Let's see those '09 gardens
 

C'mon Richard (tzaddi), I know you have one to share!

Here's mine so far this year. 12 hills of Poinsett 76 cukes (w/trellis), 120 yellow and white onions, 6 peppers (2 jalapeno, 2 mild jalapeno, 1 california and 1 chocolate bell), 5 hills of crook neck squash, 4 hills of straight neck squash, 2 pink brandywine tomatoes, 1 sweet 100 tomato, and 1 celebrity tomato. I'll rotate in some new squash plants in about 1.5 months, then another round at the end of August. Also have an herb garden with leeks, garlic chives, cilantro, red and green basil, dill, rosemary, thyme, and mints (chocolate, curly leaf, grapefruit, spearmint, Kentucky Colonel, and mountain peppermint). Thanks to Stewart (tech-ninja), my mojito appetite is demanding, so it pays to grow your own mint. The herb garden is in a 2' x 6' raised bed and the main garden is in a 15' x 15' raised bed (with rabbit-proofing). The plants are all mulched with grass clippings and compost, which works great BTW. I also toss in mulched leaf waste in the walking rows. All of this should help with the upcoming Coastal SC heat wave over the next few months.

It's a labor of love and my kids sure love those fresh veggies.

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That looks great. Thanks for the pics.


:tu


Chris.......

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Well done! Nice mix of veggies you have there. :tu Someday I'll get off the couch and get a garden going. :)

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Very nice garden.

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Nice job Jamie! Very nice :tu

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Look at Jamie go. Nice bro. Wish I had the space to do it.

:tu

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Thanks for the kind words, but we need some other gardens! Snap those pics!!!

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I tried to get a gardening thread going a while ago:
http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12838

I have updates for it. We just had our (hopefully) last frost a week ago. It looks like you are ahead of me.

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I am working on getting some resent photos together for a post. Since the move I am all about container gardening :) Be back soon :)

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I am bummed... no garden for me this spring as we will be moving. I will have a fall garden though.

Yours looks very nice. Thanks for sharing.

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Chit, sorry Lance. Never saw your thread about gardens.

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I can't believe your tomatoes are so big already. Did you start them indoors?

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Let's ask one of the mods if they will "cornsolodate" the 2 threads and have the best of both threads.

So with the number of containers growing almost daily I am well into the second batch of "Actively Aerated Compost Tea". The basic recipe for this tasty treat is 4.25 cups of quality worm castings per every 5 gallons of de-chlorinated water (let the water sit over night). For every 5 gallons of water I feed my little microbe friends 1/4 cup of unsulphured molasses (feeds the bacateria) and another 1/4 cup of liquid kelp (for the fungi).

We are talking aerobic here, hence the active aeration title, provided by a Super Luft Pump model SL-38 @ 18 watts with a flow rate of 1.34 cubic feet per minute connected to 4 air stones. Where not brewing some stinky anaerobic fermentation here.

This year I have kicked it up a notch or two by adding a wee bit of "archaic bacteria" in the form of mineral dust and some mycorrhizae plus humic acid, yum!

http://gallery.me.com/tzaddi/100570/...12421790810001

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Can you believe this tobacco planting is going into it's 3rd season. That's right, it has survived 3 freezing winters and like a phoenix sprouts from the roots each spring.

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Strawberries and some garlic, what a combo.

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The fig tree is getting bigger and bigger!

http://gallery.me.com/tzaddi/100570/...12421790600001

Another tobacco holdover from last winter, already going to seed as it shares the ceramic pot with a fern. Other various plantings including artemisia, sage, oregano, astragalus, sweet grass, aloe vera.

http://gallery.me.com/tzaddi/100570/...12421790390001

The amaryllis are doing their thing and the olive tree cuttings I took last summer are starting to have new growth. I see a jade plant and hyssop. That there to the right is the grillin', chillin' & herfin station.

http://gallery.me.com/tzaddi/100570/...12421790470001

That's about all I got today. :)

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I'll get some pics later, meanwhile here's what I've got:

3 tomatoes (sun gold, sweet million, cherokee purple)
3 cocozelle zucchini
6 rattlesnake pole bean

thyme (huge mess, had to cut back 2/3 to make room)
oregano (planted last year, really taking off nicely now)
rosemary (two large bushes, ~3' tall)
chives (3 bundles)
spearmint (died in the pot, dumped it over the side of the deck and now it's thriving)

I've got cubanelle peppers started from seed, but for some reason they took about 3 weeks longer to sprout than the other plants. I hope to plant two eventually. I've also got some basil (seeds came from Richard last year), but the first round all died in an early heat wave, need to get more started. Also forgot to get some italian parsley, need to grab some of that too.

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Sounds like you have a nice selection

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Great pictures everyone! :tu

Got my stuff in the ground about a week ago. I noticed today that one asparagus crown has poked through! :dance:

What I have planted in my garden-
-red bell peppers
-green bell peppers
-yellow bell peppers
-cucumbers
-a few rows of sweet corn
-tomatoes
-Jersey Knights asparagus 3 yr crowns
-Mary Washington asparagus 2 year crowns
-Purple Passion asparagus 3 year crowns
-Basil

Going to be fun playing war with the deer and rabbits. :bx

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Planted them at 8" tall on 4/12. We had a few days of cool weather, but once it warmed up, they shot up. I plant them deep with only the top few inches sticking out.

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Picked up and planted a few more plants today.

-2X Pablano Peppers
-2X Purple Peppers
-2X Melanzane
-4X Roma


I now have two aparagus spears poking through! :dance:

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The amaryllis have started to open.

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Not sure if this 3 gallon container can meet the needs of this growing garlic but we shall see.

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The strawberries seem to be happy.

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Taking this cilantro to seed.

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