Mid-June garden pics (far too many)

[Macky]

When I posted my last bunch of garden photos, I was asked to keep up on the pics as it grew. Be careful what you wish for. ;)

East side - left to right - pumpkins, corn, green beans, beets/carrots, lettuce/nasturtiums, yellow beans
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2733.jpg

West side - left to right - potatoes, nasturtiums (hidden behind broccoli), dill/broccoli, peas, and past the right of the pic, tomatoes, sunflowers and rudbeckia
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2735.jpg

Dakota peas (performing MUCH better than Wando)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2736.jpg

Early Russian sunflower
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2737.jpg

Yes, there's a tomato somewhere in all those weeds... sigh.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2738.jpg

Premium Crop broccoli
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2739.jpg

Yukon Gold potatoes
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2741.jpg

Fernleaf Dill (loving this dwarf dill!)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2742.jpg

Gold Mine yellow beans (bad germination, older seeds, a little behind the green beans)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2745.jpg

Torreon pepper (my plants are always spindly, but they still get peppers)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2747.jpg

Italian Flat Leaf parsley
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2748.jpg

Improved Tendergreen green beans
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2749.jpg

Seneca Arrowhead corn
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2750.jpg

Racer pumpkins
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/Macky77/IMG_2752.jpg

Thanks for looking. :)

[purstrength]

:rockon It looks great!

[mamaKristin]

Your garden is kicking my garden's behind. I think most things in my garden are dead. :/ It's been SO dry. My weeds, however, are thriving. :O

[Naomi]

Wow.. looks great. :heart

[Rea T]

Ok, my peppers and tomatoes don't look so very different than yours. I feel encouraged. (Well, except for the ones I started from seed, they are still teeny-tiny).

[Macky]

Kristin, we're very blessed to have a neighbour who lets us pump water from his dugout, which borders our property. He doesn't use it anymore (uses his one by home now to fill his spraying equipment), so we can take all the water we need for the garden. We just had to buy a pump (gosh those are expensive, though) and all the hose to move the water about, oh, 400 feet (?) to the garden area. I can imagine there must be all sorts of nutrients in there from all the creatures that live in it (it's been flooded out for 4 or 5 years now). Waterfoul and wading birds, frogs, salamanders, snails... we've got 'em all! You have to clean the crud out of everything quite regularly, though.

Rea T, what zone are you in? We're still very early in the season here (2a). It's never hot enough for long enough here for my peppers to really flourish, but they still produce enough for some salsa. :)

[Rea T]

Zone 4 (or is it 5?). So yeah, we're a little bit ahead of you, but way behind the southerners who are already getting stuff out of their gardens.

Sadly, I think I am down to 2 pepper plants. I tried starting some of the multi-colored variety, not many of them took and the few that did died after transplanting. So I am left with 2 green pepper plants that I'm hoping will hang in there long enough to fully ripen to red. Nothing against green peppers, I just want color!

[Punkie]

It looks great! I love the pics.

[HomeWithMyBabies]

:jawdrop Awesome garden!

[Hermana Linda]

:rockon It looks great!

I'm over due for posting pics too. It's so hot, I don't even want to go outside. :phew

[StrangeTraveller]

:rockon What a great garden..I'm so looking forward to when I can garden...you are definitely inspiration!

[tempus vernum]

It looks awesome :)

I need to take some garden pictures today :)

And thanks for the potato picture. I was looking at my potato patch and couldn't remember for the life of me what a potato plant looked like :giggle I don't have to go look it up now :P~

[tempus vernum]

Hit post too quickly :giggle

I am AMAZED at your garden's progress - zone 2a- wow! we are zone 5 and the garden is not that far along - what is your secret?

[Macky]

Lots of transplants. :yes

I have a homemade grow light setup and start seeds in March. This year we took a chance and set things out super early. The pumpkins and tomatoes got hot caps, but everything else was on its own. They survived two, possibly three light frosts and a couple of close calls (0˚C temps or lower without frost, has to do with the dewpoint).

Started indoors and transplanted: pumpkin, corn, lettuce, dill, broccoli, chives, tomatoes, peppers, parsley, sunflowers and rudbeckia.

Seeded outside: beans, peas, potatoes, carrots, beets and nasturtiums.

Just realized I missed listing the peppers and parsley in the OP.

I haven't applied any fertilizer yet either. This has always been a really good garden spot for some reason. Our elderly neighbour thinks a previous owner (we're talking 15-20 years ago) may have had a pig pen on that spot. Just looking at the layout of the yard, I doubt that (there's no evidence of an old fence line for one), but I'll bet they could have piled the manure there when they cleaned the pens periodically. Otherwise, I can't explain it.

[tempus vernum]

Lots of transplants. :yes

I have a homemade grow light setup and start seeds in March. This year we took a chance and set things out super early. The pumpkins and tomatoes got hot caps, but everything else was on its own. They survived two, possibly three light frosts and a couple of close calls (0˚C temps or lower without frost, has to do with the dewpoint).

Started indoors and transplanted: pumpkin, corn, lettuce, dill, broccoli, chives, tomatoes, peppers, parsley, sunflowers and rudbeckia.

Seeded outside: beans, peas, potatoes, carrots, beets and nasturtiums.

Just realized I missed listing the peppers and parsley in the OP.

I haven't applied any fertilizer yet either. This has always been a really good garden spot for some reason. Our elderly neighbour thinks a previous owner (we're talking 15-20 years ago) may have had a pig pen on that spot. Just looking at the layout of the yard, I doubt that (there's no evidence of an old fence line for one), but I'll bet they could have piled the manure there when they cleaned the pens periodically. Otherwise, I can't explain it.


How do you secure your hot caps? Mine all started blowing away this year - I use old milk jugs and cut off the bottom.

[Macky]

Rocks. We collected a few that were about the size of my hand (flat stays on better than round) and heavy enough to hold down the cap. I hated messing around putting dirt around the edges every evening (took them off during the day). The rocks worked great, but you have to make sure they don't totally block the hole at the top. They never blew away. Well, two did... Erin took the rocks off and started making a pile. :)