Search Results for: Potatoes
Garden: Ms. I Parker
Small veggie garden - peas, tomatoes,beets, potatoes, lettuce, carrots, turnip, melons, a variety that changes each year - 11 ft x 12 ft space only.
Garden: Fairview Christian Church Garden
Fairview Church Garden was on the Kansas City Urban Farms and Gardens tour for 2009, July 28! We are a community vegetable garden(using organic practices), Youth Garden 50 x 50, supported by the Missouri Extension office and Missouri Master gardeners, some raised bed areas with flowers and vegetables, 4 plots for local gardeners, roughly 20 x 20 with main garden about 340 x 40, growing tomatoes, mostly hierlooms, (cherokee purple, amana orange, carolina gold). We also have Peppers(bells, jalapenos, anahiems, cherrys), Eggplant, Kale, Swiss Chard, Corn, Potatoes(purples, pontiac, klondike), Greenbeans, Squash, Cucumblers, Okra(burgandy), Kohlrabi, Broccoli, Cabbage, Sweet Potatoes, Beets, Onions, and Garlic. Whewwww.... we have a few herbs...Dill, Chives, Parsley, Basil(green, christmas, red) Horseradish, Mint(chocolate and apple), lastly Borage. Flowers such as marigolds, zinnias, petunias, and nasturtium.
Garden: Boxes and Pots
The yard is in an older area and had been let go for a few years. My garden consists of 3 square boxes and 3 long planters plus several pots of vegetables, herbs and flowers. Vegetables are peas, carrots, cucumber, peppers, eggplant, broccoli, lettuce, radish, onions and tomatoes. I planted rhubarb in the yard as well. I also have 2 small flowerbeds. I also have most of a garden plot in one of the community gardens. I haven't been in it for about a week so I'm not sure what's going on with it. Potatoes, corn, tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, beans, carrots, onions, beets, turnips, cucumbers, squash and pumpkin. If I get much of a crop I'm going to have to buy another freezer! I'm quite excited to see how things do. I planted several things that I never have before.
Garden: Vegetable Garden
Since we moved here in 1991, we have grown a full range of vegetables including potatoes, lettuce, radish, tomatoes, beans, peas, onions, and many herbs. We have mint, oregano, catnip, chives, rosemary, dill, thyme, and cilantro.
Garden: Vegetable garden
Sunflowers, early corn, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, zuchini, pumpkins, spaghetti squash, cucumbers, acorn squash, all in rows going east to west
Garden: Jan's Garden
I have planted a variety of vegetables. Primarily garlic, tomatoes, peppers, onions, carrots, cabbage, zucchini, cucumbers, brussel sprouts, beans, peas and sweet potatoes.
Garden: Cape Cod Garden
Cape Cod vegetable garden featuring a variety from potatoes to garlic, for home use and fun, despite pulling weeds!
Garden: My Retirement Project
I have built 4 4' x 12' no till raised beds 22" deep for vegetable growing. I started with a layer of well rotted manure, a layer of composted material, then a layer of leaves, grass clippings, etc from spring clean up. Plants were started by pulling back the mulch, then moving the mulch around the plants as they got bigger. Potatoes just came up through the leaves and have grown roots into the composting material. I seldom have to water even though it has been a very dry year as the mulch prevents drying of the soil. There have been minimal weeds and good plant growth. I planted roughly based on the square foot gardening method, but I do not have permanent grids. One planter holds 48 hills of potatoes. We have eaten some and they are doing well. This fall I will cover each bed with a new layer of leaves and plant into the previous layer of mulch next spring. Trellises help use less space for things like cucumbers, peas and pumpkins and you do not have to bend over to pick peas!
