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Garden 2015 Pictures and Tips!
Here are some pictures of the garden we started again. Every herb you can think of plus 16 different tomato plants, 12 different varieties of peppers, 4 tomatillos, cucumbers, zucchini, and onions. Everything is doing so amazing this year. Got everything in the ground by mid-late April. May 16th everything is in the ground that needs to be! Sage, annual rosemary, green onions, chives, marjoram, dill, 2 tomatillos, thyme, tarragon, oregano, and an early girl tomato.  Lemon balm that made it through a brutal winter:  Basil that made it through the winter:  Amethyst basil, sweet basil, parsley, perennial rosemary, Italian large leaf basil, cilantro, two jalapenos, Cayenne and banana peppers, four red bell King Arthur peppers, two more jalapenos. Seed trays have marigolds and zinnias in them and extra abe lincoln tomatoes and grape tomatoes that are going into a bucket and an upside down tomato hanger on a shepherd's hook.:  Top left to right: two bell pepper plants, two tomatillos. Next row; 3 roma tomatoes from seed, 3 early girl tomatoes. May 16:  Seeds started: 3 Abe Lincoln tomatoes, 6 Roma tomatoes, two green bell peppers, 3 cucumbers, 3 zucchini. Marigolds and zinnias:  Cucumbers and zucchini:  Flowers on the tomatilos! :  Many flowers on all the peppers. Here are the cayenne and the banana peppers:  My 7 year old Tiger Lily is back again! :  Flowers in the front flower bed. No idea what they are but they are seeds that we planted a few years ago and different spring mix flowers keep coming up. Different sets every year. :  Easter Lilies that stayed alive for a month!  Post your garden and tips! May 29 15 12:04 pm Link Going to do a terrarium this weekend. I'm kinda excited about that! Anyone do terrariums? May 29 15 12:06 pm Link Holy compost, did I count correctly--nine tomato plants?! Have you ever planted that many before as you might be surprised at the number of bushels you'll get? Of course the Romas will be good for canning. Never done a terrarium. If I ever did, I'd probably want to put a lizard, toad, turtle or snake in there too. May 29 15 12:39 pm Link Toto Photo wrote: Actually, you're counting 6 tomato plants, two peppers, and two tomatillos in the ground. May 29 15 01:31 pm Link I have stuff in the ground, but given my track record, I won't have much to harvest. The weeds in my backyard are crazytownbananapants, and if I go more than a few days without an hour or two of weeding, I have a hard time finding what I planted among the weeds. I also have a large yard, but it's almost completely shaded most of the day. The spot I picked for the garden gets 8 hours of sunlight in mid-June, but that gets cut to maybe 6 hours in August. So I do it because I enjoy it, but I don't have much in a way of expectations. At least this year I finally have the soil to a point where it's possible to till without breaking a shovel. Yeah, I've broken 2 shovels in 3 years. Anyway, I have in the ground: peas tomatoes cucumbers zucchini yellow crookneck squash kale mixed lettuces cilantro basil carrots beets pumpkins cantaloupe watermelon bell peppers jalapenos There's still some stuff alive, so I'm counting that as winning. May 29 15 05:02 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: Have you thought about putting garden fabric on the ground and then mulch over it to put the weeds at bay? We did that this year because the weeds I'd pull out of the ground were there and the same size literally three days later. I guess we're lucky in the fact that our house faces east so the back yard gets PLENTY of sunlight throughout the day. May 30 15 05:14 am Link Update! Best garden ever. I'm so stoked. Didn't picture the squash or cucumbers here because they are still flowering. The lemon balm has turned into one giant bush and the mint has expanded to a wall along the side of the house. Cilantro I keep growing from seed and chopping it down. Cannot prevent it from going to coriander.  This is as of a week ago: A million flowers on the tomatillo plants. This is one example. Watching them grow is so neat. They have little chinese lantern looking starts (the husks) and then the fruit develops inside!  Three Early Girls and three romas. About 75 tomatoes just on the Early Girls currently just on these three. More coming... Oh and they are 6 1/2 feet tall:  Another Early Girl and Abe Lincoln tomatoes:  20 jalapenos on this one plant:  I planted three different varieties of potato plants last year and the boyfriend ran over them with the lawn mower. To our surprise they sprang back up this year!  