My second crop of spinach is coming along real nice and the lettuce crop has been outstanding this season. The strawberries were crazy good this spring and the raspberries are still delivering but the pickings are smaller now. This morning I brought in the first bunch of green beans, one of my garden favorites. The beets are almost ready so we’ll have more on the table in a week or so. I love fresh veggies from the garden.
Sounds like you have a great garden. To bad I’m so fat & lazy because I really like all that stuff. 
Sounds like you have a great garden. To bad I’m so fat & lazy because I really like all that stuff.
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My dad always had a HUGE vegetable garden… what I miss the most is snacking on fresh pea pods, right off the vine. He never used any pesticides or stuff on his garden, just a load of manure in the spring and water. Yummy !
I have had a couple salads now with fresh leaf lettuce from my garden (and pulled pheasant to boot!) and I’m eagerly awaiting for the cucumbers and tomatoes to be ready. I think it’s fun growing your own food and I’d love to have a garden twice the size! We slice and prep carrots and stock the freezer so all winter long we van have homegrown garden carrots. It’s nice to think about green stuff growing outside when it’s 10 degrees and snow white outside. 
When the cukes and tomatoes are coming in Carole and I will slice up a plate full of each and just sit down and chow on those, calling it supper.
And G…..there’s hardly anything better than fresh peas, pod and all, right out of the garden.
Jealous. I think my neighbors black walnuts finally got into my raised bed garden this year. All I could get to grow was two bean plants, a couple carrots, and one Swiss chard. All my peppers are sickly and about the same size as when I planted them in May. Beets were a total bust. Damn trees even killed two rhubarb plants. How do you kill rhubarb?
I give up.
Very happy to find my asparagus coming up that I planted this spring. It will be a few years before harvest time becomes an annual thing. I was starting to lose hope on them coming up but I am now at about 50% of my plantings have sprouted in the last 10 days! On the veggie front my wife has a good garden growing. My only vested interest is potatoes, purple fingerlings and reds. They are doing very well. No potato bugs so far!
I think my neighbors black walnuts finally got into my raised bed garden this year.
That jeglume poisoning is bad. I feel for you. It took about ten years of constant soil amending to finally get on top of the same problem in our yard.
Yeah gardens are rockin!
Best year ever for me. Especially the fruit trees, 2 Bartlet’s and a Honey crisp. Last couple of days I could get a handful of beans, and when thinning the carrot’s some were big enough to nibble on. Peppers not so good, I can’t grow a god pepper plant for the life in me.
The dog really likes eating from the garden, however now she is eating the entire bean stalk and digging the carrots out of the ground.
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Nice set-up… and I love your sign 
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G brings up using manure. I bag my grass clippings beginning about half way thru the summer using the big contractor bags from Menards. When as full as I want the bag I shoot in about a gallon of water and tie the bag shut. These get set along side the garden where the sun can hit them. After the fall tilling I stack these bags right on the garden. Come spring I open them up and spread the contents across the garden and till it in. Looks like manure, smells like cow manure right off a barn pile, but it doesn’t have the weed seeds and corn/oats that cow/horse manure can have.
When the plants in the garden are still small I will spread my grass clippings between the rows of veggies. It helps keep weeding to a minimum and creates a semi-clean walk way between the rows.
Fall leaves get mowed up and bagged along with a shot of water too, and will go on just before spring tilling.
Our soil was terrible until I began a regimen of adding lots of organics back into the ground. Now we have great garden soil.
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I think my neighbors black walnuts finally got into my raised bed garden this year.That jeglume poisoning is bad. I feel for you. It took about ten years of constant soil amending to finally get on top of the same problem in our yard.
I have a black walnut next to my garden………like 10 ft and don’t have any issues. mater of fact my maters are all of 30 ft from that tree and the whole garden looks like a jungle right now!!!!
Tom, glad you brought that up about the fertilizer cause I was gonna ask ya. I will be trying that with my maple leaves this fall. cant wait to impress the neighbors with the pleasant odor!!!!! just need to figure how many bags I need!!!
Oh yeah! Gardens doing fantastic! Tons of lettuce already, picked 5 green peppers on Friday and a quart bag of jalapeños, I also had a bunch of baby carrots on Thursday from thinning the rows. Mmmm, good stuff for sure. I had a war with the rabbits early, they clipped off all my carrot tops(they came back), and broccoli, and I re-planted lettuce 3 times. The cukes did not come back :(. After installing a rabbit fence that was not rabbit proof (see pic below). I found a perfect trapping set up by placing a live trap just inside the garden in front of the hole they chewed. They jumped rite in it every time! 6 rabbits got a ride out to the folks farm (also see pic below). Garden pic is from about three weeks ago. Photo is panoramic from phone so it looks kinda funny.
