Vegetable Gardening

[GLC1968]

Acorn squah was unplanned vegi for us. It had sprouted from a compost pile somehow. so we transplanted and wondered what it would turn into. Voila, we got acorn squash.

We have the same thing, but we don't yet know what our compost plant will be. It's definitely of the squash/melon family. I'm guessing canteloupe, but it could be acorn...or pumpkin...or spaghetti... Luckily, I don't think it's *another* zucchini!

[OakLeaf]

Wow, that's very unusual. Squash is promiscuous - it'll cross-pollinate with any other squash in the neighborhood, plus grocery store squash is invariably hybrid. So the chance of getting a recognizable volunteer squash is very, very slim. Congrats!

And, we had an unexpected 3/4" of rain this afternoon. With luck, this will break the cycle of hot and dry that makes the big storms dissipate before they get here - <fingers crossed>

I messed up yesterday and didn't pick a 4" zucchini and a 6" zucchini. One good thing about the drought is that they only doubled in size overnight. They're safely in the fridge now.

And, DH is home, trimmin' green beans as I type.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I messed up yesterday and didn't pick a 4" zucchini and a 6" zucchini. One good thing about the drought is that they only doubled in size overnight. They're safely in the fridge now.

Too funny!
I'm glad you got a nice little rainfall.

We are having yet MORE thunderstorms today, and more coming tonight. This has been the rainiest 6 weeks that I can ever remember in my life.
Oddly, the gardens have been doing ok, if slowed down a bit due to much fewer sunny days.

At the farmer's market today I bought some more stuff for growing sprouts-
another sieve-topped jar, and some mung beans and 'salad mix' sprouting seed. Cool that it's all so cheap! I had also gotten a hemp sprouting bag, which is good for sprouting the larger beans and peas that don't need light for sprouting- like the mung beans i just bought.
So i already ate my broccoli sprouts from last week, I have a half-grown batch of alfalfa sprouts growing in a jar, some experimental flax, and am about to start some mung beans after soaking, in the hemp bag and will start some 'salad mix' seeds in my other new jar.

I feel like I'm back in the 70's for some reason.

[GLC1968]

Ah, sprouts! I haven't done any yet, but I really want to. I just haven't had time to do the research and get started.

I have this page bookmarked for when I do though. I've heard it's chock full of helpful info:

http://www.sproutpeople.com/

[spokewench]

I promised a while back that I would send pictures of my garden; and of course, I am a bit challenged when it comes to attaching pictures. Just trying to figure it out. I have not figured out how to attach multiple pictures in the same email. So, here goes, attached, (I hope) is a pictures of the pots in my front yard with vege plants. There are tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber, zuchini, bell pepper out there that are doing real well. This was an experiment this year since my garden is slightly shady in the back yard and I was in search of the most sun out by my driveway. Already, we have had a couple of red tomatoes which is unheard of at my 7,000 foot elevation mountain garden in July. Hope the attachment comes through.

[arielmoon]

I am in envy of all these gorgeous gardens!

I am soooooo frustrated with my garden this year. I do containers since I live in a condo. I had a gorgeous tomato plant in a topsy turvey that got demolished by caterpillars in several hours. Grrrr. Now my smaller cherry tomato plants have been ravaged by some sort of bugs.

I just want to cry!


My peppers, at least, are doing ok.

[papaver]

My peppers, at least, are doing ok.

For now.

[spokewench]

Here's one of my raised beds; tomatoes, herbs, zucchini, green beans, marigolds

[spokewench]

Here's my perennial garden next to my raised vege garden beds

[spokewench]

That's all the pictures I can put in now; for some reason, it won't upload the other pictures I took at the same time as I took these others? Anyway, I just picked a huge bag of chard and will make something for dinner with that.

I'll keep trying and get a few more pictures up later.

spoke

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Spoke, those are just wonderful pictures!
I love all those pine trees, and how you got creative to take advantage of the full sun along your driveway. Clever.
I love seeing everyone's gardens- they are all so beautiful with their lush green things growing in all different types of environments!

Here is my old little veggie garden, which is now totally bursting with stuff. We've been harvesting huge amounts of fresh lettuces from it, with no end in sight yet. Most of the bright lightest green you see here is Black-seeded Simpson leaf lettuce. It's very quick growing. Tomatoes are along the right wall, and bok choy nearest the camera, along the path. Also some romaine along the left side of path, further up.


And this morning the fence guys finally started erecting the big fence for the large new veggie garden which was previously useless back lawn. They are supposed to finish the fence in another two or three days:

You can just see some of the green rows of baby seedlings sprouting up in the garden already. They mostly about 2" high now, and are from the seeds i planted two weeks ago. I made a new sowing yesterday, and will plant more seeds in another two weeks again- this will hopefully make for staggered maturity times.