How does your Garden Grow

Nice Greenhouse Kari , i was looking at some but my budget want let it happen at the time , Yes the repot has been in my schedule started but need to mix more dirt .. Hey Joe peaches I hear ya i am going to have pears for sure this year its fullll .! The boxes i have still need cleaning from last year can't believe all the roots and grass? Flowers what ever that's in them , ran over one and found the treated 1X10 s I bought are rotting !?!?! Got a carb. for the Mantis cultivator and been going since other tiller gas prime fired right up Good Boy ! Your looking good !

It is tough to have a nice lawn when your neighbor has other ideas.






Mows the lawn once a month and takes all day to do it.
Last year watched as he blew-up the lawnmower -- billowing out burning oily smoke and kept running the mower until it quit.
The poor neighbor that I take care if her (Nicki) yard has had massive weeds in her yard, and a grass fungus that started over in her neighbor's yard and she paid $1200 to treat the problem that was creeping into her yard from the neighbor's yard because grass he cuts he just leave the clumps of grass and it becomes mold and mildew and lets the fungus grows.

I find it interesting to watch maple trees growing out of the gutters in mid-June that are about  18" tall.

Not the most like neighbor on the street (parties starting at 10:00pm at night.)
Intimidates the older (seniors) neighbors on the street.
Ethnicity has nothing to do with it either. (Hispanic)

The backyard of our lakeside summer house having flowers my wife celebrates the spring sneaking in with..we spend here more and more time as weather permits..a small airfield 6 miles away sees me and my COX RC toyplanes each weekend

So nicely tended Andras.  The climate there must be very friendly.  I haven't seen grass that looked that good outside of a park or nursery.  You must have a gardener, or more likely part of an association with a maintenance agreement.

I spent hours yesterday mowing my property.  60" riding Cub Cadet.  

Thanks, Bob, actually we tend our garden ourselves. My scope is mowing, and keeping the irrigation pump alive..we use soil water only, and it has some dissolved salts that often precipitates and needs cleaning up the nozzles and piping. We also add seasonal fertilizers.
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Hi sosam117,
The rule here is you have to cut 'grass' when it is 2ft tall for some reason.
Most gardens here are almost like baloghs beautiful garden.
Some people do not like yellow dandylions on green lawns.
Best one I have seen here yet...
Native grasses you can wade a path through, smell flowers on the way.
Just take a hand scythe with you. to keep to the 2ft limit.
Zero need for mowing.
And birds and bees like it.
(I fly model airplanes because I like birds and bees, for some reason)
I like that.
Thanks CEF,
Take care,
Have fun,
Dave

getback wrote:Nice Greenhouse Kari , i was looking at some but my budget want let it happen at the time , Yes the repot has been in my schedule started but need to mix more dirt .. Hey Joe peaches I hear ya i am going to have pears for sure this year it’s fullll .! The boxes i have still need cleaning from last year can't believe all the roots and grass? Flowers what ever that's in them , ran over one and found the treated 1X10 s I bought are rotting !?!?! Got a carb. for the Mantis cultivator and been going since other tiller gas prime fired right up Good Boy ! You’re looking good !

hey Eric , I bought a 7x7x10 greenhouse on line for $80 . Not near as nice as Keri’s but it gets the job done

akjgardner wrote:

getback wrote:Nice Greenhouse Kari , i was looking at some but my budget want let it happen at the time , Yes the repot has been in my schedule started but need to mix more dirt .. Hey Joe peaches I hear ya i am going to have pears for sure this year it’s fullll .! The boxes i have still need cleaning from last year can't believe all the roots and grass? Flowers what ever that's in them , ran over one and found the treated 1X10 s I bought are rotting !?!?! Got a carb. for the Mantis cultivator and been going since other tiller gas prime fired right up Good Boy ! You’re looking good !

hey Eric , I bought a 7x7x10 greenhouse on line for $80 . Not near as nice as Keri’s but it gets the job done

Thanks Joe

continuing to work on the garden area. Tomatoes, squash and potatoes coming along nicely, everything else is feeding the rabbits ,squirrels and bugs

Beautiful Joe, what are the finials on top of the posts? Great spots for solar powered lights.

rsv1cox wrote:Beautiful Joe, what are the finials on top of the posts?  Great spots for solar powered lights.  

thanks Bob , yes , they are Solor lights . They have nine colors you can choose from. I picked boring white !!!