Garden: First Time Gardener
Beans, peas, tomatoes, cucumber, turnips, beets, carrots, radishes, onions, potatoes, lettuce, pumpkins, green peppers, zucchini, cantaloupe
Garden: Indoor Container Garden (in planning)
I have always been brutally awful at keeping indoor plants alive but I believe in the principle of try, try again and I am hoping my children's love and help will....help! As a child my dad would sprout grapefruit seeds between paper towel and a glass, put toothpicks into carrots and potatoes and show me how they sprouted, and it was fabulous. I want to do this too but take it to the next level: grow them the full way with my kids so they can see that even indoors we can grow and eat our own food. My main challenge is being a north-south facing townhouse that I have, really, one good kitchen window with south light: my north window gets virtually no direct sunlight, even less in the winter. So, I figure we will stick to what grows relatively well indoors: container tomatoes, a bean plant or two, perhaps some carrots, our herb pot and, just for fun, I will take on the challenge of growing my own coffee.
Garden: Renfrew Garden
We are renting this place from a friend of ours who grew up at this house - his parents, and especially his Father, were awesome Italian gardeners. When we moved in, Tony, our landlord, told us with tears in his eyes how beautiful the garden was (it had been left for 3 years and was now covered in packed dirt and dandelions!!) and we vowed to bring it back to what it once was. We also have a greenhouse. You name it - we planted it and as it's our first time as gardeners; we've learned a great deal about soil, spacing, water/sun and patience!! We have the tallest sunflowers in the neighborhood because Tony's dad had them - now we do too - over ten feet tall!! We grow tomatoes, peas, onions(green&red), lettuce, cabbage, beets, swiss chard, strawberries, potatoes, radishes, carrots, green and yellow beans, many types of zucchini and squash and peppers, green, red and various hot ones. It's a very rewarding adventure !
Garden: Jane's Garden
I have had raised beds for quite some years, but two years ago I decided to go to square foot gardening. I plant peas, carrots, various lettuces, several different herbs, peppers (jalapeno and chili), garlic, onions, cucumbers, spinach, potatoes and beans. I built a spiral herb garden this summer to plant next year.
Garden: Carrigkilter Farm
We are trying to grow veg in a very wet climate! Most of the pumpkin/squash have rotted! Shared veg area with neighbour and we hope to plant wildflowers around the basic lawns.
Garden: 201 Charlesland Wood, Greystones
I have a long narrow garden, with wooden panelled fencing on both sides so they cast shadows on the garden in the morning and evening if we are lucky to have sunlight. Its a work in progress as a friend has designed a series of garden rooms which I am very slowly implementing. Another friend constructed a living willow fence for me this year so that forms one of the 'room' boundaries. I have a raised bed for vegetable growing - all in modest amounts given the restriction on space. I have successfully grown beans, peas, lettuces, rocket, strawberries, cucumbers, spuds (potatoes), herbs and so on in the productive garden.
Garden: Clarke
We have three large garden plots that were built from old manure piles. Our potatoes,carrots and pretty much any other vegetable thrive in these gardens.
Garden: Backyard perenial and vegetable garden
I have created a raised vegetable garden in order to allow me to work from my wheelchair. I have planted and cultivated radishes, beats, yellow-green-purple beans, peas, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, salads, onions, strawberries and rhubarb.
For a 1st year garden attempt it has been great... the kids eat right off the plant as they run by.
My wife has wonderful perennial gardens flanking the yard; irises, lilies, roses, lilacs and much much more.
Garden: Veggie Town
Vegetable garden. 2nd year. Corn, zuchini, tomatoes, bell peppers, egg plant, cucumbers, radishes, green beans, carrots, tomatillo, lettuce, muck melon, summer and winter squashm herbs. Had success last year with pumpkins and potatoes also. Full sun 8+ hours per day and is watered by hand or sprinkler daily for a least 1/2 hour. Very loose mixed soil of peat, compost, clay, and sheep and mushroom manure.
Garden: Garden my 14yr old son and I planted.
Small plot about 25ft wide and 50 or more long, double last years size and hoping add about another 30 x 25 more for next year.Planted 4 types squash, pumpkin, cukes,sunflowers,3 types tomatoes,row of potatoes,kidney beans,snow peas,yellow beans,zuchinni,and corn.