Oregano, thyme, two tomatillos and an Early Girl:  Three varieties of basil, two varieties of rosemary, parsley, Four different kinds of peppers, and yeah I think that's it here:  Onions, green onions, chives, cilantro, marjoram, dill, and sage:  One of the 20 cayenne peppers on one plant beside the banana peppers:  Anyone else want to share? Jun 28 15 03:38 pm Link Toto Photo wrote: Nine tomato plants should be quite manageable. Jun 29 15 06:21 pm Link Orca Bay Images wrote: Yes! Jul 04 15 04:58 pm Link I don't have any current pics of my garden, but I was very late getting my garden in this year so things are behind where they should be. I'm also gardening in an area that I've never gardened in before, well I had a couple of tomato plants there last year, the area has been overrun with flowers and weeds and was full of those decorative rocks. I finally got that all cleaned out this year. For the past 4 or 5 years I'd been sharing a garden with my nephew and his wife, they only lived 6 blocks away from me so it was pretty nice to be able to share a decent sized garden with them. Though it is nice to now have my own garden space right here. It's fairly small but it's big enough for me. I had my first cucumber the other day, and right now there are 4 more that will be ready tomorrow and several that need a few more days. I already had one tomato, but it was small, and another small tomato will be ready in a few days. I've got tomatos cucumbers beets (love beet greens!) potatoes (I'm growing them is large flower pots, something I've never done before and wanted to try) sunflowers (the birds eat them all before I can get to them but that's ok, I just like having them.) I'm trying to grow some really small sunflowers this year, we'll how that goes. Asiatic lilies I had problems with rabbits, they destroyed most of my beets, and the Asiatic lilies, and even took the tops off of some of my sunflowers. Bastards! I didn't want to do it, but I had to put some ugly fencing up to keep those rotten things out. Jul 20 15 08:49 am Link awsome! Its a good year for garedening here in NYC too. My garden is so green and lush. Im purely organic and have worms as big as my leg. Tomatoes are perfect for a change n the dam squirles are leaving them alone for a change. Had several early pickins. Basil leaves as big as my hand. Oregano recovered after a hard cold winter and is now a beautiful green carpet I've cut n dried several times already. Sage leaves are as big as a mules ear. My pepper plants look great but no peppers yet. As for flowers.. amazingly beautiful n abundant. All my perenicals are bigger n better this year. Annuals are taking off like mad too. Jul 20 15 08:57 am Link It sounds like your garden is doing very well! One little tip...generally speaking squirrels will only eat tomatoes in dry years, they eat them for the water/juice simply because they're thirsty. I've never had a problem with that myself but as I understand it, if you put some water out (like birdbaths) that the squirrels can get to, they will leave your tomatoes alone. Most birdbaths are built in a way that makes it difficult for squirrels to get to though, I think I would use something else, something they can easily get to and not very easy to tip over. Jul 20 15 09:12 am Link I just saw today that I finally have a female yellow croockneck squash blossom. I also saw that I have a tiny cucumber that someone took a bite out of. Jul 20 15 01:08 pm Link My mom had a large garden in her backyard in California. Two types of plums, two types of pears, two types of persimmons, clementines, 4 types of apples, avocados, lemons, limes, tomatoes, all kinds of herbs, zucchini, carrots, peppers, etc. Several types of succulents Orchids, turnips, lilacs, roses, etc. I was responsible for watering everything. I was a young teenager. I asked her why our cherry tree hadn't grown any cherries at all. She said birds stole cherries from us. Now I work in food manufacturing field. I've been learning about food a bit better. If I had a time machine, I would go to the time of growing cherries. I would set up a net to protect our cherry tree from birds and install a bird feeder for birds as a division. Similar plan for my dad's koi pond in our backyard. All the kois he cared for disappeared. Strayed cats stole them from our pond.  