What's in YOUR Garden?

[Pretty Poison]

Curious minds want to know...what have you planted so far?

I decided to go the hard root (pun intended!), and go completely organic this year. I'm using aged multch, grass clipping, dried cow manure, fish emulsion, seaweed cold pressed, ect. Darn, I wish I could just throw on one of those MiracleGro spay gizmo's, attach it to my hose, and just spray away, but I'm really into this now, and won't quit.

Anyway, I have 18 heirloom tomatoe plants, about 4 brand new hybrids (to see how they do), three different eggplants: regular purple ones, a hybird zebra stripped one, and a new..pure white one that is supposedly super tasty and sweet.

I have two different cantalopes, two different watermelon's, wax beans, green beans, pumpkins, goose neck summer squash, butternut squash, acorn squash, Boston picker's cukes, carrots, spinach, and head lettuce.

I'll keep ya updated on what I plant next.

Share your garden!

[nitrous]

I'm a master at growing weeds

[shyne]

Tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce and arugala, eggplant, yellow and green bush beans, Kentucky Wonders, Chard, beets, corn and brussel sprouts (not my idea.....yuck).
And.....weeds.

Herbs........parsley (curly and flat), basil (green and purple), lemon thyme, rosemary, lemon balm, chocolate mint and curry (a new one for me....picked it up in VA this spring).

[Pretty Poison]

Nitrous! Hey, let me know if you're interested, I'll send you a box of organic veggies. This won't be till mid-July or something! Oh, send me a list of your favorite veggies too!

Shyne, your garden sounds awesome! Lot's of variety..and the herbs! I love brussel sprouts, maybe you should give them one more chance. What kind of tomatoes did you put in?


..oh, I also planted brocolli.

[shyne]

LOL about the brussel sprouts. Nope, no way, no how.
I planted them one year (I do like sprouts) and they attracted slugs.......each and every little sprout was covered in slug slime.
Yuck, gag. No amount of washing could cure that feeling.

It's the same with broccoli.......the worms.
Soak it in salt, skim off the little critters, cook it and some still rise to the top.

I put in 12 leek bunches today.....finally big enough to plant.
Tomatoes......Jet Stars, Big Boys and a yellow variety. I wanted heirlooms, but the ones I could find were sad and stunted.

How did your hydro transplanting go?

[Pretty Poison]

Shyne, double-yuck about the slug juice! My hydro-transplanting well really well (thanks for asking!)!

The corn plantlets that I started, didn't have enough phosphoris or other goodies to keep them green, so sadly, they turned yellow. Next year I will plant the corn seeds in 6 inch pots, loaded with bat guamo and much more hummus. Lesson learned.

The melons, cukes, and squash did great, tho I did have to baby them a bit. Next year I will start them in March, instead of February lol. All the tomatoes did awesome!! I am so thankful I invested in that 500 watt LED grower lamp! I had blossoms actually forming on my tomatoes, and thankfully I was able to get them transplanted in time to start polination!

Here is a run-down of what I have in my garden: 25 or so heirloom and hybrid tomatoes, 20 or so peppers, including Habenaro peppers, 7 melon plants, 6 pickling cucumber plants, ton of purple onions and shallots, 6 or 7 brocolli plants, two 30 foot rows of green beans, 30 foot row of peas, 4 white eggplants, 3 stripped ones, and one giant purple eggplant, dill, chives, 6 summer squash, and 4 butternut squash, and a 5' by 5's plot of extra-sweet corn.

I used those wall-of-water containers for 3 plants, which allwed me to eat my own fresh tomatoe June 1st! I've been picking tomatoes a few a day since then, but they are somewhat small.

[shyne]

Wow, what a great garden, PP!!!!!!!!

I put in a dozen leeks, they finally got big enough to transplant and survive. I didn't think it was going to work, but it did.
I have many, little tomatoes on the vines.....you're already eating some???? I'm so jealous!
I have Jet Stars, Big Boys and a variety of yellow......can't remember the name.
I couldn't find any healthy heirlooms this year.
I'll plant my own next fall......hydroponics. I'm going to try it!

Bat guamo.....that is SO WRONG! Fresh??????
I use cow manure.

[MsRotti]

I'm a master at growing weeds

I can kill those too

[shyne]

Well, shoot....after a FANTASTIC beginning, the garden has fizzled out big time. Darn Mother Nature with all her heat and no rain!
The Big Boys are Average Boys (hate it when that happens..... ), beans/egg plants/sprouts are dieing back too early and the corn is tough and mealy. But the beets, leeks and chard are doing great!

Hope y'all are having better luck with yours..........

[a.m.y]

Well, shoot....after a FANTASTIC beginning, the garden has fizzled out big time. Darn Mother Nature with all her heat and no rain!
The Big Boys are Average Boys (hate it when that happens..... ), beans/egg plants/sprouts are dieing back too early and the corn is tough and mealy. But the beets, leeks and chard are doing great!

Hope y'all are having better luck with yours..........

At least you tried. Watering restriction?

[shyne]

Well, shoot....after a FANTASTIC beginning, the garden has fizzled out big time. Darn Mother Nature with all her heat and no rain!
The Big Boys are Average Boys (hate it when that happens..... ), beans/egg plants/sprouts are dieing back too early and the corn is tough and mealy. But the beets, leeks and chard are doing great!

Hope y'all are having better luck with yours..........

At least you tried. Watering restriction?

In a way.............I have a well and, when it's droughty, all water is set aside for household use.
That just isn't garden friendly........