We’ve started our vegetable garden in the last week. I used my power tiller to get the 5 foot by 10 foot section of my back yard ready for planting season. Avalon planted the seeds for lettuce and peas. I started the seeds for cucumbers and carrots inside. I don’t have a big backyard, so 5 feet by 10 feet is about all I can do. We will supplement this with three rolling raised beds that we can keep on the patio. Last year, they worked great for tomatoes and red peppers.
Our ground is hard clay, so it needs plenty of topsoil. Carrots didn’t grow well in the garden because of the clay. I’m going to do carrots in the raised beds this year. We’ll do a few other plants in hanging pots on the patio. Last year, our corn and watermelon crops were duds, so we’ll concentrate on the stuff that will grow best and will get eaten.
We’re amateurs when it comes to this stuff. Our red peppers were abundant last year, but as soon as they turned red they developed a black fungus that ruined them. I think it was missing something in the soil.
I did till a new section on the side of the house that is in the shade for much of the day. Any advice on vegetables that do well in the shade would be appreciated.
I’ve decided that I will spend less time on the site at night. I turn 50 in nine days and can’t wait to get my AARP card. I can join the Senior FSA and get what’s coming to me. I will spend more time taking long walks with Avalon, working in the garden or reading books on the patio. I’ve declared it to be the summer of me.
What are you growing?
I have this really nasty fungus growing between my toes.
Does that count?
That’s funny. I’ve got a fungus growing around my thumb ring.
Way to go Admin! A productive garden is one of the easiest steps you can take toward self-sufficiency. You are taking the right attitude with it: grow what you eat, and what grows well. That will reduce the inevitable early frustrations. I love gardening, and am truly over the top with it. I currently have tomatoes, peppers, kale, corn, squash, all kinds of salad greens, spinach, strawberries, garlic, onions, potatoes, watermelon, beets, and carrots going.
Spinach and Lettuce will do well in partial shade. But even they will need at least a few hours of direct sunlight. If you garden for any length of time you will learn which way is South in a hurry! I also do succession planting: peas, lettuce, spinach early in the spring, tomatoes, peppers, and corn in the summer, and back to lettuce, spinach, and kale in the fall. Outside of Chicago, I was still harvesting Kale around thanksgiving. It is a great way to maximize limited space.
@ Stucky
Be careful of what you touch with those toes.
The same goes for Lloph.
Wouldn’t want you to get root rot!
Tucson is perfect fro growing things.
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Purslane,Its edible and grows like a weed,so maybe I wont kill it and it might make it.
And Sunchoke.Anouther weed like plant that’s edible.
I feed puslane to my chickens.Its supposed to help with putting omega -3’s in the eggs.
I just bought the seed packet from one the seed sponsors on this site. I got a great deal on a variety of different seeds. I got a raised bed and planted lettuce romaine, peppers, beans, melons, tomatoes and squash. I don’t have much experience at this but I look at it as a learning experience, I have a big backyard now and plan on getting a couple more raised beds. Wish I could get my wife more into it so she could help out. All non – GMO so hopefully will get some good tasting veggies and will probably get a juicer soon so I can throw em all in and create some veggie shakes. Yum!
I started the seeds for cucumbers and carrots inside. -admin
I see lingering in your future.
I have tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, native southern type field peas (purple hulls) and a few snow peas I coaxed through the winter. I also coaxed some artichokes through the winter but I think it was a waste of time. Too hot here.
I have lots of onions, some leeks, three of four kinds of spinach, three or four kinds of lettuce, a couple of different cabbages, some eggplant and half a dozen squash of various types. a few rutabagas. Some watermelons. The two beds I’m building this week will be for sweet potatoes.
Everything is in raised beds now. Mostly square foot style 4X4 beds, but one 4X12 wicking bed and one 7ft round keyhole garden. I have 8/10 of an acre but a lot of the back yard is septic field and can’t be used. Still, i expect to eventually be able to be almost food independent at my house in the burbs.
My new thing is planting only one type of veggie per bed…one for peas, one for greens, one for tomatoes, potatoes..but with some companion plants, too.
The worst thing is having to be around all the time . I went to Arizona for that wind power workshop, left my garden in the hands of the kids, and when i came back the garden had taken a hit. We had some very late near freezing weather last week…maybe that was it. But it looked good when I left and it didn’t when I returned.
Don’t forget fruit and nut trees are a great way to increase food production too. There are varieties of apples, hazelnuts, and chestnuts which will grow in the coldest US climates.
