imagine the outer wings would always be too crunchy to be palateable (I'm assuming these are BIG) so you just need to soften the insides.
If they're little things (ie a handful at a time type food) I would stir fry, perhaps dip them in flour first to get a crunchy texture.
BTW I can't agree with providing food to protect your garden. That's a lesson learned in history (see Elthelred the Unready if in doubt). Conning towers and searchlights are the way to go.
Pathmark (supermarket) has pints of New Jersey blueberries for $1.28. Cheap, no work and full of blueberryness.
Damn, that is cheap. Ours are in season (and they grow them in Texas too, it's not like they have to travel too far) and they're still $2.99 a pint. Off-season they're $5.99.
If blueberries were that cheap here, my freezer would be full of them. And my wife would be a little miffed at me for filling the entire freezer.
There's a place nearby that sells big buckets (3-4 lbs., I think) of individually frozen berries (you can buy one type of berries or a mixed berry bucket), for $6. Now that is the best deal one could ever hope for, and the berries are all grown locally in OR/WA so you know you're getting great quality. They're great for cooking/baking - always available and yummy.
Still, berries are way better eaten straight off the vine, so I bitch and moan and gripe a lot, but I'm happy growing my own. Just picked the first batch of raspberries this morning. :)
Conning towers and searchlights are the way to go.
I'm about at that point! :D
A few months ago I planted a "mystery seed" that I found on the floor of the gardening section at the hardware store. The seed was about the size of a peanut -- kind of squarish, dark tan. The seed eventually turned into an ambitious vine, with broad green leaves, and it's been putting out flowers for two or three weeks. They seem to wilt within the day -- this is the first one I've caught open! This bloom is about 5-6 inches in diameter. I
think our mystery plant might be a morning glory, but I'm not sure. Any ideas?
Oh sure, that the African nightstalker.
During the day the blooms wilt because they are only used in the dark, enabling the tentacles to seek out human ear wax.
The amazing part is when the tentacles enter the ear, they ignore the wax near the entry and bore for the wax in the opposite ear. They do this from both sides, and have sex while passing in the middle, leaving the seed to grow there.
But of course you knew that... everybody does.:borg:
Oh sure, that the African nightstalker.
During the day the blooms wilt because they are only used in the dark, enabling the tentacles to seek out human ear wax.
The amazing part is when the tentacles enter the ear, they ignore the wax near the entry and bore for the wax in the opposite ear. They do this from both sides, and have sex while passing in the middle, leaving the seed to grow there.
But of course you knew that... everybody does.:borg:
That'd explain the headaches. :rolleyes:
I think our mystery plant might be a morning glory, but I'm not sure. Any ideas?
Looks like pictures of a morning glory, but I don't know. Can't you get high if you eat morning glory seeds?
I thought am glory seeds were the size of broccoli or radish seeds. I was going to make an off color joke relating morning "glory" to morning "wood" and the obvious "seed" entendre, but then I got distracted.
But whatever, the flower looks like an am glory.
And Bruce, as usual, you are f king hilarious.
Aren't off colour jokes redundant when it comes to morning glories?
Or does it not mean the same thing in the US?
What does it mean in the uk? And could youmake a joke about fireman putting out a rubbish morning glory fire? ;)
The average man wakes up with a morning glory, lets put it that way.
I'm not sure I could factor in a fire and not make every man wince too much to get the joke.
Yes, that would be "morning wood" in the States.
Aaaaaaah!
Oh well, anyone who has heard the Oasis song (album) What's the Story, Morning Glory knows a bit more about it now.
Interesting... "What's the story, morning glory? (What's the tale, nightengale?)" has been a saying for a long time in the US. Had you heard the saying in Britain before the Oasis song title?
The prison in The Simpson's is Morningwood Penitentiary.
Interesting... "What's the story, morning glory? (What's the tale, nightengale?)" has been a saying for a long time in the US. Had you heard the saying in Britain before the Oasis song title?
Never heard "What's the Tale Nightingale". But it's likely they were using the US phrase with an eye to what it meant in England. Since I knew what a morning erection was I've known it as a morning glory - it's the first thing you think of when you hear the words here.
I would say that the Morningwood Penitentiary went completely over my head. But that might be dreaming... ;)
We say morning glory here too in reference to either a morning erection or excercise of said erection with the person you happen to be lying next to at the time.
Oh, and in that same vein, if you do it in the arvo, we say it's an afternoon delight, but I'd have to imagine that's fairly common everywhere right?
Also sometimes referred to as a "nooner."
