Garden 2020

Well I got the garden in for this year. One of Billy’s and my favorite traditions. After Dad tilled up the garden for me and we added a bucket of rich dirt from my compost tumbler, I planted the usual: carrots, lettuce, roma tomato, cherry tomato, green pepper, bush beans, broccoli, and brussels sprouts. If you recall, last year was our first year planting broccoli and brussels sprouts and they were delicious! So I planted them again this year.

What have you guys planted? Feel free to share photos and progress updates!

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After 3 years of the deer eating my sweet corn I put in raspberry’s instead, cucs, sweet little tomatoes, beans, peas and carrot. Added truck load of black dirt to my 15 x 20 garden also.

Sharon, nice job!! Gardens are a great thing.. I added raised beds along side my shed this year.. We have 6 raised beds total beside this one but dont have photos of the main garden beds.. Beans, carrots, mater and taters in the 4×4’s. My deck is all strawberry beds for the girls and they were one of the best additions. 34 strawberry plants make lots of berries and keeps the kids busy.
My new beds on the shed are just for peppers and sweet peas. The side of the shed is my peppers and the back side has a lattice for the sweet peas. Will see how that goes. I had to build gutters for the shed to keep from washing out these peppers. We love the gardens at home.

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I have a small (8’x16′) vegetable garden that is fenced to keep out bunnies. 5 Beefsteak type tomatoes, 8 sweet peppers, cucumbers on an A-frame, snap peas, bush beans, lettuce, spinach and Mammoth sunflowers around the perimeter. Looks good so far, we are looking forward to harvesting greens soon.

Planted 18 tomatos, 30 peppers (jalapeno habanero bell ghost) cucumbers, zucchinis, peas, countless strawberries that I finally put a 6 foot fence around to keep the deer out and raspberries in town gardens. Planted roughly 10000 square feet of sweetcorn still working on pumpkin squash and watermelon patch. Picked my first bucket of strawberries last night after 3 years of trying.

I’ve had good crops of asparagus and rhubarb so far, they should last until 4th of July, then I normally pick some more rhubarb in fall, the strawberries are growing and just starting to ripen, blueberries not far behind, first raspberries are usually around end of June. Then there should be some August/ September raspberries. Also have onions, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, basil and pumpkins planted.

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I always buy my plants started from a greenhouse up north on Memorial Day weekend, and it is a great deal imo, usually about $1 for every 4-6 started plants. This year I have 6 pickling cukes, 6 straight 8 cukes, 4 eggplants, 4 sweet peppers, 4 cayenne peppers, 4 jalapeno’s, 2 basil’s, and 12 tomato varieties (Beefsteaks, Better Boys, Parkers Whopper, Black Cherry and regular cherry). We also get more volunteer Chocolate Mint and Chives than I could use in a lifetime.

Here’s one of the gardens….30 feet long and about 12 feet wide.

22 tomato plants in the dirt, one Super Sweet 100 cherry tomato in the container wayyyy to the right with three hot pepper plants. I’ve cut back on the tomatoes and green peppers this year. The tomatoes along the short wall on the left are Rutger Supremes. 4 in the cages in the back are different varieties of Heirloom tomatoes. The rest are paste tomatoes.

5 green pepper plants

Onions, a new variety called Patterson. Growing well from plants. These are large, sweet yellow onions supposedly offering much better and longer storage.

Pole beans in the 3 cages right in front of the camera. There’s a few black beans pegged in front of the onions. There are two hills of bush cukes between the onions and the pole beans.

Not seen but behind me and along one side of the garage is a raised bed with 2 – 24 foot rows each of lettuce [Black-Seeded Simpson] and carrots [Danvers]. My shallots and Garlic along with Oregano and marjoram and dill fill this bed out.

I have asparagus in two locations in the yard in with Ma’s flowers.

The raised beds look great, Buschman! That was going to be our next big project – raised garden beds – so they’re easier to weed and pick veggies. Billy had a few designs in mind and it would have looked really cool. I’m much shorter than Billy was and don’t mind crouching in the garden to pick for now.

Tom –
I plant bush cucumbers but put them under an A-frame lattice. Even the bush cucumbers will climb given the opportunity and it makes harvest a lot simpler.

Brad….I double a couple tall tomato cages and set them over each hill when the plants get some legs. They will climb in spite of being a bush variety, I agree and the cukes stay straighter and clear this way, plus being much easier to pick.

