Well I'll get the most important one out of the way. The infamous Beer Garden of das Kraut. (2010)

Damn beer never did grow worth a darn.

Day 1 of the 2012 growing season:





Day 2:



Crops are zukes, cukes, 4 different varieties of pepper, 4 varieties of tomatoes, a couple eggplant, and green onions. Still a about 140 sq ft available so off to the greenhouse again tomorrow.

what all are you growing?

snrose wrote:

what all are you growing?

You got me just as I was editing in the crop list which is listed after the first day 2 picture.

awesome. i can't wait till next year. i plan on doing a big in ground garden. right now im planting in pots. got some tomatoes, asparagus, strawberries, and some random herbs

LMAO at you're beer garden.

Love the pictures we have a small raised garden we only plant hot peppers love them..

2 years ago we got thousands of habenaro peppers from our garden infact we still have a freeze with some of them.

I froze down a crapper load of peppers last year why I even planted more this year is beyond me. Probably have enough yet for another 2 years.

Haha I forgot about the beer garden, that pic is priceless! I wish I had that much room to plant veggies! Good luck this yr!

I wish I had sun in my yard and not just tons of huge trees. However, even if I did have the appropriate amount of sun to grow veggies, I probably would fail at it. I have tried and I have failed when living in other houses. My parents grew a HUGE garden! You would think I might have learned something from them somewhere along the way!

Nice looking garden, Len! Nice soil, too. I envy deep, rich soil. Central VA soil is orange and as hard a clay... well, I think it actually IS clay!

ugh, virginia clay is horrid. my parents have it at their house

SabakaMom wrote:

However, even if I did have the appropriate amount of sun to grow veggies, I probably would fail at it. I have tried and I have failed when living in other houses.

Don't feel bad, I've been talking about making a garden for year's now and never do. Mainly, because I bought those potted herb plants that you can keep in the house, the only thing you have to do is water. Well, I'm on my 5th or 6th plant so far... They just keep dying! Ahhh, I just don't have a green thumb.

SabakaMom wrote:

Nice looking garden, Len! Nice soil, too. I envy deep, rich soil. Central VA soil is orange and as hard a clay... well, I think it actually IS clay!

Actually the soil here is very very rocky as were on the outer fringe of the Finger Lakes area which were dug out (?) by glaciers during the ice age. I roto-till the garden as deep as I can and still every year bring up rocks the size of baseballs and occasional football size. The rich soil is the compost that I bring home from the village compost site and will constantly be bringing it home as a top base to smother weeds that try growing. I use to trench all my non meat kitchen waste until I started having the garden raided at night by skunks.

I should make a small beer garden in the front of the house and a web cam just to see what reactions and looks I get! Too funny!

I wish I had a garden....any size will do as we really don't have room unless I use the back yard where G&S play and I'd rather they have room and I use pots for herbs instead.

cmanding wrote:

I should make a small beer garden in the front of the house and a web cam just to see what reactions and looks I get! Too funny!

That would be to cool. What a great excuse to go buy and drink beer so you can cut out the label from the 12 pack carton and staple it on a stick, then plug it into the ground.

I would! My neighbors would get a kick out of it!

Week 1:




Week 3:




Then the rain finally came......................... Week 5












Weeds suck.

Looking good, Len!

My tomatoes and basil plants aren't growing.... (They're not dead, they're just not growing...)

Week 11: Zukes are good for maybe 3-4 days more then dead. Pulled out 2 plants this evening stems pretty much rotten at ground level. Dreading the thought of squash beetle invasion, will know for sure if the pumpkins die prematurely. Green peppers wasted effort grew 3 ft high and barren as the Sahara Desert, probably my fault to much nitrogen. Aaaah Ed's favorites tomatoes! Yellows, orange and red cherry tomatoes coming on with a vengeance. Roma, Early Girl, and some strange full size yellow ones in there for good measure. Pictures so we know it really happened.

Dying zukes and cukes they served me well




Roma tomatoes




pumpkin




yellows




Some sort of mystery beans from the Philippines, I'm sure they'll die out before harvesting.




eggplant




Beth, being knocked around by the wind.

Len, I wish I had a garden of that size! My green peppers grow to the size of a golf ball then they start going bad.... not sure what is up with that. Made sure I fed all my veggies before I left. Hope you can get some more veggies before they go bad!

Almost the end of August update on the crops:

Shy pumpkin, have about 4 of them that average about 12-15" in diameter.




Pretty much what we've brought in since Thursday. Cukes and Zukes are officially done.




















Tomatoes reds, yellows,cherry, grape ones even being swamped by those buggers.

All that color! They look delicious!

YUMMY!!!!

its all looks GREAT! im gonna have a basket of tomatoes like that soon!

WOW! You're garden look's awesome Len! Great job!!

I have a hard time keeping a basil plant alive in a pot. lol Wish I had you're talent