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I didn't see a general thread to post pics of our gardens.

This was the first year I have ever had my own garden! I am hoping the deer don't decide it's their garden.



I am growing a few varieties of lettuce, spinach, arugula, peppers, bok choy, kale, strawberries, rosemary, catnip, lemon balm, chamomile, sage, thyme, parsley, basil, cilantro, and dill. Maybe I forgot a few things. I have no idea what I am doing and just hoping for the best.

I am putting up bird netting tomorrow.

Cute! Raised beds are the best, too---a lot of things grow like magic in them.

And you grew a baby.

My garden for my alternative agriculture class!

Front to back:
Nasturdium (not quite yet there)
Arugala (behbes)
Carrots
Onions
Turnips
Lettuces (Butter and a Red)
Broccoli and Cauliflower
Itty bitty lettuces (romaine and red)
Basil (just planted)
Green beans in the middle, caged
On either side pepper plants (bell)
Back left is a patch of flax (needs to be thinned)
Backer left are potatoes, with more to the right of the flax
Back right are sugar snap peas!
Very back are baby sunflowers!

We still need to plant tomatoes, calendula, dill, cilantro, and maybe some squash if we have the room!

Peas!, some chamomile and pepper in the back ground:

garden 7 by jewbacca2011, on Flickr


garden 6 by jewbacca2011, on Flickr
Red cabbage, tat soi, lettuce, chard, beets, etc.

Check out my giant bush-(heh-heh)


garden 4 by jewbacca2011, on Flickr
chamomile! this grows wild EVERYWHERE.

Iris season is about over, then there's lilly, Mexican Sunflower, and zinnias:

garden 3 by jewbacca2011, on Flickr

My sun scorched container pineapple. I grew this from a pineapple top btw....

Garden 2 by jewbacca2011, on Flickr

i can't post pix of my own garden because we abandoned it this year due to the impending move....
but in the interest of porn, i dug through my old photos from my first visit to Brazil to show you:

pinies in my uncle's garden!! surrounded by bitter melon/goya/nigauri

By torquevegan at 2012-05-08

baby pinies i saw at a garden show! they are the size of walnuts.

By torquevegan at 2012-05-08

my uncle's garden, which i aspire to some day. sugar cane, 7 types of citrus, bananas, sweet potatoes, yams, corn, collards, lots of herbs, peppers, okra, several types of greens to be eaten raw.....

By torquevegan at 2012-05-08

By torquevegan at 2012-05-08

and just cuz she's so cuuuuuute, a 6yo FishyChips grinding coffee that grew there, that we harvested, roasted, and then ground, and then drank (holy forking caffeine levels off the chart, but damn good)

By torquevegan at 2012-05-08

gardening in brazil is about 80% of the reason why we moved here.

Baby pineapples!!!!

And now I want to move to Brazil... Except probably more on the order of Chile or Costa Rica because I don't speak Portuguese...

I'm in love with the brazil garden <3 We can only grow so much here because there's such a short warm season. But you guys can grow everything! waaaah. Not fair.

I love the pineapples! My mom grew one when I was younger. It never had any babies tho.

I did just get a banana tree. Its growing really nice and seems happy! I love the big leaves.

Bigger and happier! This picture doesn't show the potatoes or peas that have gone NUTS in the back. Ants are really going after the arugala, which is pissing me off a lot.

Seedlings! This is as far as we have gotten so far.

BabyFishyChips is the cutest little person!

greens by jewbacca2011, on Flickr
Second or third harvest of greens already!

PEAS!!!

peas by jewbacca2011, on Flickr

I also harvested some candy stripe beets today. They are so awesome looking and taste like sugar.

Herbs, two basil pots, dill, parsley, oregano, rosemary, and cilantro

And here is the garden!



I've got a ton of stuff in here. We did square foot gardening and I'm not sure if we did it wrong or if the book was wrong. But the pumpkin is taking over!

I took pictures! Finally!

Here's the patio I'm layin', it's obviously not finished!


Ginny Weasley and a cool lavender


A new little indoor plant I've got goin', don't know the name.


Tomatillos


Cute marigolds


Some kind of pumpkin


One of my three hellebores and a salad burnett


I've got two blueberries


My front patio, Rosemary, Satureja, Lemongrass


Lemon Verbeena, Echinacea, and Sarracenia


Baby Gingko!

Baby ginkgo! So perfect. I wish I had a little pumpkin pup too.

This is awesome. I wish I had a yard to plant a tiny garden.

I know want to move to Brazil so I can grow stuff. Until then I need to put up with my constantly soaking wet Irish bog garden.

okay let's see if I finally figured out how to post pictures that are the right size....

over crowded garden boxes:



spicy stuff:



still spiky:



full grown cuke:



squash:



swiss chard:



my poor eaten kale:

I have some space to do gardening now so I've taken a million (40) cuttings and made a little house for them out of an old fish tank. Hopefully some of them actually grow.

Here is the temporary home I've made for my little hydroponic herbs.



And a little garden friend.

aaaaaaaah kamakiri!!!! mantis!!!! my favorite. that hydro setup looks sweet.

Green manure! Going nuts.

what is it? i just threw some extra peas i had into an inactive bed, haven't found anything good to be easily available here (so far)