How's Your Veggie Garden Doing?

[allen820]

We are having a very good garden season here in TN. Good balance of rain and sunshine. We've had cucumbers, summer squash, zuccinni, onions, spinach, lettuce. Waiting on that first tomato!

This is our second season in the new garden spot. Raised beds probably use too much room, but they sure take a lot of work out of gardening, once established.

Allen

[vintage girl]

Our garden is doing fantastic. We have tons of cucumers and zucchini. Tomatoes are almost ripe, along with the watermelon. This year our cucumbers are absolutely delicious. The best we have ever had. I have been marinating them in rasberry vinigarette. Delicious:)

We are also waiting on our onions and pole beans.

[RoseMary]

I love gardening with raised beds. We don't have all of our raised bed garden finished, but the boxes we have planted are doing well.

So far this season, we've harvested potatoes (these were not in raised beds), onions, carrots, lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes, cucumbers, and we have peppers just coming on. But if it doesn't cool off soon, it is all going to burn up. A 100 degrees or more everyday is starting to take a toll on the plants no matter how much we water:(.

[vintage girl]

Our peppers are now in also and are wonderful! We did not do carrots this time around. Our chiwi's are upset as they loved to go in the garden and dig up the carrots. But they do like the cucumber and the peppers. I have healthy dogs:D Rosemary, we are having intense heat also, and very humid, which is unusual for us. I hope this is not what our entire summer is going to be like:eek:

[shabbychick]

My garden is slow this year due to lack of sun and warmth, but things are starting to grow, sort of. My tomato plants (I have two) have flowers on them now, and the pepper plant also has little buds. The sunflowers are growing like crazy now. I just planted some squash, cucumber, and pepper starts in the school garden to replace all the herbs that never sprouted, and so far they're not dead. We had some vandalism in the garden last week...someone stole one of our irrigation hoses, pulled up some of the sprinklers, and stole all the little sticks where we'd written the names of what we planted. Luckily for me, they stole them out of the bed where nothing was sprouting anyway and where I was going to re-seed. I'm going to put in some more radishes, as I had to pull all the others that went to seed. I did find that radish flowers make a serviceable bouquet. :)

I do not have a green thumb, so everything I'm learning about growing food, I'm learning by sad experience. But we do have some hungry families in the area, and we've invited them to come harvest what they want to out of the garden, so I'm hoping that we'll have enough stuff coming up to make it worth their trip.

[RoseMary]

Oh, shabbychick, that is terrible about the vandalism in the garden:eek:. I'm glad they didn't do any permanent damage. I'm sorry that none of your herbs sprouted. I always have a very hard time getting them to sprout. I find it is best to start them in little starter pots--keep covered until they sprout, then remove and let them grow a little-- and then transplant them. I have not had any good Basil plants in two years:(. I hope you get warmth and sunshine soon--I wish that vintagegirl and I could send some of our heat your way:)--seems we could both do with less of it!

[mac78]

Our little patch is not doing well. Doesn't seem to be growing very quickly. We did get a late start due to all the rain. We did not have a very good Spring, and then May/part of June seemed to be nothing but rain and cool weather. I really think we need to go to the raised bed gardens.

[RoseMary]

I think you would like raised bed gardening, Marie. The only downside we've found is that it has to be watered more often.

[mac78]

My patio tomato got winded over in Mondays storm, but it survived. Our biggest problem with our little garden right now is the neighbors have allowed major sucker grownth behind/to the right of our fence/garden, and it blocks the sun. It has grown to be much higher than the telephone pole (of which you can't even see anymore). When we first put the garden in years ago, the sun/shade was not an issue, no problems. I told Dave we need to move the garden to a different spot, but I don't want it smack in the middle of the yard. We need to monitor the sun and follow it to find the best spot.