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survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 13, 2010 - 10:19pm PT
A little bounty from today.


Here's hoping that you're all eating a little fresh food with lots of trace minerals still in it!!






SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Jun 13, 2010 - 10:48pm PT

All we got up here is cold rain. . .bwaaaaah!
(but it's free agua)!!!!
tinker b

climber
the commonwealth
Jun 13, 2010 - 11:21pm PT
mint and chives is all we have so far. it would be nice if it stopped raining and warmed up a bit.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2010 - 12:13am PT
Wow eKat, we have to start calling you Tomato Woman, your Indian name.

Not Blackberries, but really good Mulberries!

Will post up more bounty as the season goes!


Steve and Tinker, My sisters and other relatives have been complaining about the rain up in the Northwest for weeks.

NM is good for a few things, heh heh......
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jun 14, 2010 - 12:17am PT
I like to combine wild blueberries (flavourful) with store-bought ones (sweet). A good mix. But then, I eat a lot of fruit.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Jun 14, 2010 - 12:23am PT
A mixed year.

The cool wet start did in my tomatoes with fungal diseases and I had to tear them out and start over. The corn took of really slow also.

Damn global warming!

Good for the berries though. I've got 10 gallons of Boisen berries and a gallon of raspberries in the freezer so far.
David Knopp

Trad climber
CA
Jun 14, 2010 - 01:02am PT
Survival are those mulberries in picture 2?
H

Mountain climber
there and back again
Jun 14, 2010 - 01:10am PT
Sure looks like mullberries to me. They are my favorite
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2010 - 02:40pm PT
Wake Of The Flood

In the orchard. Thank you for ditch/acequia flood irrigation!!






The garden where it all goes down.
Includes Malbec and Old Mission grapes.





survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2010 - 09:39pm PT
Yeah girl, and we have already ripped out a couple rows to start the next crop as you can see!

You can also see why I needed that big ladder eh?? Those Apricot trees are 30-40 ft tall!

I could grow some serious medical herb scrips here!!!
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
Seriously, Man, I didn't know she was Your sister.
Jun 14, 2010 - 09:42pm PT
Righteous fruit ranchin', there, Bruce!
Got it goin' on.
Fritz

Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
Jun 14, 2010 - 10:39pm PT
EKAT: Sounds like it is morel-hunting time for you!

For the non-initiated: morel = super-yummy mushroom. They are difficult (but not impossible) to mistake for poisonous mushrooms. Morels like pine-forest areas with disturbed, from logging or fires, soils.
.
tinker b

climber
the commonwealth
Jun 15, 2010 - 12:44am PT
i'm in the north east, not the west. it is supposed to be 80 tomorrow though, and not raining. hopefully that will help the rasberries and blueberries, and everything else in the garden...
rincon

Trad climber
SoCal
Jun 15, 2010 - 01:07am PT
Here's some potatos from our garden...yum!
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jun 15, 2010 - 01:12am PT
hey there survival and all... oh my, in my dreams, only... :(

but i am patient... perhaps years from now, i will once again get my wonderful turn...

i actually DID get to get a small pot of tomatoes last year, with a donated plant... AND some donated brocolli from a gal across the street, so i had a fun time with that...

what i DO HAVE however, i will soon post:

i haveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee taaadaaaa... :)
the ever wonderful milkweed plant!!!

well---if you don't eat too much of it, you actually CAN make soup from the pods, which i did once, from an old aneeshnaabee lady's "kind of" recipe...

but---- what i mean to be so very happy about is this:
the flowers of the milkweed smell so very sweet and lovely... especailly come near evening... the are a fist sized ball, of many spiked buds...

can you IMAGINE the wonderful joy the deer must have this time of year, romping the fields and smelling this over the pine trees...
heavenly.... (i used to SEE where they bedded down, under these milkweed areas, when i used to live across town, near to the woods... )...

well, i have this, around my pond, as i transplanted them, but--all around here, the natural land, eases in, anyways... but i miss the other side of town, however...

well, i will post some pics of my pond area, a little tiny tub sized patch of dirt... if i get a job by next year, i could plant veggies, but there really is not much sun at all.. would have to have moveable push carts, etc....

but i will try to go gather black and blue berries, soon...
*this was my punch line, you all... ;)





well, i will be back later, tonight or morning, with the neat pics...

wow, have fun cooking and eating all this stuff...




oh, say, tinker b... i DO have mint (love mint) :)... but these last two years, it keeps turning DARK spotted on the ends... :( do you know why???


well, all for now... :)
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
Seriously, Man, I didn't know she was Your sister.
Jun 15, 2010 - 01:14am PT
Hey, NeeBee, if you like mint, we've got MILES of it.
They grow the heck out of it here.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jun 15, 2010 - 02:00am PT
hey there say, captain... or skully... :)

say, yes, i love it... use it for tea, too...

say, do YOU have any idea why my patch is getting dark speckles on the leaves... ?

it is a new patch, transplanted from the grandkids house... growing faster this year... but this year, far worse, than last year, it is getting kind of ruined, before i can use it...

have you ever seen this... i will try to post a picture later, when i post the other pics...

got to work on my "project" first though, or i will get behind on a goal...

wow, thanks for the share...always nice to hear from you...

wow, better to have miles of mint, i reckon, than miles of
poison ivey, huh... :) :)
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
Seriously, Man, I didn't know she was Your sister.
Jun 15, 2010 - 02:06am PT
Well, actually, there's miles of THAT, too. (dammit!)
I dunno about spots, though. It's wetter there, though, maybe?
Moldiness can kill plants in a lotta ways. Just guessin'.........
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2010 - 04:18am PT
neebs,
There is always a greenhouse or nursery nearby that will tell you what is wrong with your plant, if you take them a sample.
They will always tell you about a fix also.
Thanks for posting.
B
Fritz

Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
Jun 15, 2010 - 04:01pm PT
Ekat: I grew up hunting morels and gradually expanded to a few other "hard to mis-identify-----and die" mushrooms. Even took a course once.

It is best to go out with a local----after studying a book on the subject.

I agree, it is a scary subject, for those that don't know.

survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2010 - 12:24pm PT
As the summer advances, so do the fruits of our labors. Hopefully!

All photos taken this morning.


Amber's apple tree. Not ripe yet.



Peaches, READY FOR SLURPING!




The big apple tree. Bigger and sweeter, not ready yet.


Wine Grapes. Coming along nicely, but not ready.


More in a bit folks!


survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2010 - 03:40pm PT
And now onto another food type!


Big Jim Green Chile Peppers, the sweetest, the best.





Squash, cukes, coming along.
We have to plant them a bit later to get around the heinous squash bugs!



Eggplant.


More Peppers.

BooDawg

Social climber
Paradise Island
Jul 22, 2010 - 03:53pm PT
Anyone like bananas, mangoes, avos, and breadfruit??

Lynne Leichtfuss

Trad climber
Will know soon
Jul 22, 2010 - 04:06pm PT
Survival, I too have a Bumper crop of delicious Mulberries. Also have apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums and a ton of Anna apples. They grow abundantly here in my climate. Veggies include zucchini, yellow squash, saucer squash and tomatoes. Limited on what I can grow cause I'm not around much and they have to take care of themselves......and of course avocados. I also have a macadamia nut tree that produces many nuts every year. Oh yeah, couple of orange trees, lime trees, kumquat tree...a big sage bush and a few boysenberries. If I could afford H20 I'd be in fat city.

Nice to hear from Yo All and your growing adventures. :D lynnie
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2010 - 04:23pm PT
Nice Lynne! Uh.....pictures please?


BooDawg, Awesome! Do you have pix of your trees?
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2010 - 06:25pm PT
Maters...

More...Maters..


Malbec coming along too!
Captain...or Skully

Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
Jul 22, 2010 - 06:29pm PT
Ah, the fruits of the vine!
Good stuff, Bruce.
My garden has grown like sh#t this year.
Maybe my green thumb has turned brown.
BrianH

Trad climber
santa fe
Jul 22, 2010 - 06:33pm PT
It's been a tough year for gardening. Last night I harvested the 'taters and a kuke, yummy! I have high hopes for my tomato(e)s and the raspberries are OFF THE HOOK. We ate salad for about ten weeks but now it's all bolted. The rains look to be starting up again, so maybe it's time to plant some more.

Fingers still crossed for the artichoke...
sunflower

climber
Jul 25, 2010 - 10:34am PT
Nice garden.
Wade Icey

Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
Jul 25, 2010 - 12:33pm PT
Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Jul 25, 2010 - 01:32pm PT
Welcome to our gardens @ 3,000ft. Sierra western slope.....
No vegetables yet but the giant lotus' are going nuts....
The water lilies are looking fine....
Our very own Half Dome....
Veggies on their way, tomatoes aren't here until late Aug or Sept....
So while we wait we don't watch them grow, we climb....
With a watchful eye on my master gardener....
The master gardener emerges from a granite crack....
So we can go back to the garden & feed the fish....
Life is great on the western slope.......Berg Heil.

nature

climber
Tucson, AZ
Jul 25, 2010 - 01:35pm PT
whoa.... badass on the Lotus flower. Wow!

I didn't do much in the garden this year. It's a good thing as I'm moving out in a week. I did plant peppers and Basil. I'm about to harvest 27 million pounds of basil. Gallons of pesto anyone? Pesto Sushi?
BW

climber
Bishop, CA
Jul 25, 2010 - 03:27pm PT
Here's our humble garden in Bishop where the bright Sierra sun makes the plants extremely happy and productive. Funny how fast they grow, especially when you're not watching them and going climbing instead. Thank the heavens for automatic drip systems. See complete story at:
http://adventuresportsjournal.com/content/current-issue
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2010 - 05:22pm PT
HA! I freekin' love that last pic!
Captain...or Skully

Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
Jul 25, 2010 - 06:49pm PT
Super classic, huh?
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jul 25, 2010 - 11:58pm PT
hey there say... oh my... i will have to keep this post fresh here tonight and jump in, just a bit later tonight, with my crop:

or, all that i can grow this year... (other than the mint and catnip)...

yes SIR-REE... folks... i will soon post my small crop of milkweeds, :)


just got to resize some pics... back a bit later tonight...
:))
Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Jul 26, 2010 - 09:29am PT
Great garden BW, Bishopcan Gothic classic!!!!
telemon01

Trad climber
Montana
Jul 28, 2010 - 09:54am PT

Survival,

Our garden here in NW Montana is no match for what you have going on where you are. Peaches? Wow.

Or how about that garden in Bishop? Another reason to drool over the east side of the Sierra's.

We had a late start, we waited until the June monsoon was over, and we planted starts from one of our local organic farmers.



We are sticking to the basics this year; lettuce, garlic, onions, broccoli, kohlrabi, winter and summer squashes, tomatoes, basil, peas, beans,and swiss chard.


So far we have harvested salads, and one round of basil and garlic for my wife's awesome pesto. True bounty won't be for another month.

We also keep a small flock of birds for eggs-


survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2010 - 10:20am PT
Telemon,
That's a beautiful garden! It looks uh....tidier...than ours.

I'm really stoked about my Big Jim chile. You can buy them by the gunny sack around here in central NM, but I've never grown them before.

We have some chickens too, still youngsters, not laying just yet.
I'll take some pics of them later too I suppose.

One of our friendly pest control methods.






