Here are a few more:

Spacemaster Cucumber:
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Malabar Spinach, I think?:
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Sungold Tomato, and Sungold flower:
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Black Krim Tomato:
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Black Tomato, and feet of a curious cat LOL:
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Stupice Tomato, and Sweet Million Tomato (both have a touch of cold damage):
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Tumbling Tom Tomatoes:
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Lettuce that has been languishing for a month...no success again, argh:
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Bunching Onions:
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Thanks for viewing my way too many pictures LOL!

Hi Star

Very nice pictures!

Here are some of mine.

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This is for Mauirose an update on the tomatoes, front side

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Back view

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Silvia

Absolutely gorgeous Silvia! I love the layout! Is that cattle panel for your vines and tomatoes?

Thank you Star, and yes I have a few cattle panels everywhere in the garden.

Here is a closer view

Winter squash

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Cabbage and other veggies

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Silvia

Photos from last weekend. I live in an often foggy, cool, coastal climate. Tomatoes are this year's experiment.

Bush Early Girl Tomato
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Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato
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Sungold Cherry Tomato
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Snap peas and snow peas:
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Square foot garden beds are also an experiment this year.
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Pat, your tomatoes look so deep green and healthy! What are you feeding them?

Let's see...
The Sweet 100 is in a mix of two left over bags of potting mix, part Miracle Grow, part Orchard Supply Hardware. The Bush Early Girl is in a locally (California) blended potting mix. The Sunsugar is in Gardner & Bloome potting mix.

I added about 1/4 cup each lime and a 5-10-10 fertilizer when I transplanted the 4" tomatoes.

Pat, are those Kiwi Collars making up your sq. ft. raised beds, by chance? They look just like some that I ordered online from a company in New Zealand, and then picked up in South San Francisco. If you're on the coast in some place like Pacifica, I bet those peas will do well, even in the dead of summer. My pea crop has finally petered out, but they were planted late in the fall/early winter and grew throughout the winter. Sugar Daddy snap peas were insanely productive. I wish I'd weighed what my haul was, but I was getting a giant bowl of them every day or every two days when they were in full swing. Sadly, I didn't take any pictures. :(

I'll have to get to my desktop and post some photos of the front yard garden before I yanked everything out this afternoon. My oriental lettuce mix, arugula, and some other random oriental greens that I can't remember all the names of all bolted, so it was time for them to come out. I have a half a bed of favas that are all over the place after the crazy wind and storms we had, but they're all covered in beans - some of which I harvested yesterday and they were delicious!

My goodness, ya'll are far ahead of coastal MA. No surprise, but it's shocking to see the difference.

Silvia, nice looking cabbages, better eat those soon before they bolt in the florida heat, yes?

I've got strawberries blooming and growing well:

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My McIntosh apple in full bloom:
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dwarf cascadian, planted around april fools:
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Costata Romanesca, growing under glass:
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Self-sown giant red mustard, sown radishes and a speckled bibb that I set out yesterday:
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Love all the pictures!

Pat you got some beautiful, idyllic place in Ma. Everything looks great!

And yes every day I am picking garbage size full of swiss chard, onions, lettuce, cabbage, kale before the real heat comes. Time for the yard long beans, lima and sweet potatoes.

Silvia

I take pictures every week. Here's what was done yesterday:

Broccoli
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Broccoli in a 4 gallon bucket. This more than likely doesnt have enough soil in it
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Romaine lettuce
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Cauliflower
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Everything
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Red onions
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Sugar peas
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Snow peas
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Watermelon and summer squash starts
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Where I would be right now if it was not raining:
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Well Happy Spring everyone, everyone's gardens look terrific!

Starstuff i love the picture of your bunching onions trying to shed their seed shells.

Sylvia what is going on with those tomatoes??? It looks like they are going to be eating you this summer, LOL. Looking good, can't wait to see your harvest.

Love the ladybud sckg ; )

Yukon Golds growing in straw experiment. i peeked yesterday, a few potatoes growing already.

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Striped Bunch beans getting ready to climb. Looking good.

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i think we will have some green papaya salad for lunch today.

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Purple Passion asparagus, so sweet and tender we have been eating it raw.

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Shallots. If they aren't ready soon on their own i might just pull them. They are taking forever.

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OK, enough for now, i could get carried away...

spaghetina,

I had to google "Kiwi Collar". Not that product, but same concept of corner bracket that can stack. I bought mine in sets of 4 from Lee Valley. I can use 1x8 boards, which I can actually work by myself. Other corners that call for 2x8 boards are too heavy for me to work. Built a 3x3 bed and found it so easy, I went back and made a 3x6. We'll see how well they do over time.

I'm north of Pacifica, but yeah, I think I'll have peas going all summer. I pulled the November peas last weekend. Can't wait for the February planting that's just starting to flower. I'm doing all bush peas because I don't have the support for pole peas.

