This is my veggie garden right outside the kitchen door, as of today.
8 Tomato plants are visible on the right. I yanked the peas out yesterday.
On the left barely in the pic is a new strawberry bed, peppers and out back are the cantaloupe.
The brasicas are in the berry garden this year. Big changes are coming to that garden next season.
There is a high cement wall on 2 sides. The greenery is knot weed that I have to knock down to 6 feet tall or it shades the edge plants.
Andy P
A better shot of the tomatoes. Front row is Burpes '4th of July' , Big Boys are in back.
These are doing so well this season, I didn't change a thing from other years.
They are growing in old fashion cages that are too short so I string them up.
Andy P
Nice veggie jungle!
Nobody ever called me a neat gardener, lol. Everything gets jammed in with lots of compost. Marigolds, cleome and malva pop up helter skelter. I get more than I can eat and give away. The food pantry gets the surplus.
Sounds like everyone wins. (Wish I lived closer!)
I do the same Andy, nothing neat about my garden and I grow waaay to much!
pixie...when did you set the Sugar Babies out? Mildew was so bad here last year, upon reflection, I didn't start the melon seeds I bought in Feb. Now I wish I had.
I planted one batch at the end of May, then I hold the 2nd batch until June 5-10 just in case the frost gets the first batch! LOL
That's very doable here then before the mildew really hits. Thanks!
Your Welcome!
Here's my garden in June.....
And this is my garden this morning.
Wow! That is lush. Is that a deer scarecrow that I see?
I got my first tomato last night - a yellow currant - it wasn't quite ripe - but it was good anyway!
Ha ha ...yes Yank it's a deer scarecrow and it usually has arrows sticking out of it to give Bambi and friends the hint!
I use a very heavy black plastic and I don't have to weed hardly at all. It looks stupid when first planted, but as you can see it doesn't show for long.
Wow - you could feed lots with that, Celeste! Did you do the Sugar Babies from seed?
Yes, but I started them in the house and then planted them out.
A beautiful garden Celeste. Hard to believe you have all that going in such a short time.
We just came in from picking. Here's the harvest from a few days ago.
L
Nice!!
Thanks Harper. It's been a rainy, misty afternoon and I spent the time watching a movie, prepping garden produce, cooking and packing stuff for give away. Very unusual to be inside when we are here. When I looked at the days old photo posted and saw what we brought in this morning, I thought my "spread" looked skimpy. Friends in for dinner took some away last night.
Andy, your veggies look great. It's tuff to photo a veggie garden. Everything looks plain green except tomatoes or peppers left on for awhile. :) I want to share photos of my garden, but they look so boring when I try to load them up.
Laurel
Laurel, green is never boring! (grin)
HAHA Pixie.... over the deer
what a change that garden has made... beautiful and made me hungry
Well not to me, Celeste. There are so many hues of green after all. A first round of Thai basil.
I especially loved your wax bean photo but have never grown them. Do they require anything special?
L
Nope, just the same as the green bean...they grow side by side, two-by-two. hee hee he
So, that's garden speak for double rowing bush beans? Geez, I'm so tired of bending at this time of year. Is there a climbing option? I'm about to rip out all the bush Blue Lakes now that the climbers are up and use the space for Fall rutabagas and beets.
I do envy the fact that you can grow veggies that "go" together while we have cool season, hot season and cool again. It's hard to make a salad with no tomatoes and cucumbers and equally challenging with the later, but no lettuce. Well, can't complain too much when we grow arugula year 'round and substitute fresh mozz. and basil for the lettuce in July/August. We can grow lettuce again September through freeze (usually late November).
Loved your radish flower. Here's endive I'm growing for seed.
L
Just means I plant 2 rows of everything....and I mean just about everything. 3 different kinds of corn ...2 rows each. Two rows of G. Beans, 2 Wax Beans, ect...it's a just in case thing with me! LOL
Edited to say "just in case the coons get a row, just in case the birds pluck some seeds...."
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Laurel, we see too few whole garden shots.
Mine is hard to photo. It's pie shaped against the house on one long side and has that high wall/drop off on two other sides. The far corner is above eye level when viewed from the back yard. I set up this garden when the house was built 22 years ago figuring the wall would keep critters out. Plus it's right out the kitchen door.
Celeste, I think most veggie gardeners grow 3 times what we need ~ just in case, lol. I'm reducing the veggies in favor of flowers as I get older.
I may add a few grape vines next season. I have 6 cuttings growing that will need a permanent spot then. Does anyone else grow 'Reliance' grapes? Red, seedless with the sweetest flavor imaginable.
Here is a 5 year old vine as of 2 days ago.
Andy P
Forgot to take a pic, but I picked my first habanero today.
With gloves? How do you use them?
I actually didn't use gloves to pick it and I was fine. Hubby is going to do something with it. I don't do the hot stuff. Maybe a batch of his firehouse chili.
That's powerful stuff! I once cut some my cousin gave me while wearing gloves. Well somehow some of the 'juice' got on my hands and was transferred to a VERY sensitive area when I went to the bathroom!!
Ouch!
To say the least! It's a funny story now - it wasn't at the time. I was close to having to call 911. Now you know they would still be playing that one - it would probably be on the internet!
Victor! You're cracking me up!!
Think of a famous Jerry Lee Lewis song...
Ha ha ha.....I know which one!!
Me too!
Victor :
That's powerful stuff!
What's that one? It's hotter?!
Actually it must be real hot because it looks like it's melting itself!
Bhut Jolokias do look mean, don't they? Capsaicinoids are supposed to be around the seeds but it looks as if the oil is oozing out of the skin.
Bhuts are three to five times as hot as habeneros:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20058096/
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That's crazy - it's a biological weapon! What are you going to do with it?
