What did you do in the garden today?

[HerbGir1972]

Weeded second planting of tomatoes & peppers at work. Picked slicing cukes, banana, mini bells, paprika, jalapeño, and cayenne peppers.

At home nothing today, been pulling okra, squash, beans, and cherry tomatoes.

 

[herfrds]

DD picked our first green peas from the garden! So excited and my green beans are coming up too! Have a container with spinach in it and that is growing like crazy!
Things are looking good!

 

[country girl44]

my garden is doing great, here are some pictures..cucumbers, I over watered, but there looking better! LOL. collar greens are ready, tomatoes are small but there coming so that'a a good sign. and my pepper plants are starting to flower as well. we are been getting plenty of rain, so it's been helping.

 

[lpatelski]

Zone 8b
Grapes - Catawba, Concord, Niagara are all turning colors
Pineapples - have two small and three just starting to bloom
Bananas - Dwarf Orinoco threw out a flower, Tall Namwah is just flowering, Tall Orinoco has 4 hands uncovered
Turkey Figs - picking twice a day to keep the Cardinals off, Mission figs almost ripe
High bush Blue Berries
Strawberries are eaten by Richard the free(ranger)
Persimmons are still green. Young tree has 15-20 fruit.
Anna Apples were eaten by squirrels
Dorset Golden Apples never did much
Asparagus was too wet this year for much growth
Feijoa bloomed I am not seeing any set fruit yet.
Calamondin citrus is full
Key lime has a few
Meyer Lemon, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Navel orange flowered and did not set fruit.
Blood Orange has 4 fist size fruit
Harvester peach set fruit - fire ants ruined them all before ripening
Husband mowed over the bush cherries - it is trying to recover.
Just planted my Carob tree so it's out of the pot and in the ground at four years.
That's all for today.

 

[RichnSteph]

We're about to revamp our entire garden idea. After two years of running an aquaponics system and getting next to nothing out of it it's time to put it back on the ground. Our primary pump died last night and poured 500 gallons of water out of the DWC onto the ground. Our choice now is wait two-three days for the new pump to arrive or just tear it apart and make four raised beds out of the media beds and DWC that we already have built. I could make a monster bed out of the 8x10x32" in ground pond that we have but then I'd have to find a home for all the fish and the water plants my wife loves so much.


Anyway we're headed towards ground gardening again. Hope we get something out of it.


RichnSteph

 

[Beekissed]

I don't blame you....aquaponics always seems to me to be a lot of expense and fuss for very little return over time.

 

[TerryH]

I know that aquaponics work for some but a seed is designed to go into dirt.

 

[dan26552]

I found wild ground cherries in my garden.

 

[lazy gardener]

We're about to revamp our entire garden idea. After two years of running an aquaponics system and getting next to nothing out of it it's time to put it back on the ground. Our primary pump died last night and poured 500 gallons of water out of the DWC onto the ground. Our choice now is wait two-three days for the new pump to arrive or just tear it apart and make four raised beds out of the media beds and DWC that we already have built. I could make a monster bed out of the 8x10x32" in ground pond that we have but then I'd have to find a home for all the fish and the water plants my wife loves so much.


Anyway we're headed towards ground gardening again. Hope we get something out of it.


RichnSteph

I think that for now, you're making a good choice. I've been intrigued with the concept. My climate is too cold to be successful without a lot of fuss in a green house, and after raising angel fish in my home. (14 fish tanks, and 900 babies later...) I don't think I would want to dedicate any in home space to such a venture, unless I did a mini set up with no more than 20 gallons. At that, it would be after I retire, and only for grins and giggles, not as a main garden source. I'd love to have a little trout pond on my property, though!!!

 

[politicalcenter]

I have always favored growing in dirt. It is less expensive and more forgiving.