Garden pictures

[red belly]

By this time your garden should be in full swing no matter what part of the country you live. Lets see pictures of crops and how you use your tractor on the garden. I'll post my pictures soon, but for now here is my written list. I put out one garden 75' by 30' or so and another 30' by 20' give our take. Do all my tillage and cultivating between the rows with a17" Craftsman rear tine tiller. I make rows with a disk hiller I made from ideas on here. Before I till in the spring I plow under my cover crop with two 14" bottom plows and a 6' disk harrow. I dog my root vegetables with a middle buster and occasionally break up the hard pan with a sub soiler. All this is done with a rusty old 53 NAA that runs like a new one.

 

[bp fick]

Well, not in "full swing everywhere", quite yet. :laughing:

Memorial Day is our official-unofficial opening day. I've got about everything planted, seeds that is, but 1/2 the ground is still allotted for all the transplanting yet to come.

Crazy weather isn't helping. No rain. Night before last was 24F and tough frost. We're in the 80's today and dry as dust. 90F slated for the entire weekend. UGH.

100 peppers, 100 tomatoes, 100 each of cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower still in pots and trays. Need a cool, over-cast, rainy day. Maybe next week?

Yet, we carry on.

 

[RandyBell]

Mine isn't qiute that big I think it is about 50 by 30. I did use the single bottom plow behind the 2N this spring and then used the big tiller behind my brother-in-laws 4wd ford (I don't have disk). Then using the Troy-built reartine tiller to make this clay finer, and a high wheel cultivator to make my rows. I have a few more rows of beans to get in and a few cucumbers then the planting will be done.

Randy

 

[red belly]

I'm in southern illinois and we have had odd weather as well. We got everything out super early this march but the problem is getting to be now the same dry weather that helped us get everything out is turning into a drought! No significant rain all winter. I've been watering since late March! Funny you say it's just time to transplant and we planted sweet potatoes Monday!

 

[kf4uda]

Here is ours from middle TN. Picture is just after some rain.

 

[red belly]

We do onions, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, broccoli, cucumbers, strait neck yellow squash, zucchini, bush beans, purple hull peas, watermelon, cantaloupe, okra, tomatoes, ground cherries, brussel sprouts, sweet Hungarian peppers and Marconi sweet Italian peppers. I don't think I missed anything!

 

[DKCDKC]

We have two small gardens. One, about 15 by 60 feet is for potatoes, corn and onions. It's tilled by an inverted box blade on my CUT. The other garden is about 50 by 20 and uses a lot of raised beds for tomatoes, bell peppers, squash, cantaloupe, beets, broccoli, water melon and some vine sweet potatoes. I'm gradually moving to no-till.

 

[red belly]

How does no till work in a garden? I've heard of it but I don't get the details of it

 

[moored4]

8 post and only one picture.

 

[DKCDKC]

How does no till work in a garden? I've heard of it but I don't get the details of it

You build good soil - particularly with good compost - and it stays soft and crumbly. I remove all dead vegetation at the end of the season and - sometimes - mulch with old hay. In the spring I rake off the mulch and -voila - the soil is soft and ready to plant. I use a hoe to dig as necessary. I usually give the plants a bit of spring sun for a few weeks, then mulch again. Seems to work. I only use a minimum of fertilizer for the specific plant.

I built my soil with my tractor FEL... Combining rich, sandy black soil from the creek area with the wonderful forest topsoil I had saved in building my long driveway. With regular compost amendments, it grows just about anything.

 

[red belly]

Thats awesome! I had the idea you where talking more like commercial no till with the real intense chemical. I love the natural aspect of it and less fuel consumption to boot

 

[bp fick]

8 post and only one picture.

Ain't much to see yet. Kinda looks like it did last fall, really. :laughing:

There's seed, sure enough. Lot's been planted, but the Good Lord has gotta send some rain.

 

[DKCDKC]

Thats awesome! I had the idea you where talking more like commercial no till with the real intense chemical. I love the natural aspect of it and less fuel consumption to boot

I have 100+ acres, but want a small, manageable garden. So I look for ways to save energy - mine and the tractor/tiller. Raised beds I've found great to keep the compaction of paths out of the veggies, and I don't have to bend over as much. Mulch and just a little hoe work keep weeds down to acceptable levels. I try to use organic methods as far as I can, because they're cheaper in many cases. But, when I have to, I will use a little insecticide, etc.

I'm narrowing down on 70 now. I plan to gradually raise the beds so that I can continue to garden for years to come.

 

[randy41]

some pics of what we have growing here. we grow to sell at the farmers market in Blacksburg VA.

 

[red belly]

Thats what I'm talking about. I'm on a Cub Scout camping trip with my son arty Mammoth Cave right now but hopefully I can take some pictures to post this afternoon or tomarrow

 

[plumberroy]

I have several smaller plots
back plot winter squash. taters and sweet taters

middle plot beans, summer squash, lettuce,cabbage,broccoli, artichokes.

Cukes under old grape trellis

tomatoes, peppers, onions

cantolupes and giant cabbage

I have an apple tree, pear tree, peach tree, several grape vines and black berries I'm on slightly less than a half acre and have to be creative to plant what I like to . some areas get just enough sun to work
Roy

 

[Triguy1]

My first real garden. Going pretty well so far. Learning as I go.

 

[donb2]

Pics of SE Mass garden in the works.

Overwintered garlic.
Some onions from plants and some from sets.
Blueberry bushes and a jostaberry at the near end.
Asparagus bed mulched with woodchips.
Garden beds tilled and ready to plant.

 

[red belly]

This is the bigger of the two I'll post pictures of the other tomarrow. Been super dry in Southern Illinois

 

[sfloggie]

All great photos. Randy41: You are in my area, but due west. I sent you an IM as I like your hoop house.

Here is one photo of a portion of our garden as taken yesterday. I have a few more photos if I can find them!