To celebrate the new gardening forum, I'll post a pic of my latest purchase!
I have carrots, strawberries, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, basil, origanum, parsley, coriander, corn and spring onions. I'll go back for peppers, peas, brinjal and maybe squash. Off planting I go... :D
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Well now..how cute is that lil herb gardem?? Adorable, Cat.
Here is my herb garden. Basil, coriander, parsely, origanum, 2 tomato plants, and a row of chillies at the back. oh, and strawberries. I forgot to get rosemary and chives :o , but there is plenty of room for more.
so far this year, potatoes, peas, green onions and carrots are up...
Here are some pics of our veggie garden taken our first year...oh yeah..the plastic was placed over some red peppers we thought we'd try. Yeah..that didn't work so well. :rolleyes:
We grow completely organic..so consequently have a hard time growing certain things..like cabbage and brocolli...we do really well with most salad fixins. In this pic you can also see the corn we grew...mmmmmmm...good, although we had to buy the plants from a greenhouse due to our extremely short growing season.
Also..please try to ignore the various other distractions from outside our garden...remember those neighbors i told you about?? The ones that think garbage is a form of landscaping?? :mad: Well..you can see a bit of their "landscaping".
Yeah..and also try to ignore the weeds... :o i think it was my turn to weed that week..hehehe.
:) Mel
Jenjen, if I could make a suggestion...you should plant pumpkins!!!!!!!! With that much room even two hills would be fun to grow. I managed 2 hills in my 20'x20' garden last year, and led them onto the grass. The Lumina white ones are a good variety. they're smaller and better suited for cooking. They are really fast growers, I actually enjoyed having them in my garden more than any other vegetable and I used them the least!
Nope not for me I go to the Farmers Market on the weekends and buy my veggies. Just tryong to do my part in keeping the economy going you know. :laugh:
I have carrots, strawberries, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, basil, origanum, parsley, coriander, corn and spring onions. I'll go back for peppers, peas, brinjal and maybe squash. Off planting I go... :D
I like your planting beds.....just big enough.
Jenjen......you could put a couple of fruit trees in your plot. You have tons of room!!
It is pretty and smells wonderful for a couple of days, but it is SO invasive and chokes out the plants around it. I would plant it in a shady spot where you do not care if it spreads as it will in a very short period of time. Getting rid of it is a real chore once it gets hold in a spot where you do not want it. :)
I'm getting the munchies looking at all of those!
I recently bought some strawberries, tomatoes, basil, tyme, rosemary, parsley, onions, sage and garlic. Unfortunately, I don't have a suitable patch so I planted them in flower boxes all along the railing on the deck just off my kitchen. I'm curious (and a bit worried) how they'll grow in there and if the birds are going to get to the fruit first, since the feeders are close by :confused:
A true farm, raise some boys to help out, gotta earn their keep.
Lord knows i need as much exercise as i can get...and harvesting machine?...yea that's what the boys are for....
ah, thank goodness, otherwise you'ld need to get the harvesting machinery in! If you put the veggies at the back, you'll have further to walk to harvest, good excercise though.
ok yea...i'm not filling ALL of that...are you insane!!!...lol....but i'll probably do a 20'x30' section of that...further towards the back...but yea i need ALOT of veggies....lol...i'm try a few new ones this year
:eek: ok miss smarty pants or should I say Farmer Jen! yeh, you need a [I]lot[/I] more plants to fill that field!
Here is my patch! :rolleyes:
ok here's what i've bought so far...i still need a ton more tomatoes and veggies...and here's where my garden is going