fisherman/woman and their gardens

kinda intrested in how y'all do gardning, Miss Sharon and our youngest put in some corn,squash,mellons,peppers,tomatoes,and cukes today, 16 tomatoes, beef stake, and brandywine hirloom. and pink ones for my daughter, lots of corn planted also, decided this year and a few more in the future I would get back into gardning, man I love working in the dirt, making pickles and canning all grannie style. My daughter is about through school and ask me if I would teach her, seems it is a mind easing after working on computers all day, she is about to get her degree in computer networking and thought working in the dirt would be a good thing, I agree, now I got me a helper, any way was wondering if there were any more of you mother earth folks on here. and what you did and what you like, me corn and tomatoea are my favorites.

beagle you are on the wrong track again. try this tell your neighbors what you like sit back, relax, when right comes get a basket and flashlight and go on a midnight raid. works for me. what kind or pickles you plant.

Hey Beagle isn't it kind of early for tomatoe plants up here where I am at? I was thinking about getting some and planting them in a old barrell outside the store.

Sounds good Beagle. I do love some fresh tomatoes and peppers. Love some sweet corn also but never had much luck growing it. Zucchini and okra are hard to beat straight out of the garden. I planted a water mellon tree 2 years ago. Still waiting for it to produce.:cool:

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Originally Posted by Speck

Sounds good Beagle. I do love some fresh tomatoes and peppers. Love some sweet corn also but never had much luck growing it. Zucchini and okra are hard to beat straight out of the garden. I planted a water mellon tree 2 years ago. Still waiting for it to produce.:cool:

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Water mellon tree? Ok Speck you been hanging out in Mississippi to long drinking out of those glass jars again! Never heard of such a thing. But I can eat my weight in seedless water mellons.

We do a little garden every year. We always plant a couple of tomato plants, zuccini, okra, broccoli (sometimes), and vidalia onions. we planted asparagus a few years back, so that comes up every year also. Tried eggplant and peppers but never had much luck for some reason. My favorite is fresh sweet corn but we just don't have the room to grow it.

This year I broke out some more ground on my quaint 2.5 acres. I tilled up small sections and try to get a variety of stuff coming on at different times to enjoy fresh food for summer and fall: 40 tomato plants (about 6 different kinds), about 40ft x 20ft of sweet corn planted in two week intervals, okra (love to pickle and fry), black diamond watermelon, jalepenos, straight 8 cucumbers (bought a cattle pannel and bowed it upward trying to get a few plants growing off the ground) bush beans, gourds (my students make bird houses from them) lettuce (but it is terrible if you don't pick it early), and weeds. My wife and I eat corn, tomatos +(tomato juice), beans, strawberries, pickles and okra all winter long.

Water bath and pressure cooker going on at the same time and I keep busy for a few days, but it is worth it.

I will have to say that Sears took care of me after I called a store and they said they had the tiller that I wanted. Went there and they didn't have it. They called another store and they said they had two of them. Went there and they didn't have any. I said, "well, hmmmm." They checked out some other stores and nothing was in. The guy tried to sell me the the one they did have (lots of $$$) but I only had a certain amount of cash that I had saved. Told him I couldn't do it and asked them if they would call me when the one I could afford came in. The salesman said that most customers would have bitched, whined and fussed, about being told two stores had it, and all I said was "Well, hmmmm". He went and got the manager and they sold me a machine that was worth about twice the money of what I was going to spend.... and they thanked me for it! Crazy how sometimes keeping your mouth shut helps out. Thus the reason why I plant so much. See signature.....

We put our plants out a bit too early...it frosted!! It seems to have got our cucumbers and cantaloupe. I think our tomato and zuccini plants are going to survive. I don't know anything about planting a garden so it is probably my fault....just learning I guess. All I know is that I love fresh tomatoes and CRAPPIE for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and hope that at least the tomato plants make it. We put out 7 this year, started 2 strawberries, 4 hills of zuccini. If they decide to come back to life, we also have 4 cantaloupe and 8 cucumbers. Like I said, I don't have a clue what to do when it comes to gardening and I just hope that something turns out. It is hard to beat a fresh vegetable!! Sounds like you have quite the garden going....what's your address? Just kidding!!

Garden every year,this year it mostly consists of maters(90 plants)i have oxhearts,first prize,beefmasters and a few cherries,30 pepper plants,couple rows of beans and some sweet corn,i'm waiting for the ground to dry to get my zucchini,cucumbers and sugar baby melons out.

put squash beans corn cukes out last mon onions already in toms today or tomm more corn next week