Garden 2006
 

The 2005 thread was in Quality Images, but there doesn't have to be an image to post to this thread. I just thought I would maybe keep a garden thread again and if anyone else has things growing, you post them along too.

Jacquelita and I bought the seeds for this year, the plan involves:

1. BASIL MARSEILLE
2. THYME ENGLISH
3. ORGANIC HERB - ITALIAN OREGANO
4. BROCCOLI PACKMAN HYBRID
5. BRUSSELS SPROUTS DIABLO HYBRID
6. CARROT POT O GOLD HYBRID
7. CARROT SCARLET NANTES
8. SPINACH MELODY HYBRID
9. SQUASH CREAMY IMPROVED II HYB.
10. TOMATO PLUM DANDY HYBRID
11. TOMATO BIG BEEF VFFNT
12. TOMATO GLORY

I think I could handle a third 8x3' bed. Let's see, one tomato and herbs, one broccoli and carrots and squash, one spinach and brussels sprouts.

No zucc on this order. The squash will be enough.

Thanks UT. I'll try to hold up my redneck garden end. But goodfriday is late this year. Most old folks around here never plant till then. I might cheat.

Good Friday? :eek: Up home we couldn't plant anything but peas before Memorial day.

right now.. I have seedling started for

red peppers
sweet basil
royal opal basil
fennel
dill weed
roma and grape tomatoes
shallots (well.. not seedlings obviously)
elephant garlic

living down here gives me access to about a 1/4 acre of prime georgia soil. although I don't have the time to work that much land.. the idea surely is tempting.

on a side note, my father who knows quite a bit about plants and gardening brought this little tid-bit to my attention.. apple trees don't breed true to species.. which has me wanting to plant a ton of apple trees just to see what I get. jhonny appleseed be damned!

I've got a few going... I winter sowed some Nigella and Convolvulus. It's my first time winter sowing, so we'll see what happens.
Downstairs I have some Imperial Star artichokes (one popped up today!!), and some Beaverlodge plum tomatoes (which all popped up in about three days and have grown 1/2" just today - freaky).
Tonight my son planted some misc. annual seeds.
I have all of my materials on order for the greenhouse I'm going to build in the back yard, but they won't make it until the next barge which is 2 weeks away. :( I hope I can get it done before we take off on our trip.

This is the first year that I will be able to garden since our house burned down, so I am probably going to be giving my soul to the local garden center. (but seeing that my soul is probably overdrawn, it won't do them much good).

You are all very ambitious, dedicated gardners. I am going with more lavender, sage, climbing rose (red one--my house is white with black shutters), pumpkins and new peonies in the back and maybe some new evergreen bushes (holly?) for front.

Perhaps some hardy daisy type thing for next to the driveway.

I imagine we'll have several bean and pea varieties, some carrots, maybe corn (although we lose so much corn to the raccoons it's hardly worth it). Green onions, red onions, tomatoes, some cilantro, cayenne or habanero peppers, and if i'm lucky, some okra. Growing okra in Colorado is pretty hilarious -- you get a knee-high plant, if you're lucky, with maybe 2 okras a week on it. Our cousins in MS get a kick out of that -- they send pics of okra plants that are 7 feet tall.

Gardening time is the only time I get jealous of all my southern relatives.

Blimey, didn't realise we had a horticultural section here as well!

The wife's the expert here - she has a penchant for growing cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets amongst other things (I think peppers are in there somewhere, but in normal pots as opposed to being suspended and hanging several feet above ground level) - the greenhouse is about due for its spring clean and seeding session I believe. Flower-wise it was geraniums mainly last year - not sure what's in store for 2006 -I'll try to get a rundown to add to those above...

The soil is poor in upstate NY. Still...getting my hands dirty is one thing I miss a lot. Three or four pots of tomatoes and such will have to suffice.

Extracting some info from SWMBO - hanging basket tomatoes are Tumbling Toms which will be repeated this year - excellent heavy croppers , very sweet. Waiting for the decision on the variety to be potted at ground level - last year's didn't have the flavour. Also learned that the pots need to be thoroughly cleaned and compost changed to prevent any return of last year's leaf blight. Looks like peppers in the green house - again waiting to learn which variety.

Sounds nice. I, however, have a black thumb. If it can't make a noise to tell me it needs food or water then I will forget it exists.

Just have to plug our community garden for seniors that won a 2005 greening award. Here is a bike basket delivery shot from last summer. Going to plan more for this year.

Meanwhile, an 8" wet march snowstorm just pinned some of my baby trees to the mat this morning. awful pretty though.

That's a hell of a basket. A load of zucchinis could blow out the tire.:lol:

Its true. Mostly beans, carrots, tomatos, peppers, and herbs. If we had the UT/Jax bumper of zuchs, it would require a trailer.

all the raw ingredients for homemade salsa are headed for our garden:

roma tomatoes
tomatillos (yes, together!)
bell peppers (green, red, yellow)
jalapenos (and other hot ones: cowhorns, anaheims, pimentos...)
garlic
onions
cilantro (aka coriander)
basil
limes (still have to come from the store)

I can't wait to fire up the ol' cuisinart! The 2 of us can go thru a 1/2 gal. container in a single standing.