The strawberries are coming in fast now. One of these is the ones I harvested last night and the other is from tonight.
Fruit and vegetable gardens 2024
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Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
How old are your strawberry plants amigo?
They started as a single 4" plant 3 years ago. I remove a bunch of the plants each spring so they fill the bed back in with new runners. I've heard they can start having issues after 4 years.
Just pulled nearly 30oz out tonight.
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
We processed 11 of our garden scrap turners this morning.
37 pounds of breast, thighs and legs
37 pounds of breast, thighs and legs
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
Herels the latest. Not quite 'welcome to the jungle' - yet. Here's a little philosophy I twigged on today. While on the roof I saw that my patch of wild (or historical) day-lillies are starting to pop. At one point I would have been digging and transplanting and such to put the pretty things near the house. Now it's just stuff to look at walking through the woods. I have plenty of boulders too. Free to a good home but I ain't paying shipping.
The overview. Tomatoes are a lot bigger. Peppers are not so much. I spend about a half an hour a day walking the tomatoes and twisting the new growth around the drop cords. All the peppers that are in cages are those where I can fuck them up dragging a garden hose around. I prefer stakes and ties. Along the edge of the new part I fenced in at the back I added some short-fence rows with bush beans on the frint side and corn on the back. Behind the corn I am gonna start assorted clover.
Took 5 days for the corn and beans to pop. Damn grey roly-poly's were all over the beans when they popped. Seems they don't like cayenne pepper - I hope the corn and beans do. The little palm tree is a balsam and they have almost no roots and move easy, and reseed for next year. Bumbles love them.
I have lots of random stuff like millet, chamomile, various herb. looking for info on youtube about the chamomile and therewas some reddneck gardener shoeing me lots of pretty flowers. I was waiting for right part of the video because he was talking about "sha-mom-a-lee" and it didn't click
Maybe he was being snarky? Sorghum looks like corn.
Protecting the raspberry with a fence was a premonition. I thought I was saving it from animals. The birdhouse gourd is gonna outcompete the poison ivy in the woods. there's volunteer lemon balm about to get overrun, and i put a cage around a new mulberry that popped up. at the bottom.
@treefarmercharlie this is the wood sorrel. I am getting some fat okras on it and I will try collecting the seed for an indoor cover crop.
The overview. Tomatoes are a lot bigger. Peppers are not so much. I spend about a half an hour a day walking the tomatoes and twisting the new growth around the drop cords. All the peppers that are in cages are those where I can fuck them up dragging a garden hose around. I prefer stakes and ties. Along the edge of the new part I fenced in at the back I added some short-fence rows with bush beans on the frint side and corn on the back. Behind the corn I am gonna start assorted clover.
Took 5 days for the corn and beans to pop. Damn grey roly-poly's were all over the beans when they popped. Seems they don't like cayenne pepper - I hope the corn and beans do. The little palm tree is a balsam and they have almost no roots and move easy, and reseed for next year. Bumbles love them.
I have lots of random stuff like millet, chamomile, various herb. looking for info on youtube about the chamomile and therewas some reddneck gardener shoeing me lots of pretty flowers. I was waiting for right part of the video because he was talking about "sha-mom-a-lee" and it didn't click
Maybe he was being snarky? Sorghum looks like corn.Protecting the raspberry with a fence was a premonition. I thought I was saving it from animals. The birdhouse gourd is gonna outcompete the poison ivy in the woods. there's volunteer lemon balm about to get overrun, and i put a cage around a new mulberry that popped up. at the bottom.
@treefarmercharlie this is the wood sorrel. I am getting some fat okras on it and I will try collecting the seed for an indoor cover crop.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
This has been interesting. I am pruning the hell out of this including leaves if they shade my garden-side peppers too bad, but I am letting them shade the ones in pots. All the tomatoes are growing on top.
Here's with the flash. what sucks is that the very first ones I showed in a pic on here a while ago still aren't ripe.
Some of the clusters are immense
Here's with the flash. what sucks is that the very first ones I showed in a pic on here a while ago still aren't ripe.
Some of the clusters are immense
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
Damn vato, filling in the gaps. I dig it
That's exactly how the fruit trees are getting trained. Similar to grape cordons.
That's exactly how the fruit trees are getting trained. Similar to grape cordons.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
Upper right of the overhead is that mulberry I murdered last fall. It may make a few berries this year, but next year will be back to normal.
My plan it to train all the limbs I keep into a single quadrant away from the garden, and from the dogwood and maple behind it. The berries aren't that great in flavor but berry compost is good. And once I start paying attention to it I'll probably mulch the hell out of it and put the worms to work.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
A wise man once said, don't put off until tomorrow something you don't need to do at all 
This is gonna be a beauuuuuuuutiful garden,
in a few years. My big plans had pumpkin mounds and watermelon mounds and such, and I kept putting it off because I don't really eat those. I mean, watermelon is nice but it's water. I can pick up a good one at the farmers market if I get a craving. But beans are homegrown protien without animals to tend and butcher.
I am trying a raised row with 7-8 varieties of pole beans. I found a looser spot where I could work the broadfork a little, then added heavily amended topsoil and potting soil mixed 50/50 with sifted year-old compost that had been iunder a tarp for a month waiting on me. I only have a few token pole beans in the back garden and if they get invasive they get the axe - some already have. The upper pic shows the area I have to play with. I don't think it'll be much work keeping one area of soil amended and top dressed. I plan to get creative with the trellising and send each variety off in a different direction. there's rice hulls where I planted, then a thick layer of grass clippings around that.
