BYC gardening thread!!

Do you garden?

  • No

    Votes: 9 1.9%
  • Yes

    Votes: 459 95.8%
  • Have in the past

    Votes: 11 2.3%

  • Total voters
    479
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Last years garden above. Next years plot(probably still gonna make it bigger) below
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This year I grew
Better boy tomatoes
Sweet corn
Zucchinis
Green beans(bush)
Onions
Carrots
Watermelon
Romaine lettuce
Potatoes

Next year I want to add herbs(medicinal and culinary) and more fruits and veggies as well. My plan is to have enough to be able to store thru winter and spring and tie my off til next years harvest if possible.
I've also given the garden bug to two of my neighbors as well who I helped start gardens this year. It was my first year doing this so it's not great but I think it turned out good considering it was just grass last year this time
 
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Last years garden above. Next years plot(probably still gonna make it bigger) below
400

This year I grew
Better boy tomatoes
Sweet corn
Zucchinis
Green beans(bush)
Onions
Carrots
Watermelon
Romaine lettuce
Potatoes

Next year I want to add herbs(medicinal and culinary) and more fruits and veggies as well. My plan is to have enough to be able to store thru winter and spring and tie my off til next years harvest if possible.
I've also given the garden bug to two of my neighbors as well who I helped start gardens this year. It was my first year doing this so it's not great but I think it turned out good considering it was just grass last year this time


Your corn looks great! Mine arnt doing well at all! First attempt though
 
Great pics folks! Thanks for sharing.

Beulah89 Wow, the place looks like a tropical paradise. So you are just starting summer, your wet season. now if I remember correctly. CheleB was posting here awhile ago, you two could be neighbors. They're right on the beach down there somewhere. That area sure looks pretty! Not sure about having to listen to those Parrots all the time though.

Urbanchange90 Great looking garden!

Mr MKK Yeah, my wife just revamped our annual color bed, ripped whatever was in there out & put in Pansies & something else. Should be good till June or July.
 
Great pics folks! Thanks for sharing.

Beulah89 Wow, the place looks like a tropical paradise. So you are just starting summer, your wet season. now if I remember correctly. CheleB was posting here awhile ago, you two could be neighbors. They're right on the beach down there somewhere. That area sure looks pretty! Not sure about having to listen to those Parrots all the time though.

Urbanchange90 Great looking garden!

Mr MKK Yeah, my wife just revamped our annual color bed, ripped whatever was in there out & put in Pansies & something else. Should be good till June or July.
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Great pics folks!  Thanks for sharing. 

Beulah89  Wow, the place looks like a tropical paradise.  So you are just starting summer, your wet season. now if I remember correctly.  CheleB was posting here awhile ago,  you two could be neighbors.  They're right on the beach down there somewhere.  That area sure looks pretty!  Not sure about having to listen to those Parrots all the time.


Yes a tropical paradise! Yep summer is starting, well we kinda don't have 4 seasons here, just 2 wet and dry. CheleB hey, well I'll have to keep an eye out for her posts! Parrots are fine, you get used to the noise and their beauty (and funny antics) make up for it (maybe not when they eat my pawpaws though). The worst bit is the Mosquitos! My backyard is so over run at the moment! It's a real challenge running out releasing chickens, changing water, checking feed and collecting eggs when ya doing the mozzie slap every 3 seconds!

Here my first rockmelon (cantaloupe)!

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Awesome pics Beulah.

