Originally Posted By DargeLick⏩

In.

Been growing my own veges and fruit for last 8 years in raised beds.
Made everything myself including the garden beds.
Growing food is life. Best thing you can do to feel good. There is nothing like eating your own produce.

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Really nice.

I've spent a lot of time in the yard this year.

I've got an uneven tan and not many veggies.

My squash were looking great and starting to produce-



I got a few patty pan squash and a couple of gray squash and then something wrecked them-



Some of the stuff I planted from seed didn't come up at all, for some a few popped up, at least one [Swiss chard] came up nicely and then we had a very hot day and it was gone.

I planted a bunch of different kinds of beans, though not a lot of any one kind. I was worried I would have too many since my daughter doesn't like green beans. As of now there's still 3 pinto beans, 3 pole beans, and maybe 8 or 9 purple-hulled peas still alive…no signs of producing anything though.

Okra came up and some are a little bigger than others, but again not much to see.

And I got robbed. Never saw the thief…just a clue or two-





I trimmed my tomatoes back hard. I should maybe just give it up given how very hot it is. I guess I'm hoping that I can nurse them through until it cools down in the fall.

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Originally Posted By Jandels⏩

Nice little plot man! This pic loaded for me, where the other ones still don't - I don't know whats going on

Still IN for the updates.

Thanks my friend. I don't think I did anything different. I'm using imgur and I just choose a size and copy the bbcode. Glad it worked for once!

Originally Posted By katya422⏩

^^^
Really nice.

I've spent a lot of time in the yard this year.

I've got an uneven tan and not many veggies.

My squash were looking great and starting to produce-


I got a few patty pan squash and a couple of gray squash and then something wrecked them-


Some of the stuff I planted from seed didn't come up at all, for some a few popped up, at least one [Swiss chard] came up nicely and then we had a very hot day and it was gone.

I planted a bunch of different kinds of beans, though not a lot of any one kind. I was worried I would have too many since my daughter doesn't like green beans. As of now there's still 3 pinto beans, 3 pole beans, and maybe 8 or 9 purple-hulled peas still alive…no signs of producing anything though.

Okra came up and some are a little bigger than others, but again not much to see.

And I got robbed. Never saw the thief…just a clue or two-

I trimmed my tomatoes back hard. I should maybe just give it up given how very hot it is. I guess I'm hoping that I can nurse them through until it cools down in the fall.

It's been a rough year for me, too. We had a cold wet spring. I had to plant beans twice, carrots twice, beets twice, spaghetti squash twice. They all came up spotty or not at all the first time. Well, the carrots and beats came up fine, but then the weather turned scorching for several days on the new plants and toasted a bunch. It will be an off year for several things for me, but we'll still have plenty.

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Originally Posted By FarmersSon⏩

Thanks my friend. I don't think I did anything different. I'm using imgur and I just choose a size and copy the bbcode. Glad it worked for once!



It's been a rough year for me, too. We had a cold wet spring. I had to plant beans twice, carrots twice, beets twice, spaghetti squash twice. They all came up spotty or not at all the first time. Well, the carrots and beats came up fine, but then the weather turned scorching for several days on the new plants and toasted a bunch. It will be an off year for several things for me, but we'll still have plenty.

I relate. Our winter is usually not too terrible. I ordered this from Amazon and plan to give it a try. I chose this one instead of a clear one because [if I read it right] this will give some UV protection.



Close to 300 square feet for under $50. I also have some of these hoops and a white cover which might be better for crops that take more cold [cabbages and such].



I didn't pay that much. I found individual supports and the cover at Daiso. They have gone up on their prices, but IIRC the 4 hoops and a cover were maybe $12 all together.

Originally Posted By MadNinjaSkills⏩

Mad jelly of everyone who has an actual yard to grow things in. My backyard is only 9.5’ from my back door to the fence and 5-7’ wide on the sides of my house.

I’m looking into vertical gardening.

So far my dwarf Mayer lemon tree is loaded up with baby lemons and my potted herbs and green onions are still going strong.

My side yards are narrow, but my back is at least a bit over 20'. I've toyed with the idea of trying one of these lean to/walk through greenhouses on the south side.



This one is 7' tall, 10' long and 5' wide. I was thinking if I used a white or clear one and placed it over one of those bedroom windows I could crack the window a bit to run a heat lamp out if I really needed it. I lost quite a few plants on the patio this year as we had multiple hard freezes and it was dry too.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, and green beans should all be good for going vertical-just have to have the supports and show some care choosing varieties.

