News: Cold Front Stakes!

So that cold front came through yesterday and blew like crazy. We luckily staked all the tomato vines up the day before and they all survived with no wind or rain damage! New video coming tomorrow!

News: Update 11/28

So were starting to get a bunch of grape and cherry tomatoes as well as cucumbers! We have picked 3 off already and have about 3 more nice sized ones to get! the broccoli is starting to come! Cauliflower not so much yet.  The Bok Choy is big and beautiful, the pumpkin seed I planted is growing huge and is trained up a trellis, however its getting eaten alive.  We lost the Zucchinis we first planted to powdery mildew that was starting to spread to the cucumbers and I didn't want that to happen so we just composted them.  Also the Romas we haven't had much luck with, I think the plants are diseased because the stalks started to turn black... and the leaves just dried up and fell off... also the blossoms didn't develop correctly on the one plant so I topped them off and I'm letting the fruit that are on them ripen so I can get them out of the ground before they spread to the other tomatoes in the bed.  My radishes are almost ready to harvest we tried about 15 seeds with them and they all took and grow so next time we will dedicate a larger spot for them so we can grow a bunch! The onions are doing pretty good I guess, the green pepper plants are looking beautiful but will not fruit, also they got kinda bent of the other day from this cold front due to all the wind so were gonna have to figure out what to do with them. We built an earth box out of a large Tupperware container and PVC for about 8 dollars and planted 2 pickling cucumbers and 2 yellow pear tomato plants in, in hope that when we get some frost we can just pull it in the garage. Were also working on cold covers for all the tomatoes so that when the frost does come we can protect them.  I will get some pics up later or maybe just a video!

Video: Tomatoes 11/16

Tomatoes After Pruning 11/16

Video: Tomato Update 11/8

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Tomato Update 11/8

Pics: 11/4

Took some Pictures of the garden today after it rained for a while.  Here they is be!

                              Tomato Bed                              Solar Fire Tomato

                              Phoenix Tomatoes                     Better Boy Tomato

 

                              Celebrities                              Celebrities

                              New Broccoli not Packman          Pumpkin

                              Okra                                       Zucchini Flower
  

                              Zuchinni Flower again                     Romas

Cherries

Pics: Before Pics!

I found some pictures of the side yard before and during the process of clearing! Kinda crazy to see how bad it looked!

Experiment: Tomato Cloning

So the branch of the Big Boy that broke off and I soaked in water for a few days I stuck in a small little transplant pot with some potting soil and a little vermiculite and its rooted!!!! It looks great and I think is even growing! However the Cherry isn't doing so hot, Its starting to root but nothing like the Big Boy did. We will get some pictures up later!

News: Jalapenos

Well so far so good, we had to deal with some pests the last couple days but we think they are under control now and everything seems to be going well. I picked a couple jalapenos the other day that were ready and put a few slices on a turkey sandwich.... Holy Sh%$ were they Hott!  I just picked 2 more yesterday if anyone wants any I don't think I will be using all of them so let me know.

News: Fu%$ing Pickle Worms!

We were out looking at the cucumbers last night and found 3 or 4 damn pickle worms! also some nice chunks out of some of the foliage. I guess it's time to spray some insect killer I don't want to lose my Cucs! Organic < Healthy Plants.

Pics: Cucumbers & Eggplant

We found our first cucumber today as well as the first flower on our eggplant take a look!

First Cucumber!

Eggplant Flower

More Eggplant Flowers

Close up 

Pretty

Video: Tomato Update 10/28

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Tomato Update 10/28

Garden Update 10/28

News: New Tall Bed!

We made a new box today for the sole purpose to grow some underground veggies like carrots, turnips, radishes, garlic and possibly some onions. We constructed two 4' by 2' boxes that were 8 inches tall, and placed them on top or each other.  We then secured them together and filled with some really good soil, chicken manure, and a big bag of potting soil to help with moisture control and proper drainage.  We will now let this bed sit for a couple days turning over the soil a couple times then will start to plant!

The Right side is full of 6 rows of carrots! The left side are bush beans, and in the middle is a Zucchini-Squash!