Sunny Skies: Re: weeding, I can tell you that a year round mulch is definitely the way to go. If you get that mulch deep enough, the weeds can't germinate, and any that do, can just have some more mulch kicked over them to keep them under control. Throw in some wide beds for your greens, and your gardening tasks after planting are reduced to harvesting, wandering through your garden admiring your crops, and the usual pest management, though I am convinced that pests and disease are for the most part reduced with a mulched garden. Watering is greatly reduced, frost is out earlier in the spring. Your soil will be much healthier, you will need less fertilizer. Potatoes and corn won't need to be hilled. You can walk through your garden after a heavy rain, and your feet won't get muddy. I could go on and on. Try an experiment... put a 6" layer of mulch over a small area of your garden this fall, keep that area mulched and plant it in the spring, and compare the results to the same crop planted in your usual fashion. Compare the bare soil area to the mulched area in terms of earth worm count, soil tilth, amount of water required, as well as how much work was required for each area. I might even go out on a limb here and suggest that you'll even find that the humus content of an area mulched increases quite a bit even in the first season of mulching. I used to mulch with straw until the price went to 8.50/bale, and has at times gone up to 12.50/bale. I have mulched only with mulch hay for the last 2 years, and though initially concerned about the influx of seeds brought in with the hay, it has not been a problem. If I want a green manure crop, I just pull the mulch back, let a few weed seeds sprout, then cover them back up while they are in the tender stage. No fall clean up... just turn the chickens loose, or throw down some more mulch on top of the spent crops. Ever wonder why the woods are not a weedy tangle? Look at the layer of leaves that carpet the forest floor year round. Look under those leaves and what will you find? BLACK spongy humus. Gardening under mulch is in effect mimicking God's design in a controlled way. OK, now I'll get down off my soap box!

Oh wait... I just re-read your last post. You said your garden was recently carved out of a hay field? GREAT!!! Now, if you want to expand that garden, just throw down some cardboard or newspaper, cover with the 6" of mulch, and in about a month, all of the sod will be killed, the soil will be soft, and you can then plant your seedlings right through the mulch and newspaper/cardboard. No tilling required.
 
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Awesome pics Beulah.

Sunny Skies:  Re: weeding, I can tell you that a year round mulch is definitely the way to go.  If you get that mulch deep enough, the weeds can't germinate, and any that do, can just have some more mulch kicked over them to keep them under control.  Throw in some wide beds for your greens, and your gardening tasks after planting are reduced to harvesting, wandering through your garden admiring your crops, and the usual pest management, though I am convinced that pests and disease are for the most part reduced with a mulched garden.  Watering is greatly reduced, frost is out earlier in the spring.  Your soil will be much healthier, you will need less fertilizer.  Potatoes and corn won't need to be hilled.   You can walk through your garden after a heavy rain, and your feet won't get muddy.  I could go on and on.  Try an experiment... put a 6" layer of mulch over a small area of your garden this fall, keep that area mulched and plant it in the spring, and compare the results to the same crop planted in your usual fashion.  Compare the bare soil area to the mulched area in terms of earth worm count, soil tilth, amount of water required, as well as how much work was required for each area.  I might even go out on a limb here and suggest that you'll even find that the humus content of an area mulched increases quite a bit even in the first season of mulching.    I used to mulch with straw until the price went to 8.50/bale, and has at times gone up to 12.50/bale.  I have mulched only with mulch hay for the last 2 years, and though initially concerned about the influx of seeds brought in with the hay, it has not been a problem.  If I want a green manure crop, I just pull the mulch back, let a few weed seeds sprout, then cover them back up while they are in the tender stage.  No fall clean up... just turn the chickens loose, or throw down some more mulch on top of the spent crops.  Ever wonder why the woods are not a weedy tangle?  Look at the layer of leaves that carpet the forest floor year round.  Look under those leaves and what will you find?  BLACK spongy humus.  Gardening under mulch is in effect mimicking God's design in a controlled way.  OK, now I'll get down off my soap box!

Oh wait... I just re-read your last post.  You said your garden was recently carved out of a hay field?  GREAT!!! Now, if you want to expand that garden, just throw down some cardboard or newspaper, cover with the 6" of mulch, and in about a month, all of the sod will be killed, the soil will be soft, and you can then plant your seedlings right through the mulch and newspaper/cardboard.  No tilling required.


LOL, it is 10,000 square feet ;) that is a LOT of cardboard and mulch! But that is basically where I'm headed. My distaste for weeding is first and foremost my driving force behind some of what I'm doing. My goal is no-till after I get the pigs through there this year to add organic matter to our rocky, clay soil.
 

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