Roses still jamming too!


survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2010 - 11:59am PT
Veggies and more PEACHES!!!





neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Aug 4, 2010 - 09:40am PT
hey there say, all....

finally got a chance to get back...

here is my main plant here, or was... it got attacked by aphids, or something... and got all yucky, :(

so i only have a few left... they were so lovely though, but huge...

wanted to see the milkweed pods open... and i still may, if these last, are okay...

here is the sequence:












god bless... happy garden day!
:)













hope you enjoyed the monthly progress...

here now, is my other bit of garden where all this grows:


dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Aug 4, 2010 - 11:50am PT
Here is part of our garden. We have oranges, peaches, avos, nectarines, lemons, blueberries, raspberries, potatoes, peppers, zuchs, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, cucumbers, grapefruits, bananas, apples, snap peas, sunflowers,grapes, pumpkins... Not all are fruiting yet (banana, grapes).
We also have a spice garden with much basil and quite a flower selection.
We decided to go big this year.

Margy is also obsessed with the butterflies, especially the Monarchs so we have much milkweed. We are now on the Monarch migration map.
The Hummingbirds love the yard.


neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Aug 4, 2010 - 07:30pm PT
hey there say, dee ee....

does or did, your milkweed... every get full of yellow bugs (aphids? perhaps)...

and or did it ever start turning brown and ugly-ish on the plant... (not just the pods?)...

i never rmember seeing them, thusway, in the woods... or last year, even.. this year, they looked bad... :(

had a great crop of flowers and butterflies, though!
this trouble is recent, ...

andsay, do you get those small long black and red beatle type bugs on them? i just noticed, that, too... these bugs are using the plants for "mating' ... oh my... i am either doing nature a good service, or a bad one---depending on these bugs... (i will look them up later tongiht) ...
right now, i am on a "tech mouse" hunt...

:)

thanks for any info...
god bless! nice to hear of the butterflies!
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Aug 4, 2010 - 08:12pm PT
Hi Neebee,
I just took a look at the Milkweed and there are no pests of any type on them right now. Just the usual suspects (spiders and bees). We have had other pests on other plants and just sort of deal with it, no pesticides allowed. There are too many kids, dogs, cats, birds, etc. around.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Aug 5, 2010 - 06:49pm PT
hey there say, dee ee.... yeah, i just sprayed soapy water on them... but far too late... next year, i will look sooner... was very busy editing my books, this year, as a lump project, and not dragged out, as the usual way...

say, i DO have some pics of two of the critters using these plants (aside from the bees, and butterfly)...

here you go:

the bugs, and their "honeymoon" spot
(child friendly--as bugs are bugs):

*edit: must have been at least six 'couples' of bugs, there
that day... most likely more, later...




*as you can see, the milkweed leaves, were already turning yellowish, and thus they up and fall off... it could be natural-process, or, it was due to the other tiny yellow bugs, ruining the plant...




haha, oh my.... never took a picture of the "small hords of yellow aphids? or whatever they were)....
hmmm, i may go look that up...


thanks, dee ee.... for the share...
god bless...
:)


survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2010 - 06:53pm PT
eeewwwwww!
Don't worry NeeBee, we all got some bugs!
Just keep up the good fight.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Aug 5, 2010 - 06:58pm PT
hey there say, thanks survival....

say, funny, huh... you can bring in some bugs, to get rid of other bugs...

you can bring in plants, to get rid of some other bugs...

but who'd of thought that i'd bring in a plant, to BRING IN bugs...

:))



ahhhhh, nature, and the ways thereof... a mystery at times...
but always a lesson in progress, and most of the time, a joy....

*not when they eat our tomatoes, though... :(
(not that i have more than three, small ones)... :))
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Aug 6, 2010 - 09:51pm PT
Yo Neebe, as I'm sure you know...that cat is a monarch in metamorphasis.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Aug 7, 2010 - 01:00pm PT
It's been a tough year in Seattle, but we're starting to see some progress. We ate the first tomato from the garden last week.

survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2010 - 01:02pm PT
BIG JIM!!!



And roasting away.
The aroma is to die for!
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Aug 9, 2010 - 01:09pm PT
Bruce, growing peppers in New Mexico doesn't count. That's like growing moss in Seattle. Show us something serious. Peppers in Seattle is 5.12 gardening.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2010 - 02:24pm PT
HA HA hhaaaa!!
Now that's funny.
Does that mean I have to grow moss here to qualify for 5.12???
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Aug 9, 2010 - 03:02pm PT
Does that mean I have to grow moss here to qualify for 5.12???

That would be a start. Or fiddlehead ferns, maybe. Or orchids. But peppers in NM is, well, easy. 5.2 gardening. Kind of like growing rosemary in Seattle.

Peppers a challenge up here. Some years I get a reasonable crop, other years (like this one) are not so great. But it's fun to try. And I somehow always manage to harvest enough to get me through the winter.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2010 - 03:09pm PT
And I somehow always manage to harvest enough to get me through the winter.


I guess that makes you a 5.12 gardener, and me 5.2......sh*t......

Actually, what I like the best are the plants that have the least pests on them!
Fritz

Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
Aug 14, 2010 - 10:36am PT
It is "just peachy" now on the ranchette. Two weeks later than normal, due to the cold April, May, June.

I never plucked a ripe peach from a tree until we moved here.

Tree-ripened peaches are a juicy delight.

Unfortunately, I haven't enjoyed a grocery-store peach, since then. I discovered they now taste like cardboard.

survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2010 - 12:33pm PT
Nice Fritz! Yeah, I'm kinda picky (get it?) about my peaches these days too.

'Maters!! With MANY more to come!





Apples!! Yes, they're a little funny looking, but that's what happens when you try to be Joe Organic instead of Joe Chemical.







Laid up for hard times. That's a helluva lot more work than it looks like, for those of you that haven't done it!





And one special addition just for Ghost.


Yeah man, like growing moss in Seattle!



survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2010 - 01:16pm PT
Grapes!!








And another treat for Mossgrower Ghost!!







Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Aug 31, 2010 - 05:48pm PT
Bad enough you should wound me. But to then rub salt in the wounds? (or rub hot peppers in the wounds)

My pepper crop is pretty pathetic this year. On the other hand we'll soon have enough tomatoes to feed an army.
kbstuffnpuff

Sport climber
State of Confusion
Aug 31, 2010 - 07:53pm PT
Here's a quick look at a garden, harvested 2 weeks ago. Big round of applause for California laws!:
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2010 - 10:16pm PT
Oh my goodneh.......

KB just took things to a whole 'nother level didn't he?

There ain't none of that in my garden.

Although there's some ditch weed growing in these parts.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2010 - 04:37pm PT
Hey Ghost, salt in the wounds? Nah bro, just wishing I could share.



More Peaches!!!





Mutant Peach!!




More 'Maters!





survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2010 - 10:40pm PT
Thanks eKaterina!

My uncle makes those.
Lots of artists in this family.....
murcy

climber
sanfrancisco
Sep 2, 2010 - 12:24am PT

Southwest-facing window; tomatoes and cayennes are going nuts.
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Mar 26, 2011 - 09:10pm PT
Just harvested our first greens from our new mini-raised bed.

It's all chard all the time in our veggie garden! ( We really like fresh chard).... and a few green onions.







TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Mar 26, 2011 - 09:25pm PT
Not a big fan of chard, but last night it was chicken salad with arugula, mustard greens, spinach, baby romaine, beets, carrots and asparagus all from the back yard.

Bad year for the broccoli and cauliflower though. To damn cold!

I've got the corn planted as well as the tomatoes and basil.

Planted some fruit and nut trees this year too.

MisterE

Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
Mar 26, 2011 - 09:36pm PT
Nice list, Kat!

The basil is dead or dying - it didn't survive the deluge-then-freezing-temperatures.

Edit:

Nice raised beds below!
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Mar 27, 2011 - 12:03am PT
YoooWZZZZ!

No snow here in the S. ID high desert, but not much green poking up.

The Asparagus are teasing us, and then freezing back. Had some chives to serve on our state tuber last week.

The Crocus are blooming!

I'm envious for your greenery!
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Mar 27, 2011 - 09:26pm PT
hey there say, all... wow, i may get to have a real garden this year... :) long as i can get some plants, that is... i DO have yard space now!!!! wow, i am so happy to say that!!!!

will let you all know how it goes, and will post pics, too... first there is still a bit more junk from the other folks to get out of here, then, the fence too, will get put back up...

ground is a tad hard, still, but we are getting there...
:)

thanks for all the shares, folks...
:)
tinker b

climber
the commonwealth
Mar 27, 2011 - 10:07pm PT
it's still a little cold here, but i have been giving the grapevines some trimming love. i don't hink they have had any attention since my grandfather died forty five years ago. i've been clearing land that used to be garden for the past few days and it makes me want to settle in and start a garden, and i would if i was in cali or anywhere in the west. so i will give up my patch of dirt for rock climbing...
MisterE

Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
Mar 27, 2011 - 10:30pm PT
SunFarmerBruce. . . you've got some of the coolest bowls. . . I LOVE that wooden one!

:-)

KB has some fine bowls too...some of them are wooden...
Willoughby

Social climber
Truckee, CA
Mar 27, 2011 - 10:45pm PT
My garden is currently on standby:


Poor little guy wants to shed the roof, but at the moment there's nowhere for it to go.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Apr 6, 2011 - 10:44pm PT
Nice crop of weeds, this year.

Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Apr 6, 2011 - 10:45pm PT
Nice ass.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Apr 6, 2011 - 11:14pm PT
Not so well, not so well, I should have planted in the San Rafael Swell.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
May 11, 2011 - 12:34am PT
hey there all, say.... wow, finally i got me a garden!

i mean a REAL one--as--the last few years i did try planting wild plants, and a tomatoe from my daughter, and a few bits of stuff (lots of milkweed, for instance) and a few flowers...

well, this house has a whole yard!!! :O

and i am taking it to hand:

now, i just to water, and weed and pray that it grows...




took all the weeds from the fence line, too, and put seeds on all the fence sections... some were old flower and veggie seeds from years back...

the ones in the garden, though are new seeds... sure hope there is enough sun this year for them all to grow....

got some already-grown tomatoe plants, and a few grown plants, too, for certain other areas...

and--lots of transplants as to wild-stuff from the other yard...




well, i will share how it does, in a month or so...
:)
S.Leeper

Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
May 11, 2011 - 01:02am PT
awesome thread!

when I move, my next house is going to have a garden.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2011 - 01:22am PT
Good stuff as usual gang!!

Garden is doing ok, not great. I'll put up some shots later.

But thought I'd put up a shot of my latest humanitarian rescue case in the meantime. Just finished this the other day.




neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jun 17, 2011 - 01:41am PT
hey there say, survival and all...


oh my, my swiss chard is about 1 1/2 inches tall, hahahaha, surely NOT like justthemaids, :))

but, i DO have a really neat and fun garden... just got done transplanting stuff today... :)

will post pics tomorrow, as i got to get up at 7!!! and i am STILL here, :O


well, the trouble here, is no sun... (not due to the huge oaks, and elms, or sasafras, either)... it seems to be rainy fall weather, still, and no may, june sun, excecpt for perhaps 6 days? in these last 2 months? or so...


think that may have stunted it all, but i SURE DO LOVE IT!!!!


WELL, see you all tommorrow...
god bless, and happy supertopo eve to you all...
:)
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jun 17, 2011 - 06:59am PT
It's my first year planting and it's taking off!

I've got string beans, a couple types of lettuce, a couple types of toms, blue spuds, watermelon, cantaloupe, zukes, summer squash, cukes, a couple types of broccoli, bell peppers, cayennes, jalapenos, cilantro, basil, and sage.

Two weeks in the ground and I've only lost one cuke plant, the beans are going crazy, and the spud greens are breaking ground.
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Jun 17, 2011 - 12:19pm PT
We got something going for summer here in Joshua Tree......we shall see what happens....so far, so good...


Something seems to be happening here....

Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jun 18, 2011 - 01:15pm PT
So I'm checking in on my patch this morning and found that something came in overnight, scurried right to the center of it all, and ate my broccoli leaves. Nothing else, just the broccoli leaves. The stalks are intact, so hopefully they'll bounce back.

