Garden this year.

[ShadeTree]

Got a late start due to a cold spring, but coming along.

Far right tomatoes.....beginning to set fruit. Left of that is peppers that have 1 or 2 getting close to picking size, the rest just coming on.

Cabbage at the far end of the peppers, and then another row next to the peppers. Cucumbers at the bottom row, two zucchini at the end of that row.




Cucumbers look good, already picking a few.....they will be on like gangbusters in a week or 2.



Zucchini looks good also.....just setting fruit on it now. Don't know why my wife wanted 2 plants again this yr.....one has you figuring out who all to give the excess to.



Watermelon....got 1 softball sized melon on it with a bunch more just starting.



Pumpkins for the wife's fall decorating. Some orange and some mixed.




Red beets on the near 2 rows, beans on the far 2 rows. Have to fence beets around here or the rabbits mow it off like it's a dessert buffet. They love those beet leaves.

 

[DrMike]

Beautiful garden, my man. You're set for a rich harvest.

 

[jimbires]

very nice .

 

[Charlie-NY]

Planted my 500sq/ft organic garden in the last week of May. Snap peas have been harvested and the rest is hopping. Zucchini are loaded and will be ready soon.

 

[DrMike]

Looks beautiful, Charlie. Our garden is quite pitiful this year. I guess I have a brown thumb! :roll:

 

[JD338]

The gardens are looking good. We got a late start on our but it's starting to come along. Lettuce, tomatoes, green beans, cucumber and squash are in our garden.

JD338

 

[Charlie-NY]

Looks beautiful, Charlie. Our garden is quite pitiful this year. I guess I have a brown thumb! :roll:

I've had a few lean years. This year I had my soil professionally analyzed for the first time. Conditions were way off, partially due to me putting in significant amounts of decomposted manure every spring without ever having the soil tested.

I also had every single tomato taken or bitten into before harvest for 2 years in a row. My trail camera revealed that it was squirrels that were doing it. I trapped a dozen or so but there is a never ending number of them. My 3 year old grandson wanted to plant corn this year, so we did. Squirrels have pulled down every immature plant already. Not sure what to do.

 

[DrMike]

Squirrels have pulled down every immature plant already. Not sure what to do.

Brunswick stew? The squirrels would be nice and fat from all the tasty plants you have fed them. :?

 

[JD338]

Squirrels have pulled down every immature plant already. Not sure what to do.

Brunswick stew? The squirrels would be nice and fat from all the tasty plants you have fed them. :?

+1

JD338

 

[JD338]

It's coming along...
1st year for the garden here so it's a work in progress kind of project.

JD338

 

[jimbires]

we just put some tomato plants in big flower pots . we get plenty ,and give some away .

 

[ShadeTree]

Charlie, things like that can be a problem for sure. If you got the room, plant enough that you can afford the losses on the outer edges. A 10 or even 15% loss on a 1/4 acre is still a LOT of corn left.

 

[truck driver]

No pictures but my garden is going crazy this year.
The Wife has a indoor green house that I got her for Xmas and she went crazy starting plants.
I primarily planted tomatoes, cucumber, Zucchini, peppers, beets, corn and carrots.

The tomatoes have grown taller then the 4' fence I have around the yard and the Zucchini is like an octopus running everywhere I contribute that to the chicken litter I put on it and worked into the soil.

 

[Charlie-NY]

Charlie, things like that can be a problem for sure. If you got the room, plant enough that you can afford the losses on the outer edges. A 10 or even 15% loss on a 1/4 acre is still a LOT of corn left.

I plant 500 sq/ft which is quite a bit for my 1/3 acre property. I live in a dense suburb with homes all around me. Shooting squirrels would be fun but if just one neighbor caught wind of it I'd have a dozen police cars in my driveway in 2.2 seconds. :grin:

 

[DrMike]

I plant 500 sq/ft which is quite a bit for my 1/3 acre property. I live in a dense suburb with homes all around me. Shooting squirrels would be fun but if just one neighbor caught wind of it I'd have a dozen police cars in my driveway in 2.2 seconds. :grin:

And that just proves my point. Police response times are getting slower with all the stupidity of socialists' complaints. Two point two seconds you say. :? A dozen police cars? When I was a kid, a minor misdemeanor would have the police there in 1.1 seconds. :shock: And there'd be at least a score of the boys in blue rolling up to see what was going on! I swear, they were just watching me, anticipating that I'd do something wrong! :roll:

Okay, I'm just yanking your chain. Enjoy what you're able to harvest and know that you're feeding the wildlife. In Jasper, we had to put cages over the shrubbery to keep the deer and elk from eating what we planted as decorations. Here, we have moose, black bear, mule deer and lynx that come into our yards, making themselves at home. Sometimes I think it would be nice to be bothered by squirrels.

 

[jimbires]

the plants are loaded . we picked a couple , and a couple fell off early . they are nice meaty tomatoes .

 

[Charlie-NY]

I caught another dozen squirrels and 3 opossum as the tomatoes were ripening. The critters only got a few tomatoes this year. He are the tomatoes I picked the other day. A ton more are hanging. All my neighbors seem friendlier lately. :>)

 

[DrMike]

What a lovely harvest of tomatoes! Was the squash from your garden as well?

 

[Charlie-NY]

What a lovely harvest of tomatoes! Was the squash from your garden as well?

Yup - I plant yellow & green zucchini in one section and the acorn squash in another. The acorns are my favorite. My wife bakes them (halved and cup side up) with butter and brown sugar. All the squash did good this year.

My eggplants are way behind and the peppers (green, red, yellow) are doing ok but I've had much better years. Gardening is more of a science then most people think. I've yet to master it. :>)

 

[MorrisJonson]

Planted my 500sq/ft organic garden in the last week of May. Snap peas have been harvested and the rest is hopping. Zucchini are loaded and will be ready soon.

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Awesome!