gardening

[boltman]

So far I've planted red and white onions, strawberries, sugar snap peas, red potatoes, carrots, swiss chard, spinach, and a variety of lettuce. I've also started 50 tomato and pepper seeds and a variety of herb seeds inside under my grow light. I will start cucumber, zucchini, yellow squash, egg plant, corn and green bean seeds when it warms up. Blueberry bushes and horseradish should start coming on anytime. My new thing I'm trying this year is pineapple. Our local nursery got some plants in so I thought I would give them a try. I can't wait for full on growing season!

That's a big garden. I would love to see some pictures.

 

[boltman]

I just put in a 3rd raised bed. I now have squash, more cucumbers, watermelon, lettuce and 2 varieties of green beans. Pictures to come.

 

[jasonsbeer]

Finished this today. In addition to my regular garden, this will be just for strawberries.



Also, have my flat of plants going.

24 Mortgage Lifter tomato plants
24 sauce tomato plants
12 cherry tomato plants

I planted 6 bell pepper and 6 chilli pepper plants, but none came up.

 

[Prine]

Heres a pic of what I have done so far. Got about another 300 blocks to move to finish up one raised bed and finish another.

 

[Prine]

Finished this today. In addition to my regular garden, this will be just for strawberries.

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Also, have my flat of plants going.

24 Mortgage Lifter tomato plants
24 sauce tomato plants
12 cherry tomato plants

I planted 6 bell pepper and 6 chilli pepper plants, but none came up.

The new bed looks awesome! Good job!

 

[Wicket]

Heres a pic of what I have done so far. Got about another 300 blocks to move to finish up one raised bed and finish another.

Looks good brother. You in the springs?

 

[Prine]

Looks good brother. You in the springs?

Just West of there in Rifle. We are a little more Redneck here than the Springs haha

 

[Wicket]

Just West of there in Rifle. We are a little more Redneck here than the Springs haha

Haha but great elk hunting and Rifle Mountain park sport climbing

 

[Prine]

Yep, you got me there on both accounts. One of the best things around here is all the outdoor activities that are all within 15 mins.

 

[Tim H]

Both of you guys did a great job on those raised beds.

 

[jasonsbeer]

Got the big garden planted today.

Watermelon
Honeydew
Zuchini
Pumpkin
Radishes
Green Beans
Dill
Carrots
Mortgage Lifter tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes

I'll be damned if I didn't order cucumbers. I'll need to run into town and pick up some tomorrow. Not sure what I was thinking because I love pickles. I'll also pick up some sweet and hot peppers.

I'll send up a pic in a couple of weeks when stuff starts coming up.

 

[apnutter]

Going to put mine in in waves. Hardening off my tomatoes now. Peppers are still a little small for my liking.

 

[Lomey]

I hope to get the core of my garden in this coming week.

 

[Lomey]

28 tomato plants, 20 pepper plants, red potatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, countless red and white onions, strawberries, green beans, lettuce, watermelon and just about every herb you can think of all planted. Can't wait for harvest!

 

[Lomey]

Oh and horseradish

 

[Tim H]

Looks great @Lomey.

 

[jasonsbeer]

I promised some pics once stuff got some size on it...

Here's the new strawberry plants in the raised garden. So far, so good. Been picking the flowers off of them. No strawberries this year. But next year...


Here's the big garden. Zuchini, watermelon, cucumbers, carrots, green beans, dill, tomatoes, pumpkins, honeydew, sweet and hot peppers. Rhubarb in the far corner. Started asparagus this year, you can kind of make it out on the other side. Few weeds in there, too. Already pulled the radishes.


From the other end...

 

[Lomey]

I promised some pics once stuff got some size on it...

Here's the new strawberry plants in the raised garden. So far, so good. Been picking the flowers off of them. No strawberries this year. But next year...
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Here's the big garden. Zuchini, watermelon, cucumbers, carrots, green beans, dill, tomatoes, pumpkins, honeydew, sweet and hot peppers. Rhubarb in the far corner. Started asparagus this year, you can kind of make it out on the other side. Few weeds in there, too. Already pulled the radishes.
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From the other end...
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Looks great, I would love to have a garden that big.

Why are you picking the flowers off the strawberries? This is my first year growing them and have gotten a few, but they are not as sweet as I would like them to be.

 

[Almi]

Like most young plants and trees it helps to promote growth when there is not so much energy used to produce fruit. I won't let my Honeycrisp and Frostbite apple trees bear fruit till there 4 year.

 

[Jfire]

My 3rd year. Every year I'm learning more and more each season. I've been composting for 3 years now. Almost all my soil is food scraps. (A couple bags of composted manure as well) I need to add another raised bed. This year I kept the plantings fewer to avoid overcrowding and fungal disease.
Main bed about a week ago. All plants have almost doubled in size this last week.

Herb/onion/Brussels sprouts.

The oregano plant in back I had to pull half it out. It's become a nuisance "bush" roughly 2' diameter.