the non-weed gardening thread

[kitch]

so how's your garden going this year so far?

At the farm we have 104 tomato plants (just counted em) in one patch, bout 10 cucumber plants, with about 40 other squash plants including pumpkins, summer squash, crook necks, eggplant.

The strawberry bed is doing really well this season especcially considering it got run over by a pick-up truck during the winter (this was actually advantageous as it put 2 empty ruts through the middle of an otherwise densely planted patch, providing space to walk in) The bed is about 10 ftx20 ft with about 20 marble sized, very tasty stawberries per square foot. The strawberry bed is my pride and joy if you couldn't tell

We're working on clearing out some old trees and shrubs in front of the potting shed, and transplanting raspberries into there. They take pretty well but since you can't really put a net over them like you do with strawberries the birds and varmints take most of em. The one apple tree that's big enough just finished flowering and has prolly 200 or so small apples. We're organic so most of those will prolly be worm filled though. If you know any organic treatments for fruit tree worms please let me know. There's 2 other apple trees and a pear tree we put in 2 years ago coming in nicely.

The other 2 main beds have about 40 broccoli, 20 onions, 20 chives, 10 or so each of 4 kinds of lettuce, spinach, garlic, carrots and a pretty wide variety of different kinds of peppers.

The rose garden has been going strong for about a month now, every bush having about 3-4 nice looking roses right now. I dunno their names but we have bright pink ones, red, orange fading into white, pink fading into white and yellow. bout 30 plants total. The forsythia are going strong, so are the tiger lillies, prolly about 20 kinds of flowers in abundance right now.

So what's your garden hold?

[stonerkid]

plants are the asome shit!
i got like 50 salvias now a days, some taller then me!
about 20-25 anahu tomatoes and the same amount of Burpee eggplants
mulberry,taro,black( ornamental)taro,carn ivorous plants,habenjero(sp? )peppers,mimosa hostilis,hawaiian baby woodrose (ghana origin),bush bean,sanpedro cacti, opuntia cacti,spearmint,stra wberries,thimbleberr ies,chives,tobacco,s tarfruit,tahitian lime,mango,lemon,mou ntain apple,pine apple,coleus,rosemar y,brugmansia,morning glories,strawberry guava,guava,coconut, hapuu fern,ohia trees, cotton trees!

i bet i skipped something.........

[ionlylooklazy]

i live in an apt so no garden for me.

i wish though

garden food is best food

i eat to live, and i live to eat, motherfuckers

[kitch]

Originally Posted by stonerkid

plants are the asome shit!
i got like 50 salvias now a days, some taller then me!
about 20-25 anahu tomatoes and the same amount of Burpee eggplants
mulberry,taro,black( ornamental)taro,carn ivorous plants,habenjero(sp? )peppers,mimosa hostilis,hawaiian baby woodrose (ghana origin),bush bean,sanpedro cacti, opuntia cacti,spearmint,stra wberries,thimbleberr ies,chives,tobacco,s tarfruit,tahitian lime,mango,lemon,mou ntain apple,pine apple,coleus,rosemar y,brugmansia,morning glories,strawberry guava,guava,coconut, hapuu fern,ohia trees, cotton trees!

i bet i skipped something.........

I remember fresh strawberry guavas off the tree in hawaii. You sir are a lucky man. Do you have the cacti in a different environment then all the tropical wet loving plants?

[stonerkid]

i built this greehouse sorta thing,its seethru plastic roofing on strawberry guava poles

its great for the cacti cause it keeps off the rain and i can keep um relatively dry with plenty of sun, its also good for everything else because it stops the rain from beating down on them and i can water um only when they need, not when the rain feels like it

[kitch]

Originally Posted by stonerkid

i built this greehouse sorta thing,its seethru plastic roofing on strawberry guava poles

its great for the cacti cause it keeps off the rain and i can keep um relatively dry with plenty of sun, its also good for everything else because it stops the rain from beating down on them and i can water um only when they need, not when the rain feels like it

we call those things 'cold frames' here because they protect the plants from the weather but don't hold in excess heat. That's where all the peppers (and sunflowers, ugh) are right now.

[my_scatterheart]

I just want my damn maters to grow faster!
My spinach is lookin veddy veddy veddy nice. I think I'mma start chompin tomorrow.
Everything else is still baby sized at this point, cucumber, peppers, onions are in teh ground out 'dere somewhere buncha salady stuff, got to plantin a few weeks later than I'd have liked. Oh well, patienceee.
Buncha herbs. Just used some tasty chives tonight. yumyum

[adventure]

My girlfriend and I broke up, so we moved out of our house, we rented. We had a20X20 plot, Catskill Brussel Sprouts, 3 types of tomotoes, two carrots, bok choy...so much. We had everything growing inside for 2 months, and everything was transplanted 4 weeks ago. I have moved some plants to my parents and the rest to friends, they are doing well for the most part

[myxomatosis]

Brandywine Tomato
Celebrity Tomato
Grape Tomato
2 Green Peppers
Red Pepper
Chile Serrano Pepper

Catnip
Spearmint
Pennyroyal
Lavender
Chamomile
Oregano
Basil (lots)
Cilantro (lots)
Chives
Rosemary

I need more veggies.

