Home Vegetable Gardens

[Boone]

Yeah, it’s a way backer…

I am going to set my ‘minimum’ at some raised beds this year. I *may* even till up some of my old garden bed but it will take a couple of seasons to get back to a full blown garden like I used to have - and including growing 90% of my plants from seed indoors. I’m excited to get back into it!

 

[Ashburn Dave]

I doubt I will ever have a full garden since I landscaped back in HS for summer jobs and I just don't care to play in the dirt anymore than I have to nowadays.

What I do hope to start one day though, is a small spice garden that I can do on the deck or kitchen windows. Just a few of the basic spices and maybe some hot peppers.

 

[Boone]

I am starting small, have 4 pretty small raised beds ready to go. To the left of the photo is my old gardening bed which is pretty large but currently overgrown with blackberry vines. I may try to reclaim some of it if I can find the time and energy to clear and till it.

 

[Ashburn Dave]

That reminds me of my landscaping days. We built many vegetable beds using mostly landscape timbers and a few with railroad ties.

 

[Izzy]

For a jump start I plant lettuce, onions, and spinach starter plants, then I use seeds a few weeks later. So I planted on Sunday, and then Tuesday we had an intense hail storm, went out this morning to see how they fared, spinach was pretty torn up but onions and lettuce looked just fine.

 

[Boone]

Here in NC, I learned the hard way never to put summer vegetables in the ground prior to 15 April. Sometimes that was even too early. But I'm breaking my own rule and planting my 4 boxes today. Going to do 2 boxes with tomatoes, 1 box with cucumbers (on a small trellis), hot peppers, radishes, and rainbow chard, and the 4th is going to be all herbs. There is a lot more I would normally do, but until I get my regular garden plot ready, I just don't have space. This at least gets my hands in the dirt.

 

[Boone]

Since cleaning up and planting 4 smaller raised beds, the gardening bug has hit me full force. I bought 4 raised beds (6x3x3) and enough garden soil (144 cubic ft) to fill them. Almost done with that laborious process and will be doing more planting this weekend. I also assembled a couple of chicken wire cages for potatoes (although I am admittedly getting a late start on them). I think going with raised beds going forward is going to make things a lot less labor intensive. Looking forward to seeing things grow again. Will post some pics when I have a moment.

 

[Mickalino]

I converted a pet crate into a mini-greenhouse.
It's the one thing the squirrels can't get to.
So, in it I grow my valued exotic asian Longan Fruit Trees, and a couple other things

 

[Boone]

This is what I'll have to work with this season. the 4 larger raised beds are new, with 4 smaller ones from previous years. Chicken wire potato cages are also new. Next year I will add 3 more of the large boxes to the opposite side to complete a 'sun' diagram. Let me tell you, hauling 144 cubic feet of dirt was an ass kicker (that equates to 96 bags of soil.

 

[Izzy]

Last year I didn't have a lot of planting room, but my son had an extra raised bed available so I went and planted the whole bed with potatoes. It was definitely a little late in season but all of a sudden they really took off and produced some good sized spuds. Gotta ask him if I can do it again this year.

 

[Boone]

On a side note, cleaning out and burning some old hives and this guy was tucked in between 3 or 4 frames I had in my hand. He tried to convince me he was a rattler by shaking his tail like one, lol…

 

[Mickalino]

On a side note, cleaning out and burning some old hives and this guy was tucked in between 3 or 4 frames I had in my hand. He tried to convince me he was a rattler by shaking his tail like one, lol…

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That's exactly what I need, to combat the squirrel problem
Wish you could mail him to me

 

[RedWolf]

Thinking about micro planting on my patio