PLANTED GARDEN TODAY - anybody planting yet?

[miladachicken]

Our raspberries were infected with ROOTWEEVILS

the chickens loved them

We have seeds germinating in the house, and in the garden beds. Beets, tomatoes, peas and more peas, sunflowers, lettuce, brocolli, and so on... The trick is closing up the garden so no chicken can get in...

 

[Jen4]

Planted 166 tomato & pepper plants

Then Dh planted water melon, cantaloupe and Indian corn seeds

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Just got the last of my beds installed today. Has been unseasonably hot. Was out at 8am back in at 11am back out at 6:30pm and back in at 8:30. DH helped with hauling dirt when he got home from work.

I'll take pics of everything tomorrow.

 

[math ace]

Jen4 - - - that is a lot of planting !

How miuch land do you do all that on ?

Why do you plant so much - - - - is it a business ? ?

 

[Jen4]

Math Ace... I can and freeze like a mad woman ALL SUMMER LONG

plus eatin during harvest time and we share with our families and friends, I've thought about doing the farmers market thing but havent yet, this is only our 3rd summer here and with our huge gardens. We live on almost 3 acres

* Beet garden is 40 x 27, Big garden is 72 x 70, Corn patch is 27 x 15, Strawberry patch is 11 x 5 (we are gonna add onto it this year), then theres another small garden for Indian corn, cantaloupe and water melon 11 x 5

 

[Wifezilla]

Finally getting stuff in the ground

 

[LarryPQ]

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I am more than a little jealous! Except for the beet garden. I like beets, but my family is Polish, so I had far too many Polish pickled beets shoved down my throat as a child.

So i only eat fresh beets/greens. What do you do with all those? Feed them to the chickens? Do your eggs have beet-colored yolks?

 

[CoyoteMagic]

As promised here are pictures of my gardens. I'm in the process of movng all my roses into the main garden as I planted some trees where some of the roses are now and they will block the light. I'm thinking of planting daylilies where they are.
I've fenced the garden to keep the chickens out. May have to put some netting up but they haven't tried to jump it yet. When I used this area before, one of them was able to scoot under the fence and she laid her eggs under a rosebush.

The fence is made from pallets cut in half and some fencing I reused from a neighbor that moved. It's all lined with chicken wire to keep the chickens from picking at my veggies.

Roses are in the garden and also around the yard.

Wild rambler rose that I dug up from the edge of our woods.

Tennesse Rose, not it's real name but the day I bought it, there was a guy at Lowe's that had on a Tennesse T-shirt and cap that matched the rose. Told him he needed to buy one too, lol.

Jackson/Perkins rose--Lady Di

Fruit trees
Pear hasn't set fruit this year and I don't know why

Dwarf Peach

Lil'Big Apple Tree. They only grow about 6 ft high and about a half bushel of full sized fruit.

Blackberries-thorn less. I have some with thorns on the side of the house under the window. NO ONE will attempt to break in through that window, lol

Mulberries, I just love Mulberries! A friend of mine tells me that when ever she sees a Mulbery bush she thinks of the day she first tasted them at my old house. They make some of the best jam!

I still need to finish up on my planting as I really behind.

 

[math ace]

What's up with the tires ? ? Do they do something special or do you just have a lot of tires laying around the house? ? ?

Mulberries - - - I don't have any of them - - - I will have to do some research and see if they will grow in my neck of the woods.

ROSES - - yours look really good. I just bought a yellow knock out rose yesterday. I didn't get to plant it yet - -- but it won't look as good as yours. I try with roses, but my food garden takes up too much of my time and the roses are a higher maintence plant than my other plants. My end up looking like DUH or I end up having to deal with the infamous BLACK SPOT disease.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

The main use of tires is to keep the DH from running over things when he mows the law. Not to mention weed whacking them to death. Blackberries were planted in the lower level tire. The second year I added another tire and filled with much to give them better/deeper rooting. The soil where I live is awful! Red Clay and shale. Even the weeds don't grow in it! They also work well as small raised beds. Just fill them up with soil and plant. They hold water rather well.

Didn't take a picture of them but they are great for gowing potatoes. Put your seed potatoes in the tire, cover with dirt and straw, when they grow over the top of the tire, add another tire cover with straw again, keep going about 4 or 5 high. You don't need to dig you potatoes, just knock the tires over and there they are.