Our Veggie Garden So Far

[MG&Lsmom]

Here are some pics from the veggie garden we planted this year! It's a 16'x8' ft raised bed and I'm planning on expanding it for next spring.

Green peppers


One of our huge cucumbers - I harvested a 6" by 4" around fat cuc the other day and today cut 2 12" ones. I'm not sure what to do with all these cucumbers! about 20 more on the vines.


Zucchini


Cherry tomatoes


Row of carrots and the overgrown cucumber plants


Yellow summer squash


Our peas and watermelons didn't do so good this year. We also have a pumpkin growing that I need to take pictures of. So exciting!

[Live and Learn]

NICE!!!

Thanks for posting photos!

[nannyde]

I love this.

Ours is doing well except for our tomatoes. No green ones yet.

[Oneluckymom]

Whats your secret to a great garden MG&L'smom...do you fertilize. I had fantastic tomatoes last year, but this year I didnt have the time for a garden

[daycare]

wow I am so impressed... I can't even keep a fake plant green....

Please share how you are so successful at this??

[nannyde]

wow I am so impressed... I can't even keep a fake plant green....

Please share how you are so successful at this??

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[nannyde]

My tomato plants are making me mad.

My dad and the kids planted them the friday before Memorial Day.

They are all stalk and no show on the baby green tomatoes.

They are already about three foot tall with blooms but nothing else.



I hope we didn't get dud plants.

[MG&Lsmom]

I love this.

Ours is doing well except for our tomatoes. No green ones yet.

My tomatoes are turning 1 at a time. One meazly little grape tomato a day. And then I get to slice it up so everyone can share

Whats your secret to a great garden MG&L'smom...do you fertilize. I had fantastic tomatoes last year, but this year I didnt have the time for a garden

ROTFL! :::::::: OMG, you have no idea how funny this is. 2 years ago I was lucky if I could get the weeds to grow in my gardens. The running family joke was that I must be adopted because gardening, and I mean prize winning gardening, runs on both sides of my family. It's apparently in our blood. :: But I killed everything. Flowers, veggies, bushes, a catcus.... I have a concrete plaque in my flower garden that my mom and grandmother made me that reads "I tried, but it died." Last summer we joined a local CSA (community supported agriculture) instead of purchasing our veggies at the supermarket. I worked as the distribution coordinator along side the biggest farmer in the group. She taught me everything, visited my piddly little garden and showed me the ropes. We moved our garden to where it gets almost 10 hours of sun, I water 2-3x a day, and I did use the organic Miracle Grow plant feeder 2x so far. In the fall I'll get some manure and compost and mix that all in the soil and cover with burlap for the winter.

[nannyde]

I have a concrete plaque in my flower garden that my mom and grandmother made me that reads "I tried, but it died."

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I thought I was gonna have a basil death but after pruning it a little the thing sprung to life and started growing.

It's fun for everyone tho isn't it. It's really worth the time.

[daycare]

My tomatoes are turning 1 at a time. One meazly little grape tomato a day. And then I get to slice it up so everyone can share



ROTFL! :::::::: OMG, you have no idea how funny this is. 2 years ago I was lucky if I could get the weeds to grow in my gardens. The running family joke was that I must be adopted because gardening, and I mean prize winning gardening, runs on both sides of my family. It's apparently in our blood. :: But I killed everything. Flowers, veggies, bushes, a catcus.... I have a concrete plaque in my flower garden that my mom and grandmother made me that reads "I tried, but it died." Last summer we joined a local CSA (community supported agriculture) instead of purchasing our veggies at the supermarket. I worked as the distribution coordinator along side the biggest farmer in the group. She taught me everything, visited my piddly little garden and showed me the ropes. We moved our garden to where it gets almost 10 hours of sun, I water 2-3x a day, and I did use the organic Miracle Grow plant feeder 2x so far. In the fall I'll get some manure and compost and mix that all in the soil and cover with burlap for the winter.

Maybe I should take some classes... I think I should get a sign as such as yours... Really I am soooo not good at plants of any kind..

[MG&Lsmom]

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I thought I was gonna have a basil death but after pruning it a little the thing sprung to life and started growing.

It's fun for everyone tho isn't it. It's really worth the time.

It is. We don't have the room for a garden that sustains our family, but when we move this will be on the list of priorities and deal breakers. I really enjoy it, even the weeding. It's incredible to know that I grew that. Not as awe inspiring as carrying a child, giving birth and nursing my babies, but similar.

[SilverSabre25]

My tomatoes are turning 1 at a time. One meazly little grape tomato a day. And then I get to slice it up so everyone can share

ALl I got planted this year were cherry tomato plants (I was in my third tri of pregnancy...I was good to get those in the ground, ) and they are doing AWESOME! I just picked a bunch of beauts yesterday (probably around 20), there are a bunch more almost ripe and a TON still green. We still have flowers on the plants, too, so I expect a bunch more soon.

[nannyde]

ALl I got planted this year were cherry tomato plants (I was in my third tri of pregnancy...I was good to get those in the ground, ) and they are doing AWESOME! I just picked a bunch of beauts yesterday (probably around 20), there are a bunch more almost ripe and a TON still green. We still have flowers on the plants, too, so I expect a bunch more soon.

Very primal isn't it.

This year was cool to have my Dad in his seventies teaching the 2-5 year olds his way. Passin it down... generation to generation. I really DIG that.

[CheekyChick]

Your garden looks beautiful!!!

[dEHmom]

My garden is definitely growing but looks like such a mess!

I cannot keep on top of the weeds this year. They are ridiculous. They get a foot high in a matter of a few days!

I added steer manure this year to the soil, and everything took off! Including those damn weeds. If they weren't the ones that leave little slivers in your skin I'd just rip them out everytime i went out, but by the time i get the gloves on, somebody is calling me or needing me. Not much time for weeding this year. I will take a picture of what I've got if I get a chance. I should have a good harvest of cukes soon, and cherry tomatos coming in, peas have been good for eating for the last 4 weeks, and rattlesnake beans are just about ready. gooseberries are disgusting and i'll likely chop them out. Grapes are coming in and should be ready soon. raspberries are deliscious and no strawberries yet this year.