Raised Bed Gardening

[Don K]

Wow! Looks good Norm. I got a late start to the garden this year due to hectic work schedule. To tired it feels like to post pics. I have a new hobby which is beekeeping. Have 4 hives and they are keeping me busy. I've got some pics and will try to put some up later.

Don

[zopi]

I have given away about 30 lbs of squash in the last four or five days...my zucchini is about four feet tall at this point....already picked the first batch of green beans and some young onions..

Gonna be buried in punkins this year.

[SwampDonkey]

We're talking square foot raised beds not fields. :D :D

[WDH]

I've got some pics and will try to put some up later.
Don

Bee sure that you do  ;D.

[Radar67]

Just in case he breaks out in hives, here are some I took last time I was over. There are more in my 2010 album.





I also have to mention that he had no gear on while showing me these hives.  8)



This was from 2000, we had a wild swarm at the neighbor's house.

[SwampDonkey]

Aside from the swarm, they look like they are happy in their home.  ;)

Had over an inch of rain. That will make stuff sprout as soon as the sun comes out for a few days. ;D

[Don K]

Hey Terry, next time you see a swarm, scoop them in a box and I'll come get them. That's free bees.

Don

[WDH]

Everybody loves freebees  :D.

[Mooseherder]

The Pineapple is Growing up.  The sauce is for scale ;D

[Raider Bill]

Grill you up some of that Pineapple sliced, and then carmalize that sweet baby rays on on it. DELISH!

[Mooseherder]

That sounds good.

[SwampDonkey]

I'll have to get a picture this weekend of my raised beds. Growing much better this year. One thing I wasn't satisfied with however was my spinach. Must be the variety, as they just went to seed as soon as they got their true leaves. Last year the variety I had, had nice big leaves. I'll have to pull them and plant some more I guess. The variety last year grew as fast as lamb quarters, which I think tastes the same actually, and just a weed. ;D

The leaves on my earlier cucumbers are as big as squash leaves. ;D After the leaf beetles subsided the beans are beginning to look like something. Those things fleece been leaves. No cucumber beetles yet, but I think I have slugs on some lettuce and cukes, makes white spots where they feed on the skin of the leaf. And they'll chew up marigolds. :D

[SwampDonkey]

My raised beds are 8 x 4 feet. I have three sections. There is white clover growing between the beds and I can't get near to mow or clip. I'm thinking of red cedar mulch next year. The garden has been in 6 weeks, the beets are 4 weeks since I replanted them. The carrots are in there somewhere, they seemed to be slow to germinate and grow. I resowed some spinach, the variety I have seems to go to seed early. I pulled the last crop. Soon be eating beets anyway. Everything in is blossom, so about the time I'm at Jeff's the harvest should begin on peas and beans.  Maybe I'll have a feed the weekend before. :-\



Beans, peas, cukes, beats.




Beets, cukes.




Bell pepper



cukes, tomato, jalapino, lettuce (romaine), parsnip



Buttercup squash.

[Don K]

Good looking plants. Ours are burnt to a crisp.

Don

[Raider Bill]

Good looking plants. Ours are burnt to a crisp.

Don

Mine too except for 1 pepper plant that's supposed to be "the worlds hottest pepper". It's actually looking pretty healthy but no flowers yet.
I don't eat hot anything but thought I'd try to grow it to give away the peppers .

[SwampDonkey]

Those squash leaves will go limp in 85 ° sun, but I stuck my finger in the dirt and about an inch down it's moist. So we are getting just enough rain. They say peppers like the heat, especially jalapinos. I have a lot of fruit just beginning to set on them.

It's 85 ° again today. Looks like the cold front last night didn't amount to beans, and no water from it. Maybe showers tomorrow. I don't water no garden except 4 flower pots maybe once or twice a week by hose, mostly just rain barrel water (a scrub pale in my case) if we get some rain.

[WDH]

If I did not water my garden, it would be toast in no time at all.

[SwampDonkey]

From flower to fruit since Sunday July 18th.  1" rain and 85 ° northern sunshine.  8)



Bells



Jalapinos

[Mooseherder]

Boy are you gonna have some Peppers mister! :D
That looks like my stack last year.
I still have some in the Freezer.
Give some to neighbors you may or may not like. ;D

[SwampDonkey]

I probably use about 8 or 10 or them little babies a week. ;D Maybe two bells. My tomatoes are just forming now and about the size of your thumb. I don't know the variety they were given. They could be grape tomatoes or beefsteaks, who knows. :D  Most people up here hate anything hot and spicy. One grandmother I saw in a store with her grandson said "those are the most awful DanG things I ever ate." And DanG wasn't the words she used neither. I guess she won't be coming to dinner. My mother says I'm immune. :D

[SwampDonkey]

Here's some of my roses. No one will say they are small. A little top heavy maybe. :D It's partially shaded there under a birch tree so the stocks aren't all that robust. ;)




These ones aren't true red ones, kinda orange-red.




Those other flowers grow like weeds around here. :D

I have one other pot on the end that is past flower, but a whole new stock grew up in the last week or so full of new beginnings of buds. It's a rose color.

[Jeff]

My garden  is limited to a couple beds and a garbage can this year. ;D  Because of my war with slugs, I never was able to successfully raise peppers until this year. Via the garbage can! Also is pictured our first bread and butter pickles from the garden this year jared a few minutes ago.  We are growing squash tomatoes pickles and peppers and some onions in our limited garden this year. Also notice by the garbage can, my new golden Raspberry plant is growing nicely.

Posted with the first time use with my birthday present from Tammy and Stacy. A new little HP laptop to take with me to the cabin when I go.

[Radar67]

DE (diomotatious earth) will solve your slug problem. Not sure of the spelling, but it is close.

[Roxie]

I had a serious slug problem, until I heard about drowning them in beer. 

Take a large jar lid (or similar shaped container) and put it in the ground with the rim of the jar at ground level.  Fill it with beer.  Empty the container of dead slugs and keep it out there (with fresh beer) until they are gone. 

Like moth's to a flame........

[Norm]

Thank goodness we don't have slugs here...we'd never be able to trap them. Patty's pretty protective of her beer stash. :D