How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Corn is tasseling real good. Some of it is 7 feet.



Blooms on the Filipino gourds. I will have to watch these close. You can only eat them when they are young and tender, and they grow in a hurry. This is the only kind of gourd I'm growing this year so I can save the seeds. I have some crazy crosses from the last couple of years.



Peas with blooms and little peas. It's a good thing this patch is coming on fast. I was a couple days late picking the other patch, and many of them were dry. Do that a time or two, and the vines will die on you.

I'm really liking the cardboard mulch. I need to come up with a little more to finish the corn.

 

[Woyaboy]

Good looking garden. Mine got too big last year. Almost 2 acres. Going for fewer but bigger and healthier plants this year.

Here is picture from last August. Melons in the front and peas and corn further away.

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How do you keep all that you harvest? Freeze? Or do you barter as well?

 

[mwooten102]

Pumpkins and spaghetti squash.


Boxes with a variety of peppers, cucumbers, sage, basil.



Zucchini , okra


Sorano , ghost and red Italian long peppers.


Some Anaheims


Bells


A vining squash


Kale and collards


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[mwooten102]

Some of my vines. There's giant African bottle gourds, chayote squash, luffa, butternut squash. Winter melon, spaghetti squash. It all shares what is a 6' wide trellis that runs 70odd feet. It also shades my meat rabbits and chickens in the summer.







A harvest.


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[Larry {the} Gardener]

How do you keep all that you harvest? Freeze? Or do you barter as well?

We do freeze a lot of peas, make a few bottles of pepper sauce and try to put up some cream corn, but we give a lot of it away. MY wife takes veggies to her friends and when I'm tired of picking, I will send the word out that it's free for the taking, you just have to come pick it. The Florida sun sees to it that nothing stays producing very long. My 1st planting of cucumbers, squash, acorn squash, sweet corn, peas, green beans and melons are gone, or going fast. I'm less than a week away from picking peas and beans off the 2nd planting.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Some of my vines. There's giant African bottle gourds, chayote squash, luffa, butternut squash. Winter melon, spaghetti squash. It all shares what is a 6' wide trellis that runs 70odd feet. It also shades my meat rabbits and chickens in the summer.







A harvest.


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I need to check my carrots. This is the first time I've grown them since high school.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Look what is showing some orange. Habs will be ready soon.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I'm clipping melons everyday now. We had too much rain, so lots of them are splitting. The patch is about to give up the ghost anyway. Almost all the vines are dead. You can see where I've been eating them in the patch. I eat 3 or 4 of the small ones a day.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I can't remember if I mentioned my soil mixes getting rained in. But I scooped 3 or 4 five gallon buckets of water from my adult pepper mix. I used a little of it to water some of the peas, just to see if it was too hot.



Here is what the rest of the pea patch looks like.



And the part I used the water on.



I'm still cutting it in half when I feed it to my plants. I've used about a third of it so far.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

And after a couple of missteps, my Armenian cucumbers are growing like they should. I have 4 rows. 1 from seed. 1 from seed a week or so later, and 2 from transplants {seeds put in trays the same day I planted the 2nd row}. The 1st row {left side} has a soaker hose under it. The others are going to have to depend on sprinklers.

 

[farmerfischer]

I don't have as nice of a garden as some of you all but I have these my witch's Calderon

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I don't have as nice of a garden as some of you all but I have these View attachment 3727665View attachment 3727666 View attachment 3727669View attachment 3727670my witch's Calderon View attachment 3727672

Love the last one. Are those steel rims off an old wagon? I have a couple of those from my childhood. They used to be out by the road at our old house. But the school bus driver backed over one of them 45 years ago. We tried to straighten it, but you can still tell it was bent.

12 years ago when we moved to our {new at the time} house, we planted about 30 rosebushes. A couple of weeks later, the deer ate 90% of them in one night. I never replanted. We do have a flowerbed, which I clean out and plant in the Spring, then leave up to my wife to keep it that way. Well, she isn't kicking as high as usual this summer, so the flowers are blooming, but they are in a nice green bed of tall grass.

