Gardening Thread- Show me your gardens!

My goal is to have a variety of different sized kits for various sized gardens/green houses. Where I work, all of our products cater to the DIYer in mind.

I'm hoping to be finished with this project in a few months. I've got most of the math sorted out, just got to locate the components and put together the prototype.

I will definitely will post more about this project when I get sometime to work on it

 

Here's a little garden bed we put together about 2 months ago. It's two 4x4 boxes. My wife planted a zucchini plant that has totally dominated. There was also a seed from a pumpkin (plant at top right) and a gourd plant (behind the zucchini) that was in the compost we used to fill it. We had about 8 lettuce plants that we've already eaten. Currently there's lettuce, bell peppers, snap peas (in the pot), cherry tomatoes, basil and a strawberry plant.

 

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This is one of my Vandas that recently bloomed

 

Those are pretty. Do they smell like anything?

 

Thanks

These are not fragrant orchids, only a few of my collection have scents

 

Here is my fall harvest. Meyer Lemons & Keifer Pears. My crops were a little thin this year, because of a very late mild freeze which ruined all the blossoms. My Satsuma Oranges will be ready for Christmas.

 

Jealous of that citrus. I'm lucky to get 5 or 6 lemons a year off of mine. Of course, I have to keep it small since it's an indoor plant for 8 months out of the year, so...

 

We added some more trees. I put in two dwarf Holiday Avocado trees, another peach tree, a fig tree, a mango tree and two kiwi vines (one male, one female). We're wondering if the male is going to make it. In trying to get it out of the pot, the dirt pretty much fell away from the roots. It's looking very droopy.

Prior to all that, we put in a fig tree but gophers killed it. They gnawed the roots completely off the base. This time we put gopher cages around them.

 

I tried avocado...but it gets too cold here even with covering them up. But there are a few avocado trees around town.
Actually in San Antonio...Citrus trees are fairly rare.....they have to be covered for any freezing for about the first 10 years.
My fig trees do well, except you only have a bout a 1 day window to pick them before the bird eat them. I do like my Keifer pear because it is self pollenating.

 

Where did ya get the pear?

 

If it gets below 30 degrees F, Avocado trees will have a hard time. It depends on the type. Some are better than others in colder climates. Fuerte Avocados are a little more cold tolerant than Hass (I think they can go down to about 25 degrees). They're a good tasting avocado as well. Most growers don't grow them because they have a smooth thin skin. As a result, they bruise too easily sitting in bins. We have two mature Fuertes. They're good for cross pollinating with the Hass trees. Plus, the Fuertes are ready to pick in the October to December time frame. So you'd have some mature fruit around the time the frost starts to come.

How do you know when a fig is ready to pick? We have one fig on our tree. It's just now turning color. A friend of mine said he just picked them up when they dropped.

 

I got the Keifer Pear at Lowes.

Ripe figs - they usually turn brown or dark purple..and get soft. And they must ripen on the tree. They are only ripe for a couple of days and turn to mush and rot. They are pretty much the most expensive fruit you can buy at the store because of their shelf life
Very good for making jam.

 

Anxious for spring

 

I've got some broccoli and weeds in my garden. Time to get ready for spring soon and get it cleaned up.

 

Mine's got 4 feet of snow on top of it right now. Probably going to be a couple of months before I need to even think about getting seeds started.

 

Maine? Oh heck yea.

 

Lol. We had almost zero snow prior to last week. December was all warm, rainy weather, and then most of January was just super cold and dry. Then on Tuesday we got 27 inches, Friday we got another 10 inches, yesterday we got another foot, and now they're saying we're getting another storm on Thursday. No totals on that one, though. I'm crossing my fingers it's not a boomer, because I'm going winter camping and leaving on Thursday morning. My GF will just have her Honda, and she refuses to learn how to run the plow truck. So if we get another foot she's going to have to shovel, lol.

 

Trying out some LED grow lights to stimulate new growth. Going to play around with the arrangement of the lights

 

do you need those with all that fl sunshine?