I think this is the first time that I've posted specifically about my backyard garden. I usually post about the greenhouse.
So, my garden this year is a little weirder than it has been in the past. It's been a wet year so far, and that has affected the garden somewhat. Some things are growing well, some things, not so much.
This is the corn patch this year. This patch of ground hadn't been used for several years, but we decided to plant it again this year. I buried a lot of maple leaves in this plot last fall to boost the fertility, but I think I may have made it attractive to root pests such as grub worms. Several of the corn plants started out good and then shriveled up. I pulled a couple of them up to see what was going on, and there were no roots on the plant.
We plant heirloom hard corn instead of sweet corn. We use it to make hominy. This year's crop is a red corn variety called "Bloody Butcher". We planted seeds from last year's crop.
The raised bed behind the corn has red onions growing in it.
I have 1 long row of potatoes growing in the garden. These are all Yukon Gold yellow potatoes. To the right is the white clover that we planted as a cover crop 2 years ago to help rebuild the soil. I didn't till that part up because I thought I wasn't going to be able to use that part of the garden. We were planning on having some roof work done, and they would have had to bring the trailer through there to get to the house, to haul away the old shingles.
The raised bed on the left is the carrot patch this year. The trellis next to the raised bed is where the pole beans have failed to sprout, twice. Very irritating!
This is the popcorn patch. I planted this about a week and a half ago, way late. I think almost every seed sprouted, which I thought was pretty good because it's all seeds saved from last year's crop. This is a short season variety called "Tom Thumb". The plants only get about 3 to 4 feet tall and usually have 2-3 ears that are 5 to 6 inches long. Everything about this corn is small. This is the same popcorn that I'm growing in my greenhouse as an experiment.
To the left are the potatoes, in the raised bed are bush green beans.
The bush green beans. At least these came up the first time I planted them. These are pretty small because I planted them about 2 weeks ago, later than I should have. In the background, to the right of the carrots, are bunching onions. They've been growing there for probably 4 years now. The plants come back every year, they're tougher than the winters here.
These are my sad outdoor tomato plants. They're finally growing now, the transplant shock was hard on them this year. I think they're starting to have problems from too much rain.
The strawberries are getting ripe! Yay! These things are soo good!
This is some of the grapes that we have growing. It looks like it could be a good year for the grapes, if they don't get the blight again.
I forgot to take pictures of the zucchini plants, hopefully I'll remember next time...
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my garden pictures, eh!
I hope you enjoyed them!
Grow food, share food!
Oh wow, you have a nice big garden going. You may want to look into doing a soil solarization treatment on the bed you think you have root pests in. You may already be fairly familiar with solarization, but in case you're not, essentially all you're doing is covering the bed with plastic and letting it basically cook in the sun. Should kill off most of the harmful microbes and organisms in the soil. And most of your beneficial organisms will either survive in sufficient numbers to quickly repopulate, or will move back in relatively quickly. Or you can even reintroduce them yourself. Good way to deal with soil problems without having to use chemicals.
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That's actually a good idea.
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Absolutely love it! Its winter here in new Zealand so my vege garden is looking a little bit sad. Cant wait for late winter early spring! Keep up the posts! I love watching other peoples gardens develop
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Thanks!
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Wonderful pictures of your garden @amberyooper! I come from a long line of gardeners, yet my husband and i just recently started a few years ago. Our gardens have been only mildly productive, but we have a lot of friends and family that donate the fruits (and veggies!) of their labor to us. We love to can. Over the past few years, we've mainly been canning pickles, jalapeños, wax peppers, salsa, and green beans. Our cayenne peppers grew like crazy last year, so now we have a big stash of dehydrated cayenne!
One year, we canned veggie soup and our girls absolutely loved it when wintertime came around :) We didn't put out a garden this year and I'm kind of sad about it.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and your photos of your lovely garden!
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Thank you for stopping by!
Green beans and tomatoes are my main focus for canning. I usually dehydrate my peppers and then store them in the old time canning jars with the bail top and rubber seal. That gives me an excuse to collect old blue glass canning jars. :-)
Home canned veggie soup, that sounds really good!
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Awesome! Have you gotten into saving your own seed. It's one of the most amazing sources of abundance to then start seed exchanges with neighbors and friends. One lettuce that bolts up will produce over 10,000 seeds! Onward and upward.
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Right now, I save corn and hard bean seeds. I don't save tomato seeds because I grow several different varieties all together, and the chances of cross pollination are pretty high. I have saved carrot seeds in the past, and bunching onion seeds. I usually don't save squash seeds because of cross pollination, but I might this year. All the different kinds of squash are separated this year, so less chance of cross pollination. The green beans that I grow are usually not heirloom, so you don't know what you're going to get when you save those.
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Nice! That sounds amazing. Have you thought of hosting a seed exchange party? I daydream of seed swap potlucks happening in communities around the world.
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Hey amberyooper - Your garden looks nice! We live in Williams Lake, BC and our veggie garden really has a hard time making progress - too little sunshine I suppose. It is still cool in our neck of the woods.
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It sounds like you might be more successful with hoop houses or greenhouses for your garden. They help you to get a longer growing season by helping hold some of the heat from the daytime through the night, and they also help protect against frost.
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Transplant shock! 😂 Great post, amazing you grow so much!
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Thanks!
You gotta grow it if you want to eat it fresh. :-)
The more I grow, the less I have to buy at the store. I think it saves me money, but sometimes I'm not so sure...
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Well yours is way better than mine this year! I think my tomatoes are just gonna die. Haha I planted them like a week ago and they're just yellowing bad. Hahaha I don't even know. This was not a gardening year! Next year!
Yours looks real great! Can't wait to see the harvest!
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I think there's been too much rain for my outside tomatoes this year, they're not doing as well as they should be. That's one of the big reasons that I grow tomatoes in the greenhouse, it's a lot easier to control the conditions.
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What a fantastic space and so very well used. My wife would love the time to home grow. Great job. 👍
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Overall, everything is looking great! I doubt if any gardener gets off without a few losses or setbacks and you look like you're having a pretty good run. That is odd about the pole beans, tho.
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Yes, I agree about the beans. I think it's all the rain we've been having, that's the only thing I can think of.
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That's a good possibility. I think you've been getting more rain than we have down here. The big lake sure plays havoc with our forecasts and planning.
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