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Richard
03-12-2008, 03:19 PM
Some of you have started veggie seedlings and others just about ready. A little over a week ago I started my first round of seedlings. Today these were ready to plant: Pumpkins, Beans, and Squash. I put protective cages made from wire fence material around them to keep pesky critters from eating the seedlings. Here's a look at the squash bed:

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=8620

mskitty38583
03-12-2008, 06:41 PM
i got 30 strawberry plants for my birthday, will be planting them in pots till this fall, i dont have a place to put them yet. ill be doing that after i get done with yucky homework. lol.

Richard
03-22-2008, 05:19 PM
Today I planted out a row of bean seedlings: California Blackeyed peas, Lima Beans (Fordhook), and Blue Lake beans. These are all bush varieties. The cages around them will come off when the plants are too large to be tempting to rabbits and other varmits.

The white dots you see at the edge of the mulch are snail & slug bait pellets. To the right of the bean row are five Flame Grape plants on a trellis in the foreground and an espalliered Kei Apple male-female pair in the background.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=8853 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8853)

NANAMAN
03-22-2008, 07:36 PM
I can't help it, I'm envious! I wish I had the time, space, and energy to grow a vegetable garden again. You have an awesome garden plot, also like the site map! Can't wait to see pics. of some mature plants.

Richard
06-25-2008, 01:11 PM
I took a few pictures of the vegetables growing at our place this morning ...

The "upper" patch of 5 tomato plants, with Green Grape and Momotaro lagging behind Better Boy, Celebrity, and Mr. Stripey in size

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10684

A patch of "Sugar" and "Connecticut Field" pumpkins. The latter has 20" pumpkins ripening weekly. Pumpkin pie, coming up!

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10682

"Blue Lake" and "California Black-eye" beans happily shaded from the morning sun by the grape arbor

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10679

The "lower" patch of tomatoes: Sun Gold, Cherokee Purple, Azoychka, Palla di Fuoco, and Persimmon.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10680

A patch of Ambrosia muskmelons planted next to my cherry trees. The local rabbits really like the leafs of this plant, so the plants stay "trimmed" inside their garden fencing.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10681

Peter Pan and 8-ball squash

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10683

sandy0225
06-25-2008, 01:22 PM
I love veggie gardening. Not only is it good for you to eat your own homegrown, if for some reason I don't feel like messing with the produce at that moment, I go to a farmers market and can always make a buck off the excess.
We have out about 60 tomato plants, mostly heirlooms, 30+ peppers and 4 rows of green beans, a couple hundred garlic plants, and about 500 onions. And a row of okra.8-10 eggplants. We've been picking a few tomatoes this week to sell that I grew as semi-hydro in the greenhouse.

mskitty38583
06-25-2008, 02:05 PM
hey sandy i have tomatoes on my little plants!!!!!they are still green but i have tomatoes!:simpatica

Dean W.
06-25-2008, 02:14 PM
Way to go Richard! They look happy there. :o

Richard
06-25-2008, 03:52 PM
Sandy, if you've read "The $64 Tomato" you'll understand that I'm just about out of the "picking fruit" phase and in the next year or two I'll be in the "harvesting" phase. At that point I'm likely to obtain a booth at the Poway farmers market. :D