Saturday, April 18, 2015

Container Gardening Together - Week 8


My rosemavy and oregano.  Unfortunately, my spearmint never came up.  I can never grow mint from seed.  I suck at that I guess.  Most herbs really. I'll probably have to buy some.  


Cilantro, I guess is an Exception.  I grew this from seed. 


This is garlic Chives.  I grew this from seed as well. 


This is my creeping thyme.


Parsley, from seed.


Sage.


Basil.  You can see I harvested some. 


rosemary, oregano, thyme, 

This is my yellow squash


You can barely see the berries on my goji and raspberry bushes.  They are so green 



My Kidney Beans

  Blue Lake Beans

Lima Beans

Pinto Beans

My radishes

they are very nearly ready to harvest!  I'll get several harvests of radish!




Lincoln Green Peas


Snow Peas

Cabbages

Beets

 Cayenne red Pepper


 Bell Peppers

Strawberry Patch

Eggplant

Marion Tomato

rutgers Tomato

 Marion Tomato

Black Eyed Peas

Straight 8 Cucumber

Straight 8 Cucumber

Marketmore Cucumber

Marketmore / Ashley Cucumber

Ashley / Straight 8 Cucumber

 Ashley Cucumber

Straight 8 Cucumber

The Spanish Onion (in the back) never came up and are just done for. I'm going to have to re-plant. The tomato in the front is doing well though. 

roma tomato

buttercrunch lettuce. i thinned it out last weekend.  it seemed to do it some real good. 

 Georgia collards.  I also thinned these.  this seemed to do them a great deal of good as well.  

spinach. I'm not sure why, but it doesn't seem to be doing so good.  Maybe it's not going to do as well until later in the season. I guess we'll see. 

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Container Gardening Together - Week 7


Here's what I ended up planting so far:

4 blue lake bean plants
4 pinto beans
4 kidney beans
4 lima bins
8 linclon green peas
20 snow peas
3 rutgers tomato
2 roma tomato
2 tomato (other)
10 cucumbers (marketmore, straight 8, ashley)
2 jalapeno
2 cayenne
4 beets
4 black eyed peas
2 bell pepper
4 cabbages
1 strawberry patch
1 grapevine
1 zucchini
2 yellow squash
6 rows spinach
6 rows collards
6 rows lettuce
14 celery
8 yellow onion
8 radish
Oregano
rosemary
parsley
thyme
basil
sage
spearmint
cilantro
dill
garlic chives
avocado
goji
raspberry
lilies

I haven't started my sunflowers or my potatoes.  This list is a bit different from the one I started with, I know, but I had to edit it some. 

I went ahead an bought some basil.  My basil Sucked. In fact I bought five herbs from he local farmer.  Oregano, sage, basil, thyme, and rosemary.


In the back are my bean plants.  Pinto, Lima, Blue Lake, and Kidney.  In the front We have the Peas. In the red Buckets are Lincoln Green And the Blue buckets are Snow Peas.


Just a continuation of the image above, except you can see a little bit of my radishes next to the red buckets.  


Peeking In front of my greens containers which we'll get to later - they're marvelous so far! you can see the grapevine, and my bell peppers followed by my strawberry patch!  On the very end is my peppers, but you can hardly see them. 


My black eyed peas are still coming along.  The one is still doing better than the others.  Still no explanation for that one!  


 My cabbages are a little bit bigger than last week, but still very tiny. 


My tremendous amount of cucumbers.  10 I think total, if I counted correctly!  Good think I love cucumber!


My eggplant, and then right beside it, a couple of tomato plants. 


Some more shots of my beans. Also my goji and raspberry plants.  The raspberry has little green berry thingies on it.  But no fruits yet. 


More of the goji and raspberry


These are my greens.  I am going to have to thin them very very soon.  Lettuce on the far left, then Collard Greens, then spinach.  Also that's my sweet dog Wasabi on the left there photobombing.  She's a full blooded pug and a hot mess.  And I love the bloddy ass of her. 



Here are some more shots of my herbs oregago (top), thyme (middle), sage (bottom)

 rosemary and oregano






This is a closer shot of the radishes.  




 Still nothing has come of the onion or celery.  I think it might be time to give up and replant. 


 Tomatoes and Eggplant


The tomatoes in the buckets are sooo much better now. 


 and that's about it.  I'll keep you updated!  :)