my gardens

[majorcatfish]

here is my newly expanded main garden it went from 11x50 to 35x50
just tilled ready for planting.. far right outside the fence is the asparagus bed.....

here's a couple of mid season...
tomatoes front right

front left
pole beans and cantaloupe. far back is eggplant, between them was the cucumbers...

back left bell peppers,highlander peppers,sweet cayenne,sweet banana peppers and in back hot peppers.

for the main raised bed area.. have 11 beds ranging from 4' long to 16' long. in the spring will plant potatoes,lettuce,radishes,beets,carrots,bush beans,bok chio,spinach,green onions,herbs etc. as the season progresses will switch over to more hot weather plants mainly sweet corn, couple watermelons there's never a empty bed..

of course with winter coming have already have a couple hard frost so have my redneck low tunnels built if the weather holds we will have fresh lettuce and bok chio till sometime in january and beets for roasting sometime in february.

nothing's best then winter carrots, planted the last of my colored carrots along with regular carrots as well

then there is a side bed area that did grow yellow watermelons in the summer and peas in the fall. dang you gotta love fresh peas from the garden

this little bed area produced some of the best zucchini ever, then planted brussel sprouts this year was a flop so pulled them....

with the growing season over planted oats as a cover crop this year in the main garden.

so that's the gardens for us. between the the dw and i have a great relationship.. i grow it she cans it and what we have extra we take down to our jobs and give away which is usually buckets upon buckets...

so there you go a quick photo bomb of the gardens.....

 

[Fernsdaddy]

WOW ! Your garden is all most as big as my back yard. Wish I could have the room for a large garden, but I'll enjoy yours

 

[Beth_B]

Wow very nice! That's a whole lot of veggie garden!

How established is your asparagus?' I planted mine two years ago, first time ever, and hope to have a decent first harvest next spring. (For those who haven't grown it, you can't harvest until the third year because it weakens the new root system.)

Anyway that's a nice setup you have there.

 

[majorcatfish]

Wow very nice! That's a whole lot of veggie garden!

How established is your asparagus?' I planted mine two years ago, first time ever, and hope to have a decent first harvest next spring. (For those who haven't grown it, you can't harvest until the third year because it weakens the new root system.)

Anyway that's a nice setup you have there.

planted 10 jersey giants about 12 years ago, the last 2 years they have been slowing down. will see how they do next spring, have been pondering the idea of once they are not productive of moving the bed to a new location..

 

[Becky]

Wow what a garden! I'd love to have that much space, and you have certainly put it to good use.

 

[claudine]

Your garden is absolutely amazing! You have a lot of space and so many vegetables. They all look very healthy and pretty. I'm sure you'll have a wonderful harvest

 

[majorcatfish]

thank you everyone ......with the expansion in the main garden was able to move and grow more long term crops that would have tied up space in the raised beds or would have not been able to grow at all...
this year was a grand experiment in new varieties which i would say 95% turned out good and worth doing over, the other 5%< you never know till you try>

think the 4 that really topped the list.
"Escorial" Charentais french melon from johnny's seeds
wow what a wonderful melon sweet and firm and a good producer, the cantaloupe smell everywhere in the garden as they ripen....yum

if you like to make chili rellenos.. you enjoy growing these.
"highlander" Anaheim pepper from johnny's seeds very very heavy producers, very long peppers. but do need to be caged...

eggplant... guess you have to love to grow it...
dw makes rago, soup that she freezes or makes parmesan or who would think a eggplant crisp tastes just like a apple crisp .....
"clara" from johnny's seeds very heavy producer..we gave away buckets of them

tomatoes,,, who doesn't like a tomato right?
dw mainly did canning tomatoes
"mariana" from johnny's seeds first time i have grown a determinate variety.. holy cow did they produce...buckets among a few others as well
but the mariana was a how to put it heavy producer. even caged still had to tie them up....
very meaty almost no tomato snot in them, if you like fried green tomatoes worth a shot otherwise great for canning once they get vine ripened...
we did do a couple different ones for friends as well who live in apartments...

after dealing with work i find coming home to my gardens is my mental therapy..........

 

[Beth_B]

planted 10 jersey giants about 12 years ago, the last 2 years they have been slowing down. will see how they do next spring, have been pondering the idea of once they are not productive of moving the bed to a new location..

I planted 12 Jersey Giants and six... I cant recall the name but some heirloom variety. The ferns were easily six feet tall by the end of the growing season!

 

[amelia88]

I am in LOVE with your garden, seriously! Living in Japan right now, I miss all that wide open space - I don't have much of a yard at all right now and I would love to have all that space to grow whatever my heart desired!

Also, what amazing pictures of your haul there! Incredible!

 

[majorcatfish]

@Beth_B when i do move the bed going to double the size of it and more in likely plant mary washington and purple passion...

they do have wonderful ferns during the summer... during the spring one of my dogs love to help herself .

 

[Beth_B]

Ha...I have three dogs and one of them loves tomatoes. Eats them all right off the vine, little stinker. My vegetable garden is mostly in front of my house where the dogs can't get to them.

Your garden is amazing. We only have about five months of growing season here but I'm expanding my veggie growing area a little bit each year.

 

[majorcatfish]

short seasons can restrict what you grow unless you have a greenhouse...

was commenting to the dw this morning that's only2 1/2 months till i start this all over.
will start everything from seed like to get a jump on mother nature, so early march will start germinating the
peppers,tomatoes,eggplant. of course as it gets later on will start other seeds as well...
heres a photo from last year..never took one this year.... 3 years ago switched over to a 6 bulb t-5 high bay fixture, sure beats my old t-12 lights hands down...
but did use them last year made another area underneath the main table started the lettuce, bok chio,cucumbers, herbs etc ...

and when its time for the children to go outside have a redneck greenhouse to harden them off in....

 

[Daren]

Cool Set up & great Harvest in a lovely Garden. Like that propagation set up too!

 

[Durgan]

Absolutely beautiful. I would appreciate detail about your preserving methods. My cultivated garden is about the same size. My production is about enough to make me relatively self sustaining. But you have a better zone. Mine is 5A.

 

[headfullofbees]

Fantastic!
The whole lot is a dream!