Wisconsindead's 2017 Garden

[wisconsindead]

Thanks applestar. We'll see if they keep popping up throughout the season.

Here is my garden. I really wish I would've planted more greens earlier. Oh well.

There is garlic on the left. Then I planted yukon gold and nortland red potatoes and some dragon carrot just to the right of that bed.

Left to right - Bed 1 - Onions, Spinach, lettuce and in the way back Bed 2 - Onions, Carrots and peas Bed 3 - Strawberries, broccoli and cabbage and Bed 4 - raspberries.

And here is a close up of some broccoli or cabbage. Not sure which.

[wisconsindead]

Little Update.

Here is the entire plot. Starting to green out. Garlic growing really well. I've noticed that my hay mulch is full of seeds. I've begun taking it off. I'm really trying to prevent having to deal with perennial grass weeds. I like using mulch, so I'm not sure what the plan is from here.

Here are some potatoes. This is Red Norland with Yukon Gold in the background.

Here are the tomatoes. They did just fine being planted on the 21st of May. I am hard pruning them this year. All indeterminate varieties.

And here is some cabbage. The broccoli and cabbage are growing really well.

[wisconsindead]

Here we have the onions, spinach, lettuce, carrots and strawberries in the bottom. Just beyond the carrots and shaded are the peas.

Here are the raspeberries (right), strawberries, and cabbage/broccoli in the back. The corn is in the upper left below the compost pile.

Watermelon Seedlings. Blacktail Mountain

The double red corn.

Here are the peppers in the back, carrot and lettuce seedlings and potatoes up front. Red Norland and Yukon Gold. The garlic on the right (chesnok red, german porcelain and georgian crystal) are starting to yellow and put out scapes.

Here are some baby Tavera Haricot Vert beans

And the Broccoli heads are just beginning to form. This is my first time growing broccoli.

[wisconsindead]

Everything has been going pretty well here at the garden. My peas and broccoli were a failure. I also haven't gotten nearly the amount of strawberries I was hoping for. But all in all I am pretty happy. I harvested my first peppers the other day. The first tomatoes are ripening. And I plan to harvest my garlic this weekend. I hope I haven't waited too long :/

June 18, 2017

July 3, 2017

[KitchenGardener]

So impressed. I get garden envy when I see a big (by my standards) healthy garden. I WISH I had the space for a big garden, with rows of peppers, tomatoes, a whole patch of garlic and a whole patch of potatoes not to mention all the other great things. But then I think of the work it takes to get that whole area ready and planted (and how many seed starts you must have going in your garage in early winter) and I'm reminded that you've got a gorgeous garden because you've worked so hard for it. As for me, my little urban oasis/patch will do for now.

Well done - enjoy the fruits of your labor!

[wisconsindead]

So impressed. I get garden envy when I see a big (by my standards) healthy garden. I WISH I had the space for a big garden, with rows of peppers, tomatoes, a whole patch of garlic and a whole patch of potatoes not to mention all the other great things. But then I think of the work it takes to get that whole area ready and planted (and how many seed starts you must have going in your garage in early winter) and I'm reminded that you've got a gorgeous garden because you've worked so hard for it. As for me, my little urban oasis/patch will do for now.

Well done - enjoy the fruits of your labor!

Thank you for the kind comments. You're right, it has been probably hundreds of hours of work/visits since last fall. I feel you on space, this garden is at my sister's. She lets me do what I want with the yard so I'm very lucky. I live in a small apartment with no yard!

[KitchenGardener]

So impressed. I get garden envy when I see a big (by my standards) healthy garden. I WISH I had the space for a big garden, with rows of peppers, tomatoes, a whole patch of garlic and a whole patch of potatoes not to mention all the other great things. But then I think of the work it takes to get that whole area ready and planted (and how many seed starts you must have going in your garage in early winter) and I'm reminded that you've got a gorgeous garden because you've worked so hard for it. As for me, my little urban oasis/patch will do for now.

Well done - enjoy the fruits of your labor!

Thank you for the kind comments. You're right, it has been probably hundreds of hours of work/visits since last fall. I feel you on space, this garden is at my sister's. She lets me do what I want with the yard so I'm very lucky. I live in a small apartment with no yard!