Thats where all the Carrot seeds are planted hopefully the sprout!

News: New Additions!

Okay so the Bok Choy didn't end up doing very well after a couple weeks and died off except for one plant, so we removed them from the first cement bed and added some really nice little Zucchini-Squash to the front, if all goes well they should get huge! We also pulled the snow peas up because we reconfigured the trellis situation, and planted them in a small circle where we placed a small tomato cage around them in hopes that they will climb away!  I didn't have enough room for the other two Zucchini-Squash plants because they get so big, however I planted them in 2 separate pots if anyone is interested in growing them I would be happy to hand them over just leave a comment on this post.  We also planted some Cucumber seeds in some trays, I believe they are Market more 76's to see what happens.  Janelle and mom also got some new herbs gong on, they planted some in some baskets we had laying around the house. Will have pics up later!

Experiment: Pumpkins

In spirit of Halloween we carved pumpkins! They came out great and were lit up for a few nights on the porch. We had a blast making a mess cleaning them out, getting seeds and pumpkin goo everywhere! We roasted the seeds and found a few we forgot out on the porch. So we did what any plant loving gardener would do, planted them! We checked them daily and for about a week...nothing. A week and a half later, we have pumpkins sprouting! They will soon be transplanted and put in the garden. I highly recommend ANYONE trying this, from what we've read it is one of the easiest things to grow and with little work! We're so excited and have high hopes of carving our very own pumpkins next year, not to mention maybe some yummy pumpkin pies!

That's only 2 weeks after planting the seeds!

Experiment: Cloning Tomatoes

So I accidentally broke the main stem on one of my big boy tomato plants and tried to save it however it was to broken so instead I cut it off hopefully saving the plant, and placed the remaining part of the stem on a cup of water which I will keep in there for a few days changing the water everyday.  Hopefully if all goes as planned the stem ill begin to root and I can place it right next to its ol' friend in the new tomato box and successfully clone a big boy plant!  I also am doing the same with a big sucker off my other cherry plant I will get pics up asap and keep everyone posted on hows it goes!

News: New Fall/Winter Bed Update!!!

So the new Fall/Winter bed has been in the ground about 3 weeks now and all the plants are getting fat and happy! 

This was the bed 2 days after we planted it. 

This is only 2 and a half weeks later! Everything is growing great with the exception of the cucumbers, their taking a little longer but still getting greener!

Collards after a week...

Now after 4 weeks!

Zucchini. 

More Zucchini.

Giant Black Beauty Eggplant!

The Green Onions!

Cauliflower!

Broccoli. 

Green Pepper #1.

Green Pepper #2.

Jalapenos.

The only surviving Bok Choy of the 4 we planted. 

More pics to come! Keep Checking Back!

News: Tomato Bed #1 Update!!!

So they have been planted now for about 2 and a half weeks, and they have all grown about a foot and started really blossoming! I got 2 big Romas so far a bunch of Cherries and about 10 Moby Grapes all growing! Take a look!

Thats the bed now only 2 weeks later!

Those are the Romas.

Moby Grapes.

And the cherries.

Their all coming very well and we will keep posting new pics as they continue to grow!

News: Project Save The New Tomatoes!

So we had to build a new box yesterday to plant the new tomatoes that we took out of the buckets, and we decided to go with a smaller one this time.  We made a 7 by 3 foot box 8 inches tall instead of our normal 10 inches, and it turned out very nice.  It should be really interesting to see whether this box grows better than the first tomato box.  This new one has great soil and a lot of organic material also a lot of peat moss (which were trying for the first time) mixed in for good water retention and drainage.  We have a few different types of tomatoes in the new one including a hybrid yellow cherry, a heirloom variety called Mr. Stripey which looks kinda like a pumpkin, a couple big boys, a celebrity, a Phoenix and a better boy. We also added some marigolds to keep the root eating bugs away! check out the pics!

One Half.

Bad Picture I will get a better one tomorrow. 

Our first celebrities.

Better boys.

Hybrid Yellow Cherries.

The Mr. Stripey you can kinda see what they are gonna look like, pretty awesome!

We will be back with pics next week!