Well , I replanted my watermelons yesterday and planted some cantaloupe . Had a terrible time with my bell peppers this spring . All the seed was the California variety and I purchased it all from the same place , I am beginning to suspect there is something wrong with the seed . None of it sprouted and everything else did .... . I went ahead and bought three plants . Tomatoes look great so far .
Yesterday was my birthday , celebrated with some steaks on the grill and a salad of lettuce and onions right out of the garden , tasty.
My wife got a tomato and had me plant it. It got frosted, though it is looking like it might survive.Originally Posted by oyarde
I have seed in the ground, and was just watering. My peas are starting to sprout.
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Thanks for asking, and starting this thread, dave!
Prior to last year, my only experience in gardening (other than houseplants) was putting a radish seed in a cup in kindergarden, and transferring the seedling into the ground.
After attending the 2010 Freedom Summit in Phoenix (where I live), my friend Kelly and I gave one of the speakers a ride to the residence he was staying at for the event. It was Presidential Candidate and current President of the Continental Congress Michael Badnarik - a good friend of mine. During the conversation, Kelly asked Mike "What should we be doing right now?" to which he replied "You should be securing the survival of your Family."
I took that advice to heart - personally.
I put in a 4' x 4' raised bed winter garden with red & green looseleaf lettuce (Mesclun Mix), Buttercrunch lettuce, arugula, carrots, green onions, and some kind of bean that was supposed to be planted in the Spring (LOL). We ended up with so much produce, my family of six couldn't eat it all to where I was consistently giving it away to friends and neighbors (did I just incriminate my self? Marbury vs. Madison...)
I upped the ante for this summer, and put in four apple trees (two types of two each), three plum, one fig and one pomegranite tree, and six grapevines (two Thompson Seedless and two Flame Seedless). I counted 75 tomato plants the other day (Beefsteak, Roma, and Cherry) and three-quarters have fruit on them. Add to that cucumbers, eggplant, sweet banana peppers, red and green bell, habanero, cowhorn peppers, okra, pumpkin, cantalope, honeydew, watermelon, white and brown onions, garlic, and a dozen herbs (NO hemp - I'm a firearm enthusiast and I don't need unwanted intrusions from Law Enforcement, so I keep a clean garden!)
I have grown EVERYTHING from seed except for the trees and grapevines, and one Early Girl tomato plant I bought at Home Depot when I planted - which got up to 28 tomatos at one time, and I harvested about 3 to 5 a day while everything else was growing.
...and I did it mostly in my back yard in a major metropolitan city - with five of the trees in the front yard. What suprised me most was the amount of seed I got from letting a small portion of the winter veggies go to seed. I probably ended up with $80 worth of Arugula seeds, and about $50 in lettuce seeds - and that's not counting the onions that are seeding now.
I'm hooked! I never really liked tomatos until I tasted them directly off of the vine. The cucumbers were great, and I think I'm going to try and can some sauce I'll make with the romas.
Oh yeah - ask my 3 year old Grandson about "Grampas' Garden". That boy is a hawk at spotting ripe strawberries, of which I have a few plants of. Did I mention the berries? Red and Black Raspberries, and Blackberries. Too bad the Blueberries didn't live. That, and an Apricot tree I couldn't get to take were about my only real failures. But then again I still have the hottest part of the summer ahead of me, and 110 is not uncommon here.
What I couldn't do with a few acres....
Ed
"Rights are like muscles; you must exercise them to keep them fit, or they will atrophy and die." - Ed
We started with ten tomato plants , four frosted , but the rest made it and replaced three . Think I have ten bucks in the tomato & pepper plants , everything else was from seed.
I am fooling around with a little red lettuce this year , but I think it is an Italian blend.
Last edited by oyarde; 06-10-2011 at 11:01 AM.
My cantaloupe are sprouting .
Alright , looking for suggestions . My girfriend bought a huge cantaloupe at the grocery , maybe late April . It was full of seeds . I saved them , dried them out for about three weeks and sowed them thick in a row at the end of the garden , not expecting much. They all sprouted and are thick as weeds , probably three inches tall now.Should I thin them or just see what they do ? I have others spaced about right from some seed I bought .
Thin them out.
What I've got so far: Aztec black corn, kidney beans, black turtle beans, pinto beans, chickpeas, great northern beans, peppers, tomatos, eggplant, strawberries, 2 fig trees, 4 sea berries, a peach tree, an elderberry tree, raspberries, and blackberries. Also have two gooseberry bushes, as well as a few artichokes.
Right now I have eight coffee plants and nine grapefruit trees (all grown from seed), a vanilla bush, and a dragonfruit cactus.
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