2024 Garden

[graywolf]

It's that time again. Got the garden tilled. Tilled it a week or so ago. Got a row laid off, and think I'm gonna take a gamble it's not to early, and set out my tomatoes today. Here's a before and after shot.

[daytime dave]

It looks great as usual. It sure has me thinking about the garden here. I can't wait. Thanks for lifting my spirits higher this morning.

[graywolf]

Got the tomatoes set out yesterday. I'll get a picture today. No time for picture. Got done just in time yesterday to help my granddaughter finish moving into her mobile home.

[Hatchdog]

I just have to say that it’s pretty incredible how you were able to take a beautiful nicely tilled piece of rich dirt and turn it into a overgrown dead leaf covered ugly piece of gound J/K in reference to your before and after order of pics (sorry I couldn’t help myself)

That looks like a masterpiece in the works. Virgin ground ready to produce!!!!

[graywolf]

Took couple quick pictures of garden. Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and zucchini.

[daytime dave]

Garden looks great.

I've gotten mine worked up. Planning on planting mid month.

[JEBar]

nice .... very nice indeed

[rickhem]

I still have to get the ground turned over in ours. I absolutely hate gardening, and all the activity associated with it, but she likes having the plants, so I'll get it set up and help when necessary. It's nice when the veggies start showing up, and there will be many loaves of zucchini bread when they do, so I'll help dispose of some of those.

[Mags]

Not yet. I'd just be stirring slop. [stock photo from Adobe]

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[graywolf]

Haven't updated the garden in a while. Here's a picture taken about a week ago. Been getting about this same amount each day. The heat is about to finish the squash. Tomatoes are just starting to ripen. Maybe a half dozen so far.

[daytime dave]

Wow, that's a nice bounty.

My plants are still growing. A few blossoms on the tomato plants.

[graywolf]

The tomatoes are just starting to come on. Only have 4 plants. I think we've gotten 6-8 tomatoes so far. The zucchini's are doing good. The squash have about played out. The heat has about done them in. That and no rain. I'll be pulling them up shortly.

[220]

Got into weeding my winter garden over the weekend, with the rain we have been having I hadnt even been in it for nearly a month.
Our first frost was about 8 weeks ago so that was the end of any summer veggies that were still holding on. Transplanted a couple of jalapenos to pots and moved them into the house after the first frost, one is doing great the other not as well.
Got a bit of a surprise picking half a punet strawberries and harvesting enough potatoes for a couple of feeds from some that I must have missed with my summer harvest and had started growing until the frosts killed them.
First broccoli are ready to harvest, cabbages are starting to heart, cauliflower still has a way to go, picked a few carrots. Let a couple run to seed over summer and have literally thousands of self sown carrots growing in a few square yards. Onions are going well, loose leaf lettuce are big enough to be picking leaves and have a few self sown ones starting to appear, the few herbs I have in are doing OK.
Winter garden is far less work than summer for me, no need to water daily only a couple of weedings needed for the entire growing period.

[graywolf]

220, looks like you been busy. Don't take long for weeds to take over, that's for sure.

[daytime dave]

Sounds like a nice winter garden 220. I like cabbage and cauliflower.
I'm just weeding mine. It's pretty hot here, so I just sit down next to the row and pluck them by hand. The rototiller goes between the rows. Most of the seeds I planted with my new planter didn't work out. I'll need to adjust it next time. More room for other stuff now.

[graywolf]

I've got some serious tilling to do. Done let these weeds get ahead of me. Dave, what kind of planter do you have? I've had a earthway for years.

[daytime dave]

My father had an earthway for years. He had rigged it to a frame that was fitted with a sleeve hitch to put behind a garden tractor or a compact tractor when he could no longer walk well. He also got a one row corn planter that worked very well, later in life.
I just got an earthway last year. I forgot to set the "blade" depth and my first few rows didn't come out well at all. After setting it, those rows did extremely well. I did manage to save the fertilizer attachment from dad's earthway and use it on mine.