How Does Your Garden Grow??????

. The Outdoorsman . said:

Love me some garden fresh green beans steamed al dente, blanched, spicy galic butter/evoo. Ill eat a big ol bowl. will stagger harvests all year. Need toms and cukes for blt, quick pickles, greek salad. Hungry now.

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Hell yea buddy, you know how it’s done ! I’ve got garlic, toms, cukes, and peppers too. Hope to start nibbling on some fresh sugar snap peas here in the next few days. Good idea for the staggered harvest, I gotta try that this year to keep ‘em coming through the fall.

I'm growing in grow bags this year. I haven't tilled up the garden, and might not. We've been getting green beans, squash and cukes for a couple weeks now. Yesterday and today I planted round two of green beans, squash and okra. I've been robbing the raised beds at the riverhouse for used soil, and mixing it with bagged soil and peatmoss, along with amendments. I ran out of bagged soil and peat, so a trip to town is in order before I do anymore planting. Walmart did a same day delivery of blood, bone and Epson this afternoon. A girl in her own car brought it. She couldn't have fit a couple bricks of peat in there though.

We are eating a squash a day. So far it's been acorn, butternut, green stripe (from compost pile) and spaghetti. The only one not to get ripe yet is the crook neck Amish. And green beans every other day. Cousin Tomas brought us half a bucket of new potatoes, and we have been cooking them with the beans.

Peppers and tomatoes are a couple weeks out. No blooms yet on okra.

This was the squash two weeks ago.

How it started, may of 2024 -


Today, a little more than a year later.



Last season I did not harvest enough fruit to make a BLT, but this year I already have plants bearing more fruit than I anticipate I will be able to consume this summer.
Compared to cannabis, it will take much longer to recoup the cost sank into the project but learning a new skill, getting to experience tomatoes with actual flavor, and the low effort exercise that gardening provides, has been invaluable.

Happy Growin'

Left for vacation Sunday, my cucs were just forming at the end of the flowers just came home and the straight 8s are the length of zucchini. The picklings are batts

VaSmile said:

Left for vacation Sunday, my cucs were just forming at the end of the flowers just came home and the straight 8s are the length of zucchini. The picklings are batts

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i just started growing some of these this year, i try to add something new each year, so far i got sweet corn, green beans, beats, wheat, water melon,bell pepers, sweet peppers, and some companion plants to keep things off my weed

cleaning up the side of my house aka my garden area, gotta make do with the room i have, time lapse while i moved around the front of my garden

First time growing melons I think I might get some this year

the beginnings of my garden this year. it's been an amazing year, despite the very wet start that we had this spring. this photo was from early april; i'm about to photo-dump the current state of things.

parris island romaine was the first good harvest that i got. this was the best romaine that i've ever grown, and i ordered a few more packets for the coming years as we loved it so much.

a few more spring lettuces

five pink brandwines and one brandyman. these were when the plants had zero disease; this isn't the case currently (rainy spring). we're still harvesting fruit however so i'm still pretty stoked, even with yellowed leaves.


juliet tomatoes that seem to be pretty popular in homesteading circles. so far they are super prolific.

i'm experimenting with growing in straw bales this year. for $5 a pop, it's a LOT cheaper than buying compost and top soil! i'm very pleased with how these paste tomatoes are doing in them.

best beets i've grown. i'm going to do another sowing of these next week. i made about 10 quarts of pickled beets and we've already eaten three jars.

sweet potatoes in straw bales; strawberries and chamomile in the background



finally wised up to the onion game, after a few years of embarrassing harvests. lots of nitrogen and lots of weeding.

russet and yukon gold potatoes in grow bags. after years of random leftover potatoes sprouting in my beds, i've decided to try a new method

autumn frost winter squash on june 16...

and today! so excited to have some squash for storage this year - that is, if i can stay ahead of the PM and bugs!