This has been a good year for the garden. Here is the progress to date

Yeah they are small – but it’s still cool to have ripe tomatos by the 4th.



Lettuce always does well here.



Looks like another banner year for blueberries






Walla Walla Sweets



Knee High by the Fourth of July



Yum





Jack and the beanstalk




Beets



Zuchinni


Sunflower

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I'm comin' over.

No really. He is!

He's the only guy I've seen literally back his truck up to Stam's garden and start HARVESTING!

Looks good Vedder - wish I had the land and patience to grow a veggie garden.

Yeah, you really don't want me loose around your garden..........unless you're trying to make it go away.

I'm with Dan, I was not able to put in my tomato plants this year so will be on the lookout for "surplus" tomato's.


Fishy

I'm afraid you might regret filling me in on your travel plans.

I will send you my plans too Dan. you may as well make a circuit!

I planted my first corn crop during that early warm stretch in mid April. The corn in the photo is the second planting. The first is tasseled out and should be ripe in early August. If so it will be my earliest ever. I usually plant corn three time about three weeks apart. I often have corn ripe clear up until August.

I usually wait until June 1 to plant corn. Knee high now. Ive planted it earlier and it seems to always be the same height by July. Maybe I should re think that. Never did it as early as April. Raspberries are peaking now, but my patch is 25 years old and past its prime. Root gall means i need to pull it all out and wait a few years to replant. Going to miss that. Artichokes are about done. Peaches coming along nicely. Blueberries are half assed as usual. Some good, some wilted and diseased. Plums looking good, pears having a good year so far. Vegies are the wifes job, looking good. Oysters and steamer clams ready at the beach place. Just need some fresh king salmon and Im ready for some good summer chow for a few months.

Pig roast again in August, looking forward to that...

Dave,

I'm doing a smaller hobby garden for the first time. Really nothing more than a 4 x 8 box made of 2 x 12's. I got a question for you about your onions, Walla Walla sweets in particular.

I planted mine, along with green onions and chives May 5 and though sprouted, they aren't more than about 4" tall at this point.....yours in the pic look a foot or more and way more mature. I planted seeds in rows and recently thinned em' a bit per the directions.

Any tips you or Stam could offer? Am I going about anything wrong?

My carrots and Romaine lettuce are doing great...all planted May 5th.

Everything has been watered regularly and even a bit of plant food added here and there.

I have never had much luck growing onions from seeds. If you want to go with seeds I believe you should be thinking of planting in Feb. indoods

I buy onion plants from Dixondale farms in Texas. Onion sets are okay but I never had much luck with them either.

Good luck.

Thanks. Kinda what I suspected.

What is the difference between an onion set and the "plants" you use?

Isn't a set a small bulb?

Yes you are right a set is a small bulb. As I understand it they grow sets from seeds and hope that they are about the size of a marble come frost time.Then the next spring you plant the small bulb and hope it will continue growing into a full sized onion.

Stam has nailed it. All I would add is the Ailsa Craig is also a very poor keeper. But it is sweet and every bit as good as the Walla Walla Sweets. When buying onion seeds or plants you need to know which varieties work best here. There are long day varieties, medium day varieties and short day varieties. Go here to see which ones work best in our area - http://www.dixondalefarms.com/ Hint we need long day varieties.

This is an Ailsa I grew a few years back.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Grow-Onions-from-Discarded-Onion-Bottoms/

This works fantastically well, and you only need a couple onions to start out...I've got a couple dozen growing like crazy around my garden right now, and when I harvest them I'll cut the bottom 1/4" off and plant them right back where they came from.

Our blueberries are on their first season and have done surprisingly well for little plants.

The peas are five feet tall and covered with both peas and blossoms right now...the beans sucked, they're only a foot tall and are blooming already.

Mixed success with the squashes and zuchinnis...we'll see how they do.

Carrots and kale are also looking great, chard is mixed.

Lettuces, both grown from seeds and volunteers nabbed from Vedder's garden, are kicking ass...we've got at least five different varieties and they are going to keep us busy this summer and fall.

Potatos are just breaking the surface now.

Chives and strawberries are growing like crazy, but the damned birds keep eating our strawberries...just put netting over them yesterday so hopefully that's the end of that problem.

Dave, the dahlia bulbs are now foot tall plants that grow about an inch a day in this weather...looking great!

Fish on...

Todd

This is a great thread. Lot's of useful info.




Stam,

This interests me. What month would be the time to plant the seeds indoor for the following year? Just in a flower pot near a window?

Todd,

Great link about the onion bottoms! Thanks.

Whooooo Hooooooo Crab Louies for All!!

Just for fun we let a bucket of Volunteers from our compost grow. We suspect these are mostly Sun Gold, but who knows.

it's fun to let volunteers grow. I usually have tons of volunteer lettuce every year as well as volunteer gourds.

Nothing really picture worthy as of yet, but the 'mater plants were sure happy we brought them home some shad.




Tyler