rain? yes please

[oregonrambler1]

We're hoping to get part of that 80% chance of rain today and tomorrow. Yesterday we planted tomato, zuchinni, 4 kinds of peppers, walla walla onions, yellow squash, brussel sprouts, mini pumpkin, and sunburst squash starts and we already have root crop seed coming up. A nice sprinkle or two would be very helpful -but we have our plastic tents ready in case of too much rain like last year. Thus far spring has been almost perfect here. (a nice rain would help knock down the pollen too! Allergies are really kickin in)

[mitch5252]

Those raised beds are absolutely gorgeous!!
I'm going to send the pic to my friend who just put in a couple of them.

[JudyJB]

What beautiful raised beds! I am envious.

All of my life I have lived in houses built on horrible clay soil where you had to literally use a pick to dig holes. My dream is to someday (after I get tired of RVing) have a real garden on soil that is easy to dig in. Those raised beds look fantastic.

[Nasoosie]

What a beautiful garden! I am so jealous! And it looks as if it's fenced, too, yes? To keep deer out, and rabbits, and such, perhaps? That's one heckuva lot of work you have put in, but I would like to be there for the harvesting!

I will do a rain dance for you to get a nice, easy rain to give your stuff a good drink!

Good work with the picture, too!

[oregonrambler1]

Thanks ladies... @Judy, our yard is very bad for gardening, we have a lot of sandstone so we decided to build up and have been working on these beds for 5 years, each year adding composted yard and kitchen waste, miracle grow (as we can afford it) and composted steer manure. We started with 2 full beds for the larger crops like tomatoes and used the others for the 'hill' plants like squashes. It's getting there. We companion plant very densely so we feed the plants well. We also planted bare root fruit trees our first year and had to use a pick ax to break through enough to get them in the ground. The planting doesn't make much aesthetic sense because we had to put them where we could break through

@nanoosie .. yes, it's all fenced. You can't see the deer fencing but you can see the supports, 7 ft tall. We have deer, turkeys, rabbits, moles, gophers -all the creatures that love new growth garden plants and fruit trees. The deer found our yard last year, ate the tomato plants down to the stems and all the ripening fruit that they could reach on the cherry trees. grrrrr ...

[BirdbyBird]

Very nice.......I have the tomato eating dogs at my house....

[mitch5252]

Very nice.......I have the tomato eating dogs at my house....

Serious? They eat, not just toss around and play with?

[oregonrambler1]

our daughter's and son-in-law's puggles love vegetables from the garden and they love to help themselves! tomatoes, brussel sprouts .. whatever! 4 ft fencing went up pretty quick. ps: doggies are new rescues, about 5 years old and probably related. brothers or father/son

[bluepinecones]

Very impressive garden beds. Hope you have best ever harvest.

Mitch - Yes, I have seen Herschel woof down the little bit of tomato Tina shares with him - just the stem caps - but he still seems to appreciate the treat.

[Bethers]

Moved this to the general Talk room - instead of merging it with the existing morning thread from today - it seemed safe to give it a life of it's own

[Carolinagal]

Everything looks so neat, looking at it, made me wish I could plant something. Miss my garden, not the work, or all of it anyway, but its good for the soul to be out in the soil. Fresh veggies are the biggest item I miss. Tomatoes out of my own garden always tasted better then any I've found since.

When will everything be ready for harvest

CArol

[oregonrambler1]

Hi Carol, we usually start harvesting in June, onions, snap peas, beet, turnip, radishes (of course) and raspberries. July the two cherry trees are ready for picking, we can some and dehydrate what we want and donate to the pantry. We also pick blueberries at the local U-pick. Last year we picked 90 pounds of humongous blueberries. The summer squashes come in late June/early July. Tomatoes take a while here unless we get a real sunny summer. That's why we plant a lot of tomatoes and when they do ripen in late July, August, sept to first frost we're busy canning and making salsa. Peppers usually show up in July along with our apples. Yup, we make applesauce! Green beans are late July till frost. Butternut, delicato, pumpkin late august till past first frost (frost doesn't hurt them unless it's a real hard frost). So you see we are very tied to a stick n' brick but still love our short summer trips and by the time we put the garden to bed we're ready to morph into snowbirds. oh.. the small bed in the front we've dedicated to asparagus. The crowns aren't old enough yet to put up good shoots. We planted seed in 1/2 the bed a year ago, the other 1/2 this year. Hopefully next spring!

[cpatinjones]

Looks great. Makes me miss my raised beds.

My ex-husband and I had installed 8 4x12 raised beds. We just loved this type of gardening.

[OregonLuvr]

Allrighty now Paulette, I will be stopping by on my way home to stock up on fresh veggies HA HA

karen

[snowball]

looks really good and sounds even better but have to ask what is a starburst squash?
It looks like a lot of work but the results are so going to be worth it!!
Enjoy it to the max
sheila