Gardens anyone?

[SHaRPS]

My garden is looking very good even with these super high temp days. Had to replant a few cucumbers and peas as well but we also had our first salad from the garden yesterday. We have been picking strawberries for days now as well. Radish should be ready soon. Time to dry some green onion, sage, lovage, and dill to store it for winter.

[rgfixit]

Looks really great Sharps.

Looks like I lost a couple of the peppers I planted this morning. Really too hot for this time of year. Tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter.

Rg

[SHaRPS]

Here a some better close up pictures.




















Many, many, many hours spent in here already. Love it.

[deerefishyfishy]

Finally got dry enough to rototill the garden one last time. Got all of my tomato, parsley, basil, sweet pepper, and hot pepper transplants in- 30 tomato, 9 sweet pepper, 15 hot pepper, 2 parsley, and 2 basil- in on Saturday and then got a nasty thunderstorm that soaked everything again on Sunday. Gotta wait until it dries out again to get all my other seeds in the ground. Definitely been a frustrating year with the prolonged cold temps and tons of rain!! Looking good Rg and Sharps. Where are you located Sharps? Looks nice and dry there!

[SHaRPS]

Thanks Deerefishyfishy,

I am located in Rhode Island. Its been on and off here with rain but with these 80's and 90's recently even a heavy t-storm coming through, everything is dry within hours. Garden loves it though. Every night I spend at least half an hour removing weeds. I also get purslane which I am going to attempt to eat this year, just not sure how to incorporate it into a meal other than toss it in a salad. Maybe some sort of soup?

[ActiveTrapChecker]

Looks good Sharps! What are you growing in the green fence trellises? i use tomato cages straightened out for my cukes and a makeshift bamboo trellis for beans. the bamboo didn't quite work as well as i would have liked and didn't survive the winter in the shed

[SHaRPS]

I am growing both cucumbers and sugar snap/Alaska pea's in the green fence. The cucumbers snake there way through shooting straight up the fence and I find that the plants never get to hot with the plastic material. I used to use a metal fencing for them but it would get too hot and kill my cucumbers.

I never have an issue growing anything in my garden except for one thing. My pepper plants never seem to grow very tall and the peppers themselves every other year get worms in their flesh. It seems like the hotter summers are worse for them. This year I only planted banana peppers and Jalapeno peppers. I pickle the Banana peppers for grinders and we make jalapeno poppers out of the Jalapenos. These also seem do do far better than the green, red, yellow, and orange peppers that I used to grow.

[ActiveTrapChecker]

i have only succeeded with hot peppers. I never fared well with green, bell, yellow, orange peppers.
My ground is very sandy, regardless of how much i add to it. not sure if that helps or hinders the growing of peppers, hot or otherwise

[rgfixit]

Don't feel bad, I stink at growing bell peppers too. Had a few decent purple bell last season, but some kind of little buggers ate holes in them before I noticed. I have really good success at jalapeņos though.

Rg

[fishnmachine]

Been busier than a one armed paper hanger in 98% humidity. Nice night for a fire in the old Weber with a cold G&T.

[fishnmachine]

The Peonies in the background aren't open yet but the ants are working them pretty hard, so they should open any day.   

[fishnmachine]

I haven't posted much in a bit, but here was a project a couple weeks ago.

We've had blueberries for a few years now, but some dummy caught one with the mower last fall, and another for some reason winter killed. So we went to a nursery up north and got a couple more.

Removed the sod.


Spaced then 5' apart and laid plastic.


And filled in with crushed rock.


No more close mowing or weeding! 

[rgfixit]

Looks nice Bill. Don't mow any rocks

I was just watering all my gardens. Got attacked by black flies. Couldn't find my bug spray anywhere. I usually spray my straw hat and they leave me alone.

The potatomato is doing very well. Standing tall . Waiting for new growth to proclaim it a success.

Rg

[Roccus]

 everyone gardens are looking good.. reading on line here you can see how some areas are hindered by the weather.. I never gave it much thought... I'll have to take some pictures... front yard is done.. finished spreading 6 yards of mulch last night.... Garden is coming along..I just replanted my peas and beans eaten buy Peter cottontail!.. I was installing the individual drip lines for each plant ( tomatoes, eggplants, peppers  etc.) last night and a came face to face with a striped terror... yea I'm scared of snakes!... screamed like a little child!....I'd rather face down a gut shot grizzly than a 12" garter snake.. after my hissy fit ( my wife calls then SISSY fits) ( which had my wife laughing hysterically)I couldn't finish the job... maybe tonight...I'M BRINGING MY SHOTGUN!

[SHaRPS]

everyone gardens are looking good.. reading on line here you can see how some areas are hindered by the weather.. I never gave it much thought... I'll have to take some pictures... front yard is done.. finished spreading 6 yards of mulch last night.... Garden is coming along..I just replanted my peas and beans eaten buy Peter cottontail!.. I was installing the individual drip lines for each plant ( tomatoes, eggplants, peppers  etc.) last night and a came face to face with a striped terror... yea I'm scared of snakes!... screamed like a little child!....I'd rather face down a gut shot grizzly than a 12" garter snake.. after my hissy fit ( my wife calls then SISSY fits) ( which had my wife laughing hysterically)I couldn't finish the job... maybe tonight...I'M BRINGING MY SHOTGUN!

LMFAO!