Show Your Garden ...2017
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Seysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoTHE SURVIVORS :
Here are few pictures : First some of those that survived after 2 nights of freeze, with lows dipping to 24F.
HILLBILLY: lost its growing tip but bouncing back up.
RC MORTGAGE LIFTER: same story
SARAH: survived too.
BFBS: Not that survived after losing its top completely, Now it has buds.
What I lost: 1 Stupice , 1 Big Beef, 1 Big Rainbow , 1 BW Sudduth , 1 Brown Heart.
sey
Seysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7
7 years agoPlanted out after the freeze :
BRANDY BOY
BLACK CHERRY
SUNGOLD
STUPICE
LONG SHOT : WEST SIDE
ON THE WAITING LIST
SILVERY FIR TREE: Leading the way in my garden, with tomatoes already.sey
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ncrealestateguy
7 years agoncrealestateguy
7 years agoSeysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7
7 years ago
User
7 years agoVey nice plants Sey!! Mine are nothing like yours ( yet)
Today I was out transplanting 3/15 plants.. Finally it's mater season!
Caleb Cologna
7 years agoEnded up getting pretty lucky here on the SC coast with the storm that'd been ruining the Southeast. Been growing everything low and bushy, so even though I hadn't gotten tomato supports up yet everything was strong enough to stand the gusts. Even with the tomatoes having gotten tossed around pretty heavily they don't seem to care at all. Of course everything in 1 gallon or 2" pots was on the porch.
stevie
7 years agolast modified: 7 years ago
14tomatoes_md_7a
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoToday's pics.
Planted late March the following in buckets/pots (which are covered
under domes, and I can bring inside if very cold at nights):3 Tiny Tim (micro at 12" max)
2 Lime Green Salad (dwarf at 3' when mature)
1 Orange Pixie (micro at 18")
By April 9th planted the following in the raised bed and in the three 12 gal pots (which are again covered by clear domes overnight, and on cooler days):
3 Margo hybrid (30" dwarfs)
1 Pride of Flanders (dwarf)
1 Camaro hybrid (compact bush)
1 Green Berkley Tie-dye (compact)
1 Ball's Beefsteak hybrid (compact)
1 Bella Rosa hybrid (compact)
Now, will wait till first week in May to plant the 16 big and tall indeterminates in ground (plus peppers, okra --- all else are planted already: herbs, green onions, snow peas, etc).
Tony
icyhound
7 years agoNearly done making earthtainers and planting tomatoes. First radish sprouts have popped up in their container. Waiting for beets, carrots, and lettuce. I finished all but two tomatoes tonight. The peppers will go out at the start of may.
My deck is always over crowded. Since it is second story it gets a steady breeze that keeps things dry. This is more spacing then I normally have but this isn't the final form of how I plan to have the plants sorted. I'm going to try to prune heavily this year. The tomatoes always grow over my deck rail and I have to use a ladder to pick them by August.
Seysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7
7 years agoThings are moving along real well, Tony, BARRIE & icy.
Here are few new pictures from my garden 0n Apr 12.
A Long Shot
West Side: in the front carrots, cilantro, garlic ...in the back tomatoes, peppers and eggplants, Maters and garlic are hiding the peppers and eggplants which are much shorter.
and
The east side:The tomatoes on this side planted out much later, from my second batch.
On the right edge I have a row of peas and onions (not quite visible).Peas are getting ready to set.
In the fron I have few broccoli, parsley and chives. I just pulled the radish and spinach . Planting Basil in the vacated spot.
J Wytt_7a/WA
7 years agoUser
7 years agoPlanted 26 tomatoes March 17.
Sun Gold
New Big Dwarf
Bella Rosa
Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Carbon
Sweet Tangerine
Indian Stripe
Think Pink
Still in the cold frame:
Seysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7
7 years ago
Barrie, (Central PA, zone 6a)
7 years agoncrealestateguy
7 years agoBarrie, (Central PA, zone 6a)
7 years agoBarrie, (Central PA, zone 6a)
7 years agoI wanted to add that I just finished hanging all 543 string lines and placing first clips. Things get easy from here on.
Cages to left are planted cucumber hills. The net will hang later from S-hooks suspended from left perlin.
This tunnel is full and tunnel next to it is full of peppers, 568 total sweet and hot pepper plants.
PupillaCharites
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoHey Sey, and everyone,
Nice Eastern Black Swallowtail, Pedro, looks like it just emerged from its chrysalis!
Sey you are up to your old tricks and a few new ones here in the South, welcome back :-) I like your varieties of different support methods...I have a truckload of excess professional tomato vine clips and CRW wire I need to sell or unload somehow, and it is all new since I had to get rid of all my old toys a year ago since I didn't want to do something different and more economical :-(.