Here is a link that might be useful: Lee Valley Raised Bed Corners

Oh my goodness, I have been looking for those corners EVERYWHERE! If I'd found those, I never would have used the landscaping timbers I have out in my front yard, lol. Now my mind is dreaming up all sorts of ways to add to my existing beds. I'm forseeing knee-high boxes in my future! I think the preassembled beds I bought ended up being around $40 each, so purchasing the corners and some wood should definitely be cheaper than that. Thanks for the link. :)

Using the Lee Valley corners and 1"x8"x6' boards, a 3'x3' bed cost approx $25 (+tax) and a 3'x6' bed cost approx $31 (+tax), so yeah, some savings. But you do have to pre-drill holes and screw it together yourself.

Hi,
Where can I buy cattle panel? It looks like it is quite strong to hold the vines.
Appreciate your response.
Anna

Peas getting ready to climb a trellis

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Baby lettuce

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Overwintered bunching onions

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Hey star_stuff, I live right by you in Kernersville! What a beautiful cat you have, especially the two different colored eyes :) I'm so thankful my cat Felix has been good about not doing anything naughty in my garden. This is my first year gardening. I'm messing up left and right but hey, trial and error is usually the best teacher. I got most of my seeds and starters for cheap or free anyways.
These are the only photos I have as of yet and they don't show everything I have but hey it's a start.
Yep, that's a fake cobra on the patio LOL. What can I say, ever since I laid it out there the birds quit digging up seeds and yanking up my radishes....

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Hi - Very nice pictures everybody! the one with the snake was funny.

Anna - You can get cattle panels from Tractor supply. I order mine through my local feed store.

Silvia

nygardener,

Are you interplanting daffodils with your lettuce for natural bug repellent reasons? They look nice!

Ok let me have a try at this bear in mind that I am in the caribbean and we can grow almost anything here.....

This is my PASSION FRUIT vine growing through my still bearing lime tree

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This is my PAPAYA did not realise that the slugs were at it
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SQUASH (ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED SEED) FEILD PEAS

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BROADLEAF THYME
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SPINACH
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SPINACH(from cutting)
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CUCUMBER
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SWEET BASIL
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CHIVES
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WETERMELON
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PUMPKIN(winter squash)
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...... MORE TO COME......

scarletdaisies, thanks! I just did it for color.

Everyone's gardens look so beautiful and well organized!

hehe the snake actually scared my father. He came running into my room and woke me up saying there's a weird looking snake on the patio. I'm like "Yeah dad.. a cobra in North Carolina...." lol

Beautiful gardens everyone! As soon as we get some sun I will get out there and take some pictures.

Every one has such a jump start on me, no doubt considering where you are located, but one can dream, right?

Pnbrown, your house and garden are beautiful!

SCkitchen, I love the picture of the ladybug on the pea tendril!

Hi neighbor, Mlpgarden! That snake sounds like a great deterrent!

Here is a quick pic of some radishes:

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My Green Cabbage at DAY 45
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Silver Queen Corn DAY 45
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3' Better Boy Tomatoes (near), 4' Early Girls (far) DAY 45
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Red Potatos (near), Yellow Onions (middle), Leeks (far) DAY 45
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Wow navyavi469, so if this is day 45 did you plant them around March?

Yes, I planted between March 15th and 17th, the pictures were taken the 2nd of May. But I've had nothing but problems with a lot of my stuff. The squash/zucchini had nothing but brown curling leaves. The cucumbers have a horrible case of downy mildew but so far they are recovering ok. The tomatoes I burnt with Miracle grow and are awaiting a hopeful recovery. The corn is showing signs of rust on the very bottom leaves/suckers. The potatoes have a horrible case of early blight. The cabbage has been attacked by loopers and so-far I can't get the heads to grow bigger than baseballs. The red cabbage looks like its been shot with a shotgun due to the same loopers although I have since treated with Bt. My green beans (bush variety) have come up with brown spots on the initial spade-shaped leaves, and although I've been treating regularly with fungicide, I'm not sure they'll do well. The good part about living on the coast of florida is that the temperatures are great for growing year-round; the bad part is that the bugs/diseases are rampant due to the climate and humidity.

Just pulled these early spring veggies (early new potatoes and baby cabbage) out of the garden and going to cook them up tonight with some goold 'ole southern fried chicken. MMMMM mmmm!!! I do delcare you scalawags up north aint be eatin this good tonight. :D

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Beautiful radishes Star!

Navyavi - Good harvest! Sorry to hear about the bugs eating your crops.

Here is my garden and how it looks today

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My potatoes

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Silvia

naviavi LOL, now play nice, no need to rub that yummy platter of goodies in the Northerners noses...lol...that is sure a good looking bunch of veggies!!! but potatoes already? where are you????

My garden is getting off to a late start because I've been spending all my time on a new venture (selling at a local antique mall) but I do have some things going and they are doing well...

I have cukes coming up
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and green beans
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and lots and lots of strawberries

and a few yellow squash
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and my garlic is doing well (I think)
Potatoes also looking good.
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Notice ALL my volunteer peanuts....I obviously missed a LOT of them, they are all over the garden, but I dont mind that at all.

