((Serious Gardening))

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

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I'm glad they worked out for the chickens. More healthy food for them, less money you spent. "Weeds" gone.

 

[galanie]

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hahahhaha sounds like you should be scared! Keep the doors locked and reinforce that trellis with some monster pipe or something cause it'll be pulling your house down next!

 

[NanaKat]

A garden is never finished...when something come out...something goes back in.
When I cut heads of lettuce, I plant radishes around the root that is left in the ground. New lettuce grows from the root and the radishes are out before the lettuce is big enough to cut.
When a bed of onions is dug, I turn in a little compost and go immediately back in some okra. Okra transplants easily so I can sow a short row and transplant in the evening and water in well for a couple of days until they recover.
When cabbages come out, I plant a late crop of squash. I usually leave a few cabbage plant roots with a few buds for side shoots. I pinch off the weakest and can get a second smaller head from the root.
When potatoes and beets come out, I usually follow with beans. I sow turnips when the beans come out.

Plants like tomatoes, peppers, brussel sprouts will be growing from mid spring to fall three seasons
Broccoli and red cabbage will be two seasons from spring into summer. If you cut the broccoli back in mid summer to about 6 inches, side shoots will produce some salad size heads.
Early fall is a good time to plant a second crop of carrots or greens like collards, spinach. To get them to come up, I cover the rows with a 1 x 4 board to cool off the soil and check it frequently. When I see baby sprouts, I remove the board .

Isn't gardening fun!

 

[featherbaby]

I think I need a machete.

Can anyone help me identify this monster? Photo color is horrendous! They really are pale cream inside and green striped outside. That's what florescent lighting does to digital images. Yuck!

 

[NanaKat]

Definitely a squash...not a pumpkin...based on the seed shape and center development. There are a number of varieties now since the market to China and Russian states were opened to seed exchange..... You may not know the variety, but if it tastes like a squash...Since it already grows like a squash, looks like a squash, smells like a squash...

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck, sounds like a duck .... chances are it is a duck.

Seriously...it could be a cross between a zucchini and an acorn squash based on the photo you posted before...

 

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

Some type of squash based on the vine description, flower description, and photos. You may have inadvertently made your own "hybrids"-- that is entirely possilbe. But, for real fun, contact your local extension and take your squash to them and see what they offer as an explanation.

Nice bird food!

*makes more "random squash bread" while featherbaby's back is turned*
*offers hot bread and hand churned butter to NanaKat*
*keeps a look-out for featherbaby*

 

[Cats Critters]

I went to my grandmothers today to help her out and ended up coming home with plants.

 

[Carols Clucks]

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I wish I could say that everything is planted and there's room left! I'm usually saying the opposite.

It helps that in about a half acre of property, we have less than 100sq feet of lawn.

The main garden (with a few trees) is 30' x 70' plus she has a winter garden by the house 10 x25ish (currently filled with mostly onions garlic kale peas etc) and another corner filled with yet more onions and cabbage and the pretty green beans (Scarlett Runners)

 

[Kassaundra]

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I wish I could say that everything is planted and there's room left! I'm usually saying the opposite.

It helps that in about a half acre of property, we have less than 100sq feet of lawn.

The main garden (with a few trees) is 30' x 70' plus she has a winter garden by the house 10 x25ish (currently filled with mostly onions garlic kale peas etc) and another corner filled with yet more onions and cabbage and the pretty green beans (Scarlett Runners)

That is what I aspire to. Banishing the "lawn" for garden, fruit trees, fruit brambles and bushes. Chicken food, wild bird, toad, snake, lizard etc... habitat and food.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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These look remarkably like the spaghetti squash I grow. They start out looking like the green one, but then ripen to yellow.