Jim,
I am trying square foot gardening. I have four above ground beds each 4′ x 4′. Each bed is divided into 16 squares of one square foot. You can plant 16 radishes in one square. You wait several weeks and plant another square. The idea is to have a continuous harvest all summer. I am even dedicating one bed to corn. I should be able to grow over 50 ears of corn in this small space. My homeowner’s association is sure to love me.
For the cucumbers, tomatoes and pole beans, I have a trellis in each bed 5′ tall. The plants will be trained to climb the trellis. By going up you can increase your yield. From what I have been reading you can harvest 5 times the produce of a typical garden in this same space. I am not using soil from my vard but a blend of compost, peat moss and vermiculite. This will retain the water and allow easy pulling of weeds. I placed a weed barrier under each bed to prevent the weeds from growing through.
I am even trying to grow mellons on a trellis. We will see if it holds. By building some local resiliency I feel I have more control over my life. It is a good feeling.
KaD is correct-I work with a guy who has an apple orchard-he specializes in hardy varieties. I have a few of his grafts myself, but don’t expect production for a couple more years.
Admin, I’m growing nothing this year as I was outsourced from my job last fall, but I have spent most of my life in the greenery business–plant nurseries, grounds maintenance, professional gardener–on more than one continent. It’s all been very interesting, a lifetime of boots-on-the-ground learning.
Regarding your yard, I would comment that under no circumstance should you import “topsoil” on to your property. Topsoil is a grabbag word for god know what it is or where it comes from or what kinds of invasive seeds might be within. ‘Topsoil’ is generally junk. Find some compost and use it exclusively to amend your existing soil. Compost has been cooked and should contain no unwanted hitchhiking weeds or diseases, and will improve the texture and nutrients of your existing soil. Compost is the way to go.
You will find that good growing conditions will nurture healthy plants. Plants diseases (like your bell peppers) will be reduced if the soil composition is healthy, drainage is adequate, and sunshine and air circulation are good. Clay has very poor drainage. Good soil and the right plant for the right place will create the most successful garden.
I can’t think of any veggies right off hand which will do well in the shade, maybe some kinds of leafy greens like chard, kale, spinach, or lettuces. It is quite late to be planting peas, they are generally an early spring crop. They may not do well for you now, next year put them in earlier.
But the foundation of a good garden is soil prep. Soil first, everything else after.
Marissa is growing ANONOMOUS vegetables.
lol
In our victory garden we have all the usual staples like corn, lettuce, peppers, beets, broccoli and etc. but no fungus. We also do strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, nothing better than fresh berries out of the garden! One thing that you should try if you like it is rhubarb, which is a perennial, comes up in the early spring and keeps giving all summer long til first frost.
Admin
5′ x 10′ ……..and you needed a power tiller?
I am not going to say you are a pussy. (But, I’m thinking it.)
What are you going to do when hungry people try to steal food from your garden?They will be a problem .Will you let them or are you ready to stop them using any means ?
My garden is 100′ x 30′ for the big one. About 30′ x 30′ for the small one.
The big garden is corn, watermelon, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, cantaloupe, cabbage, lettuces, brussel sprouts, and more corn.
The little garden is zucchini, yellow squash, broccoli, strawberries, cukes, beans, peas, and pumpkins.
That stuff doesn’t include the 6′ x 20′ herb garden, or the black berry and black raspberry patches, or the flower gardens (I have 3 of those). I also have a variety of fruit trees but don’t expect any fruit this year. About 4 acres are wooded and there are many nut trees around. I let the deer have them. I don’t like nuts.
I love have 9 acres of land.
Onions, beets, cabbages, broccoli, lima beans, roma beans, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, sweet corn, brussels sprouts, raspberries, strawberries, 16 chickens (for eggs only) & four beef calves. We will ‘can’ over 200 quarts of various ‘stuff’ & probably freeze & ‘dry’ another 200 lbs of ‘stuff’. We do this every year & we are just now working our way through the remaining 2011 ‘stuff’ & still have an abundance on the shelf of 2012 ‘stuff’. We believe that if necessary, we could consume solely from the ‘larder’ for approx. a year & a half. Have sufficient seed on hand for at least another season as well. Assuming water not to be a problem (we have 3 streams on the property & a home-built filtration system that works just fine) we would ‘want’ for nothing other than the sugar, flour, butter, etc. that make cooking & eating more palatable than a constant diet of veggies & meat. Have schooled ourselves in open-fire cooking using dutch ovens over the years so’s not to be totally dependent upon the utility companies should push turn to shove. And by-the-way, we have two pressure cookers…..one for cooking & a big one for ‘canning’ (sure hope the Jack-Boots don’t come knockin’ as we have none for explosives.) Boy Scout motto & all that……..besides…..its’ fun.