* For any hot climate gardeners I fount that Juliet was my best performing tomato. My FIL raved about them down on the coast. I tried one in MI and wasn't impressed, but here it has been the one steady producer. It is a grape type tomato, but mine have been 2" to 3" long which is near the same size as I got from a San Marzano. The San Marzano didn't produce near as many tomatoes though and most had blossom end rot.

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We get racoons and skunks in corn, but not till it's closer to be fully ripe. Birds will occasionally eats seeds and will peck at strawberries but they haven't been too bad either. Bugs haven't been too bad the last few years either, although we did have some Colorado potato beetles get into my garden last year. I try to avoid pesticide use, but I will use if sparingly if the bugs get really bad. We always have to spray apples or we can't get any apples without worms.

Weekly progress photo of main garden:



I have a separate corn patch that is doing well, too:



My peony finally bloomed a couple weeks back. Not very impressive though. It was a funky spring and we transplanted it after it had started growing. It will look better next year.

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Originally Posted By FarmersSon⏩

Busy packing up for a backpacking trip and neglected my weekly update picture this morning. Not much new, everything is just a little bigger. String beans finally came up well on the 3rd try planting. Not sure what the deal was there, I've never had trouble with them in the past. So far we are eating:

Lettuce
Spinach (it's done)
Peas (almost done)
Strawberries
Sunsugar tomatoes (like cherry tomatoes, but oranger and sweeter)
Carrots (sort of, tried one today, but it was kind of small)

Regular tomatoes are coming, but a couple weeks out still. Cucumbers are flowering, still a couple weeks out. I'll probably dig a hill of potatoes this weekend to check them out. I have a lot of potatoes this year so I need to start eating them early.

Have a safe trip and update us when you get back

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Originally Posted By Jandels⏩

Have a safe trip and update us when you get back

Thanks buddy, backpacking trip was great. Saw some great scenery:


Caught a few fish:




I think we covered around 28 hard miles. There was a lot of up and down on these trails. I weighed in a couple pounds lighter when I got home. Gearing up for another outing, but I'll try and post a legit trip report in the dad thread later today.

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Originally Posted By FarmersSon⏩

link to dad thread

For the garden, looked like this today:



Carrots in the square foot gardern:



Carrots and sunsugar tomatoes:

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Weekly update:

Everything a little bigger:


Lettuce is almost gone. Pulled out the peas this morning in the square foot garden. Planning to plant some fall crops.

Sunsugar tomatoes are really producing now:


…but I'm still waiting for the other varieties to ripen.

Cucumbers are coming (sweet success variety):


and Boston pickler:



The sweet success is my favorite slicing variety, but the boston pickler is better for pickles.

Corn ears are forming:



and this is the start of burgess buttercup squash:



Dug my first hill of potatoes.



Those are actually red potatoes but when you dig them small the skin is really thin and doesn't have much color at all. Today I ate lettuce, swiss chard, tomatoes, and potatoes from the garden spread out over a couple meals. Cucumbers and zucchini will be the next plants that start to produce.

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Cucumbers are on!



Picked two like that today. We'll probably average one or two ever day from here till we get a hard frost in late September. The boston pickler cucumbers are getting close. We'll be canning a batch of pickles this week or next. String beans are probably the next thing we will start eating.

ETA: Just bit into my cucumber and you people that buy all of your veggies at the store have no idea what your missing with respect to garden fresh produce. Even more so with corn. I'm going to be straight up mogging in a couple weeks.

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Weekly progress photo:



Corn is starting to form ears.

Plants that are done:
Peas
Spinach
Lettuce (pretty much)

Plants that are on:
sunsugar tomatoes
peppers (bell, Anaheim, banana)
potatoes
carrots
swiss chard
cucumbers(Boston pickler and sweet success)
Onions
zucchini

Pepper:


Carrots:


tomato plants are loaded, but still green:


Next up:
string beans or maybe beets

My earlier variety of corn isn't too far out either. It's probably about time to put out traps for racoons and skunks. They don't bother the rest of my plants much but they can make a mess of a corn patch really fast. My parents put an electric fence low to the ground around their corn to keep pest animals out and that has worked well for them.

Saturday we did pickles:



and I cleaned up a bunch of brush that had grown up around grape plants I started this spring. It was a nice cool day for a change and my younger kids were out playing while I was working. I found a fuzzy caterpillar in the grass and called them over to see:

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Nice pics itt.

