Thread: It's gardening time!

So, the nice weather is around the corner, and in my neck of the woods planting time is coming up soon.

My garden is small, about 16'x16', but gives me many hours of enjoyment every season and it's a very rewarding endeavor for me. Every year I plant tomatoes; paste for canning, and a few varieties of slicing tomatoes that change every year. I put about 24 plants in the ground, half the spread, and fill the rest with zucchini, cucumbers, string beans, basil, parsley and one hot pepper plant in honor of my father in law. Every year I try something new like eggplants, sweet peppers, corn, watermelon, muskmelon and others. All of them have done well with the exception of the watermelon, which I tried twice and didn't do well, a heartbreaking experience since I was so looking forward to some moon and stars. I may try again this year.

So... do you garden? What do you grow? Pictures always tell a better story

Here's my garden in 2009; last year I got blight and I don't speak about it except to call it the black season

Beautiful garden, sir! Ours is in a state if neglect right now, but your picture is inspiring me to get it cleaned up & ready for the Spring.

Hope your garden turns out great this year!

Thanks,
Jeff

oooohhh i cant wait . . but i have to wait a bit longer than you, lol


-last year

next year's plot

i havent got pics of mine but it is 25 X60 feet and i just got started on it for this spring so far i have 4 rows of patatoes , 3 rows of oinions , and 1 row of garlic, then in the herb box i have rosemary, leeks, elephant garlic, green oinions, when we are safe from frost, here i will put the rest in .

Here are some pics of our garden. Just two small plots but it still keeps us busy. Gettin' the itch to start up again with this week of warm weather!

I am trying different methods to make gardening as maintanence free as possible. Here I placed plastic over the plots with drip hoses underneath. This worked well for easy watering and weed free garden, but it made the ground too hot in late summer.








Try to get hot peppers to grow, not much luck last year. Here are some habeneros.


It's not easy but occasionally we make the kids get into the action!

My family has been growing for a few years, usually tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, and lettuce. We've tried a lot of other stuff but had only moderate to little success.

At the end of last summer the family moved to a new house on 10 acres out in the country. Most of the land is wooded and hilly, but we plan to have a sizeable crop sown with heirloom seeds

I'll be starting my tomatos, watermelons, etc inside in the next couple weeks. Lettuce will be ready to plant next month. I use a cold frame outside once the plants get big enough. 2010 was a bad year for gardens in this area. Too much rain caused blossom end rot. Then we got the heat. Not a good year.
MIke

Some nice pads, and some very ingenious growing going on!

Loved the corn on the containers, I planted mine on the ground 3x3 on a mound and they did very well - despite all the advice they wouldn't grow here.

I saw pictures of canned goods there; very nice! I can tomatoes, peppers and onions, sometimes in the same jar

The purple peppers reminded me of a season some ten years ago. My kid picked them from a catalog and we grew them from seed (pic down there.)

First the kid with the peppers around 2002, then the garden in 2006 or 2007, after its first expansion.

Here's some of the stuff I picked in 2009...