pics of my first garden in 20 years

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I wanted to post pics from start to finish, but some slug broke out my truck window and stole my GPS and camera. Wifes is crap so I have been without a camera. Just went on a mission trip to Brazil and the wife borrowed her sisters old camera. I was spraying the garden and hada to get a pic so called one of the kids to bring their phone when wife came up with a real one so I snapped a few tonight. It was getting dark so the flash kept going off and the pics don't look as good as I would like, but here we go.

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I think this is the okra, planted three some weeks after the other.

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Should be maters, have 11 left after the deer got three the first night. I have two grape, three early girls, two mountian pride, two jetstars and can't remember the other. Had one early girl june 20, give or take a day, but it was very small. Picked the first grape today, have a lot of green ones coming and lots of blooms. The grapes are chin high with a ton of small ones hanging. I should have enough to freeze,can so I hope to have enough for the winter.

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This should be peppers, they haven't done too well. I think it has been a little wet, they looked better in the middle of the day today so time will tell. Planted cantaloupe and honeydew a couple of weeks ago and they are coming on, will just be late. The squash is the biggest I have ever had, my foot is a size 11 and the leafs make it look small. I am just getting my first ones, I have five hills of crookneck and two zucinni, picked three tonight and three yesterday. I used a cow panel for the cucumbers.

The pic of the honeydew is not good, there are six hills, but you can only see one. The bermuda is coming in pretty good, but I dug the turf out with the backhoe and laid it on the low side making the garden 7 feet wide. Tilled the turf after it started growing and was sprayed with roundup, which added 3 feet to the width for a total of 10 feet wide and is 30 feet long.

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I planted cucs on both sides to train up and I could walk under to pick, then a friend gave me some Ky wonders beans, so I planted them in two rows in the middle, ran string for them to climb. I think it is very crowded, but the beans will be gone when the cucs are still going so time will tell. I don't have a problem loosing the beans if something has to go. The cucs have lots of blooms so I am figuring on enough to make a few pickles.
The bush beans are four rows, two planted 8 inches apart with about a foot between. The plants are covered with blooms so might have enough to can a few, but not holding my breath.
The last pic is looking down the yard at the squash/zucs.

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Wow that is a lot of green already . It all looks real good. Just hoping our tomato plants make it. Is about all we are going to have looks like.

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your tomato plants look massive!

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These are some more contender beans, I had this little area that had maters two years ago so I tilled it up and broadcast them and raked em in. Should come in a month or so after the others, round two if all works out.
First pic is beans with some of the firewood in the background. The three squash I picked tonight are on the walk.
Better pic of some of wood, it is a full run behind that on with more under the back deck, which is panned so it stays dry. I figure I have about 2 cords at the house with with another two at the barn, I burned about 3 last year and it was pretty cold so I should be good for this winter.
The next one is of the two pears and two apple trees I planted this spring. There are also two thornless blackberry and one raspberry below the trees, but they are new this year so are still small also.
The last is looking down the yard, which is down hill, I ran it across the hill and by the time I laid the turf on the low side it was pretty level. The dirt was good a foot and a half deep but I have a full tandem dump load of horse manure cooking at the barn I will put on it this fall, and am getting another next week so should have much better soil next spring. Will be planting a cover crop this winter, some kind of greens, thinkin turnips cause they are really good for the ground and I don't really like any kind of greens, but I have the rest of the summer to figure it out.

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Originally Posted by CC1450

your tomato plants look massive!

They are getting big, those are the tall cages and the tops of the cages are shoulder high. I planted all the first stuff the week after mothers day, no danger of frost and the ground is warm enough for stuff to start growing. The okra, cantaloupes, and second round of beans were planted a few weeks later. If I can keep the deer out I might be ok. I have been using the liquid fence and they only came back once when I went three weeks between application and had lots of rain during that time. Might even get a pear this year, have three hanging so time will tell.

[Methos]

Awesome garden!