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Good on ya Admin, you got the spirit, but can the power tiller. Gardening is good for the body as well as the spirit.
Over the past week we just got done fencing 650′ with 6.5′ high and planting trees. Even living up near Cdn border, but outside the constitution free zone, we still found plenty of fruit varieties that should do well in zone 4-5. Put in apple, pear, apricot, plum, cherry, peach- 30 trees all told. The berries we put in last year look like they will be way productive this year. Still some nuts to go in here. Going to do all the usual veggies again this year and make pickles, sauce and kraut. Corn and wheat for grinding too. Just got a handful of chicks, but a pain keeping the fox, coyote and hawks at bay. Might have the fence just high enough to corral the deer long enough to squirt them into the freezer, but if they can’t jump it I can open the window quick enough.
A guy has to figure out how to get his overhead down enough to get out of the day to day commute and put enough time into his place to make what he needs to live on without constant influx of money. Location of your piece of heaven is a big part of it. I relocated down from Alaska last year just to make all this good food stuff happen. and get away from fukushima sea food too.
Doppled by Admin. I love it.
This is my monster tiller.
“So, you want to steal my garden vegetables, huh punk?
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Stucky has a little carrot. Now there is a surprise.
He also likes to grow vegetables that look like him: I guess he has a lot of hair growing out of his ass based on that picture.
Admin,
You might try this damata trick:
Suspend a couple of chicken wires horizontally above the tomato plants at about 18” and 36” elevations.
Train the vines through the wire and let them spread out on the wire.
I had a couple better boy plants that were over twenty feet long in Wilmington De the year I moved to the sticks 1977.
Plants produced 18 to 20 fruits each.
This scheme is from Ruth Stout, author of several good organic gardening books.
Tomatoes do very well in the Delaware valley as do gangbangers..
Have had a few bad tomato years here in North Appalachia.
However, we usually get a couple if bushels (Abbots’ milk crates) of free apples from my nearest neighbor a mile and a half down the hill.
Makes great apple pan dowdy or baked apples stuffed with dried figs.
Will pick my first rhubarb Friday and make a pineapple rhubarb cobbler for the gang at our country jam.
Keep on PREPPING!
John A – now bulldogs are fearsome. Not. They will drool you to death, maybe. This little prick here means business:
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I do not know what it is about Jack Russells – every one of the little bastards think they are the size of great danes. They are simply not afraid of anything. We have a couple of maltese – cute little dogs for women, very cheerful, – that the cats beat hell out of just because. They are bigger than the Jack by a fair bit. But the cats give the Jack a very wide berth – in fact, when he is in the house he hunts them – cats are for eating – and the cats get up on top of the refrigerator, etc., so as to get out of his reach. He is not fooling around – cats are for eating – and the cats know it. So far he has not caught one, but he sure is interested.
I second the fruit tree suggestion.
It is all about the zone. I note that most of NJ is zone 6. Research will advise you as to what grows best and when for your particular climate zone.
I live in a climate that never freezes so we have a year ’round garden. For example, lettuce is a winter crop here.
llpoh,
Jack Russells are smart dogs and athletic too. Don’t mess with this gunslinger!
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AWD – if you have an acre of arable land, with water source, and know how to grow stuff, you can come pretty close to growing all the food you need for a couple. A family might need two acres. Each human on earth is supported by around 1/3 acre of arable land – incredible, isn’t it. Just have to know how to do it.
An interesting factoid that is going to raise merry hell in the middle east – places like Egypt have extremely small amounts of arable land per head of population – something like 1/10th acree. They rely heavily on imported food. One day, countries with food producing capability (read US, Canada, Australia, Argentina, etc) are going to wield that food producing power ruthlessly. I have long said the US ace in the hole is going to be its ability to produce food on massive scale. It will require replacing meat (read cattle in particular) with grain, but it is a massive power to have for the long run.
Re fruit trees – if you have enough land, and if they can survive without being irrigated, they are a great idea. Fruit trees make little sense if you have to irrigate and water supply is restricted, as they suck up huge water resources relative to their output.
