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Post by laurazone5 on May 24, 2019 11:44:15 GMT
 Not sure how to post a video, but this is what I am working with this year!!! Bed 1 Lettuce greens, radishes, horseradish, rhubarb, Kale, Cabbage Bed 2 Peas, carrots, sugar snap peas, 2 kinds of basil, beans, marshmallow Bed 3 Okra, cucumbers, red and orange bells, Cherokee purple Bed 4 San Marzono's, Brown Berry Milk Crates Russian fingerlings, Jalapenos, Apocolypse and trinidad scorpions, Carolina Reapers, Ghost, Pepperfish hot peppers Outside the fence on the alley Valarian, lavender, borage, sunflowers, cosmos, lemon balm, Hyssop 2 concord grape vines 2 dwarf peach trees. |
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Post by willowgirl on May 24, 2019 11:51:29 GMT
That looks great, Laura! So glad you are back in business, so to speak. And everything's so neat! (We are much more haphazard here, LOL.)
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 12:21:09 GMT
laurazone5 , WOW, looks great. I have not heard of using milk crates in a garden. What is the big square cinder block thing in the foreground?
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Post by laurazone5 on May 24, 2019 13:10:41 GMT
This is going to be my bbq/smoker, eventually. LOL
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Post by feather on May 24, 2019 13:50:03 GMT
Beautiful, organized, lots of good work there! I love it.
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Post by MeandTK on May 24, 2019 15:19:09 GMT
Beee-you-tiful!
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Post by Melissa on May 24, 2019 17:12:55 GMT
How are you using the milk crates? Everything looks good!
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Post by laurazone5 on May 25, 2019 2:22:12 GMT
I lined them w/ news paper and filled them with dirt!
It's easier to get the potatoes out, because all I have to do is dump the whole thing in a wheel barrow, collect taters, and put the dirt back!
The roots on the peppers don't go more than 7ish inches deep, and they are 18 inches or more!
Eventually I will put another raised bed in their place as they are ugly....lol
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Post by mzgarden on May 25, 2019 11:21:08 GMT
Wow, that is just lovely. Makes me want to pull up a chair and sip iced tea and just watch your garden grow. Well done! I hope you post pictures through the growing season, I bet it gets prettier and prettier.
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Post by laurazone5 on May 25, 2019 13:29:14 GMT
 Volunteer dill, Ecanacia, chocolate mint, oregano, thyme, sage  Strawberries, Dragons Tongue, Cowpeas, Trail of tears beans, canalope  Hoping my canalope will do its thing this year. I struggle w melons.  |
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Post by Ozarks Tom on May 25, 2019 18:08:05 GMT
Looking good!!
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Post by themotherhen on May 26, 2019 2:50:33 GMT
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Post by midtnmama on May 26, 2019 13:16:30 GMT
It was great to see your pictures. I'd rather look at pictures then get out and cut my lawn.....
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Post by oxankle2 on May 27, 2019 12:09:52 GMT
Nice neighborhood. When I look at these beautiful pictures I cringe; what I see is a full time, no days off, job.
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Post by bluemingidiot on May 27, 2019 12:26:24 GMT
I am definitely more weed-tolerant than you.
Looks like you get regular rains. No water hoses in your pictures.
What is the tree in the background with long, bare limbs?
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Post by laurazone5 on May 28, 2019 12:47:00 GMT
Top photo far left corner behind the fence is Valarian.
I am very weed intolerant! LOL Yesterday I laid down newspaper and mulched all of my tomatoes.
I have rain barrels, and I hand water when the rain does not come. I just load buckets, carry the water out, and hand water.
So far, the rain has been good to me!!!
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Post by laurazone5 on May 28, 2019 12:57:02 GMT
This is my flower bed on the alley  The peach tree on the right is 2 years old (2 years in my dirt / 2 year old when I bought it from Stark Bro's) and the one on the left I planted last year!  My grapes. I need to get a trellis up!!!  Hot Peppers and Russian Fingerlings!  My happy place!   |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2019 12:59:09 GMT
laurazone5, I really LOVE your potatoes crates. I would not change them, they are you!
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Post by laurazone5 on May 28, 2019 12:59:39 GMT
 Spring bed! |
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Post by laurazone5 on May 28, 2019 13:01:37 GMT
laurazone5 , I really LOVE your potatoes crates. I would not change them, they are you! Where I used to work, we had zillions of them, and the driver didn't want to pick them up and said we could have them!!! I tried to make good use of them, but they are SO ugly!! LOL |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2019 13:06:41 GMT
laurazone5, Sorry I have to disagree. what I see is someone thinking and repurposing something not so useful into something brilliant
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Post by laurazone5 on May 28, 2019 13:08:33 GMT
laurazone5 , Sorry I have to disagree. what I see is someone thinking and repurposing something not so useful into something brilliant Well thank you!!! 1. They are not in a landfill. 2. They do serve a purpose, and are very easy to amend, and gather taters.
3. They are mobile.
4. They will last longer than wood!
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Post by farmerjack on May 28, 2019 13:49:35 GMT
Neat, well kept, a very productive looking garden.
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Post by shellymay on May 28, 2019 18:08:42 GMT
I also think it looks great.....brilliant ideas there, thanks for posting.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2019 16:38:38 GMT
This is going to be my bbq/smoker, eventually. LOL I am very mad at you, your BBQ inspired me to make a new burn pit. The wife and I were just talking the other day about our burn their own. Every year or two we have to replace it.
So today instead of giving the riding mower a tuneup I'm hauling cinder blocks for new fire pit. I won't have a half eaten rust bucket of a barrel to deal with anymore! Thanks for the inspiration.
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Post by laurazone5 on Jun 5, 2019 20:29:52 GMT
 This is how I water!! I hand water each plant at the base so I don't splash dirt all over the stems and leaves! |
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Post by dw on Jun 16, 2019 15:29:47 GMT
All I can say is WOW...I love it!
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Post by solargeek on Jun 17, 2019 2:57:17 GMT
laurazone5, may I ask what you spray, if anything on your peach trees AND WHEN? We bought 2 from a Minnesota grower so they will be hardy for us. They had little peaches on them but of course with traveling, transplanting and the attendant shock I am not expecting to harvest them. But I know nothing on how to care for these. We got them because our yard guys who were putting in the 31 raised beds told us about them. All the fruit trees we have gotten from them are good. But they had never had peach trees good this far north before.
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Post by aussiedarren on Jun 17, 2019 3:08:15 GMT
Looks awesome, great use of a small space
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Post by midtnmama on Jun 17, 2019 12:59:25 GMT
I must say AGAIN, this is my idea of a perfect, wonderful, A+ garden.
THIS is what I look for when driving somewhere and it makes me happy. I was walking recently in an in-town neighborhood with a friend. The houses and lots were like yours. I told her that the small gardens (both vegetable and flower) were more beautiful than the fancy neighborhoods that had very vanilla-looking shrubs around large homes. Very Blah!
Your garden shows TRUE LOVE!
Question: how do you keep the potato milk crates from drying out?
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