2017 garden thread

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Top photo Ness....  That beautiful deck rail is poking thru on the left!   

[ness]

 

Top photo Ness....  That beautiful deck rail is poking thru on the left!   

You dog. ? I'm fixing it. The photo I mean 

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Do you guys let your lettuce go to heads before harvesting? I usually just thin the outside leaves to promote growth from the middle. Also, my Cherokee Purple has struck first and has a couple small toms on it. So far so good this season.

[MOPanfisher]

I only plant leaf lettuce so I don't have an answer for you.  I was the last day or two finally able to put the tractor/roto tiller in the gardens and prep them.  Have planted a total of 15 tomato plants.  Am seriously down in the back right now too.  Sure miss that big strapping college boy of mine.  Hoping it rains so I get a break before I have to go back out and plant zuchini, yellow squash, cucumbers in the little garden and corn and Cantelouopes in the big one.  If it weren't for sweet corn I would turn the big one into a berry patch, might anyway.  Have I think 6 surviving thornless blackberries, and considering what to add next there, more blackberries for a row, but have room for more rows befor I even get to the actual garden.  Raspberries?  Grapes?  Am going to plant a wildflower patch in the leftover space for the bees & butterflys.  Then turnips in the fall and sometimes winter wheat.   Other suggestions, that don't eat up my life taking care of?  Things that survive on benign neglect, a little water and sunshine are perfect.

[BilletHead]

  

 

I only plant leaf lettuce so I don't have an answer for you.  I was the last day or two finally able to put the tractor/roto tiller in the gardens and prep them.  Have planted a total of 15 tomato plants.  Am seriously down in the back right now too.  Sure miss that big strapping college boy of mine.  Hoping it rains so I get a break before I have to go back out and plant zuchini, yellow squash, cucumbers in the little garden and corn and Cantelouopes in the big one.  If it weren't for sweet corn I would turn the big one into a berry patch, might anyway.  Have I think 6 surviving thornless blackberries, and considering what to add next there, more blackberries for a row, but have room for more rows befor I even get to the actual garden.  Raspberries?  Grapes?  Am going to plant a wildflower patch in the leftover space for the bees & butterflys.  Then turnips in the fall and sometimes winter wheat.   Other suggestions, that don't eat up my life taking care of?  Things that survive on benign neglect, a little water and sunshine are perfect.

          Gooseberries .    Lettuce patch going to annuals or perennials?  We don't mess much with annuals. In all of our flower beds we have mixes of bee balm, pale purple cone flowers, other cone flowers, black eyed susan, obedient plant, coreopsis, gayfeather,butterfly milkweed,  and a new addition I found a place to dig shasta daises and they transplanted real good. The Mrs. likes blackberry lilys and they are scattered all over too. Some mulching and a little maintenance and the plants spread on their own.

  BilletHead

[ness]

Yeah, gooseberries take next to no effort, until harvest. 

I've done it again....too much lettuce all at once. 

Two gallon bags here on top of the two in the fridge. More needs cut.

 

Do you guys let your lettuce go to heads before harvesting? I usually just thin the outside leaves to promote growth from the middle. 

I just cut the whole thing out when I harvest. 

Love radishes; made me a salad. 

 

 

[ness]

Anybody want some lettuce?

[Stein]

1 hour ago, ness said:

Anybody want some lettuce?

LOL, that's the only thing we have had so far.  That and radishes.

These pics are a week old so a bit further along than what is showing but way behind you guys.  Amazing what a week of heat will do.  I've been remiss in posting.   Corn is about a foot high. lettuce doubled, peas needed to be strung up this weekend.  Garlic patch is flying right along (Tall patch in the second pic).  Harvest around 4th of July.  Plant it Halloween for the next year so it can go through the winter freeze.

 

[DownStream]

My spinach is beginning to bolt, I expect the lettuce to follow soon with these warmer temperatures. Started the second crop of radish last week, most of which have sprouted. Peppers doing well so far. Tomatoes haven't turned yet, but have some nice sized Cherokee Purples. The Yellow Pear looks really bad, almost completely dead. It never seemed to recover from the septoria, after all the rain. Best of luck to everyone.

[MOPanfisher]

My lettuce, since and radishes have long since gone to the compost heap.  However the maters are loving the warm weather.  Squash are growing well, and will transplanting a bunch of Cantelouopes soon.  Sweet corn just got planted last week due to circumstances.  Now I could use a nice one inch rain.