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    I spend more time in the garden this time of year than on fish, and it still needs more. It's already been so hot I'm having trouble getting out there to keep up with the weeds, but here are a couple quick pics.

    The Monarch butterfly garden:milkweed and nectar plants

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    Tomatoes, potatoes, and the raspberry patch

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    Great topic!

    Looks like you are having a great growing season there! Butterfly garden looks really nice. Good crop of tomatoes coming along too.


    I spend most of my free time outdoors here too in the growing season. Gardens are doing great this year! I'm a bit of an eclectic Gardener... If it holds Dirt.. I plant in it...especially if I can re-use or repurpose something.


    Russian Kale and Lettuce
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    Various Hot Peppers and japanese eggplant

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    Italian Parsley and Tuscan Kale

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    Zucchini, Cherry tomatoes, and sweet peppers (Italian Fryers and Cubanelle)

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    Swiss Chard

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    Water Puddle/frog pond.. Not really a pond.
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    Herb Gardens...

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    String Beans..

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    Got a ton of weeds and over grown junk too, but I will spare you those shots!
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    Man, i am so jealous! I wish I had that many herbs to pick from on a daily basis.

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    Our garden after the groundhog battle.

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    I should have known you guys would be into all the good hobbies!

    This is my third and most successful year maxing out my little urban garden...

    Onions, green beans, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes
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    Onions
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    Cucumbers finally catching up
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    Tomato tunnel
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    I have 8 of these 25 gallon potato bags... One of my favorite things to grow
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    Carrots
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    Blackberries!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clawhammer View Post
    I should have known you guys would be into all the good hobbies!

    This is my third and most successful year maxing out my little urban garden...

    Onions, green beans, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes
    IMG_1182.jpg

    Onions
    IMG_1183.jpg

    Cucumbers finally catching up
    IMG_1184.jpg

    Tomato tunnel
    IMG_1186.jpg

    I have 8 of these 25 gallon potato bags... One of my favorite things to grow
    IMG_1187.jpg

    Carrots
    IMG_1188.jpg

    Blackberries!!
    IMG_1189.jpg
    Beautiful Eric! Nicely Done!! Nicely done indeed!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bethzb View Post
    Our garden after the groundhog battle.

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    Beth they are my mortal enemy. I battle them year after. I have to worn you though. The ones we have out here in CT would scale that fence no problem.

    I swear the smell my stringbeans. They will find them any where I put them.. that and my parsley. Last year the bugger would just sit down smack dab in the pot and go to town.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brewmaster15 View Post
    Beth they are my mortal enemy. I battle them year after. I have to worn you though. The ones we have out here in CT would scale that fence no problem.

    I swear the smell my stringbeans. They will find them any where I put them.. that and my parsley. Last year the bugger would just sit down smack dab in the pot and go to town.

    al
    So far this guy is more interested in easier fare. Namely my neighbors who did not fence theirs off We did however leave the top foot of fencing detached so theoretically, if he does try to climb, the fence would bend outward. Wish I had as much space as you though. Very limited in what I can plant here.
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    Don't you hate when you have uninvited dinner guests in your Garden?

    Noticed my Kale was looking a bit chewed up in places...Being a pesticide free yard I had to deal with them the old fashion way...by hand.
    cabbage moth caterpillars..
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    Those and the cucumber beetles (green looking lady bugs) are my nemeses. I'm out every morning picking them off and looking for the caterpillar eggs on my cole starts.
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    Looks like that could be a good source of fishing bait Al no? Any way to use them for fishroom food?
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    lol...I fed them to my pet toad and salamanders
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    Given Steve's recent thread on his garden 2018 And not wanting to photo bomb his homestead thread..thought Id bump this back up.
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    It's been very hot, and even with regular water mine is showing some stress. Beans have been infested with some stupid little black bug that leaves bite marks in them and the tomatoes are a little ragged but still producing heavy. Salsa time in a few weeks!
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    Hard to produce a traditional looking garden here, climate can be harsh with long hot summers and cold winters, 1500 feet above sea level with soil that is mostly sand and clay. Also very little water for irrigation. Anyway here is the fruit orchard I have been working on for the last 2 years. Planted cherries, apricots, plums, nectarines, peaches, apples and traditional varieties of table grapes. As for veggies just a dozen plants of cherry tomatoes and some chillies for this year, thinking of making some raised beds.
    The shading at the bottom is to cover my pond-tubs, something I started last year to learn on a small scale the basics of outdoor fishkeeping. Got goldfish in the bigger tub, rainbow shiners in another and Aphanius mento "Kirkgoz" in another. I will probably put Japanese ricefish in the fourth. Will soon be ordering more bog plants (much more appealing than veggies)
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