close to spring here in the states and east coast.. got some things planted already. parsnip.carrots,turnip,kale and spinach. attached are a few pics of last years spring garden, lots of spuds,swiss chard kalarobi, and broccoli. plan on planting some new zealand grey punkins.too. ( father in law smuggled some seeds in on his visit last year) hopefully kiwiinginuity will pipe in with planting tips. do well well with beans in the summer and into the fall getting several bushels. grow lots of cucumbers since the little one loves pickles. freaks me out when i go to the store and see what they charge for things that grow like weeds and i give away by the bag full from my garden.
also a pic is of one of the biggest garden pests i have, he is 90 pounds and will eat anything that is growing. had less trouble out of a groundhog last year!
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Hey, that looks about the size of my garden. I'm in PA so it's a little early here. I usually start everything from heirloom seeds in February. Last year I took the easy route and got my stuff at a nursery. I was actually out there today doing a little prep on garden.
I usually do about 5 or 6 different kinds of tomatoes. I grow enough tomatoes to supply my whole neighborhood...tomatoes are my specialty. I also grow cantaloupe, onions, green/chile,habs peppers, watermelon, pumpkins, yellow and zucchini squash Blackberries, raspberries.
We do a variety of lettuce and herbs in planter boxes also.
I gave up on broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage. The heat and bugs get to it here in PA and I don't like to spray my garden. It's 100% natural.
You should try mushroom mix as fertilizer if you can find it. It's the leftover dirt used to grow shrooms. That stuff is magic for the garden.
been quite a while since i gardened like that .. but yeah agree on the shroom mulch... there is however an even betterer product/s ... if you can get hold of it....
here in Australia .. the tailings/waste material from the sugar cane mills... it is sold now as a prepared product with added this and extra that .. but the raw product is the 'ducks guts' .... its almost like... empty the barrow-full onto the dirt.. turn it over into the dirt a few times... take a step back... toss a seed or seedling into the middle... and RUN!!.. afore you get knocked over!! ;) ;) ;)
now i dunno if you lads in the USA have sugar cane and mills.... not having a go at ya.. i just really dunno... but from a few investigations over the years .. Yankees use a lot of corn syrup yeah?.... reckon theres gotta be some good mulch material from those processors.... distilleries should have some high organic/sugar ratio material laying about... anything like that which is a waste material from a high sugar content plant donor......
originally i saw a semi trailer load of sugar cane tailings dumped on a small property/paddock up near Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia. (which is on its way to florida weather) the bloke then just drove his old farm runabout landrover more or less through the pile in several places .. kinda went mudboggin if you get the idea... mixed the dirt and mulch up a bit with the tyres scrabbling etc .. (he was too lazy to go borrow a tractor) .. and then he put in seedlings... punkins, watermelons, squash, zucchini and other vegie type stuff... was about... 30yard square of 'garden bed'? ... i was back past there 11 weeks later .. looked like day of the triffids!!... plants were running riot in the mulch! .. mostly loaded with heavy crop too...
come to think of it... first time i saw a watermelon headed wallaby crash into a fence also!!...
little wallabies like this guy (http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about/Animals+of+Queensland/Mammals/Common+mammals+of+south-east+Queensland/Marsupials/~/media/Images/Find%20out%20about/Animals/Mammals/Common%20mammals%20of%20south%20east%20Queensland/Marsupials/macropus-agilis.jpg?w=375&h=245&as=1)
would come across and start nibbling into a big watermelon... make a nice neat hole through the skin .. and then munch out the insides as much as they could rotate their heads to get at ... Mrs Bloke wouldn't let him shoot them just for eating melons that they had a oversupply of .. but he was allowed to scare them off a bit... which he did .. with a shotgun blast over their heads.... one wallaby was working on a smaller melon... stood up real fast to get away .. but his ears held the melon skin on his head still.... however muscles are saying go Go GO!!! .. so he went.. about 40 yards in a wobbly line... hit a fencepost with his melon hat which busted it... then kept on going... :D .. took me a while to stop laughing!.
but yeah .. 'raw' tailings from a food/sugar type processor factory thingy ... good gear!
thats a healthy looking boxer dog there too!!... must be his balanced diet with nutritous vegies eh!! :D
hmm might be worth tryin.
speaking of grey punkins
http://rareseeds.com/jarrahdale-pumpkin.html
mmmm yum.. the Jarrah's are a good one!... long as you let them dry on a nice tin roof or warm sheltered wire rack kinda thing... extra nice for baked vegies and roast anything! ... :thumb:
just bring your arm muscles and a good sharp knife... they strong buggers to cut!
