What does your garden look like ... Today?

[Eeilee]

Deeply envious of your organization skills lol
My messy chaotic garden hangs it head in shame

 

[gary350]

How do keep those rows weed free?

MOD

Don't water walk area between rows weed seeds don't grow. Boards around beds are levees to hold in water. I have no raised beds. Tomatoes & Peppers have soil pushed up in an irrigation row like a levee both sides of the plants. Fill the levees with water not the walk areas. Once a week I look for weeds to kill with the hoe or rake. It took me 50 years to learn how to NOT grow a garden. Look at the photo. See soil in 2 parallel rows to hold water for the tomato row. If we get too much rain soil is washed away then I use a rake to push soil up like a levee again. 2 parallel levees hold in water. I do the same thing for, peppers, melons, herbs, celery, beans, corn, etc.

Potatoes are 3 rows of seed potatoes in a bed with levee. Left of potatoes are 7 rows of onions & garlic in a bed. Left of onions are 7 rows of strawberries in a bed.

Last picture see how every row has 2 soil levees to hold in water for that row. 20 watermelons & cantaloupe have a levee to hold in water & 4 ft of space both sides for vines to grow. Rake melons in a clock wise circle when vines get too long cut off the ends.

4 rows of G-90 sweet corn on the far left side are not planted yet.

I can remove the boards at both ends of the beds to till soil in the beds. I usually fill beds with dry dead tree leaves then till them into the soil with fertilizer. Each plant has its own fertilizer that it likes best.

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

We get ro much rain for that to work here. Super props for figuring out it to your environment. Works great for you. What we learn over the years. I tend to learn the hard way. Usually learn how not to do things but always improve over time. Once in a while I get it right.

I chipped my entire garden to prevent weeds and grass from growing.

MOD

 

[Esther Knapicius]

 

[LoneStarGardens]

Started building this may 26, 2023

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[pepper]

July garden

Love it! Is that first pic Nessie?

 

[LouisFerdinand]

July garden

@Eeilee, Wonderful pictures! I especially like the pictures of the Black-eyed Susans and Coneflowers.

 

[Meadowlark]

It isn't much...but you have to start somewhere. Last Summer I planted some swamp milkweed as a first step in making a permanent perennial butterfly garden. Wasn't at all sure it would come back this spring...but surprisingly it has. I'll be adding to this significantly this spring, but its good to see some progress.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I wish swamp milkweed would have lasted in my garden. I'd get a year or two out of it and then it'd die off. Milkweed in general seems to hate my yard.

 

[Meadowlark]

I wish swamp milkweed would have lasted in my garden. I'd get a year or two out of it and then it'd die off. Milkweed in general seems to hate my yard.

I kind of guessed that the swamp milkweed might be the best bet for my environment. I'm also looking at Sandhill milkweed, Butterfly weed and Common milkweed and hoping one or more of these varieties will take as permanent additions. Time will tell.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Prairie smoke is starting to grow.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Wild geranium is starting to emerge.

Eastern red columbine is also emerging.

Prairie smoke blooms are furthering along.

And the maples are blooming.

 

[Meadowlark]

That prairie smoke plant is an interesting one @JBtheExplorer . I ordered a few seeds...maybe it will grow in the piney woods of East Texas in addition to the prairie.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

That prairie smoke plant is an interesting one @JBtheExplorer . I ordered a few seeds...maybe it will grow in the piney woods of East Texas in addition to the prairie.

One of my favorite early-spring plants, but it does require a lot of sun.
It's the first plant to grow buds in spring in my yard, and it puts on a show until June!

Here's a bunch of photos from the last two years.

 

[Meadowlark]

Any tricks needed to get it started from seed?