2015 Gardens

taldesta said:
I'm thinking a BF GAW 'pick your own' this fall! :D

Now these pics give meaning to harvest, hungry and feast. I am sure you have lots of family and friends to relieve you of the excess bounty, but if not ...

Do you have a small cultivator to weed between rows? I see you have the equipment to keep the surrounding grass from seeding into the garden but we can't always stop the neighbours' dandelion crop from parachuting in.

Cate and 22-rimfire are right on. Wow.

My fun pic of the week features Daisy, master of concealment: 'Be the rhubarb'

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What an adorable picture of your dog!
 
I doubt the pups do a whole lot of damage to the garden. But I guess, they might just like to find a pile of manure and do a little rolling. Of course, they think it makes them smell good. :D

Very cute pup.

Added: My flower beds used to be nearly year around with pansies during the fall and early spring. They peter out around June 1 in my area due to the heat. I stopped doing the pansies because of cost (about $150 for a bed planting) and they block me from doing any kind of soil amendments in the large beds. I hate to just yank things out that are still growing well, but here you really need to have things planted by early May or June 1st at the latest and the pansies were always looking really good at about the time I needed to till or work the flower bed soils. Basically, I do the same thing in my one large bed I do in the garden and scrap back all the bark chips (mulch) and till it up with a roto tiller. I then blend in the mushroom compost into that soil.

I do the pansies in containers now and I can move them into the shade to preserve them a bit longer. Up north, they last a lot longer.

Drainage is not the greatest and I am working on that issue. The truck load of top soil by itself really didn't promote drainage. Most of the bed is raised, but the native soils hold a lot of moisture and reduce drainage. Plus this bed is near where we use the water hose a lot and you get some really wet portions that seem to stay wet with areas that get really dry that you think should be wet enough. I have about half of the large bed in perennials with a few annual flowers for accents. Looks good pretty from May 1 though October or the first frosts.

I used to have a varied amount of annuals in this bed, but have gone to growing Lantana in the annual portion of the bed simply because they bloom pretty much from the day you plant them until frost (from pots). The butterflies like them as do the hummingbirds. There negatives are they produce an abundance of seeds that sprout in the late spring or about now and pretty much revert back to their wild form which are big and have smaller flowers. Also they are technically a poisonous plant, but I haven't seen any pets mess with them. I am certainly not going to eat them.
 
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22-rimfire said:
I doubt the pups do a whole lot of damage to the garden. But I guess, they might just like to find a pile of manure and do a little rolling. Of course, they think it makes them smell good. :D
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I have video ... but dialup has its constraints! Cute indeed:rolleyes:

Yes, the cost of annuals made me move to giving my living room over to seedlings since about January this year. Lots of good luck with pansies that are just starting to bloom now and should last until frost. Honestly, one pansy plant overwintered in the entry garden since last year and this is shocking in this climate.

This property is pretty much sand, super drainage, but topsoil and enrichment is needed for any area to grow other that the tough grass and native plants.

May 1 to frost ... nice to have the perennials isn't it? Dependable, generally low care and always lending visually to the existing landscape.

Off to google Lantana. Happy gardening all.
 
taldesta said:
vanslem6 ... I'm thinking a BF GAW 'pick your own' this fall! :D

Now these pics give meaning to harvest, hungry and feast. I am sure you have lots of family and friends to relieve you of the excess bounty, but if not ...

Do you have a small cultivator to weed between rows? I see you have the equipment to keep the surrounding grass from seeding into the garden but we can't always stop the neighbours' dandelion crop from parachuting in.

Cate and 22-rimfire are right on. Wow.

My fun pic of the week features Daisy, master of concealment: 'Be the rhubarb'

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Great picture of your sweet dog, Daisy, and the garden!

Thank you.

Cate
 
Omg, my landlord thinks my garden is ruining our porch cuz the water...cuz you know, an outdoor porch shouldn't get wet...even the dude who fixes stuff was trying to explain "but there's been a gutter missing for three years in that corner". If he makes me take it down I'm freaking moving!
 
:eek: Is it the weight or was he specific? Most containers don't wet the surroundings if they are set in a basin and often even if they are not. And what part does the missing gutter play in the objection?

Hoping all goes well for you in this exchange. I get how troubling this must be.

Susan
 
taldesta said:
:eek: Is it the weight or was he specific? Most containers don't wet the surroundings if they are set in a basin and often even if they are not. And what part does the missing gutter play in the objection?

Hoping all goes well for you in this exchange. I get how troubling this must be.

Susan
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The missing gutter basically results in an entire 8x8 foot area(which is now discolored and somewhat corroded) having a waterfall and mini river on my porch any time it rains. I guess the weight may be an issue but this porch was leaning at an angle when we got there. He hired crackheads to fix things and they do some of the lowest quality work I've ever seen to the point where I pretty much have to fix things if I want it done right. They'd be smoking weed on the job openly as well. For example, they didn't even sweep the porch before painting it so you can see lumps everywhere and it has gotten all chipped and worn off, exposing bare wood in many little spots on every inch of every plank. Now there is an older polish dude who is doing the work, he is better and a hilarious character to boot! There is only one spot where something pushed through the wood because of one of my containers, but its because the wood there was rotten in the first place. That container was given to me by the people next door(same building) when they moved and they had it for years. I'll try to post some pics later.
 
Can't find a picture of my whole set up this year. I have a single 4x10' raised bed.

Got 4 diff tomatoes - 2 eggplant - 2 orange bell pepper - 6 corn stalks - 3 summer squash - arugula and spring mix. Plus various Herbs.



Figs trees are totally loaded!



I plan on filling the whole 4x10 bed with root veggies later this season.
 
ISKski said:
Can't find a picture of my whole set up this year. I have a single 4x10' raised bed.

Got 4 diff tomatoes - 2 eggplant - 2 orange bell pepper - 6 corn stalks - 3 summer squash - arugula and spring mix. Plus various Herbs.



Figs trees are totally loaded!



I plan on filling the whole 4x10 bed with root veggies later this season.
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Looks fantastic! Those tomatoes look great, and everyone i know with a fig tree complains
they are not productive enough, not the case for yours. Thanks for posting!
 
OK .... you Southern growers have me in awe! :) Absolutely relishing the pics posted. Thanks ,,, and grow on !
 
I bought a hybrid plant this year one that grows well in my area last year I only got 3 tomatoes and the plant got some kind of grey fungus. Hoping for some better results this year everything needs more sun.
 
I was waiting for my first tomato to ripen about two weeks ago..... checked it every day..... I say, tomorrow it THE day..... came out to pick said tomato and a possum or something ate the damn thing.... story of my life. :D
 
So something else was waiting and watching for harvest time, not just you! Sorry. Nature gives ... but nature really likes to beat you to it :(
 
22-rimfire said:
I was waiting for my first tomato to ripen about two weeks ago..... checked it every day..... I say, tomorrow it THE day..... came out to pick said tomato and a possum or something ate the damn thing.... story of my life. :D
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Awe man! Sorry to hear that. Well hopefully karma will bring you a great harvest for your initial sacrifice to nature lol. I'm hoping this doesn't happen with the blueberries and blackberries I've had growing for almost a month with NO progress in ripening. When I put bird nets on them the berries poked right through so I just took the nets down.

Things are progressing well over here. My cucumbers and clematis in particular have covered my trellises and I'm happy as a clam.
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BCS,

Looking good!

What is your outdoor humidity where you live? How high and low have your temps been during the day and night close to Lake Erie? You live in the Cleveland area, right?

Are you watering your potted plants every day or every two days?

Keep up the good work!

Cate
 
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