when are you sowing your garden this year?

[hollohas]

Tomatoes are growing STRONG. I ignored them for a week failing to prune, pull suckers and tie up and they went nuts. I had to spend some time getting them back into order. Darn things grow all gangly if you don't keep them in shape.



Strawberries have been awesome. I have picked about 12 lbs, eaten a bunch and made 12 jars of jam. Bush beans, carrots, peas, zucchini in the back left and cucumbers that are starting slow.



Peppers, eggplants, squash, okra and pole beans. Beans are still small. Melon and more cucumbers are in the background not visible.



Pumpkins and more squash.



Corn. Poles beans in there too. This is an experiment, not sure if they will work well in pots but so far they are strong. The beans are supposed to provide nitrogen for the corn, which I suspect it'll need being in pots.



More peppers, herbs. These got beat up in some hail, I think they'll come back ok.

[hollohas]

Update. Plants are all all taking off. Eating a few small squash, peas and peppers. We should have been eating peas for a month already but I started them late. Just another week or so before the green beans start coming in small amounts.

[rbeau30]

Jealous!

My Sunchokes are growing strong.


And the Rocky mountain corn has tassels and a few ears poking out ready to be pollinated!


Tomatoes and Scarlet Runner Beans are on the right. The tomatoes on the containers are extra seeds that I sprouted... I usually just stick em in containers and see what they do.

[Dave]

Turns out the house we bought has a large patch of strawberries and a couple of rhubarb plants. We've already harvested about 12 stalks of rhubarb, which we diced, vac sealed and put in deep freeze. Waiting for strawberries now to make some jam and a pie.

[rbeau30]

I love strawberry and rhubarb. I just planted a rhubarb plant. The first one failed I think from lack of water. Watered the second plant more than the first while it acclimated to the new home. (It reacted almost instantly when we came home from work and watered it) We have some strawberries but not enough to keep up with the birds and baby bunnies.

[hunterhawk]

I have been eating zucchini and I love it! So happy I finally put in a garden.. Other than that squash is coming in and tomatoes are still really green but have lots of them.. Broccoli is also almost ready.. The lettuce is huge as well.. Corn is also tasseling! My garden now looks like a jungle... Definitely put too much in but that's how you learn!

[rbeau30]

I have been eating zucchini and I love it! So happy I finally put in a garden.. Other than that squash is coming in and tomatoes are still really green but have lots of them.. Broccoli is also almost ready.. The lettuce is huge as well.. Corn is also tasseling! My garden now looks like a jungle... Definitely put too much in but that's how you learn!

I have a great recipe somewhere for "Faux Apple Crisp" using zucchini. You seriously cannot tell there is not an apple in the thing. I am currently adapting the recipe to Apple pie. My first attempt was excellent.

[hollohas]

The hollohas farm is blowing up. Harvesting beans, squash and peas plus a few jalapeños. Had a good pound of green beans last night and will have a pound of small yellow squash/ small zucchini with dinner tonight. Thats just tiny harvests compared to whats coming. Everything else has a bunch of unripe fruit.

Tomatoes are a good 4ft tall at least. The plants closest to the camera are a large paste tomato variety that apparently are susceptible to leaf curl. Doesn't seem to be slowing down their fruit production though.



Cucumbers, carrots, bush beans, starwberries, more tomatoes, peas and zucchini in this picture.



Corn here with some pole beans climbing on them. Pots of herbs and peppers not visible behind the corn.



Pumpkins, watermelon and spaghetti squash. I haven't seen many bees so I've been hand pollinating these every morning. Before I started doing that the tiny fetal fruits were dying and falling off. Now I have lots of them growing and getting big.



Below, the front bed has Jalapeños, green peppers, Thai peppers, okra, yellow and acorn squash, one eggplant and pole beans.

Cucumbers and strawberries in the bed behind. The strawberries are transplants that I dug up and put here to get established for next year so I can get them out of the other bed shown above...they are taking over and I want the bed for something else. I'll let the starwberries takeover the entire back bed in the picture below.



I've setup an automatic watering system this year too. The large beds have standard soaker hose. The pots all have 1/4" tubing with mini sprinkler heads coming off a 5/8" mainline. Both are attached to the faucets with a two zone automatic timer. Beds get watered every other day, pots everyday.

[Irving]

Not including set-up and building of everything, about how much time per day, and per week would you say you spend maintaining a garden of this size?

[hollohas]

Not including set-up and building of everything, about how much time per day, and per week would you say you spend maintaining a garden of this size?

At the stage you see here? 20 mins per day now that I don't have to water the pots by hand. That includes the hand pollinating I mentioned in the morning and looking things over, harvesting stuff in the evening. That will get a bit longer as the garden really starts producing a lot near the end of this month...the harvesting part starts to take more time.