So what's going on in your vegetable garden right now?!

Eating speckled trout lettuce from my garden with baby chard and collard leaves and bronze fennel.

Mmmm...I also have lettuce, which is very tender this year. My beans, cukes, & squash have jumped out of the ground...not like last year! And re the cute chippies.....I saw one eating the blooms off a per. geranium! Where are the cats when you need them?

Doint their normal thing - sleeping.

re-planted cuke seeds

Here is what my veggies garden looks like....so much better than last summer....

Must weed the dill!

Still in Florida, dear son said he was going to weed my garden with the tiller. I hope he was joking. I guess hoe is not part of his extensive vocabulary, or maybe he just doesn't know it's proper use. LOL He also said he had to plant my peppers and tomatoes as they were out growing their 2" market packs. I did request that he put some pro mix and straw on my in my potato planters. He said they are giving lettuce, spinach, and radishes away. I miss my garden and want to go home. Ric

Wish I was in Florida - housework rots. Never mind rather be in the garden.

Harvested the first 3 zucchini today. Send me your addresses. heehee

Lettuce is starting to bolt. Had a couple of blueberries. Potatoes are flowering and I am dumping more leaves and straw on them to encourage potatoes. Jersulem artichokes are over my head not even thinking about flowering. Should get a pea pod or two tonight. Mostly watching stuff grow - including weeds.

Yes, I'm going to have to accelerate the lettuce harvesting. I started late this year so I only started harvesting last week!

Thanks to Victor’s invitation I thought I would Share this with you .

Ok Folks I Have had time to clean the Field Garden up and Get it looking good for it’s presentation so here it is hope you enjoy it . My Neighbor and I have been working on it for quite some time now and it is cleaned up and looking awesome and showing veggies and we have been getting some out it for a few day now .


Some of the Veggies we are growing are Squash, Onions, Big Dog Maters (Our TN Mater), Roma Maters, Yellow Bell Maters, Turkey Beans (Yes ! Taken From the Crawl of a Turkey), Okra, Case Knife Green Beans, Pink ½ Runners Green Beans, Snap Peas, Cucumbers, Cantaloupe, Egg Plant, Zucchini, Radishes, Carrots, Lettuce, Corn, Taters, Many Herbs, and a few others that I may have forgot.


This is the Field Garden that Four families tend and grow together . in addition to other things on other fields for the Road Side Market as well as providing for some other families in the area that we have in the past few years.


It also serves for the local gathering spot for the Elders to help with a Garden If they want to (Not Required) planting of veggies they often gather and chat about the way they did thing in the “Old Days” and what they Grew.


***Our Eldest is 97 yrs Young and still plants Her One Roll of Mixed Veggies Every Year! To Date .


Sometimes its not what we ourselves plant and grow in the soil.


But what the Community Grows in One’s Hart that Truly Blossoms that is Beautiful !


The Serge & Friends

Sarge, that's a plantation! LOL Community gardening is fun, can be productive, and can include all ages. Good for you all.
After nearly 4 weeks of being unattended my veggie garden is a wreck. The township officer happened by as I was hauling weeds to the compost and wanted to cite me for illegal dumping. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but I won't be hurting for compost anytime soon. LOL
Heat break's over, back to weeding. Ric

Ric,

No slave labor here this is all in fun . and no plantation just a Small Family Farm lol.

we do have a compost pile that did get some attention once due to its size.

the yard trimmer that we work with dump their clippens in one pile (No bad weeds IE thisels) but it is on our place so there was not an issue ; > ) we work them in to the pile at our own pace .

Sarge

Here is the Squash roll

If that is a family farm you must have dozens of kids, yeah, no?

schickenlady


just 2 one 4 yr & one 13 yr both girls

Sarge

My garden looks puny compared to yours,Sarge, but it only feeds me & my Mom, & the next door neighbors....I planted more flowers than anything else this year. Looking back at my 1st photo on the thread, I can see it has grown a whole lot....still weedy, though....hard to keep up with everything!

Had to laugh at the difference in soil between TN & CT....ours is full of rocks!

Robin,

The soil is a big difference, I would have to run a rock rake through that one for sure and haul in some top soil and sub soil add .

Yours is not that bad . I see some dill, maters, squash, beans, Okra, and taters if I am right . With a few iris and other flowers in there so the soil cannot be all that bad.

Sarge

You think you got all the rocks out but they come back. Year after year.

i have worked a few places like that we did food plots in the Military with the Engineers in Countrys Where we were Stationed you would Sware we planted rocks when it rained but the folks would simpliy pick them up and make a fence out of them aroune the Garden and leave a gate to the garden every so often the fence was only 2 1/2 to 3 ft high and worked out well for them Adversity and the ability to adapt and overcome their situation kept them going and their garden growing .

Sarge

Looks great, Sarge!

Thank you Victor

You have a marvelous garden, Sarge. Keep i t up.

Schickenlady - I heard from a Fairy and A gnome that rocks actually give birth -quints usually. Especially in the northeast.

Thank you

Frank we all work at it .


Sarge

Sarge, you are an inspiration. I'd love to have a community plot. Things(jobs) go sooo much easier when there is a group effort.

Jan ,

I guess it is a Military thing i just did not want to give up on the team work thing . and there is so much History to learn from the Elders in the comunity as Gardening goes this is the Best way to get the information from them with out bggering them. they love talking about it while helping and planting their favorit things the eat.

Sneaky I know but the wives write it Down they are the "History Book Keepers"of the Elders and Note Who says what . so it is a log /Journal of sorts if you will of the "veggies of times by the elders" for this area

Sarge

not trying to swipe folks from here but if any are interested .

This is my Thread that I host it is Called “The Sarge’s Front Porch” Warning Southern

Lingo is used but we are friendly folks and do not care to explain any comment to you .

nor do we poke fin of the north.

All are welcome at the porch !

By Orders Of The Sarge

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1109608/

No okra or taters, Sarge.....dahlias look like taters...I have no idea what okra looks like, have never grown it, cause we don't have a long enough growing season here.

Oooo here it is in the growing stage i'll see if i can find a photo of the pods
Sarge

Red Okra at its best Pods

Sarge

sarge that is a huge vegetable field not sure it can be referred to as a veggy garden!

Veggie farm is better.

Veggie Farm is good. Maybe = Veggie Acres is the place to be.

The red okra is pretty.

Okra flowers are beautiful and in the same family as hibiscus (Mallow). I lost my okra while at my dads and will probably start some more just for the flowers and hopefully harvest a little for the freezer for my gumbo, although file` will thicken it without the flavor. I probably have about half of the garden weeded and my prayer bones are getting a little sore. Ric

Love Okra flowers!

Question, what critter will nibble on the cauliflower, but not eat it all, same with the brussel sprouts. BUT...put a broccoli out there and they chow down to nothing. 12 plants so far..... What is it???

Do you see any evidence of ground hog activity? They can be eating machines. I just posted the following in MA.
I have a new "friend". It appears that another ground hog has taken up residence in our barn during our absence. The downside is it is snacking in the veggie garden (which is slowly emerging from the 4 weeks of neglect). Come Friday, I'll have Jamie bring a large Hav-a-heart home from work and serve it some cantaloupe, that they find so irresistible. Then it's off to a power line trail with a nice little stream in an uninhabited area.
I wish I could train my black snake to terrorize ground hogs. LOL Ric

It's not touching anything else Ric, not the cukes, matos, potatoes, pumpkins, corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, squash, zuccini....nothing. It munched on one or two cauliflower, one or two brussel sprouts...then hasn't touched it for over 10 days. Put a brocc. plant out there and it disappears!!!

How about just the power line, Ric?!!