Janx, good soil is key. I'll let you in in an ultra top secret formula for garden dirt. Here on the east coast of the US we have a bay in Maryland that has that has the best crab you will ever eat. Maryland Blue Crabs. It is known that they can only be steamed proper here with Old Bay seasoning. A true Maryland creation that cannot be matched. There are packing plants the pick the meat from said crabs for sale in the area. The leftover shell, fat, and trash from the "picking" process is gold for garden. It's called crab mulch.
Quote from: Janx101 on March 17, 2013, 08:49:28 PM
mmmm yum.. the Jarrah's are a good one!... long as you let them dry on a nice tin roof or warm sheltered wire rack kinda thing... extra nice for baked vegies and roast anything! ... :thumb:
just bring your arm muscles and a good sharp knife... they strong buggers to cut!
price seems good. i think lol. have a decent sized garden patcha vailable to use. from 10'x10' to 2 acres lol. may try something small this year and see what happens. the soil is perfect
Quote from: pliskin on March 17, 2013, 09:02:49 PM
Janx, good soil is key. I'll let you in in an ultra top secret formula for garden dirt. Here on the east coast of the US we have a bay in Maryland that has that has the best crab you will ever eat. Maryland Blue Crabs. It is known that they can only be steamed proper here with Old Bay seasoning. A true Maryland creation that cannot be matched. There are packing plants the pick the meat from said crabs for sale in the area. The leftover shell, fat, and trash from the "picking" process is gold for garden. It's called crab mulch.
oh hell yeah!! .. that'd be awesome too!!.. any hi intensity organic input like that would be awesome... prawns/shrimp heads and shells (if you aint making bouillabaisse 1st though... cos that takes priority in my tummy!) .. well rinsed seaweed/sea grass ... errr :icon_rolleyes: .. my uncle used to have a problem with genuine feral cats around his farm.... every new young citrus tree he planted had a fresh feral at the bottom of the planting hole... best citrus trees and fruit in the area!! ... lots of trees and not so many feral these days though :icon_rolleyes:
i have been told though... use crab mulch or any crustacean mulch ... you dig that stuff in deep!!! .. can get a little piquant to the nose on a hot summers day if you dont :D
Awesome garden!! I'll be following your progress for sure. The gf convinced me to put a smaller garden in my front yard this year. The house's previous owner put in wild roses and other flowers that got out of control and are an eye sore imo.
One strip is 18'x5' and another funky shaped spot is ~20'x6'. I'll be going in this week and cleaning up the existing plants and crappy red mulch. We've already had the soil tested at a local college, and everything checks out. Plan is to have the areas cleaned by the end of this week. Then the little fertilizer needed put down to sit for ~40 days before anything is planted.
We'll be planting mostly veggies to help save on grocery costs. Lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, broccoli, beans, pepper, and some others.
This is our first time attempting a garden. I'm stoked to see if i still have the green thumb my Papa passed down years ago!
I'll post some photos of the progress
All y'all are showing me up.
I buy my food from Kroger. When the zombie apocalypse comes, I'll be at your house :thumb:
:bowdown:
sweet garden
hope to see some pics of everyone elses garden spots also. i have been using chicken poop the last few years as a fertilizer. put it in in the fall and till it under in early spring. cold and rainy here today,maybe some snow tonite. no biggie all the stuff i have planted so far will be ok. heck i saw the radishes and lettuce starting to come up already.
hey janx, the punkin i am going to grow is i think called a crown punkin, looks a littled different than the jarrad.
will post a pic of the seed packet when i get a chance.
and here is a pic of the seed packet.
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lol whangaparaoa sounds like the sound my goped makes when i take off.
