I'm just here to help keep gardening get more expensive lol.

That ain't no joke.

Cucumbers are starting to produce. They are still small and starting to climb. They are looking good and looking like they will produce really well this year.

Has anyone used a large mirror to reflect sunlight on tomatoes in a shady area?

Nice Derek, I finally got some blooms going on.

Installed my automatic watering system today. Got it all mulched, but need a few more bags to fill in some bare spots. Even if I buy extra I’m always short on mulch lol. Got the poles installed for the FL Weave, we’ll see how that goes.

The 'old people' raised bed experiment is working!!

Awesome yields. Haven’t gotten anything yet but they’re coming in a lot better than last year.

Look great guys!

Planted my tomatos to close together, but they're still producing

Good onion and garlic year

That looks awesome!

Man, y’all are so far ahead of me lol.

Hell I finally got my first tomato forming. I’m good with it lol already 100% better than last year. I know this is a learning process but you’d think after 2 years I’d have learned something

All of my tomato plants have a little bit of fruit.



Peppers just starting to form.



Volunteer tomatoes (and an baby tree that needs pulled) popped up where my compost was...also looks like cucumber or cantaloupe coming up too.



Here are the potatoes I planted in the middle of the yard. Daughter gave me some soft potatoes that were growing eyes so I chopped them up with a shovel and buried them in a few holes.

Our garden is looking pretty good. Tomatoes, onions, garlic, lettuce, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, beans, herbs all looking great….Peppers still haven’t taken off yet really, hoping the warm weather will get them going.

^^^Wow, that looks nice! I particularly like the cut water tank into a "key" bed. Is that what you call it? (I'm not a gardener, but surely admire them.) Somebody's an overachiever.

Remember, most of the dead bodies still laying on Mount Everest were overachievers.

Haha!

Yes, that’s a “key hole garden”

It’s been a work in progress over a long period of time. My favorite thing is that I have every bed plumbed with a hose bib on 3 sections that I can set to water.

Outstanding Garden BradyBuck!!

are those beds full of dirt or have bottoms in them mid way? looks great! what part of the country are you in?

They are full of dirt along with cow manure/hay compost. The cedar board beds have no bottoms, just laid card board on ground to help with weed control. The old water troughs we drilled lots of 1" holes in the bottoms. Put about 5" of sandy soil, then about 5" of manure/hay compost, then about 10" of sandy soil to top off. We have a front end loader on a tractor and the land we are on is sandy soil. The cow manure/hay compost we scooped up from old areas where we had hay rings set. Texas, Gulf Coast area and thanks! Also, it's all BradyBuck's fault Hopefully, over time, we'll get gravel on the ground, water lines, etc and get it looking half as purty as his!!

thanks talkturkey. figured you had to be down south. those plants are way ahead of mine.

Mine is coming along. I need to get calcium on those tomatoes pretty soon. Still have an unplanted row. Not sure what I'll do there. I might just plant late and to harvest more in October.

how do you raised bed farmers keep the fire ants out of the beds? tried taters a couple of times and the ants ate the taters as they developed?

I came here looking for the same answer, hopefully someone has a good solution. We have every ant killing chemical known to man kind thanks to my wife but I’m clueless on what can be used around vegetables.

If they have a den I can locate I use boiling water, dawn soap, and orange oil and drench the mound