Thread: In the Garden 2015

No kidding! Haha! Will also be minimal maintenance in the future.

Our token four bin garden this year. Next year we'll more than double the size with an additional two bin and a three bin to the left.



A month later and it real pops. The neighbors don't have fence and the deer are always munching their stuff.

I finally got my tobacco plants for this year. 11 Virginia Bright Leaf and 11 Yellow twist bud. I have room for a few more but they are extras from a friend and they were free! The dang Broom corn seed doesn't seem to be sprouting. Planted a few peanuts for fun. I wonder if they will ripen in time? A little more space in my little lot. I wonder what I should use to fill in the gaps?

Garden is in Pictures to follow. Same as last year, Zucs Yellows, and the mild peppers. hungarians and orange red Bells.
Spinach has already grown in and we are eating it.
We call them winter onions here plant them it the fall and by May they are ready to eat. Look like green onions on steriods. Rains here are a blessing, Its ensuring everthing we planted will root.
Going to try replanting Zucs in the middle of June, so as to reap all season not one mother load early on.

Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003

Going to try replanting Zucs in the middle of June, so as to reap all season not one mother load early on.

I had a piece of Zucchini chocolate cake on Thursday. Very filling more like a very thick Brownie.

Another example of trying to use and cover up the taste of the mother lode.

Second section of the Garden is going in as planned but a couple of days late, it rained for the last week or so

Ripped through the Sod last week with the Kubota and the plow just like last year, got the tiller in there today.. Unlike last year when I didn't have enough power to really rip through the ground, this year the Craftsman tore it all up, pretty happy with the results..

New posts for the extension will go up later today and hopefully I can get it all buttoned up by tomorrow..

Going to try an idea I read about in the FB Homesteading group I am in for the new section, putting down Cardboard, then a layer of Straw then putting in the raised beds and new Soil and Peat Moss.. This is supposed to near eliminate the weeds for the first year, then the cardboard basically disintegrates over the winter I hope

That's looking like good sandy loam soil there. Mine is rather dark clay laden so far. Learning and to compensate with additives of more compose and mulch to get that magic mixture here. A little bit of grass still trying to creep through even after tilled it over a foot below the side boards. Why is grass healthier in your garden than in your lawn? LOL!!

My mother is trying straw bale gardening this year. I have heard about it and thought it interesting. I am going to wait and see what her results are.

I have heard success with Bales really depends on the weather where you are at, basically a wet climate like I have tends to not do so well, where a drier climate tends to do better ..

I haven't ever tried it so just going by things I have read

UPDATE:
Well, nothing came up in my cinder block garden, pretty sure the soil isn't sterile since there are weeds sprouting. Just dug it up & re-planted it with some more peat moss on top, and some fertilizer mixed in. It's hot now, maybe it'll come in. Also planted 5 more Swedish Aspen trees behind it. Wait & see......