let's see your veggie garden {pics} 2021-25

There were 346 onions this year.
I probably won't have time to eat them all before they spoil, but I can give some as Christmas presents to my children and grandchildren

Wow those are beautiful. Do you grow long-day or short day onions? Or do you even have that difference over there?

green_bean said:

Wow those are beautiful. Do you grow long-day or short day onions? Or do you even have that difference over there?

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Hmm, no names I know of, so we probably don't have them here in Sweden.
But I googled now, and short day onions probably don't work here

Top picture is some frames of honey I pulled about 2 weeks ago. The frames are tall and narrow. Outer dimensions roughly 15.5"h x 13"w. These are frames for Layens style hives. I prefer Layens over Langstroth because they are so much easier to deal with. For more info see horizontalhive.com. Each frame can hold a half gallon or more of honey. You are looking at 1.5gallon there easily. The other two pictures are of a lion's mane mushroom that just pushed out. Its about 4inches across. This one is a small one. Last year's was about the size of a football. There's this dead oak tree next to my house that has been pushing them out each year for a while now. A couple years ago the tree fell over, smashed my garden and all the peas that were growing. I cut most of the top part of the tree down to the part where the lion's manes have been coming out. Then jacked it up and put it on concrete blocks. I'm frying that mushroom up for dinner tonight. I also have about 4 logs that I knocked up with shiitake plug spawn. I also got three shiitakes from the logs today. Those are boiling in a pot with some potatoes, also from my garden, and Chinese sausage, not from my garden.

I got some 20" planters that just fit in a 1020 tray for bottom watering and do some succession planting on the porch. The plants in the raised bed are coming along nicely. They were a little pale so I dosed them up with some 10-10-10. I kept failing to get some Black Kow compost but I think I can work that around the plants when I get around to it.

Spring time 2025

McNatsarim said:

Spring time 2025
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Dude. That's nice. You have it going on up there.

Knucklehead said:

Dude. That's nice. You have it going on up there.

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I appreciate it. Wife wanted a simple garden but I think I over delivered

McNatsarim said:

I appreciate it. Wife wanted a simple garden but I think I over delivered

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Overkill is highly under-rated. Go big.

Gardening season is over for northern Germany.
All the green is a mix of cover crops.

We've got a bit of lettuce growing now and some snow peas also.

This leaf celery has been growing strong since Spring. This is the first year I've grown it in a pot instead of planting in the ground. Is in half shade and has great drainage in the pot. Water it every day unless there's been good rainfall.


A couple nights ago we discovered this possum hiding out in one of our camellia bushes.

Last harvest and garden cleanup before our first frost tomorrow night. Peppers are Guijillo, Aji, shishito, Hungarian long, calabrese, jalapeño, serrano, tabasco, scotch bonnet, ghost pepper.

GreenDragon said:

Last harvest and garden cleanup before our first frost tomorrow night. Peppers are Guijillo, Aji, shishito, Hungarian long, calabrese, jalapeño, serrano, tabasco, scotch bonnet, ghost pepper.

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Nice haul.

@Knucklehead The irony is my wife planted most of these and she doesn’t like peppers! Christmas presents to the family this year will mainly be hot sauces and chili powders. Love our dehydrator - worth every penny. She does like to cook with my “paprika” blend which is 80% (red) gujillo and 20% jalapeño / Serrano. Also great to add to your masa mix when making tortillas - give them a great red tint and flavor.