So, what's everbody growing this year? (plants, pump, pepper, sweet)
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I'm in Mebane, N.C. about half way between Greensboro and Raleigh and my garden measured 80 ft by 50 ft. Originally it was red clay, but, I've been mulching my garden with grass clippings for the last ten years, our clearing in the woods is about 2.5 acres and produces a lot of grass clippings. My garden is no longer clay, but instead has turned to a nice rich loam.
I don't think I can handle a garden as big as your , I am totally busy with my little garden and enjoying it. Today I cooked my first 3 summer squash and one zucchini. I invited my neighbor and we had them for lunch, it was very nice. I am watching my tomatoes and peppers, I have tomatoes on all of my trees "can I call them trees" now and I am excited how nice and strong the heirloom ones look. I am already making plans for my fall and next year garden. I know I will be buying a lot of compost to help the soil in my beds.
Well here in Brooklyn the City planted 3 Honey Locust trees at the curb of our apartment, we have since put the wooden logs around the tree bed, stained then a dark brown and we planted for the first time in 25 years. I planted marigolds, and Hostos, and Ivy. I planted the Ivy nerest the curb, as we have a heavy pedestrian neighborhood and needed something durable should the rotten kids stpe on them. LOL....Plus they come back every year. The marigolds are relly growing and have since been flowering....the only problem we are running into is we have a lot of cats in the neighborhood and they like to do number 2 in the garden. What do i do???
Well here in Brooklyn the City planted 3 Honey Locust trees at the curb of our apartment, we have since put the wooden logs around the tree bed, stained then a dark brown and we planted for the first time in 25 years. I planted marigolds, and Hostos, and Ivy. I planted the Ivy nerest the curb, as we have a heavy pedestrian neighborhood and needed something durable should the rotten kids stpe on them. LOL....Plus they come back every year. The marigolds are relly growing and have since been flowering....the only problem we are running into is we have a lot of cats in the neighborhood and they like to do number 2 in the garden. What do i do???
Everybody here in Brooklyn has ivy near their tree pits, it is planted because it grows thick and covers the ground and is very durable, and that is what we need here, I don't understand why you think I should remove it??
This is our third year growing veggies and every year the garden gets a little bigger. First year too much rain, lots of blight, not so good. Second year had tropical heat and humidity in New England and a bumper crop. Third year is off to a good start. Here's what I am growing.
sweet potatoes, lots of sweet potatoes
organic broccoli
organic bell & jalapeno peppers
heirloom Amish Paste (roma) & Brandywine tomatoes
organic Provider green beans
organic soybeans
organic corn + Tom Thumb corn for popping
organic garlic
3 kinds of onions
swiss chard & red lettuce (already harvested spinach & carrots from winter garden)
organic sweet granite (?) cantaloupe
butternut squash & New England Pie pumpkins
Japanese climbing cucumbers
beets
strawberries
plus kale, spinach and arugala will be going in late summer to replace other plants that are finished
2 apple trees, 2 plum trees and a peach tree none of which I will see any fruit on this year because they are too new
Well I am the type of farmer than throws the seeds or plants in the ground, asks God for some rain and I say a few more prayers, then I hope for the best: This year I think things will do ok, if I could just control the weeds. They are so bad it looks like I just planted everything on top of the grass for heaven's sake. For the first time I tried straw for mulch, never again..
Anyway I have a small garden and here is what we have:
Beans
Peppers
lots of tomatoe varieties
3 kinds of squah
cukes
sweet potatoes. The plants are mixed in with the squash cause they won't be ready to dig up until everything else has gone for the winter. Oh, and I have pots of herbs which are happier this year than in other years
I didn't make a list before, but here's what I have:
1. 4 different varieties of tomatoes (harvested and had some of them already)
2. Squash (had couple)
3. Zucchini (had couple)
4. Pepper (harvested a few)
5. Red cabbage (watching it grow, very amazing how it progresses)
6. Collard Greens (cooked a few couple times)
7. Cucumbers (waiting to grow)
8. Okra (no flowers yet, lots of green leaves)
9. Eggplant (One ready, will pick tomorrow)
Wow, I had no idea I planted all this. I am planning for my next year garden already, I had no idea I will enjoy gardening this much.
This is our third year growing veggies and every year the garden gets a little bigger. First year too much rain, lots of blight, not so good. Second year had tropical heat and humidity in New England and a bumper crop. Third year is off to a good start. Here's what I am growing.
My 3rd year also. Yup...lost most of my tomatoes to blight the first year. Last year was a good year but my zuke plant was pitiful. This year, everything is looking happy and healthy....well except for the hail storm that tore up a lot of my plant stems and leaves.
The bad, lol:
I have onions...which never get big for me
My basil...which I killed...don't ask..I have never had luck with basil
my lettuce never produced
And the good
Lots of tomatoes
green peppers
some kind of hot pepper which I thought was a sweet yellow pepper
green bush beans
pole beans
peas for the first time...I will have to make changes next year. They grow crazy
4 zucchini
4 squash
lots of cucumbers
We're growing watermelon, 3 kinds of squash, tomatoes, and green peppers. We hope to have a larger garden area next year and I am hoping for room enough to grow some sweet corn.
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, I am totally busy with my little garden and enjoying it. Today I cooked my first 3 summer squash and one zucchini. I invited my neighbor and we had them for lunch, it was very nice. I am watching my tomatoes and peppers, I have tomatoes on all of my trees "can I call them trees" now and I am excited how nice and strong the heirloom ones look. I am already making plans for my fall and next year garden. I know I will be buying a lot of compost to help the soil in my beds.
