How Does Your Garden Grow??????

xtsho

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The artichokes are making chokes. They're in pots because I had planted them by the raspberries and tayberries but I realized that wasn't going to work out. Looks like I'm going to have to take out another bit of grass in the back and get them planted back in the ground. I really didn't think they were going to do anything. But since it looks like they are I might as well get them in a better environment so they can thrive. It's a perennial and can get big so it will come back bigger each year. Probably get only a few this year but if I get it planted in the ground where it can grow I should get a a couple dozen next year. Somethings eating the plants. I think it's slugs. Dealing with that issue today.

This is the Romanesco variety. Interesting fact, they have been cultivating these since the 1400's.


 

xtsho

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Your peppers are doing great!. I haven't even got my peppers in the ground yet. I did just plant 9 tomatoes in the garden. 6 Siletz and 3 Siberia. Both are early and will set fruit in cool temperatures. The beefsteak varieties and my peppers are not going into the ground until the end of the month. We had some 87 F days but the weather has gotten cold again. Low 60's during the day and low 50's at night. Hopefully it starts warming up in the next 10 days.
 

xtsho

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Damn! Nice gardens some of you guys have. You're already way ahead of me with many plants. But I still have my garden full, just with other crops. But I will say that I'm getting tired of greens and radishes. I've been making Gat Kimchi with the mustard greens. There's too many for us to eat right now. I'm also looking into making Choi Poh with all the icicle radishes I have.



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Turnips soon. I need to do another thinning. I eat the greens as well.



Icicle radish




Put some tomatoes in the ground. A few Siberia. The damn mustard greens are getting too big. Time to make some more kimchi.




6 Siletz variety. They're a little yellow so I'm going to mix up some liquid fertilizer and cover the ground with black plastic. A 4-10-20 mix with some calcium nitrate and magnesium sulfate should help especially as the soil gets warmer faster with the black plastic.




The peppers are staying in the greenhouse for at least another week and the big Beefsteak tomatoes as well.
 

.Smoke

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Things are taking off. Tomatoes, carrots, cilantro and horseradish...
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A few different potatoes, variety of peppers, onions, lettuce, peas and green beans.
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We decided to go ahead and expand this year instead of waiting until next spring.
Realizing after a couple months of not eating out that it costs $20 just to go to McDonald's is a great motivator. The g/f is totally on board now :)

Making a (roughly) 10'x10' "burial grounds" as I call it. This year it will get corn, broccoli and a couple other things (gf stuff. don't remember...) with the intent of the potatoes/ carrots/ tomatoes/ horseradish/ beans eventually moving out here and the upper garden more for lettuce/ peppers/ onions/ herbs and things.
I'll have better pics once its complete. Hopefully we will have everything in the ground tomorrow.
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I also took 4 Lilac cuttings yesterday along with 6 Dogwood cuttings today from some plants on our property. After 1 day the Lilac is looking pretty good. Hopefully the Dogwood looks as nice tomorrow.
Everyone is chilling in the clone tent with the monster cropped Original Amnesia that is starting to show roots.
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Considering it's my first growing season ever and my first try with a cloner, I'm really happy with how things are going.
I'm officially addicted. F@ck fastfood.
 
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numberfour

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Great looking gardens guys

Running 2 beds and a lot of pots this year. Have, sweetcorn, peas, carrots (orange and purple), onions, spring onions, garlic, potatoes, toms (3 varieties), beans, cucumber, lettuce (2 varieties) strawberries, blueberries, gooseberries, raspberries, cherries and a few more...

Toms
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Mini Cucumbers - harvested 3 of these already
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Peas, Toms
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Peppers
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Gooseberries
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Strawberries
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too larry

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Things are taking off. . . . . . I'm officially addicted. F@ck fastfood.
Welcome to the wonderful world of gardening. You can save on food. Plus the taste of fresh food is priceless. Food security could be huge when/if the 2nd wave of the pandemic derails the food supply train. I'm not the kind to jump at my shadow, but rice and beans are not coming off the grocery list for the next few months.
 

too larry

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I haven't seen any fruit yet on the arm cukes, but then I haven't really got down under the leaves to look. Time is in short supply at Larry Land these days. My garden is going to look like ass this summer.

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Corn.

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Green beans are looking rough. Just half ass plowed them last night. Was going to hit the middles today, but . . . . .

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Acorn squash. Hard to see, but there are fruit on the vines.

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.Smoke

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We abandoned our new area due to shade issues and decided to tie both gardens together.
Roughly 210 sq. ft in total. Still a work in progress.
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Got a few rows of yellow sweet corn in along with some more red/Yukon gold/russet baking potatoes yesterday.
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Along with 92 yellow/red onions and 40 of our Rainbow/Scarlet Nantes carrot starts.
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We've still got a lot more work to get done over the next couple of days. (finish ground work/edging/more planting)
Having fun and living life.
bongsmilie
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too larry

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decided to give some plants away to friends and family cause I was way too in over my head :lol: & don't have enough room....here's before View attachment 4578894
and this is what I kept
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almost ready to go into the ground :)
Most years I plant enough to share with friends and family, plus my thrift store folks. I let them decide if they want to sell them or take them home for themselves. This year I had to let lots of them die. No space or time to deal with all of them.
 
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