Gonna plant a garden this year?

[trekkor]

We've got tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and squash.

We have very productive soil and a great climate.

What are you doing?


KT

[tabs]

So you are joining Michele Obama and planting what amounts to a "Recovery Garden." As I stated in an earlier Thread this is going to be happening more and more as we enter the Secular Round Head Revolution. A return to basics.

Here in LV the soil is very poor, however I have a Lemon and a Peach Tree. So I get some fruit from them. When I lived is So CA I had 2 Orange, Lemon, Lime, Hass Avacado, Nectrine, Peach and 2 Plum Trees. As well as Grape and BlackBerry Vines. I also grew my own Tomatoes, Jalpeno Chillis, Basil, Green Onion and Eggplants on a sporadic basis.

[trekkor]

I built four large raised boxes.

Screens in the bottoms to keep the critters from burrowing up.

We have a little lemon tree in the front yard.



KT

[Hugh R]

Moved about 3,000 pounds of dirt this weekend to build my raised garden bed. More next weekend

[HardDrive]

Not sure how this is political or religious, but we do some small scale gardening.

We grew some monster zuchini last year. Yum.

[trekkor]

I posted in the wrong forum!


KT

[Tobra]

two words for you

Sungold Tomatoes

Orange cherry tomatoes, very sweet, simply outstanding. Have three of them, couple yellow pears, bunch of early girls(one not looking so hot out of the 6 pack I got for $3), couple zucchini, various peppers. I did not do raised beds, borrowed my parents rototiller and put a bunch of steer manure and potting soil out there. Expanded the garden from last year, added about 100 square feet, which is about double last year.

Have a full grown mandarin orange(clementine) in the front yard, little meyer lemon that is a prodigous producer, couple peach trees, couple cherry trees, navel orange and rio red grapefruit. Have a gold nugget mandarin orange that I just got a few months ago, put it in a big container, where she will stay a few years until a little bigger.

Have to take some pics of the garden, so I have something to compare with how it looks in July and August

wow, you guys moved this pretty darn quick

[pwd72s]

Nope...

[austin552]

[Big Ed]

Just got my PT 2x8's and built my 4' x 8' raised bed yesterday! This is a first for us, wife's idea. Working on figuring out what we plant now.

[Tishabet]

Don't have a current picture, but we've been gardening on my rooftop for the last year using several "EarthBox" planters. They have a vapor barrier over the soil and a water reservoir which allows them to go untended for 3-4 days at a time. I built a small cistern out of a garbage can which I plumbed with a tap and we fill it with water from the AC condensation pumps from our condo and the condo below us; works great and provides several gallons of fresh water each day. Prior to the "EarthBox" purchase we were using normal planters, which required daily watering.

We've been very successful with different types of tomatoes, peppers, herbs, zucchini, etc. Here is a picture of the deck before the EarthBoxes with just a few potted plants; in the foreground is my friend's GF, and my wife is in the background. We now have five EathBoxes total. I'd highly recommend them to any gardener without an actual garden

[jyl]

Interested in building some planter boxes. Questions for you guys:

1. Use pressure-treated or not? Is it a problem to have the chemicals in pressure-treated wood being right next to the roots of veggies?

2. How deep should a planter box be? Guess it depends on what you're growing, but what is the minimum depth that will work fine for most things?

[Big Ed]

I got my instructions from a local charity that provides free gardens to the needy (the teach a man to fish philosophy). Head of the charity is a good friend.

Anyway, I followed their instructions which were to use 2 x 8's for the beds. I don;t know if shallower would work, I figured why question a method that works for a couple bucks. They said that new pressure treated lumber is fine, just don't use the old arsenic treated stuff.

[syncroid]

I worked on our garden this weekend. Planted some tomatoes, basil, and squash so far. Also built another raised bed yesterday. Not finished with it yet. Still have to run the sprinkler pipe to it for the drip. Hopefully be done for easter weekend. It made the wife very happy.

[trekkor]

I used recycled redwood for my raised beds.
2x6's, three tall.

4 boxes, 4 foot squares.

We water manually with a hose with spray attachment.


KT

[Zeke]

I just stick the plants in the dirt with some manure. I get loads of veggies. Raised boxes don't keep the birds and possums out. Well, they gotta eat too.

[JTO]

The OSU extension service recommends between 15 and 20" of depth for box gardens.

I went 16" by 4' X 8' (six boxes) and got ten yards of garden mix (that's 135 wheel barrow trips-yikes). Need to add a 16 16 16 fertilizer to begin with.

Tomatoes, peppers, summer and winter squash, herbs, artichokes, berries, melons. Good growing season in the Rogue Valley. Very much like the high ground east of Sacramento.

Troy

[syncroid]

Here is the new box that I made yesterday. I am going to add a second one right next to it that is only two boards deep. Between the two of them I will need 30 cubic feet of soil.

I lined the box with weed barrier cloth which will keep the soil in yet let the box drain properly.

These are the original beds that I put in about ten years ago. I am going to tear them out next season and replace them with wood that isn't going to kill me with chemicals.

This is the irrigation pipe I am going to tap into for the new boxes.

I was going to work on the trench for the pipe tonight but I'm beat after an eventful weekend and Monday at work.

[TimT]

I started germinating some seeds for sinsemilla a few weeks ago

j/k

I have a vegetable garden every year.. Tomatoes, a few kinds, onions, garlic, various lettuce, radishes, sometime corn, tomatillo, peppers, Also have a Pear tree that produces a prodigous amount of fruit, a sick apple tree (think I will cut down, and use the wood for bbq), Have a kaffir lime tree ( bring inside during the winter), lemon grass thai basil...

I grow way more veggies than I can use (single person household) so when things are getting ripe I give to my elderly neighbors, and also bring some to work ..

All on a quarter acre plot

[72doug2,2S]

I've built a french garden this year, which is a idea from the mid 19th century in the formerly known NW territories. It is four equal size garden patches, one of which I've given to a friend who lives in the city.

We're going with roma T's, peppers, corn, watermelon, Potatoes, green beans, and butternut squash.

I'll be praying to God for his blessings with rain, sun and healthy plants. There, does that count for PARF.