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Earlier this week we picked most of the radishes from our garden...YUM! We also planted lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, basil, and zucchini.

Nice lookin radishes, can't beat a garden.:thumbsup: My garden consists of 16 tomato plants, basil, rosemary & cucumbers, small elevated garden but supplies the wife & I. :laughing:

This is the first year in years that we have it he much of a garden.

Last week we harvested lettuce and more radishes from our garden.

Looking good & healthy!:thumbsup:

The one little sad point about living in S. Florida is that we can't plant veggies mid-May thru August due to the heat and excessive rains. But the better point is that we can grow September thru mid-May, which is a good thing, since selling seed is my current career.

You do not not talk much these days Fanatic. You that busy? I miss your talk.

possum said:

You do not not talk much these days Fanatic. You that busy? I miss your talk.

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Yes I am very busy...but I try to be on here as much as possible!

Picked 3 zucchini today! :licking:

lawn mower fanatic said:

Picked 3 zucchini today! :licking:

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Nice.
Weird thing is down here, anything over 8 inches is considered too ripe/ unsaleable at market.

RatRacer said:

Nice.
Weird thing is down here, anything over 8 inches is considered too ripe/ unsaleable at market.

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Yeah they are better when they are the size of the middle one, but they grow so fast they get out of hand! But less than 8 inches is small!

Man, our garden isn't doin too hot this year. We usually have a jungle of tomato plants, but not this year. Maybe next year I'll have to renovate the soil and try and get it going again. Your crop sure is looking great, though.

I got behind on this thread. Last two years the gardens here were just terrible from the heat and dryness. No amount of city water would make up for it. But this year I see tomatoes big and lots of them on giant plants. Everything is doing better so far this year even the trees look some better. Glad the gardens are doing well for the most part.

possum said:

I got behind on this thread. Last two years the gardens here were just terrible from the heat and dryness. No amount of city water would make up for it. But this year I see tomatoes big and lots of them on giant plants. Everything is doing better so far this year even the trees look some better. Glad the gardens are doing well for the most part.

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I usually put about 1/2" of fresh dark garden soil from my local nursery plus my 50gal compost bin that utilizes grass clippings(herbicide and pesticide free) leaves and food scraps. We get a pretty good harvest however we only have a 30 sqft garden so getting new soil is easy

LawnBoy97 said:

Man, our garden isn't doin too hot this year. We usually have a jungle of tomato plants, but not this year. Maybe next year I'll have to renovate the soil and try and get it going again. Your crop sure is looking great, though.

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We have gotten so much rain this year so the garden is doing great. I'll post a picture of the whole thing when I get a chance.

Yeah, a picture would be nice.

possum said:

Yeah, a picture would be nice.

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Overview:

Zucchini:

Lettuce:

Peppers:

Tomatoes:

There is also radishes and basil.

lawn mower fanatic said:

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Lettuce: View attachment 15739

Peppers: View attachment 15740

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There is also radishes and basil.

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lmf,
Nice garden for the area you planted!! So can you give me "instructions" on how you managed to attach those pictures, grouped and labeled so nicely??? You know the last time I tried to attach pictures of my ZTR light kits they were 'all over the map":0)
If I could post pics like you just did, I'd share some pictures of the raised garden boxes that I built an use for gardening.

djdicetn said:

lmf,
Nice garden for the area you planted!! So can you give me "instructions" on how you managed to attach those pictures, grouped and labeled so nicely??? You know the last time I tried to attach pictures of my ZTR light kits they were 'all over the map":0)
If I could post pics like you just did, I'd share some pictures of the raised garden boxes that I built an use for gardening.

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I remember! :laughing:

Here are the steps:

• Go to the "Manage Attachments" icon (paperclip) in the toolbar.
• Add all the pictures you want; it really doesn't matter the order. Before you do that, it would be good to rename them different things so you know what each one is of.
• Click upload, and wait till they all are uploaded.
• X out of the attachments window, and get back to the page where you reply to a thread.
• Now click the little arrow next to the paper clip. Select which one you want, in what order, and it will be in the reply. :thumbsup:

OK, lmf here goes....I used to have a 50' X 25' garden, but tilling and weeding became just too much trouble. So I found these Western Cedar Raised Garden Boxes on the Internet and they wanted almost $1,000 for the kit!! I said...no way, so because they were dumb enough to provide detailed pictures and instructions I just went to a local hardware store bought the 1 X 8 Western Cedar, some 4 x 4 posts and post caps, some lag screws and proceded to build my own for about $200 total in materials using their plans. I even air-stapled landscape fabric(weed preventive) across the bottom of the boxes before placing them and filling them with soil to further prevent weeds. Heck, the Garden Mix soil from the landscaping place cost me more than that to fill them up(around $300). Anyhow, I have found these raised beds to produce well and require very little weeding(and that's pretty easy when it's necessary). I even rigged up soaker hoses in each box, cut and connected garden hose to each one from a three-way hose splitter mounted to the box on the left(see the middle picture of it) and all I do when there's lack of rain is connect the garden hose to the splitter and turn it on for a couple of hours. Below are some pictures of them empty right after building them and then recent pictures of each of them after the plants are producing:
Boxes just after building and filling with soil:

Right after planting:

Left Box With Beans(Royalty Purple Pod) and Okra:

Middle Box With Tomatoes:

Right Box With Cucumbers, Squash & Zucchini:

Let's see how well I followed your instructions.........not bad after following your directions!!! So, what do you guys think about my "city gardening"???

djdicetn said:

OK, lmf here goes....I used to have a 50' X 25' garden, but tilling and weeding became just too much trouble. So I found these Western Cedar Raised Garden Boxes on the Internet and they wanted almost $1,000 for the kit!! I said...no way, so because they were dumb enough to provide detailed pictures and instructions I just went to a local hardware store bought the 1 X 8 Western Cedar, some 4 x 4 posts and post caps, some lag screws and proceded to build my own for about $200 total in materials using their plans. I even air-stapled landscape fabric(weed preventive) across the bottom of the boxes before placing them and filling them with soil to further prevent weeds. Heck, the Garden Mix soil from the landscaping place cost me more than that to fill them up(around $300). Anyhow, I have found these raised beds to produce well and require very little weeding(and that's pretty easy when it's necessary). I even rigged up soaker hoses in each box, cut and connected garden hose to each one from a three-way hose splitter mounted to the box on the left(see the middle picture of it) and all I do when there's lack of rain is connect the garden hose to the splitter and turn it on for a couple of hours. Below are some pictures of them empty right after building them and then recent pictures of each of them after the plants are producing:

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Let's see how well I followed your instructions.........not bad after following your directions!!! So, what do you guys think about my "city gardening"???

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That looks really great! You did a good job building it, and it's a good idea how you have a soaker hose and a hose splitter. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Our veggy garden hasn't been too good this year, because of all the snow we had, the hedge is almost on the garden, so no room for sunlight. Also, I didn't add my special soil for making things grow like chineese tomatoes.:wink:

lawn mower fanatic said:

That looks really great! You did a good job building it, and it's a good idea how you have a soaker hose and a hose splitter. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Thanks for the compliment!!! Actually, I've toyed with the idea of making a little extra money after I retire this coming October by building these boxes and selling them for around $500(without the soil...that would make me almost $300 apiece and would still be half price of the same ones if you bought the kits on the Internet). I figure $300 for about 8 hours labor that it took me to build them ain't bad money. I just don't know how many people would be interested in spending $800(including the filling them with quality garden mix soil) for raised bed gardening.

I love seeing photos of vegetables that have grown well and turned out great. I do hope they taste as yummy as they look!