road side

beauty beside the road

road sind by the stratch patch

from momb's window

helping to keep the humming birds happy

time to stop and sniff #1

out the window

bucket list LOL

Have been harvesting cucumbers from the pool for the last week and getting ready to make some pickles

I have grape sized maters in the other pool looks like I may get a BUNCH if the blooms are any indication

okra plants doing good (far right ) and the maters are getting tied to the grading behind them got a lot of base ball sized green on them

peppers are doing good and have 3 more to get planted in buckets soon ( been to darned hot)
hope to get them in good dirt soon
Blessings All
Bear

small harvest but it's fresh

Picked the peas, it is getting to hot for them so cleaned out the bed and put the buckets with the maters in them with one bed getting the okra plants will be interesting to see how thay do in a shallow bed


looking forward to a good harvest

first mater for the season hope to get a bunch more for salsa

last of the squash till fall(to darned hot) and having a problem with blosum end rot so we will play with the dirt and see if that helps this fall

pea time

Blooms on the vines

We got peas in the pod
Pods are just showing a little filling

When plants started up I tied strings to top of grid and draped them down,

then used Popsicle / craft sticks to hold down the ends in the dirt.
So far the strings seem to be staying in place, time will tell.

Got greens ??

So far this has been an excellent try at growing things with minimal dirt.

The watering system is NOT working the way I had intended it to how ever I believe with a tad more pressure it will work better, so next time I'll set it higher up for a stronger gravity flow.

The lettuce did better than I expected and with a bit of rethinking and a small greenhouse could be doable all year long.

"Yeller" squash is doing real well also I will however set up a bit of shade for them next year and with an improved watering system I expect them to really produce.




We have been wondering if we are to close to Oak Ridge (the nuke plant)

gots squash

First harvest



We have a ton of blooms hoping to get a mess this weekend


going to cook them up with a bunch of vidalia onions

hope to have maters in about a week

update

OK after a lonnnnng absence I am updating this

I had some trouble in the transplanting of the started seeds thy ( failed to thrive ) for some reason I am trying something different this time so we will see how thy do

We have squash growing good and I have already had a mess of greens

the watering system is not working as i had hoped so later I'll try setting it up differently

right now for the tomatoes I am using direct water and some sand filled spikes that use a 2 Ltr. bottle

I moved the started Pete pellets directly in to bigger pots and returned them to the plastic shelter and am going to hit them with some fertiliser

Chrissy likes the garden BUT only at night. This is Her coming to get me back in during the heat of the day. well as the Indians say " only Mad doge and English men go out in the noonday sun

Soom of the plants in the kiddy pool

part of the 9 pack of tomaters from a local grocery

Cucumbers in the other pool



Aftre all this is the volinter state ( come up from last year )

watering system

Ok got squash up again!


I set up a second set of 1/2 barrels and expanded the water line.


This is a shot of the full set up chair in background is holding a 15 Gal. barrel that on it's side will hold about 12.
Iwill start using a miracle gro feed as soon as I can get the drip rate calabrated.


The barrel feeds directly to the dripers with a flow rate control valve (salvaged from a pool chlorinator)slowing down the flow rate.


This is a close up of the valve in the shut position will try different settings to see if I can keep things wet with out soaking them and hopefully feed them with sone fertilizer at the same time

latest and greatest

OK this is the first container garden (ever) chives survived the horse radish didn't

This is what happens when you get in a hurry to move squash outside to early,

didn't work to well.

I was blessed with some hose taps that plug directly in to the hose

The ball on the end is lead and holds the tap in the pot .

The taps are inserted in to a hole bored with an icepick and seal as the black plastic shrinks back down from the stretching caused by the pick.

I decided on using 2 taps to a bucket /15Gal. split long wise with a 1/4 inch drain hole drilled on end, this is set in front of a grill.

The 1/2 barrels are scotched with a 2x4 screwed down with deck screws.

This is the first 1/2 of a 4 planter set up.

The grid runs along the back(south)end of the house and will have the watering system installed directly above the planters.

I intend to feed the water system with a miracle grow solution on a continuous drip or may be a cyclic pattern.

quick shot of the buckes I am getting ready to receive the transplanted tomato starts.

work table full of junk LOL for now may be location of the feed tank will think about it later.

wating for the sun to get a little lower (cooler) and will try and get second set of !/2 barels finished.

Blessings Bear.