2013 Gardens

[Ritchie200]

Hey guys!  What are you-all planting this year?  Got the seeds started?  Strawberrys are blooming, but we have had frost the last few nights.  I wish Mother Nature would relent!

Jim

[tubenit]

I am thinking 3 grape tomatoe plants and one large one. That'll probably be it.

We like getting up early, having breakfast and going to the farmer's market to buy fresh veggies every other wkend.  

I have however planted 3 new roses bushes. Rio Samba and two Double Delight.

With respect, Tubenit

[sluckey]

I've got crook neck squash, cantaloupe, zipper peas, snap beans, cucumber, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Peppers and tomatoes are a foot high. Everything is in the ground already except the cantaloupe and they are going in this afternoon.

[thermion]

squash for sure...crookneck, straight neck, and tatume (calabacita)
'maters: sweet 100, black crim, matt's wild cherry, JD's centex, and another...can't remember right now
one lonely tabasco pepper
herbs: sweet and african blue basil, rosemary, spearmint (this last one went all perennial on me)
I still have lots of leeks left over from the winter, not gonna pull em yet
my girls are growing pickling cukes!
and also this year I got a sweet bay laurel and a key lime tree.
hopefully I'll get a volunteer melon or pumpkin out of the compost bin, I'm keeping it well-watered.
my mom did roses this year, 5 peach drift, they look pretty happy so far.

[EL34]

In the beds currently is Sugar snap peas, green onions, arugula, red sail lettuce, butter crunch lettuce and Broccoli

In the house in the nursery is Juliet tomatoes, sweet peppers  and diva cucumbers that I started from seed
These won't go outside for a couple weeks

I may pick up a couple more ready to go starter plants like a Habanero or some eggplant

I can't grow squash anymore, the squash vine bores have put a stop to that
I used to have great squash

[Madison]

recently took up p/t on a huge farm near here.

We grow acres of just about everything, greenhouses, etc.
Lots machine maintenance.

Great food bennies.

Not to mention my own personal garden here at the homestead.
Almost time to make wine again.
 

[sluckey]

I can't believe I forgot to mention my jewel... an asparagus garden. Maybe because it is not actually inside my garden area. Last year I built a 50' x 2.5' strip bed on the outside of my veggie garden. I planted 50 2 year old New Jersey Giant crowns. This year we began harvesting. We have been enjoying big juicy sprouts since the beginning of March. We love grilled asparagus so much that next winter I will build another strip bed inside my garden area. Highly recommended if you like asparagus and have the room. BTW, this stuff is perennial and a properly maintained bed will last 15-20 years.

[EL34]

I love asparagus, except the part about what it does to your wiz. 

I used to go pick wild asparagus in MI
It grew in the fence rows

wish I had the space on this mountain side to grow it

[sluckey]

I love asparagus, except the part about what it does to your wiz.

Me too. But it's a small price to pee for good food! 

[Ritchie200]

Planted some Sugary cherry tomatoes and some Cherokee Purple tomatoes.  The Sugary took off right away and should have ripe ones in about a week.  The Cherokee have just now hit a growth spurt and has not even flowered.  Anyone ever grown these two?

Thanks!
Jim

[tubenit]

Yeah,  my cherry tomato bushes are doing better this year then ever before. Should have a pretty nice batch of them maybe by this weekend?  Not growing anything else this year and decided to just do the local farmer's market more.

 

Jeff