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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 24, 2011 13:49:38 GMT -5
Anyone got some nice garden photos to share this year? here's mine, but the plants are still fairly small. I've got corn, beans, peas and sunflowers growing so far. There are carrots and beets from last year that survived the winter and will probably go to seed. There are a few feral lettuce plants from plants that went to seed last year. Other than that i'm just waiting for things to get bigger and hopefully watermelon to germinate later. s1010.photobucket.com/albums/af224/keen101/Garden%202011/?action=view¤t=DSCF0298.jpg |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 24, 2011 22:29:02 GMT -5
Anyone got some nice garden photos to share this year? Let me go grab my microscope. It's been a cold wet spring for me. But I'll post a photo of my bare looking field in a day or two. The seeds are mostly in, and mostly germinated, just waiting for a week of warm weather for a burst of growth. I am posting a photo though of the inheritance I received this month from my grandfather. When I was a small boy around 40 years ago I used to help him pick green pole beans in his garden. I am still creeped out by them: just thinking about the fuzzy leafs, and the fuzzy bean pods. Gives me the heeby-jeebies even today. I feel like I'm breaking out in hives. Then I'd help grandma snip the ends and get them ready for canning. Shudder. That might explain why I only plant bush beans today, and offer them as u-pick. In the spring we would go cut willow poles from a grove along the ditch. So the other day i pruned my grandmother's apple trees, and my aunt was bringing bean poles out from the granary to haul to the recycling bin along with the apple prunings. (I know I wasted perfectly good terra-preta charcoal). She doesn't need to know that to me they are a precious heirloom and that they never made it to the dump. They are lots shorter than I remember them being!!!! So I put the poles in my sisters garden and planted them with heirloom beans that my brother gave me. Alas not a family heirloom. Yet. 3 of us are growing it this summer.  The 20 feet of snow still on the mountain is what will water my garden this summer. The sacrificial tomatoes and peppers were planted just in case it doesn't freeze then they will have a couple weeks head start. The next row over is Big Candy Onions. Peas are an inch tall behind the bean poles but not really visible yet in a photo. Edit: ooops. Grandpa always grouped the poles in sets of 4. Oh well, his garden wasn't so windy. |
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