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ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => GARDENING AROUND THE HOUSE => Topic started by: SgtMaj on June 23, 2008, 10:36:43 pm

Title: spent my day
Post by: SgtMaj on June 23, 2008, 10:36:43 pm

Well, I spent most of my day today, cutting out the larger area for one of my gardens.  Only got 2 of the hundreds of cinder blocks it will take to finish it placed, but at least it's started.  Can't wait to have all the extra space!  This will double the size of this particular raised bed, which will hopefully give me enough room for all the veggies I want to grow there.

Title: Re: spent my day
Post by: JP on June 23, 2008, 11:01:17 pm

Hey Sarge, you need to post some pictures so we can see what you're up to.


...JP

Title: Re: spent my day
Post by: SgtMaj on June 24, 2008, 04:17:05 am

Will-do tomorrow.  Oh, I have a nice pic of a giant beetle I found hiding out in my rain barrel overflow... Well, it's not Amazon big, but it's definately Tennessee big.

Will add it in just a few seconds... soon as my phone sends it to my email...

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/Gatbunton/0623081057.jpg)

Title: Re: spent my day
Post by: JP on June 24, 2008, 09:48:32 am

Nice beetle! Here's a wolf spider: (http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/3940/cimg2760xy5.th.jpg) (http://img76.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg2760xy5.jpg)


...JP

Title: Re: spent my day
Post by: poka-bee on June 24, 2008, 12:00:09 pm

OOhh, cool bugs guys!  I like the big ones, you can see them coming!! We have those huge spiders that come in the house in the fall, I put em in the aquarium, fish love em!  Jody

Title: Re: spent my day
Post by: SgtMaj on June 24, 2008, 09:01:43 pm

Here's where I've been expanding the garden.  You can see the existing one... the new larger size will be slightly more than twice as big.  This is the upper raised bed.

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/Gatbunton/1.jpg)

And here's the tomato's with my new flowers planted close... they are in the lower raised bed.

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/Gatbunton/2.jpg)

I finally have a couple small tomato's on them, thanks to those flowers.  Oh, to the left, is the strawberries that have basically taken over.  I'm going to clean them out later this year... so if anyone wants plenty of strawberry plants, let me know.  They are a mix of june bearing and everbearing, but mostly junebearing I think.  Oh, and they're all about 2 years old.

Title: Re: spent my day
Post by: Cindi on June 26, 2008, 03:35:05 pm

SgrMaj.  Nice pictures, your gardens look lovely, good for you.  Best of a beautiful day, Cindi

Title: Re: spent my day
Post by: annette on June 26, 2008, 06:30:24 pm

Nice place for the bee hives.

Title: Re: spent my day
Post by: SgtMaj on June 27, 2008, 05:42:32 am

Quote from: Cindi on June 26, 2008, 03:35:05 pm

SgrMaj.  Nice pictures, your gardens look lovely, good for you.  Best of a beautiful day, Cindi

They're actually quite terrible this year... I started going to college full time and just haven't had the time I used to, to weed and whatnot.