I am back messing around with a few tomatoes this season after getting run out of Dodge by the City for growing food in my yard. I have 19 plants, though this will come down to 15 or 16 as soon as I find victims. Today I also got my first ripe tomato,
also a wild one, like Pedro, Everglades. Sungold is right behind it muscling in. Besides those varieties, I have Cherokee Purple, Big Beef,
Morelle de Balbis and a Hirsute wild tomato.. It is a really non-exciting bunch with a lot of duplicate plants because they were all the rejects for someone I grew six seedlings for...and somehow got sucked into the cycle against my better judgement grrrr. But they look beautiful! Hello all nice to see how great the forum still is!
PC
whgille
7 years agoGood morning from my garden to all! I am glad that you are back PC.
Blooming this morning around the tomatoes
And the tomatoes, getting ready.
Few are ripening
Silvia
PupillaCharites
7 years agowhgille
7 years agoThank you PC. About my tomatoes, there is usually no two seasons alike, the theme this time is mystery :)
I went to the local farm and I tried different heirlooms that I was not familiar with, the ones that impressed me I am growing them now, no names I am afraid....
This is the first dark that I really like and is early too.
The first picture I got seeds for red Penna, but it is not. The second picture is Girl, Girl and also early. The third picture is for sure Smarty, I don't grow it too often but it is very prolific and good flavor. I mostly grow cherries to give them away. This season I am not growing Sungold.
A picture from the top.
Silvia
PupillaCharites
7 years agoSeysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7
7 years agoSeysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7
7 years ago
rileyblue7a
7 years agoI just got my tomatoes all planted. I have 9 in the plot at the community garden. I thought back to picking all those juliets last year at the garden and even though there were only 4 plants, it was a project. So I planted only large tomatoes there this year, except for 2 pearly pink orange plants, also down there I have Lithium Sunset, Girl Girl's Weird Thing, Pineapple, Dwarf Beauty King, Wherokowhai, Tennessee Suited, and Pit Viper.
Doesn't look like much, but it will in a few weeks. It also has chives, onions, peas, zucchini, and romaine lettuce.
Also found these today, probably juliets
Today, I planted the home garden that is only tomatoes. I did the cardboard and mulch method of preparing the bed. During winter, I covered the grass with cardboard, and in spring I covered that with several inches of alfalfa hay, then gave my rabbits free access. When I dug into the dirt under the cardboard today, I found tons of worms and the dirt was almost entirely worm castings. Then there's all that rabbit poo. Should be a nice garden. I'll add some more mulch after the tomato plants get a little bigger.There are 36 plants in here. The ones closest to the camera are dwarf varieties, most of the cherries are along the chain link fence because there are kids next door and I don't know if they have grabby fingers, but if they do, I'd rather they took the cherries. In this garden I have: New Big Dwarf, Tennessee Suited, Dwarf Beauty King, Pit Viper, Pink Bumblebee, Reverend Michael Keyes, Indigo Cherry Drops, Chocolate Stripe, Orange Russian 117, Green Zebra, Green Zebra Cherry, Cherokee Lime, Girl Girl's Weird Thing, Idaho Hillbilly, and Juliet f2.
PupillaCharites
7 years ago
Seysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7
7 years ago
PcolaGrower
7 years agoMy other garden is finally showing some improvement. I waited to long to plant and by the time I did, they were starved and a lil leggy. They are all showing strong growth and I even got a couple ripe sungolds. I think all in all I have 125 plants in the ground between my 3 grow sites.
I still need to stake these and decide how I will prune.
Some Brandy boys and brandywine at my house.
Along with some dwarfs
My biggest tomato so far
whgille
7 years agoYesterday I went to the Flower and Garden festival at Disney, when I went to the Fresh from Florida booth I noticed that they had ribbons for veggies and fruits. When I went to look for the tomatoes, they only had cherries in tall containers and had no ribbons for them.:)
Silvia
thebutcher
6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
Heres mine, I grew about 12 or 13, 10 of them in those 20 gallon dirt bags that are still ticking after 4-5 years. I just mix half of new MGrow pot mix with last years.
2 early girls, (1is at top left the other in back row in front. And the rest is 1 jet star, not pictured 3 cherokee purples and 6 Brandy boys. I put one other early girlin a 7 Gallon bag. I bought the Cheroke and early girls at some nearby garden place and bought the 6 brandy boys from burpee ($11 for 3 plants on sale, so I took advantage and bought 6 instead of another variety)
I think i planted them around May 20th and this was takenJune 19th. I also bought the Burpee Pro XL cages 6 of them) they seem pretty sturdy, and I made 5 cages out of those green metalruber stakes with 2ft 1/4 bamboo sticks around them to make squares. the bottom photo is them from a differnt angle and 1 week before the top photo.THe Jetstar is on the right and seems to be smaller so far growing. I am also trying out burpees new granular fertilizer this year instead of MG water soluble.
Barrie, (Central PA, zone 6a)