Who is growing their own this year?

Shadowfax

Shadowfax

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um...Vegetables that is :)

Anyone doing a garden this year? This will be my 4th year with a big garden. Need to get it turned over quick and ready.

In its own plot, I pulled the leaf mulch back to expose 100+ heads of Garlic growing. They will soon be joined by about 100 Onion plants I just picked up..Texas White, Sweet Red, and Vadalia.

Under the grow lamps are about 30 different tomato plants and the peppers have not popped yet.

Soon to go in will be Lettuce, Swiss Chard, Scallions, Peas and Beans.

Anyone else?
 
This is in the wrong forum's section; it should have been in the Hobbies section. ;)

Gardening is very cool; it keeps us sane in this insane world. ...Everyone with some marital or transitional or control problems should be gardening.
I don't garden per se but I maintain my fruit trees, my flowers, my lawn, and my landscape. ...Keeps me sharp, on edge. :)
 
The Onion Patch went in yesterday in front of the Garlic, where I left just enough room.
20 Sweet Red
20 Texas White
20 Vidalia

Then we found two just growing in the main garden from last years compost and stuck them in also with no idea what they were besides healthy.
 
I've got a fairly big garden but right now it's still covered with about 12" of snow. This year I'll be lucky to get anything in the ground before Memorial Day with the 8' (yes, 8 feet) of frost we had in the ground this winter. :(
 
Matt,

That isn't the best of conditions for sure. I guess you also have a shorter season all together but maybe not as hot as it gets here in eastern PA?

Are there certain things you can and cannot grow there?
 
Yes, we have a short growing season here (zone 3b) with the warm weather crop growing season typically running from Memorial Day to Labor Day. It's not unheard of to get a frost in the middle of summer in the low lying areas. Things like melons and long season warm weather vegetables don't do very well here without starting them off in a cold frame, and even then it's difficult to get a decent crop. Our warmest average daily temperature is only 80 with a few days hitting 90 or close to it each summer.

I rarely ever get a decent tomato crop but everything else seems to do fairly well and I can grow cold weather crops all season long with no issues. Berries and fruit do surprisingly well here too, especially anything that likes a acidic soil.
 
Shadowfax said:
um...Vegetables that is :)

Anyone doing a garden this year? This will be my 4th year with a big garden. Need to get it turned over quick and ready.

In its own plot, I pulled the leaf mulch back to expose 100+ heads of Garlic growing. They will soon be joined by about 100 Onion plants I just picked up..Texas White, Sweet Red, and Vadalia.

Under the grow lamps are about 30 different tomato plants and the peppers have not popped yet.

Soon to go in will be Lettuce, Swiss Chard, Scallions, Peas and Beans.

Anyone else?
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Cool, I will send my shopping list and hit you up mid-Summer. LoL
 
This weekend the Peas, Scallions, and 3 types of Lettuce went in along with a new Rosemary bush. The harsh winter killed mine and most everyone else around here off.

And would ya believe it? They are predicting frost tonight with a small chance of wet snow.
 
Being sensitive to cold (thanks, warfarin), I'm just getting around to planting our small city garden. The thyme, oregano and chives (and mint, which is now basically a weed) are reawakening nicely but our rosemary is lost and we never have luck with dill so new plants are due there, along with sweet basil. We're concentrating on small roma tomatoes (juliette) this year since they blanch and freeze so well and expectto be spreading the wealth to everyone around us. Of cousse, this is Jersey so we must have some beefsteaks and maybe even a stalk of corn or three, just because it looks cool towering over everything else.
 
Hey Mark, hope you get good results this year.

I think everyone in our whole region lost their Rosemary plants, mine included. We did replace it with a new one and I will be sure to cover it with burlap next winter.
All our Tomato plants are plenty big enough to go in the ground but I still have a few more square yards to turn over. I can only do a section at a time with my back issues.

All the Peppers are looking good but a few weeks behind the tomatoes. The Peas are almost at the point of grabbing on to their fence. Scallions are a little over an inch tall and just look like new grass. 2 rows of Lettuce are up and doing well. A row of 3 types of Swiss Chard are popping thru. The 100 heads of Garlic and 60 or so Onions look to be doing much better this year too. We also planted a small patch of Mesclun to go with the Lettuce.

It's a crime of nature that Lettuce and Tomatoes do not mature at the same time.

Looking forward to your visit and maybe something will be ready to pick by then.
 
Farm Report

The garden is now in full swing and looking good, but it will be a jungle in 2 months. Here are a few shots from last night.

Wide angle shot of Main Garden




Lettuce-Scallions and Peas


Peas-Swiss Chard-Tomatoes


Tomatoes and Peppers


Outer Gardens

Potatoes


Rhubarb-Onions and Garlic


Wide Angle 2
 
Wow, looking good! I finally was able to plant mine on Thursday. It's just been too wet to do anything with the soil. I'm kind of glad that I didn't have it in already because we had a light frost on Tuesday.
 
Thanks guys, it is lots of work but fun to go from garden to table for several months.

Doug, the Garlic is actually pretty easy. I plan to do a pic-step by step from peeling to harvest when I can gather all the shots from different folders.

You plant individual cloves, pointy side up, 4-6 inches deep and 6-8 inches apart. But you plant them in the fall just before the frost. They should stay hidden from site until the thaw if it is a real winter, then the leaves and stalks start growing. When several of the lower leaves dye off, it's time to harvest. Late June if the timing here is right. We don't eat garlic every day, but we do still have a few from last year.

We bought the best looking garlic from Wegmans last year so looking forward to seeing if they get bigger this year.
 
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