I've been peeing on the perimeter of the garden since before I planted, all for nothing I guess.
I thought the woodchucks left when I moved in with my dogs a couple years ago but something's lurking out there...

The fence goes in today.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jun 18, 2011 - 02:04pm PT
hey there say, skipt... a gal in ohio told me something like that, and, i am getting ready to make some... will see how it goes...

also, say, brandon-
some folks say, too, to spray dish detergent on the leaves...,
perhaps that will help???


something just ate the leaves off my hopefully-one-day-giant-sunflowers, oh my!


well, i got a few pics here:










well, say, happy garden time to you all...
things are still tiny here... hope they grow before winter sneaks up, ;)

:)
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jun 19, 2011 - 09:51am PT
Fence installed.
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jun 26, 2011 - 07:02pm PT
EKat,
Oh man, think back 100+ years...homesteaders must've been HURTIN!!!

My garden's twice the height of the picture I posted last weekend. Bell peppers are poppin'!
Willoughby

Social climber
Truckee, CA
Jun 26, 2011 - 08:10pm PT
I threw in the towel back at the end of May, not that I was ever really in the fight this year. But I'm not bothering to plant anything this year either. It does appear to have finally stopped being winter, but starting a garden in late June just seems like it would just be a waste of effort, so I'll find other projects to spend my time on.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jun 26, 2011 - 11:43pm PT
hey there say, ekat... wow, this is the first time in 8-9 years that i have been able to HAVE a real garden, and oddly, no sun, :(


but the rain has helped it, for sure...
but, here in mich, my garden now, is as big as when folks get their plants from the store and START their gardens, in may (though they many times, have frost to deal with, and have to cover it, or keep the plants in the basement, etc) ... but now, not just ME, but ALL of us have a garden that is "a bit behind" in size...

but i am so happy for the joy of being out there...
i know you will too, if you just plant some greens, :)

and, somehow,
yet--i am being hopeful, being that i had the open door to do this...
:)

will let you know how it goes...

p.sp
folks are still trying, at least, out here, but we WERE OUT OF SNOW, before you all were, so we had that much hope, this time, :)
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Aug 11, 2011 - 09:04pm PT
The beans are exploding in the garden. As are the tomatoes, leaf lettuce, and cukes.

But, I picked a jalapeno today for dinner and didn't expect much. That plant had produced a couple already that didn't amount to much more than a bell pepper. I ate a little slice and, holy shit! Too hot! Totally caught me off guard.

I'd already made the wrap with the pepper in it before I sampled my bounty. Now I'm stuck with a really good wrap that I'm scared to eat. The pepper was that hot, and I was liberal with it in my wrap.

The melons are softball sized and practically pulsing 'cause they're growing so fast.

The purple potatoes are telling me that I planted my rows too close, as they are between the rows and spilling to both sides and getting caught up in the cucumber vines.

And that is my garden rant.
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Aug 11, 2011 - 11:37pm PT
Some----of our peaches are ripe.

We netted the best tree against "peach-pecking" birds today.

I put the "anti-raccoon" cone on last week.

Now waiting for "tree-ripe" organic peaches.

Anyone, who eats one: will never enjoy a grocery store peach again.


neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Aug 12, 2011 - 12:01am PT
hey there say,all...

well, course i don't have the squash, since it failed, but i left a few spindly stalks to see if they'd climb the fence, kind of fun to see that, :)


BUT:

i DID get two small cucumbers! and some turnip greens, and lettuce...
and thanks to the good lord's grace, i DO have some tomatoes!!

and, wow, the black eyed peas, make great fillin for just about anywhere... they are bushing in all the areas that i put them in, and make the yard not look so empty... plus:
it appears that bits of fruition, as to pea-pods ARE growng now,
:)


i did get to seed a tiny bit of fill in grass, into the woodsy ground cover in back, too... so not so much dirt, ... little by little, i may get to fix up some seed where the dirt if still plenty, by the back door, too...


here is a picture of the yard, and some of the garden, got rasberry bushes, but no rasberries, but at least, this year, they DID flower!! :)


michigan wild plants, are in various areas, too...





haha, "grew" these in the ol' yard, as well, :))





:)


neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Aug 12, 2011 - 12:07am PT
hey there, say, fritz....

not special organic, but in south texas, in the home that i had to leave, i HAD two of the most wonderful peach trees in the world...

always perfect flavored (yep, if the birds did not get them) :))

i had transplanted them from an in-law type cousin family's back yard...

and they grew to be lovely trees, as well...
though, to some, they were small, but to me, nothing was better!
they could sit in the palm of your hand (bigger than an apricot, though, of course)...

very orangy and with red on the skins... so nice colored inside, as well...
so very delicious....



sadly, i have never had a peach like them, anywhere, since... :(
sure hope and pray, perhaps some day, i can find or plant something similar, you never know.... they do have peaches up here and apples and cherries, and lots of berries, but to me:


the berries that grow up here, are the best...
the other fruit is good, but something is lacking...
(though the apples are good)...

:)




thanks for the share, i also miss south texas, as we had papayas, small perfect flavored ones, as well, in our yard, and i planted them from seeds, of all things--they acturally GREW for me... :)

when the woodpeckers did not beat me to them, i loved to eat them with lemon!


thanks again for the neat peach share, :)
god bless...
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Aug 12, 2011 - 12:10am PT
hey there say, Brandon-

your garden sounds great, even if it is a 'rant', :))

hope the melons do well...
i have some backeyed peas that are doing great, leaf wise,
we will see, as to the pea-pods... (depends on the shade and overcast issue here)... but they are lovely ground cover, :)


say, now, DR. F... now THAT is a garden i never seen before... :O
really NEAT STUFF you got there... thanks for the share...


:)
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 12, 2011 - 12:19am PT
This has been a fortuitous year for the Obamagarden.

We won't have much of a grocery bill for the rest of the year.

It started out with Artichokes, Asparagus, cabbages and beets till we were sick of them.
The cold this winter nuked the Broccoli and Cauliflower however,the beets got pickled in red wine and we have a years worth.

I accidentally made a discovery about cabbages. If you harvest the head, but leave the rest of the plant it will produce a second crop of mini cabbages or giant Brussels Sprouts, depending on your perspective. We've had Shallots the size of onions all summer from another experiment.


The first crop of sweet corn and green beans is vacuum bagged in the freezer and the second crop is now producing. Also in the freezer about five gallons of raspberries and ten gallons of boysenberries that will become jam this fall. So, Fresh corn and green beans at both ends of summer as well as the dried and frozen ones for later.

The tomatoes have done incredibly well. I've canned a couple dozen pints of salsa, a dozen of zucchini in tomato sauce as well as massive amounts of sauce and dried. We've also been eating a lot of BLT's. I'm gonna have to crank out an other batch of salsa Sunday as well.

the Butternut didn't get that big, but they are just about right size for two people. I've still got a couple of spaghetti squash going as well.

Next month I'll start in with prep for the Fall/winter garden.

Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Aug 12, 2011 - 01:17am PT
Neebee: Always good to hear from you.

I hope you find a Michigan peach tree to enjoy.

I am jealous of your tale of Texas Papayas.

Long ago, on a summer Hawaii trip, I was able to shake large ripe Papayas out of a tree, and then move them onto my breakfast table within minutes.

No Papaya since then: has tasted as good to me.



Tree-ripe and fresh: is Best!
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Aug 12, 2011 - 11:55am PT
1,500 lbs of Lamb Haas Avocados! ( aprox, they filled a bin-and-a-half, at around 1,000# per bin )

Two years ago, it was 345 lbs. I don't know what was produced last year, because someone helped themselves to all of them in the middle of the night.

My neighbor's daughter picked them while I'm out of town. He thinks she deserves $75. I think it should be about twice that, because it had to be a long, hot day for her.

I would have had an even ton, if I hadn't been eating guacamole every day for the last six months ( and an avocado a day each for four dogs ).

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 7, 2011 - 01:44pm PT
Disclaimer: KNOTT mine! My sis-in-law's in Frisco, CO.
Poor thing is in a state over the fact it could be under snow in a few weeks.



Don't ask, I don't know. But they're cool.






Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jan 21, 2012 - 08:21pm PT
Looks like a good year for the Haas crop.



Even the tiny, stunted trees are kicking butt!



Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jan 21, 2012 - 09:45pm PT
Avocados store well, Lolli. Real well. Better than any fruit I know.

A lot of the time they keep too well.

They don't get ripe until after they're picked. They're hard as rocks the whole time they're on the tree, and for at least a week after they get picked. The season lasts for several months, so you can pick what you need, and leave the rest on the tree for as long as you want.

Once they're picked, they take at least a week to soften-up to the point they can be used. Put them in the refrigerator and they'll never get ripe. In other words, they'll keep as long as they're cold ( or on the tree ) - assuming they haven't already ripened. I've heard they'll last several months refrigerated, but I don't know for sure because I just store mine on the trees.

When I drive up the coast to see my folks in Washington I bring them a wine-case box full of Lamb Haas avocados. I don't put them in an ice chest or anything, they just ride in the back of the truck with everything else. It always takes me well over a week to get there, and the avocados still need a while to ripen before we can get to making guacamole.

I was just searching around to find the *approved* method of shipping avocados through the mail ( I don't want to do it for money, I just want to send some to my widely-scattered friends and family ), and I think I'll just wrap a bunch in newspaper, and put them in a Priority Mail container. Priority Mail is always there in three days, and the avocados will still need a week to ripen.
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
May 1, 2012 - 01:46pm PT
I'm expanding my garden this year. A new patch for my peppers with more sun.

I just picked up a book at my local bookstore, 'The Vegetable Gardener's Bible', by Edward Smith.

Good stuff, anyone looking for new knowledge regarding their garden should check it out.
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
May 28, 2012 - 12:33pm PT
So...how are all y'all gardens doing?
karodrinker

Trad climber
San Jose, CA
Sep 25, 2012 - 04:10pm PT
Fall planting in California. Having great success so far with the back to eden style of gardening.

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Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Sep 25, 2012 - 07:57pm PT
Weird garden year here in NH.

I experimented a little last fall and turned in a bunch of compost, covered by cardboard. This spring I turned in organic soil and organic fertilizer.

My plants took off!!! The squashes quickly outgrew the critter fence and things were looking awesome!

Then, late July hit. Something started getting into my lettuce, then my squash leaves. I built a trap, the only way in was thought the trap if it was a rodent of some sort. This mostly worked, but the damage was done.

The lettuce tried to come back, but just went to seed instead of producing. Half the squash plants survived, and white blight (or mold, whatever it's called), took most of the rest.

The cukes were the most hardy, they looked stunted for a while, then started producing like crazy.

Tomato worms suck. I hate them.

The big experiment of the year was the peppers though. I planted half in the garden and potted the other half in pricy farm store bagged organic soil. The garden peppers did nothing all summer, hardly even grew. The potted peppers, which I kept outdoors in full sun did incredible. My yield was off the charts, both in quantity and hotness. Jalapeños and Cayenne, they're both still giving me more than I can use. I've gotta pawn them off on friends.

I think next year I'm going to shift more to potted veggies even though I live in a fertile neck of the woods. It's just so much easier to cater to each plants individual requirements.

Viva la finca!!
karodrinker

Trad climber
San Jose, CA
Sep 25, 2012 - 10:01pm PT
Brandon, check out backtoedenfilm.com , ignore the religious stuff. Some really good info on no till, deep mulch gardening.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Sep 26, 2012 - 12:06am PT
We moved to a new house to late last year to do much in the way of planting, but we got a few things in this spring, including these hops, which I just harvested last week.


