How is your vegetable garden doing?

[arcadian]

Our broccoli is going gangbusters, cool weather and lots of rain has been good to the broccoli. The potatoes are doing well, onions are doing well, but the lettuce, spinach, arugula and mesclun didn't do too well, we had a week of hot weather that made everything bolt pretty quickly. Tomatoes are doing OK but voles have gotten a few of the plants. Verdict isn't out on the beets, but they take a long time and they look pretty good. Radishes completely failed, not a one, the seeds were old anyway. So, how is your garden doing?

[vadawg]

1. better than yours it seems :P

[Moondog]

2. Mesclun? Had to Google that one.

Thanks for the lesson. Learned something new today.

[Lex]

3. tomatoes, peppers, leeks, basil, tomatillos, and cukes are all doing well

was happy to get some rain today

[leftyclimber]

4. Everything's going berserk.

Our upside-down tomatoes are doing much better than last year, when something made them sick, and the peppers seem to like upside-down-ness, too. Cukes are coming up, spinach is still at a point where it looks more like crabgrass, herbs are flourishing, and I've never seen beans sprout and grow as fast as these guys have. The white eggplant's not doing a whole lot, but we've never planted one before, so I have no idea what it's supposed to be doing at this point. The Japanese eggplant's already starting to get blossoms. Onions are starting to look more onion-y, and we have an absolute riot of shallots. (This is an 8' x 8' apartment plot.)

It's been astonishingly rainy here (north-central WV) this spring, so we had to plant really late. I'm really pleased with how everything's doing. We're going to be awash in fresh produce.

[arcadian]

9. I forgot to mention all our herbs.

Lemon basil, thai basil, basil, oregano, sage, dill, chives, several types of lavender, mint, thyme, rosemary, parsley, cilantro. Sounds like your garden is doing well. :hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

5. The onions and garlic are curing in the shed. The wax beans are almost ready to eat.

We don't have any beets, lettuces or radishes left --those are winter/early spring crops here.
The tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant are in ground and growing quickly in spite of the recent cool weather. Cukes, squashes and pumpkins are toddling along.

It looks like it will be a banner year for plums. The fruit are enormous already.
The caper bush is putting on a lot of growth quickly and I may be able to salt cure some capers from it this year, but it's worth growing for the flowers alone:

[leftyclimber]

7. Cool! I've never seen a caper plant before. nt

[arcadian]

10. Reminds me of a hibiscus. n/t

[Left Is Write]

6. We are doing well with green onions, peas, peppers, cucumbers, and pumpkins.

Tomtatoes are iffy. Strawberries are being eaten by bugs.

[MorningGlow]

8. Coming along slowly

But it's been f'in cold here. Seeds have sprouted and everything's a few inches high. Tomato plants (not from seeds) are about 5". It'll be a while before I can have a salad, I think.

[NV Whino]

11. It's been cool

so the lettuce is hanging in there. Tomatoes are sloooow. I'm getting desperate. pumpkins and squash are doing well. The Gala melons may or may not actually produce fruit. :shrug: Cucumbers are wimpy. Broccoli is good. Jalapenos are disappointing, but the Italian greens should be fine. radishes and turnips are good. Sunflowers are waiting for the sun. I'm sure it's around somewhere.

[crim son]

12. I'm in Maine.

We plant just about now, and that's what I did today. It looks... bare, but not for long!

[Midlodemocrat]

13. Not bad, Mary, Mary, quite contrary.

[arcadian]

14. You can get your new little minions to do some weeding for you.

That is, if you have any control over them. Start by giving them Chairman Mao's Little Red Book, it's great for instilling a sense of community in a young 13 year old.

[triguy46]

15. Broccoli was very good, as was the romaine...

had first new potatoes last week, onions are fantastic (I buy the sets from Dixondale farms), tomatoes setting on. No corn this year, didn't plant any. Strawberries were a record crop. Blueberries are good. Raspberries will be above average.

[HopeHoops]

16. KICK ASS!

We've been eating out of it for two months now. More to come!

[BarenakedLady]

17. And now I cry...

:cry:

No garden this year as I'm moving at the end of the month. I should start planning for next year's garden to make me feel better.

[Inchworm]

19. I'll be glad to..

fill yer 'mater bucket.

Of 20ish in containers.. only 1 dead so far :P

:wow:

[BarenakedLady]

26. That sounds naughty.

Heh.

[Gormy Cuss]

24. Hey! Buy a tomato plant, put it in a 5 gallon pot and take it with you.

Or when you move into the new place, plant a flat of lettuce and herbs. You have such a green thumb that it would be a shame to miss a whole season.

