Lets see your garden !

[mmcmdl]

And what is in it ?

So we have gotten plenty of zuchinis , cherry tomatoes , strawberries , string beans , sunflowers , only 2 full size maters as of now , peppers , NO cucumbers though , they all died . Sorry , the pics got messed up somehow .

 

[DavidR8]

Our garden is a total flop this year, has been for the past three years. We think we have a soil problem as our lot used to be a farm and we understand from neighbours that the previous owner used to dump used oil etc directly onto the ground

 

[jbobb1]

Used to plant a 40'x70' garden when we lived on a farm. I miss it!

 

[rabler]

We've been working on getting a plot gardenable. Unfortunately we really need a small rototiller and/or a better weed control strategy. Probably also need to lime to soil a bit.

 

[WobblyHand]

Only have a small kitchen garden, 4 plots lined with granite cobble stones. In it we (I) grow tomatoes, garlic, onions, cucumbers, some basil, dill, sage, parsley, raspberries, some chili peppers, and a few oddball items in pots, like figs, limes, and orange, and coffee. As usual, things are out of control. Go away for two weeks and the weeds take over! One of the coffee plants is indoors, because it is full of cherries, don't want the birds to get my precious coffee! My coffee plant had a big harvest for this year - first time ever. Might even be able to make a single cup of coffee. I had picked most of it, when this picture was taken. Poor plant needs to be outside, once I pick it clean, I will bring it out to the shade.


My wife is in charge of the flowers. She does a great job of it. When I get outside again, I will take some pics. Put in irrigation for her plants. Mostly drip irrigation. Conserves water by getting the water just at the roots. Keeps down weeds. My irrigation system is run by a Raspberry Pi running OpenSprinkler Pi. It's a heck of a lot more flexible than the old Rainbird controller I had. I can add over 128 zones. Currently running 16.

 

[WobblyHand]

We've been working on getting a plot gardenable. Unfortunately we really need a small rototiller and/or a better weed control strategy. Probably also need to lime to soil a bit.

As I recall, you have plenty of free fertilizer! The best thing I have found for weed control is mulch. Since I'm a lazy guy, I just put chopped leaves down in the garden. Every fall, I have tons of leaves. Used the leaf mulch for my garlic this year and had practically no weeds. The mulch decays and adds organic matter back to the soil. Kind of a win win for me.

 

[rabler]

As I recall, you have plenty of free fertilizer! The best thing I have found for weed control is mulch. Since I'm a lazy guy, I just put chopped leaves down in the garden. Every fall, I have tons of leaves. Used the leaf mulch for my garlic this year and had practically no weeds. The mulch decays and adds organic matter back to the soil. Kind of a win win for me.

Nice garden(s)! I may steal a page from your book and try the OpenSprinkler PI for our roses.

That free fertilizer comes with a variety of weed seeds given the hay residue that gets mixed in. We've used several spreader loads of manure, to the point the soil is probably a bit hot and needs lime, but the clay here needs a good amount of organic matter to be decent soil. We've also added quite a bit of peat moss. I think we're on the right track but it'll take another year or two to get it settled in.

 

[WobblyHand]

Nice garden(s)! I may steal a page from your book and try the OpenSprinkler PI for our roses.

That free fertilizer comes with a variety of weed seeds given the hay residue that gets mixed in. We've used several spreader loads of manure, to the point the soil is probably a bit hot and needs lime, but the clay here needs a good amount of organic matter to be decent soil. We've also added quite a bit of peat moss. I think we're on the right track but it'll take another year or two to get it settled in.

I've learned the hard way about "free fertilizer". Way too many weeds. That being said adding organic material like leaves and grass is good. Every few years, I add in lime. Being in the east we get acidic rain so I need to raise the pH from time to time. A simple slow release fertilizer is alfalfa feed. Adds nitrogen and organic matter. Just check the bags for additives.

 

[savarin]

Our new house is only 627 sq meters and has a 6x6 meter shed and the house on that so not much dirt.
So far have only installed 4 raised beds and some bananas.
The bananas have been a winner and cropped really heavily

30Kg in one bunch.
but the raised beds not so well, wing beans, long beans and tomatoes and potatoes coming along nicely.
I have most of the aquaponics set up but am still waiting for the support structure from the old house to be transported to get that going again.
If you want to see gigantic crops of veggies along with fresh fish when you want them start an aquaponics system.
these fish are called jade pearch and weigh in at 2.2kg and 1.7kg

Its time consuming for the first couple of weeks, about an hour a day but after that its just a matter of keeping up with all the vegetable growth. We cant eat them all ourselves so supply a couple of friends with the excess.
All the different chinese greens, spring onions, tomatoes, all the herbs, beans, snow peas, cucumbers, radish, lettuces, kankong, celery, ochinawa spinich, and some I cant remember, plus the fish all this in a footprint 2.5m x 8m.
Also you can plant everything way closer than in dirt.
Does it sound like I'm proselytizing?
Well I am because I am so impressed with the enormous bounty it produces.

 

[Jim F]

No garden here, we keep what grows over the fence, though.