Anyone starting a garden?

[Sex & Diamonds]

Yay for strawberries! (I'm making jam too this year)


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[Sex & Diamonds]

Almost to the end...

To the left of the strawberry patch...lettuce, brussel sprouts and the fence is for the peas to climb up...

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[Sex & Diamonds]

And finally...

Kohlrabi and some more carrots...and beans grow along the back of this end.



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[Sex & Diamonds]

Have to mention..

Raspberries.


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[JMohegan]

Um...white to the left and yellowish on the right.

Did I mention I'm a very very new gardener? The Irises were a gift from an old neighbour who was thinning out their flower garden.

*chuckling*

It doesn't matter. I was just curious as to whether you liked the big & bearded or petite Siberian kind.

Very thoughtful of your neighbor.

 

[Sex & Diamonds]

*chuckling*

It doesn't matter. I was just curious as to whether you liked the big & bearded or petite Siberian kind.

Very thoughtful of your neighbor.

I think they are the bearded ones. I have more in other colours, just not near the tomato.

Now I'll have to look at both kinds and figure it out.


Okay, I looked...they are definately the bearded ones.

 

[JMohegan]

I think they are the bearded ones. I have more in other colours, just not near the tomato.

Now I'll have to look at both kinds and figure it out.

That's quite an impressive garden you've got. Looks like a lot of work!

I don't have any real experience with vegetable gardening, but I've been to pumpkin patches and driven by corn fields, and I'm wondering - don't those plants get big? The former, sprawling with gigantic leaves (not to mention the fruit itself), and the latter tall & wide?

From a purely aesthetic perspective, your rhubarb is my favorite. I like those leaves a lot.

 

[Sex & Diamonds]

That's quite an impressive garden you've got. Looks like a lot of work!

I don't have any real experience with vegetable gardening, but I've been to pumpkin patches and driven by corn fields, and I'm wondering - don't those plants get big? The former, sprawling with gigantic leaves (not to mention the fruit itself), and the latter tall & wide?

From a purely aesthetic perspective, your rhubarb is my favorite. I like those leaves a lot.

I enjoy working in the garden. I needed a new hobby and it gets me out of this dang computer chair and outside.

I am extremely inexperienced but I'm learning as I go. So far, so good.

The pumpkin plants will (Fingers crossed) get very big. I hope they grow all the way down to the strawberries. Most of the plants inbetween should be tall enough to survive the spreading of the pumpkins. The cucumber, zucchini and beans (Oh, there are some sweetpeas back along the fence I forgot to mention) will be trained to grow up the fence. I have some plastic chicken wire stapled onto the boards to help it along.

It's the second year for the rhubarb, last year it was quite small but the soil is hard at that end, I added some good top soil and turned it over a few times. it seems to be taking very well.

Thank you for your compliments, btw.

 

[WriterDom]

We had our first rain today in weeks. Nice heavy rain too.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Eight weeks (and 2 days - weather was bad Sunday, and my batteries needed a recharge yesterday) in...

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x95/Sir_Winston54/8wk070709A.jpg . . . http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x95/Sir_Winston54/8wk070709B.jpg

And looking down into the plants, you can see seven 'maters-to-be on the big one and two on the little one.

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By the way, the varieties are Golden Jubilee (the big 'un) and Lemon Boy (the little 'un).