Lucky Sister!!

[applestar]

Looking really good! I hear you about some of those failures -- they are what you might call compost for your knowledge-base. Accumulate those failures, turn them over in your mind, and what you get are fertile ideas for improvements to be made in the garden next season.

My garden is poised to begin mass production, too. Many green tomatoes, my new peppers seeded this year are still small but some have begun to bloom, and some the overwintered fully mature peppers are pumping out harvestable fruits already, while others are setting massive numbers of fruits.

I actually have some that need to be planted still -- either in the ground or larger containers.

[wisconsindead]

Looking really good! I hear you about some of those failures -- they are what you might call compost for your knowledge-base. Accumulate those failures, turn them over in your mind, and what you get are fertile ideas for improvements to be made in the garden next season.

My garden is poised to begin mass production, too. Many green tomatoes, my new peppers seeded this year are still small but some have begun to bloom, and some the overwintered fully mature peppers are pumping out harvestable fruits already, while others are setting massive numbers of fruits.

I actually have some that need to be planted still -- either in the ground or larger containers.

Thanks Applestar. I actually think the stress of being in pots too long (I started my peppers too early) allowed for some earlier fruits as the peppers were flowering well before I ever planted them outside. Have you ever experienced this? My plants reverted to vegetative growth after a week or two outside and are the best looking peppers plants I've ever grown. Very healthy looking.

Here is the majority of my garlic I harvested this weekend.

This tub is full of Chesnok Red.

A few of the bulbs are very nice looking.

And here is almost all of the Georgian Crystal (left) and German Porcelain (right)

[wisconsindead]

Thank you for the kind comments. You're right, it has been probably hundreds of hours of work/visits since last fall. I feel you on space, this garden is at my sister's. She lets me do what I want with the yard so I'm very lucky. I live in a small apartment with no yard!

Lucky Sister!!

My sister would rather eat store bought-pesticide sprayed-weeks old berries than fresh ones that have touched the dirt from her own yard. So, this is really just less lawn for her to cut. As far as I can tell, she is crazy. But whatever, I'd probably rather she not touch my berries

[wisconsindead]

July 18, 2017

Things are going well here. I've been harvesting carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers. Beans are forming. Onions should be done soon. I'll have a lot of empty space soon

[KitchenGardener]

Looks so green and healthy! So what do you do with your empty space? Is there anything you can put in for a Fall harvest?

[wisconsindead]

Looks so green and healthy! So what do you do with your empty space? Is there anything you can put in for a Fall harvest?

I will be planting peas, a couple types of lettuce, spinach, carrots and possibly potatoes and beans if I plant soon. My plan is to make a poly tunnel for the lettuce, spinach and carrots to have them last through the winter. I'm hoping to be harvesting that stuff in the heart of winter. We will see!

[KitchenGardener]

Good luck - sounds great. Question is: will you be willing to drive over to your Sis's house in the dead of winter to get your produce?

[wisconsindead]

Good luck - sounds great. Question is: will you be willing to drive over to your Sis's house in the dead of winter to get your produce?

I would bet. I can only be gone from the garden for so long...

[wisconsindead]

July 31, 2017

Here is the garden while I was harvesting onions. All are curing now. New York Early and Expression yellow onions. Plus two red onions that were in my seed packets

Here is the other side. Potatoes dying off, peppers doing great. Dragon Carrots doing well behind the peppers. Winter butternut squash in front and the tomatoes.

As you can see, my tomato support is a mess. I really need to rethink how I am going to do this.

My strawberry patch is really coming along. The runners are starting to fill in the voids and I am actually getting a decent amount of production. Almost enough for me. Next year should be

Here is the blacktail mountain watermelon. I have a few growing.

And a very pretty Glow sweet pepper.

[wisconsindead]

Here's a little box I put together for a friend. Shows almost everything I have to harvest or have harvested. Very colorful. Good season so far!

[KitchenGardener]

Here's a little box I put together for a friend. Shows almost everything I have to harvest or have harvested. Very colorful. Good season so far!

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Absolutely gorgeous!