when are you sowing your garden this year?

Sooner or later I will be getting rid of my curbing! You can have it when I do! I have lots of it too... It's pretty old though...

the gardens are looking good! I'm pretty pumped for my first year! All this rain has definitely helped me! I am amazed at how fast my garden is growing.
Attachment 59050 Notice curbing... This is what it looked like when I put them in.. Close bush is already gone.. Next year I will have another small box on the other side of the big one to even them out.
Attachment 59051 You can see the tomatoes on the left that got killed by a hail storm.. This picture was taken a couple weeks ago..

Attachment 59052 This one was taken June 5thish... And I know I have a more recent picture on my phone but I have to go into messages to find it but now everything is huge! I'll take recent pics later if I can't find it.

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Originally Posted by hunterhawk

Sooner or later I will be getting rid of my curbing! You can have it when I do! I have lots of it too... It's pretty old though...

the gardens are looking good! I'm pretty pumped for my first year! All this rain has definitely helped me! I am amazed at how fast my garden is growing.
Attachment 59050 Notice curbing... This is what it looked like when I put them in.. Close bush is already gone.. Next year I will have another small box on the other side of the big one to even them out.
Attachment 59051 You can see the tomatoes on the left that got killed by a hail storm.. This picture was taken a couple weeks ago..

Attachment 59052 This one was taken June 5thish... And I know I have a more recent picture on my phone but I have to go into messages to find it but now everything is huge! I'll take recent pics later if I can't find it.

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Last year my tomatoes got hit real bad. They bounced back though. What I did after they got decimated is I let a couple suckers grow and they pretty much came back. We had more tomatoes than we knew what to do with. We were harvesting tomatoes into October.

This year we were lucky enough to cover them before we got hit too bad. Our Green Beans didn't germinate well because of the hail. I think those tomatoes on the left should come back just fine. if they didn't get hit too much worse after that picture was taken.

Looks like a great start!

Ha yeah... They definitely bounced back... The ones on the far left as you can see are coming on strong and on the far light the little ones I planted from seed can back up as well! So yes if I keep them all I will definitely have tomatoes but that is awesome because I love tomatoes, pasta sauce, fried green tomatoes, cherry tomatoes in salads, salsa, ok done with my bubba gump take off...

here is yesterday afternoon...Attachment 59072Attachment 59073... Crazy how fast this stuff grows! I wish my cucumbers would come back.. They are the slowest to come back... Well the watermelon never came back but at this point it's probably a good thing...

Those boxes look amazing! Newracer, just how much dirt do they contain?

My garden never got a chance this year; between the bunnies and the amount of rain, anything that sprouted either drowned or was eaten.

I'm looking at other options- hay bale gardening looks interesting, and not hard on the back.

Tomatoes are growing STRONG. I ignored them for a week failing to prune, pull suckers and tie up and they went nuts. I had to spend some time getting them back into order. Darn things grow all gangly if you don't keep them in shape.

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Strawberries have been awesome. I have picked about 12 lbs, eaten a bunch and made 12 jars of jam. Bush beans, carrots, peas, zucchini in the back left and cucumbers that are starting slow.

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Peppers, eggplants, squash, okra and pole beans. Beans are still small. Melon and more cucumbers are in the background not visible.

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Pumpkins and more squash.

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Corn. Poles beans in there too. This is an experiment, not sure if they will work well in pots but so far they are strong. The beans are supposed to provide nitrogen for the corn, which I suspect it'll need being in pots.

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More peppers, herbs. These got beat up in some hail, I think they'll come back ok.

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Update. Plants are all all taking off. Eating a few small squash, peas and peppers. We should have been eating peas for a month already but I started them late. Just another week or so before the green beans start coming in small amounts.

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Jealous!

My Sunchokes are growing strong.
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And the Rocky mountain corn has tassels and a few ears poking out ready to be pollinated!
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Tomatoes and Scarlet Runner Beans are on the right. The tomatoes on the containers are extra seeds that I sprouted... I usually just stick em in containers and see what they do.

Turns out the house we bought has a large patch of strawberries and a couple of rhubarb plants. We've already harvested about 12 stalks of rhubarb, which we diced, vac sealed and put in deep freeze. Waiting for strawberries now to make some jam and a pie. [Lick]

I love strawberry and rhubarb. I just planted a rhubarb plant. The first one failed I think from lack of water. Watered the second plant more than the first while it acclimated to the new home. (It reacted almost instantly when we came home from work and watered it) We have some strawberries but not enough to keep up with the birds and baby bunnies.

I have been eating zucchini and I love it! So happy I finally put in a garden.. Other than that squash is coming in and tomatoes are still really green but have lots of them.. Broccoli is also almost ready.. The lettuce is huge as well.. Corn is also tasseling! My garden now looks like a jungle... Definitely put too much in but that's how you learn!