We also got a good tomato crop, which is unusual for Seattle, and the few herbs and peppers we managed to get into the ground are doing really well. I think it helps to have a yard that actually gets some sunlight.
karodrinker

Trad climber
San Jose, CA
Oct 22, 2012 - 03:06pm PT
Here is how our small garden is growing.

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Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jan 14, 2013 - 01:19am PT
We'll see this week if I can produce an avocado crop this year, or not. It's been pretty damn cold here for a few nights now, with a couple more cold nights to come.

Good thing I held off expansion until later this year! It'd be discouraging to watch a bunch of small trees freeze.
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jan 14, 2013 - 03:32am PT
Our "weed-like" but tasty Arugula, lasted into late December this year through temps into the teens F.

Once Choss Creek Temps went to near 0 F----The Arugula "froze-down."

Arugula on Dec 6th, loving it!




Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Apr 4, 2013 - 12:03am PT
We're well into Spring. Anybody but Fritz got anything going this year?


I finally created enough sunshine to grow some vegetables in my own yard. ( I had to cut down seven good sized shade trees to do it ).

It's a Salsa/Pickle/Stir-Fry/Spaghetti patch. ( it was going to be a Guacamole patch, too, but that was before the Great Freeze Of '013 killed all of my Avocados )

I put up the Deer Fence in February. The deer around here are the size of Pygmy Goats and Cottontail Bunnies, so the deer fence only needs to be two or three feet tall. Chicken wire mesh, but heavily reinforced ( with scrap lumber ) because the Goat will test any fence she sees, espeially if there's something to eat on the other side of it. She's tested this one, and so far it's held up.

The pots were planted last month with Bell Peppers, Hatch Chiles, Poblano Chiles, Jalapenos, Haberneros, tomatoes ( Romas and cherries ), and Italian herbs. So far, so good. Nothing's died.

I got the cucumber trellis framework up last month. Four 12' rows of pickling cucumbers should give me enough to do whatever I feel like doing with them. If the Goat gets lucky, there'll be a surplus. She LOVES cucumbers. Once they get going, I'll be hanging concrete reinforcing wire on the A-frames to give the vines something to climb. If everything works as planned, I'll install a wire "roof" betwen the two A-frames, and create a tunnel of cucumbers.

I'm using weed cloth this year. Never used it before. It can't hurt. Maybe it'll cut down on the ammount of water needed.

( this evening, about 6:00 pm ) ( I used a kite to fly the camera )
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Apr 4, 2013 - 12:13am PT
Had Asparagus from the Obamagarden tonight.

The cool spring so far has been good for the tomatoes, but bad for the Satsuma sweet potatoes.

I'll probably plant sweet corn and green beans this weekend.
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Apr 4, 2013 - 12:13am PT


I guess we need to try planting bananas in Idaho.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Apr 4, 2013 - 12:20am PT
I'm tired of paying a DOLLAR for a shrivelled Bell Pepper with a dried-up stem, or a DOLLAR for a little Zuchini that's only about the size of my own ... well, not very big. Used to be, the time of year when your garden was cranking out the produce, the prices at the market went DOWN, but not anymore. So it makes more sense than ever to plant today.
Captain...or Skully

climber
Apr 4, 2013 - 01:22am PT
I dig my little garden. Put in seeds, some compost, & a bit of Love and VOILA!!!!
Big results. Like free, but better.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 4, 2013 - 08:09am PT
Had Asparagus from the Obamagarden tonight.

Awesome. Your bitterfruit should be coming along nicely as well!
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Apr 4, 2013 - 10:10am PT
It was sweet!



I get the Bitter Mellon from the Viet next door neighbor.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Apr 8, 2013 - 01:39pm PT

Bugs are under control, so far.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Apr 8, 2013 - 01:47pm PT
Not doing too badly here in LaLa Land.

About 7" diameter...(jess sayin') ;-)

Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Apr 8, 2013 - 02:08pm PT

DIY Scarecrow




Dog-resistant beverage holder
Michelle

Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
Apr 22, 2013 - 04:59pm PT
So this year I will be experimenting with a mostly container garden. I have a little strip of soul on my patio as well that is currently overgrown grass. Any suggestions on how best to prep the soil for food crops? Unknown origin or previous treatment. I was thinking I might just haul most of it out, line it and plop some good soil in. I'm sick of food costs and love gardening.
WyoRockMan

climber
Flank of the Bighorns
Apr 22, 2013 - 05:02pm PT
My garden was looking great. Now I can't find it.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Apr 22, 2013 - 06:39pm PT
Any grass buried deep enough will die,

Unless it's Bermuda Grass

Then get out the Roundup.

Repeatedly.

Check and see if your state has an agricultural extension program, or check with a local, small nursery / garden shop.

Soils and requirements can vary widely and if the area you want to plant is right up next to the house there's a good chance that construction leftovers have changed the soil composition radicaly from what's just a few weet away.

Just don't get suckered into buying sacks of "garden soil"
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Apr 22, 2013 - 10:11pm PT
Khanom knows his shit!

This is what I'm working off this year.


Mostly donkey manure, with whatever else I raked up off the yard layered together. I stir it up with the Mantis, and it makes for a real earthy mix.

I miss that donkey, and I'll miss her even more when my manure mulch piles run out.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Apr 22, 2013 - 10:59pm PT
Bermuda will survive even if a foot deep in well aerated soil.

(been there dun that)

Horse manure works great because it isn't as "hot" as steer manure and has a lot of incompletely digested fibrous material that really helps loosen up clay soil, and you can also usually get it for free or next to it.

Just make sure you compost it for a few months and don't put it on fresh or you will burn up your plants, mostly from the overabundance of the nitrogen in the urine. Also it gives time for any anti parasitic agents the horses had in their system time to break down. Horse wormer even in incredibly small concentrations will nuke all the earthworms.

Roundup on the other hand breaks down completely in about two weeks.







couchmaster

climber
pdx
Apr 22, 2013 - 11:01pm PT
Had the craziest strong Brandy wine Amish heirloom tomato last year. We have 6 strong starts off the biggest tomato warming up in the bullpen. Suppose to warm up soon and they'll be planted.
Michelle

Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
Apr 24, 2013 - 10:31pm PT
so back to this project. Round-up, no. unfortunately, I can't do a raised bed, so the next best thing would be to dig and haul. I can't get the depth being suggested but I suspect if I clear most of the "offending" soil, I can line it and replace. I have to be ghetto cheap about this, so I'm scavenging things. I'm also starting plants in toilet paper rolls! I the previous grass infested patch, I was thinking planting sunflowers, zuchinni and herbs in the ground. maybe corn. to disguise my mj plants in containers. tomatos and maybe peas. for sure cucumbers to pickle. then I started thinking I could do greens in the ground too. I need to do more research. your stuff all looks awesome folks! since I live on the SF peninsula, the weather is bomber and I get lots of summer sun. the Star Gazer Lily is in heaven and I also have orchids that are stoked to be outside in the shade.

I can't wait to buy land and grow more food and rustle chickens. maybe goats for cheese. plus guns to keep the zombies out of my food.

Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
May 17, 2013 - 04:21pm PT
Dug up in my vegetable patch:


Wine cork for scale:


I'm pretty sure it's an old-timey injectible vial. Medical waste.

Back almost a hunred years ago, the big place next door was a tuberculosis hospital - and it's built like one. My place - a hundred yards away - was the doctor/nurse quarters.

The real estate guy told me about potential medical waste when I got the place. "If you dig up any jars, DON'T open them".
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
May 17, 2013 - 04:51pm PT
Glyphosate (trade name RoundUp, etc), is the most widely applied agricultural chemical in the country. If you're fretting over if being applied near food crops...well, that ship sailed decades ago.

It's basically an enyzme synthesis inhibiter. It only works on actively growing plants, the uptake method is through the foliage (i.e. it won't work as a pre-emergent). And it does breakdown relatively quickly for an herbicide. EPA gives it one of the lower toxicity ratings.

Still, I wouldn't want it on my food.

Hey Chaz, you coughing yet?
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
May 18, 2013 - 11:04am PT
It is going to be awesome!
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
May 18, 2013 - 11:36am PT
No garden this year.

I'm really bummed, as this has been a hobby of mine for a few years now.

The irony of poverty is not being able to afford to get my garden going this year. If I could fund the startup, I'd be paying less for the veggies I love to eat.

Being really poor sucks.

mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
May 18, 2013 - 11:52am PT
How long does that plastic last? We were thinking about doing some of those, but it seems like 2-5 years max before the plastic would deteriorate up in Tahoe. Currently harvesting used windows in the tahoe area...
karodrinker

Trad climber
San Jose, CA
May 29, 2013 - 03:34pm PT
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Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jun 11, 2013 - 12:18am PT
I'm real happy with what I've got going this year.



No problems. No setbacks.

This is when it's fun. Production matches exactly what I can cook and eat. Sometime in the next couple weeks the work will start and I'll be firing up the canner.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Jun 11, 2013 - 12:27am PT
She canned a case of Boysenberry jam weekend before last. Probably need to do at least two more batches and a batch or two of Raspberry

Thanks to climate cooling I'll have a bumper crop of tomatoes so the Salsa and sauce canning production will start in about two weeks.


The heat loving plants like the corn have been a dud this year. The Sweet potatoes are rather stunted, but the beans are finally starting to take off late from a state of arrested development.

I will have to transplant the Shallots this weekend.
when you grow them from seed you get clumps like Scallions and then you need to replant them and give e'm some room.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jun 14, 2013 - 04:40pm PT

If you can't quite reach something...


...you can always try to knock it over.


Happiness is a black wok.


( serving suggestion )

The Goat got hers, too. She gets rid of the ends, peels, seeds, etc. Unlike the Dogs, who know there's no future in begging, the Goat thinks she needs to be front-and-center for the whole process.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jun 14, 2013 - 04:55pm PT
This is what I found lying on a pile of topsoil in the garden yesterday.


No mark of violence. And I have no idea why it was on top of the dirt pile, unless a crow moved it there, but hadn't started tearing it up yet.

Ugly-looking creature.

Snowmassguy

Trad climber
Calirado
Jun 14, 2013 - 05:00pm PT
^^^^ I bet that thing could do quite a bit of garden damage !
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jun 14, 2013 - 05:58pm PT
Chaz, I like your setup. Nice big garden, avo trees, goats, what's not to like?

I'm a wee bit envious. Not too much, as I have my own sweet garden, but I like goats.

I wasn't going to plant this year, but crumpled at the last minute and got my babies in the ground. Good thing too, because we had snow over Memorial Day weekend. I put 'em in the ground the next weekend.

I'm growing my hot peppers in pots again this year, I had outstanding success last year. This year I've added habaneros into the mix. Pots are great for peppers, as you want a lot of sun to increase the capsaicin. Mobility is key if you live in an area with many trees and you can't find a site with all day sun.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jun 22, 2013 - 01:13am PT
So far, so good!



Organic pesticide at work:


Got enough cucs today to can five pints of sweet pickle relish.


Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Jun 22, 2013 - 09:04am PT
Great looking garden Chaz, those avocado trees are amazing!
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jul 2, 2013 - 08:43pm PT
Rain? Hasn't rained here in months, and if it rains here before Thanksgiving, it'll be big news.

A few hours ago:






Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jul 2, 2013 - 08:45pm PT
I never thought I'd say this, but damn, I wish it would stop raining!

We've had over ten inches of rain in the last couple of weeks. My babies are well watered, but we need some sunshine!!!

Luckily, my peppers are in pots, so I've been controlling their watering very carefully.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jul 3, 2013 - 07:14pm PT
Brandon,
I've always grown my peppers in pots. Ever since I saw my neighbor do it. We were both living in apartments, and he had a dozen 5-gallon buckets planted with peppers lining the stairwell.

