Gardening 2007, woot woot.

[Natedogg]

balcony garden 2007

Damn, nice work!

I just spent a few hours getting soil at Home Depot and putting some pots together... Basil, parsley, cukes, and zucchini...

[valleygirl]

balcony garden 2007

basil, parsley, peppermint, rosemary, and a bunch of flowers

wow that looks amazing... to my intense embarrassment, today I raked old leaves off all my flower beds to find sprouts everywhere... along w/a serious moss problem... lots of work to do!! Time to stop being a ski slut...

[lemon boy]

I think almost everything is in, in the last week or so we've planted:
More peas to make up for a curiously lackluster sprouting %
Acorn squash plants (2) + some acorn seeds sprouted
Another set of 10 asparagus (Jersey Giants to go with the Martha Washingtons)
I sowed some alpine strawberries in with the rest
4 varieties of corn (~60days, 65days, 80days & 90days)…we'll see.
A cantalope and watermelon sprouted yesterday
All of the cuces have sprouted
Wall of waters are off the tomatoes

[Odin]

The girl and I have a nice yard going this year.

Marigolds coming up and looking really strong.
Peace Roses 1st bloom right now
Red (not sure which) roses budding strong
Peoni coming along
Red onions are growing just fine in the shade
Rhodie's are looking fan-fucking tastic right now.
I would like to get some carrots and radishes in the ground too and probably will this weekend.

[DamRepublican]

bunch onions and leaf lettuce sprouted yesterday, grew about three quarters of an inch in a day and a half, just waiting on the anaheim and banana peppers, still holding off on my grape tomatoes though.

[lemon boy]

May 23rd/24th-

Actually frosted/froze at my place last night, our "frost free date" is ~5/15 eek. It was cold and rainy yesterday evening so I went out and put the hot boxes back onto the tomatoes, everything else is relatively hardy. This morning both boxes had a nice ice skin on them. Oh well, pretty sure I'm okay.

The new asparagus set (Jersey Giant) is busting out all over after only a week in the ground, it says you can cut them the first year but I'm going to let it go. All my corn has sprouted and seems okay, same with the acorns and melons. Most of our 2nd year berry bushes are going solid and our first round of greens has basically been consumed. Radishes are almost ready to eat. Cuces are going good as are my peas.

[valleygirl]

Anyone have little red beetle creatures on lilies...?? I'm picking them off and squishing them but wonder if there's anything I can do to them that won't hurt my beautiful flowers...

Help?

[valleygirl]

bump for help w/the pesky red lily beetle thingys...? Anybody got anything??

[Crass3000]

any ideas on what is wrong with this plant? is there anything i can do?

its been slowly yellowing over the last couple weeks. seems to be getting worse. i thought maybe overwatering, so i haven't watered it in several days. but it still seems to be going down. ideas?

Looks like the pot you are using has drainage holes so overwatering is probably not the problem (as long as the soil has good composition so that drainage is reasonable)-- but always best to put a layer of rock at the bottom of pots to help with drainage. Your tree may need fertilization or have soil that is the wrong PH. I know in Minnesota typically water is slightly basic alot of plants prefer acidic soil so watering a pot can sometimes take adjusting PH of the water to help the plant.

[snowsprite]

I love container gardening. Balcony gardens can be as awesome as regular gardens...and EZier to maintain

Sprite

[Van_skier]

Update on my balcony garden... As usual, I planted all my stuff a lot later than I should have so now that's it's really hot and sunny in Van and feels like summer my plants seem tiny and puny to me Oh well, I'm sure they'll catch up quick...

my herb corner: (rosemary, mint, chives, tarragon, mint again and spinach)


row of bell & hot thai peppers & tomatoes. In the back, I planted 3 planters of pole beans that will hopefully soon sprout and once they grow, they should create a nice green canopy on the side of the balcony...


the "Super Fantastic" variety of tomato is living up to its name and growing much faster than the others. The cucumbers started to sprout in the planter behind it this morning:


I was going to try planting normal tomatoes in an "upside-down" type planter but I came across a variety of tomatoes developed for hanging planters that is supposed to grow downwards:


Big bowls of lettuce & spinach coming real soon:



My only "decorative" plant outside. I kinda have to take care of it 'cause Shirk gave it to me last year when he was trying to win my heart

[lemon boy]

ate the first strawberry out of the garden this AM (mmmmm) and fucking Sue got past the new corn fence to trample ~10 of my foot high corn plants...fucker.

