I just finished planting several packs of seeds in the backyard:
zucchini
pole beans
cucumbers
green peas
I went overboard with the tomatoes this year, though. I have 8 roma tomatoes, 4 grape, 4 brandywine, and 4 bonnie best. I started the tomatoes from plants, not seeds. I'm also trying 2 of those Topsy-Turvy planters this summer. That's in addition to the eggplant, sage, and lettuce.
The rabbits got to my cucumbers and green beans last year, so this year I came up with a plot. I took the rose bush clippings and put them around my garden to thwart those wascally wabbits.
The tomato plants are growing fast and the rose buds coming in.
My roses are just now getting a few buds. I should have cut them back last fall/winter, but didn't until a few weeks ago.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 07, 2009, 11:57:15 AM
The tomatoe plants are growing fast
Don't tell Marty. :mmm:
I'm growing some herbs. Parsley, rosemary and also tomat
o and cucumber.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 07, 2009, 11:57:15 AM
The tomatoe plants are growing fast and the rose buds coming in.
Someday you will be vice president. :)
Does a tomatoe get that nasty yellow fungus when it is older?
nice... I have a black thumb. :( but my landlady will have lots of nice plums, apples, grapes, and tomatoes coming up this year. Plus a lot of nice flowers.
Plums, peaches, strawberries, gooseberries, red berries, pears, cherries, blackberries, and all kind of herbs.
The usual : Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Onions, lots of Herbs, stuff I don't know the English name & this year novelty strawberries.
What's with the gardening foot fetish?
Quote from: Jos Theelen on June 07, 2009, 01:41:54 PM
Plums, peaches, strawberries, gooseberries, red berries, pears, cherries, blackberries, and all kind of herbs.
Do you make preserves with any of that?
The season's so short here you have to get started inside before the snow melts. I never remember in time... :(
Nothing. I live in a city and don't have a garden.
right now, apartment-dweller. yet I'm all natural. hence I am busily forgetting to water my friend's house plants.
just part of the cycle of life ;)
I'm thinking about buying a Topsy-Turvy(tm). Why the fuck not.
Quote from: charliebear on June 07, 2009, 02:05:27 PM
Quote from: Jos Theelen on June 07, 2009, 01:41:54 PM
Plums, peaches, strawberries, gooseberries, red berries, pears, cherries, blackberries, and all kind of herbs.
Do you make preserves with any of that?
No. I throw my raspberries (which I forgot to mention) in the freezer. On a warm day I put the frozen raspberries with yoghurt and sugar in a blender, to make some kind of raspberry-ice cream. I don't like jam or marmelade, so frozen raspberries is the only preserving I do.
Come on Fireblade, where is your token response? :P
I currently have no garden. :(
I've got a yellow rose that's doing fairly wll, considering it badly needs to be repotted. And a cactus that hasn't had any flowers since I bought it a month ago - I'm not sure if its a seasonal thing or if it, too, needs to be repotted (or, possibly, both).
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 07, 2009, 03:46:37 PM
I'm thinking about buying a Topsy-Turvy(tm). Why the fuck not.
They kind of look silly, but if they work, why not.
Sometimes the bucket of cigarette butts on my balcony looks like it's growing something, but I'm not entirely sure what it is.
Will have to get back to you.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 07, 2009, 03:46:37 PM
I'm thinking about buying a Topsy-Turvy(tm). Why the fuck not.
Here's the thing, though: the plants grow toward the sun. The TV commercials had me thinking that they would grow straight down. Nope. The good news is that one of my Topsy Turvy tomatoes has a blossom already, while the ones in my garden do not.
Maybe there's something to it after all.
Quote from: Slargos on June 08, 2009, 05:10:45 AM
Sometimes the bucket of cigarette butts on my balcony looks like it's growing something, but I'm not entirely sure what it is.
Will have to get back to you.
:lol:
I planted mine on the ledge of my balcony, but instead of growing when it rained, they just washed away. :(
Nothing but various flowers in mine.
I have childhood phobias about having a vegitable garden, due to my parent's fixation in the 1970s with self-sufficiency. They attempted to cultivate a garden in the country that was almost 3/4 of an acre in size.
During many an unhappy childood hour spent wearing a can of kerosene around my neck picking potato beetles and grubs and dropping them in while other kids were off watching cartoons or playing hockey, I swore to myself that when I grew up, I'd leave pretending to be a peasant to others. :lol:
No garden, just bought a chrysanthemum for my dining table :(
Got a nice view over the cricket pitch (and the cricket players) though.
Quote from: charliebear on June 07, 2009, 11:52:58 AM
I just finished planting several packs of seeds in the backyard:
zucchini
pole beans
cucumbers
green peas
I went overboard with the tomatoes this year, though. I have 8 roma tomatoes, 4 grape, 4 brandywine, and 4 bonnie best. I started the tomatoes from plants, not seeds. I'm also trying 2 of those Topsy-Turvy planters this summer. That's in addition to the eggplant, sage, and lettuce.
