when are you sowing your garden this year?

[TheGrey]

Good-looking garden, newracer! Are the hoses a drip-line for each pant?

[newracer]

Thanks. Yes those are drip lines to each plant. When I installed my sprinkler system I included a zone for the garden. The black hose is a mini-soaker hose for the carrots.

[hunterhawk]

vermin 2, me 0 had a bunch more strawberries come in and something demolished them again.. time to make some moves! always battling something!

on a side note some of the leaves on my tomato plants and squash are turning yellow on the tips. causes? way to get rid of it?

[Hummer]

vermin 2, me 0 had a bunch more strawberries come in and something demolished them again.. time to make some moves! always battling something!

on a side note some of the leaves on my tomato plants and squash are turning yellow on the tips. causes? way to get rid of it?

It could be iron chlorosis. Try treating it with chelated iron.

Some good looking garden beds, guys. For mulch and weed control we use black landscape fabric to cover the garden except in the narrow planting rows. The fabric is then covered with wood chips which further holds moisture and keeps the fabric a little cooler. Much less weed control work. The fabric lasts about 3 years.

I used to rototill every spring but lately using the fabric I till when the fabric deteriorates. The wood chips get tilled into the soil. The decomposition of the wood chips pulls nitrogen from the soil so you should add a little more nitrogen to compensate.

[Irving]

Ok, here goes nothing I guess. No idea what I'm doing, but I've got to start somewhere.

Turned this


Into this


And then into this








And finally into this


We'll have to see how this works. The side of the dog house roof facing the photos is more or less South. The fence actually shades the garden until about 10ish, unfortunately, but I had limited configurations available. I put some spinach behind the dog house, between some corn and tomatoes.
By number of plants, this garden is mostly tomatoes and peppers.

[GilpinGuy]

Those are sweet looking beds...and chicken house.

[Irving]

Hopefully it works out. If it does, we'll have more peppers and tomatoes than we know what to do with.

[Irving]

Anyone know what this is?



I noticed it coming up all over the garden this morning. I've already picked out about 100 individual plants. At first I thought it was grass that some how got into the soil and started to grow, which made me angry considering I have a hard enough time with my own lawn already. I thought maybe the soil was contaminated with seeds before it was delivered. Then I realized that it is the straw I laid all over the bed to help the soil retain the water. I've been watering like crazy trying to keep these baby plants alive, and apparently the heads of the straw have germinated and planted straw every where. Looks like I've got my work cut out for me staying on top of this.

[hunterhawk]

Ya it's wheat from the straw you put down.. Just a guess...

[newracer]

Yep I had the same thing when I used a bunch of straw to cover the mud in my backyard before getting grass.