Show us your garden

This is the first year for a garden in this location. The soil is good, but the location is not ideal. I live in a valley and the north side of my garden has some big evergreen trees.

I build this greenhouse in March from a bunch of surplus windows and blown-down cedar. The tomatoes love it.


The upside down tomatoes are not doing as well as the right side up ones. But the rightside up ones are 10' tall so that may not be a fair comparison.


Lots of squash. They don't mind the fact that this corner of the garden is very rocky. Rented tillers make short work of unused pieces of driveway. :D


Corn, cabbage, potatoes, beans, peas. All are doing well except the corn... but this isn't really corn country.

One- to two-inchers. A lot of 'em. Pretty much everything is toast, I salvaged a few onions. :D

I'll post some photos later (I'm on my way to Syracuse). But I wanted to recommend & respond to this.

Good idea for a thread for DU:GD; thank you for it.

posting now so I remember to come back to it later today

Unfortunately the condo association thugs would break my legs if I put one up.

My garden has to fit into the designated garden area, it's about 8'x 8'. Enough room for tomatoes and peppers, but not much else.

Oh, and my prediction about the upside-down tomato fad is turning out to be accurate. There is zero net benefit that I can see. Even my neighbor who is a good gardener hates her topsy turvey planter (it was a gift from her daughter so she had to try it). My upright tomatoes are producing about 4 times more fruit than hers.

my wife has around 100 of them going with tomatoes, peppers and other stuff, all doing well, big advantage we have noticed is a lot less storm damage to the plants and a hell of a lot less wildlife damage than the upright plants, i guess its down to individual circumstances.

The empty spot at the end is where my compost bin used to be. We are planning to build a little greenhouse in that spot.




This is my new compost bin

we just harvested and froxe two dozen freezer bags of broc. we overdid it on that and we're going to have LOTS of brussel sprouts this fall. it's raining here now- but i'll put up pics of ours later.

and we harvested and ate those last week. I have another six that are just heading up now. The marker just says "premium crop," so I'm not sure which cultivar it is, but it seems to be doing well.

Now I've got lots of snow peas, and the purple string beans look like they're going to be a bumper crop. I'll probably end up freezing quite a few of them. I'm also having a hard time staying on top of the greens ... the mustard and mizuna comes back year after year, and it always bolts before we get a chance to eat all of it. It'z amazing how much stuff you can get out of a small plot.

on a super thread.

True gardeners can grow gardens in Alaska. :thumbsup:

without a greenhouse, but the things that do grow here grow really well. Peas, all cabbage-type crops, lettuce, bush beans in the warm years (like this year), potatoes which I usually don't do because they take up so much room, zucchini. It's really worth the effort to put in a garden here, and many people do.

The farms out in the Mat-Su Valley north of here produce tons of veggies, and locally grown produce is in all the supermarkets during the summer, as well as seven farmers' markets here in Anchorage. The Mat-Su is also known for gigantic vegetables that people grow for the state fair. I have some pictures here http://www.northernvisions.smugmug.com/gallery/3414875_hn8vU#P-1-12 including a world record kale that weighed 105 pounds!

Beautiful garden!

nt

I'm a city gardener (LA) with not a lot of sunny space so I try to cram a lot into two 4X4 boxes.

This one has tomatoes, chilis, eggplant, tomatillos, bell pepper, and the other side has herbs, arugula, and lots of marigolds throughout.

Just want people to know you can have your own "produce section" in your back yard without having a big lot!

Not shown: I also have a couple of upside down planters. The zucchini has been disappointing but the "Sweet 100" cherry tomatoes just keep going and going! I also am trying a new thing this year: watermelon grown vertically on a trellis against the fence. Looking good but only flowers no melons yet

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37971863@N07/3759351233/

...and but for my neighbor Linda who has a green thumb, nothing would have grown for me!



:hi:

Only things left are my tomato plants and garlic chives.

This is how people become hunters.

Here in my neighborhood, the deer know where they live on the food chain so they have stayed pretty much away. :)

Very nice. Yummm...we have a shared garden with our neighbors, just starting to kick in. Want to move to a place where we can really get it going!
I was raised on home gardening, canning, freezing, and the works. Grow what you can, can what you grow!

Great pics! Thanks for sharing!

:thumbups: :thumbups:

k&r

nt

horseradish on the left, the tall broadleaf thing growing on the right is jerusalem artichokes:


pear tree in front, apple trees behind:


front to back - thyme, stevia, basil, lovage, eggplants, dill, behind that and hard to see dragon's tongue beans past peak and tomatoes:


tromboncino squash (top left), rouge vif d'etampes squash (top right), tomatoes (center), ground cherries (lower right), melons (bottom left of center), nasturtium (oniony flavored flower good on pizza, bottom right)


on left - patty pan squash and beets, on right - swiss chard, onions and asparagus behind that:



and finally, the recent lightning strike my persimmon tree took: :cry:

it looks lush and healthy

well done

:cry: :cry: :cry:

What can I say, I was Southern-bred.

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Love your Greenhouse.
There is one in our near future

(and yeah, I am coveting that greenhouse, too. I was showing photos of it to my partner here, who's been opposed to putting one in.)

Between the plastic on the roof, and a door from Olympia salvage, I think it cost me about $200.

They were good to me though...ended up with 35 quart jars of dill pickles, and several bushels of crookneck.


Just got some late season corn seeds in the ground, and the green bean seeds have just taken off. I have had a bumper crop of bells this year, after not getting squat last year.



Kind of the side view...better get out there and pick a couple of those artichokes to go with the baby backs I have in the smoker right now.

I planted a pumpkin. As this (bad cell phone) photo shows, it has engulfed everything.