Hey Admin,
Good for you for diggin’ in the dirt! Couple of ideas…you could grow your tomatoes in straw bales (Google Straw bale gardening) and then this fall or next spring you’ll have a nice compost to till into your 5×10 bed to help amend that good ole heavy clay soil and loosen it up or fill up some raised bed boxes! You should be able to grow a couple of hundred lbs of produce in that 50SF…you’ll have to adjust your thinking a bit and get away from “row” planting but you will have good success. Couple of good books are “How to grow more vegetables” & “The vegetable gardener’s bible.” I 2nd the fruit and nut tree suggestions as well…Lowe’s carries some dwarf fruit varieties fyi. or check out Stark Bothers. One more suggestion, google “no dig potatoes” and watch the youtube video of the old aussie guy…we’ve had great success growing potatoes this way and again, it leaves great compost for the garden. Buy yourself a canner and then preserve a lot of your produce thru the winter months until you’re ready to plant next spring…ahhh, you gotta love the good side of a 4th turning!
Very interesting comments again. My sister is a permaculture expert self taught from all these urban organic groups. Again a little out there at times but the typical American yard could be put to so much better use. The issue on raised beds is the used of pressure treated lumber. I think if you cover and space your stuff you should be fine. If there is a better and cheaper way to get cedar wood great but I am in Ohio so I would have to import from the western state. Great Ideas as I have ripped out a weed infested crappy back lawn. I do have groundhogs to contend with and other wildlife but an electric fence could be an answer as I have electricity to my back yard. Be on this ASAP as time is wasting. Thanks for the Ideas. Like the idea of fruit trees in addition to a gardening spaces. Raised beds can be done and get compost! Yes most topsoil is junk that will weed up very easily. Should have lots of worms too as they love that stuff and their castings(crap) does wonders. Sold for high prices. Make your own. Good luck to everyone.
i had my fling with tomatoes and peppers a couple of years ago, I used several 5 gal pails from HD.
I got more sun spots than I care to count. the tomatoes were good from a run of the mill big boy plant, the fancy types including a mortgage lifter were no shows, all plant no fruit. this year like last year I am simply allowing my cactus to spread naturally, my neighbors have lawn, I have cactus on both sides of the front yard. ( also have oleander, mock orange, butterfly bush and crepe laurel so the cactus doesn’t stick out too much.) I love cactus leaves and they are reportedly good for you. an old couple walking by asked me for a cutting, i gave them a three leaf piece so they could bury half of it. my mom said theat back in ‘el sur’ when hunger struck the city, city folk went out to the villages to gather cactus leaves, as time went on, they had to go farther out into the desert.
Oh, and on the issue of your peppers, forgot to mention, sounds like you may have had blossom end rot…easy fix. Just place straw around the base of the plants and that should fix the problem…don’t know what it is about straw but it seems to be one of those agricultural fix-alls!
Here in the mountains we had to build tiers to have a garden.
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Here is an aerial shot from a few years back. I have added several more tiers. If you like asparagus, I recommend growing some. It is low maintenance, expensive to buy, and it comes back year after year.
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Straw will do nothing to cure blossom end rot? try adding some Epsomsalt..
http://twinoaksonline.com/Epsom_Salt.html
” try adding some Epsomsalt..”
Also watch too much nitrogen. Even with the proper amount of calcium in the soil, high nitrogen can induce blossom end rot.
“…do not know what it is about Jack Russells – every one of the little bastards think they are the size of great danes. They are simply not afraid of anything.”
llpoh – you just described terriers in general. If you think Jack Russells are fearless, you should see a pit bull getting after a raccoon or a badger. We had a badger decimate the chicken house and kill many of our hens. It came back and our two pit bulls literally ripped it to shreds. It is a fearsome thing to witness these powerful dogs doing what they were bred to do. Scared of nothing, including people with bad intent. Payback is a bitch.
Funny how this thread of veggies turned to porn.
Grow em while you can, I see the EU is trying to outlaw backyard gardens without their approval and paying a fee.
Potatoes, onions, lots of tomatoes, radishes, peas, carrots, lettuce, cabbage, acorn and summer squash, zucchini, corn, raspberries, asparagas (my favorite), green beans, pumpkins, cucumbers.
And all this for one guy. I must be one sick dude.
EF
Oh yeah, lots of peppers, green, red and jalapeno.
EF
You can grow great potatoes in sawdust use the stuff to keep carrots in a root cellar.