Rsin,
I have six KAP ( kite-aerial photography ) kites. I've used five of them to get pictures. ( The sixth - and as yet not utilized - one is a Kiwi Fishing Kite from New Zealand. I'm having a tough time tuning it so that it flies straight, and I don't feel like paying the $70 one-way postage back to New Zealand to get someone who knows what they're doing to look at it. ).

The one I used yesterday is the one I use about 75% of the time - it covers a wide range of wind speeds. It's a nine-foot delta ( ITW 9ft Levitation Light ). Besides flying in a wide wind range, it has less bad habits than my other kites, so it does OK in squirrelly, gusty winds ( like yesterday ).

And it flies at a very high angle, so it's the one to use if I'm close to trees or other obstacles.

Yesterday I got the kite hung up at the top of a 60' eucalyptus ( just to the left of my photos ). I had already taken the camera down because the wind was starting to get funky ( kite and camera were separated by about 150' ), and before I had the kite down it dove into that eucalyptus. No slack was enough to allow it to "fly itself out" of either the dive or the tree, but it was enough to allow it to eventually continue its power-dive into the ground, after being stuck up in the small eucalyptus branches for a few minutes. Good practice!
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jul 10, 2013 - 01:30am PT
hey there all... say, i love this thread... thanks for sharing...

my garden is growing michigan wild-stuff really great, :)

and--a few other things, as well!

got green beans to eat from the plants now, :)
and some green tomatoes... :)


will take a picture and hope to share tomorrow night, :)

thanks for sharing... :)


*off and on-again, sun, all season now, :)
wow--brandon, i heard of that eastcoast rain, from a friend of mine, :O
crusher

climber
Santa Monica, CA
Jul 10, 2013 - 01:37am PT
Chaz that goat is the cutest thing ever! Your garden's pretty rad too!
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Jul 10, 2013 - 08:19pm PT
Bumper crop of tomatoes due to the unseasonaly cool and stable spring.

Made 16 pints of salsa Sunday and am chopping up about 30 lb of Romas and canning them tonight.

We won't be buying store bought tomato products for a couple of years.
BooDawg

Social climber
Butterfly Town
Jul 14, 2013 - 07:34pm PT
I posted the construction of my raised-bed garden on the "Show Me What You're Building thread.

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1197468&msg=2101200#msg2101200

Here are the results of the efforts. I'm basically harvesting about 5 lbs of tomatoes, peppers, basil, and other goodies each day. Zucchinis, squash, melons and more are coming on.

Lower left: Squash, zucchini, and cantaloupes growing in “Earth Boxes.”

Above: basil, peppers, and tomatoes growing in raised beds protected from turkey and deer with the wire cat cage. Protected from gophers below with galvanized hardware cloth.



Below & upper right: Harvest of peppers, tomatoes, and cherry tomatoes.

Upper left: home-made salsa using the peppers and tomatoes.


For more pictures and background on this garden, please go here:

http://www.yosemitecloseup.com/stories/sierra-sustainability/


TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Jul 14, 2013 - 07:38pm PT
Have about 30 lb of tomatoes boiling down into sauce right now .

Should end up with 10-12 qts.

Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jul 26, 2013 - 12:21am PT
We're a month or so behind you SoCal types up here, but...

Reeotch

Trad climber
4 Corners Area
Jul 28, 2013 - 09:52am PT
After a couple of crop failures, I finally have some success! Things were just so hot and dry around here in June that hardly anything was able to get established. The humidity was running in the single digits and the temperatures were running in the triple digits.

All of the stuff below was planted between the solstice and the 4th of July. It was still slow going for some plants to get established. Sometimes I needed to water 3x a day.

Now that the monsoon has kicked in, the plants have gone crazy, especially the squash. When it rains the plants are visibly larger the next morning. So cool!




Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jul 28, 2013 - 12:09pm PT
it looks like it's about time to harvest that big white thing!

It's a potaTOE
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jul 29, 2013 - 01:22pm PT
Great stuff put up here so far. I'm getting a ton of ideas for next year.

Like corn. I have to make room for a cornfield next year. Of all the things that taste better fresh, corn is definitely at the top of the list. Last time I grew corn, I'd get the water boiling, then go pick the corn. Stalk-to-stomach in minutes!


The goat knows where the action is. Like a dog hanging around the dinner table.


The cucs are slowing down - even though the plants are bigger than ever - but I'm still getting one of these every four or five days:


Which was turned into this:

( batch #11 and #12, dill relish and bread-and-butter slices )



Bird spooker:


When I started seeing ripe tomatoes, so did the birds. I put up bamboo posts with reflectorized streamers atop them. And that will spook most birds most of the time. But something was still getting my cherry tomatoes, about a day before they ripened. One by-product of the owl infestation here in the yard - one nest, three babies - is owl feathers. I attached a few of them to the tomato cages so they flapped in the wind, and I haven't had a problem since.



Yesterday:





I was hoping to get the goat in some of the aerial shots, but she's scared of kites, food or no food. And the dogs aren't stupid enough to stand outside in the heat.

I have to start winding things down. I'm headed to The PNW in a couple weeks, and I might not be back until the end of Sept. The peppers and tomatoes will stay, but the cucs and zucs are more of a job than I want to leave for the guy who watches my place while I'm gone.
Seamstress

Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
Jul 29, 2013 - 02:44pm PT

It's time to load up on anti-oxidants
Dr. Christ

Mountain climber
State of Mine
Aug 11, 2013 - 11:20am PT
Not so well actually. Record heat was scorching the ground, nothing would come up. Had to put up shade cloth. Then it froze in early August, severely damaging the squish, cucs, and pot(atoes).

But we have nice kale, peas, lettuce, peppers, and onions.
Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Aug 31, 2013 - 03:04pm PT
She's always late at 3,000 ft. but never fails to deliver:
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Aug 31, 2013 - 08:17pm PT
That's a fine looking batch of tomatoes!
Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Sep 6, 2013 - 10:58pm PT
It was a warm summer in Seattle, but it's drawing to a close, i.e it was a v. good year for: blueberries, always collards and ok for kale. We haven't had a good garlic crop in >3 years due to white rot (f*#king yuck!).

Here's the end of year harvest of ripe tomatoes before they burst from recent rain wetness(below):

I love cucumbers, but I know all others don't (below):

OK, my Dad's family had a Walnut/plum-prune ranch near Vacaville,CA. So when this ONE plum grew on our two year old tree, and I led a couple pitches at Index, I was STOKED!(below):


And, finally
Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Sep 7, 2013 - 01:28am PT
OK not quite finally.

Some more growing ones:

Black princes
Lollie

Social climber
I'm Lolli.
Jun 12, 2014 - 08:20am PT
I grow mainly flowers. A few strawberries, raspberries, black currants, fags and gojiberries.



Lollie

Social climber
I'm Lolli.
Jun 12, 2014 - 12:20pm PT
LOL!
klaus, I meant figs!!

I used to take a fag now and then though...
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Jun 12, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
That is a sweet setup eKat! I like your garden enclosure. We are putting in some planting beds for nest year, but the critters are a real challenge.
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Jun 12, 2014 - 12:47pm PT
re-posting from another thread






Lollie

Social climber
I'm Lolli.
Jun 12, 2014 - 01:04pm PT
I do like your garden, eKat. Lots of love in that one. How long growing season do you got?

And Chaz' place is amazing. Lots of work!
wilbeer

Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
Jun 12, 2014 - 06:49pm PT
Pretty cool set up you have there.
wilbeer

Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
Jun 12, 2014 - 07:35pm PT
Dr.F ,That is amazing.

Lollie

Social climber
I'm Lolli.
Jun 13, 2014 - 02:25am PT
Dr. F

Only one word:

WOW!!!!!
BooDawg

Social climber
Butterfly Town
Jun 25, 2014 - 09:38pm PT
This year, we added 5 recycled tractor tires to our garden.


Most of the plants are really thriving and we are just beginning to reap our first vegetables.



More details can be found here:

http://www.yosemitecloseup.com/stories/sierra-sustainability/
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jun 25, 2014 - 10:15pm PT
I don't want to jinx myself by counting my peppers and tomatoes before they ripen, but things are looking mighty good here in the PNW this year. Of course, it could all go to sh#t tomorrow and rain for the next two months, but it's not looking that way.

Fingers crossed.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 26, 2014 - 07:07am PT
Fingers crossed.



I'm crossing my fingers for you too Ghost.


I've got a good showing from a wide variety out here, but not a big production yet....
Lollie

Social climber
I'm Lolli.
Jul 19, 2014 - 06:07am PT



Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jul 19, 2014 - 06:38am PT
Apriot harvest at our "Ranchette" last week.

Yummmmy! No chemicals. Picked ripe or mostly ripe.


survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2014 - 07:20am PT
Good stuff guys!



I'm psyching up for Ghosts next batch of Doom Sauce!
These are partially roasted Serranos and garlic, because the Habaneros aren't ready yet.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 2, 2014 - 10:01pm PT
Is this you, BooDawg? It's your van. I passed by on the YARTS bus. This is at Cookie Cliff pull-out.
Mouse

Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Aug 2, 2014 - 11:17pm PT
The only thing new that I have is a nettle plant that I stole from Seward Park here in Seattle. It's in a pot but I can't control the seeds. These things spread well with the right conditions. Nettles? Yeah, I rub it on my feet and eat it too.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 2, 2014 - 11:37pm PT
According to Euell Gibbons, many parts are pedible.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 10, 2014 - 07:37am PT
For my good friend Ghost, possibly the only guy that really cares.... :0)















bob

climber
Aug 10, 2014 - 08:31am PT
Survival and Ghost, I appreciate your peppers! Cool shots.
BooDawg

Social climber
Butterfly Town
Nov 1, 2014 - 03:13pm PT
Yes, Mouse, that was my van, but I wasn't driving that day.

Thanks Locker. Here are some later pictures...

Since the ST website doesn't seem to be accepting vertically formatted pictures from me, more pictures in portrait format can be found here:

http://www.yosemitecloseup.com/stories/sierra-sustainability/

Since the cool weather has arrived, both the tour season and Lisa’s and my garden are slowing down. In our garden, we’ve been taking out tomato and other plants that are no longer producing. We’re retaining those that still have ripening fruit on them, even though most of the tomato plants appear to be dying at their bottoms, many of their tops are green and flowering and continue to hold ripening fruit.



The chicken-wire top of what was a cat’s protective cage has become an arbor for the ripening tomatoes, and the holes in the chicken-wire are the perfect size for bringing the cherry and yellow pear tomatoes down through the chicken wire to pick them.



Where we’ve removed, unproductive plants, we’ve replaced them with a variety of autumn and winter vegetables, kale, arugula, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, mustard greens, lettuce, spinach, celery, and more.



Some we’ve planted in individual containers, though all are watered with our very efficient watering system described earlier. However, we’ve found that these recent planting are visited each morning by a lovely, but hungry variety of migrating birds, Rufus-sided and brown towhees, white- and golden-crowned sparrows, goldfinches, plain titmouses, and more. They nibble at the leaves of these delicate, young plants, so we’ve fashioned some simple cages to protect the most susceptible plants, leaving others at the mercy of these winged friends.


Today’s harvest: Zucchini, cucumber, several varieties of tomatoes, calendula, peppers, parseley, lettuce, onions, carrots.


TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 1, 2014 - 03:16pm PT
Waiting for the frost kill then I'll have to go dig up sweet potatoes.

(Satsumas)
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Nov 1, 2014 - 05:05pm PT
WOW TO ALL! ------and a special WOW OH WOW! to EKAT in the mountains of North Montana.

We had our first hard freeze last week, with little warning.

