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Whats that beside the corn JP (small frame)?

Hi Rupe, The light-colored plants on the small frame are snow peas. The season for them is finishing up. Hot weather will do them in. They'd like a bucket of fish water, I think. Is that what you mean?

Nice looking garden - but far too organised. Are you one of those meat people

Yep, thought the might be.... seen better days eh?

Lovely!

(p.s. I'm not gay)

Here's our dirt garden for this year. The dirt is doing quite well.

Not that there is anything wrong with that

Of course not! I am comfortable with an appreciation of flowery things.

I have planted hardly anything in the dirt this year due to very strict water restrictions which basically prevent me from waterring the garden at all. I have purchased rainwater tanks to alleviate this issue, but have not istalled them yet.

I used to be proud of my garden but am currently ashamed of it - so will only post one picture which is of my garlic, pretty much all I am growing at the moment.

Here is a pic of about 2/3 of last year's pumpkin harvest - didn't do well this year though, because I didn't plant a bush. Still got about 15 off last years bush which somehow survived through the winter

I'll assume that's "neat", not "meat"

Interestingly, I'm a lazy gardener. With the paver paths and intensive planting, the weeds don't stand much of a chance by this point in the year. So I spend less time weeding, and more time picking! I'll admit that it was a lot of work to build the garden, and that this is about the third (and final!) time I've rebuilt the beds. Wood rotted out, and hollow plastic lumber encouraged yellow jackets (nasty-tempered wasps) to nest inside them. Trex is solid and doesn't rot.

I like the bed borders JP, that is a good idea!

I beginning to think i may have overdone it a bit with the number of toms i planted

The trough bed idea seems to be working quite well so far, considering the amount of wet weather we`ve had.
It`s getting a tad crowded but at least they`re flowering.
I just need some sunshine instead of rain now

Hex, you could thin those out a bit--the remaining plants would probably grow better and set nicer fruit.

I hope you're planning on putting up a lot of sauce, juice, whole tomatoes, quartered tomatoes, diced tomatoes, stewed tomatoes, ketchup, etc etc etc...!

These toms are supposedly for hanging baskets.. these are in a 200L hanging basket on legs.
Some are happily flowing over the sides (quite branchy) while others have an extremely tight dense growth habit awith absolutely no branching, even they all came from the same seed packet.
I`ll strip out the tight ones and leave the branchy ones with a bit more space.. tomorrow if it stops raining

nice tomato hedge Hex

Nice garens people.

Lot more productive than your neighbour though, can't eat all that grass unless ya got 4 legs and go moo or baaa!