2012 Garden

[sam03]

This is my first garden so i have tons to learn. I'm very open to ideas and feedback. I have been reading and watching everything i can find abt backyard garden the last couple of months and have really enjoyed the Garden thread on here. Anyways i finally got around to planting this past weekend. I have worked a 20' x 60' area for the last 6 months and was excited about planting it. I got my seedlings from a couple different places. After buying most of them at the feed store and lowes i found that Walmart carries the same brand and actually has a really good selection and for a quarter of the price i was paying. Hopefully next year i will have time to start from seed if not i will definitely be buying all my plants from Walmart.

Plant List
12 tomatoes
12 cucumbers
12 squash
12 Sting Beans
24 dozen okras
24 zucchini
6 egg plant
2 green peppers
2 red peppers
6 rolls of corn
potatoes

Pre-planting


Seedling in the ground.




I fenced it after planting everything to keep the dogs and slow the wild life from helping them selves. I have already seen some squirrel check out the area. I bought some cheap smelly soak to hang around the fence to see if it helps at least stop the deer.

[Iluv2hunt]

Get a bag of milorganite and spread a band around the perimeter of the garden. It is what we use on our food plots to keep deer off temporarily. Also you can make a simple scare crow. Just need 2 pieces of scrap 1x2. make a cross out of it and put an old t shirt on it. Use a milk jug to make a head, paint a smiley face on it, and glue an old hat on it. Works like a champ

[bodysnatcher]

Looking good sam. I'm still trying to talk my wife into letting my till under the backyard. That would give me a area about 20x50.

[sam03]

Thanks guys. I will get some of the milorganite and work on a scare crow.

[sam03]

The corn and sunflowers came up and are growing well! I had something come through and eat the eggplant so i need to replace them and hope they dont come back.

[Iluv2hunt]

May be rabbits. I had one hanging out in my yard last week nipping at my lettuce. He now resides in a Ziploc in my freezer

[Triple Creek Reaper]

May be rabbits. I had one hanging out in my yard last week nipping at my lettuce. He now resides in a Ziploc in my freezer

I had some squirrels digging in mine, I was just about to do something when lo and behold the next door neighbor gave his son a new pellet gun. Next thing I know there are a couple of new pelts laying out beside their fire pit. Problem solved.

[sam03]

I'm going to put the game camera out there tonight and see what i can catch. I haven't actually seen anything in there...or they would also be chilling in a ziploc.

[deutze]

I have 2 cherry tomato's in topsy/turvey planters and 2 potted bush beans inside my pool cage 1 cherry and 1 beefsteak mater, 1 bell pepper,1 cowhorn tobasco pepper and 3 bush beans outside. cowhorns, cherry's and beans are producing enough for just the wife and me and make a nice cold three bean salad. throw in whatever vegies I have and a can of kidney/black or garbanzo beans and marinate in real mojo. EZPZ and good for you, tastes good is a +.

[sam03]

Everything seems to be growing well.

[Iluv2hunt]

We went about 5 months with no rain. Then last week we got 4.75 inches in a short period of time. Decimated all my squash. I mean just beat them into the ground

[Triple Creek Reaper]

We went about 5 months with no rain. Then last week we got 4.75 inches in a short period of time. Decimated all my squash. I mean just beat them into the ground

Same thing here, I have already pulled my squash and turnips out of the ground, tilled it up and replanted those areas with okra and snap beans

[Iluv2hunt]

Somehow my cukes survived it and are flourishing well and producing

[sam03]

Starting to flower and grow.

[bodysnatcher]

Looking great.