Anyone have a garden going this year?

And I have two pomegranite trees that bear a lot of fruit!

 

I always wanted to try one of these but never had enough open space to devote to it. I would love to see it as it grows.

I started my Roma tomatoes this year from seed that was from 2011 and they still had 100% germination. I was very impressed. Some of my pepper seed were very disappointing even though they were not nearly as old.

 

Please keep me in the loop.....lol

 

Hey Goddess, I've found seeds last for ever, well maybe not forever, but never lost any even after 12-15 years.

 

Will do

A lot of them do but onion, leek, and chives do not, they only stay viable for a year or two, not sure if they keep longer if you freeze them though.

 

Well your question about f

reezing the seeds is actually a great option. You've no doubt heard about the "doomsday seed vault", they are kept FROZEN to last forever. They found seeds from so exotic palm tree somewhere in the middle east (1000's of years old) and they produced a palm.....Hey, enjoy your day.

 

Less than a month ago this garden bed looked like...

After weeding it, pulling up the stone to re-mulch without them getting buried and then filling with compost it looked like this.



After deciding that the rock beds needed more variation, this bed now looks like this. I plan on putting small plants in the larger gaps in the stones, still undecided as to what though. If anyone has suggestions, I would love to hear them

We found a way to reuse some old stuff that we had found in the garage that we tore down and solve a problem that needed fixing at the same time. A while ago I posted about needing to fix a few of the corners of my raised wooden beds, well I remembered about these old, rusted hinges that have been sitting around forever, so we used them as brackets to secure the corners. I don't have a close-up picture of them but you can see them in the background of this one.

 

It looks great, Moon : )

 

Preparing in the tunnel for tomatoes!
Already eating pick and come again leaves : )
More digging this afternoon...

 

Well if you click on my links there you will see live streamed CCTV of our garden here in Rhos On Sea UK were we live in our ground floor apartment.

It isn't the biggest garden, but it does allow us to get outside during this Corona Virus Pandemic, and enjoy our planting and hammocks and do some gardening.

Towards Sea Front Garden


Up Road Front Garden

PS
If you care to look in on my live streamed CCTV thread, I have those security cameras going more or less 24/7.

 

I love your cold tunnel, excellent way to get an early start. Very impressive I must say.

 

Thank you. Can't really take credit, it was what my partner has been using for a few years before I moved in with him : ) we changed the plastic last year though.

 

Wow, that's quite a set up! How many tomatoes are you putting in? Do you grow all/most of your own food and preserve for year round eating or do you sell at a farmers market?

 

I'll have to look again when it's light out there but from what I can see it looks like a really nice, cozy place to hang out.

 

20 plants I think. I have 43 seedlings but we probably will give 23 away or sell them. We eat all the food, freeze excess, give away to friends who give us other things : )

 

Thank yo

Thank you for having a look at the streams Goddess.
It is sort of hazy sunshine out there at the moment 11.24AM and only 15c, but it is forecast to get to 19c later, and then I will go out and sit on that hammock and have me breakfast.
Mind you.
For that period I always turn the cameras off.
I mean.
You don't want to see me having my breakfast out in the garden now.
Do you?

Towards Sea Front Garden


Up Road Front Garden

 

The first year I had my garden I planted more seed than needed for my tomatoes because I was worried that if some didn't sprout I wouldn't have enough. Well even after giving away as many as I could, I still had way too many to fit in my garden so the rest I grew in pots around the outside of the garden. In total we had 60 tomato plants. No wonder why my kids hate tomatoes now, lol.

Do you use eggshells around your tomatoes when you plant? We dry and grind egg shells into small pieces and ring the plants with them. It adds calcium to the soil as it works it's way down during watering and weeding but while it's on the surface and the plants are young, it helps prevent cutworms because they don't like traveling across it.

This year we're growing 20 tomato plants as well, 18 in a long narrow bed and 2 more very prolific currant tomatoes next to the chainlink fence. All my neighbors know that they can just come and pick whatever grows outside of the fence so I usually put cucumbers, beans, tomato, and some small melons against the fence. Occasionally I have done squash and even watermelon but it requires more work because the vines prefer running along the ground and I have to train them up the fence and net the fruit so it has support that isn't needed when it grows on the ground.

 

Oh that is nice : ) the fence vegetables for your neighbours. I love that kind of sharing.
I was doing egg shells to try and deter slugs for a while, last year.. but I didn't keep it up.
I shall take that advice though, for the tomatoes while they are still tiny.. good idea.

 

The snow is finally off my raised beds. I have cuks, zuks, tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic, and all my cabbage family stuff growing under lights. Slow by 10 days getting the greenhouse going cuz I didn't feel like burning that much wood this year, getting too hard to cut and extra couple cords, dang old age.
Made my raised bed out of used guard rail I scored from a contractor rebuilding a 20 miles section of highway, wish I had thought of them 40 years ago when I started carving this place outta the spruce trees.

 

My tomatoes, I started them really late but they are catching up quickly. Only 4 seeds didn't germinate, so I still have extras to give away.