All Things Gardening 2018

[Irving]

Our garden is kind of a failure this year. Of the things that are growing, we don't know what half of them are. Everything else seems to be way behind. However, we planted pumpkins and they are really taking off. I probably won't even be able to mow around them anymore. I'm excited to see if we actually get any.

[Irving]

Our garden is kind of a failure this year. Of the things that are growing, we don't know what half of them are. Everything else seems to be way behind. However, we planted pumpkins and they are really taking off. I probably won't even be able to mow around them anymore. I'm excited to see if we actually get any.

Here is a three week update. I actually think these are watermelons. My poor dog doesn't even know where to poop in the yard right now. There are three "sections" of the garden that are 10' long and 5' deep. In that first picture, the left most box is completely obscured. An arm of watermelon has just now reached the far end of the second box. I'm sure this is normal, but I've never grown these before so I'm impressed.

[ChickNorris]

If you take pictures of what you want identified... I can probably save you some time.

[Irving]

Well, for a while I was cultivating a great section of 100% weeds; but they were all the same kind so I was letting them grow. It's not top priority, but if I think about it I'll post some up.

[Bailey Guns]

First peach harvest:

[ChickNorris]

Those are lovely, I can't wait for peach cobbler!!

[Great-Kazoo]

Have so much leaf and romaine lettuce, we've been donating it by the boxful to the food bank. Then the neighbors all get a shopping bagful. Carrots another week or so. Potatoes first bin of yukon golds today, the reds mid to end of august, shallots when ever. Carrots 2 more weeks, green beans who knows, same for cukes.

This was the "lets throw seeds" and see what we get year. Next year with planning we should end up with zilch.


Do have a lot of goat heads littering the rest of the property this year. They're like the borg, short of some ddt and napalm who knows when they'll die.

[Bailey Guns]

Goat heads... we don't have a lot but it doesn't take many to be a real problem.

[Irving]

Peaches look great. My pumpkins might actually be watermelons. Guess we'll find out at some point.

[Gman]

Folks up in the the PNW have a garden that's behind this year. They did mention that they have a bumper crop of pumpkins going this year. I have to wonder if it's related to the wet spring we had?

Those peaches look great BG!