[valleygirl]

Lilies in full bloom...



This one almost choked out by the lupine...

[train07]

A classic story of garden related miscommunication.

My, then, wife is bending down pulling weeds while I'm working around and about. She's kneeling over this suspect not knowing for sure whether it's a weed or not asks me, "would you pull this?"

I walk over, see she's all dirty head to feet, look at the thing, am a little confused and say, "Umm, why don't YOU pull it?"







okay, ya had to be there

[Buster Highmen]

8 tomato plants just busting up w/ green fruits. A couple wads of flat leaf parsely, couple wads of cilantro. 32+ basil plants. 1 cucumber, 2 squash, 5 dill plants
35+ sunflowers. And a ton of flowers, both in the veggie bed and in boxes around the deck.

pics? that would be uncharacteristic.

[lemon boy]

Ate the first tomato of the year yesterday. It was good. We have six tomato plants and they have a couple hundred greens on right now, it's about to get ugly. Cuce's have started to go off, pulling about 3-10 per day. Have a small okra forest and ~3 big broc's.

Corn has tassled out largely and is chest high to overhead. Peas are basically done.

Watermelon and cantalope have set fruit.

All of the greens and cilantro are bolting.

Wife's heading out of town for 3.5wks on Friday so I'm about to fall REALLY BEHIND on the eating from the garden.

[Van_skier]

spinach that was eaten last night:


hot thai pepper looking nice:


bell peppers coming along:




cucumbers:


lettuce:


tomatoes:


"Tumbler" tomato plant that grows sideways and downward for hanging baskets... (yes, I was a little late on the watering ):


green beans (pole) creeping up the strings to make me a nice canopy:

[Natedogg]

Pix of my potz. Parsley, green unjuns, zucchis, catnip, basil, forget the other thing there... Never had time to grab the tomatos, more cukes, peppers, etc.



Im getting some yellowing/browning on some zucchini and cuke plants--is it too much water or not enough?? Im watering these damn things usually once a day.

[The AD]

Im getting some yellowing/browning on some zucchini and cuke plants--is it too much water or not enough?? Im watering these damn things usually once a day.

Maybe nitrogen deficiency? Have you fertilized lately? It's possible you're watering too much and flushing some of the nutrients out.

Here are a couple recent photos.

Pardelinum lily


Passionflower (a friend's, not mine, what a cool flower though!)


I'm having mixed luck with my tomato plants. Some are going great guns, others look like they haven't really done much since I planted them.

[cranked]

I had always wanted some bamboo, so I grabbed this at a nursery. When I potted it, it was in bad bad shape...about 6 weeks later, it is starting to come around...

6/1/07


7/9/07

[Sutter]

bamboo is super resilient, nice work bringing that baby back!

god bless California!


I love my garden even though it's in the beginning stages, we only moved here 2 months ago!

[lemon boy]

Picked >30 tomatoes yesterday plus probably 15 the day before. Canned up 2 pints plus a half pint of gooseberry jam yesterday. After about 2 weeks of occasional picking I have a good old mess of okra in the freezer. Cucumbers are slowing down so I replanted some for the fall, still picking ~5 of those. Planted another round of okra where the lettuce stuff came out of. Next round of strawberries is starting to ripen. Part of the corn is nearly done, nother week. Watermelons area most done too. Pretty good haul right now.

[Natedogg]

Maybe nitrogen deficiency? Have you fertilized lately? It's possible you're watering too much and flushing some of the nutrients out.

That seemed to do the trick! Thanks!

The damn zucchinis are not producing ANY fruit. Is this a pollination problem? Lots of flowers have come and gone...

[Ripzalot]

nice gardening y'all!

my ongoing harvest....nothing better than homegrown!

cherry tomatos



strawberries



flowers (i forget type)



marigolds



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[The AD]

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