Garden: Monnie's Garden
Suburban garden. I love flowers - grow as many type of lilies as I can lay my hands on. Have small veggie area about 16' x 8'and this year grew broccoli, cauliflowers, french beans, cucumbers, celery potatoes,peppers and chilli peppers. We grow apples - (wonderful crop - we are eating them at the moment) and soft fruits raspberries, red and black currants.I have a grass garden and a lavender bed. Wouldn't be the most well organised garden in the world but I Love it. I will try anything.
Garden: mrs P
3500sqm of mostly clay and stoney soil.
we have many spanish plants and some english, olive, almond, cherry, walnut trees, and oliander, orange ,roses,and lots of shrubs many climbers,marigolds,gladoili,blueberries,blackcurrants, and a veg patch, with onions potatoes tomatoes,beetroot rhubarb,carrots cabbage shallots,green beans lettuce pepino,and melons,not all at the same time,but very busy in the spring/summer.
Garden: My Roznow Farm
One field that is 150 feet by 150 feet to grow commercial quantity potatoes and corn and string beans for the food bank, one second smaller patch about 45 feet by 45 feet for growing an assortment of veges for myself, my friends and for homeless shelters. Additionally a large area of open green space dotted with trees, some fruit, some evergreen. It's a farm more than a garden.
Garden: BlankCanvas
Lots of space. German housemate plants leeks, potatoes and carrots along the edges but has a hard time with the evil slugs. A few large Ash Trees that the evil landlady chopped down to a few meters tall. They're already growing back nicely though. Otherwise lots of mossy grass, an apple tree and a camellia
Garden: Greenheart
Country village house garden, around 700 sq.mtrs., with established single walnut, quince, plum, fig and peach trees, with new small cherry and plum. Strawberry patch, small side lawn area, row of raspberries, various vegetables and fruit grown in rest of garden from spring to winter, including garlic, potatoes, sprouts, sweet-corn, onions, carrots, courgettes, pumpkin, plus some herbs (more planned), melons, grapes and blackcurrants. Flower and bulb plot immediately in front of house - the main side of which faces South, plus other bulb and flower area against wall facing quiet road. Small drive inside traditional gate. Very sunny aspect, village nestling beside Stara Planina mountains in Bourgas region of Bulgaria.
Garden: Vickis Slice of Paradise
New to gardening and just completed building 7 raised beds from scratch on our 1/4 acre flat section! 4 planned for veges, and herbs and soft fruit in the other 3. The majority of my gardening know-how has come from books/internet and as a child, watching my mother slaving in her garden every weekend (I thought it has to be more enjoyable than that looked!).
Just planted out peas and corn seedlings with broccoli, cauli and lettuce germinating. Planted out parsley, oregano, thyme (vulgaris and lemon), chives and rosemary with others germinating. Young blackberry plant is the first in the soft fruit bed with others to come. Also have an existing hand dug plot with tomatoes and celery growing and the last of my broccoli and lettuce going to seed.
Potatoes and onions growing in tyres at the moment but will grow potatoes in bags from now on and onions in the new beds.
We also have an enormous walnut tree, plum, pear, peach, 3 apples and 2 lemons.
Garden: Central FL Balcony Garden
Novice gardener growing edible containers and other potted plants on the balcony and indoors... with moderate success.
Garden: Healthy Kidz Minnie St. Garden
The garden was started in the spring of 2008 as a project of two churches (Rosedale United Church of Christ and St. Paul AME Zion) in the Rosedale area of Kansas City Kansas. An empty lot, made available by a 'Good Neighbor' allowed the garden to come to life. Their mission was to make available healthy food options for the folks living in the immediate area. In the fall of '08 volunteers from another church joined them. (Rainbow Mennonite)
In the summer of 2009 we started a small "Farmer's Market" on the church parking lot. We also harvest and sell to individuals at different times. Some of the veggies are given away.
