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Mine is a collage of planting spaces varying from raised bed not in contact with the ground, to in ground both row and non traditional planting styles. This year we have tomatoes planted in three general areas and have several planting variations.

Here is my main tomato area consisting of three beds of six tomatoes each. The central area is heavily enriched and the ground outside the area is covered with sheet plastic and mulch. Melons are planted between each tomato plant.

[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5029/5677858968_5d351e4867_o.jpg[/img]


This is my earliest gardening area. There is a concrete slab from an old carport and beside that concrete was poured to provide eight 4 x 6 in ground beds. Those areas are planted with garlic, beans, tomatoes, peas, radishes, and day lilies. Raised beds were built on top of the concrete slab. Those are planted with lettuce, arugula, garlic, radishes, swiss chard, cilantro, parsley, day lilies, and a few other flowers. Tomatoes are placed in large nursery pots near each post on the pergola.

[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5188/5677854234_a39cd1549c_o.jpg[/img]

Here is my potting bench and general work area.
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5226/5677852594_2ae79b124b_o.jpg[/img]

This is a view of the concrete skirted area but from the opposite direction from the first photo.
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5262/5677297407_bf38e904e3_o.jpg[/img]

Turning in the opposite direction, standing on the concrete from the foreground in the previous picture, there are a couple of in ground planting areas.

The nearest contains four zucchini plants and then three rows of yellow sweet corn.

[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5028/5677296619_74cc3c0b04_o.jpg[/img]

A little further away is a new addition just added this year. Three rows of white corn are in the foreground (haven't germinated yet) and several tomato plants are in the far part of the bed. The tomatoes in black pots are one of this year's experiments.

[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5268/5677297001_7b6360e49d_o.jpg[/img]

The next area is beside my main planting area. Last year it was covered with sheet plastic to kill the bermuda grass. This year I cut out a circle to plant a few potato plants for new potatoes with our beans.

[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5309/5677294593_5c36f7fd22_o.jpg[/img]

And right beside the circle I have potatoes in a large nursery pot plus strawberries and some other transplants.
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5266/5677853844_98c855f784_o.jpg[/img]

Here are a few shots from under and beside the pergola area.

Sweet peas in 4 x 6 in ground spot.
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5027/5677855068_9ca7d1f61b_o.jpg[/img]

Raised beds on concrete slab area.
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5184/5677295771_a73c78efb0_o.jpg[/img]

We have three other raised bed areas in other parts of the yard. All are on the east side of large oak trees so that beds are protected from harsh afternoon sun.

Three raised beds plus nursery area. Strawberry plants, raspberry plants, garlic.

[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5677858514_76e35df49c_o.jpg[/img]

Eight raised beds all with raspberry plants, plus a nursery area at the far end.
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5025/5677857674_c5396a53a4_o.jpg[/img]

Three raised beds, each divided into two sections. Nursery area in the foreground. The right side of each bed is planted in strawberry plants. The left side is planted in beans, greens, cucumbers. There is also a nursery overflow area on the far end of the beds.

[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5305/5677297953_fbf2b25de9_o.jpg[/img]

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Amazing!!

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There are many lovely shades of green :shock: !! So very pretty . . .

My gardens are dirt brown from almost any distance, yet!

There are a few transplanted bok choy & lettuce, as of today. There are some onion and shallot tips . . .

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My favorite place to be.

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Front: Zuchinni, Squash & Peppers
Left: 10 Tomatoes: Big Beef, Celebrity, Juliet, Mariglobe, and two heirlooms, Tennesse Britches and J.T.D.
Middle left: Bush cucumbers, Minnesota Midget melons, Contender, Roma, and Lima beans.
Middle right: Potatoes, Beets, carrots, herbs.
Right: Onions, Broccoli, Lettuce, Cabbage
Back: Peas, Spinach

[img]https://i877.photobucket.com/albums/ab331/DanWyns/Garden3.jpg[/img]

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Now just come on heat, and some rain would be nice.[/img]

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Wynn,

Nice deer proof/dog proof enclosure. Sweet peas look great. Looks like you may be two or three weeks behind us. We have been mostly in the mid 80's for three to four weeks.

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Thanks hendi_alex

The weather here has been pretty nice, got up into the 90's a few days, but the nights are usually cool, in the 50's. Its been a pretty dry spring thus far, no counting those two batches of severe weather a few weeks ago.

One row of peas has mostly bloomed, and the pods are starting to fill out. The other row is just getting ready to bloom.

Yeah, the deer were eating me out of house and home, so last year I put up that Deer-X fencing. Works great - just don't get near it with a weedeater. :)

A couple of questions: Should I wait a few more weeks to mulch with straw? The weeds are starting to hurt my back, but I wanna make sure the ground is well warmed before mulching.

And, I have the cucumbers (bush spacemaster) and melons planted inside those old tomato cages. What is the maximum number of plants I should grow inside each cage?

And, when the peas and spinach peter out, I was planning on planting corn there. What's the latest I can plant corn? Any suggestion as to which variety? (I've never grown corn before)

Thanks

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Excellent work guys! Thank you for sharing, I will try to take some pics of my garden later this week.

