Post your 2017 gardens

This year I have 14 acres to play around with.

Hitting it up with

Moon and star melons
buncha herbs
strawberry corn
pumpkins
standard tomatoes and Zucchini
turkish eggplant
scorpion peppers
random boring peppers
and more!
 
Bush pickle cucumbers are in. Covered them the first couple days. Took it off today.

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Eagle beans are in.


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Kale is doing well and it's delicious.


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Carrots are coming along in their containers. Tomatoes are doing well but still coming in at night. Started zucchini seeds inside already. Green peppers are coming along but so dang slow.



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This will be our first year in NC to have a garden. And we're running by late. We've got most everything started in the house and I have 3 beds together in the fenced backyard.
I've got 4 days off come Thursday , so it will be a back breaking push to get 7 more in and a sweet potato patch in.
I did just meet a couple local kids wanting to make some cash.
Hope to hire them out for the heavy work .

Are yall having to put in water systems? Or does it rain enough thru the summer to keep up?

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Are yall having to put in water systems? Or does it rain enough thru the summer to keep up?

I would plan to water somehow. First part of season is not bad but never consistent but end of july -august can get hot and dry depending on the year.
 
For water, all my raised beds and my containers are wicking beds. It holds water in the bottom that wicks up into the dirt. For the big garden we water it when necessary. Usually use a fan sprinkler.
 
Made a mess of it on my end. I'll try to get pictures of what the wife did at the house though, for now this is what you get.

Going to be popcorn when I get it all worked out. That field hasn't been touched in years, and it nothing but good Carolina clay.

It is a start.



 
Hard to believe the after pic is the same yard. Looks good.


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What do you do to keep deer and rabbits from helping themselves?


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I might have an issue with the cottontails, there's a spot under the gate they ditched under when I've caught them in there. Got some pavers laid in the hole now, Should hold them out. The rest of this area is wooden Fenced to 6' ... If I catch a deer back there, well, I'll just have to invite it to dinner.
 
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In the past I used marigolds to keep rabbits out of my large garden at my last house. Worked pretty well.


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Excellent, my wife had planted marigolds in the beds too I never heard of that before.
 
backwoodsshooter said:
I did my second to last till today.

Tomorrow is my final till and then I am putting stuff in the ground.

Then gotta put up some fencing to keep my chickens out
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I've heard of free ranging chickens in a garden to fertilize and eat the bugs, just don't know about them scratching up plants and eating them.
 
Chickens will scratch up everything and will also peck on tomatoes and other vegetables. Guineas will graze on bugs and weed seeds but do not scratch like chickens.
 
Mountain man said:
I've heard of free ranging chickens in a garden to fertilize and eat the bugs, just don't know about them scratching up plants and eating them.
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THis is techinally the first year I have had a garden with free range chickens. I didn't do one last year so they could scratch up the area and poo everywhere to help fertilize.

Now I look outside and wonder how I am going to keep them out., I have an idea that should work but not 100% sure
 
Put in a few more cukes to replace the dead ones. Cold got some, got a little heavy on the fertilizer and killed a couple more. Started some squash and sunflowers from seed in a little plastic tote I'm using for a mini greenhouse.
 
Mirac said:
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Yeah. It's over knee high. Much bigger and it will start getting too tough. I over seeded it planning on tilling it under. Then tried some and we love it. Just can't eat that much. I'll plan better next go around. Been giving it away by the grocery bag.


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Squirrels keep getting into my greens and herb beds. The beans are great, I've got enough cukes and the squash and zucchini are up.

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And now I have to deal w this asshole n it's mate.

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They make a pot big enough for those aholes... * grin

Looking good.
I'll get some pics of mine tomorrow when it's light out.
 
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Ok, more like a couple days to get up some pics :confused:

Here's my Wife's herb garden. I found an old crate at work with some good 1x6 pine, so I built these to get the herbs at eye level. My Wife HATES snakes, so the cleaner/ open the better.

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Most of the stuff survived. A few couldn't handle the heat of the First weekend. We need to make a run to Lowes for some replacements soon.

Watermelon... And an onion or two from the compost heap I tilled in.
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Tomatoes .
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Peppers, beans, peas, cucumbers
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Photo bucket is really goofing up right now, it chopped half the picture off..
Should be Strawberry, zucchini , squash, carrots, spinich, lettuce, onion.

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I gave up on the herbs and lettuce in the raised beds and put them in planter boxes on the deck to hopefully keep the squirrels at bay. I also planted some marigolds in the raised beds.




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Good looking gardens so far. Got mine in and planted today.

What are you all doing for the cucumbers to climb in raised beds? Looking for ideas so they do not take over and be one big mound like years past.
 
Jp8819 said:
Good looking gardens so far. Got mine in and planted today.

What are you all doing for the cucumbers to climb in raised beds? Looking for ideas so they do not take over and be one big mound like years past.
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See my first pic way up stream. I made tomato cages and use those. However, I planted bush pickles this year and took them off when I realized they are a low ground cover pickle. Going to plant our usually cukes in the other garden and I will use the cages for them.
 
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This is before I started. Pulled out the grass, tilled it and added 2 bags of Black Kow manure in each square of the two large beds, and 1 bag in each of the two smaller ones.




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And here it is after all the bamboo poles are in place and it's planted. Roma & Sweet Million tomatoes, "Big Bertha" Bell Peppers, and Burpee hybrid cucumbers.
 
First carrot harvest was less than stellar so we made soup.

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