Admin may eventually want to take up canning some of the excess product that can be canned.
that is, after he registers his pressure cooker with the BATFE.
For the first time ever I am going to see what I can grow from last years crop. I followed some directions and will plant seeds from last years harvest. Nothing is coming from an evelope.
Potatoes, tomatoes, beans, peppers, onions, and corn. I get about 50 lbs of blackberries from the trees and I should ( fucking better ) get a bushel of strawberries as a late frost last year killed every berry.
Admin,
Another thing for your consideration:
You say you have clay. I’ve had good results unsticking clay soil by adding sand. 100 lbs for your 5×10 will do wonders. Turn it under a shovel depth, wack the clods, then turn under your humus/compost and stand back.
Good job admin! I’ve cut back from 1100 sq ft to 400 due to age. Tomatoes, all sorts of hot and sweet peppers, a row of green beans and some hills of squash and cucumbers. In the other areas, around the gazebo, winter squash and in permanent borders not attached to the house, swiss chard and lettuces.
I’m utilizing areas that are usually planted with annuals so that I don’t have to strain myself.
The herb garden is a long time permanent one and producing beautifully year after year.
You might think about putting one in at your place. Beautiful, productive, and not a lot of work once established.
We also have apples, plums, grapes, peach, necterines, and blueberries.
Whoever buys our place will get a nice piece of property that will grow whatever they want to grow.
I read this over RSS and meant to come and comment that night, but was so exhausted from multiple days of working myself past tired – in my yard and gardens – I tucked my wee one in and fell asleep right beside her. Then totally forgot yesterday!
I’m doing my normal (I have two raised beds and other areas around the yard I use for food), greens, peppers, tomatoes, trying my hand at sweet peas this year, huge herbage and lots of leafy stuff. I’m also attempting to grow quinua, which is a protein laden grain, I hope it grows though it comes from a much different clime, so I’ll find out in a few month.
I learned something new this week, if you eat the leaves or stems (celery, lettuce, spinach) partial sun to partial shade is fine (especially in hotter climes), if you eat the fruit or the root it needs full sun.
So, in honor of common sense, I tore out a chunk of my perennials (hostas and coral bells, really just relocated them) and am trying to grow lettuce and celery there. We’ll see how it works. Although, I know my basil loves the partial shade side of the house, so I bet my lettuces grows better than over on the sunny side.
One thing about tomatoes I learned from my Italian friends (and the Godfather), if you go through a streak of hot, hot, sunny weather, stake white linen/cotton a few feet above your tomatoes and peppers. It reflects back the sun while not hampering water, necessary sunlight or airflow. I used this last summer and my plants produced a lot more than the previous summer.
As a side note, you don’t need a pressure cooker to can pickles or tomatoes or anything high in acid. Of course if you (like me) subscribe to the belief that if it didn’t kill my ancestors (and I’m here as proof it did not), then it probably won’t kill me, so I use the hot water bath method for lots of things that today’s experts tell me not to.
And for peppers, both hot and mild, I’ve discovered the best way to keep them, I wash them, dry thoroughly, then cut into thin strips and freeze them. I portion them out and put into sandwich bags, then put multiple sandwich bags into a gallon freezer bag.
They remain shockingly fresh tasting (though a little watery) and for cooking work as well (or better) than fresh. The only problem is if the grid goes down I lose my peppers, ah well, can’t have it all.
Just back from a week at my farm, getting 750 cherry trees in the ground. Like ToF and Miss Ann Thrope, I cultivate a few other acres for the gardens. But we sell a lot of vegetables as well as put up enough food for 10 people for at least a year.
This year: onions, basil, cilantro, dill, fennel, rosemary, oregano, thyme, asparagus, rhubarb, green beans, peas, beets, carrots, garlic, leeks, potatoes, shallots, paste tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, various lettuces, turnips, red & green cabbage, mixed hot peppers, red/yellow/green sweet peppers, banana peppers, jalapenos, eggplant, broccoli, cauliflower, rutabaga, butternut squash, spaghetti squash, zucchini, pie pumpkins, radishes, ground cherry, tomatillo, parsnips, quinoa, popcorn, sweet corn and cucumbers. Oh, and sunflowers for the birds.
I’m sure I’m forgetting something, but that covers most of it. I do some wheat and flaxseed for baking, but not enough to sell.
With a new well and the irrigation ponds restored after the winter, the doomstead is coming along well. Next year, will expand the raspberry, grape, plum, pear and other fruit plantings.