Most of my non-veggie, non-weed growing is reserved for trees. I've got peach trees this summer that I'm putting out everywhere I think I might want to eat a peach at some point in the future. I've planted about 15-20, and gave 5-10 away.

 

[farmerfischer]

Love the last one. Are those steel rims off an old wagon? I have a couple of those from my childhood. They used to be out by the road at our old house. But the school bus driver backed over one of them 45 years ago. We tried to straighten it, but you can still tell it was bent.

12 years ago when we moved to our {new at the time} house, we planted about 30 rosebushes. A couple of weeks later, the deer ate 90% of them in one night. I never replanted. We do have a flowerbed, which I clean out and plant in the Spring, then leave up to my wife to keep it that way. Well, she isn't kicking as high as usual this summer, so the flowers are blooming, but they are in a nice green bed of tall grass.

Most of my non-veggie, non-weed growing is reserved for trees. I've got peach trees this summer that I'm putting out everywhere I think I might want to eat a peach at some point in the future. I've planted about 15-20, and gave 5-10 away.

Good eye! They are old rims my grandparents put that ther 40 some years ago.. I'm currently growing some hardy kiwis and Siberian crap Apple's and magnolias. I husk move in here a year and a half ago.
Next year if my back let's me I'm going bigger

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Good eye! They are old rims my grandparents put that ther 40 some years ago.. I'm currently growing some hardy kiwis and Siberian crap Apple's and magnolias. I husk move in here a year and a half ago.
Next year if my back let's me I'm going bigger

We planted a lot of fruit trees when we moved, but all of them were toast that first summer. From drought and deer. Last year we got back into the spirit of things with 8-10 blueberry bushes, 2 fig trees, 2 olive trees, 2 apple persimmons, and way to many grapevines. The blueberries have done better than the vines, but we still have a dozen or so hanging on. This year we added another fig, and Chinese orange, lemon and tangerine trees, plus a pear I'm growing from seed. And 3 of the peach trees. All behind 5 foot of 4X5" welded wire. So far the deer are keeping out.

 

[farmerfischer]

This isn't really about gardening but this place seems like a bunch of smart fellows. So here's my question. Does anyone know what this is?

 

[mwooten102]

Love the last one. Are those steel rims off an old wagon? I have a couple of those from my childhood. They used to be out by the road at our old house. But the school bus driver backed over one of them 45 years ago. We tried to straighten it, but you can still tell it was bent.

12 years ago when we moved to our {new at the time} house, we planted about 30 rosebushes. A couple of weeks later, the deer ate 90% of them in one night. I never replanted. We do have a flowerbed, which I clean out and plant in the Spring, then leave up to my wife to keep it that way. Well, she isn't kicking as high as usual this summer, so the flowers are blooming, but they are in a nice green bed of tall grass.

Most of my non-veggie, non-weed growing is reserved for trees. I've got peach trees this summer that I'm putting out everywhere I think I might want to eat a peach at some point in the future. I've planted about 15-20, and gave 5-10 away.

I wish I had fun for a tree. Maybe I'll put something in front of the house when we redo it

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[BarnBuster]

all you guys put a lot of work into your garden(s). it shows

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I wish I had fun for a tree. Maybe I'll put something in front of the house when we redo it

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A fruit tree like figs or peaches will do alright under a bigger tree. But if you are growing weed at your place, you wouldn't want any big trees.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

This isn't really about gardening but this place seems like a bunch of smart fellows. So here's my question. Does anyone know what this is? View attachment 3727868View attachment 3727872

No, never seen it before. The leaves looks kind of like a weed/flower that used to grow in our cow pastures. But the blooms were blue/purple and the central stalk wasn't as tall.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I got my 1st picking off my 2nd planting of Pink-eyed Purple Hull peas today. And most likely the last picking off the 1st planting. If I can get the last few melons clipped, I can bush hog most of the north part of the garden.