• My Vegetable Garden
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I've been wanting to make this thread for a while, and since today was a nice day for once, I took some pictures and decided to write. This is my third year planting a vegetable garden. I always look forward to having fresh foods and having another excuse to get outside and do something. Since here (Western Washington) it isn't warm enough to start plating outside (except carrots) so I planted stuff inside today. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6kL2il.jpg[/IMG] Here are my two outdoor garden boxes [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vOl7Zl.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AAryZl.jpg[/IMG] What should I plant this year? I already have planted: Carrots Cilantro Habanero Peppers Cucumbers Tomato Sugar Snap Peas And I have some perennials: 2 Chives 3 strawberry plants: [img]http://i.imgur.com/RLJBpl.jpg[/img]
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Wow, that is really cool. I'm trying to get my mother to plant some veggies for this summer, but our garden is out on the side of our yard where it isn't fenced in. Occasionally deer and rabbits roam into our cul-de-sac and eat our plants and the leaves off our small plants in the flower garden on the other side of the house. Those garden boxes are pretty sweet too, how much did it cost to make something like that? We could really use a cage of some sort to ward off the thieves in the neighborhood.
I like your outdoor boxes a lot. What are they made from? Redwood? Do you have any tips for making planting boxes like that? I just moved to a new house, and the soil in the yard is horrible. Full of rocks and broken concrete.
I planted about 25 watermelon seeds in a manure pile/dirt pile and forgot about them, came back at the end of sumer and found them about 2x bigger than store bought watermelons, I suggest you get some. :)
I planted some watermelon seeds outside, and a few in an inside pot for no reason. It became VERY cold the next day and they all froze. 4 days later the watermelons in the pot inside started growing. I then transported them outside, and they are growing very well. I also got a cactus, but I don't know how big it should be when I plant it.
I had a cactus and learned that as soon as you plant it outside, it almost instantly dies...
[QUOTE=analrapist;29469262]I like your outdoor boxes a lot. What are they made from? Redwood? Do you have any tips for making planting boxes like that? I just moved to a new house, and the soil in the yard is horrible. Full of rocks and broken concrete.[/QUOTE] I don't remember what they're made from, i think the treated wood is redwood. The larger 2x8's are untreated, but have held out for about 3 years. they were the cheapest way to make a box of that size. I don't use any of my own dirt. There are much better ways to get good soil. What I did for each box when i first built them is to get (I'm not sure what it's called, but its sold near farms sometimes and is basically just regular dirt and cow manure mixed.) The small box has a cubic yard and the large one has 2 (along with large rocks from my property to take up space near the bottom, where nothing will be growing. I also topped it off with some potting soil that costco sells every spring. [editline]27th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Pirate Jok3r;29458207]Wow, that is really cool. I'm trying to get my mother to plant some veggies for this summer, but our garden is out on the side of our yard where it isn't fenced in. Occasionally deer and rabbits roam into our cul-de-sac and eat our plants and the leaves off our small plants in the flower garden on the other side of the house. Those garden boxes are pretty sweet too, how much did it cost to make something like that? We could really use a cage of some sort to ward off the thieves in the neighborhood.[/QUOTE] The small box was around 30? Larger one was about 50. Can get a lot cheaper if you have the ability to reuse wood.
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