BYC gardening thread!!

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Good looking potatoes!

 

[SunnySkies]

Asian stink bugs decimated the cukes and virtually all squash overnight When you look at the plants, you see them on there. We picked off thousands, it seemed, but a futile effort. Plants are dying.

I do still have pumpkins though, as well as melons, tomatoes, corn and sweet potatoes coming. Then instead of a fall garden like I had planned, I'm thinking of running some hogs over the garden to plow, remove rhizomes and weeds, and fertilize. Then I'd pull them off in spring for processing and restart the garden. Hubby says I should ask the neighbors if they are OK with that. Their house is about 100 feet or so, across the road, from the garden area. I say, it's my land, I do what I want (and give them half a pig or whatever when I'm done because we don't eat that much pork).

 

[marktoo]

I'd say lucky neighbors!

 

[marktoo]

Thanks! Grandchild took all but one or two home for momma to cook.

 

[Smithyard Farm]

A few gardeen pics I took this morning.

Runner beans covering the mailbox we keep our weeding tools in.




The wild birds took a heavy hit when the chickens came to live with us....we stopped feeding them.

Renegade Callaloo & summer squash.

LOVE your garden!!!!!


Hi everyone- looking for ideas for fall planting... I usually don't and after reading more and more about it, I think I am wasting space. I have pulled the broccoli and the beans and peas... so I have a little space to start with. I threw in some left over lettuce seeds I had, fig'd they would at least feed the hens if they didn't mature fully before the frost hits. I live in NH - zone 5

 

[marktoo]

LOVE your garden!!!!!


Hi everyone- looking for ideas for fall planting... I usually don't and after reading more and more about it, I think I am wasting space. I have pulled the broccoli and the beans and peas... so I have a little space to start with. I threw in some left over lettuce seeds I had, fig'd they would at least feed the hens if they didn't mature fully before the frost hits. I live in NH - zone 5

Thanks! I'm in zone 9 so I really can't offer much advice. Here, the trick is getting in early enough so it gets a little size to it before the cold weather sets in. My garden has to be in by sept 15 to achieve this, so you may already be pushing it but it can't hurt to try. I start all my seeds in soil blocks, it gives me 30 - 45 extra days to prep the garden beds for planting. My fall crops include; kale, mustard greens, collards, lettuce, fennel, turnip, beets, fava beans & some cover crops.

 

[SunnySkies]

LOVE your garden!!!!!


Hi everyone- looking for ideas for fall planting...   I usually don't and after reading more and more about it, I think I am wasting space.  I have pulled the broccoli and the beans and peas... so I have a little space to start with.  I threw in some left over lettuce seeds I had, fig'd they would at least feed the hens if they didn't mature fully before the frost hits.  I live in NH - zone 5

You MIGHT have time to get some broccoli in and get some before winter or try overwintering it.

Kale could go in now.

I'd have to look at what else I got going for winter. I'm 6b. Planning to do these in the City Pickers boxes because of the alternative garden plans for the winter..

Southern Exposure Seed Exhchange has a list of winter things and suggested starting/planting times in the back of their catalog. You would need to move fast though, as they are either 7 or 6a, not 5.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

All the potatoes are now picked.

 

[City farm]

Glad you caught the girls in time! Our dog found a turtle today too! Followed it all they way to the bayou lol

yeah! are chickens ALMOST dug out my gartden and we found a turtle

Wow, how fun.. Not for a garden.. Little brats will eat it before you do.. We just gave our neighbors ours.. Once we got our chickens they were
not happy sharing the yummy lettuce.. Our neighbors have a waterfall with a river running threw their yard..they were happy to get them..
Winter garden planning comming up soon.. Our beans & naturism are doing great..

 

[tnspursfan09]

My Garden is a mix of flowers, herbs and veggies.

Some of my favorite daylilies

Kitchen garden. That's my grandbaby Maddy (in pink) and her bff decorating Mamaw's walkway.



One of my goldfish ponds. And Princesses!


How can you not look at this fae and believe in miracles? Born with craniosynostosis, @ 6 months old her little noggin was held together by plates, stiches and screws. Today she's the biggest part of my life.


Second pond and herbs (kitchen garden)


Lots of hidden walkways.






Princess Buttercup, and the pond after daylily haircut day, lol. Apples are falling everywhere.