Vegetable gardening

Got a picture of my baby cuke!

Yay!

That's the size when I like to eat them!

I should read the package and see what size it recommends to pick them.. I think the pic makes it look bigger than it is too.

I've picked 2 so far...waiting for the rest. :)

Mine aren't blossoming yet.....can't find my bunching onions in the grass.....the garden is just a mess....worked on it a little yesterday, will really try to make some progress today....

My garden is a mess, too. I can't find the shallots and when I pull the weeds - I pull up the shallots as well! Looks like the garlic has succumbed to the heat.

Oh, no!

Can everyone share long views of their veggie gardens, please?

Also what do you use to edge around the fence line? how do you keep the grass from growing into it?

anyone hear of community supported agriculture?

this is near me....always wondered what that mansion was and who lived there!
http://paradiseorganicfarms.com/

No views of my veggie garden until I get some of the weeds out! JoAnn was a member of CSA a few summers ago....she wasn't happy with it, you never know what you're going to get....like a 20lb squash! My neighbor down the road was sponsoring it last year, don't know if he's still growing for others or not......that place near you is amazing, by the way......

Yeah I'm not crazy about the idea of having to pre pay

Jen I dug a 2' wide path around the garden and when I noticed weeds growing I hoed it out. That is my plan for now, but I have read the best thing is Hay, for around the veggies and the paths. I just don't think I will like the way it looks, plus last year I put some around my strawberries and the weeds just grew through it. So I feel like it just hid the problem until it got bad. Right now I haven't dug the front of the garden out yet, but probably will when the weather cools down a bit. I was looking into some small metal fencing they sell at Lowes and HD, it is under garden fencing the one from Lowes is half the price of the HD one. But it isn't real post fencing, while the HD one is post type, it just sticks in the ground like the little garden borders you can get. I feel like it would be more for looks than to actually keep critters out, because most critters that are a problem would just climb in or fly in. The thing I plan to do, once I have all my wooden boxes in is to do the hoop thing with pvc pipe. I tried it out on the one I have and it actually worked very easily, you just bend it into a hoop shape. Then at greenhouse supply stores you can get netting and fasteners. I think this is the way I'm going to keep pests out. The cheaper fencing a t Lowe's would add up to a little over $200 for my 24' x 22' area. I noticed my neighbor has the same fencing I'm talking about, maybe I will get a pic at her house. I was thinking of it more because Trevor keeps digging in my beds and caving in the side because I haven't put the wood around them yet. However he will only be at that age for a short time and I'd rather spend the $200 finishing buying the cedar planks.

we use salt marsh hay it is works well - then turn it into the soil at the end of the year.

Yeah guess I'll just have to make another path around the outside of the fence

Bill where do you get that type of hay?

Is the fence already in? Because I would do it inside other wise you will have to deal with the stuff between the fence, which is a pain. I have to edge along my fence where all my gardens are and it is very tedious work!

Jen I am sorry I just realized I misread your post earlier. I didn't realize you asked about the fence! I thought you were asking if any one had a fence! lol Disregard anything that didn't apply to your question..

Jen, behind my niece you can see black plastic...thats my garden! LOL

LOL

I had fenced around it already and left a path around the raised beds, but grass and weeds are coming thru the fence...it's just ugly and hubby doesn't want extra weed wacking work

Would love to have your niece patrol my garden!

jen - Agway's have it and nursery's - usually goes fast

LOL Victor!

thanks, Bill

Knew ya would Victor!

You will be fighting the weeds growing into the fence forever! I am :( Hubby usually leaves all sorts of grass seeds that drop into my garden unless I snip them by hand.

I think the weed wacking makes it worse, it throws the seeds into the gardens....have to remind myself to use Preen around the perimeter

Yup I agree, I have finally trained the DH to aim the mower so the stuff doesn't fly into my gardens. I swear it made the weeds 100 x worse.. Preen doesn't work on weedy grass :( I think that's why it says not to use on grass. I put it in all my beds and the grass had no problem sprouting anyway. Annual grasses are my worst enemy here.

Every summer while spending hours of time pulling grass out of my beds I think next year I'm going to try crabgrass control in my garden beds (Corn Gluten) BUt for some reason I haven't tried it yet! I think I was on a kick of wanting reseeding annuals, but I don't get enough. I get surplus of grass though!

Yes, my beds are full of grass......

my key to control weeds in the veggy garden - and I HIGHLY recommend this is - marry someone who has an Italian step father and an active mom and let them weed the garden for exercise and tomatoes.

LOL
I have no relatives close enough, pretty soon gonna start paying the kids

Be careful, Jen. When I HAD to weed when I was a kid, I 'accidentally' pulled some spinach. Wink, wink. What was I thinking? Still don't like it cooked, but love it raw.

Lol Bill I love that idea! :)
I was out looking at the Veggies yesterday between downpours and my plants have grown so much since those pics I posted. I feel like it's only been a week. I'm going to check.

That's a great solution, Bill! However, when I broke my hip, the tomatoes were just ripening....my family members picked the tomatoes, plus cukes, & beans......didn't pull one weed! I remember sitting on the stone wall of my perennial bed pulling weeds!

Hell, I've been married 36 years, have been gardening for 60.
My wife still cant tell the difference between lamb's quarters and young tomato seedlings, or baby lettuce and baby dandelion.
At least she says (and has frequently demonstrated) that she can't.
You think I;d let her weed the vegetable garden?

Probably not.......I don't know why I always took care of the garden....guess I figured my DH would yank out everything except corn!

J B - smart lady, getting you to do all the work! LOL!

picked our first bush beans yesterday - they will be coming fast now

I have blossoms......

Green beans will be ready to pick in a day or 2....not much else going on.....someone from the CT agriculture dept was on the radio the other day...she said blossoms will not form or pollinate if the temp is in the 90s.......

Finally! Just in time for cucumber sandwiches in this heat!