2011 Garden Thread
 

I enjoyed following the thread last year...
I don't think anyone has began a 2011 Garden thread yet.

So let's share our gardens.

This is only my second year having a vegetable garden. I'm still learning a lot.
It is my new hobby and all of my neighbors have gardens and are happy to offer advice on what and how to grow.

Here is the garden two months ago (mid April) when we planted our Summer crops.
You can see the onions and snow peas that we put in the ground over the (mild) winter.

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And here is the garden today (June 19th).

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Green beans, corn, edamame, tomatoes, eggplant, a red pepper, beets, fennel and salad greens, ginger, scallions and a two rows of flowers in the front.

Eggplants, the Japanese variety are much better than any I had in the U.S.
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Fennel is coming along.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1308469749.jpg

I've got some pix... Will post them later today.

Mine is shameful. I planted on a Saturday in May. Then it rained hard for a week. My peppers, (jalapeno, and wax), are not growing. The tomato plants & corn aren't doing bad but the garden just doesn't look very good and I don't think the pepper plants are going to grow at all. :(

I was wondering when someone was going to start the 2011 garden thread. :) I'll add some pictures later on today.

I'm in!


KT

nothing to eat yet.

Peach leaf curl and critters were devastating this year to early peaches:(

Tomatoes are doing pretty well, especially the ones I put in where that stupid ornamental tree was. Filled the hole with a truck full of that magic river bottom dirt from my parent's house. You could almost plant a brick in their yard and grow those 3 little pigs a place to live. It is so stupid that they built houses there, should have kept it orchards.

I cleared some weeds, put out a few hundred square feet of that landscape cloth and wood chips. The wife wants me to plant some melons over there., but it is too late I think. What the heck, they will have at least 4 months to grow, cantaloupe, honeydew, pumpkins or butternut squash maybe.

Have a bunch of stuff out already, biggest tomato is about 36" tall, all of them have at least 2 green tomatoes little baby green and yellow squash, bunch of different kinds of peppers.

We have raspberries, tomatoes, green chilies, squash and red bells.


KT

I've had poor results the last two years. Think it is a combination of crappy weather (rain through June) and over-ambition. This year we scaled way back. I planted only tomatoes, basil, various lettuce, onions (for the greens). And it has rained through June. Oh well, stuff is off to a decent start anyway. Our strawberry plants have spread a lot over the past few years, and have small fruit already. My gardening time this summer is going to be consumed by the side strip (tilled under the grass, trying to get it covered with vinca, lots of hand-weeding) and side yard (trying to get the grass eradicated, flagstone put down, plants around the edges). No real time for much veggie gardening this year.

My 12n year old son is maintaining a nice, very small veggie garden.

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And a few pics of doggie and rest of garden.

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green thumb and almost nothing to eat here. ;)
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;) 71 Chevy driveway dog. :rolleyes:
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The day before I put the tomato cages up a doe and her spotted fawn came through and ate the tops off of 4 of my tomato plants.

I did a bit of thinning and added some fertilizer this past week. So seeing some good growth also helped by some rain and a few very hot days:

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Picked my first eggplants a cucumber some beans, salad greens and 2 tomatoes today:

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Little Mo likes the mini-tomatoes:

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Brain fart!
Pole beans, bush beans, tomatoes, basil, and Shiso (sp)
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Onions, squash, and mint.

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Neighbor's yard that I built the beds for last year. Tomatoes, squash, and peppers.

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My grape arbor. Vine compliments of car311.

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Fresh parsley and other goodies.

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Beautiful.

On my end, my lowered ambitions are on track to be fulfilled . . . Getting regular strawberries, tomato plants are big and bushy and flowering, and we're getting enough lettuce for our salads. The basil is lagging, the but otherwise my veryvscaled-back garden is working out. I think this is about as much garden as I can tend.

getting there.

i have some porta miren squash, tomatoes.and zuchinni going crazy. lots of fruit. amazing what pruning and fertilizer would do. even my corn is coming in. useless dog is letting the squirrel and moles have a "hall pass". i've asked for a pellet gun for my birthday.

no big pictures, but here are some highlights.

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Interesting thing. I removed an ornamental tree, and happened to luck into a truck load of dirt form my parents back yard, which is freakishly rich river bottom soil, to refill the hole. I tilled it in, and the plants there are now about 5 feet tall and are starting to produce a bit more. The tomatoes in the dirt from my parents house are twice the heiight and ten times thie vitality Pic from about a week or two ago

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well after a very slooooooow start the pepper plants are starting to grow some.

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I don't know about you guys but my tomatoes aren't doing very good these year. The cherries and small yellow pear tomatoes are doing okay but the lemon boys and beef steaks are few and far between.
All of our beans have done really well. The squash has been more then we can eat as usual. The basil and chiso have been so so. Jalapenos okay. Herbs doing good.
So how is everyone else fairing this year?

I like this look Dan. It must be sheer bliss on a hot summer night just reaching upwards and picking off a perfect grape.