We grow vegetable gardens too! Post your Garden pics here

Biosynthesis · May 15, 2013

Hello fellow IC magers!

Besides growing Ganja for the winter months a lot of us put our gardening skills to use growing food for the table as well. Every year I look forward to putting in a garden. Last year was a great grow season with bumper harvests. Weather carrots, corn or ganga, horticulture is in my blood. To preserve put away and grow your own food is very rewarding and healthy. The vegetable garden always gets just as much attention if not more than the ganga and just as rewarding. Feel free to show off your edibles here.

EDIT: Thanks for all the positive vibes from everyone who has visited and contributed to this thread! Starting this thread I was going to keep it to just the vegetable gardening, but ended up including fruits, animals & even the bounty from a fishing trip! So I encourage people to share their ideas and experiences. As long as it is earthy and fun, please share it! Here are pictures of 2012 gardens. 2013 gardens start kicking off good on page 13. Thanks for joining in, and have fun!!!

OrganicBuds · May 15, 2013

I just have a raised bed, I am jealous of your veggie set up. Here is the only picture I have, and now all the plants are in the raised bed soil. I will post up another pic when I have the chance.

Tomatoes, artichokes, peppers, strawberries, basil, rosemary, chives, cucumbers.

Biosynthesis · May 15, 2013

Thank you Organic Buds! Nice selection of veggies. Raised beds do great and you set them up high enough so your back doesnt work as hard. Nice!

My chicken house with 50 chickens Is right beside the garden. This is a good way to go to keep down on bugs. I have it setup where they can do there thing Around the garden. Of course another reason is the manure is right on hand to add to the garden. Always grow my animals next to the garden. One year I raised pigs IN the garden and planted veggies the next year and BAM, show was on! These are all pictures of last years garden. This years garden is bigger and still in the process of being planted. I added more fruit trees as well. Apricots, Peaches, Nectarines.

OrganicBuds · May 15, 2013

I forgot to mention my trees. I have a Myers Lemon, Lime, Orange, Plum and grafted and spliced avocado tree. Avocado trees needs to be pollinated by another avocado tree, so I have an avocado tree that has both varieties so it can pollinate itself. Kind of like cannabis with male and female plants. I just planted them last year, and I am just starting to get limes and lemons.

Edit: I have also wanted to build a chicken coop that I can put off to the side during the growing season. Then during the winter I would like to take the same coop and build it so it can attach to my raised beds. That way the chickens can poop and feed my plants for the next season. Then place the coop back off to the side.

Biosynthesis · May 16, 2013

OrganicBuds · May 16, 2013

Beautiful animals and beautiful garden. I wish I had room for pumkins

Biosynthesis · May 16, 2013

OrganicBuds said:
I forgot to mention my trees. I have a Myers Lemon, Lime, Orange, Plum and grafted and spliced avocado tree. Avocado trees needs to be pollinated by another avocado tree, so I have an avocado tree that has both varieties so it can pollinate itself. Kind of like cannabis with male and female plants. I just planted them last year, and I am just starting to get limes and lemons.

Edit: I have also wanted to build a chicken coop that I can put off to the side during the growing season. Then during the winter I would like to take the same coop and build it so it can attach to my raised beds. That way the chickens can poop and feed my plants for the next season. Then place the coop back off to the side.

Ah I can only dream of Avocadoes and citrus trees. I lived in southern california for 12 years and the size of the citrus fruits are amazing!

Biosynthesis · May 16, 2013

CORN

CORN

Growing alot more corn this year. I canned 3 cases last summer and its almost gone. The Row on the Right is Peruvian Giant corn and it gets up to 18 feet. I grew it last year and kept seeds and they are doing fine acclimating. Its maize and you use it for grounding into meal. I give it to chickens and pigs. Next to it Ive got Kandy corn, Sugar Pearl and golden jubilee. Sugar pearl was best last year.

Biosynthesis · May 16, 2013

planting a few rows of corn every few weeks keeps you in corn throughout summer. Corn is a heavy nitrogen feeder and likes frequent watering to produce nicely. Also it doesnt compete well with others so periodic weeding is necessary. Lots of chicken manure and feather goes at this end. The county came through and cut trees down in my area and chipped them and gave me a dump truck of chips for the garden. Wheelbarrow loads will be coming in periodically through summer. The pile of chips sat for 3 months and it heated up pretty good for a while and has white mold and other goodies in it. A white strand like mold I suspect is some type of mushroom mycelium. This is all good stuff that goes in the garden to break down over time while adding life to the soil.

OrganicBuds · May 16, 2013

Must be organic then? Everything I grow is organic, even my lawn.

Edit: is your pig eating tomatoes? lol, I love animals. They always put a smile on my face

unregistered190 · May 16, 2013

cool thread...keep the pics coming!

ClackamasCootz · May 16, 2013

Bio

That's some of the finest pictures of a food garden ever posted on this and most other boards.

Pretty amazing on every level - I'm really, really impressed with your gardening skills!

CC

Biosynthesis · May 16, 2013

OrganicBuds said:
Must be organic then? Everything I grow is organic, even my lawn.

Edit: is your pig eating tomatoes? lol, I love animals. They always put a smile on my face

Yes all organic. Lots of, well.......shit. How manure puts out the best flavors in ganga, fruits and vegetables I'll never know. I see tests online for flavors resulting from different fertilizers and manure always wins out. Particularly steer manure. Firm believer here. Last year horse manure got added as well as the chicken. I also set up a tub with a siphon-ex sucking a tea mix out of it and mixing it into. I will show you folks how I set that up later on in the season.

Thank you everyone for stopping in and posting :tiphat:

OrganicBuds · May 16, 2013

ClackamasCootz said:
Bio

That's some of the finest pictures of a food garden ever posted on this and most other boards.

Pretty amazing on every level - I'm really, really impressed with your gardening skills!

CC

Considering the source, I would take this as a very high complement. Biosynthesis is killing it.

Biosynthesis · May 16, 2013

Yes, with your great positive attitudes it sure gears me up for a great grow season. Thanks for the positive reinforcement Clackamas and OrganicBuds!

Biosynthesis · May 16, 2013

BROCCOLI

BROCCOLI

Heres the broccoli (colobrese). Started it in the green house and transplanted last week. Lots of broccoli gets consumed here. The stuff in the supermarket isnt on the same level as the stuff you grow in your back yard and eat the same day. My cabbage didnt go from seed this year so I will have to cheat and pick up a six pack. Plan on making kraut (in a trashcan).

ClackamasCootz · May 16, 2013

Bio

The Italian broccoli Rabe (aka Rapini) is very sweet and easy to grow though that's probably not an issue for you! LOL

Pretty classic item in Italian cuisine. It's one of our favorites in the garden. Tuscan Kale is another, aka Lacinato or Black Kale.

Good stuff and it's loaded with all kinds of healthy things...

CC

OrganicLearner · May 16, 2013

I'm curious what kind of water you guys are using for the veggie gardens. I'm trying to get a veggie patch going but the water I have access to out the hose has chlorine and chloramines but I'm not really trying to go the RO route cause that would be a real hassle and take way to long to be able to water the whole yard. Is there any type of way to filter it in real time to be able to water whenever needed?

unregistered190 · May 16, 2013

Stunning pictures for sure Bio...already had to come back and look again

ClackamasCootz · May 16, 2013

OrganicLearner

I use water straight from the hose like every other gardener and farmer in the valley here. The Chlorine & even Chloramine issue is really over-stated.

The perfect storm for followers of stoner science.

CC

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