Gardeners - Pictures?

Do any of you take pictures of your veggie gardens? If you do, I'd love to see them.

We tend to take a few pictures from year to year of the vegetable garden and our flowerbeds, just to see how things have changed over the year, particularly in the flower gardens.

We planted our veggie garden on Memorial Day. The following Saturday morning, I took notice that our corn was already poking through the soil. And our bush green beans are a good 2-3 inches tall already! We have lots of flowers and peppers coming on our pepper plants. Last night I found a few flowers on the tomato plants, too. DH wants his Lemon Boy tomato plant to really thrive, so we've been babying that along a little bit.

Please take some pictures of your gardens and the produce you get from them. And please post them! I really would love to see them.

I only have rose bushes and shrubs in mine

You wouldn't want to see my garden , not much of a gardener here. But I do have some gorgeous floral window boxes hooked on my deck railing that I received for Mother's Day. I take WONDERFUL care of them and they are growing and beautiful and make me smile when I see them. Other than that, I have some perennials that come up each year, daffodils, tulips, daisies and a pretty climatis vine. Just try to keep up with the weeding.....

Would love to see pictures too!

Heres a few of my back garden. I should take some new pictures because the rose bushes and shrubs are double in size now

Susan, I love your yard! How beautiful!

What is the shrub in the picture between your pretty yellow roses and the one of those gorgeous red roses? With the pink leaves? That's really pretty!

And what are those balls in your holder? Are they suet balls? I can't tell.

Feralvr, I'd like to see your windowboxes, if you don't mind. DH has been promising me window boxes now for the last 2-3 years.

Originally Posted by Winchester

What is the shrub in the picture between your pretty yellow roses and the one of those gorgeous red roses? With the pink leaves? That's really pretty!

And what are those balls in your holder? Are they suet balls? I can't tell.

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I can't remember it's name?, but i'll see if the tags still on it when l get home, failing that my friend Pam will know. It's twice the size now, and l saw one in someones garden at the weekend which was around 5' and gorgeous!!.

Yes their suet balls. I've got a different feeder there now, and moved that one to the side, so in total theres 7 feeding stations for the birds

Originally Posted by Winchester

Feralvr, I'd like to see your windowboxes, if you don't mind. DH has been promising me window boxes now for the last 2-3 years.

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Will try to get up some pictures. I usually take the pictures I want to post on TCS with my digital camera and then Larry knows how to put them on my photobucket, so I need his help, I am a when it comes to the technical things.

Susan, your yard is very pretty. Looks very inviting and relaxing and must smell lovely

Lauren

Ooo! I'd love to show off my first ever veggie garden! The thing is; I have a true and honest phobia of touching plants. It makes me panic and feel ill. I have never met anyone else like me. It comes from when I was really little and my cousin (who is 6 years older than me) would do things to torture me because she knew I didn't like the feel of grass on my bare skin and it just grew from there. (We love each other now; I swear!) I've gotten a little better over time...but leafy plants or having them get near my face still gets me. Viney ones are bad too... So it's a big deal that I'm starting a garden! I do best if my skin is covered. So I'm wearing gloves and I use my little hand rake to hold leaves back while I weed under plants. I will be wearing sleeves soon...possibly pants...

This is last weekend. My daughter loves the garden and got soaked while I was watering it. The zucchini and summer squash are much bigger now! Starting to crowd the cucumbers and beans! (That is making it harder to deal with my phobia...) I'm using organic fertilizers and weed control. Something has killed a few of my marigolds. I need to plant more because we do have rabbits; but so far they have stayed out.


I have bush beans, peas, carrots, tomato, cherry tomato, summer squash, cucumbers and zucchini planted. I tried to do a little of several things. The garden is only 4'x8'.


She will not leave the pinwheels alone! (We have moles in our yard.)


One tomato on the regular tomato plant. What I don't get is that the cherry tomato plant is bigger than this one. I also didn't expect any fruit on it so soon!!

I need to update my albums, but you can see lots of pics here: http://public.fotki.com/stephanietx/...ng-adventures/

I'm working on my garden still.

Unfortunately the thistles and Japanese Knotweed has all but taken over, and I never had time to try to clear it all out.

I had wonderful plans for my garden until I had to work too much and didn't have time.

I have tomato plants growing everywhere, over 30 plants right now. Some peppers, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, broccoli, peas, beans, celery and even a couple of strawberry plants.

I planted everything 2 weeks ago, and so far so good, even in the clay soil I have to use.

Next year though, I will have the clay hauled out and good soil brought in so I can have a better garden.

Can't post pictures right now. But I will soon.

Thank you all for sharing your pictures. What pretty gardens and such a beautiful little girl. I had to look up what a Four Nerve Daisy is, because I've never heard of one. Can't show pictures of my own garden (I'm so bad at posting pictures...it took hours for Secret Santa last year. I have to save my energy for that.)

Mooch, your garden is beautiful! And so is your little girl! What fun she's having! It's interesting you having a garden, considering your plant phobia....congratulations on having a garden anyway.

I use gloves when I garden because I have a thing about earthworms. I'm scared to death of earthworms, caterpillars, and the like. It's better now than it used to be, but even now if I'm digging or weeding and a worm pops up, it takes my breath away and I have to remind myself to breathe. Stupid, I know. I try to wear sweatpants, too, because if there are ants anywhere (and there are), they will find a way to crawl on me. They bite and then the bites itch terribly and swell. Sweatpants and gloves are my friends in the gardens.

When I was out last night, I noticed that our pepper plants are really blooming and we even have little peppers already. The tomatoes have flowers, too. The corn is about three inches tall now....I'm going to get in there this weekend and weed and hoe between the corn rows. (We also planted some squash between the rows of corn as we had no place left to plant.) We're getting the hot, sunny days that corn loves, but not nearly enough rain. We planted bush green beans and they're probably about 3-4 inches tall right now. Something is eating the leaves, though, so we're going to look for an organic insecticide to use on the bean plants.

We planted red beets, but I don't know what the first leaves of beet plants look like, so I don't know if it's beets that have come up or if it's just weeds. I'll wait to see what's going on in that area before I weed there. Zucchini plants are looking good and so are the cucumber plants.

Newfosterparent, we're thinking of trying strawberry plants again; we had strawberries many years ago. And later on toward this fall, as the weather cools down, we may try to plant some lettuce....we didn't get to the garden as early as we wanted to and we were afraid that if we tried to plant it now, it would bolt.

Originally Posted by Winchester

Mooch, your garden is beautiful! And so is your little girl! What fun she's having! It's interesting you having a garden, considering your plant phobia....congratulations on having a garden anyway.

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Oh I'm feeling a little freaked out at how BIG the summer squash and zucchini is getting!! It's already twice the size I thought it would be and it's not even sending off shoots yet. ara: Deep breaths. Deeeeep breaths.....

Mooch, I so respect what you're doing! I have a couple of phobias myself, and the way you're confronting yours is downright heroic! Good for you!