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Gardens In Progress
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Posted: Jul/30/2008 12:54 PM PST
Hi all: I wanted to share the progress or our large veggie garden project. I suppose this could be in a blog but I thought it might be nice for anyone else who would like to share their stories of when and how they started their gardens, and any before and after pics. Someone like myself who is relatively new to serious gardening might appreciate seeing the pics and hearing stories from those who have more experience under their belts. In my short time I have learned about companion planting, seasons for certain plants and so on. But when I first started I didn't bother to do any research and of course am learning from my mistakes and the dreaded pests. I started out very small with a framed bed on my screen porch when my children were young. The only thing that successfully grew in it were fire ants.  My children are now 20 and 18 and I have since moved on to growing a wider variety of flowers and veggies in the ground. Here are some pics. I can't wait to see others. Karen P.S. If this post is of enough interest to others can it be a Sticky? Attachments:        |
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Posted: Jul/30/2008 1:33 PM PST
Great big garden you have there. I am relatively new at the whole garden thing but helped friends in the past alot. I've attached some pics of my garden from beginning to end. They might be out of order but two pics are from the very beginning, one of all the veggies starting to grow last month and the cucumbers and jalapeno peppers just last night. Just thought I would share. 
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Posted: Jul/30/2008 2:17 PM PST
Wow, it's beautiful. What are the tall plants with the large leaves? I'll die if you tell me they are cucumbers or squash. Mine are just babies. |
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Posted: Jul/31/2008 6:24 AM PST
Great looking gardens! Hopefully I'll have one that looks like that next year. Right now I have a small raised veggie bed w/ 2 tomato plants, 4 bell peppers, 4 jalepeno's, parsley, and some potatoes. Love the way you both prepared the beds 
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Posted: Jul/31/2008 7:21 AM PST
The very tall plants in the back are sunflowers which took off this year. They are almost as tall as the power lines now. I have never had them grow this tall. I will be taking picture of them soon so show. The plants in front of those are actually zucchini's. For the first year of doing a garden in this house the soil must be really really good because everything has grown double the size I would have expected. |
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Posted: Jul/31/2008 11:02 AM PST
Those are beautiful! I guess I have alot to learn. I let the weeds grow between my rows.....dh said that would be fine but I think it helped kill them  I think I'll try putting the straw or wood chips down after my plants spring up
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Posted: Jul/31/2008 2:51 PM PST
The weeds will suck up the precious water your veggies are looking for. The weeds here will choke out my veggies if I let them get away with it. I just started using hay for mulch in one of my veggie beds. GG member Stereoman noticed I was using wood mulch and told me it can make the soil PH go up. I called my extension office to confirm that hay would work in my zone. It goes much further than mulch. I'm going to use it on all the veggie beds now and stick with mulch for flower beds. |
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Posted: Aug/02/2008 1:54 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by gardenbook GG member Stereoman noticed I was using wood mulch and told me it can make the soil PH go up.Down, m'dear, down. Wood chips leach acids, acid soil has a lower pH. |
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Posted: Aug/04/2008 10:22 AM PST
Oops, thank you Stereo. For some reason I always get PH ups and downs confused. By the way Steve, hubby and I are making changes to the original garden plan shown in the pictures above. We are taking your advice and putting more space in between and will be moving some to border a paver patio which we are building adjacent to our screen porch. |
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