Gardening

[bueller]

We always talk about the stuff we plant for deer to eat. What about the stuff for plant in gardens just for us :emoji_tomato::emoji_cucumber::emoji_hot_pepper::emoji_watermelon:. I've got red raspberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and for the first time I planted watermelons this year. Raspberries have been producing good for about two weeks now. Cucumbers for the last week or so. Tomato plants are loaded, some of the cherry varieties are just starting to show some color. Even the peppers look good. For some reason I usually struggle with them. Watermelons are forming all over the place.

Just cut up a little healthy snack

 

[Mortenson]

Looks good. Don't forget easy rows of bush beans & peas, and radish & lettuce. Easy stuff

 

[John-W-WI]

I used to garden quite a bit. But there is a large farmers market less than a mile down the road. Too easy to just go get stuff there

 

[Barndog56]

I've got a small one, 35 x 35. Lettuce and peas producing like crazy. Just starting to get the cherry tomatos. Red and yellow onions getting huge already. Cantaloupe, potatoes, and green beans just starting to bloom, sweet corn beginning to tassel. Peppers are taking their own sweet time to get going. Don't remember the last time I had to water, weather has been perfect for just about everything.

 

[Natty Bumppo]

Looks great!!!!

 

[Turkey Creek]

Had a huge garden when I was a kid, I have had small one off and on over the years. I am the one who gets stuck doing all the work with it though, watering, weeding, picking, putting it up and then 2 years later my wife tosses it because it has been in the freezer for 2 years. I planted some table grapes and raspberries this year in addition to the small blackberry and strawberry patch I already have. I just pick and eat on the go with all those that are producing.

 

[bueller]

Mine is only a small backyard garden. I try to keep it to where we consume everything within a couple days of harvesting. Family and friends get the excess. I have no interest in canning, freezing, etc... at this time.

 

[Barndog56]

Here's what happens when you don't pick up all the tomatoes the year before.


Planted a row of black oil sunflowers to see what they do when left alone. Leaves are the size of dinner plates.


And corn is doing so well it's tillering like crazy. That's 4 stalks on one plant.

 

[swat1018]

Yep, my favorite time of year for food. I've got zucchini, crooked neck squash, green beans, cucumbers, broccoli, cabbage, radish, peppers. Will soon have tomatoes, corn and melons.

 

[browndog]

Here is my garden. Sweet corn, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, dill, six rows of pumpkins and sunflowers from a birdseed mix all planted by hand. Garden is surrounded by corn and soybeans that the deer will utilize in December-February. I just planted radish in the tilled areas on Sunday.

 

[Someday isle]

We had two big gardens when I was a kid. One was a vegetable garden and one was all chrysanthemums. We had a little vegetable stand in the front yard and we sold the mums and vegetables to pay for school clothes and school supplies. My dad was Stickler about his garden and he was a pretty strict man to begin with. My two older brothers and I had to keep it weed free and work it every day. Ive never had any desire to have my own garden until I bought my property. Now sometimes I think a little vegetable garden out on the property might be another project someday. Funny, I can't stand to see the weeds in my food plots. But I grew up on fresh vegetable and they still dominate my diet to this day.

 

[bueller]

Some of my tomatoes are suffering some type of setback. Leaves have browned and wrinkled up. I'm thinking the excessive rains we've been getting are the cause. They are still holding their fruit as of now.

 

[Barndog56]

Couple of my tomatos are same way.

 

[browndog]

Some of my tomatoes are suffering some type of setback. Leaves have browned and wrinkled up. I'm thinking the excessive rains we've been getting are the cause. They are still holding their fruit as of now.

Early blight? I usually spray my tomatoes with copper fungicide.

 

[chickenlittle]

I like gardening but it is all me and I have less time than I used to. My wife likes the idea of a garden but not much else. She'll help weed maybe once a year for an hour and then walk in sweaty and dirty and happy that she did her share. The bigger thing is she doesn't use stuff out of the garden much. We'll have a couple rows of beautiful Swiss chard and she is buying baby spinach at the grocery store. Tomatoes went unpicked last year except for a few slicing tomatoes. Other stuff she might cook once or never. Plus groundhogs eating the peas and coons tearing down almost ripe sweet corn. I've been planting less stuff each year and spend my time puttering with my apple grafts.

 

[bueller]

Early blight? I usually spray my tomatoes with copper fungicide.

I hope not. It showed up almost over night. Heavy clay soil with recent flooding rains. And more predicted tonight.

 

[swat1018]

I hope not. It showed up almost over night. Heavy clay soil with recent flooding rains. And more predicted tonight.

You need some fungicide. Lots of tomato disease in wet weather. Tomatoes like it dry......

 

[bueller]

I like gardening but it is all me and I have less time than I used to. My wife likes the idea of a garden but not much else. She'll help weed maybe once a year for an hour and then walk in sweaty and dirty and happy that she did her share. The bigger thing is she doesn't use stuff out of the garden much. We'll have a couple rows of beautiful Swiss chard and she is buying baby spinach at the grocery store. Tomatoes went unpicked last year except for a few slicing tomatoes. Other stuff she might cook once or never. Plus groundhogs eating the peas and coons tearing down almost ripe sweet corn. I've been planting less stuff each year and spend my time puttering with my apple grafts.

I'm getting to know the feeling. We were gone for a week and came home to a bucket full of cucumbers ready to pick and a bunch more that will be ready in a couple days. Way more than I need or will use.

 

[Natureboy]

I really enjoy my garden, it supplies us with fresh vegetables from asparagus in May to beans, beets, carrots, lettuce, swiss chard, onions, garlic, zucchini, herbs and Tomatoes which we enjoy fresh, can and make into spaghetti sauce. Nothing like a walk around the garden to relieve stress on an otherwise hectic day.

 

[KDdid]

It's funny, I have a good friend who one described me as "a friend from Indiana who gardens like it's 1940". Now that's a compliment in my book. We're about year four into deep mulch and straw bale gardening , and never turning back.

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