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I to am currently in a war with rabbits………..so far one went for a ride to a garden far away!!!!!! no I live trapped it and sent it out of town!!!!!!
Drifter – Nice weed free garden, How do you do it? by hand?
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Rabbits are not an issue at my place, the cat eats them. Seriously the cat eats them. One morning I looked outside and the cat was dragging a rabbit up the driveway that was bigger than her.
Some great looking gardens guys! I was fortunate enough to buy the family farm place this year and we have harvested more asparagus and rhubarb than you can imagine, strawberries were pretty good, replanting the raspberries this year, already picked some peppers, cucumbers, kale, collards, broccoli, radishes, and the first cherry tomato is going to be ready tomorrow! Lots of weeds this year, but time in the garden is just like time with my grandpa if he was still here! Same as fishing, always feel like he is with me. Good luck with the gardens!
I to am currently in a war with rabbits………..so far one went for a ride to a garden far away!!!!!! no I live trapped it and sent it out of town!!!!!!
The first rabbit was so tired when I released him into the country, he laid rite down and took a nap. Then the kids made sure after that they were well rested and hopped away. Lol.
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My girlfriend and I attempted our first garden this year. We replaced an ugly rock bed in the front yard as we figured there wouldn’t be enough sunlight in the backyard. Actually worked out great that it was in the front, people would always stop by on their walks to lend us some advice. Plant arrangement, planting dates, how to keep the corn up in the wind, watering techniques. Who knew. Besides our peppers not doing much this year, we are lucky enough to have tons of growth. We have been eating peas and beans since last week. Corn is tasseled and ears are starting to show. Very exciting stuff for us. Hopefully we don’t ruin the salsa or pickles.
My dad always had a HUGE vegetable garden… what I miss the most is snacking on fresh pea pods, right off the vine. He never used any pesticides or stuff on his garden, just a load of manure in the spring and water. Yummy !
My dad had a big garden in the backyard too. I hope someday to have a big enough yard to grow my own veggies.
I actually had one at the last place we rented from in Mn, but I mostly neglected it…dumb.
I think my neighbors black walnuts finally got into my raised bed garden this year.
Had that problem at our old house. I usually did fine with green beans, carrots, and jalapenos. Bell peppers and tomatoes, though, are hopeless.
We used to also put grass clippings down in the garden as mulch between the plants to keep weeds from popping. The added benefit was I could find small worms, small enough to feed some of the tropical fish in my tanks. They’d hang out in the matted clippings. You could then dig underneath for bigger worms for fishing.
Drifter – Nice weed free garden, How do you do it? by hand?
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Rabbits are not an issue at my place, the cat eats them. Seriously the cat eats them. One morning I looked outside and the cat was dragging a rabbit up the driveway that was bigger than her.
I do a little hand weeding a couple nights a week. As far as cats, I feel like a jerk after jacking the neighbor to keep their cats on their own lot, because they were crapping in the kids sand box. Now I will deal with the crap if they take out a few rabbits. 
I got some real crappy seeds this year. Worst germination rate I have ever seen. Luckily just enough cucumber came up but I only got 4 summer squash/zucchini seeds to pop and 3 of them are squash!! Bummer. My tomatoes look great. Not expecting any harvest for quite a while.
Getting a few maters! Picked this prize winner tonight…….
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No tomatoes for me yet, but my grape tomatoes are just starting to turn. My jalapenos and bell peppers are doing really well. Beans…well, I have no shortage. Tuesday, we picked 1 lb of snap peas and 1.5 lbs of purple beans. Last night, I picked almost 3 lbs of french beans. I’ll have more purples to pick tonight.
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The super 100 cherry tomatoes are flying high right now. I brought in a quart yesterday and need to pick that many more today sometime. The beets are ready to eat as greens and the swiss chard is about 2 foot tall and needs to see the first cutting. Beans? Tons of them already….we’ve eaten beans every dinner meal since Tuesday evening.
I dug around to do a squash count and we have about 30 on vines and growing nicely right now. These are buttercups and my favorite hard squash.
The leaf lettuce has begun to bolt now so that crop is finite, but we ate lot of the lettuce when it was at its best. I’ll be pulling the lettuce now to make a little more room for the carrots.
We’ve had an excellent growing season for veggie gardens this year. There just isn’t anything like eating it fresh from the garden.
Holy &^##! My summer squash are waging war on me! Cant pick them fast enough to eat. Already giving them away. I’ll bet you could watch them move in this weather if you watched them for 5 minutes. They seem to be growing THAT fast!
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