I just finished weeding the garden. Put down Preen now. About 4 years ago we got nailed with some invasive crap weed that just flat took over the garden. I did the total weed removal on the garden like 4 times for the years since. I noticed this year that the tiny new growth was fostered by runners under the surface so I dug deeper and took out anything that even resembled a rhizome. Lots of work. This garden bed took three days and at least three hours each of those days to completely remove this crap. Hopefully the Preen will help if any of the schnit decides to return.

Ours is doing well. Beans, peas, cukes, radishes and onions in the raised beds. Chives, parsley, peppers, lettuce, carrots and taters in the pots. Strawberries and asparagus going gang busters out back.

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Sharon wrote:

Well I got the garden in for this year. One of Billy’s and my favorite traditions. After Dad tilled up the garden for me and we added a bucket of rich dirt from my compost tumbler, I planted the usual: carrots, lettuce, roma tomato, cherry tomato, green pepper, bush beans, broccoli, and brussels sprouts. If you recall, last year was our first year planting broccoli and brussels sprouts and they were delicious! So I planted them again this year.

What have you guys planted? Feel free to share photos and progress updates!

our garden is huge, I’m guessing around a 1/4 acre, 2 rows of potatoes, 2 row of string beans, 2 rows of peas, 2 rows of tomatoes, 1 row of onions, 2 rows of buttercup squash, 1 row of pumpkins, we can for the year in the fall, any left we can for the kids and grand kids.

In rows, left to right: peas, beans, cucumbers, carrots. In cages 4 different tomatoes, 6 different pepper plants behind tomatoes in the front. Then behind the lilacs butternut squash and pumpkins.

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I planted sweet corn this year for the first time. I added onto the end of my garden and planted 3 sets of double rows. I have a farmer friend who is guiding me on the corn so I am fairly confident in success. So far so good though I planted them a little too close. Yesterday solved that problem by transplanting some into open spots. The rest of the garden is various tomatoes – about 16 plants, snap peas and regular peas, beans, 2 types of squash, cukes, jalapenos and hot peppers and my wife is trying bok choy.

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I tried Bok Choi once. Easier to just buy it. I like it raw, like celery sticks, with a veggie or ranch dip.

Love the white rabbit @bigpike

Finally doing a garden this year at the new place (been here almost 10 years) after a long sabbatical. It’s a 8×16′ and 20″ high. (Hopefully high enough to keep the rabbits out) with a cucumber bed.

I used joists from the old deck and ordered a load of pulverized black dirt for it. The extra dirt I filled in a low spot in the yard.

The grass seed didn’t take (I was gone too much), so I just planted some more tomatos and cucumbers yesterday for the summer instead

It’s a temporary area for now (yard garden), and I’m putting up some wire today to keep the rabbits out of the new cucumbers. (The tomatoes in the yard garden look sad from the recent transplant)

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Dang, had to go back 8 pages to find this garden thread.

Took a gander around the garden yesterday, looks like I need to pick some dill. This heat is taking its toll, thankfully it gets shaded a fair portion of the day. Plenty of flowers on the cukes, and seeing tomatoes appearing. Time to start adding some Epson salt by the mater’s.

What does the salt do?

JEREMY wrote:

What does the salt do?

it is supposed to add extra nutrients to the plant and tomato. I’ve been told more then once the Epson salt is just like miracle grow. I’ve seen it really reduce them stem rot on the tomatoes also. Been doing this for all of 15 years.
I put a tablespoon by the stem at ground level every 3-4 watering.

Might have to give it a try my tomatoes always look great early and then kinda peter out. I googled it and said to use one tbls per foot of plant height is that what you do? Mine are about 4.5-5 feet tall. Seems like a lot of salt per plant.

No I simply use 1 tablespoon per plant every 3rd of 4th watering. That’s it.

I hated to do it but I have water on mine right now.

Tomatoes are approaching 5 feet high.

Just fed my corn a shot of Nitrogen. My first corn patch and I couldn’t be prouder so far…

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My tomatoes are going bonkers also as my tallest plants top out at 5 1/2′

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I’ve pruned my tomatoes a couple times and they are still turning into a jungle lol Going to have to remember to space the Celebrity variety out more next year

Picked out first batch of beans and had them with fresh salmon on Saturday

And it looks like we wil have about 7,000,000 cucumbers to pick next week sometime lol

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I spy with my little eye… 😁🍅

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I was gone a week and came back to a legitimate garden! lol Anyone have a use for an endless amount of chocolate mint? I can only handle so many mojito’s!!!

Picked the green beans this morning before the storm moved through. The corn plant front and off center is knee high and tasseling. It is an early maturing variety. I also have early maturing tomatoes. One is a grape tomato, the other is the size of a handball. Both have fruit starting to turn.

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