Gardening Thread- Show me your gardens!

the cucumbers...

everything resembles its owner

 

You're tall, skinny, & green with no discernible limbs?
Weirdo.
How do you type?

 

My garden is considerably further behind still, lol.
The Chives and the Rhubarb are about the only things that have started thriving.

 

found some

 

so i pulled out the pea plants this past weekend. it started to get too hot for them. they had slowed production and started to die.

the green beans will be having the same fate in about two weeks.

 

lol...
My peas are about a foot high right now, haha! Beans are in the same boat. We had really hot dry weather here for a couple of weeks and they stalled. I was watering every day but the soil was still powder-dry by the next day. It's been a slow steady rain here since Sunday, and I bet they've grown 3 inches. Once the sun comes back out they'll really take off if it doesn't get too hot again.

 

all the texas rain has created rust on the green beans. but its okay, theyve slowed production down

 

From what I've seen of the Texas rain, you're lucky they're not underwater.

 

*sigh* agreed

I had to harvest the rest of the potatoes early.. to prevent them from rotting.

the cucumbers are loving the rain tho.

and the watermelons

and the melons

 

Hm. Watch out for mildew on the cukes soon, then. Lots of water staying on the leaves like this can be an 'in' for powdery mildew to start showing up.

 

i am keeping on eye on them. they have HUGE healthy green leaves now.

 

Mulch with some straw - will help retain some of the moisture. it's what I use and it works great down here.

 

Sad thing is, they ARE mulched with straw. It's really been that hot and dry here until this past weekend. The air has been so dry (and breezy) that everything had dried right out. I've got a flower planter made out of an old pine log that holds water like a sponge, and even it had gone nearly completely dry.
Now we've finally gotten a good soak, though, which should be what they need to boost them (and the rest of the garden) into some more rapid growth.

 

Gotcha. Hope the rain helps out.

 

How's it going everyone. I came across this thread and was easily influenced into trying something new. I recently purchased a couple small plants at my local Home Depot ( jalapeno, serano, basil, & mint ) and now looking into building a raised garden bed. Gardening is something completely new to me. If I wanted to plant squash and zucchini would it be fine to do the chili plants and the previous two in the same box? I plan on keeping mint and basil in smaller pots.

 

It's going well.

Tomatoes (beef master, better boy, roma) Peppers (Jalapenos, orange blaze, green bell, lou demarco), Garlic, dill, Onions (Yellow and sweet yellow), Lettuce, Carrots, green beans, cucumber, radishes, broccoli (what the rabbits didn't eat yet), basil, oregano, rosemary. In the big pot is zucchini, I have watermelon and Asian melon growing in the black dirt behind the garden.

 

zuchinni and squash grow wide, occupying space. ..

 

lots of space

 

Ok noted, thanks. I have a lot to look up in general. I figured this would be the best place to push me in the right direction.