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here are some I took this weekend:

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Wow, everyones gardens are so big and beautiful ! Consider me jealous :)

I don't have a lot of room, unfortuantely (and our soil is made of CLAY, clay and more CLAY! so I can't really plant in our regular ground). So I'm a raised bed gardener.. which brings up a question... one of my strawberries have happily inserted itself in my walkway (in my native soil) in between the raised beds. I have more plants than I have room in my garden this year, so now I'm curious. Is it possible I could plant some plants in my clay soil, and not kill them? The strawberry in my native soil seems to be just as happy (or happier) than the strawberries in the raised bed. I still have more things I would like to plant and would LOVE to be able to put some plants in the area underneath the patio where the lawnmower and bucket is in the background.

My 4 garden boxes- I will have tomatoes going in containers as well, up closer to the house, to find out which method works better :D Thankfully, they get plenty of sun when it's out, and having them right next to the house helps to prevent them from wind damage.

[img]https://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c25/Liskarialeman/Garden-15-1.jpg[/img]

^^ I think I'm going to put the yellow pear tomato seedlings in the back, 2 in each box (4 total) so I can trellis them up the patio behind them if need be. I've got another 6 seedlings that I'm going to try and plant in containers, since I don't have the heart to let them die :D

Then peppers in front of that, my zuccs in the front left hand box, then if they come up the lima beans in with the strawberries (started with 6. They multiplied!) If you look hard enough, you'll see a strawberry in the walkway between my boxes also. I gave it some compost. Also my onions are starting to poke through :D

[img]https://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c25/Liskarialeman/Garden-14-2.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c25/Liskarialeman/Garden-13-1.jpg[/img]

^^ Volunteer plants of some Sort. I have no idea what they are-- anyone have any ideas? Especially the flowering wooden one!

[img]https://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c25/Liskarialeman/Garden-10-2.jpg[/img]

^ Growing lettuce out in the garden

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^ My inside starts/seedlings. The Zuccs got.... really big. They're ready to go out, IMHO, but the weather isnt' right yet.

A few of the Tomato seedlings:
[img]https://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c25/Liskarialeman/Garden-6-1.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c25/Liskarialeman/Garden-4-2.jpg[/img]

And cause for celebration:
[img]https://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c25/Liskarialeman/Garden-5-2.jpg[/img]
A bell pepper! It just poked up out of the ground today, after 3 weeks of waiting! Hooray!

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SPierce, I can only say what works for me, and my native soil is very poor sand with almost no organic matter. When I want to start a bed of some creeping, freely multiplying plant such as strawberries, I take one of two courses. On is to take a potted strawberry plant and place it where I want plants in the ground. Then when the plan makes runners, the bed gets established with the plants taking root where they are most comfortable. My other method is to place several nursery pots beside an existing strawberry bed. As the bed makes runners, they are pinned to the top of the potting soil in the pot until they take root. In the late fall, the plants are moved to the in ground location. My preference is for the first method.

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hendi_alex wrote:SPierce, I can only say what works for me, and my native soil is very poor sand with almost no organic matter. When I want to start a bed of some creeping, freely multiplying plant such as strawberries, I take one of two courses. On is to take a potted strawberry plant and place it where I want plants in the ground. Then when the plan makes runners, the bed gets established with the plants taking root where they are most comfortable. My other method is to place several nursery pots beside an existing strawberry bed. As the bed makes runners, they are pinned to the top of the potting soil in the pot until they take root. In the late fall, the plants are moved to the in ground location. My preference is for the first method.
Thank you :D I want room to grow pumpkins, gourds and watermelons this year (or at least try to do so), so I'm trying to come up with as much room as I can. I don't have the finances to buy several more raised beds to set up again. :(

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Pumpkins and gourds grow great in red Georgia clay. Perhaps try a few hills of them in the ground as well.

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hendi_alex wrote:Pumpkins and gourds grow great in red Georgia clay. Perhaps try a few hills of them in the ground as well.
Really? Ohh! Well, maybe there's still hope for them yet. Thank you, I'll give them a try!

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Nice gardens folks! I'll have some pics sometime, if it ever warms up and I have something to show. I'm really wishing I had some of those huge boulders in my yard, they are cool! 8)

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My garden is all MUD. If it does not stop rainning I am going to plant Rice and build an Ark.

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hit or miss wrote:Nice gardens folks! I'll have some pics sometime, if it ever warms up and I have something to show. I'm really wishing I had some of those huge boulders in my yard, they are cool! 8)
they're for sale...but you have to move them. 8)

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[A couple of questions: Should I wait a few more weeks to mulch with straw? The weeds are starting to hurt my back, but I wanna make sure the ground is well warmed before mulching.

And, I have the cucumbers (bush spacemaster) and melons planted inside those old tomato cages. What is the maximum number of plants I should grow inside each cage?

And, when the peas and spinach peter out, I was planning on planting corn there. What's the latest I can plant corn? Any suggestion as to which variety? (I've never grown corn before)]


The ground warms so early here, I just mulch as soon as I'm ready to do so. For lots of things I only mulch the perimeter to keep the weeks from encroaching so that doesn't really affect the soil temperature in the planting areas which are easily weeded with minimal effort.