:icon_lol: :thumb: ... is this guy ripping your ride vids Yama?? ;)
and yeah oldmech .. the crown punkins are good gear!!... my preference for soup and in a vegie/pasta bake .. slightly looser flesh to them mostly.. the easy cut thin skin is a bonus!
got the frog track as well as yakety sax set up to run with tomorrows ride
hey steezin looks like you are right down the road from me in radford. good freind lives in riner and usines a small nursery for plants. i see if i can get their name for ya. if not any local northwest hardware chain has plants allot cheaper than any of the big home improvement stores. i just got 20 brocilli plants there for about 9 bucks.
and for those of you that like do not use checmicals in your garden like pliskin. check out this old boys recipie for homemade bug spray. it works!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atlZegRslNg
'Preciate the heads up oldmech!! Plan was to start everything from seeds, but we're dragged our feet a bit much. Might definitely hit up a nursery to get some of the things that need to be in dirt soon. Homemade bug spray sounds great! Will definitely have to mix up something
DAY 1
So we dove in and started clean up. There were originally 5 or 6 rose bushes in the flower bed. I've always thought they were an eye sore and a PIA to mow/weedeat around(no photos, but you can barely see some of them in the right side of this photo (http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll129/steezin_and_wheezin/IMG_2711.jpg)) So i hit them with my branch trimmers, took them down to the root clump. Then proceeded to dig up the root clumps.
From the beginning i had thought there was only the crappy red mulch over the root/moisture barrier. I was WAY wrong haha. it had nearly 4" of that flint looking white rock. So after working into the night we got all the rock, mulch, and old rotting moisture barrier out of the garden.
Blurry photos from the crappy cell phone;
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like a kid again, having fun playing in the dirt
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pile of rose bushes on left and on right a view of garden #2 that's in need of some major attention as well
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i need a wheel barrel! haha used the old tarp to make a pile on the back porch until i can get our trailer back(currently hauling our shred gear back from the WV mountains)
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cleaned and ready for the tiller! I guess spring is still fighting to show her face, we got a light snow over the night
Seeds will finally be in on monday. The gf ordered online and we've been waiting nearly 2 weeks for them. Should have the tiller next week also, then; fill dirt, fertilizer, and tilling on the garden. Also we're going setup an incubator station in the shed to start the seeds. I'm really talking out my butt at this point haha, Jessica(my gf) has the plan in her head. She has already threw a garden plan together and it looks like we won't have much work on the garden #2 until we run out of room on the #1.
Til next time! Can't wait to see y'alls setup this season!
Quote from: Janx101 on March 17, 2013, 07:53:58 PM
now i dunno if you lads in the USA have sugar cane and mills.... not having a go at ya.. i just really dunno... but from a few investigations over the years .. Yankees use a lot of corn syrup yeah?.... reckon theres gotta be some good mulch material from those processors.... distilleries should have some high organic/sugar ratio material laying about... anything like that which is a waste material from a high sugar content plant donor......
but yeah .. 'raw' tailings from a food/sugar type processor factory thingy ... good gear!
That stuff doesn't go to waste here, and is destined for a much more expensive market actually... it is put in with TMR (Total Mixed Ration) formulations for cattle as as a partial corn replacer... since corn prices have gone up with the demand, such as that resulting from Biofuels... I have worked with it for some time now, and I can tell you that if its not dry enough, it will quickly mold... and if its too dry, it can easily start a fire in the shredding/grinding process. Hard to work with in general as a feed ingredient, which is why it hasn't taken off yet, but it has enough potential its getting used.
- Bboy
dang steezin looks like ya are havn wayyy too much fun :D
just dont forget to call miss utility before you go churning up the yard with the tiller..its free :thumb:
Half the garden is planted. This is from a couple weeks ago...
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nice john!
man, you're on top of it oldmech! I dont plan on going too deep, but better safe than sorry. put in the call and scheduled locations flags for everything on the front side. going to make a quick plan of any lines going through garden #2 for future reference. keep the suggestions coming!! i'm a noob here for sure
Quote from: john on March 22, 2013, 01:21:42 PM
Half the garden is planted. This is from a couple weeks ago...
tomatoes and onions?
hey steezin, this book is a good reference.
http://www.amazon.com/Carrots-Love-Tomatoes-Companion-Successful/dp/1580170277
Quote from: oldmech on March 22, 2013, 01:51:44 PM
Quote from: john on March 22, 2013, 01:21:42 PM
Half the garden is planted. This is from a couple weeks ago...
tomatoes and onions?
hey steezin, this book is a good reference.
http://www.amazon.com/Carrots-Love-Tomatoes-Companion-Successful/dp/1580170277
Onions, tomatoes, eggplant, varieties of hot peppers, peas, sunflowers, squash, and assorted herbs, corn (it is 70 feet long)
Tomorrow: carrots, turnips, tomatillos, more herbs, more onions, artichoke.