Here are some of mine.


Kumquat blossoms and in the center you can see a young kumquat coming in.



Kumquat blossoms again, but if you look closely you'll spot a visiting honeybee.



Unripened lemons



Unripened oranges



Apples



Pomegranates



Peaches



Sugar cane



Plum tree. This is in the front yard and makes us popular with several of the neighbors. They ask and we tell them they can have whatever they can pick. They will bring a ladder with them. Lol

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Originally Posted By MyGhettoFantasy⏩

Nice pics itt.

Here are some of mine.


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Kumquat blossoms again, but if you look closely you'll spot a visiting honeybee.

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Niiice. Forever on spread.

I can tell by your assortment of trees you are in a milder climate than me. I have plum trees, but lost this years blossoms to a late frost. I'm planning to get an apple tree and a peach tree within the next year or so. I've been kind of lazy on the apples because my parents live just around the corner and they have a bunch (10+) of apple trees. The lodi variety is getting close to ripe, maybe a week or so. Do you have to do anything to keep worms out of your trees? My dad always has to spray his apples. Last year he sprayed, but he's not sure if he missed the timing or if is spray was old and lost potency, but they lost most of their crop. It was really disappointing because they have a press and it's become kind of a tradition to get together one Saturday and run apples through the press to get cider. We have a great apple crop this year so I'm looking forward to the cider after a year without.

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The closer we approach the uncertainty of life's ending the more we wish to trade all of the things we have acquired in exchange for all of the things we have lost: wealth for youth, knowledge for fresh curiosity, resignation for hope. We'd trade our wisdom for new experiences, but it is wisdom that will teach us that at the end of the road the only new experience is death.

Weekly progress pic:



Not changing much anymore. Everything is about as big as it's going to get, now it's just a waiting game for stuff to ripen.

Speaking of:



That's going to be my first ripe tomato.



Corn is close. I picked a couple ears today. They'll taste good, but they aren't quite prime yet. Another couple days and we'll be in corn for the next month.

I'll probably pick my first beets this weekend. We love them steamed.

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No new pictures of the garden today; nothing much has changed since last week. I ate my first large tomatoes and beets over the weekend. We did another 11 quarts of pickles yesterday. Cucumber plants are really producing:



I put out traps for the first time last night for raccoons. We used to get skunks in our corn but the last few years raccoons have been bad. I generally put out a couple of dog-proof style traps for raccoons and a Havahart trap for skunks. My parents put up a little electric fence around their corn to keep pests out:



That's probably a better solution, but I don't have a fencer.

The big job over the weekend was more "backyard" than garden oriented. We got the swing up:



And poured concrete to stabilize it:



Still need to order chains and seats to finish the project. We'll get some paint on it, too. No weak-sauce CPSC approved swing for my kids. I think it ended up 12 or 12.5 feet tall. Swinging video in a week or so when I get the parts.

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Progress photos:



Everything's looking good. August has been just a touch cooler than July, and that has been good for the plants. I should have spaced out the winter squash a little better. They've pretty much grown together - see back left. Corn is ready now - I set traps every night for skunks and racoons. Haven't caught anything yet but I've seen fresh racoon tracks in the mud after flood irrigating. Tomatoes are starting to turn red and green beans are finally coming on. Cucumbers are producing great now. I expect to do another 10 quarts of pickles tomorrow.

This is what my square foot gardens looks like:



The one on the left had lettuce and spinach in it, which we have eaten all of now. In the back corner there are still carrots, swiss chard, and some green beans I planted around a month ago. In the empty squares I've planted some lettuce, spinach, and carrots to see if I can get a fall crop. The box on the right has onions in the middle, beats and carrots around the outside. I need to break out the string trimmer and clean up around the edges of the boxes…

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The "Northern" variety of sweet corn is prime now. Probably done losing weight for a while. When the corn is on we pretty much boil some up every night. Our favorite variety is "honey and pearl" but we plant a little northern every year because it matures faster and you can plant it a little earlier. We are probably a week out from honey and pearl. We're eating everything I planted, except for the winter squash. It still has a month to go. I've been putting out traps every night because we have historically gotten a lot of raccoons and skunks in our corn. None yet this year. I did catch somebody's cat last night. It wasn't too happy about being stuck and it took off on a run when I let it out this morning. I did get most of the swings up over the weekend:



Bad weather and had a bit of a cold so I didn't get the last one up. Plus, I was running out of light and the kids wanted to test it.

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