Show us your 2014 Garden

[smoker pete]

With another Nor'easter threatening the East Coast I realize that a garden is the last thing on many people's mind.  Especially for our Northern friends and Canadians ... But, in other portions of the Country gardens are being planted   

I'll start it off with my garden, to date, here in Northern California (about 70 miles East of San Francisco)
Took out my lawn 2 years ago and installed raised beds ... BBQ units under covered patio 

Tomatoes ... room for scallions

Zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, and marigolds ... room for radishes

Eggplant, jalapeños, red and green bell peppers ... room for some carrots

Bush green beans, bush Italian green beans, spinach, marigolds

Strawberries


Spaghetti and Butternut squash are planted in beds on the retaining wall.  Will train them to grow on a trellis.  Going to use 1 full bed for corn planted at different intervals.

[HighOnSmoke]

Awesome setup Pete!

[bbqchef]

Supposed to get six to 12 inches of snow Tuesday night... too early to do any planting in New England!!

Nice set up though... wish mine was like that!

[smokeasaurus]

I am gonna do my produce shopping at Smoker Petes....while he is sleeping 

Great looking garden. Wendy was just saying this weekend that when we get to Bama, she would like to have a garden. Gonna show her this excellent set up 

[veryolddog]

Here's my garden.





It is getting ready for one crop: hay!

Just one of the areas we will be cultivating this year.

When we can, we buy our vegetables from the ranchers in the area where they set up stands and sell their home grown stuff.

Ed

[pz]

I'd like to do raised bed - we have an awful mole/gopher problem - sometimes you can actually see the plants shake like in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon.

I like your watering manifold - I did something like that a couple decades ago when we didn't have deer/mole/gopher/turkey/moose infestations we have today.  I ran the water lines to the area where each plant was to be placed and then covered everything with heavy black plastic sheeting held down with hay between the rows.  The water lines were underneath the plastic. Poked holes through the plastic to plant.  The black plastic soaked up the sun and actually made the plants grow quite a bit faster due to the enhanced warmth of the roots (I experimented with zucchini under the plastic, and without plastic - the difference was dramatic).

In addition, I only had to water the garden beneath the black plastic twice that season.  I might try that again, but using raised bed instead (we put up an 8-foot deer fence last summer)

[deestafford]

Talk about having one's priorities in order!  Dee

[SmokinKat]

Given the drought there in Cali, I'm almost embarrassed to say that we haven't been able to plant our garden yet because of TOO much water!  We have lots of seed starts taking over the dining room table, and they're getting too big for their pots since we haven't been able to plant.

Pz-- I like your idea with the black plastic-- that must be a huge water saver, and save lots of time not having to pull weeds!  Will have to see about doing a set up like that with our huge plot as soon as it dries out enough to till!  We still need to put up fencing around ours too-- we just have a chicken problem rather than a gopher problem.  

[bbqchef]

Here's mine after today's snowstorm...

[smoker pete]

Given the drought there in Cali, I'm almost embarrassed to say that we haven't been able to plant our garden yet because of TOO much water!  We have lots of seed starts taking over the dining room table, and they're getting too big for their pots since we haven't been able to plant.

You're right about the drought Kat.  We're experiencing the worst drought in 100 years here in California      BUT we're actually getting a bit of rain today!!    Who says it never rains in California?!    Course, we could use 30 days and 30 nights of rain ...  Glad I got my garden planted.  Planted my 1st 3 rows of Corn yesterday.

[Old Hickory]

pz, the black plastic works well.  A Barn Owl box for nesting works well for me with the gopher problem.  I have 12 scattered over the ranch.

[TwoPockets]

Great garden!

[spuds]

OK,on left,from front is parsley,then Brussels sprouts,and an artichoke you cant see,right is kale,carrot and lots of strawberry runners,all overwintered,very cool.This is where the aquaponic hoophouse will be built,it will be 10x12 feet.



This is the Mantis composter,just got it for 80 dollars on Craigslist



Chickens and ducks.Have Limes.lemon,grapefruit,oranges and tangerines,7 total.They each have 3-4 15 watt old style Christmas bulb.When frost or snow they get covered with a trashcan and at 34f lights heat em,at 36 lights turn off.They all survived frost and snow this year.



Here we have yellow hyacinth in a bed of oregano,a pink dwarf peach,rest of bulbs havent bloomed yet.All trees are dwarf.



On the left in pink is a peach,the 3 above with white blossoms are assorted pears,above them are 6 different apples.Back fence has 2 thornless berries,top and bottom fence on left has 2 pomegranates that survived winter,very cool!~



Also have other berries,spices and grapes that didnt make pics,not bad for such a small yard.All trees planted last fall.

[smoker pete]

Very nice garden spuds    Been wondering if I should get me one of those composters!?  I know they're great to have.

But I have one question ... Where are the 'spuds'?    

[spuds]

We had some volunteer spuds in the mulch pile once,next time we tried bugs got em.

The composter is more for getting rid of endless pine needles than compost,would be nice if it speeds things up,takes 2 years to break down in pile,but makes good stuff and tons of worm treats for birdies.

Great beds you have there.

I just picked up 20 tomatoes  for 20 bucks,all kinds from sweet 100 on up,one of few veggies I can grow here,peas do real good.