I love gardening. I am tempted to ditch the lawn and just make it a garden. I bet I could grow enough corn and root vegetables to feed myself for a year.
gotta love AZ yards. usually only need a rake to take care of it. reminds me of my great uncles home in peoria. for shits and giggles ( and april fools day one year) bought him a lawnmower
i was wanting to get these planted soon.
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but "this" is not gardening weather. stupid groundhog punksey phil doesnt know his as from a hole in the ground..oh wait i guess he does :D
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things are looking up since my last post of pictures. spring has sprung and the garden is growing,. hows everyone elses.
so far we have...
raspberries are growing
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raised bed has lettuce, radishes, and spinach
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garlic planted the week of xmas is doing well
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one of the 5 cuke beds is coming along.
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the first potato broke ground today
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and my garden pest, jackson, is on the prowl. :D
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got a good laugh out of the girl at the garden center today. was on the gs and no place to really put the 4 pack of squash plant i bought. unzipped my jacket,stuffed them in and rode home.
Well your raspberries look just about like mine. Same with the blackberries. That's about it for me so far. I plan to till it this weekend and put some onions in. I'll wait a little while for the tomato, peppers, and melons. Weather forecast shows some near freezing temps in the next few days. Hope you have a good garden year. It's very satisfying to grow and eat your own food. It tastes so much better than that GMO irradiated stuff you get at the store.
If you want to have fun at a mediocre garden center. go in and ask the person @ counter for cannabis sativa ( youd be surprised how many people would go look for it ( or get quite pissed when they googled it)
Looking good oldmech!! We are realizing how much we are dragging our feet haha. Its out first year/try so I'm not putting any pressure on me, but Jess(my gf) is working pretty hard on it.
I'll get with her and type up some better info on what we have, but for now you'll just get photos and my weak explanation!
Got the bed tilled, and more small rocks removed. Plants are doing well, Jess has transplanted a couple to bigger containers. We also pulled up the, as Jess calls the, head stone looking border/divider. We are looking into doing some sort of small border/edging out of some sort of wood. This style (http://images1.hellotrade.com/data2/IY/YS/HELLOTD-1810972/diy-250x250.jpg) is what i'm picturing, but will do photochops to see if i like it first.
Before we reworked out light station
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New light layout
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Jess havin fun in the sun
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Rain Barrel installation
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Cleaning on the side garden, didn't get a photo of it before i pulled some weeds and the chicken wire. Looks 10x better now IMO;
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aand
not sure what it is, but looks cool!;
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That's all for now, sorry for the lack of info and overload of photos!!
looking good dude! you are not behind on your garden, i just always start mine way early. most times it works out. good idea on the wood border, just dont use pressure treated lumber for it. all the yuckies in it will leech into your soil and plants.
the cool looking plants in the last picture i have seen before, but for the life of me i cannot remeber thier name. all my taters are up now and looking good. will post a picture or two when the downpours stop!
rain slowed down enogh for this shot of the spuds from the back porch. glad this isnt snow!
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hey steezin, emailed good old mom and she says your neat plant neither one of knew what they where are called hens and chicks.
keep up the good work!
Lets keep this thread going. I have almost all my stuff planted. I got my hands on some ghost pepper plants this year. Can't wait to light myself on FIRE! I usually have pretty good luck with peppers and tomatoes. These are from last year. A cantaloupe and some habanero's. I'll gets some pic of this years garden up soon.
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These suckers make me sweat just looking at them. If the ghost peppers come in they will take it to another level.
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That's a pretty decent crop of habs. They're a real kick in the mouth, but they're delicious enough to make it worth the burn. :cheers:
damn fresh habs. miss those. and ghost chilis. cant find them. although 2 shots of pepper spray works in place of the ghost chilis... in chili.
most of my peppers do best growing in the late summer and fall? strange.
here is an update on my garden.
broccoli is starting to produce, should cut some in the next week.
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zukes and parsnips are coming along.
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planted a bunch of ( hope i spell this right) kalorobi.
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the potatoes have gone wild, should harvest them as new spuds in 3-4 weeks or so.
