Tim's Garden Photos
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Jon's huge 30lb cabbage.
Grown in the summer of 2008, Jon took care of this cabbage from the time it was a little tiny plant until it matured later in the summer.
Jon was given this cabbage by Bonnie Plants as part of a 3rd grade project they are conducting nation wide. Jon won for the State of Indiana in 2008.
Check out the program at the Bonnie Plants website: http://www.bonnieplants.com/
When we planted this thing we had no idea how large it was really going to get.
This Giant Sunflower grew to about 8 foot tall and at the base of the stem it was about 4 inches around!
The seeds were purchased at WAL-MART and are the Giant Greystripe Variety.
We only planted one of these in the summer of 2008 and unfortunatly did not get very good pictures of the actual head of it. But I can tell you that it was huge!
We plan on planting more of these this year and the boys are excited to get the seeds in the ground.
My poor red acre cabbage suffered last year with some bug problems. This picture was taken after I was in the hosplital and could not take care of them anymore. I am planting a whole bunch of these again this year with hopes of better luck.
Just about every available space in my side and backyards, I have something planted.
Here you see down the side of the house. There are cucumbers planted all down the side.
Also pictured is the giant sunflower, look how big those leaves are! I also have morning glories planted to give some color to the garden.
Last summer it was rather dry and with being in the hospital, things were looking a little dry around my garden.
Green Bell Peppers!
My plants didn't produce that many Bell Peppers in 2008.
I will be planting the traditional Bell Pepper along with some Purple Bell Peppers and some assorted color Mini Bell Peppers this 2009 growing season.
Little Cherry Tomatoes
We had two of these plants and they produced a bunch of little cherry tomatoes.
Located close to our side walk, we would walk by and pick one or two to eat at random!
These little things are great for salads as well.
This year (2009), we are planting more of these and some Jelly Bean variety. We are also planting a Large Red Cherry Tomato which will get a little bigger than the Small Cherry Tomato.
Sweet Banana Peppers!
My plants produced a bunch of peppers.
I will be planting these again this year (2009) along with Habanero, Cayenne, Serrano Chili, Cubanelle and Jalapeno Peppers.
Carrots!
We planted a few of these for the first time and they did rather well.
These carrots did not mature until I was in the hospital and I didn't really get to enjoy eating any of them.
This year (2009) we are planting the "Baby" Carrots and actually have already planted them at the time of this writting. They have already sprouted and we are exited to try some of them! Hope they turn out good!
Wild Flowers!
Our backyard has been an ongoing project since we bought the place a few years ago. We are in the middle of trying to landscape it so it will look good as well as produce a nice garden.
The flowers are a nice addition to the yard as the garden veggies don't look the greatest for landscaping purposes.
Our house is in the middle of town and our fenced in backyard is not all that large so we are trying to utilize the space and get as much garden and flowers in as we can.
Our hopes this summer are to try to do a little more to the backyard to spruce it up a bit as long as the money allows.
Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans!
Being that our backyard is already fenced, I thought it to be useful to plant pole beans down each side of the yard. This proved to produce a bunch of green beans for us.
The plants that are pictured here don't look the best but this was late summer and it was dry. It also did not help that I was in the hospital and could not take care of them.
My neighbor was so kind as to pick my beans and even can them for me while I was in the hospital and so it was that we enjoyed green beans all winter!
I chose the Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean variety because they seem to grow well in our area and they taste great!
Infant Big Boy Tomato!
Here is a nice Big Boy Tomato. It has some growing to do but is looking pretty healthy.
These "Big Boy" tomatoes along with our "Early Girl" variety produced some real great tasting tomatoes.
We gave a lot of tomatoes away last year because we could not eat them all! We are planning on even more this year with about 6 different varieties.
Cucumbers!
Well, the Cucumber patch is just a bit overgrown. The plants did not produce much this year (2008) and while I was away in the hospital, they tended to overgrow which probably caused the low production problem.
I plan to plant more of these this year but hope to keep them under control so they will produce. I love Cucumbers, especially fresh ones.
Portable Greenhouse!
This year I decided to try something new and start my plants in these flats.
Here you see the first step after adding water to the flat. The little dirt pods you see actually expand and grow.
Once they are fully expanded you can plant the garden seed of your choice in it.
Portable Greenhouse!
As you see, once you get water into these flats, it really creates a condensation situation and helps the seeds get started fast!
The soil in these pods are a special soil made by compiled by the manufacturer of the flats. So far it has proved to work real well!
Portable Greenhouse!
After the first seedlings pop through the soil you have to remove the top to let the plants get more air. From this point they seem to grow pretty fast.
Bigger Pots!
After the plants reach a good size I put them into bigger pots. I use the type of pots that are "plantable".
Plantable pots help to not disturb the root system when transplanting into the garden.
Also used is foil lasagna pans to hold up to 12 plantable pots. This way I can just run water into the pan and the pots soak up the water.
Zucchini!
Some of my plants like this Zucchini, I have put the plantable pots into plastic cups to separate them because they are getting too big.
We will soon be palnting these outdoors as soon as the weather breaks and gets just a little warmer.
I'm afraid that if the weather does not change soon, we may be harvesting Zucchini indoors :-).