[BarenakedLady]

25. I thought about doing that.

Thanks. :)

[Inchworm]

18. Here are a few pics of the critters

hehe. I'll figure it out this weekend :P






:hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. Shitty

The fucking deer RIPPED DOWN THE DEER FENCE and ate everything but the leeks and broccoli.

[cbayer]

21. I am growing a couple of tomato plants hydroponically.

I live on a boat, so soil was going to be a problem. I got these cool foamy things and they are doing great! Lots of flowers and I think I saw my first teeny, tiny tomato today.

Anyway, it's an experiment, but so far, so good.

:hi:

[midnight armadillo]

22. Non-existent

I do not become a landowner (er, mortgage-payer) until June 25. Move-in day is a month later...way past planting season. However, the compost pile for next spring's planting will be started immediately after closing.

[hibbing]

23. Things are growing

Hi,
I did some lettuce in flower boxes for the first time and I cannot believe how much production I got from them. Radish plants grew like crazy, the radishes themselves, not so much. Tomatoes starting to take off. I'm doing bush cucumbers in containers and they seem to be taking off this week. On the not positive side, my sunflowers and marigolds are getting eaten by some kind of insects!

Peace

[WinkyDink]

27. Where are all you guys? I'm in PA, and just planted tomatoes the other day!

[femmocrat]

33. We had a late frost in western PA, too. We never plant tomatoes until Memorial Day.

Superstitious, I guess! :hi:

[conscious evolution]

28. 10' sugar snap pea plants

They are huge.
Butterbean vines are approaching 10' feet and are starting to flower
Squash plants are producing two or three squash a day.
Zuchini and cucumbers are starting to flower but are not doing as well as the rest of the garden.
Strawberrys are still producing a couple a dozen a day.
Corn looks like it will be knee-high in july.
Fig and pomegranete and apple trees are loaded with flowers.
Chickens are laying lots of eggs.Especially the one named Lunch.She seems to know what her name means and is trying to put off the day for as long as possible

[old mark]

29. We are growing the vegies in large post on the patio -

we have 4 tomatos and several bannana peppers, as well as pole beans and various herbs. In the yard, we have blueberries and the fig tree, plus 2 more tometo plants with buds. We got a late start - we had frost later than usual and are still cool and rainy.

mark

[femmocrat]

30. Not bad, considering it was a cold, wet May in western PA.

We put in a huge raised bed garden this year, and everything is doing well. We converted the old garden to a pumpkin patch, and so far everything is doing well.

I went to a plant sale early in May, and they had a big basket of free (last year's) seed packets. I started pumpkins, cukes, corn, peas, melons, and lettuce all from free seeds! :)

I still have to plant a lot of those sprouted seeds outside, when they get big enough. This is the best time of the year!

[Blue_In_AK]

31. We've had an early spring,

so I got my veggies in the ground about the third week of May. I haven't lost any of the starts I put in, and all the seeds are coming up. We're having a much better summer so far than last year. Salad is the only thing I can harvest now, but that's okay. By mid-July I'll be getting peas, broccoli, beans, etc. Carrots and cabbage in August.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. don't grow too well here outside, but my husband will be building me a little greenhouse this summer, so next year (or maybe even this year if we get it done in time) I'll be able to grow some of those more warm-weather crops.

[femmocrat]

32. About your greenhouse.....?

Is he building it "from scratch" or did you buy some kind of a kit?

I really, really want a greenhouse as well! Thanks! :hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

36. He's going to build it from scratch.

I've got just a small area, about 8' x 4' where it'll fit (where my compost bin currently is at the end of the garden). Our yard is really small, the garden takes up about half of it, so we don't have much space to work with. I don't think they make kits small enough for our area.

[carlyhippy]

34. seeing it's 46 degrees right now, not too well right now...

the plants I bought are doing ok, no seeds have sprouted, hopefully it will warm up enough, lots of farmers need some sun for the crops here, too.

[cwydro]

35. My tomatoes have finished for the year.

Too hot down here now. But I have melons on the vine!

[RiffRandell]

37. Pretty good.

Our radishes are doing great, so are our green beans. Cukes, zuke and squash leaves were a little yellow so we did organic food, Tomatoes are good, carrots fair. Strawberries aren't doing so well, but my lemon tree has really taken off.

[jellen]

38. we only have tomatoes

And they froze a few days ago so we had to replant.

[proud patriot]

39. We have lots of Artichokes , Apples , Peaches, Yellow Squash

Zucinni, Lettuce , Green Beans , and peas . My Tomatoes
are just starting . I also have Sweet Peppers and Hot Peppers
I started them from seed and they are still tiny just getting
their second set of leaves .

Yummy