A quick panic harvest got the remaining peppers, many of the tomatoes, substantial hanks of basil, and the cabbage. We covered the fall lettuce and let the rest fend for itself on what turned out to be a 28 f. night.

The lettuce, arugula, carrots, onions, parsly, & chives shrugged off that frost and are still growing. The potatoes are safe too, but the tops are dead.


Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Nov 1, 2014 - 07:22pm PT
What is this "freeze" thing you speak of? Some kind of soil amendment gardeners in Montana & Idaho use? Whatever it is, it must work, as you seem to be getting good crops.

The only thing I amend my soil with is compost, but it seems to work well, too. Here's today's vegetables.


With cooler temps and less sun, I brought some of the peppers inside...

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2014 - 01:50pm PT
Sweet stuff there Ghost!!



Over here, middle of December, are you freeking kidding me?
No wonder I love it in California.....

Represent: A couple baby Bell, Poblanos, Serranos, Fresno, Cowhorn, unripe Habanero. Thank you to all the spirits that control chile production!!












Bonus photo: The label I made for the Mandarin Festival sauce I made for a retired Army Ranger friend.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
May 31, 2015 - 05:21pm PT
OK people, it's June ( practically ). Someone besides me has to have something going this year.

I got peppers and tomatoes. Zucchinis are sprouting.


I'm tired of paying a buck for a bell pepper with a wooden stem in season, or a buck for a shriveled-up little zucchini that's not even as big as my d...
well, not very big.

Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jul 11, 2015 - 09:37pm PT


Jalapenos are doing pretty good.


That made four pints of sweet pickled jalapenos.


The crux will be waiting a couple weeks to see how they turned out.

This goat's on her best behavior around the vegetables because she knows I have a recipe for green chile bierria.


bringmedeath

climber
la la land
Jul 11, 2015 - 09:58pm PT
Some nice hebes, festuca, ferns in a 400 foot greenhouse.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

climber
Jul 11, 2015 - 10:08pm PT
Mint
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jul 12, 2015 - 12:07am PT
hey there say, chaz... very nice 'air view' shares, again...
very nice! love the little goat, too,

say, as to mint:
that grows great out here...

i have not enough sun...
all that growing are:
a bit of beans, just poking up their heads...

i have some peaches, again, this year... (though sadly, not last year) .. yet, again... they are not doing well... falling off, early and still small...


:(


but--lilies are all doing wonderful... i got so many 'free ones' from friends that had the ol' multiply seasons...

so the yard may not have food, but looks like a woodsy little haven... :)

thanks for sharing all your goods, you guys...
say, DO ANY of you do that 'hanging burlap bags' planting, or, just planting in burlap, or not???
Lollie

Social climber
I'm Lolli.
Jul 12, 2015 - 01:58pm PT



Lollie

Social climber
I'm Lolli.
Jul 12, 2015 - 02:51pm PT
Impatients?

Nice balcony.
bringmedeath

climber
la la land
Jul 12, 2015 - 03:28pm PT
Thousands of huechera and huecherella in one of my greenhouses.
Lollie

Social climber
I'm Lolli.
Jul 12, 2015 - 04:30pm PT
It was actually a question about what it is, not a comment on spelling. I did look it up though.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jul 12, 2015 - 05:18pm PT
How does my garden grow?

Like it was in some alternate universe where Seattle is in the "You can grow anything, anytime" climatic zone.

We were picking ripe tomatoes in June.

Which probably moves all you SoCal gardeners to say "So?", but which is completely twilight-zone up here. My garden is full of fruits and veggies which shouldn't be here for another six or eight weeks.

I heard an interview with a University of Washington meteorologist in late May, in which he said this year is shaping up to be a preview of what the Seattle climate will be like in 2070, if their forecasts are correct. Which is a bummer, cuz it'll be hard for me to enjoy tomatoes in June when I've been dead for thirty or forty years.

neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jul 12, 2015 - 08:58pm PT
hey there say, lollie... the impatients (?) well, they grow really lovely in FULL SHADE... other than that, they will grow, but will not be near as pretty at all...

it IS amazing though, how lovely they fill in shady areas... :)
and me--with ALL this shade, :))


my mom taught me about them, years ago... glad she did...

i always ALWAYS lived in the sun... but here, wow, it is soooo different...
not much sun here... and this large huge oak, keeps the few sunny days, at bay, as well...


miss the summers... but, love the fact that i have a place to live, where i can get by okay, :)
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jul 13, 2015 - 04:43pm PT
Harvest day for Lamb Haas.



I ended up with about a third more than I anticipated.

Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jul 28, 2015 - 10:26pm PT
Same avocado - took two weeks to ripen.

( guacamole ingredients )

Everything but the onion grew here in the yard.


Went good with this:


Santana's in Joshua Tree makes what they call a California Quesadilla - Jack cheese & fresh bell pepper - and they're damn good.
I put two bell peppers in this one. One fresh and the other one roasted.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Aug 22, 2015 - 09:05pm PT

The natural bird spookers are surprisingly effective.


My Bhut Jolokias are starting to turn color. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them. I've never even seen one before.



I know what I'm doing with the Jalapenos...


...canning them in sugar and vinegar.

Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Aug 22, 2015 - 09:17pm PT
Awesome Chaz!!!
Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Aug 22, 2015 - 09:22pm PT
My wifes lotuses are in their full glory......they sit in a pond, the rest of the property is hammered, damn drought!

neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Aug 22, 2015 - 10:46pm PT
hey there say, chaz... wonderful stuff!!!

and charlie D... sweet lilies...


thanks for sharing...

here is my humble garden:
not sure if this IS TOO LARGE...

will update, if need be...
am finally JUST getting the beans, too, by the way...



DID get a lot of peaches, but they were 'bugged' this time, as, i did not get to spray oils on them, as, it was too rainy, always... oh my...

but, i got about HALF of each peach, good, so i made peach-sauces...
:)




survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 23, 2015 - 11:16am PT
Great posts!! I'll try to get some pictures up soon.

Chaz, you can make Yucatan relish with the Jolokias.

*Roast til soft, don't burn skins.
*Throw everything but the stems into blender.
*Add fresh squeezed lime juice and salt til smooth blended. Not too much salt.

They're all natural preservatives so it lasts a REALLY long time.
Use just dibs and dabs to sexy up pizza, eggs, soups, tacos, everything!!
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Sep 1, 2015 - 12:37am PT
Thanks for that recipe, Survival. I'm going to do that. I'm going to smoke some for a couple hours next time I do ribs before I roast them. See how that tastes.

I used a couple last week in chile.



Two Bhut Jolokias, in a 2 1/2 gallon pot of chile, gave it plenty of heat. Perfect, actually. I don't think three would have been a good idea. Normally, I'll use maybe six Haberneros and twice that many Jalapenos in a twelve-quart chile.

I didn't wear gloves when I chopped the Bhut Jolokias, and I didn't burn myself either. I was damn careful, though, working outdoors and using only one hand to handle the peppers. And - this is very important - when I was done, I remembered to wash my hands before I took a leak.




Here's a cool by-product of pepper-pickling. Last week ( documented up-thread ) I canned five pints of Jalapenos in vinegar and sugar. I cooked six pounds of sliced peppers in 3 cups of vinegar and 9 (!) cups sugar, and ended up with a little over a quart of excess liquid!


That's left over after canning the peppers. It's pretty hot - like 75% Jalapeno juice - I was surprised. I mix it in everything from meat marinades to potato salad to Bloody Mary's.

Straight, it makes great salad dressing. And even better pancake syrup. Jalapeno Pancake Syrup!




Those are fine looking tomatoes there, Neebee. I just love tomatoes. They're like junk food for me. One of my goals this year was to grow enough tomatoes for big batches ( 12 quarts ) of spaghetti sauce, and chile. So far, I've gotten enough for enchilada sauce and relleno sauce.

If I could keep my hands off of them, one day I might just have enough tomatoes to do something with.





Mr Milktoast writes:

"It must be a magnificent feeling to bring such a thing to fruition (literally). My farmer bud has suffered two orange crop failures back to back (hard freezes just before harvest) and this year his heirloom tomato crop was devastated by drought-driven field mice plagues."

There are a lot of things to like. Fresh tomatoes are so much sweeter than the ones I find in the stores, and it's good to know the guy who picked the Bell Peppers washed his hands after he crapped this morning.

Thirty years ago, when I lived in an upstairs apartment in town, my next-door neighbor grew chiles in buckets on his staircase. He grew up on his family's dairy and hog farm, and even though he didn't own a square inch of dirt, he brought in a fine crop of peppers every year on that apartment stairway. Couldn't escape the draw of the soil.



It cooled off enough to stand out in the sun today.



neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Sep 1, 2015 - 12:44am PT
hey there, say chaz... wow, i wish i had more tomatoes... love eating them fresh off the vines...

actually two folks that i knew around here, DID get some very great ones, for out here... :)
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2015 - 09:10am PT

























































survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2015 - 04:09pm PT
Catch of the day.
Poblano, Chervena Chujski, Hot Lemon, Habanero, Black Pearl and varieties I've lost track of...






































guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Sep 5, 2015 - 12:29pm PT
Chaz and Survival......

Nice gardens ... Im jealous.... being a noob at growing tomatoes, my crops have been hit and miss the last few seasons.

Question about the bucket plants. I have tried that, but when it gets HOT the tomatoes sort of dry out and die, even if i keep them wet....

Got any good reading about how to grow effectively???

THX
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2015 - 01:09pm PT
Potted plants can be tough. Root space will limit size of plant and the heat can be tough too.

Google cheap simple raised beds and "lasagna" gardening.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Sep 21, 2015 - 10:57pm PT
One thing I can advise about growing tomatoes is how to keep the birds from ruining them.

Not all the birds are spooked by my reflective streamers and owl / hawk feathers. So I did what I saw in The PNW: I strung some fishing line where birds fly. I tied some leader-weight line randomly between high and low points. Birds hate that. 100% effective. Zero bird damage since.


With 12 Roma plants, I have tomatoes to make an enchilada sauce or a relleno sauce, but nowhere near enough to think about canning any, which was one of my goals for this season. Next season I'll just plant more!

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 23, 2015 - 10:03am PT
Chiles are all I'm really interested in these days....










Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Sep 23, 2015 - 10:55am PT
I like chiles, too!

Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Sep 23, 2015 - 01:06pm PT
But it's not all about peppers and tomatoes...

Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Sep 23, 2015 - 01:45pm PT
Good thing Mum hadn't chopped one up bare handed and then tossed it into her green salad.

Good thing, indeed.

I grew some ghost peppers this year and have a small harvest in the freezer. Not sure what I'll do with them, though. Farmer Bruce tells me "Just make a relish with them, it'll be terrific on anything that needs a bit of an extra kick."

Well, I've had his hot pepper relish, and it totally kicked my ass. And it was made from peppers a lot less hot than those Bhut Jolokias (ghosts).

I love hot peppers, but these things are likely to be not just hot, but nuclear fusion hot, so I don't know what I'll use them for.
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Sep 23, 2015 - 03:43pm PT
Thank you for the replies....

Chaz... the buckets look like a good idea. My wife will not let me rip up the patio to increase my dirt space. But I can run buckets down and back on one side.

BooDawg

Social climber
Butterfly Town
Oct 15, 2015 - 08:29pm PT
For a more complete account of our garden's productivity, please go here:

http://yosemitecloseup.com/stories/sierra-sustainability/

Our garden has been producing well all summer except that the tomatoes have been a disappointment. Fortunately, we still have lots of tomatoes in our freezer from last year and have been adding squashes, chopped onions and fresh peppers to our frozen stores..

In addition, we are making soups & sauces with the tomatoes that we are getting, freezing much of those products for later use.



The day lilies are not only edible, but beautiful, and they are continuing to bloom.

