Thread: In the Garden 2016

Well, I'm now reaping what I sowed in our garden. The baby red potatoes, chives, peas, & beans have all been extra tasty. There's nothing quite like eating what you've grown yourself!

A little fruit this year's harvest.
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Cutting this tree down will benefit the garden a lot because of the relentless surface root competition. Never shaded the garden because of the angle of the sun but I've been continuously fighting the roots. It was a ~75 foot silver maple with ~70 of that above the split, tall enough to reach the house if it let go in a storm. It was just starting to get a little punky in the middle too. Last storm came through and was blowing my peppers around, I went out to save 'em and looked up at this tree shaking and bending in the wind and that was it, time to go.

There is just something primal about dropping trees

Originally Posted by gssixgun

There is just something primal about dropping trees

YES! To stand where no man has stood in 50 how many years. YAY!

"I claim this my Land!"

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

Cutting this tree down will benefit the garden a lot because of the relentless surface root competition. Never shaded the garden because of the angle of the sun but I've been continuously fighting the roots. It was a ~75 foot silver maple with ~70 of that above the split, tall enough to reach the house if it let go in a storm. It was just starting to get a little punky in the middle too. Last storm came through and was blowing my peppers around, I went out to save 'em and looked up at this tree shaking and bending in the wind and that was it, time to go.

I see brush handles,,,,,,,

Crack me up!

I've been grabbing garden photos every few days to make an ani-GIF of the season. On today's grab I caught the sprinkler making rainbows.



A hail storm trashed the garden earlier this year but most everything came in. Got pumpkins and corn stalks growing for wife's Halloween setup.

Originally Posted by jmercer

I've been grabbing garden photos every few days to make an ani-GIF of the season. On today's grab I caught the sprinkler making rainbows.



A hail storm trashed the garden earlier this year but most everything came in. Got pumpkins and corn stalks growing for wife's Halloween setup.

I have 2 of those each 4x12 I have yellow banana peppers and bell peppers in one and tomatoes, cantaloupe, and yellow crooked necked squash in the other.

Just not working so well for us this year

The weeds took a strangle hold on the large section before I could get the cultivator figured out. I also probably did more harm than good learning how to use it

Picked our very first "Chocolate Cherry Tomatoes" last night and the wife and I both were not impressed at all in fact we both spit them out..

The Amish Paste and Romas are looking ok, and we have a few mini bell peppers coming along

Beans plants are growing but not seeing any actual beans yet, same with the Blackberry bush, nice healthy bush with zero berries