***What's growing? The official garden thread***

jlaustin

Beautiful spring day in Michigan! Got some tomatoes, peppers, basil, and rosemary to plant; also some snapdragons, dahlias, gerber daisies, and two beautiful foxgloves - hoping for some hummingbirds and butterflies to enjoy!

:P

guitar59

Nothing yet...we don't plant until after May 20th up here in Calgary... could still snow. When the time comes we will go with tomatoes, lettuce, herbs, peas, carrots, potatoes and green beans. We only have a small plot in the community garden, the soil in the yard is awful (lots of clay) and barely grows anything.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Tomatoes
Zucchini
Brussel Sprouts
Green beans
Lettuce
3 varieties of Peppers.

And my bride is going to make an attempt at growing Strawberries.

rick1zoo2

I've got to get moving on that barley. need it for the still

QuarterToTen

29 short days later and my tomatoes are already growing out of their cages and have set their second set of blossoms.


Where's the bacon?

:P

Leezestarr313

The hot sun and the torrential rain falls are doing their magic on our garden. We have now also planted the corn seeds and they are already coming out. Some of the radishes are almost looking ready to be harvested, and everything else is growing so fast you see a difference every day Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and squash are doing fine, as do the mustard greens, the arugula, the carrot babies, the kohlrabi and the beets.

My gandma sent me some seeds for another herb that I haven't seen here yet, but that is essential for German style green bean soup. In English it seems to be called savory, we call it "bean herb". Good stuff!

I'm excited to see how the gooseberry and the raspberry will turn out. Also, there are some strawberry plants in front of our house, and they are already having green berries on them. Not it's all weeding every now and then and waiting for the harvest

riotgrl

Almost ready to harvest my first jalapenos! Now I'm waiting for poblanos, cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes (mostly roma but also 4 other varieties of eating tomatoes). Also, several herbs like basil, lavender, thyme, lemon balm, and rosemary. There is a great u pick place here and I'm going this weekend to get strawberries so I can put up strawberry jam - yum!

mca47

My family used to have the biggest garden (they still do).
As a kid I used to LOVE to garden.

I'd really like to start again....though gardening in AZ is a little trickier than back in the midwest.

MayDay10

Golden Tomato
Regular Tomato (Heirloom)
Jalapenos
Habaneros
Mexican Pepper
Yellow Bell Pepper
Red Bell Pepper
Basil
Lime Basil

jlaustin

Here's my bounty! Good thing there is only two of us!

Leezestarr313

Awesome :thumbup:

Our garden has become a magical place of veggie abundance This is what our corn looks like right now:


This was the harvest in one of the other nights
. Two days ago, we had the first 100% homegrown salad. It was delicious!

We have been blessed with the weather and the soil here, and we are already talking about what to do different next year. We had to get rid of one zucchini plant, because it just took too much space and light of the cucumbers. We re-placed some other plants for spacial and light reasons too. But overall, this garden turned out really really good

derbydave

jlaustin wrote:

Here's my bounty! Good thing there is only two of us!

Good JOB!!
Got your PM...always happy to help out
Glad you figured out how to post the pictures...it really can be a PAIN in the @$$ to get them up!!
Would love to hang out with you & Jason up in Pittsburgh / Buffalo...We'll probably be in town by 2 or so!!
Did you get GA or RESERVED for the shows??
We're GA for Pittsburgh & RESERVED for Buffalo!!
C'mon OCTOBER!!
:ugeek:

morello

^^^ awesome harvests everyone. I think I'm going to begin the prep for spring in my garden here next weekend, pull out weeds cut down manure crop, spread around weed & manure tea(liquid fertiliser I've had festering away for months), top up with compost then in a month or so all will be ready for planting! Woohooo!

riotgrl

I've had a decent harvest this year. My jalapenos probably did the best of everything I planted. I now have 4 quart jars of pickled jalapenos and my two plants show no sign of stopping! My zucchini and cucumbers were a total failure - not enough bees/too little pollination, I think. My Roma's did pretty good but not as prolific as I'd like. Already looking to put out garlic in the fall and make some improvements in my garden for next year!

Enkidu

This thread makes me hungry. We had fresh tomatoes the other night and you practically cry because they have some much taste versus the crap tomatoes sold at the supermarket.

We got a lime tree a couple years ago and we finally almost have limes.

jlaustin

Oops - duplicate post!

jlaustin

Leezestarr313 wrote:

Awesome :thumbup:

Our garden has become a magical place of veggie abundance This is what our corn looks like right now:


This was the harvest in one of the other nights
. Two days ago, we had the first 100% homegrown salad. It was delicious!

We have been blessed with the weather and the soil here, and we are already talking about what to do different next year. We had to get rid of one zucchini plant, because it just took too much space and light of the cucumbers. We re-placed some other plants for spacial and light reasons too. But overall, this garden turned out really really good

WOW! Looks like a farm! We just planted tomatoes and peppers in pots on our deck, because our yard is too shady. It is so cool that you are able to have such a variety. We tried corn one year and we only got 4 of the tiniest cobs ever. They were tasty though! Looking forward to meeting you in Pittsburgh/Buffalo! :wave:

jlaustin

derbydave wrote:

jlaustin wrote:

Here's my bounty! Good thing there is only two of us!

Good JOB!!
Got your PM...always happy to help out
Glad you figured out how to post the pictures...it really can be a PAIN in the @$$ to get them up!!
Would love to hang out with you & Jason up in Pittsburgh / Buffalo...We'll probably be in town by 2 or so!!
Did you get GA or RESERVED for the shows??
We're GA for Pittsburgh & RESERVED for Buffalo!!
C'mon OCTOBER!!
:ugeek:

10c reserved for Pittsburgh and public sale nosebleeds for Buffalo... I don't want summer to end, but come on October! :thumbup:

Leezestarr313

jlaustin wrote:

WOW! Looks like a farm! We just planted tomatoes and peppers in pots on our deck, because our yard is too shady. It is so cool that you are able to have such a variety. We tried corn one year and we only got 4 of the tiniest cobs ever. They were tasty though! Looking forward to meeting you in Pittsburgh/Buffalo! :wave:

Yeah, we feel like farmers too It's amazing. Our back yard used to be swamp land, the landlord says. That's why the soil is super rich and fertile. We really don't have to do anything besides weeding a bit here and there. It's our first attempt to have a garden, I grew up with my grandparents' one, but never had one on my own. It's like a miracle and so much fun. We have a lot of variety, because we were so keen on trying everything And dinner has just gotten better in the last couple of months...

See you in Pitts/ Buff - we can have a proper farmer talk :wave:

MayDay10

Just harvested some great looking jalapeños. Many more on the plant. Have a lot of nice looking tomatoes that are still green. Red and yellow bell peppers... huge but need to turn color. Waiting for some mexibelle and habanero peppers as well