The rabbits got to my cucumbers and green beans last year, so this year I came up with a plot. I took the rose bush clippings and put them around my garden to thwart those wascally wabbits.
tomatoes, spinach, lima beans, squash, cauliflower, bush beans.
Tomatoes and bush beans grow nicely. First time for me on some of the others. I love planting pole beans but the last few years they haven't grown well, so I planted bush beans. Last year the bush beans gave a nice haul. Squash should grow ok. Sometimes some plants don't grow well at all, I think if I don't keep the soil loose or fertilized. For all plants I used organic soil and fertilizer to keep the ground loose and nourished. Hopefully that will help.
All those tomato plants are going to flood you with veggies! Enjoy - if you're like me you'll be giving many away. I get too many with just a half dozen plants.
I haven't had problems with critters for a couple of years but I do have a repellent which I'll put down as the plants come up. It's a fox urine in granular form; worked well the year I did use it. Doesn't smell but the critters probably smell it. I think the small critters have been taken out by coyotes, since I never see any like I used to, but this year I'm going to use the repellent a bit just in case.
My cousin, my dad & I just pee around the garden. It works.
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 08, 2009, 09:47:59 AM
My cousin, my dad & I just pee around the garden. It works.
I guess that would work also. :lol:
I am conducting my annual anti-rabbit counterinsurgency operations near the garden. No truce with rabbitkind.
I'm getting some Married With Children flashbacks there, Mr Ed.
QuoteIf dynamite was dangerous, do you think they'd sell it to an idiot like me?
Weeds. <_<
Quote from: Syt on June 08, 2009, 10:40:41 AM
I'm getting some Married With Children flashbacks there, Mr Ed.
QuoteIf dynamite was dangerous, do you think they'd sell it to an idiot like me?
Rabbit fuckers and their holes annoy me. That and their attacks on the garden compel me to resist their aggression with BB guns and cats.
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 08, 2009, 10:32:28 AM
I am conducting my annual anti-rabbit counterinsurgency operations near the garden. No truce with rabbitkind.
Ed at work in the yard....
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Quote from: lustindarkness on June 08, 2009, 11:04:06 AM
Weeds. <_<
Wouldn't it be lovely if everything else grew good like weeds?
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 08, 2009, 01:02:09 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 08, 2009, 10:32:28 AM
I am conducting my annual anti-rabbit counterinsurgency operations near the garden. No truce with rabbitkind.
Ed at work in the yard....
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Ed lusts after transvestite rabbits? :huh:
My roses are blooming!
Been just over a week and some of the seeds in my garden are starting to show, some small seedlings coming up, breaking above ground. The tomato plants are growing well so far. Be another week or so and I'll start to tie them to posts for support.
Quote from: Malthus on June 09, 2009, 07:37:56 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 08, 2009, 01:02:09 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 08, 2009, 10:32:28 AM
I am conducting my annual anti-rabbit counterinsurgency operations near the garden. No truce with rabbitkind.
Ed at work in the yard....
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Ed lusts after transvestite rabbits? :huh:
Ed wants to bathe in their blood. I like cute critters as much as the next person, but rabbits are vermin.
I would suggest slowly raising the level of provocation, then a sudden assault in the early morning following a short but intense bombardment. Deep attacks by mobile forces will disrupt reserves, and the enemy can be mopped up after being isolated and surrounded.
Then, the phony war with the larger vermin can set in.
Quote from: PDH on June 09, 2009, 09:49:52 AM
I would suggest slowly raising the level of provocation, then a sudden assault in the early morning following a short but intense bombardment. Deep attacks by mobile forces will disrupt reserves, and the enemy can be mopped up after being isolated and surrounded.
Then, the phony war with the larger vermin can set in.
I am training an elite fighting force of neighborhood cats to combat the rabbit menace. Drut, the stray I adopted a few years ago, has been given the title of Sturmfuhrer and has proven to be a crack killer of rabbits. All strays are welcome at my home. I offer a vet, tuna and treats for service.
I bet his counter is black with lightning bolts. Cool.
Quote from: PDH on June 09, 2009, 10:02:45 AM
I bet his counter is black with lightning bolts. Cool.
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I have no garden, no balcony, and no lawn. The small window of the living room is like 10 feet away from a 40+ storey building, so not much sunlight reaches us.
Quote from: Monoriu on June 09, 2009, 10:21:23 AM
I have no garden, no balcony, and no lawn. The small window of the living room is like 10 feet away from a 40+ storey building, so not much sunlight reaches us.
Sounds like paradise.
Super cool.
Ed Anger is deep in the grass:
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Quote from: PDH on June 09, 2009, 10:02:45 AM
I bet his counter is black with lightning bolts. Cool.
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The Sig rune is not a lightning bolt, though.
I don't have a garden since I live in an apt but I am growing a grape tomato plant.
my counter was better.
Quote from: PDH on June 09, 2009, 11:27:01 AM
my counter was better.
I liked your layout better. :console:
:lol:
As long as the attack factors are highly inflated, they are cool.
And yes, before anybody asks, Drut is Turd spelled backwards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8riEZ6ekH2U
(NSFW for Euros)