This is gonna be a beauuuuuuuutiful garden,in a few years. My big plans had pumpkin mounds and watermelon mounds and such, and I kept putting it off because I don't really eat those. I mean, watermelon is nice but it's water. I can pick up a good one at the farmers market if I get a craving. But beans are homegrown protien without animals to tend and butcher.
I am trying a raised row with 7-8 varieties of pole beans. I found a looser spot where I could work the broadfork a little, then added heavily amended topsoil and potting soil mixed 50/50 with sifted year-old compost that had been iunder a tarp for a month waiting on me. I only have a few token pole beans in the back garden and if they get invasive they get the axe - some already have. The upper pic shows the area I have to play with. I don't think it'll be much work keeping one area of soil amended and top dressed. I plan to get creative with the trellising and send each variety off in a different direction. there's rice hulls where I planted, then a thick layer of grass clippings around that.
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
Have you tried potatoes under heavy mulch? I wanted to use as much space as possible but I failed making slips this year. You can knock them down the next year and plant in the old row
I’ve been pulling out so many strawberries every night.
This was tonight’s harvest and I’m up to 9.4 pounds of them so far.
This was tonight’s harvest and I’m up to 9.4 pounds of them so far.
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
Knocked down the Winter Rye for my mulch to feed the big punkin. Hopefully I crimped it hard enough to terminate.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
Looking above I dropped these on the 17th, 10 days. Not bad. I rigged some generic tripods for now so each bean type has it's own space.
I gave up on letting the grass grow in the main garden. I pulled a lot, then mulched over the rest. I also gave up on the failed leaf-mulch experiment. Once it got hot there was no hope so I mow-mulched a 1' thick 10' diameter wafer of aged leaf mulch and the starter soil that was around all the failed cops. I'll be doing it again this fall with better planning though - this efficiently killed the grass.
I had two tomatoes that I had to replace with some I still had in cups but everything else is rocking and I ate my first two cherry tomatoes today. Some of my peppers are thriving and some are struggling, but all are alive. Last year the good ones didn't take off until the August cool-off.
After I get the grass good and dead I'll re-seed with cover crop.
The birdhouse gourd is doing amazing and now making fruit. I'm 'bout fixin' ta get creative with that thing.
Like I did with this. It's growing evenly on each side, and the first tomatoes are just getting orange right in the middle where it splits left and right. That's about 10 feet long now.
I gave up on letting the grass grow in the main garden. I pulled a lot, then mulched over the rest. I also gave up on the failed leaf-mulch experiment. Once it got hot there was no hope so I mow-mulched a 1' thick 10' diameter wafer of aged leaf mulch and the starter soil that was around all the failed cops. I'll be doing it again this fall with better planning though - this efficiently killed the grass.
I had two tomatoes that I had to replace with some I still had in cups but everything else is rocking and I ate my first two cherry tomatoes today. Some of my peppers are thriving and some are struggling, but all are alive. Last year the good ones didn't take off until the August cool-off.
After I get the grass good and dead I'll re-seed with cover crop.
The birdhouse gourd is doing amazing and now making fruit. I'm 'bout fixin' ta get creative with that thing.
Like I did with this. It's growing evenly on each side, and the first tomatoes are just getting orange right in the middle where it splits left and right. That's about 10 feet long now.
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
First ripe berry on the new trail I cut.
Some of the vines are nicely clustered.
Some of the vines are nicely clustered.
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
Not plant based but, still growing food.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
I pulled all the peppers in pots and placed them around the edge of the garden. The empty pots are place-holders but I'm not planting anything in them until this heat dies down a bit. All the peppers are doing good after a rough start. I lollipopped tghem like the tomatoes.
I have some tomatoes that just aren't suited to my environment. One of those fancy heirloom paste tomatoes. But I have more tomatoes ready to plug into empty spots.
Ffirst for me, but one of my volunteer cherry tomatoes is a sungold. I lost the one I had to chipmunks, but it's the only yellow cherry I grew last year. trellising them like this is working like a champ.
Hot peppers are doing best. That Thai Red above right is loaded
Tobago seasoning pepper. Caribbean thing
Korean green chili - like hotter, skinnier serrano.
These Biquinlo will be red or yellow.
I didn't take pics of the serrano or jalapeno because I keep eating those. Not eating this - not even if Joe Rogan with hair tried to pay me
I have some tomatoes that just aren't suited to my environment. One of those fancy heirloom paste tomatoes. But I have more tomatoes ready to plug into empty spots.
Ffirst for me, but one of my volunteer cherry tomatoes is a sungold. I lost the one I had to chipmunks, but it's the only yellow cherry I grew last year. trellising them like this is working like a champ.
Hot peppers are doing best. That Thai Red above right is loaded
Tobago seasoning pepper. Caribbean thing
Korean green chili - like hotter, skinnier serrano.
These Biquinlo will be red or yellow.
I didn't take pics of the serrano or jalapeno because I keep eating those. Not eating this - not even if Joe Rogan with hair tried to pay me
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
That's big enough to make a vatos voice go up an octave if it caught you off guard.
