2016 veggie garden

That's good. I'm still seeing leaves die from the frost on my pepper plants. I just hope we are done with it now.

Here's my sprouts so far some red pride tomatoes, couple jalapeño sprouts , more than enough melon plants. Midget melons though.

Still waiting on more tomatoes to come up and some habaneros. Hope they hurry and grow ...plan on planting them outdoors sometime mid May .

Gary Goodson said:

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looking good they recoved from that hail nicely.iam planting pea's an oinions today.try to get plastic on gh if wind dies down.

Looking awesome Gary!

Here's about a 1/3 of a 4x8' bed of mostly Oak Leaf lettuce. I planted this section in late Feb. while we were still getting snow, it was slow to germinate and slow growing but is starting to take off since it warmed up.

My kids picked this years veggies, I also kept and dried some seeds from my wife's favourite but expensive tomatoes.


First time in this property for a veggie grow the space isn't the biggest, its since been turned over with copious amounts of rabbit poo added


The plants


Will be planting some of these in the ground this week and giving the rest away

where iam at today,every thing still under lights warm an cozey in the barn

The squirrels have destroyed my first batch of vegetables so I've had to start again. Thankfully one pepper plant and a broccoli are still kicking. They'll go out once I completely cage the raised bed garden. I also planted some catnip
and some fern lavender herbs which I hope have a nice aroma.

Looking good Gary!

Joe Blows Trees said:

The squirrels have destroyed my first batch of vegetables so I've had to start again.

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Damn squirrels can be a problem here too, along with rabbits, raccoon and sometimes even a deer. Last year I had some critter really fucking with me, like my first ripe cherokee purple, I let it ripen on the vine, it was looking great, the morning I go out to pick it, it's laying on the ground with one bite out of it..... Then I had what was probably the biggest tomato I had ever grown, I think it might have been a Belgium Giant, same thing... go out to pick it, and it's on the ground with a big bite out of it... this continued all season... ate my biggest cantaloupe too, totally gone, with the cracked open shell of a smaller one nearby... I'm thinking raccoon... I hope it has moved on or it will be war this year.

I'm thinking about blowing a little money on wood chips to put around my raised beds, I get sick of all the grass and weeds around them and then they drops seeds in the beds and you have to deal with that all the time. So I'm thinking a layer of cardboard and cedar mulch woodchips, I have 4 - 4x8 beds with a little more space than a mower needs between them. So sick of weeds and grass getting in my shit and a little less mowing.

Dave's Not Here said:

I'm thinking about blowing a little money on wood chips to put around my raised beds, I get sick of all the grass and weeds around them and then they drops seeds in the beds and you have to deal with that all the time. So I'm thinking a layer of cardboard and cedar mulch woodchips, I have 4 - 4x8 beds with a little more space than a mower needs between them. So sick of weeds and grass getting in my shit and a little less mowing.

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The cost won't be that much for the beds, and it will reduce your stress level. But it will leave you with a decision to make. What to do with all that spare time you used to be weeding?

Gary Goodson said:

I walked outside this morning and one of my Rutgers was broken
It looks like it might still make it
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Nice job Gary, looks healthy af.
Do you have cutworms down there? I always plant my seedlings with toilet paper roll collars. Helps until they're big enough.

Chef420 said:

Nice job Gary, looks healthy af.
Do you have cutworms down there? I always plant my seedlings with toilet paper roll collars. Helps until they're big enough.

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Yea we do and they have been fucking up my kale. Thanks for the tip

Rained like hell here earlier, knocked over a tray of tomato starts I had out, they're all flopping around now... I imagine they'll pull through it though and I might stake them up with bbq skewers.

Lettuce is growing fast in all the rain, I'll be thinning some of this bed out a little for a salad tomorrow. I've got several more plots of lettuce besides this one.

Dave's Not Here said:

Rained like hell here earlier, knocked over a tray of tomato starts I had out, they're all flopping around now... I imagine they'll pull through it though and I might stake them up with bbq skewers.

Lettuce is growing fast in all the rain, I'll be thinning some of this bed out a little for a salad tomorrow. I've got several more plots of lettuce besides this one.

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You made me want a salad so I went outside and came back with this

Looks great man, can't wait to have my first one, been waiting impatiently... the store lettuce sucks... is that bottom pic arugula? I usually grow some of that too.

Dave's Not Here said:

Looks great man, can't wait to have my first one, been waiting impatiently... the store lettuce sucks... is that bottom pic arugula? I usually grow some of that too.

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Yeah, I believe it's wild arugula.

Grapefruit, almonds, goat cheese, red onions, pepper flakes, and home made red wine vinaigrette. With all my greens of course.