All Things Gardening 2018

[Gman]

Peppers like hot weather and we had less than usual. The cool wet spring also pushed some crops back.

That looks like it could be an unripened cayenne pepper, Irving. Do your zucchini not have enough room?

[Irving]

They probably don't. The garden is pretty crowded. It's about to get worse for them, because the pumpkins (which are planted as far away as possible from the zucchini) are now sprouting fruit off an arm that has reached the zucchini plant. It'd estimate that the plants are about 30' from each other.

[Irving]

Pumpkin update. I've got at least 13 of these so far, that I can find, that are at least as big as a volley ball. Some are more orange than others.







Probably at least 10-15 more of these.


Pumpkins out past the second box in the yard. There was another long arm in the middle, but there were no sprouts on it so I ran it over with the lawnmower.


This is the third box. Those are zucchini on the far right, and the pumpkins have an arm along the back of the fence all the way to the yellow fence. Pumpkins are fun, but I don't really have the room for these shenanigans.

[Gman]

Next year, throw in some watermelons.

You might not even have to mow your lawn.

[Irving]

In the last photo, the very left vertical column of the right most box is a little plant hanging down in front of the wood. Those are the watermelons. Not exactly doing their part.

[00tec]

Meanwhile, the only thing I can successfully grow is tumbleweeds.

[ChickNorris]

Meanwhile, the only thing I can successfully grow is tumbleweeds.

Rabbits & spiders?

Ive a pumpkin growing in the middle of my rifle range. It repeatedly gets mowed & grows on... nothing else out there but tumbleweeds, rabbits & spiders.

[Irving]

Meanwhile, the only thing I can successfully grow is tumbleweeds.

I've pulled enough sumac and vines out of my garden to build a fort and roof it.

I'm no skilled gardener (obviously since I can't even identify what I'm growing) but I've found that the consistency of having the sprinklers water the garden every single day, and pulling weeds when I can, really makes it easy.

[00tec]

I've pulled enough sumac and vines out of my garden to build a fort and roof it.

I'm no skilled gardener (obviously since I can't even identify what I'm growing) but I've found that the consistency of having the sprinklers water the garden every single day, and pulling weeds when I can, really makes it easy.

I have successfully grown about 200 tree cuttings to about a foot tall, at which point, they all died suddenly. The aspen I planted this spring looks like poo, mostly because it got shredded by hail several times this year. I do get to kill some grass since I have some settling issues from where they back filled around the house, so at least I get to kill that on purpose.

[ChickNorris]

Aspen prefer higher elevations.