Vegetable Garden

Who's got one ? what are you growing ? and how's it coming along? Mine consists of sweet corn , cabbage , brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli ,cucumbers, zucchini, peas, tomatoes , peppers , acorn squash, pumpkins, and assorted spices. The cold wet weather hasn't been very conducive to good growth so far for me. But with warmer weather in the forecast things should turn out. I hope those of you growing fair better.

My trustee owl and goose flapper decoy standing guard over the garden to scare any potential rodents that may be coming around

10 pounds of onions for a buck would love to know where that is.

Hardening the peppers and next round if sweet potatoes. My least favorite but arguably moat important part that I always skimp on

Simple - Buy 10-10-10 fertilizer, fill up push behind spreader. Spread throughout lawn. Water lawn. Go to store and purchase 10 pounds of onions for $1.

Question looking to fertilize my onions and carrots. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. 

Kale, broccoli and cauliflower all popped through yesterday. Just waiting on corn and beans planted a week ago and beets/kholorabi/basil/cilantro planted on Sunday. Second planting of brassicas will be going in this weekend along with peppers and then we should be done planting until Memorial weekend for the warm season veggies. Looks like one night in the mid 30s on Thursday, I'll probably cover the tomatoes to be safe.

Add 1 more 4x8 this year, pending the weather tomorrow we will get some seeds going!

Brussels, lettuce, and egg plants going in our small greenhouse. 

Potatoes are coming up with the onion mix as well.

Skillz - sweet potatoes are fun to grow. They like to vine so make sure to give them plenty of room. Long growing season so get them in early, but they also can't take the cold so weather has to cooperate. An early fall frost can really hurt their production. They are heavy feeders and don't like drought. I water and fertilizer my sweet potatoes more than any other vegetable I grow. I got my first round of sweet potatoes in the ground this weekend. I think it's a little early but I have so many slips that I can sacrifice a few. Last year I tried trellising one bunch of sweet potatoes but that really attracted the japanese beetles and they didn't do nearly as well as the ones I let vine on the ground. Each node will produce roots similar to a cucumber, pumpkin, etc and I think that helps alot with drought tolerance. I've had far better results storing sweet potatoes over winter than regular potatoes so we are skipping the regular potatoes and I have a 20x20 garden designated just for sweet potatoes this year.

Jayb that can stink. Keep us posted. 

Picked asparagus for dinner. Asparagus beetles doing the nasty if u know what I mean. Neem oil dispersed...

We will be picking a few green table onions we have about 700 and so far this year.

Red Norlands,Yukon Gold,and Magic Molly. True Potato Seed is going to have to go thru a vigorous growing process this year Round 2...  
Wife also just gave me 4 sweet potatoes that are sprouted. Never grown them b4 gonna be interesting. Advice welcomed. Keep pics coming. My seed onions are punny lol 1st timer here...

Potatoes are cracking through

2nd round of true potato seeds sprouted. Not sure if I'll have enough time to at least get seed potatoes for next year...