Jul 20 15 03:25 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: Yay! Our squirrels are dumb so they haven't found the tomatoes still. We're also keeping them occupied with the seed from the bird feeder on a shepherd's hook. The sparrow will dig to find a certain seed so they eat the excess on the ground. Jul 20 15 03:27 pm Link Looks great! Jul 20 15 03:51 pm Link Dean Johnson Photo wrote: now thats interesting. it has been a wet spring n no lack of rain yet this year. Jul 20 15 04:06 pm Link Delia Mak wrote: Yeah we grew up with plum. pear, peach, pecan and apple trees too. Man how awesome is that when you can just go to your tree and pick fruit right? That's why I love this garden. I want cilantro? I want basil? A tomato? Onions whatever and I just walk out a few steps and snip it off. Not to mention it is 100% organic and I know exactly where it came from and how it is grown. It is seriously one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. Jul 20 15 04:40 pm Link Model Sarah wrote: I totally agree. Gardening isn't suited for my current situation. Someday I will have my own home with a football size yard Jul 21 15 10:08 am Link Wow! So much green stuff. There's no water in California. My garden is a potato that grew after I threw it outside and a little dried up tomato plant. Everything is brown and yellow. Jul 21 15 12:25 pm Link Paolo Diavolo wrote: We haven't had to water the garden in two months. That's how much it has rained here. It's kind of unbelievable. Today is the first day it hasn't rained in a long long time. Jul 21 15 12:35 pm Link Delia Mak wrote: Unless your dad's koi pond was very shallow, it was probably a heron or a racoon that grabbed the koi. Sorry to hear about that and also about the cherries. Jul 21 15 12:58 pm Link I need to clear out my back yard of all the weeds that recently grew after the rain. But right now getting my house fixed up has highest priority. The pickling cucumbers I used to see in the grocery store I worked many years ago were only half that size. Jul 21 15 01:05 pm Link I had no idea cucumbers would start out so spiny. Also, proof of squash!  Jul 21 15 01:53 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: Yep. You can probably pick yours in a week believe it or not! Jul 21 15 02:30 pm Link Model Sarah wrote: I believe it! The tiny one I found yesterday was almost pickle-sized today. Jul 21 15 02:33 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: I have no idea why ours got so damn huge but whatever! Jul 21 15 03:19 pm Link I had my first cucumber last week, and just now picked 2 more. Yummy!  Jul 22 15 06:49 am Link Dean Johnson Photo wrote:
Jul 22 15 07:56 am Link Had to get a bigger bowl!  Jul 22 15 08:17 am Link Woot!  Aug 03 15 10:34 am Link Brian Diaz wrote: Yay! Aug 03 15 11:43 am Link Went outside to inspect the tomatoes and came back in with this:  Between my boyfriend and I we've given away like probably 30 and this is the 4th bowlful. Tomatillos are exploding. We probably have 100 of them and they are almost ready. So. Excited. Aug 03 15 11:45 am Link *drooling* I'm so hungry!  Aug 04 15 06:55 am Link Keep those picture coming! So far I've had only two very small tomatoes, and it's going to be while before any more get ripe. I'm craving BLT's but I got a while to wait. Aug 06 15 07:18 am Link Yesterday's harvest:  We gave away around 30 tomatoes to family/friends then I put 16 tomatoes in a freezer bag for sauce later on then I roasted about 10. I still have a huge bowlful left and more outside. Abe Lincoln's are turning red and so are the cherry tomatoes. Romas are finally getting bigger. Cayenne and banana peppers:  Zuchinni and Cucumbers:  I stopped photographing the herbs because they are all huge and doing well. Potatoes and onions I obviously can't photograph because they are underground.  The three varieties of bell peppers are coming along as well. We snipped off the flowers at first to concentrate leaf growth so basically they are finally producing. Zuchinni seems to be taking forever but there are 10-12 flowers on it now.Aug 06 15 07:29 am Link Hey Sarah, it looks like one of your peppers is eating a cucumber! haha Aug 07 15 07:19 am Link Dean Johnson Photo wrote:
Aug 07 15 09:01 am Link My neighbor has a garden. I get vegetables from him.  Aug 07 15 09:04 am Link Nice garden…great variety. The heat down here beats down a lot of plants…but I did plant the following in early Spring. Roma tomatoes Cherry tomatoes Grape tomatoes (yellow & red) Pear tomatoes (yellow & red) Peppers/chili's: jalapeño, cerrano, thai, cayenne, poblano, banana, habanero Zucchini Eggplant 4 types of Rosemary Thyme: Normal & Lemon Basil: Sweet, Lemon, Pineapple, Purple, Thai Oregano Marjoram Sage: Garden(common), Russian, Pineapple, Purple My tomatoes are done…heat got them all. All my pepper plants stopped producing…they'll start back up once it begins to cool down a bit. Aug 11 15 02:44 pm Link |
, so I can create my own garden. I keep dreaming. 
