On April 13, I posted these pictures of my small garden:
http://www.shreveport.com/forums/sho...79&postcount=9

Below are the pictures on April 13th followed by pictures of the same garden today May 26th. (43 days later)

My tomatoes are kicking butt, as are my beans and peppers. My okra on the other hand has had a rabbit problem. I happen to like fried swamp chicken though.

Hey do you grow any purple hull peas, Purpahurl??? Just curious??:laugh: :laugh:

No, I don't have the room. Never fear though next year I will. Do'nt forget lady creams, and "sqwah". Ha, Ha.:laugh:

Now that is a bad ass garden there SIR :clap: :clap: did you pop a chalk line to lay those plants out :laugh: You got me beat big time and you shall eat well this summer. Do you put up any of your produce ? Almost pea season and time for Isaac to stock up for the winter. Nice job sir very nice job :clap:

How about some pictures of that garden there home boy :D

Well now home boy will not post any photos of his garden so I am posting a update to mine. :D

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Me okrie sock dropin good ;)
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Vine ripe Tommy Toes :clap:
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Sweet Banana Peppers ready for the toaster oven with some Swiss :cool:
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[quote=Allen Marsalis]On April 13, I posted these pictures of my small garden:
http://www.shreveport.com/forums/sho...79&postcount=9

Wow! These are nice pictures!! I love the way a fresh garden smells. Isaac - yours is nice, too, though Alan's got you beat on those rows. How 'bout the flavor of those vegies? Can't beat homegrown.

Good lookin'peppers Issac. I'm Havana daydreamin for 7 days. I'll post pictures when I get back. Providing my garden is still there.

Could it be the night of the Lepus :eek:
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While your Havana daydreamin Brair Rabbit is eating your okrie :laugh:
Look at that girl on the log with that Tar Baby Tan :rotflol: :rotflol: :rotflol: :rotflol: :rotflol:

Well technically my garden is just an over-sized "square foot garden" popularized by Mel Bartholomew

http://www.google.com/search?q=Mel+B...re+foot+garden

I bought Mel's book back in the early 80's and haven't plowed a row since! There are several ideas behind these type of "french beds". One is that you don't have to step inside the garden, so the soil stays "fluffy". The farthest reach to pluck a tomato is 2.5 feet inside the garden. Same for weeding. Also the yield is high using a smaller space. The concept works on patios which is how I got started.

If interested I encourage you to visit the square foot garden site at:
http://www.squarefootgardening.com

Then come back and chat about it! :)

Mr. Marsalis I do not see any fruit on your vines :confused: Are these ornamental or will they yield fruit :rolleyes:

Isaac, I am not growing "fruit". I'm am growing "vegetables"! :peace:

Isn't a tomato considered a fruit and not a veggie????????????????

This sounds like a fire ball flame on Allen :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: You will know the vine by the fruit ;)

LOL, do you put tomatos in "fruit soup" or "vegetable soup"? I rest my case! :)

Botanically speaking, a tomatoe is absolutely a fruit. I read that tomatoes can even by sub-categorized as a berry.

I found this interesting because I know back a century or two in Europe, they thought tomatoes were poisonous because people mysteriously died after eating them. Then the people realized that only rich people were dying when they ate them, which made it even more unusual.

As it turned out, rich people were eating off of pewter plates which contain high traces of lead. The tomatoes, having acidic juice, would absorb some of the lead and give whoever ate it lead poisoning. Talk about learning the hard way. ;)

I guess you could put them in your fruit loops then.

Beans are also technically a fruit! Everybody knows this!!

"Beans Beans the musical fruit! The more you eat the more you............"

Wait a minute Rhertz, is tomatoe soup considered a fruit soup or vegetable soup????????????:confused:

I dunno, check this out:
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexper...utother/tomato

I didn't know fruit had ovaries!

I know another version.

"Beans beans, they're good for your heart! The more you eat, the more you..." ;)

Now that was educational reading. You never know what you are going to learn on this board.

Well now boys and girls we now know much more about the fruit. I just had dinner with tomatoes and Mahi cooked under a broiler and some steamed asparagus. Tomatoes from the garden and the Mahi nice and pink then seasoned with garlic and black pepper with Parmesan and browned. I will say my wife does not like fish and she enjoyed it. Thanks to the cook and the gardener too. :D

Okra up date !


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Okra bloom. The Okra plant is in the same family as cotton.
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Had to post this one of my Mexican Petunias :D
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These guys grow like weeds and are a perennial. Humming birds come to them later on as other flowers die off. They like full sun.

Not getting much help here on this garden thread :rolleyes:
Well here is my one volunteer Sunflower :D
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Ripe and ready cherry tomatoes :clap:
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Beautiful sunflowers!
Those tomatoes are making me want to go and make up a big salad! I think I will! I hope I have some that taste as good as those look!:D

I want to see an "Okra Update" there Isaac!!! :D Inquiring minds want to know!

and so you have the update rhertz. I picked this morning and it was a bit hazy out but this shot will show you how life giving rain can get these girls to grow.

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LOL, just don't eat so many okra that your socks slide down! :D

You pick that okra and you will get the itchy bug itch and you better wash those hands twice.

Etymology, origin and distribution
The name okra is of West African origin and is cognate with "ókùrù" in Igbo, a language spoken in what is now known as Nigeria. The species is occasionally referred to by an early, now incorrect synonym, Hibiscus esculentus L.


Okra flower bud and immature seed podThe species apparently originated in the Ethiopian Highlands, though the manner of distribution from there is undocumented. The Egyptians and Moors of the 12th and 13th centuries used the Arab word for the plant, suggesting that it had come from the east. The plant may thus have been taken across the Red Sea or the Bab-el-Mandeb strait to the Arabian Peninsula, rather than north across the Sahara. One of the earliest accounts is by a Spanish Moor who visited Egypt in 1216, who described the plant under cultivation by the locals who ate the tender, young pods with meal.

So okra is really not in the Hibiscus family? The flower looks sort of like a hibiscus.

Do we have any fall gardens ? I have mine all planted. Still has a way to go before I will have new photos. This is a photo of last years broccoli. I have multiplying onions,spinach,lettuce,turnip greens,carrots and radishes.

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That would be old Chester on rat patrol in the garden.

Go on Isaac. All I have is okra, basil, mustard greens and 5 rows of Spinach, the kind without salminella.

I am surprised you still have okrie. Where is rhertz with his green thumb ? :D

No collards, no mustards, no turnips... No peas or brocoli, or any cold weather crop. I'm off my game. All I have are some fast riping peppers. I'm in Jalapeno heaven here.... Maybe it isn't too late for some brocoli or carrots....

Fall is in the air and in the garden. I thought there were some gardeners on this board :confused::confused: Well lone wolf is still tilling the ground. I have a few photos of broccoli and turnip greens. I grow the greens for some of my friends that is one thing I will pass on. Love that chopin broccoli :D
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notice the multiplying onion mixed with the broccoli.

Good lookin' Greens Son of Abraham. Mine are just stretching out of the ground, but they be as many as the sands on the beach. I'm still getting Peppers. By the way it's Satsuma time.

I believe those awesome tomatoes are available again as well at the Ag Center, along with the satsumas!:)

LSU has very nice tomato's. The tomato's come in a five pound box and cost 10.00 a box. Satsuma's are very good too. LSU grows them in south LA.

CITRUS SATSUMA (GROS SUJET)
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I just called LSU Ag center and the lady said that the Satsuma's will not EVER be sold again because Katrina wiped them out. :( They will have the tomato's through Christmas.