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ECF

Big Wall climber
Colona, CO
Oct 15, 2015 - 09:13pm PT

Busting straight out the skylight...
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2015 - 10:02am PT
I love the "mum" story!!!

Ghost, of course you can put a Bhut Jolokia in a relish,especially if there are other Reds in the same relish. Try it with just one in a batch, and if it doesn't blow your head off you can add more! Don't be a Canadian moss head....
I'm still getting good production so far, although a couple of these yellow and orange chiles were a gift.



We've really been enjoying the black pearls!!
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Nov 4, 2015 - 07:20am PT
We had a frantic late afternoon harvest yesterday in the mud & 30 mph gusts, at 37 F, after nearly 2" of rain in the last three days. Harvest photos had to wait until this morning.

I didn't include some potatoes & another box of peppers. We still have lots more potatoes, onions, & carrots in the ground, but they will survive all but the coldest temperatures there.

Normally, we have a killing frost around mid-October, so this has been a bonus fall, with a steady stream of garden bounty including lettuce & arugula.

OH! And it didn't freeze last night. First Frost for sure tonight!
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Nov 21, 2015 - 10:28am PT
Still getting Bell Peppers in November.

Le Chow Royale
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Nov 23, 2015 - 07:03pm PT
Heidi dug her last carrots yesterday, before the 7 F. temps forecast this week. Not a bad harvest.

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 23, 2015 - 07:19pm PT
Dug up about 20 lb of Satsuma sweet potatoes the last few days and I'm not even 1/8th done.
bringmedeath

climber
la la land
Nov 23, 2015 - 07:57pm PT
Here are a few of the plants I grew this season. Still have hundreds of thousands growing for winter and spring sales.

Reptyle195

Trad climber
Ca
Nov 23, 2015 - 09:29pm PT
That's not food, that 's what food eats.
D-<
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Nov 24, 2015 - 11:05am PT
hey there say, tami, boodawg, chaz, fritz, and survival...

wow... great share... fun stuff, thanks for sharing...

makes me wish to make a salad, :))



i have only baby carrots, left, as, the snow starts to hit us, a bit now...
(has been warmer, too, this year, as 'predicted)...


will see, later, today or tomorrow, if i still have a few... :)
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Dec 23, 2015 - 09:46pm PT
Last of the bell peppers.



I'm still getting jalapenos.


( Le Chow Royale )

I'm going to miss the bell peppers until next year's crop comes in. I'll bet I had two hundred nice bell peppers this year. Stuffed bell peppers. Bell peppers in chili and spaghetti sauce. Bell pepper quesadillas ( those are good ). Bell pepper rellenos ( those are good, too ). Bell pepper rings ( beer-batter fried like onion rings ). Roasted bell pepper 1,000 Island. Roasted bell pepper aioli ( just mayo and garlic, with roasted peppers ) to dip fried zucchini in.

Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Sep 5, 2016 - 08:43pm PT
First of this year for the gardens thread, or is there another thread? It was a hot dry summer in Seattle. Our tomatoes came out pretty well, but the season feels like it's ending a month early. Maybe we'll get another growth spurt. I'm totally awaiting Ghost's report!

Pears, apples, cucumbers, best ever plum crop. We 1/2 Spaniards (sister and I) make a cucumber tomato and onion salad. That's the second photo. So far the salad is tolerating bitter cucumbers pretty well. I'm open to other recipes for bitter cucumbers from you all, please.



Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Sep 5, 2016 - 09:11pm PT
Nice gardens all! Obviously, we need more current reports.
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
Sep 5, 2016 - 09:28pm PT
My kale was a disaster, started with seeds and only got a few started. One took off and I got several meals from it. Bugs suddenly ate all the leaves from all the plants and they died. In the past I have had kale plants grow for years, not sure what changed.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Sep 5, 2016 - 09:49pm PT
hey there say, all...

wow!! wonderful stuff!!

things don't grow good here...
not enough summer, :(

plus, i know someday, i will need to make my soil good, :)
just can't, right now...

but, last year, i did get enough carrots and greenbeans, to have fun!!!!

this year, i got ONE tomato...
and my turnip greens, and some radishes...

about a mid-size bowl of them...


oka, green beans, beets = are just not doing well,
but i SURE HAVE FUN, knowing that i planted them, >:D<


did not have time to do the carrots this year, so i miss them...
but--got lots of parsley left over from last year, :)


have just a tiny bit of lettuce, trying to grow, just a few
leafy tips... and cilantro, just a few green sprouts, :O



but perhaps next year, you never, know >:D<



thanks for sharing all the neat fun!!!
:)






ShawnInPaso

climber
Paso Robles, CA
Sep 5, 2016 - 10:04pm PT
Our humble veggie garden this year. Some tomatoes, bell peppers, melons, jalapenos, and basil. The best thing I did this year compared to years past was to automate the irrigation.


Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Sep 5, 2016 - 10:07pm PT
wrt to Beck and kale ^^^. It's funny, for a few years our collards and kale grew magically, to the point that I would go to the corner store in the spring get some cheap collard seeds throw them in the ground and be able to eat collards all winter until next spring. These last few years that just hasn't happened.


Not kale, but collards. Vertamae Grosvenor passed away a few days ago and from an NPR interview:



VERTAMAE SMART-GROSVENOR, BYLINE: I was a collard-patch child, but don't feel sorry for me. Those of us raised in the collard patch did very well, thank you. Collard greens, an ancient vegetable enjoyed by the Greeks and Romans, are full of minerals and vitamins. Pot liquor, as we call the liquid the greens are cooked in, is the only liquor good for you. Now, you'd think with a culinary heritage like that, everybody would adore collards. Not so.

In our society, where almost everything, including foods, are seen as status symbols, collard greens are considered lowdown vegetables. Many of us from the collard patch on the upward mobile trek leave the collard behind. Well, I don't cook collards because they stink up the house. I eat collards occasionally. They don't sell collards in our neighborhood. Well, I love collards.

Fixing a pot of collard greens is a very satisfying experience. You have to handle each leaf personally, cleaning and cutting leaf unto leaf in green embrace. And then there is the smell of the greens cooking - full-bodied, deliberate, earthy. So I don't care if a legend ever wears a collard green or if I never see them in a commercial.

I think collards are ouiton (ph) vittles. There will always be a pot of greens cooking in my kitchen. Langston Hughes asked, in the quarter of the Negroes, in the pot behind the paper doors in the old, coal stove, what's cooking? What’s smelling, Leontyne? Leider, lovely Leider, and a leaf of collard green. Lovely Leider Leontyne, lovely leaf of collard green.

MONTAGNE: And lovely Vertamae grew up speaking Gullah Geechee. It's a dialect of English which developed among West African slaves along the Atlantic coast.

Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Sep 12, 2016 - 09:39pm PT

I know there is a separate vine thread, but this is following up on the posting from the last page. These are Burmunk grapes (originally Armenian in origin)j that do well in W. Washington. We give these to our neighbor, and he makes a quite drinkable wine from these.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Dec 15, 2016 - 09:44am PT
Still getting zucchinis. ( jalapenos, bell peppers, and tomatoes )



I didn't get near as many tomatoes as I wanted. I planted 49 (!) plants in pots, and only got enough tomatoes for relleno sauce one time. I'll do my homework before spring, and see if I can get tomatoes to grow.

I got a boatload of limes this year. Probably 20 X over last year. Hundreds of limes came off a little tree not even as tall as I am.

Enough limes to alter my drinking habits.



BooDawg

Social climber
Butterfly Town
Feb 2, 2017 - 05:41pm PT
After our fairly successful summer garden abruptly died back during our first heavy frost, I removed many of our summer plants, and Lisa and I replanted some of those spaces with winter vegetables which have been growing steadily since then. Although we’ve been having periods of steady rains, on the morning of January 23rd, we awoke to a white wonderland, our garden plots covered with an inch or so of snow.

The following picture pairs were taken first in the morning, then about noon on the same day. What a difference a few hours makes in the mood of a garden! But obviously the winter vegetables are resistant to some snow and sub-freezing temperatures!



Left to right: Calendula, Lettuce, Cauliflower



Foreground: Celery and broccoli; rear: various winter greens, including kale and chard



More info and pix can be found here: http://yosemitecloseup.com/winter-garden/
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Apr 1, 2017 - 09:33am PT
Dam Dingus.... all those for your garden?? Do you deal tomatoes on the side?


Going to Tomato Mania, in Fillmore. Last year was a disaster.... don't know why.

I can only grow like 10 plants. Going to go for some Anna Russians and a Coastal Type they have. The Anna's get big and give pretty good ones in till the end of the summer. The coastal ones come in pretty quickly.

Wishing for a good crop.


Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Apr 1, 2017 - 09:43am PT
Well, nuthin edible but we took it from this:

to this:
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Apr 1, 2017 - 12:37pm PT
nice spread Tad..... looks like plenty of room for a garden.

just pick up a plow, for the mower, and your good to go.

Send

Trad climber
Central Sierra
Apr 1, 2017 - 02:59pm PT

Is this bug damage? Gardening n00b here. I'm pretty sure bugs are chewing up my radish, kale and beet leaves. They don't seem to touch the Alaska peas or tomato leaves.

Over the last month I've tried organic insecticide sprays, the home remedy of garlic/chili oil spray and the light soap spray.

I'm thinking its just going to take more time???
Or I need a year or so to condition my soil properly? I just turned the dirt over in January, added some store bought potting soil and also added a quick organic compost of grass clippings and dried/dead leaves.

Any help appreciated....
crackfiend

climber
Springdale, Utah
Apr 1, 2017 - 03:22pm PT
Diatomaceous earth is a great organic product that is effective against crawling insects which is likely what you have there, sprinkle it on the ground around the plants and when they crawl over it they get cut die. Organocide 3 in 1 is good all purpose organic treatment for insects. Strong and healthy plants are the best first defense against pests, look into using compost teas or other products that add microbes to the soil.
Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Apr 1, 2017 - 03:52pm PT
Check the underside of the leaves for shiny snot trails from snails or slugs. If so, use the diatomaceous earth to make a two inch wide ring around each plant.

Also, if you just turned raw leaves and grass clippings into the soil, they will suck the free nitrogen out of your soil as they decay so add in some nitrogen supplements. I prefer well aged compost. Chicken poop based compost is better than steer poop for seedlings. Steer poop is too "hot" for youngsters.

For good organic gardening info...Google any of the gardening info from Rodale Publishing.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
May 5, 2017 - 06:47am PT
It's orange season here.


( Tequila Sunrise in the afternoon )

Besides oranges, I've produced a good crop of these f*#kers this year.


Tomatoes and peppers are just getting started.



clarkolator

climber
May 5, 2017 - 07:39am PT
WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
May 31, 2017 - 01:21pm PT
Winemaker

Sport climber
Yakima, WA
May 31, 2017 - 01:36pm PT
It's finally getting warm in Yakima, though Chinook Pass is still closed. Planned to do some PCT this year, but looks like snow won't melt till August. Slow start for the grapes this spring too.
JimT

climber
Munich
Jun 1, 2017 - 12:22pm PT
Well us guys in deepest Bavaria.... Snowed on the 1st of May, cold and soggy then it changed to 80´s to 90´s and everything is springing out of the ground at an uncontrollable rate. Took the mustard mix off for silage last week and the first crop of hay. The hops are looking good!
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 13, 2017 - 05:52am PT
How do you people get rid of rats, or other small varmints eating your hard gained tomatoes and veggies? I've killed 6 youngsters off already with rat traps and still have 2 adults and 1 youngun left (estimated). It's pissing me off, I've had it with these f*#ks. Show me what you use! Of course this all happens between midnight and 4am.

