Garden

Everything is growing well. Harvested more turnips, as well and lettuce and spinach. The spinach is done and was starting to bolt. It looks like the broccoli is about done, too. I'm thinking about letting the final florets actually just go to seed before I pull them and see what happens.

Things are growing nicely. We got a burst of hot weather very early this year, so some of the cool season veggies are thinking they're supposed to be done. The broccoli decided to start bolting and I've had a couple of the spinach do the same. Other than that, everything is doing good. Turnips are close to harvest time and I've already trimmed some of the leaves for turnip greens. Here are the latest pictures:

Andy,
You're making my planned garden looking sick!!! My seeds are doing great under the grow light and heat lamps. They will go outside in a couple weeks. Some of the tomatoes I've had to stake already!

Good idea.

Here are some updated pics...things are coming along nicely and it will be time to plant warm season veggies soon.

This first pic is rather interesting. I had grown horseradish last year, starting in a pot, then in the potato box, then in just a couple feet of extra dirt near one of my compost boxes. I removed all the dirt and even cleared the ground a bit and now have some rogue horseradish growing in that spot. LOL



Strawberries and horseradish in the new whiskey barrel.



Seeds have sprouted and seedlings are growing nicely.











I thought I might throw these in here, as well. We decided to add some bulbs to our front planters to help fill in a bit more. They seem to have filled in nicely and should continue to fill in even more over the years.

Very cool. Yes, scotch bonnets are hot for sure.

I made the boxes of standard lumber, so they can be spruce, pine or fir correct? Yes, I use natural mulches.

Thanks...we're interested to see how our yields are this year. One thing that we're enjoying is that we are learning lots of great techniques for organic methods of gardening. We're looking forward to taking this to a larger scale when we buy a place in the country.

So, what do you do with all the peppers and the tomatoes you grow?

No worries...didn't take it that way. Just adding in a point of clarification.

LOL!

TX Foilhead, I did change the layout a little, but will probably have that issue, regardless.

81 Nautique, I'm trying to do this as more than just a hobby. I want it to expand into a variety of activities that help us be a little more self sufficient.

The last time I planted a seed in a box (that took) the planter started drinking too much and it cost me a fortune to remove it and now the seedling is still growing and eats more and more all the time, continually needs to be moved from one place to the next and that whole thing about talking to your plants, I just don't think mine can hear a word I'm saying???

Oh well, thinking my gardening days are over as well, lol

That stuff up high is taking the light from the stuff below it, spread it around a little more and you should have some better yields.


I have a friend in San Antonio who only grows peppers. He said the Ghost pepper is very temperamental a bout how it's watered. If they have plenty if water then they may not be much hotter than a jalepeno, when they don't quite have enough they get hotter. I think most peppers do that to some degree but they don't have the range that the ghost pepper does.

They are all filled with dirt. The first spring I got a truck bed full of a horse manure compost from a local horse farm. Last year I got a truck bed full of garden ready soil from a local materials place. I'll probably go get some more this year. Not too much dirt, but definitely needed some.

The final harvest that I was talking about earlier. We ended up canning 22 pints of chopped tomatoes. I love that we are able to go to our shelf, rather than the grocery store, when we need maters.







This is the plan for this year...I still haven't decided where I'm going to locate many of the herbs I put around the garden last year. I've been trying to place them throughout the garden, in strategic places, following a companion planting concept.



Here is what the garden looks like right now. I planted onion and garlic in the fall and let them grow over winter. Supposedly, this will give us a better yield.

Melons.

Unfortunately we only got a few small cantaloupe...had some issues with the rabbits. If we have problems with them this year, I have a couple ideas on how we're going to handle them.