The UCC Church was host to the Healthy Kids Initiative Day Camp in August. The kids walked to the garden and were able to see first hand how their vegetables grow. They then were able to "pick" and fill their baskets.
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Garden: Aurora
I am an avid gardener although I can't say I'm good at it yet as I am still experimenting with everything in my garden. I like planting flowering plants at the front garden and combination of flowering and vegetable garden at the back.
Debbie Shepheard
This is our first year (2009) on the acreage. I have gardened previously on an acreage but my last property was in the city and VERY tiny, so no big vegetable garden. This property was vacant for all of the last growing season so had a LOT of weeds to tend to. I'm still fighting them, but I think I'm winning! :D
bbb
An old Spanish proverb goes something like this.....more grows in the garden than the gardener sows........ Since I joined this group of gardeners last fall, I have found this to be very true. It's been a great experience. I'm an aging gardener, in more ways than one, and have found this to be just what i needed at this time in my life! We ARE a community garden.
Lorna
I began gardening about 16 years ago when I bought my small home at this address. It had a very large backyard with half of it previously used as a vegetable garden. the previous owner grew corn and potatoes which took up a large amount of space. I tried to garden that space for a couple of years but had so much produce that I could not begin to keep up with the work. I leveled the land and seeded most of it to grass and put in some beds for flowers and bushes around the edges and one in the middle. I left one side for my vegetable garden. Over the years I have added arches and built boxes for my vegetables and graveled walkways and changed things many times. It has been a learning process. But always it has been rewarding and stress reducing. I have found peace here in this small piece of earth. I don't think I have become an expert in anything floral. I just keep blundering away planting this and that and if it works, it stays. If it doesn't I try something else. But I always love when something grows and looks wonderful. It brings such a sense of wonder when a plant gives you its beauty and opens its petals to the sun and to you . I love it.
Rebecca
Hmmm.... I have been gardening for as long as I can remember. It all started with my Mother's Eden. My current garden which I inherited 6mths ago has Apple and Lemon trees and many, many roses. I have already added to that my herb collection (54 varieties and growing) and commenced a nice big veggie garden. The veggie garden currently has potatoes,onions, peas,lettuce, tomatoe, beetroot, spinach, silverbeet, carrot, cauli's, broccoli,brussel sprouts and corn. Oh,and Celery.....think that's all. Also,have a growing collection of berry fruits.....
janet
have lived here for 5 years, it was a big patch of overgrown wilderness ,and hopefully looks better now.
My big bed garden, lots of sand and ants, they don't like to share this soil. and 3 tree stumps that I need to work around! For my first year I've got onions, potatoes, cucumber, broccoli, beans, peas, and spinach. No idea how the broccoli will grow but it's loving it so far!
How I love this -- it's better than a treasure hunt! We take away just as many potatoes we need for dinner, and then leave the plants to continue their good work.
I used the square foot method to plant my potatoes and some of the veggies but did not have enough material for permanent grids. I used 4' lengths of rebar that I had to lay out the area and moved it to the next bed when done. 48 potato plants in one bed with no hilling or weeding needed.
Veg plot August 09. Most of potatoes harvested early due to blight. Few French Beans (rest were eaten by critters unknown.) Spring onions beneath. Courgette plants doing well but not producing. Leeks surviving the wet. We are by no means Master Gardeners, but trying hard!
Potatoes we dug last week , was about 45 pounds out of a 25 ft row, plus 5 lbs we dug earlier. 50lbs worth.
Saturday's harvest 3/10 or 10/3 depending on where you live! - Tony is going to do a still life painting of this - oh how these yellow mini squash have suffered and finally overcome to get to the plate! The Irish rain has a lot to answer for and we can't eat potatoes forever!
My little construction project for growing potatoes made from wire mesh, 1"x2's, screws & wingnuts and plastic garden edging stuff. You're supposed to put several inches of soil in the bottom, plant seed potatoes, then continually add leaves or straw as the potatoes grow .... resulting in clean spuds and compost at the end of the season. We'll see if it works. March 2010
