How does your garden grow?

[Larro Darro]

Where I come from we call it getting the crop "laid by".
I planted a small garden for my Mother and planted an extra bunch of tomatoes. Earlier in the week I ran the tiller where I could and "hilled" up dirt around plants, creating a good trench alongside the plants to hold water. Today I talked to my Mom by phone. She told me what else she (at 91) had done in the garden and said "I think we can call it laid by"

Folks call it laid by here too. I may be using side dressed in the wrong place. It was a term Daddy used when laying by the corn. The distributor bolted on to the cultivator and you got a neat little line of fertilizer right beside the row of corn.

After I had put out about half of my 13-13-13/15-0-15/mushroom mulch/potting soil mix I realized that if I didn't go around the plant, but just put it down beside the row, I could cover most of it with the push plow.

 

[Larro Darro]

I planted corn, peas and melons in a food plot this morning. Later I did a 2nd planting of peas, green beans and sweet corn in the garden. I transplanted 12 pepper plants into the ground {for 30 in all}. Put a few Lemon Pear tomatoes and 3 six packs of pepper sprouts into pots. Have about 10-15 six packs left. There is several tomato plants in gallon pots that have to be up-potted soon.

A few of my peach trees had two trees per pot, so I re-potted them. More planned for tomorrow.

 

[Larro Darro]

I picked green beans yesterday and Margie used them in two different dishes. Both with red potatoes, but one of them with a chicken breast. Turned out very good.

Today I picked the squash and cucumbers. These cukes must be from the $.25 packs I bought at Dollar Tree. They are not the same as what I have been growing for the last couple of years.

 

[Larro Darro]

Here are the pepper plants I put in the ground yesterday, and the sprouts I potted today.

 

[Larro Darro]

The Yellow Pear tomato is really packing on the fruit.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Tilled and planted my garden last night. Corn,green beans, cabbage, peppers, tomatos, cucumber, and cantalope. Need to get some seed potatos yet.

 

[MossRoad]

Got most of our garden in this week.
Several varieties of tomatoes, peppers, celery, beans, peas and cucumbers. Dug out the June bearing strawberries for good! Our everbearing strawberries are doing great. Fall Gold raspberries are doing well, too. Concord grapes seemed to survive the frost two days ago. And our first year for rhubarb, the plants look great. Cantaloupe are in, too. Carrots and spinach will go in soon.

And we planted 450 Canna lillies Monday, and gave 350 away.

 

[MossRoad]

The Yellow Pear tomato is really packing on the fruit.

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That's my favorite tomato! :licking: Just planted 4 plants today. :thumbsup:

 

[Larro Darro]

Got most of our garden in this week.
Concord grapes seemed to survive the frost two days ago.

Is that much later than normal? We have had a cool spring, slowing the garden.

 

[Larro Darro]

That's my favorite tomato! :licking: Just planted 4 plants today. :thumbsup:

This is my first time growing them. So far, I'm liking them.