These rats are used to the T Rex traps and just ignore them now.
Flip Flop

climber
Earth Planet, Universe
Jun 13, 2017 - 06:08am PT

skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 13, 2017 - 06:13am PT
I've used that same construction to grow strawberries Flip Flop. Worked like a charm
Flip Flop

climber
Earth Planet, Universe
Jun 13, 2017 - 06:42am PT
Thanks SKredic for the boost o' confidence. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to growing but no time like the present, right? If I don't grow a garden this year....I'll be a year older when I do. (Apologies to Warren Miller).

The little dude is in a Farm School program this summer. 8 is fun
micronut

Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
Jun 13, 2017 - 11:34am PT
Ok Supertopo Gardeners. Long time lurker on this thread....first time poster. My wife and I know nothing about gardening. She had been asking for years, so I finally tilled a small area on our property, poisoned the weeds, graded it a bit, made up some boxes and built her a pretty gate (which I'm quite proud of honestly).

I have tons of questions but thought I'd start with a few photos before bombarding you with questions on pests, watering and all kinds of other issues. Looking forward to engaging on this thread for once!

Scott

skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 13, 2017 - 03:43pm PT
Thanks for the response Tami. Where I live the yards are relatively small, and the rays live in the neighboring yards. And to make matters worse, we have a chicken: the last one of a batch of 6 and is still producing eggs at 7 years old. Our yard is relatively clean, but still could use some work.
Rats were stripping my pepper plants down to nothing so I saved some with this cage. Also some old chard on there.





So I'm growing everything in raised beds, especially since there is no natural soil and very poor drainage where we are. These beds are 6 yrs old now.

Flip flop, it's cool your son seems interested in growing food. Only one of my kids really got into it. Hope he has fun.

I like the gate Micronut! And especially the rest of the garden.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 13, 2017 - 03:49pm PT
So Tami, what do find the rats don't eat? Okra is one that seems to work here. I have it growing in the hottest part of our garden and the rats have left it alone for 4 years now.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jun 13, 2017 - 07:36pm PT
My wife and I know nothing about gardening

Can't argue with success, Micronut. Looks like you and your wife got it going.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 14, 2017 - 06:11am PT
Thanks for the thoughts on the subject Tami. The motion activated sprinkler and chumming the neighbors yard a bit I have not thought of. Its giving me some ideas that may work on our rattus rattus's.

The raspberries and tomatillos are something I will have to try next year. The raspberries in particular I will need room for. When the chicken passes, we might be finished raising them which would free up a nice chunk for the raspberries (and other things). Interesting about the Russian Blue potatoes. Maybe your rats have sensitive pallets?

Patty and I have been talking about getting a cat. Our dog up to recently has been our rat catcher, her hunting drive is so strong. Kills wise she has 2 possums, 28 rats, and 2 pigeons to her record, along with chasing off most the cats and raccoons. She was pretty psyco in her youth and she is paying for that now that she is 10, so maybe she would put up with a cat. Maybe.
G_Gnome

Trad climber
Cali
Jun 14, 2017 - 11:18am PT
Even if you have outdoor cats you will still have rats. In reality most cats sleep most of the night and the rats just wait until the cats are gone to come and eat. My cats do keep the population down some but they do not eliminate them. I also have raccoons and possums and squirrels. The raccoons are the biggest problem and prevent me from growing much fruit. They always ate the strawberries the day before I would have picked them. For me the critters don't much bother my tomatoes or tomatillos or my various kinds of chilies. I am also growing cucumbers this year and so far they haven't eaten those either. I still haven't eaten more than 6 apricots from my tree in any year, but then that is because of the squirrels.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 14, 2017 - 04:36pm PT
Yea, I've never had a dog quite like Tica, and I've had other hunting dogs. Made Patty cry in the first 9 months we had her. Hunts rats using her front paws similar to a cat, pouncing on them but using her 50 lbs to really mess them up, then gives them the standard coup de gras. She is a hunting dog through and through. Even this year she killed 2 rabbits so far, not in my yard tho. She's hell on lizards. I have LOTS of Tica stories.


There is a lot of clutter surrounding our yard, so eradication will never happen. But, the little suckers eat very young squash and cucumbers, and the new growth on my peppers.


G_Gnome

Trad climber
Cali
Jun 15, 2017 - 03:58pm PT
Here is how my garden grows this year in SoCal. Really well actually.

My wall of tomatoes, with one volunteer tomatillo growing in the middle.

Here is my other planter with cucs, peppers and more tomatoes.

Lots of basil coming soon.

And lots of jalapenos, especially for so early in the year.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jun 15, 2017 - 09:35pm PT
Seattle was once known as Rat City, and I live not far from the area that gave it that name. But they've never hit my garden. Or the huge pile of spent grains (from brewing) that I've dumped on the ground to compost.

There are a lot of coyotes (we live by a 5-mile green belt bordering a river), so sometimes I think maybe that's what's keeping the rats in check. But probably not, or else the f*#king rabbits would all be dead too.

So I don't know why I don't have a rat problem but do have a rabbit problem. Fortunately, the current rabbits are so stupid that they won't eat anything but kale and collards, so I've fenced off a small area for that, and can leave everything else, including lots of lettuce, in the open.

I see squirrels chowing in the spent grain pile from time to time, but they don't bother the garden, so that's okay.

And, back to rats, I've killed a couple in the house, but that was only after a coyote got our cat, and I've never had a problem with them outside.
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Jun 16, 2017 - 09:41am PT
DMT.... you are so cruel.

:>)
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jun 16, 2017 - 10:06am PT
Heidi had suffered various attacks on her garden by deer, raccoons, & rabbits, before we fenced it with 5' tall horse fencing 15 years ago. The deer could jump it, but it apparently has offended them, so they don't.

However, 10 years back, we discovered young Rockchucks, aka Yellow-bellied Marmots, could squeeze through the horse fencing to eat the garden. We added a lower layer of chicken-wire and extended it down 3 inches into the ground to keep the Rockchucks from digging through the wire.

That worked until 3 years ago, when we came home from a trip to find the garden nearly destroyed by young rockchucks who had dug through the now rusted & weakened chicken wire.

We then added a solar electric fence-charger & ran a wire about 2" off the ground. That worked like a charm, until this spring. We hadn't seen any rockchucks near the garden & I hadn't taken the solar charger out of winter storage.

Then I noticed a gang of 5 local thugs had broke into the garden. I ran for my rifle & dispatched 3 of the thugs, while the rest ran in circles, trying to remember where they had dug into the garden. The solar-charger was once again installed & we haven't had a problem since.


The garden quickly recovered from the damage & Heidi started pea harvest this week.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 16, 2017 - 10:26am PT
DMT's dogs have definitely earned their keep. Keep up the carnage! Looks like they know how to snap necks with the best of them.


Fritz's E-lectrified fence thingy has given me another idea! I just have to remember to keep the dog inside when I turn it on.


Garden looks really nice Gnome! I might have to try tomatillos sooner than later if they naturalize. I love salsa verde anyway...
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jun 16, 2017 - 10:43am PT
skcreidc! Re keeping your dog inside. The fence delivers one heck of a shock, but doesn't injure or kill. Harley (the cat) used to like hanging in the fenced garden with Heidi, while she was weeding or harvesting. He touched the low wire at the entrance 3 years back & has not gone near the fence since.

It's quite likely your dog would learn too, with just one shock.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 16, 2017 - 11:01am PT
It doesn't kill them Fritz? Hmmmm, too bad ;)
Jim Clipper

climber
from: forests to tree farms
Jun 16, 2017 - 01:05pm PT
Leave it Locker to try to grow a forest in the desert.
G_Gnome

Trad climber
Cali
Jun 16, 2017 - 01:43pm PT
What are you trying to grow there Locker?
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 16, 2017 - 02:24pm PT
This thread has taken an interesting turn. That's a bummer about Main! Potential business opportunity?

I do appreciate the reminder of electric fencing Fritz. I might be getting a setup soon.


And Tami, I have started chumming ;)
G_Gnome

Trad climber
Cali
Jun 16, 2017 - 02:26pm PT
Hmmm, interesting. I hadn't thought of adding to my garden.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jun 18, 2017 - 08:55am PT
Thanks for asking! It's finally looking presentable, if I do say so!


The main problem is keeping the rabble out.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 27, 2017 - 06:23pm PT
Along with chumming and the rat cages, I put up more traps. Now I just have to get mom and dad.


Other than that, Im looking ok.
Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Jun 27, 2017 - 08:42pm PT
Don't fret - a few more short years of Global Warming and you too can have tomatoes in June!
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 28, 2017 - 06:08am PT
Hahaha, Tami. It's been friggen hotter than blazes here! The Okra is happy as hell. Today will be the first "cool" day in 2 weeks. Besides that, I live in San Diego where you get "paid with palm trees" as I was told by a former employer once.

Got daddy rat last night. Mom is still out there.....probably preggers
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jun 28, 2017 - 06:12am PT
You actually checked his privates? Ewwww!
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Jun 28, 2017 - 07:12am PT
"paid with palm trees"

There's the source of your rat problem right there.

Once I got rid of my palms, the rats all disappeared.

Now, it's mice, and they live mostly in the garage.


That's where this guy comes in.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 28, 2017 - 09:04am PT
You actually checked his privates? Ewwww!

Don't worry Reilly. It was all done very professionally, blue gloves and all.


Actually, it's pretty hard to not know on adults...

Gotta have balls to be a rat
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jun 28, 2017 - 09:11am PT
Unfortunately they are not my trees.


These piquins are mine tho
Urizen

Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
Jun 28, 2017 - 01:43pm PT
So, can't eat animals...but it's still okay to kill them?
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Jul 13, 2017 - 12:30pm PT
Paul, I can eat animals, I just choose not to for purely selfish reasons. And when they try to decimate my garden, it's on!

My rat problem has been minimal of late. This is after I treated them as tree rats and put the traps up high. It's been 2 weeks since we've any real rat issues. Just minor damage now.

Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jul 13, 2017 - 07:17pm PT
All that's missing is a few serranos, couple of limes, cilantro and salt.

And a bottle of tequila.
G_Gnome

Trad climber
Cali
Jul 14, 2017 - 10:22am PT
I have about 100 jalepenos in the fridge right now. Gonna make some hot sauce this weekend.
Send

Trad climber
Central Sierra
Jul 14, 2017 - 09:09pm PT
G_Gnome

Trad climber
Cali
Jul 14, 2017 - 10:01pm PT
I have both tomatoes and tomatillos growing too. I am in the middle of the tomato harvest but tomatillos are a long way away yet. I am pretty good with heat but so many peppers challenge everything. A couple years ago I had a huge harvest and cleaned about 100 of them at once without gloves. My hands burned so bad for a few hours I will never make that mistake again!
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jul 14, 2017 - 10:11pm PT
Oh, Tami, I pray for yer poor heathen proddy souls banished to the far nether world of concupiscence.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Sep 2, 2017 - 10:58am PT
Soooooooooooo Tami..............How are those Canadian tomatoes coming?

We are on to peppers, and our first stab at growing bitter melon. Saving one gourd for seed stock for next year.

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 2, 2017 - 04:36pm PT
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Loyd

Big Wall climber
Roseburg, OR
Jul 22, 2018 - 02:56pm PT
Oregon grden
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2018 - 07:05pm PT
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jul 22, 2018 - 07:21pm PT
Welcome back Bruce.

Or maybe not. I don't think I like you any more, because your peppers are ready to harvest, and mine...

...well, okay, I live in Seattle, but still...
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jul 22, 2018 - 10:01pm PT
hey there say, Loyd... wow, NEAT and very luscious garden, there...

and-- critter addition, ;)


here's a bit of mine:
side-yard:







back-yard:



got lots of flowers, in various areas, too... will share later...
have to resize, :))
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