How does your garden grow?

[Jackal1]

I have a couple of raised tomato beds and a small garden with tomatoes in it also. About 60 plants all together.
We have been getting about 15 lbs of tomatoes a day for quite a while now and they are still loaded to the gills. I have 12 yellow pear tomato plants that are totally unreal. Looks like a jungle. I have made and canned a supply of tomato/pepper jelly and will make more in the next day or two. Love the stuff with sausage
The purple hull peas look like a jungle and have to be picked every two days to keep up. Lots of peas in the freezer and all the neighbors and family are happy campers.
The corn is about coming to an end, but have mountains of it put up plus all we could eat for corn on the cob and gritted cornbread. <Drooooooooool!>
The green beans are about the same as the peas. Loads and loads of them already picked and they are load now and still blooming.
My okra this year is AWESOME. Right now the plants are about 7 to 7 1/2 ft. tall and have to be picked every day. Plenty put up in the freezer and plenty has been consumed.
I have about 10 cantaloupes ripening now and have picked gobs of them from about 5 plants. It`s unreal.
All grown organic with intensive planting. It`s been an awesome garden.
Anyone else into growing veggies and such?

[caldera]

It sounds like you got the munchies from those "other" greens in your garden. 

[zoozoo]

The hispanic guy that has been working at the horse stable we own started a garden aout 5 years ago. He grows peppers,zukeeneee,tomatoes,we tried watermelon but failed,cucombers, string beans, and corn.

When hes done picking he brings a share of everything up to the house for us to eat and then takes the rest to sell at the market.
If you grow zukeeenneee make sure you use the flowers! the flowers make a great appetizer, just fry them up in some  batter and add a little salt! 

[Banshee7]

We have 38 tomato plants, 2 rows of green beans, 5 rows of purple hull peas, 2 rows of okra, and a type of okr we call "running okra".  Unlike other okra, the bigger the "running okra" gets the better it is.  Our tomatos are producing out of this world...matter of fact everything is.  We have to pick something everyday.  i love garden growing.  Its something i enjoyed doing with my great granddad before he passed.

[Reschke]

Not so much into it now because of a lack of suitable garden space but we do go down and help my parents with all of their garden stuff. For the last three years my oldest son has been picking blueberries and selling them for $12 a gallon. This year he sold 76 gallons in the community we live in. Last year I had 5 tomato plants that produced tomatoes here at home from mid-June until mid-August. Tomato sandwiches and BLT's were the lunch and dinner for me for several weeks last summer and then home made pasta sauce as well with the stuff from my parents.

[Winks]

thats 1 hell've a garden Jackal    Wish I was there to raid it

[texasmom]

We have flowers mostly. I set aside little plots for each of the kids & they put whatever they want in it.


One son keeps his garden highly manicured.  I give them each a little bit of money per trip to the store to buy flowers for their respective gardens.  This one spends the entirety of his money on one really nice plant... (whereas the other gets tons of the .69c plants).  He weeds regularly, deadheads when necessary, and is very 'proper' about his garden.

The other kid tosses in whatever seeds he can find... there's been radishes, carrots & even some watermelon & tomato plants.  But then he's also got ferns, marigolds, & salvia. The most interesting part of our yard is there as well.  There's about 4 or 5 toads that live under one of his planters.  They're huge.  Our other son's dog has befriended them. The dog goes outside when we go out to smoke at night. She finds the toads & sits down beside them, whereever they're hopping around.  It's pretty cool to see, actually. I need to take a picture of it.  At first we thought there was only one (whom our son named "Edward.")  Come to find out there were a whole bunch of them.
 
The third son calls them both pansy's & doesn't have his own garden.

I want a salad garden.  Everything all in pots, whatever it would take to make a great salad, I want it in those pots.  Then get out there, pick them, wash them off & eat them.

[Meatwad]

I have tomaters (regular/roma/cherry), zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, green onions, sweet corn, radishes (earlier) and many varities of peppers

They are growing really crazy (with the little help of some fertilizer from work)

0-0-60 potash, 18-46-0 DAP, and for a nitrate boost last week I threw in a handful of 27-0-0-6 calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN)

Also have a 2 1/2 gal jug of 32% liquid nitrate if I need to sidedress anything

[RATTFINK]

What can I grow on my patio?  I live in an apartment.  I guess tomato plants in a milk jug would work.

[Meatwad]

Tomatoes would work, or you could try some bell peppers

[RATTFINK]

Awesome, I'll be making Penne pasta in no time... now to find a noddle & meat plant... 

[Ripsnort]

I have a couple of raised tomato beds and a small garden with tomatoes in it also. About 60 plants all together.
We have been getting about 15 lbs of tomatoes a day for quite a while now and they are still loaded to the gills. I have 12 yellow pear tomato plants that are totally unreal. Looks like a jungle. I have made and canned a supply of tomato/pepper jelly and will make more in the next day or two. Love the stuff with sausage
The purple hull peas look like a jungle and have to be picked every two days to keep up. Lots of peas in the freezer and all the neighbors and family are happy campers.
The corn is about coming to an end, but have mountains of it put up plus all we could eat for corn on the cob and gritted cornbread. <Drooooooooool!>
The green beans are about the same as the peas. Loads and loads of them already picked and they are load now and still blooming.
My okra this year is AWESOME. Right now the plants are about 7 to 7 1/2 ft. tall and have to be picked every day. Plenty put up in the freezer and plenty has been consumed.
I have about 10 cantaloupes ripening now and have picked gobs of them from about 5 plants. It`s unreal.
All grown organic with intensive planting. It`s been an awesome garden.
Anyone else into growing veggies and such?

Sounds nice Jackal!
Our garden starts in January with indoor seed for veggies, transplanted after the first frost. We planted alot of lettuce and radishes since they come up first. Romaine and Iceberg were first harvested over a 3 week period into late May early June. Now we have mostly Red potatoes, Yukon Gold potatoes, 2 different types of tomatoes, a new row of Romaine and green peas coming in.

Due to the size of the garden (RV garage replaced most of the garden )  we choose to do this "Two season method".  The pic below looks alittle chaotic, but we're sure to pull about 50 lbs or more of potatoes and plenty of tomotoes soon out of the "2nd season".

[vorticon]

Mostly in between the weeds.

[Jackal1]

Mostly in between the weeds.

 

Took a minute, but it finally soaked in. 

[Jackal1]

We have 38 tomato plants, 2 rows of green beans, 5 rows of purple hull peas, 2 rows of okra, and a type of okr we call "running okra".  Unlike other okra, the bigger the "running okra" gets the better it is.  Our tomatos are producing out of this world...matter of fact everything is.  We have to pick something everyday.  i love garden growing.  Its something i enjoyed doing with my great granddad before he passed.

Tell me more about this running okra. Yaknow where I can get some seeds online?
I like trying new stuff


Nice raised beds Rip.