At least mine isn't the only garden growing slow , just now starting to get a few tomatoes , Roma and Sant Marz been having blossom rot treating that with Cal-Mag then the sprayer took a dump !!! Planted corn twice or 3 times now finally starting to pop up .. cucumbers 2nd time planting the ones from pots died when it hit 90F Hot peppers and bells working it ,Basil ,mint out the wy-zoo Beans = 1 mess then stopped now growing again weird year !

Eric , I saw somewhere, where if you crush up a tums and put it around your tomatoes, it will stop blossom end rot , haven’t needed to try it yet . Make sense though .

The greenhouse is like a jungle now

We’ve got a bunch of cucumbers already. Tomatoes are blooming, no harvest yet. Looks like we’ll get some bell peppers and jalapenos too. Chilis, well, not so sure yet.



The cucumbers are so much better than store bought ones.

KariFS wrote:The greenhouse is like a jungle now

We’ve got a bunch of cucumbers already. Tomatoes are blooming, no harvest yet. Looks like we’ll get some bell peppers and jalapenos too. Chilis, well, not so sure yet.



The cucumbers are so much better than store bought ones.

Awesome, I love your greenhouse, mine is just a cheapy but it works good too . My tomato’s zucchini. Yellow squash , blackberries are all about to become ripe enough to pick. Can’t wait to have my first tomato . My potatoes are growing like weeds ( maybe they are weeds ) lol

Thanks! The greenhouse is my wife’s long-time dream.

We had the foundation dug some years ago, when we had a mini excavator hired for other stuff. There’s gravel and styrofoam, then a thin layer of levelin sand, topped with 12x12” concrete pavers. The ground freezes to a couple of feet here every winter, deeper if there’s no snow, hence the styro.

We looked at plastic/aluminium greenhouses, not expensive, but many times they don’t stand the snow buildup, and the cold makes some plastics brittle. The one our neighbour got, fell apart during the first winter. Because of the dogs we need safety glass, and with all these things considered, the wood-frame didn’t cost too much extra. The spot was selected so that the outdoor water tap is close, and the electricity was easy to arrange too. Plus it blocks the view from the neighbour’s yard to our deck

My wife hesitated first, but I persuaded her to find a nice one, and we finally ordered it last summer. She absolutely loves working in there She does a lot of knitting, reading and such in the wintertime, but had no real summertime hobbies before this, besides general gardening. She’s a teacher, and the summer break is 10 weeks here, so this will give her plenty to do.

Hi All,
Nice green houses ! Absolutely Beautiful !
(do they come with air conditioning? )
I planted 12 , 4in high different varieties of tomatoes May 20th.
They are going great, and love this hot/humid weather.
No kidding, chest high in a month, and starting to fruit.
The 'non Winter' here was just weird, but,
Ripe tomatoes here in July will be even weirder...
Sun Ripe tomatoes from the vine,
Are worth it.
(no disrespect to other vegetables/fruits )
Take care,
Have fun,
And mulch...
Dave

Just inside from watering and tying up a few tomato plants when you show you what I got going on I guess , where the corn is suppose to bee ? proud of my kukes finally !

Squirrels ate alll my peaches, rabbits ate the tops to all my beets . And something got my first ripe tomato

OH Man we will bees serving Squirrels and rabbits for supper !

My mother planted a large garden every year in the back yard down over the banking to the flood plain of the Lamprey river.  She always "Planted some for the bugs and some for the critters" we got what was left.  

Stakes and chicken wire are the only answers.  Mark has them around the fruit trees that he has planted here as the deer love the leaves otherwise they will strip them bare over-night.




Ah.........Eric is thinking  -- Venison.  

That fawn is a griller LOL I just ended up putting up some polls and run some string around it twice so far so good Knock on wood !