Green Pepper Plants, 2 ft tall.Squash, Cucumber, Zucchini.
Roma Tomatoes, uncaged as Leigh states.
16 thoughts on “Leigh, long time reader shared photos of his luscious garden!”
Very well done!
Puts mine to shame!!
You have to talk sweet to them and play old Country Western music to them…
Really?
Mine get a steady diet of Speed / Thrash Metal.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
We’ve had some critter mangling the peppers overnight recently.
While mowing tonight, I found tomatoes in the front yard. Friggin’ Grey Squirrels are going to die.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
That type of clothesline will be coming back into style soon.
looks very good ! wish I could put up a fence around here, stupid HOA assholes !
“we want to keep it looking country/woods ” fuckers.
and with all the damn deer around here, there no point in trying either.
I figured all that will change once the hunger games start.
from what I see of your soil, it looks very good, lots of compost went into it I bet.
you might have better plants if you find a way to support them a bit.
I like using concrete mesh in the center of my beds to get the plants to grow up on. used to have a friend who ran a scrap yard and I got a lot of goodies for almost nothing (beer ) used to let him know what I was looking for and he keep a eye out for it. I got a lot of things I would have never gotten otherwise.
you might want to chopped up the plants after they die and work them into your soil. I found that worked very well for me back at the old house in the city.
I think it works better than a compost pile too. but you have to really chop them up into small bits to break down over winter. YMMV ,I think is the term
Thanks, Dave.
I made sure to live far enough out in the woods where I can’t even see my closest neighbor, let alone the blacktop. I do what I want on my property.
Each box is filled most of the way with field dirt. On top is about 6 – 8 inches of compost from The Farm, mixed in with my little Mantis tiller. The compost started out as grocery store produce, wood chips, and cow manure – on an industrial scale. It is about 5 – 6 years cooked out, at this point. It is just as black as wet coffee grounds.
I have plenty of 6/6 – 10/10 cages I made. The only problem is, the wife bought way too many plants. Ideally, there would have been half as many plants in each raised bed. I was at minimum spacing, as it was. Cages just wouldn’t fit.
I plan on pulling the tomatoes and throwing them on the burn pile, when they start dying off. I don’t want to have another episode of the blight. Ten years ago, I had a HUGE garden. I had 68 tomato plants on top of every thing else I had. The plants were strong and tall with a ton of fruit on them. One day I noticed black mildew on one of my plants. Nine days later, all of my tomatoes were dead and rotting. I haven’t done a garden since then.
I do plan on amending the soil again, next spring. Probably some washed sand and manure to increase the loam and decrease compaction.
I also plan on redoing the big garden out in the back field. I have an inkling we are gong to need it.
HOA your not far enough far enough out Dave.
Leigh those mantis tillers are the bomb. I am on my second one.
best I could do with the funds I had. had I waited another year, I would have found some better places WITHOUT A HOA. but then again, you end doing the one man stand thing
and that never works out unless you are really lucky.
besides, once the hunger games start, a whole lot of things will change. like the stupid HOA and the stupid rules they have.
besides they don’t really give me grief as a rule.
I don’t mind them as for the most part, they don’t matter.
I do miss fresh cherry Tomatoes ! used to pick a bunch and only half of them would make it in the house. mine used to do very well with old coffee grounds mixed into the soil. I still think they taste better than grapes myself.
Excellent effort Leigh.
Thanks, BCCL!
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
I tried to comment, earlier in the night, but ran into issues. My reply to Cererq wouldn’t load. So, I tried refreshing the page. Then the page wouldn’t load. I closed out Fire Fox and tried reloading the page. Still wouldn’t load. Like it wasn’t there anymore. I clicked my bookmark several times, to no avail. I eventually just closed the tab.
It wasn’t until I tried again, after FFFF, that I was able to get in. Blogger being a PITA, again, I take it?
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Blogger has been fucking with me on several fronts tonight. Tells me I can’t leave comments because I’m not signed in when I most certainly am.
