Green Thumbs ( Gardening ).

[Shafted]

Here's another update on my garden.

 

 

Here's the outdoor garden as it stands now.

 

51 Early Golden Bantam sweet corn plants

60 white half-runner bean plants

44 spaghetti squash plants

9 Red Pontiac potato plants

9 Kennebec (native) potato plants

9 fingerling potato plants

7 Mary Washington asparagus plants

1 Honeydew melon plants

5 native horseradish plants

1 Macintosh apple tree

1 Honeycrisp apple tree

1 gigantic red stemmed variety rhubarb plant

4 Tabasco peppers

6 California Wonder and Chianti Hybrid sweet bell peppers.

1 Roma VF or Sausage Creme Tomato in a 5 gallon pail

Lots of wild raspberries and other wild edibles

[ilikekicks]

Looking good but as you stated ' a bit behind '.

 

I put in 2 ' growing beds ' next to the garage I put up. We had the blocks as left over inventory so.. why not use them if we didnt sell them?

 

Tomatoes in the first box with some carrots on the end. Second bed is all cucumbers with a pair of Roma's on the ends.

 

 

[Shafted]

Another garden update:

 

[ilikekicks]

These are ' Elephant Ears '. I remember when they first sprouted. They are HUGE now.

 

Selling season for the greenhouses is over. 2 months till harvest Gonna be very busy this year!

4 pics of the fruit and veggies and where they are at..

 

First one is on yellow peppers. HOT ones

Second one is ' big bomb ' red peppers. They should start turning color in the next 4 weeks.

Third is of some Roma tomatoes.

Fourth is of green peppers.

[Shafted]

Hot peppers should be a healthy food group all by itself in my book. I love 'em.

 

Knowing Roma's are great for sauces and salsas plus you grow different type of sweet and hot peppers, I see many jars of salsa in your future. Don't forget the onions.

 

New update from me:

 

[ilikekicks]

 

Knowing Roma's are great for sauces and salsas plus you grow different type of sweet and hot peppers, I see many jars of salsa in your future. Don't forget the onions.

 

 

Chives, Green and White onions.. gotta have em!

 

I do make a lot of sauces as I like pastas and ' latino ' type of foods. Adds spice to ones life !

[Shafted]

This is a thread I can really get into (in case nobody noticed). So here's another garden update. Corn is doing lousy in my current soil. Beans and squash are doing okay.

 

[ilikekicks]

Shafted : How do you prepare your soil? Do you use anything to get the nitrogen going or is it all just ' natural '? Before the snow is fully melted, we were out there spreading fertalizer. I believe we tilled and sewed the rows 5 or 6 times before we seeded anything at all.

[Shafted]

I save up food scraps over the winter and till it into the soil in the spring. Also use liquid fertilizer (urea) throughout the season. Garden vegetation also gets tilled in in the fall.

 

The established part of the garden is doing markedly better than the new section added this year. It takes a year or two to for this method to create decent soil.

 

I don't really amend the soil, I transform it.