Posted: 10/20/2009 12:41:17 PM EDT
| I don't have a garden unfortunately. But I would sure love to see some of the gardens arfcomers have... |
I'm in the planning and box building stage for mine. Currently only growing a crop of yummy bermuda grass in the location where my garden will be  I will be planting after the last frost (if we get any) in late January. Also working out the dates to get the seeds to sprout at the right time.
I'll keep a thread about it here so that I can cause a Hippie's head to explode when google links them here due to a keyword search 
Also if anyone knows a good gardening forum where they take a non-organic "nuke it from orbit" approach to pest control please flip me a link. I'm gardening for vegetables, not to make a political statement and almost all the gardening sites I've run into seem to disdain the use of pesticide. I'd rather not lose my crap to ants. They can be a mother of a problem down here. |
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I'm in the planning and box building stage for mine. Currently only growing a crop of yummy bermuda grass in the location where my garden will be I will be planting after the last frost (if we get any) in late January. Also working out the dates to get the seeds to sprout at the right time.
I'll keep a thread about it here so that I can cause a Hippie's head to explode when google links them here due to a keyword search
Also if anyone knows a good gardening forum where they take a non-organic "nuke it from orbit" approach to pest control please flip me a link. I'm gardening for vegetables, not to make a political statement and almost all the gardening sites I've run into seem to disdain the use of pesticide. I'd rather not lose my crap to ants. They can be a mother of a problem down here. There's not much you can't cure pest wise using 7 dust. Dust "liberally" every few weeks or after it rains. While I can appreciate people trying to garden organically, it just doesn't work for me. |
This is now my garden. I have been prepping clay soil with manure and just plowed it all up. Hoping that the freezing and thawing this winter breaks it down for me also. CANT WAIT for spring to till it all up and put some seeds in the ground. 
This was our past garden. I just started tilling it up today to return it back to grass. There is a good chance of a building being put in its spot so that is why I have relocated it to the top picture. The new garden will be around 3 times the size of the last one. |
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GGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!! That's not a garden, that's a small farm! 
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Here are some pictures from this years garden. About 3500 sq ft planted
Potato Patch early June 
Potatoes mid July 
Potato patch in late September tops died off ready to dig up 
About 1/4 of my potato harvest 
Garlic on left and onions on right. 
Bush beans, radishes, lettuce, tomatoes, and parsnips 
Snow peas, carrots, parsnips, and peppers in front 
4 pumpkin plants 
Closeup of some of my garden salsa peppers 
All 48 tomato plants lost to late blight 
Tilling up the lower section this fall 
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GGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!! That's not a garden, that's a small farm!
I haven't measured with a tape measure yet but after walking it off I am estimating about 7000 sq ft. The garden will be for a lot of people but I had to make sure that there was enough space to grow what I needed to put up for the winter also.
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