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How Does Your Garden Grow?

gbiggie

gbiggie

La patience et le pardon
So for years I had a 20x30 plot to grow veggies-as well as a 1/2 acre total to "play" with:D

Due to a change in life I am now limited to this as my garden
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Yes one lonely Jalapeno plant-Hey priorities you know;)
Here are some shots from about two years ago-there are plenty more BTW
Post yours up-help me get through until I have some more dirt to play in :D
Michigan here BTW:)
Let's see those Pics!!!
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This year not so well as the weather has been playing havoc with hard frost right through until 21 St May, so I've only just planted the majority of it....

Last year was my first time of growing and it went quite well, but we will see how it goes this year.....
 
sntaylor said:
This year not so well as the weather has been playing havoc with hard frost right through until 21 St May, so I've only just planted the majority of it....

Last year was my first time of growing and it went quite well, but we will see how it goes this year.....
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It's like that here also-totally unpredictable here-there was one year we could have planted the first week of April and been safe-other years-last week of May:(
Any pics:confused:
Thats one thing I miss-the planting to the jungle:D
 
I think you just wanted to show off that lovely little girl!;)
But those veggies were pretty amazing too.
I don't garden, but my husband is always growing something out back.
I will see if he can take some pics to put up here.
He grows a lot of flowers, and a few veggies, but it is so hard to grow veggies and fruit here because of the constant draught conditions.
When we water the garden enough to grow healthy veggies, we owe a $200+ water bill.:rolleyes:
 
damewolf13 said:
I think you just wanted to show off that lovely little girl!;)
But those veggies were pretty amazing too.
I don't garden, but my husband is always growing something out back.
I will see if he can take some pics to put up here.
He grows a lot of flowers, and a few veggies, but it is so hard to grow veggies and fruit here because of the constant draught conditions.
When we water the garden enough to grow healthy veggies, we owe a $200+ water bill.:rolleyes:
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Ok-somewhat busted:p
Always tried to use barrels for rain water runoff for the dry spell here every year-don't recall but ya'll are deep southwest yes:confused:
Lucky if you get a drop for what weeks sometimes?:(
 
gbiggie said:
Corn:confused::thumbup:
Something else too-can't tell.
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Three varieties of corn. Silver King, Silver Queen and Sweet Ice. Lima beans, black eyed peas, a few tomato plants and the last of the asparagus. Can't forget the scarecrow my ten year old son made...lol

The other garden, not pictured, has more corn and tomatoes. Along with string beans, squash and peas.

Now all we need is more rain.
 
gbiggie said:
Ok-somewhat busted:p
Always tried to use barrels for rain water runoff for the dry spell here every year-don't recall but ya'll are deep southwest yes:confused:
Lucky if you get a drop for what weeks sometimes?:(
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Months! The last rain we had in Tucson was 1/10 inch in February.
We average about 11 inches of rain anually.:rolleyes:
I so wish I could afford to quit work and move to Portland Oregon, or Charlotte NC.
It's on my bucket list to live where it rains regularly.
 
I got a late start this year. It was way too wet to till for a month. Now that I've planted it has barely rained... figures huh. Oh well. Took a pic but it's difficult to see what's up. Sweet potatoes, cucumbers, zucchini squash, okra, green beans, apache peppers, macho nacho peppers, jalape
 
So jealous of you guys! We live in a tiny apartment on a second floor so the best we could manage is a couple pots on the fire escape.
I grew up in farm country and my mom had a sizable garden. Enjoying that first ripe tomato in June or July was a godsend to the crap you eat year round in the grocery store!
 
Tomatoes, I refuse to eat store bought. Everything from the garden is better than store bought but tomatoes excel. Do you have a farmers market within reach? We have a number of them around here that sell most everything you can grow in these parts. I always buy my fresh corn from one vendor. I've never had any luck growing corn and his corn is the sweetest. Might be an alternative for you.
 
We have numerous farmer's markets in DC, also CSAs which we haven't signed up for. Probably too late. In our restaurant we order local organic tomatoes for the summer. Great stuff!
 
Sorry I stay in Scotland, we had 1 week of only sun in April followed by a months worth of rain in onenight, then 2 our 3 weeks of frost.now massive heat waves for a eek and a half.think its due to train again at the end of the week.lol.

Will put some pics of last year and some of this year tonight when I get in from back shift!
 
No pics yet but this is really the first year I've tried to grow something. Now when I was younger I use to grow stuff you smoke but the Police officers of this country was dying to get their hands on it. So not wanting to grow that stuff for them I decided to quit :(

Now back to a serious note. Our first year we decided to keep it simple some tomatoes, jalape
 
I've never had great luck with bell peppers. I don't know if it's the soil ph or what. They grow... they bloom, they produce, but they never get to any size at all. The largest bell I ever picked was smaller than a tennis ball. I haven't planted them in a couple of years.... just gave up.
 
For some reason the last few years I had the monster plot-things went downhill.
Plants started getting stunted-not as much fruit was produced:(
Didn't really change anything up as in watering or fertilizer used. I think it.is true that you have to mix it up=let the soil grow over for a year and start again-wasn't an option IMO;)
Will dig(pun intended)some classic pics in the am:thumbup:
 
Rain. It finally rained here tonight. :) I have irrigation but there is nothing like a good soaking like I'm getting right now. It's rained near here but this is the first rain on my garden since I started planting. I'm guessing close to an inch has fallen already and it's still coming. Nice slow gentle rain. I'm elated.
 
I'm trying to grow strawberries, but the squirrels keep getting to them. Dogs are sometimes too tired to chase them.
 
I've had bunny problems this year. I live in an older neighborhood and the rabbits have pretty much moved in. I've always seen damage to some plants but this year they completely consumed two tomato plants and six okra plants. I put a secondary (fine mesh) fence around my existing fence surrounding the garden. It looks like crapola but so far it has kept the bunnies out.

I have a lot of squirrels here as well. I've never found them to be a problem.. but I'm not growing strawberries either.
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