How many (here) plant a garden?

Up here in Wisco I've got beans, potatoes, peas, carrots, beets. onions, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, strawberries, blackberries, and more! Keeps us stocked with veggies for the summer months, but sure is a lot of work! I find its always easier to work on a garden when you plant things you enjoy to eat! Also makes it much more rewarding
 
Man I love looking back and seeing the progression my garden is making. It's now in boom mode. not quite full swing but it's putting out some great stuff. Here we go with my broccoli. this is a 8 inch bladed chef knife so try to picture the size of this head lol. wow!




Potatoes are easily at 3 foot plus now. I'm going to lay a bunch of straw soon to see if I can get some others to form up. next year I'm going to build a super big potato box but for this year I'll let the plants focus on just making one large group of potatoes lol.




cabbage are getting monstrous however the worms are trying to get at them so we had to hit it with some organic bug spray tonight. doesn't kill them right away but it stops them from eating right away. this is going to make some awesome kraut no question about it!




some tomato's were just laying but their cages showed up today so I fixed that. I'm stoked. average size is 3 foot plus already and they all have little tomato's growing. some have some rather large green ones already.




peppers are doing very well. I put a few of these in the bbq chicken marinade tonight and can't wait till tomorrow. they are marked spicy lol but will be amazing once grilled up!!!




I have been eating and giving away garlic scapes for a week or so now. they make everything delicious. I absolutely love them and they impart such a great flavor. so good!!




apples are starting to grow some. good sized and not to much longer. Honey crisp apples are expensive so I'm stoked mine are coming out right!!






and the fresh veggies for the BBQ chicken. not traditional by any means but it's my own creation and delicious




and in the home made BBQ sauce for the over night marinade. it will soak up that great flavor all night!! yes 2 are super spicy for me and a buddy. the other is for his wife and mine lol

 
That looks like a great harvest so far, GS! I'm jealous, my little raised beds are struggling with all the rain we had. I am cutting some leaf lettuce and herbs, but that's it right now...
 
Most of my garden isn't doing very well (too much shade) but I do have tomatoes planted in a sunny location and they're doing very well. Picked my first cherry tomatoes yesterday - they were fantastic.
 
Just noticed my naranja's (Oranges) have several fruit. Can't wait until this fall..
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My potatoes need hilled too but it's been raining a bit to much lol. I'm hoping as big as they plants are that the one batch I get will be huge :)

went to the garden tonight and dug up some super fresh garlic. I mean there is almost no better smell in the world. used it in a batch of the cuban pork. it was more like juicing garlic than crushing it lol

Pics or gtfo right :)

talk about fresh







so beautiful!!!






and what a great picture of deliciousness :)

 
Ever since moving to my apartment I have not planted a garden.

now I keep mostly succulents and random maples.

gardening is a hobby I enjoy very much.
 
With spring and summer getting colding and wetter in recent years I have given up on things like tomatos and instead grow root vegetables and it is fine for livestock. But for some reason we don't get the warm west winds during spring and summer and instead are increasingly getting steady easterlies that bring cool damp conditions and late frosts. Climate change, I guess, warmer short winters, but cooler summers, and very long cool springs that slow the growing season conciderably.
 
I just harvested these this morning! But......I had to throw 3 others into the woods that had gotten partially eaten:(
I have gotten a pretty good return on my tomatoes this year, the peppers not so much. The herbs are all doing great though! image.jpg
 
I have been harvesting tons and tons of sweet basil and parsley. lots of pesto sauces lol. everything else is progressing awesome. I'm really happy with my new compost tea fertilizer. it's working very well minus the plants close to my birch tree. I think it's just simply sucking up all the nutrients. not a big deal as it's only effecting about 5 pepper plants. Maybe I just need to fertilize them a bit more. who knows. and on to some progression pics.


