Portland Area Gardening!

Very nice

just got my stuff set up here in WA...your garden trumps mine, i'm only growing tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, beans, and 1-2 Romulan plants..... Hoping for a good growing season here in the NW

Tits buddy!! Love that it goes from harvest last year to planting this year in a page turn
I am right there with you on the ball this yeAr!!! Already harvested sum potatos for roasten
Starts; german strawberry tomatos black early tomatoes , purple Cherokee toms, Siberian yellow melon, many types of lopes
Thai, sweet , red and long peppers, ozark strawberries, early , straight, crook squashes.... I digress too many to list better get back at it

the trash has been mostly cleared and the burn pile has been all burnt. it only took me 8 hours to burn 3 christmas trees, a shitload of lumber, 7 months worth of wet hay, and 6 months worth of weeds.

i let it burn down to embers, threw all my wet, green weeds on top of the embers to smother it, then threw cardboard on top of that to limit oxygen. i woke up the next morning and it was still burning. has to hose it down for 20 minutes to put it out!

i'm going to have lots of fun with that burn pit this summer, i've always wanted one. none of the 400 seeds i planted a few days ago have popped yet, will have pics once they do.

just a few pics to show where i'm at right now. more pics to come.


















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only waiting on the watermelon and cantaloupe to be planted. the rest has been planted and is doing well. got everything fenced off from the ducks and chickens.

also, we just put 9 fertilized bantam eggs under our broody chicken, same chicken that hatched us some ducks last year.

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i've been putting off weeding, will probably put it off for a while longer until the GH is secure.

some warm weather is in the forecast. thank goodness.

not pictured are the dozen and a half elephant garlics i pulled today. they were growing wild in my front yard, had no idea what they were until i pulled one up thinking it was a bulb. they'll make good eating, just wrap them in foil and stick them in the oven until they caramelize and spread on homemade bread my wife will bake. or throw one in with the walla walla's i'll soon be pulling and some potatoes which i'll also soon be pulling.

i've had a few premature sugar snap peas, they are delicious.

my wife has been having some strawberries, she loves them.

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i've been feasting off my garden. pulled a few potatoes and onions to check for readiness, they need a bit more time but were delicious. my breakfast for the last week has been sugar snap peas, so fucking good. i'm going to plant another hundred or so for a second harvest. wide has been gorging on strawberries.

and today, we pulled some carrots. the package says "space carefully to avoid tedious thinning". we found nothing tedious about pulling a few premature carrots!

well, the sugar snap peas are done with. we feasted off them for the longest time and i harvested the rest for next year's seed.

we pulled all the carrots a couple days ago, got three full one gallon bags worth.

harvested all the potatoes and onions, made an excellent potato soup with them with potatoes to spare.

in their place, i did some more planting today. planted beets, broccoli, and cauliflower where the potatoes and onions were. planted a second round of carrots in the same spot as the previous carrots. planted more potatoes in a bin that i was using to hold used soil from the indoor grows, and a sweet potato was planted in a spot that i used to grow an extra potato that went to root. also planted some sunflower seeds, apparently sunflower sprouts are a very nutritious addition to any salad.

my early corn has about 30+ ears that are just about ready, my late corn has about 30+ ears forming and is taller than i am. sunflowers are also taller than i am and are starting to go to head. watermelon is starting to really take off with the warm weather. butternut squash is looking good but not producing. the pumpkin plants are huge and spreading out but only one pumpkin to show for it so far. tomat plants took off once i fertilized them and we are not too far off from seeing tomatoes aplenty.

such an awesome summer. will have pics once i figure out where they are hiding on my computer.

just a quick update

Looks good got some artichokes there too.. Mm i love them bbq'd witht some olive oil/seasoning...bomb

My corn is just not producinh much.. but i did plant it really late its onlt about 6 ft tall and has like 2-3 ears each.. but they are tiny! and it was really just for fun anyways

remember the little citrus meyeri that could?

here it is about 17 months ago, just a growth shoot poking out of the soil on an otherwise barren plant...



well, that gal is about to give me some citrus. here are some shots of her:



some of the older leaves are yellowing because of temperature swings. this plant is good to 30 degrees, and we have had a few nights below that so far. but this plant hates temperature swings even more. those cold nights have been often followed by warm days.

i'm guessing about a month on these meyeris, which are a hybrid combination of lemon and orange from what i have been told.

remember when that little japanese maple seedling i found while weeding under a japanese maple last year?

here it was about 17-18 months ago, cotyledon and all:



and she has grown mightily. i will actually have to top and prune this little tree this year. as always, trees like this guy and the citrus meyeri get transplanted to a larger container in the spring every year.

2013 gardening has begun!

went out today and bought some amending soil to make my blueberry and strawberry patch more acidic. picked up some ferts, too but i won't be laying those down until the ides of march.

also picked up some improved edible pod sugar snap pole pea seeds.

i weeded the blueberry and future strawberry patches, pulled out all the broccoli and cauliflower stems, raked the soil over the best i could, laid down the soil amendment, and fenced it off from the chickens and ducks.

then i sectioned off the back of the greenhouse, dug up my old strawberry patch, and transplanted to the crowns into containers. i used soil from previous indoor grows that i had laying around in the greenhouse and watered them in. they should start to foliate a little earlier than if they were sitting out in the cold. i'll transplant them on the ides of march when i plant my other crops.

i couldn't till, so i just dug up and raked over the rest of the patch around the strawberries where my early season crops will go. i'll heap on some compost tomorrow and let it cook in before i plant there in two months.

i also cleared the back fence of all of last years bean stalks and am going to plant the peas in a few days when the soil unfreezes to see if i can't get some super early peas this year.

next task is around valentine's day, when i prune back all the trees, rose bushes, blueberry bushes, and whatever else is around.

then the season starts in earnest on the ides of march. that's when the radishes, lettuce, onions, and potatoes get planted. i'll also plant some more blueberries and strawberries.

i can't hardly wait!

well, i couldn't wait.

the strawberries refoliated nicely in the GH, so i planted them today.

tilled out the GH and planted a shitload of early season stuff (since i won't be planting the cannabis in there until late june). planted radishes, kale, romaine lettuce, head lettuce, chard, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and spinach.

then i planted my sweet walla walla onions and fenced them off.

i built a makeshift retaining wall the other day, made a raised bed using soil from indoor grows, and amended with potash. planted the potatoes today: yukon gold, german butterball, and all blues.

then i pulled all of last years corn and sunflower stumps and tilled it all out. will be rotating this year and putting squash where the corn went.

the super sugar snap improved edible pod pole peas will have to wait to be planted until i can till once more and pull my neighbor's weeds on the other side of the fence.

now the wait is on for mid april, when we plant flowers, carrots, beets, and start all the late season seeds in the GH to get an early jump on things.

i worked until it got dark, pics to follow tomorrow.

just some shots from the garden.

corn has been planted but is not up yet, carrots and beets are just barely out of the ground, potatoes have had to be buried twice already in straw.

my two smallest chickens, who can easily jump over 6 foot fences if they want to, are in chicken prison. they destroyed about 20% of my planted corn. they will serve their time in chicken prison until the corn germinates.

enjoy.

Looking good. I'm going to be following your 2013 season, see if I can't learn me a thing or two.