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Let's see your Garden (picture required)

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This is what all of my garden looks like right now!

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Thats so Cool, is that what they call Snow.

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Chard puts on a lot of greens.
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May 2009

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September 2009

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October 2009

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January 2010

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Very cool rclarkeingg- can we just call you rc? You must have a ton of vegggies when it's in season! [img]https://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab236/Gerrie_photos/Veggie%20Gardens/GardenandpetsJune09003.jpg[/img] [img]https://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab236/Gerrie_photos/Veggie%20Gardens/GardenandpetsJune09002.jpg[/img] [img]https://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab236/Gerrie_photos/Veggie%20Gardens/HeavenOnEarth008.jpg[/img]

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Peas for now, fixing nitrogen. ;-)

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Spring plans.

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OK Turk, you can't post pictures like that without explaining! :P
What ARE those semi-circle ended herb planters? :?: :?: :?:

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applestar wrote:OK Turk, you can't post pictures like that without explaining! :P
What ARE those semi-circle ended herb planters? :?: :?: :?:
They are meant to be used as barricades but I thought they would do much better as planters. No idea where they came from because I found them after weeding a very neglected area of the yard and VOILA, new herb planters. I love em. Very heavy but really nice.

You could probably find them at home depot or a heavy duty supply store. If I can find out more I will let you know. :-)

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is that a boat being used for raised beds :shock: thats a great idear!

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Here is my garden this year so far.

[img]https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/elementfiftyfour/TueFeb09205904CST2010.jpg[/img]

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Yall like my fancy incubator for starting my peppers and tomatoes? We are getting yet another cold snap so I had to put everything in the laundry room next to the water heater instead of leaving them out in the "green house/box."

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Summer Garden 2009:

Just thought I would post pics of my garden from last summer. When I started the garden 2 years ago, it was just crab grass and weeds. The first year I tried to remove as much of the weeds and grass as I could and rototilled it all. BIG MISTAKE! The rototilling just spread the crab grass more. I still had a nice garden. Then last year I removed all the weeds and grass by hand. I made raised beds (the best I can without wood to border all in).


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My pest control. :lol:
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------------Seed beds are important------------
Quote"my fancy incubator"
[img]https://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b46/rclarkeingg/Sq%20Ft%20Garden/SqFtGarden101.jpg[/img]
My sons heated waterbed, it's a good thing he not using it now. These seed spend the night on the bed and on the widow sill during the day
I dream of a green house/box

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rclarkeingg wrote:------------Seed beds are important------------
Quote"my fancy incubator"
My sons heated waterbed, it's a good thing he not using it now. These seed spend the night on the bed and on the widow sill during the day
I dream of a green house/box
That has got to be the best thing I have ever seen. :) Really, I love it I want to get a waterbed now.

I'm starting plants in the cold basement and need to get some heat on my plants soon. All I have is a heating pad for sore back but the bed could fit a WHOLE LOT of plants on it.

Most of you are fairly organized here is my mess so far:
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC03302.jpg[/img]

My outdoor garden, yeah it's out there somewhere:
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Are you using the top of the shoplight for "bottom heat" source? That's a pretty nifty idea since most seeds, especially cool weather crops won't need any more than 60º~70º to sprout. Once sprouted, they can take the cold. You could easily sprout lettuce and onions this way. Cabbage family likes 72~75 but you could get away with it if it's in the upper 60's -- just takes a little longer -- probably closer to 1 wk -- to sprout.

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applestar wrote:Are you using the top of the shoplight for "bottom heat" source? That's a pretty nifty idea since most seeds, especially cool weather crops won't need any more than 60º~70º to sprout. Once sprouted, they can take the cold. You could easily sprout lettuce and onions this way. Cabbage family likes 72~75 but you could get away with it if it's in the upper 60's -- just takes a little longer -- probably closer to 1 wk -- to sprout.
Yeah kinda. :P That's single Tomato in there just seeing how the pellets work before I put my wealth of seeds in there. The light doesn't put off too much heat at all but it's better than nothing. I need to dig out my heating pad and thought about bringing that tom upstairs where it is warmer. The main reason it is up there is D_V said something about Tomatoes sprouting better WITHOUT light. Did some research and found some said yes others said no, I'm sticking with D_V. :D

But I must say with no direct heat in a cold basement I have been sprouting and growing this and that all winter, a very cold winter at that. :? :wink: There is only one register in the basement though it is somewhat close to my starting area I don't think it does all that much. I'm sitting here halfway shivering right now typing this.

When it's go time I will change things up for sure right now it's more or less experimenting. Except for my onions and Brussles Sprouts growing in there.

By the way that's one of D_V's seeds in the big tray (Brandywine) Thanks D_V. :D

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rclarkeingg wrote:------------Seed beds are important------------
I dream of a green house/box
Me too actually. Mine isn't much to look at. It is something I threw together with some scrap plywood and a leftover glass top from a coffee table. I'll get a picture soon. :p

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My garden is under snow too:
[url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12804]My Keyhole Kitchen Garden and Koshihikari Rice Paddy[/url]:
You can't even SEE the strawberry jar :o
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image6328.jpg[/img] (24"H chickenwire fence)

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That is a 2' statue of St. Francis in a flower bed.

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my raised beds, pictures of which without the snow are posted else where.

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The bench on the hillside.

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birdbath in the front yard.

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joshbuchan wrote:is that a boat being used for raised beds :shock: thats a great idear!
It's a fail boat. :o

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Cagolddigger wrote:Summer Garden 2009:
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What is the tall, bushy trellised number toward the front left and how long has that been growing?

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That is Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans.
They were probably 4-5 weeks.
A total of 24 plants.

Bottom right is Cantaloupe, far right is Tomatoes.

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It's still too cold here for any thoughts of growing outside so here is my indoor garden so far :D

My new greenhouse with herb seeds started:

[img]https://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx308/crobi13/2010%20Garden/011.jpg[/img]

Strawberries:

[img]https://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx308/crobi13/2010%20Garden/013.jpg[/img]

Garlic:

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My garden is out there somewhere - I can see my trellis and fencing and a few poles, near my neighbors in-law cottage.

Baby brother back from college horsin around w/ my Bo

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That is a fun thread- thank you! It will take me a few weeks to get my picture, because I am moving from one community garden plot to the other, a bit larger and with more sun. When I plant it, I will take some photos.

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rclarkeingg, I can see from the concret block walls around the yard, the low angle house roofs, concret block houses, the trees, the sky line and the dirt you live out west. I lived in the Phoenix area for many years, now I am in Tennessee and I wish I was in Arizona. I don't think there is a day goes by I don't daydream about being in AZ again. No garden here yet weather is still too cold. Won't be a garden here for another 2 months. Here is a pic of the 2008 garden.

[img]https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/gary350/garden.jpg[/img]

This was a blackberry pie I went to get my camera when I returned this is all that was left.

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These are my garden helpers, the Wren family. One of 25 bird houses I have.

[img]https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/gary350/Wren01.jpg[/img]

This was the 2009 garden.

[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/mikeweaver/a4.jpg[/img]

Has anyone seen Denise Steele? Photo taken December 1975 Tucson AZ.

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What are the plants that have the string running over them? Pole Beans?



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