Gardens so far

[RIROCKHOUND]

First year with a garden. (Small) Behind out apartment.
split 1/3 flowers 2/3 veggies w/ the wife. she has been converted to all veggies next year.
this year:
1 cucumber bush (doing great, but fading out on producing this week)
3 Peppers (green) doing good
5 tomatoes (Cherry, grape, plum) doing great, and beefsteak (doing poorly)
1 Pole bean (waste of space)
basil; doing great, but fading, we also loose sun this time of year. Just picked a ton of basil, we'll see how it or if it comes back.

Just made Salsa w/ our tomatoes and pesto with our basil.
not a bad first year. We've had something fresh almost every night for dinner.
all in a 10x3ft plot

[Fishpart]

For some reason I get wilted lower leaves on the tomatoes and it migrates up the plants and eventually kills them. I sprayed the along with the fruit trees one year and they stayed good, so I suspect a fungus of some type.

I have three apple trees and two nectarine trees. The apples look beautiful this year and I ended up picking the nectarines way too erly to keep them from the squirrels. They were very small this year because of the lack of early rain. I find the nectarines need more spray than the apples.

BTW, the gardens you guys posted are at least as good looking as your plugs.

[gldnbear93]

My yard is super shady so there is only a small space right up front at the edge of the sidewalk that get enough sun, so I turned it over early spring and planted beans (got two crops out of them kids had a ball picking them-sugar snaps were excellent), some regular green cucumbers that are excellent (crisp and full, a little light on the flavor though), lemon cucumbers (size, shape and color of a lemon-tast just like a regular cucumber), radishes that I might as well not have planted), and a variety of heriloom tomatoes (black cherry, yellow pear, orange sprite, patio princess, whitequeen, black zebra, purple calabash and several others). The smaller tomatoes have really done well in the ripening-very colorful and tasty. The larger tomatoes have not yet ripened-maybe this week with the wamer weather.
There has been so much rain that some tomatoes have split and I think it also may be why the cukes are a little on the bland side.
I had a ball this year with the garden and have some plans for a bit of an expansion and some different crops.
I'll post some pics of the cukes and tomatoes later tonight. There are some nifty heirlooms out there (check out tomatoegrowers dot com and burpee for heirloom seeds.)

Strike king.....which heirlooms did you plant?

[gldnbear93]

Strike king-saw your other post but I get little red xs for the pics.

Are the golden pear tomatoes small like a cherry or grape size? I have probably 8-10 plants of "yellow pear"-very prolific producer and flavorful--small pear shaped fruits bright yellow

[Back Beach]

Great pics professer.My garden is comprised of 125 acres of close cut turf. With all the rain this summer, I'm curious to hear how you guys with the gardens have fared. For me, the lesser draining areas have been the biggest challenge. We had 6" of rain in a little over 2 hours on Friday PM.

Strike King- Nice looking salad there, I would have loved a sample yesterday...

[Back Beach]

couple more..

[gldnbear93]

looks like the yellow pears I have (must be the same kind)

a couple pics of the bounty. the second one is a pile I picked about 5 minutes ago

large yellow round things are the lemon cucumbers

There are five different kinds of tomato in there

[gldnbear93]

I laid a soaker hose down the middle of the garden and for the containers I laid a drip system. I put it all on a timer with a manifold for four water stations-though with all the rain I have not had the water on for over 2 weeks and it is still too wet.