[LS-6]

Since I love fresh veggies and growing them I'll keep you guys posted on the progress of my garden as the season progresses. I've been doing this for a very long time so if you have any questions please ask.

About a month ago I roto tilled the garden. Last week I planted 9 big bertha bell peppers, 6 banana peppers and 3 chili peppers and 6 tomato plants, 3 beefsteak and 3 big beef.

I also planted beets and a row of green beans which are just starting to germinate and cucumber seeds.
Then it rained about 6-10" since then. Perfect timing for a change.

I use grass clippings to keep moisture in the soil and weeds out.

 

[LS-6]

Her's some veggies from the past.

 

[LS-6]

Ever see tomato plants this big? Beets on the lower right.

Or cucumbers this bushy?

 

[Bud9051]

No soil here. When we built it was pure clay and I didn't have the money to remove several feet and replace it with good soil. But I do love a garden and have a kubota so that's something I might still do, at least for a small patch.

Look forward to following your garden,
Thanks
Bud

 

[LS-6]

No soil here. When we built it was pure clay and I didn't have the money to remove several feet and replace it with good soil. But I do love a garden and have a kubota so that's something I might still do, at least for a small patch.

Look forward to following your garden,
Thanks
Bud

You might try a small raised garden? If you have access to bagged soil at a local department store. You can grow some veggies by tilling in leafs in the fall ect to break up the clay or some other humus compost. Peat moss or cocoa bean shells work well if available in your area? Also some 10-10-10 fertilizer will help with nutrition.

 

[Two Knots]

Nice! :thumbsup: I wish you were my neighbor! :smile:

Looking forward to seeing the progression...When we had a garden we
grew lots of swiss chard..it was great.

 

[Colbyt]

No soil here. When we built it was pure clay and I didn't have the money to remove several feet and replace it with good soil. But I do love a garden and have a kubota so that's something I might still do, at least for a small patch.

Look forward to following your garden,
Thanks
Bud

8-12" of top soil is all you need. Any deeper improved soil and you waste water because of increased drainage.


Using peat moss, compost and perlite or vermiculite you can create you own growing bed that will never compact.

 

[overlandflyer]

i've been planting peppers for a few years now. last year i got a Pimiento plant in a 6-pack of different varieties, though interestingly, the Pimento plant wasn't even one on the list...! i saved seeds and today i have 10 seedlings. unfortunately i only garden on my porch in pots.

 

[Colbyt]

i've been planting peppers for a few years now. last year i got a Pimiento plant in a 6-pack of different varieties, though interestingly, the Pimento plant wasn't even one on the list...! i saved seeds and today i have 10 seedlings. unfortunately i only garden on my porch in pots.

Let us know how that turns out. This bunch loves pictures.

 

[overlandflyer]

when mine start taking off, i'll start a thread... peppers are fun to watch grow and although they are readily available (aside from a few) at the market, there is something special about popping outside while your cooking to pick a few fresh ones. everything tastes better with peppers...!


here are some variety i had last year... ghost peppers (the fatter wrinkly red ones) were a nice surprise... hot, hot, HOT. there is one Pimento in the picture... looks like a small tomato (in the upper left).

 

[NeoHawk]

That rich midwest soil sure looks nice. Tremendous farmland.

 

[unihorsus]

Beautiful garden, thank you for sharing!

 

[AndyD8]

Nice garden. The tomatoes look so good

 

[firebob]

Nice looking veggies.


I can not weight to see my garden again.


Wife told me she got a few tomatoes and cucumbers the other day.
We had been getting a few different types of lettuces and radishes.

 

[chandler48]

Our rain situation has kept me from turning soil in my garden. Too wet. FINALLY, yesterday I got 8 rows 75' long of corn planted. Middle of June, means probably mid September harvest, but that's OK. I won't get it all, as the bear harvests his share and lays up in the woods drunker than a coot when the corn ferments in his stomach. Their digestive system tends to hold food in for hibernation so the corn has time to ferment. Funny.

 

[CodeMatters]

Looks good.
My favourites are snap peas, tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, especially
yellow cherries.....not sure if they're "heirloom".....
'Bout half the peas and cherry tomatoes make it to the house.....

 

[Colbyt]

'Bout half the peas and cherry tomatoes make it to the house.....

None of my cherry tomatoes make it more that a foot or two from where they grow. That is my grazing spot.

 

[LS-6]

Update, here's the tomatoes they're 3'-5' tall now. Forgot a pic of the beets had to replant because of the darn rabbits.

Peppers, not doing as good as I hoped but they're coming along.

Green beans are recovering nicely after the darn rabbits attacked them before I put up the fence. Had to replant the small row.

Cucumbers are finally growing nice. Hot peppers at bottom.

 

[dj3]

Good use of space...looks good!

 

[CodeMatters]

i've been planting peppers for a few years now. last year i got a Pimiento plant in a 6-pack of different varieties, though interestingly, the Pimento plant wasn't even one on the list...! i saved seeds and today i have 10 seedlings. unfortunately i only garden on my porch in pots.

Don't think the uncircled plant in the top right is a pimento -)