2016 Garden - Starting Early

Not going to happen. I don't trust my ducks.

 

downsizing this year. tilled up a spot for tomatoes and spices and have it mulched waiting for planting. still haven't planted anything though the asparagus is coming up

 

Since we are talking 2016 gardens... just doing some minor work to mine before winter...



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Little patch with taters, tomatoes, peppers, cucumber and something else I know I'm forgetting.



More tomatoes and a cucumber

Also did a watermelon and cantaloupe plant in the other side of the patio.

 

I have family coming to visit for Memorial day, so of course we're having a heat wave and the garden is peaking a month early. It will be crispy weeds by the time family gets here. Enjoying it now, tho. Except for the heat part. The itoh peonies (last 2 pics) normally don't bloom for another month. The flowers are about as big as your hand.

 

Your gardens look beautiful Dragon Lady........I mean Lucretia.
All my tomatoes are planted and growing great. Bunch of other stuff too.

 

Thanks, Duck Boy!

I am jealous of your tomatoes. I've been too busy to start seedlings, and with all this hot weather it's going to be a good year for them. I hope my tomato man is at the farmer's market this year.

 

Maybe someone with a green thumb can tell me what these things are. They look like those thorny weeds that grow in random spots in your yard....as if that helps to explain it.

But these things are HUGE. Like 5-6 feet tall. They are growing in the cemetery in front of my house.

 

Looks like a thistle of some sort.

 

Yes! That's the word I was looking for. A thistle. I had no idea they got this large.

This one is the carduus nutans I've figured out now that I know it's a thistle. They can reach up to 4 meters!

Thanks!

 

i 2nd that some sort of thistle tho at that hight is a bit crazy

well you beat me back to the computer

 

Too bad the aren't artichokes.

 

They look like some really big thistles I saw in Colorado.

 

Lucretia.......I can live with Duck Boy. If you remind me I will send you a box of tomatoes in July.
I was able to pick my first batch of lettuce today.
Just finished eating a giant salad and barely put a dent in what I picked.

 

This is my first time growing celery, broccoli or cauliflower but they are doing good so far.

 

These are one of my favorite tomatoes that I grew last year. Black Krim, a Russian heirloom variety. I planted these real deep and as they grow I cut off the lower leaves and build up more soil around the plant. Right now they are about 1 foot underground and about 1&1/2 foot tall above ground. They seem to be well established and are starting to really grow. I have been doing this with all the tomatoes this year and they seem to be a lot sturdier than any I have grown before. The reasoning behind this is that roots sprout from the underground trunk area.

 

Love your garden, Mark.

 

seems i missed some spuds in the picking last year so i have soem tarers to transplant. found some greens that came up from last year so thye too will be moved. other then that the grens that i had planted are just not gettign started onions and garlic look strong and the beets and beans are up and running (slowly) peas are abot 8-10 inch tall now

 

Took a bunch of photos today

Cucumbers and a mound of onions. Cucumbers are starting to bloom already. Never seen such small plants produce blooms.



Pepper plants.



Potatoes! These things have gone nuts. Fastest growing plant out there.



Even the small tomato plants have tomatoes already. Crazy!







Watermelons!



Cantaloupe! These will get thinned out once they grow a bit more.



More tomatoes and a squash right in the middle.







And a full shot of the garden.



Best part about the garden?....My brother has been doing all the work.

 

I took these photos 3 or 4 days ago. Everything is bigger now. I went organic with everything this year and it is working out well so far.
Herbs and Garlic in the bed behind.

Snap peas to the left, snow peas to the right.

Pineapple Tomatoes.

Black Krim Tomatoes.

Different normalish salad tomatoes. Early stuff.

There are several other tomato and veggie beds not shown. Everything is doing great this year.

I don't know what is happening with the photos. They are all the same size as the bottom photo but my browser is enlarging all the other ones.