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Post by johno on Apr 18, 2007 5:26:51 GMT -5
I still have to do some rearranging of files... but here's the first one. Consider the first round 'before' pictures. 'Afters' will come later in the year, naturally...  |
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 18, 2007 8:14:48 GMT -5
The Grass Always Grows Greenest Over the Septic Tank... Or The Beans Grow Best over the Lagoon??  But seriously, what did you use for a pond?? Looks like steel, like the half of a barn fan that I use for a turkey waterer in summer..  |
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Post by johno on Apr 19, 2007 11:33:25 GMT -5
It's an ancient fiberglass satellite dish - 8' diameter. About twelve+ years ago, it was still getting one station out of Canada. Since then it was just an eyesore, so I plugged the holes and made it a water feature in the center of my garden (see "garden layout.") The pair of goldfish (starting to look like koi - lol) eat all the mosquito larvae, but seem to allow fecund frogs to do their business... I saw a toad hanging out on the "beach" yesterday.
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Post by Alan on Apr 19, 2007 23:34:07 GMT -5
Great recycling idea Johno!!! Keep the pics comming this season, one of these days I'll get some up on here, we've got some taken, we just need to upload them.
-Alan
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Post by johno on Jun 5, 2007 22:28:38 GMT -5
 garden entrance as of last week of May  comfrey - was planted last year  first figs I've ever grown!  early development of bicolor gourds from Lavandula Girl |
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jun 5, 2007 23:27:16 GMT -5
Lovely! Keep em coming Johno..
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Post by johno on Jul 14, 2007 17:42:58 GMT -5
Here are a few more...  This was the first Mexican sunflower of the season opening.  These are potato leaf Watermelon Beefsteak tomatoes. I think this variety is a real winner!  The jury's still out on whether it's an accidental cross or a mutation, but here's your first view of Yellow Peacevine. |
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Post by johno on Nov 11, 2007 1:06:54 GMT -5
They look similar but yellow Peacevine and Esther's cherry are quite different.  Esther's is much larger, both the plant and the fruit. Esther's sometimes produces little slightly ribbed beefsteak-looking fruits. |
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Post by Alan on Nov 11, 2007 11:57:56 GMT -5
Nice pics Johno! Thanks for the pic of the yellow peacevine, gives me something else to look forward too.
In other Peacevine news, when I spoke with Alan Kapular the other day about the yellow peacevine, he said that it showed up when he was originally dehybridizing sweet 100 and that instead of segregating it out, he just kept including it in with the Peacevine seed lines, it's a recessive trait and you might get one plant out of 30 or 40 that are yellow, though if you save those seed they should (provided there was no outcrossing with the red ype) give rise to more yellow peacevine cherries.
-Alan
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Post by johno on Nov 11, 2007 18:29:55 GMT -5
That's Esther's in the most recent pic - I sent you some of those, too. I prefer Esther's, myself, but all my garden visitors stopped in their tracks for the Peacevine cherries, red or yellow. Peacevine is much sweeter, Esther's is more "tomatoey."
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Post by Alan on Nov 17, 2007 0:40:04 GMT -5
as long as their tomatoes I'll grow 'em, just don't ask me to eat them, i'm not a tomato guy regarding taste  I know that's kinda weird. Any more new pics. -Alan |
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Post by johno on Nov 30, 2007 11:48:51 GMT -5
Just a few pics of my fall/cover crops... These were taken Nov. 28, '07.  Lonely garden path... not much traffic lately.  Shallots just keep on multiplying!  Turnips.  Triple Curled parsley.  Oats and Southern Giant Curled mustard.  Dwarf Kale and walking onions.  Collard greens.  Zebrina hollyhocks - the last surviving splash of color. Looks like they curl up at night. Brrrr!.. |
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Post by paintmansrisk on Dec 1, 2007 23:13:31 GMT -5
Nice Pics. Especially those of the tomatoes. Making me wish I had some fresh ones to go with that bacon in the fridge. Looks like you made an archway out of manhole mesh ( good idea) and what may I ask is the purpose of the tepee poles over your pond?
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Post by johno on Dec 2, 2007 13:00:42 GMT -5
The tipi poles were for vines to climb. I thought it'd be best to give the pond some shade. It helped - this year the water lily didn't quite die from heat stroke - lol. The downside was all the junk that fell into the pond, but it wasn't too hard to keep clean.
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Post by Jim on Dec 9, 2007 7:08:22 GMT -5
very nice pics. I love the dish pond. Great idea there.
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