[John F. Kerry]

holy shit i cant believe so many other stoners have gardens too!!!

fuck yea

i alwasy plant one 14x14 ft bed with all sorts of veggies but these year im doing 2 full beds of plants.

got tomatos,
cucumbers,
squash,
pumpkins,
zuccinni,
carrots and lettuce from seed,
eggplant
peppers of various sorts
watermellons
and honeydews ,

now im sure the melons probably wont grow right because the climate isnt warm enough but everything else is doing great!

lets see some pics !

[kitch]

actually melons grow fine here in Eastern ma, we have honeydew and watermelon too, forgot to mention those. Just make sure they have plenty of water and are each planted in their own individual mound about 3 feet accross by a foot high or so.

To all you carrot growers out there: leave em in as long as you can. If you can wait til it's right on the edge of frosting they will be SUPER SWEET. We forgot a row 2 years ago and picked em late in December when there was actually snow on the ground. Got about 30+ pounds out of 1 ten foot row. The suckers grow close together if you let em. Just don't expect em to look like store bought unless you put in a deep layer of sand about 3 inches below the top soil.

[Kishar]

Originally Posted by stonerkid

plants are the asome shit!
i got like 50 salvias now a days, some taller then me!
about 20-25 anahu tomatoes and the same amount of Burpee eggplants
mulberry,taro,black( ornamental)taro,carn ivorous plants,habenjero(sp? )peppers,mimosa hostilis,hawaiian baby woodrose (ghana origin),bush bean,sanpedro cacti, opuntia cacti,spearmint,stra wberries,thimbleberr ies,chives,tobacco,s tarfruit,tahitian lime,mango,lemon,mou ntain apple,pine apple,coleus,rosemar y,brugmansia,morning glories,strawberry guava,guava,coconut, hapuu fern,ohia trees, cotton trees!

i bet i skipped something.........

never heard of anything close types of hearbs. are you from out west?

Originally Posted by myxomatosis

Brandywine Tomato
Celebrity Tomato
Grape Tomato
2 Green Peppers
Red Pepper
Chile Serrano Pepper

Catnip
Spearmint
Pennyroyal
Lavender
Chamomile
Oregano
Basil (lots)
Cilantro (lots)
Chives
Rosemary
nice ce
I need more veggies.

[stonerkid]

never heard of anything close types of hearbs. are you from o

what the fuck?

[Kishar]

disregard those last two posts of mine i was 3 sheets to the wind last night.

[myxomatosis]

What in the hell did you quote me for?

[Kishar]

i can't even remember..lol

[myxomatosis]

Haha. Sounds like a good night, hope you drank something good.

[John F. Kerry]

Originally Posted by kitchkinet

actually melons grow fine here in Eastern ma, we have honeydew and watermelon too, forgot to mention those. Just make sure they have plenty of water and are each planted in their own individual mound about 3 feet accross by a foot high or so.

To all you carrot growers out there: leave em in as long as you can. If you can wait til it's right on the edge of frosting they will be SUPER SWEET. We forgot a row 2 years ago and picked em late in December when there was actually snow on the ground. Got about 30+ pounds out of 1 ten foot row. The suckers grow close together if you let em. Just don't expect em to look like store bought unless you put in a deep layer of sand about 3 inches below the top soil.

thanks for the tips man i didnt actually plant the mellons in mounds i wonder if theres some way to make sort of moundy now like dig our some soil around them or something.

[al-Mu'akhkhir]

Originally Posted by stonerkid

plants are the asome shit!
i got like 50 salvias now a days, some taller then me!
about 20-25 anahu tomatoes and the same amount of Burpee eggplants
mulberry,taro,black( ornamental)taro,carn ivorous plants,habenjero(sp? )peppers,mimosa hostilis,hawaiian baby woodrose (ghana origin),bush bean,sanpedro cacti, opuntia cacti,spearmint,stra wberries,thimbleberr ies,chives,tobacco,s tarfruit,tahitian lime,mango,lemon,mou ntain apple,pine apple,coleus,rosemar y,brugmansia,morning glories,strawberry guava,guava,coconut, hapuu fern,ohia trees, cotton trees!

i bet i skipped something.........

fgt dont you mean mommies garden

[Parallax]

i have a dieffenbachia in my room