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I bought my peppers and tomatoes this year :( but that's ok, they will be just as good as if I'd planted them...right?

just planted okra, just the basics this year, should be easier to keep up. And after looking at these pics up close, reminds me that I need to get out there and pull some weeds. Happy Gardening!

rjinga, tell me more about your peanuts!

What kind did you plant? Last year? How was the harvest? I'm very curious but nervous about growing them in my heavy clay. Can they be grown in straw like potatoes?

Everybody looks good.

Boy I do wish I had some new potatoes - still a good month to go. Navy those look like red norland. I thought I had lost my reds this year, but recently found some that got left in the ground: rose gold and caribe. Rose Gold (rosy skin and yellow flesh) as well as being gorgeous is about the best tasting I have had. Silvia has German Butterball which I also grow, also very tasty. Down deep south where potatoes are only for new, it doesn't signify, but GB has a problem with brown spots inside when mature. Yukon Gold is much better for storage.

I got some heirloom sweet potato tubers in the ground yesterday for sprouting (thanks, George). The costata romanesca plants that I posted earlier are flowering. I won't add any more photos to this thread as it is taking too long to load up as is.

Here are a few recent pics. I hope everyone is doing well. :-)

First tomatoes! (Husky Red)
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Cayenne peppers...I think. (They were mismarked as jalapenos, LOL)
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Tumbling Tom tomatoes
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Lady bug on California Wonder peppers, which are now blooming.
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More pics to come!

Star_stuff,

Absolutely gorgeous photography!!

I'm so jealous, you already have toms!! I thought I was doing well with our first zucchini May 26th. :)

You're about an hour away from me yet I won't have tomatoes for several weeks.

Way to go!

Thanks so much Erin, NC gardening neighbor! :-) They are just wee little Husky's, but I'll take them, lol! My other tomato varieties will be a while... I can't stand the wait!

Congrats on your Zucchini in May! I have terrible luck with zucchini. When did you start yours?

Caroline

Congratulations Caroline, beautiful tomatoes!

Here is my summer squash harvest

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Winter squash

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White watermelon and Galia melon

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Silvia

Here are some pix of my garden this year. It's a tribute to all of you here that have been so helpful.

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from front to back, Sweet banana, cali wonder, and one just called red chilli.

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one huge ichiban eggplant.

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one of it's ummm.... eggs?

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A pepper jungle with jalis, hot bananas, and cayenne.

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cantolope is that spelled right.

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A moon and stars from seed saved from last year.

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onions.

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Sweet corn.

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herbs.

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From left to right, peppers I started from seed, squash, cucumbers.

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okra.

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From Front to back, left to right, Jet Star, Sweet 100, Tiny Tim (in the tiny tan pot), and the legendary Brandywine.

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and my early girl.

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and a early fruit.

Hope you enjoy,
Angel.

No pics just yet because the garden hasnt been very good to me lately. I love all of your pics tho! Hopefully my garden starts to pop up soon. we just started getting that night 50s and day 80s weather the past week so stuff should start popping up. And Angel, for educational purposes, i do believe it is "cantaloupe" (correct me if im wrong, not completely sure myself lol)

Thanks Silvia! Your squash and melons are beautiful! Do you plant a second round of those, like your tomatoes, because they shut down in the heat?

HereÂs a bunch of new pictures...come take a quick tour! ;-)

A big group of my veggie containers. The German Black heirloom (front) goes into a larger square pot soon, and tomato cages go up. A couple of containers will probably move to other spots...if I can find any room, lol.

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Spacemaster Cucumbers, you can still see the hail damage...peppers & toms have torn leaves as well. :-( One cuc never came up, so I may drop another seed in the back, or just leave it. They will get an inverted tomato cage soon.

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My cucumber watchdog, lol. I also have a pepper watchdog, a tomato one... theyÂre babies and theyÂre everywhere! How lucky, eh? There must have been a mantis nest in one of the bushes against the building. Beware, you nasty mealy bugs and white flies!

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California Wonder Peppers:

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A California Wonder baby:

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Huge Sungold truss:

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Big Beef ...hopefully soon to break in color:

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Black Krim heirloom:

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Nasturtium ~ only one of 40 seeds germinated. Grrrr! From 2 different packs of brand new seeds, and I tried everything...indoors, outside...no luck. WhatÂs the secret?

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~Caroline

Its nice to see everyones gardens are flourishing however it is depressing at the same time. Its wierd not seeing even an inch of growth in 2 weeks because Mother Nature has decided to revert back to March and stay there. So despite all this keep those pics coming so I can be reminded what a growing garden looks like. Just keep those of us in the PNW still stuck in March weather in your thoughts.

Hi Caroline,

Beautiful and well tended garden! About your question with the squash I do succession planting but when the heat comes they will be pull out. They are still going strong.

The nasturtiums seeds have to be scratched with a nail file, they will even grow in poor soil, prefer a little shade when is hot.

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Cucumber pictures

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Silvia