My inclination would be to plant thee cucumber seeds per cage and then thin to the two strongest plants. Any more and you will have such a jungle on your cages that it will be hard to find the cucumbers. Heck, if you get six healthy cucumber vines, then you will be giving away cucumbers by the basket full. For succession planting following peas and spinach, I go ahead and plant the corn for example right beside or mixed in with the other plants. By the time the corn starts getting any size, the other crops will be finished. The peas will even give the corn a bit of nitrogen. I don't particularly care for the triple sweet varieties of corn. I love silver queen and the past couple of years have also planted Double Delicious (SE).

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OK, there is nothing to show right now. Things are just starting to wake up. Here is a shot looking East from my garden in the fall.

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SPierce,
Is it possible I could plant some plants in my clay soil, and not kill them?
Yes, indeed. The main thing to watch with clay soil is; Do Not Work It When Too Damp!

If you can work even a little organic matter into that native soil it will most likely grow some good crops.

I move strawberry plants in the spring. I like to move the new ones not the two year old ones. They transplant quite well.

I had a similar thing happen one time. I had some strawberries planted in a container. Next thing I knew, they had jumped out and in two years I had a 12 foot wide patch of strawberries. These were June bearers and the variety sure put out a lot of runners.

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jal_ut wrote:SPierce,
Is it possible I could plant some plants in my clay soil, and not kill them?
Yes, indeed. The main thing to watch with clay soil is; Do Not Work It When Too Damp!

If you can work even a little organic matter into that native soil it will most likely grow some good crops.

I move strawberry plants in the spring. I like to move the new ones not the two year old ones. They transplant quite well.

I had a similar thing happen one time. I had some strawberries planted in a container. Next thing I knew, they had jumped out and in two years I had a 12 foot wide patch of strawberries. These were June bearers and the variety sure put out a lot of runners.
Thank you ! I just really, really want pumpkins this year, and would like to be able to grow more vining varieties without having to worry about room. I will make sure they get plenty of compost mixed in with the soil.

and, yes, I get the ever expanding strawberries as well. I started last year with 6 plants, in half of a 4x4 bed.

This year they've taken over the entire bed, and the space in between the bed, as well!

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Nice gardens every one, Wow!
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Update with a little more detail.

Tomatoes:
Trying a few tomatoes in smaller than normal pots, only three gallon. Am pruning all suckers and allowing central leader to climb a single rod support.

Juliet
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Grape
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Patio
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Plants in larger 25 gallon containers:

Sweet Cluster
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Juliet
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5703425874_095c0583cc_o.jpg[/img]

In ground tomatoes, various slicing tomatoes:
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[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5181/5703425368_b771e62819_o.jpg[/img]

One of about 8 container grown egg plants:
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First cukes of the season
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One of four zucchini plants. Just picked our third small harvest today.
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5184/5703405607_c8e446f94e_o.jpg[/img]

Beans mixed with romaine. Have three beds of beans with more to be planted.
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5026/5703423728_0ee3e23874_o.jpg[/img]

One of three lettuce beds. Has been heavily picked, pinching outer leaves as they get size.
[img]https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2580/5702853643_c3d39a7ddd_o.jpg[/img]

Sugar Snaps, already showing effects of the heat, but still very productive and very tasty.
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Corn is now 1-2 feet tall.
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One of a dozen or so pepper plants in 3 gallon pots.
[img]https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/5703405227_b0850c06d9_o.jpg[/img]

Strawberrries are down to a trickle but our many beds still provide plenty for our daily forage.
[img]https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3453/5703424030_ddea8acbf3_o.jpg[/img]

Raspberries just getting started:
[img]https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5301/5702854881_72b127fdd6_o.jpg[/img]

Blueberries beginning to turn:
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Wow! Am I impressed with you guys! Spicy Chicken should be disqualified though, because that's not a garden, it's an incredible farm! And yes I am jealous! :D

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Fair enough.

It is only my garden, but removed the pics anyway, sorry!

Jeff.

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Spicy, surely you didn't remove the your pics because of my jest!? :oops:

Your garden is incredible and all should be allowed to see it. I was only joking because my simple backyard garden is probably 1/8 the size of yours. But I really loved the pictures as it gives me something to hope for.

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Lunacy,

The truck is loaded, I'll be right down.
[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Farmers%20Market/VegetableGardenMay7th2011014.jpg[/img]

I've been busy with the repair business and growing starts for sale, my garden is way behind from previous years.

Eric

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Amazing gardens, everyone.

Spicy, we're only kidding :lol:. Your pics are really great. I'm sure I'm not the only pepper grower here who would love to have such a great farm/garden like that.

Mine has weeds all over it since I've not had a chance yet to cultivate it due to the rain.

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Amazing gardens. Love to see pics of what everyone is doing. I have a small garden - 2nd year planting here. I used to live in NY and had a huge garden but here in FL the soil is so much different so am having to learn all over again (it's been prob 35 yrs since I had a garden)

Peas
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Beans
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Volunteer Potatoes
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Okra
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Squash
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Carrots
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