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and finnally some sweet potatoes and 10 pounds yukon gold seed followed me home so i just had to till up a new area for them. fencing was a trash day find believe it or not. will leave these guys in till fall and see what size monsters i dig up.
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sorry for all the pics, buy what the heck everyone love pics.
We want more photos oldmech!! Its looking really great around your place! trash find fencing looks awesome. Would like to grow on the scale you are, but feel i'd be overwhelmed with all the green popping up over there!
I was embarrassed to post more photos of our setup, but we are finally seeing some growth!
Started taking photos to try and make a timeline vid, but struggled to get the cam in the same spot each time. Then I missed a few days so i'd given up. Here' s a couple photos though;
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All three of the tomatoes in the ground or showing flowers!
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Also we have, i think, 5 more mater plants in portable garden bags/sacks, 3 of which have flower showing. Our broccoli in the garden was eaten by the bastard ground hog :2guns: Wish i could catch that beast, but he's smarter than the last family we Dale Gribble'd up and relocated. Fortunately we have 2 more broccoli in containers on the back porch. Peppers are finally starting to grow a bit more, beans as well. I'll snap a couple photos of those, but we have a while before they look like they're ready to produce. Enjoying ever minute I get out there. A few of our other friends have big ass gardens so we are learning lots from everyone! Can't wait to see some of the fruits.. ehhem veggies of our labor haha
sorry for taking so long getting back to ya steezn..have been cutting down on my internet time. spending more time with family plus work has been crazy busy.. here is a few pics of today's haul and of a weird triplet cucumber i found out in the garden. hope the rain here lately has not washed you out. will try to get some pics of the actual garden up when i can.
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Seriously want to get my hands on ghost chilis. anyone know where?
I have habanero growing and it's killer insane hot. Out here peppers grow good, but the high temps and drought make the peppers grow hot. Even the jalapenos get so hot I can't really take much.
My onions are great, and the carrots, beets and turnips are still growing. Successful garden so far.
Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on April 18, 2013, 09:18:27 PM
If you want to have fun at a mediocre garden center. go in and ask the person @ counter for cannabis sativa ( youd be surprised how many people would go look for it ( or get quite pissed when they googled it)
Might be legal to grow your own in WA. State is figuring out the regulations now that the voters legalized it in our state (feds are a little upset about that.)
Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on July 05, 2013, 01:26:31 PM
Seriously want to get my hands on ghost chilis. anyone know where?
http://seedrack.com/08.html?gclid=CP720vr3mbgCFWFlpgod91AACg
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Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on July 05, 2013, 01:26:31 PM
Seriously want to get my hands on ghost chilis. anyone know where?
.....why?! Nothing good comes out of ghost chilis. They don't even taste good. They just ruin your day, and a fair part of the next day too if your bowels move slowly.
Well, I gots me some GHOST's (Bhut Jolokia) just about ready. In a few more days they should be just right. My habs might be another week or so. I have some pretty hot jalapeno's coming in right now. My 7 year old had balls enough to eat 3 of them. The first two he and I ate where not that bad. The third....well my son went ape shlit. He had snot coming out his nose. He drank about a half gallon of milk and ran around the house for 15min with panic on his face. Milk and snot coming out his nose, mouth and ears all over the house. I owe him $2 for doing it :icon_lol: He thinks he is a real man now :thumb:. I also bet him I would eat a ghost when the are ready. I'm not looking forward to it. Anybody got a home remedy for me to get rid of the heat?
I'm going to save some seeds from them so maybe I can get some out to some of you guys if you want them. If I get enough I can try to send some whole died peppers out.
To get rid of the heat, don't drink milk. Swirl it around and spit it out. Overloading on dairy will cause more problems.
If you end up with some extra habs, I could take some off your hands. :thumb:
Quote from: john on July 05, 2013, 03:16:10 PM
I have habanero growing and it's killer insane hot. Out here peppers grow good, but the high temps and drought make the peppers grow hot. Even the jalapenos get so hot I can't really take much.
My onions are great, and the carrots, beets and turnips are still growing. Successful garden so far.
i lived on bell rd for a year. then on deer valley. agreed. i grew them in pots on my balcony. sadly they didnt make the migration home.
