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

[Anders A]

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

 

[green_bean]

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

 

[Anders A]

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

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

 

[StoneCarver]

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.

 

[Knucklehead]

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.

 

[McNatsarim]

Spring time 2025

 

[Knucklehead]

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

 

[McNatsarim]

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

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

 

[Knucklehead]

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

Overkill is highly under-rated. Go big.

 

[Knucklehead]

 

[johnny108]

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

 

[green_bean]

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

 

[McNatsarim]

 

[green_bean]

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.

 

[GreenDragon]

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.

 

[Knucklehead]

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.

Nice haul.

 

[GreenDragon]

@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.

 

[Knucklehead]

@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.

I can't eat the hot peppers but enjoy the sweet peppers. I've been cooking with some sweet paprika from Hungary and using some Hungarian recipes on youtube. I like the simple stuff. I suspect I had some peasant ancestors hiding in the woodpile from somewhere. Italian spices and hot peppers are a little much for my digestion.

 

[Knucklehead]

Decided to do some of my gardening indoors. Parris Island romaine, Red Romaine, Buttercrunch, Black seeded Simpson, Green Salad Bowl, Red Salad Bowl, Dwarf Siberian Kale, Arugula, Spinach, and Strawberries. I'm experimenting with varieties and seeing how far I can push the limits in terms of plants per pot and pot size. I'm making salad cuts rather than growing for full heads. They are ready for a good trim now. Planting seed every ten days for an assembly line approach.

 

[green_bean]

Still growing a few things outside. Made a cover for the lettuce with half inch copper tubing for the frame and sheet plastic.

Have a small greenhouse thing for my celery.

Had planted multiplier onions from seed this past summer. Saved some sets and planted them yesterday in a few pots and then put another of those little greenhouse things over them.