Fucking Google needs their collective ass kicked.
Very well done!
Puts mine to shame!!
You have to talk sweet to them and play old Country Western music to them…
Really?
Mine get a steady diet of Speed / Thrash Metal.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
We’ve had some critter mangling the peppers overnight recently.
While mowing tonight, I found tomatoes in the front yard. Friggin’ Grey Squirrels are going to die.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
That type of clothesline will be coming back into style soon.
looks very good ! wish I could put up a fence around here, stupid HOA assholes !
“we want to keep it looking country/woods ” fuckers.
and with all the damn deer around here, there no point in trying either.
I figured all that will change once the hunger games start.
from what I see of your soil, it looks very good, lots of compost went into it I bet.
you might have better plants if you find a way to support them a bit.
I like using concrete mesh in the center of my beds to get the plants to grow up on. used to have a friend who ran a scrap yard and I got a lot of goodies for almost nothing (beer ) used to let him know what I was looking for and he keep a eye out for it. I got a lot of things I would have never gotten otherwise.
you might want to chopped up the plants after they die and work them into your soil. I found that worked very well for me back at the old house in the city.
I think it works better than a compost pile too. but you have to really chop them up into small bits to break down over winter. YMMV ,I think is the term
Thanks, Dave.
I made sure to live far enough out in the woods where I can’t even see my closest neighbor, let alone the blacktop. I do what I want on my property.
Each box is filled most of the way with field dirt. On top is about 6 – 8 inches of compost from The Farm, mixed in with my little Mantis tiller. The compost started out as grocery store produce, wood chips, and cow manure – on an industrial scale. It is about 5 – 6 years cooked out, at this point. It is just as black as wet coffee grounds.
I have plenty of 6/6 – 10/10 cages I made. The only problem is, the wife bought way too many plants. Ideally, there would have been half as many plants in each raised bed. I was at minimum spacing, as it was. Cages just wouldn’t fit.
I plan on pulling the tomatoes and throwing them on the burn pile, when they start dying off. I don’t want to have another episode of the blight. Ten years ago, I had a HUGE garden. I had 68 tomato plants on top of every thing else I had. The plants were strong and tall with a ton of fruit on them. One day I noticed black mildew on one of my plants. Nine days later, all of my tomatoes were dead and rotting. I haven’t done a garden since then.
I do plan on amending the soil again, next spring. Probably some washed sand and manure to increase the loam and decrease compaction.
I also plan on redoing the big garden out in the back field. I have an inkling we are gong to need it.
HOA your not far enough far enough out Dave.
Leigh those mantis tillers are the bomb. I am on my second one.
best I could do with the funds I had. had I waited another year, I would have found some better places WITHOUT A HOA. but then again, you end doing the one man stand thing
and that never works out unless you are really lucky.
besides, once the hunger games start, a whole lot of things will change. like the stupid HOA and the stupid rules they have.
besides they don’t really give me grief as a rule.
I don’t mind them as for the most part, they don’t matter.
I do miss fresh cherry Tomatoes ! used to pick a bunch and only half of them would make it in the house. mine used to do very well with old coffee grounds mixed into the soil. I still think they taste better than grapes myself.
Excellent effort Leigh.
Thanks, BCCL!
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
I tried to comment, earlier in the night, but ran into issues. My reply to Cererq wouldn’t load. So, I tried refreshing the page. Then the page wouldn’t load. I closed out Fire Fox and tried reloading the page. Still wouldn’t load. Like it wasn’t there anymore. I clicked my bookmark several times, to no avail. I eventually just closed the tab.
It wasn’t until I tried again, after FFFF, that I was able to get in. Blogger being a PITA, again, I take it?
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Blogger has been fucking with me on several fronts tonight. Tells me I can’t leave comments because I’m not signed in when I most certainly am.
Fucking Google needs their collective ass kicked.
kicked, destroyed is more like it.