Awesome oldmech!! That's really cool you are shutting down the comp and spending time with the fam. Corn looks good, would love to grow some, but jess doesn't like it much, so i'll have to fight for the room haha
I've been busy lately as well, but the garden is growin' like crazy. Starting to produce too! A few tasty cucumbers, and just got our first bowl of green beans last night. Tomato's are starting to get ripe, just barely turning red so far. Peppers have small flowers, and the few cantaloups a friend gave us are starting to root it well.
Our broccoli isn't doing too hot, and our portable container tomato plants aren't doing too well either. Jess said they probably weren't the best type to be planted in containers.. I feel all the stuff we have in portable planters would be doing so much better if they were in the ground. Next year I think we'll till up the back yard and do a bigger garden. The front strip was a great starter/first garden for us. Showed that it really takes a lot of time, love, and dedication to keep it looking good. It really brings back great memories of helping my mom's dad in his garden.
I'll have to get some new photos, but here's a few i had uploaded a while back;
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll129/steezin_and_wheezin/IMG_5047_zps4fe0d65d.jpg)
The first cuke we picked! Sliced and munched most of it, but made a couple cucumber sammies too
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll129/steezin_and_wheezin/IMG_5050_zpsce574082.jpg)
Cukes at the top, beans on right, and small clip of maters on the left
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll129/steezin_and_wheezin/IMG_5051_zps0b4ac295.jpg)
Baby beans
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll129/steezin_and_wheezin/IMG_5055_zpscd6756b8.jpg)
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll129/steezin_and_wheezin/IMG_5059_zpscd3373b3.jpg)
Jess told me not to post this one she said she looked 'goofy' but i'm doing it anyways!! haha
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll129/steezin_and_wheezin/IMG_5065_zps1e0a25c8.jpg)
garden looks great steezn.. better than dang shrubs you gotta trim.
as promised here is a few pics of the garden.
heres some of the rasberrys, did well with all the rain.
(http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w438/troutmaster65/IMGP7287.jpg) (http://s1075.photobucket.com/user/troutmaster65/media/IMGP7287.jpg.html)
the parsnip and pole bean jungle.
(http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w438/troutmaster65/IMGP7288.jpg) (http://s1075.photobucket.com/user/troutmaster65/media/IMGP7288.jpg.html)
one of the cuke beds, might want to give your cukes something to climb.saves space.
(http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w438/troutmaster65/IMGP7290.jpg) (http://s1075.photobucket.com/user/troutmaster65/media/IMGP7290.jpg.html)
some of the freaky oriental beans i planted with the pole beans..these buggers get 2 feet long.got the seeds from my boss. great in stir fries.
(http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w438/troutmaster65/IMGP7291.jpg) (http://s1075.photobucket.com/user/troutmaster65/media/IMGP7291.jpg.html)
and finally a pic of my biggest garden pest. jackson my pup. he is looking at me either wanting a drink from the rain barrel or for me to get him a raspberry. either way he keeps the squirrels and rabbits under control and out of the garden.
(http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w438/troutmaster65/IMGP7294.jpg) (http://s1075.photobucket.com/user/troutmaster65/media/IMGP7294.jpg.html)
dont forget fall is coming and it is a great time to grow lots of great greens. i get allot of collards, mustard and spinach thru november. heck i took my elderly neighbor a basket of mixed greens last january.
Quote from: RossLH on July 05, 2013, 08:41:33 PM
Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on July 05, 2013, 01:26:31 PM
Seriously want to get my hands on ghost chilis. anyone know where?
.....why?! Nothing good comes out of ghost chilis. They don't even taste good. They just ruin your day, and a fair part of the next day too if your bowels move slowly.
Works great in chili. course so does mace or capsium extract. but goin natural i prefer if im going to nuke my chili gives a whole new meaning to southern term "shaZam! fire"
Quote from: Janx101 on July 05, 2013, 08:35:32 PM
Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on July 05, 2013, 01:26:31 PM
Seriously want to get my hands on ghost chilis. anyone know where?
http://seedrack.com/08.html?gclid=CP720vr3mbgCFWFlpgod91AACg
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ghost chilis been eclipsed nearly by a factor of 2 to 1. this stuff is on the ghost chili level
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Irazu-Pure-Lava-Pepper-Extract-Hot-Sauce-/290947770353?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43bdd6a7f1#ht_235wt_1141