2009 Outdoor Vegetable Gardens---Group Thread

[alleycat]

Ok I'll start this off with what I got going on at the moment for my veggies and might as well say fruit in here also if you got it growing.

As much info as possible in your posts will help getting us with to many posts just asking the basics back and forth maybe too.

Like what you are growing?? Might do some simple details about your surroundings too.

Will imagine mostly outside, but if you are growing veggies indoors, post away too, which I happen to have some of those too.

What is your medium/soil mix is?? Nutrients if any?? The more info the better, we are all info hogs and will love the info about how you grow your veggies.

And of course, if you got photos, please post them up.

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So right now I got some garlic, one is elephant garlic, not sure on the other one, raspberries, strawberries, and aspargus roots about on their 5th year I just planted in pots outside.

Here they are after I dug them up from the house I just moved from.



Here they are in their pots. I used cheap ace brand top soil, and some perlite for the soil. And I'm feeding them Ionic grow nutes at the moment.



I have lots of wildlife around, and deer and critter control might also be some helpful info if you have any.

I just put the pots inside my dog pen. I'm using the galic in alot of potted plants to see if that will deter the deer, and planing on placing in around the outer edges where it could be reached by the deer, and hopefuly not liked and not jump the short 4 ft fence.



I have some gold and red cherry tomatos clones going too.



And one Early Girl tomato I bought for my mom and growing till it gets nice enough for her to have it outside.



I'm most likely about 6 weeks behind most people, so not really into having much more going on at the moment for living at 9000+ft elevation.

Lets see what veggies you got growing, we can get one going for flowers shortly for flower lovers too, like tomorrow.

Happy Growing Veggies

Alleycat

[Boogie Man]

I'm waiting on pay pal to place my order to get my indoor grow going. In the meantime, I'm about to plant some cantalope, watermelon, beefeater toms, and some jalepenos in pots in my backyard. Already have a few lemon and orange plants going, will have to get some pics of those when the big light turns on tomorrow.

[ILLEGAL-SEED]

my parents have a bucnh of tomatos and the other usual stuff. growing it old fashioned, in the ground in plain soil.

ive got 15 strawberries, most in some promix. also 2 different hot pepper plants. they are all about 5 inches tall right now. just finished planting them all last week.

too dark to take pics at the moment.

anybody know if you should clip those "flower" things off of strawberries. my grandma told me i should. dont know why.

[nigel]

should be fun. There is a missing 't' in outdoors of thread title. lol nigel

[Afew Brickshort]

[Plucky Purcell]

Thank you AC! I read a thread yesterday (I forget who suggested this but, thanks to you too)!

I have not been able to garden outside for a while now, but I've got a nice backyard...until August...and I finally got motivated enough to do some this year.

It gets about 6 hours of real intense sunlight but will be getting more when I trim back some branches on the large trees surrounding it. The garden gets sun all day just not direct light all the time.
Soil is a mix of local compost (our city does a weekend where they supply it for $10 bucks a tractor shovel load, or it's free if you haul it yourself). To the clay like soil in the garden I added about 100lbs of compost, a few bags of sand, and 5 40qt bags of organic top soil from the nursery down the road.

As for feeding, right now they just get water. I need to find some plant food for them though, but I have never fed veggies, and ORGANIC is key! Any ideas for me? I learned from my pops and he never uses any thing for feeding but is successful year upon year with large tomato harvests, corn, greens, etc, etc. I just recently got him into using a hot box and am about an inch away from getting him to construct a green house with me on their property.

Now for some pics:
Whole garden set up (nice rose bush the lady left who lived here last, I couldn't kill it)


Row of Peppers (I have a plant specifically for making mole, a jalapeno, purple bell pepper, red bell pepper, and a cayenne plant)


Basil (already in the garden) and the second pic is of herbs in need of new homes (spearmint, mint chocolate, rosemary, thyme, and chives) + Rottweiler hind quarters.



Tomato close up and the two rows of them (salad mix, grape, brandywine, beefsteak, roma, and I am blanking on the name of the other one but it is french and good for drying, Yum!)



Red potatoes and sweet yellow onions


I am waiting for my melons to show me signs of life, I've never had much luck with them though so we'll see. I have started some habaneros inside along with a few ghost chilies. I've also noticed while looking at these photos that I need to do some weeding. I was told that laying newspaper down in between rows keeps weeds away, we'll see. Right now I gotta get back to studying so come Thursday when schools done I will get on that weeding/mulching of the garden.

Everyone

[Afew Brickshort]

Originally Posted by midwest

As for feeding, right now they just get water. I need to find some plant food for them though, but I have never fed veggies, and ORGANIC is key! Any ideas for me?

I'm flying by the seat of my pants with the garden fertilizer... went with Espoma Garden Tone... supposed to be organic ( debatable ) 3-4-4, I noticed that it now has the Bio-Tone mixed into it as well so I'll get all kinds of benefcial microbes and stuff ( they're really good at marketing ) ... I've got some of that horrid smelling fish emulsion that I plan on using. Also have some bat guano's that I'll probably use...

All Natural Organic Plant food for the Vegetable Garden

Last time I put a link to Espoma's website it started acting funny... we'll see how it goes this time.

That's what I'm using... for better or for worse, as Prego used to say... "it's in there"

[swordfish]

Updated garden shots.

Eggplant in the front row, tomatoes in rear (better boy variety) some carrots as well but they are still comeing up.

Japaneese cucumber front row, yellow and zucinii in the rear and more tomatoes

peppers & cucumbers

yellow corn

more squash & corn

green beans

beats, spinach, radish's, carrots.

spinach closeup


Great thread!! I better post this before I loose my log in time. Took awhile to get things organized today.

[claymoore]

what do you feed the Pepper family plants?

[buzzmobile]

Originally Posted by claymoore

what do you feed the Pepper family plants?

A balanced fertilizer like 20-20-20, 6-6-6, 10-10-10 until they start to bloom. Once they bloom use something like a 5-10-10, 10-30-20, or any number of other bloom fertilizers.

Here's what our garden looks like. I spent a couple of hours weeding this morning to show its best face.

The first shot is looking northwest. The squashes pictured are patapan and yellow crookneck. We'll be eating some squash in another day or two. The corn is just starting to tassel and the worms are already starting to work on them. I'll be dusting them when I manage to get to the garden store. There are three types of tomatoes some romaine lettuce and radishes in the next shot, and then there is a view looking southeast. Onions in the foreground with snow peas, yellow beans, and green beans in that view. Last shot are some containers we grew through the winter outside our kitchen door.