Gardening

[momskeeztoo]

I guess we don't have to worry about vampires

[toast21602]

 

 

 

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[mbike-ski]

nice, my beets suck this year - got em in late and missed all the rain to get em to pop. i like the tops better than the bottoms

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

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Nice watch!!

[momskeeztoo]

Mmmm. Ours are doing well. Roasted some on grill the other night. Delicious.

[Ride Delaware ?]

This was my best crop year yet for blueberries. I added some new plants, but they didn't produce. I probably netted 3 quarts this year, which is far less than I should be getting, but is about 10 times what I got last year. I'm expecting double that next year since I am going to be much more aggressive with my fertilizing and watering during this growth season.

[mbike-ski]

Nothing beats aggressive fertilization

 

 

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[toast21602]

Nothing beats aggressive fertilization

 

 

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What about beets?

 

 

 

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[momskeeztoo]

Mmmm. We've already eaten all of ours. Planted more.

[momskeeztoo]

Does anyone on here grow basil? We have a lot, and drying it in a food dehydrator. Not sure if that's the way to go. Seems like it's taking a long time to dry.

[Shadows]

You got to hang it from the stems and let it cure

[mbike-ski]

we freeze bagloads of basil and dry some too. frozen gives a fresh basil flavor for cooking.

 

first bounty of the season was picked last night for fajitas - hungarian wax peppers. not too hot but very tasty, froze a few of those too

 

will have beans and cucs by the weekend, tomatoes jut starting to ripen

[momskeeztoo]

So you just wash and freeze whole leaves? I read the leaves turn black when you freeze them.I wouldn't care as long as flavor didn't change.

[mbike-ski]

yes, not pretty but taste great

[Ride Delaware ?]

Blueberry crop is about done and is almost ready for the post fruiting fertilizer. Best haul yet this year. We brought in about 5-6 pints, which doesn't sound like much, but after just 1 pint last year, is a significant step up. Expecting big things for next year.

[enjoralas]

I got everything in very late this year. Just picked my first cucumbers of the year, got about a half dozen of them. There are a handful of jalapenos ready, and a couple of sweet bannana peppers too. Everything seems to be growing well, sunflowers are ranging from seedlings (went in last week to fill bare spots) to 2.5-3 ft high. Zucchini is big and bushy, with a few small fruits. Some green tomatoes. Everything else growing well but no fruits yet. 

 

I think I finally got ahead of the constant weeding. Maybe I'll grab a few pics tonight.

[tarponhead]

All the composting of my kitchen wastes is paying off. My garden is kicking ass this year

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

You guys all sound like a bunch of hippies. I never understood spending so much time and money buying seeds and weeding and digging dirt just for something that you can buy in the supermarket.

[Shadows]

"I have no hobbies and dont appreciate anything that isnt 14 year old girl volleyball"

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

What the fuck is skiing.

[momskeeztoo]

Composting is great. We don't use any chemicals or fertilizer in our gardens. If you have oak trees add the leaves to your compost in the fall.

[momskeeztoo]

I got everything in very late this year. Just picked my first cucumbers of the year, got about a half dozen of them. There are a handful of jalapenos ready, and a couple of sweet bannana peppers too. Everything seems to be growing well, sunflowers are ranging from seedlings (went in last week to fill bare spots) to 2.5-3 ft high. Zucchini is big and bushy, with a few small fruits. Some green tomatoes. Everything else growing well but no fruits yet. 

 

I think I finally got ahead of the constant weeding. Maybe I'll grab a few pics tonight.

We haven't had much rain here. I know it's been spotty, always seems to skip around us. We have had beets, carrots, basil, cilantro. Our tomatoes and peppers a little behind. Started them late because we were in Az. I like to grow zinnias, too. They are finally starting to bloom.

You guys all sound like a bunch of hippies. I never understood spending so much time and money buying seeds and weeding and digging dirt just for something that you can buy in the supermarket.

We are a bunch of hippies. Is that okay?

nice, my beets suck this year - got em in late and missed all the rain to get em to pop. i like the tops better than the bottoms

Yes, we have come to appreciate the tops in a salad. They have to be young

[Ride Delaware ?]

I just like seeing something I've planted and nurtured finally paying off after all my hard work. I prefer it to video blogging in terms of hobbies, but I really wish you would bring yours back GSS...

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

And I only joke Ride DE and no video blog.

[enjoralas]

Overall view of the garden from just inside the gate:

 

 

 

 

8 foot bed of cucumbers, hoping they do really well this year so that I can make some pickles.

 

 

 

Some hot peppers and some mild jalapenos:

 

 

 

Two rows of bell peppers, and you can see the end of the row of bush beans there on the left:

 

 

 

The zucchini plant is doing very well. It's one of the only things that has produced so far, gave me the four zukes here:

 

 

 

 

Tomato plants are also really putting on growth. Lots of green tomatoes, but only about a half dozen cherries ripe so far. Two year old got them all, lol:

 

 

 

A shot of the back end of the garden. Added the rockbox this year for my buddy to play in while I am weeding or otherwise working. A bench to rest on and watch him play. There's a couple rows of mammoth sunflowers back there in various stages of growth, and that low lying green mess on the left side is a watermelon plant:

 

 

 

 

Got going so late this year I haven't bothered with re-laying out the drip irrigation system. I guess I should, especially since I'm going away for a week in August and if it doesn't rain I'll come back to a bad scene.