My apples are doing awesome however my tree had a serious failure and the main branch with most apples broke off. very sad for me lol. I'm going to paint the scarred part black to keep the bugs out. However the Japanese beetles are on it right now so I need to get a soap wash or something on them soon. Still a few good ones left though so I'm happy about that



cabbages are monstrous lol. I can't wait. probably only another week or so and then it's on to the homemade sauerkraut! I can't wait as I am officially out from last year. however the cabbage worms are on them and need to be sprayed soon.





I started these butternut squash a bit late. hopefully the produce as I would love me some squash blossoms filled with goat cheese and fried



garlic probably has a week or so left for it gets yanked. area will be tilled in and probably throw a good amount of beans in there



Potatoes are freaking bonkers lol. I haven't hilled them still but they are booming



same with my tomato's. I really need to get rid of some suckers but they are just plain out of control. covered in tomato's but absolutely no reds yet unfortunately. hopefully the warmer nights will get them there soon. the red cages are 5 foot tall lol


and on to the other side looking the other way. the path in between were easily 3-4 foot wide for the tiller to fit through. not so much anymore lol

habanero's are getting big and got a good amount of peppers forming up now. I'm stoked as they didn't do well last year with the drought at all




Other peppers are getting big. I'm ready as store bought peppers are stupid expensive. I ran out of my frozen ones a few months ago.



cherry peppers


mucho nacho peppers

 
Just two Carolina Reaper plants.

I can eat habaneros like popcorn,
But the HP22B is flat nasty. I've been trying to bribe people to eat a whole one, and if they didn't throw up in 15 minutes they got the $100 bill on the table. No takers. An average habanero is about 150k on the scoville scale. The reapers average 1.5 million. My plants are about 5' high and 4' in diameter.
 
I can only assume that after years of eating them dang hot peppers you folks don't have any tastebuds left.:rolleyes:
That or you're all just plain ol' crazy.:p

Wait...you're crazy anyway for eating 'em in the first place.;)

I'd rather have a hot needle poked in my eye than eat some of them things.:eek:

Dang!:barf:

Crazy man,crazy.:D


BTW...Great garden ya got there Grunt.:) :thumbup:
 
So far the garden is doing well. Sadly we had a problem with a woodchuck sneaking under the fence. we trenched the fence and have yet to come back, but the did a number on the bush beans, lima beans, peas and zucchini.... I hope we at least get a small harvest of each. fingers crossed
  • Habenero peppers
  • Thai dragon peppers
  • cayanne peppers
  • hungarian wax peppers
  • dove peppers
  • bell peppers
  • beefmaster tomatoes
  • ultra sonic tomatoes
  • cherry tomatoes
  • roma tomatoes
  • beef steak tomatoes
  • bush beans
  • pole beans
  • lima beans
  • zucchini
  • pickling cucumbers
  • big cucumbers
  • snap peas
  • Eggplant
  • Basil
 
mykel m said:
I can only assume that after years of eating them dang hot peppers you folks don't have any tastebuds left.:rolleyes:
That or you're all just plain ol' crazy.:p

Wait...you're crazy anyway for eating 'em in the first place.;)

I'd rather have a hot needle poked in my eye than eat some of them things.:eek:

Dang!:barf:

Crazy man,crazy.:D


BTW...Great garden ya got there Grunt.:) :thumbup:
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Thank you sir! I came home tonight after the massive storms and much of it is blown over. completely uprooted my yellow pear cheery tomato's. Hopefully I got them back in the ground quick enough. My garlic is all blown over but that isn't a huge deal as they were basically done anyhow.

And Mykel I'm a firm believer in the hotter the better lol. I put the ghost pepper in my chili and it's amazing. I am however not messing with the reaper. that is one hybrid I'm good on lol. the ghost pepper was dumb enough there was no reason to ever go hotter imo :)
 
sorry to have neglected this thread, but i did manage to catch a few pictures today

there not store bought for sure :p

got some peepers coming in, least i think they want to be peppers,

you'd be surprised what you can pull out the ground in KY
 
Nice Ky! nothing like fresh potatoes. My wife and a friend always make potato soup and they will swear up and down the fresh potatoes make all the difference in the world.

Ps I wish my garden grew knives like that. Where did you find those seeds :)
 
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