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How Does Your Garden Grow?

Here are some pictures from my friends garden when I was over there on the 4th. He has set set up rain catchers using old plastic barrels and has been watering during our dry spell from the water collected:thumbup:
Ummm "knee high by the 4th of July":confused:
Ha!!!
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He has made good use borrowing my Claw BTW (a gardeners must have tool IMO ) it IS a back saver:cool:
 
Nice garden. My poor garden has suffered greatly from the triple digit heat we've had for the past two weeks straight. Everything is still alive but pretty much shut down. Low 90's are forecasted for next week. I'm hoping my tomatoes will ripen and everything can recover a bit before the next hot blast.
 
We had raised beds and grew a lot off veggies, then we had kids and replaced the raised beds with play centers and swing sets. We still grow a fair bit. Tried corn...the squirrels got all of it. Don't grow corn anymore. Tried broccoli, wait one day too long to harvest and you've got a flower bouquets. Our biggest crop now is tomatoes, because we use them. Unfortunately, the past 2 seasons have been fraught with blight around here so our harvest has been less than spectacular. We always plant habanero and jalapeno peppers and have added a ghost chile this year, which I'm really excited about. We also grow a lot of herbs, cilantro, basil, mint, and parsley for the most part. The herbs are all in pots and planted in stages so we have harvestable herbs throughout the season.
 
pastafarian said:
We had raised beds and grew a lot off veggies, then we had kids and replaced the raised beds with play centers and swing sets. We still grow a fair bit. Tried corn...the squirrels got all of it. Don't grow corn anymore. Tried broccoli, wait one day too long to harvest and you've got a flower bouquets. Our biggest crop now is tomatoes, because we use them. Unfortunately, the past 2 seasons have been fraught with blight around here so our harvest has been less than spectacular. We always plant habanero and jalapeno peppers and have added a ghost chile this year, which I'm really excited about. We also grow a lot of herbs, cilantro, basil, mint, and parsley for the most part. The herbs are all in pots and planted in stages so we have harvestable herbs throughout the season.
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use a hot pepper wax spray for garden stuff, funny nothing bothers spices and herbes or hot pepper plants, so bugs and stuff hate that in other plants too.
 
olbriar said:
It's crazy easy to get hooked on gardening... be careful :)
My son caught the bug last year. This year he has three tomato plants and a variety of pepper plants. He's having a ball. I hope whatever you decide to try works out and you enjoy the rewards of growing your own goodies.
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wow! nice! haha! i want a bug too! :D
 
olbriar said:
Nice garden. My poor garden has suffered greatly from the triple digit heat we've had for the past two weeks straight. Everything is still alive but pretty much shut down. Low 90's are forecasted for next week. I'm hoping my tomatoes will ripen and everything can recover a bit before the next hot blast.
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Ours has suffered too but thankfully we've not been banned from watering it so it's still just about hanging on!
 
I'm looking for a hot sauce recipe. I have plenty of peppers and want to start learning how to make my own. Thanx :)
 
All items are subject to taste naturally

Tomatoes
Peppers
Onion
Garlic
Cilantro
Cumin
Salt
Sugar

I like to roast my peppers.. some like them raw. I like to remove seeds from hotter peppers for they tend to be bitter. Roast them in a skillet or on the grill... just until the skins turn a bit brown. I like to add lots of anaheim peppers for substance and then add jalape
 
my tomatoes finally took a hit from the heat. the longest i ever had them through the summer. now getting ready for the fall. here in central fla it is great as long as in the winter we don't have a frost or freeze ,which we get every now and then. the fall into winter is the best and then late winter into spring is great too. basically two growing seasons here. and the summer is tough, from may to sept it is 95- 100 every year all the time.
 
Summers are always tough here in Oz. Last summer and this have been particularly brutal. Today is our first cooler day... high around 80. That broke our string of consecutive 90 plus day. Most of those days were over a hundred and a few were over 110. Needless to say, it's been extra tough to grow garden goodies.

I pulled up the remains of my zucchini plants weekend before last and planted my turnips. This cooler weather should insure a nice fall crop.
 
olbriar said:
Summers are always tough here in Oz. Last summer and this have been particularly brutal. Today is our first cooler day... high around 80. That broke our string of consecutive 90 plus day. Most of those days were over a hundred and a few were over 110. Needless to say, it's been extra tough to grow garden goodies.

I pulled up the remains of my zucchini plants weekend before last and planted my turnips. This cooler weather should insure a nice fall crop.
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you pretty much get a winter there huh? not so much here.
 
I grow tomatoes in hanging 5 gallon pails...started doing that after using some topsy turvys for a couple of years(and yes they worked fine) but a couple of years about all you get out of them and so I wanted to try something that I could re-use for longer. It works out great and with them hanging they take up very little space.
The rest of my garden is sweet corn and cucumbers.Normally I grow more of an assortment but these are my 3 favorites so I went with that. My corn is incredible this year getting about 3 nice ears per stalk.
Cucumbers were slow taking off this year for some reason(lots of heat and humidity didn't help) but there are a bunch of little pickles growing all over now.
 
Bren S. said:
I grow tomatoes in hanging 5 gallon pails...started doing that after using some topsy turvys for a couple of years(and yes they worked fine) but a couple of years about all you get out of them and so I wanted to try something that I could re-use for longer. It works out great and with them hanging they take up very little space.
The rest of my garden is sweet corn and cucumbers.Normally I grow more of an assortment but these are my 3 favorites so I went with that. My corn is incredible this year getting about 3 nice ears per stalk.
Cucumbers were slow taking off this year for some reason(lots of heat and humidity didn't help) but there are a bunch of little pickles growing all over now.
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the topsy and or buckets works great here too!
 
Looks like my potatoes have caught blight :-( worst thing is I planted so late in the season, and had some seeds left, which I planned even later in the gfs flower garden section!

Got some decent sized tatties, but far too many tiny ones :-(

No where near enough sun this year, you guys have had the hottest July on record, we had the wettest!
 
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