Garden progress!
Posted by Jubie at 4/26/2008 1:07 PM and is filed under alternative energy,patio gardening,container gardening,small space gardening,squirrel screamer,apartment gardening,Organic Gardening 
The garden is growing like gangbusters! I thought I'd snap a few photos to show its progress! We are watering every evening and we use a wand to water. It's fast and easy with the wand. I've had a few run ins with squirrels they ate all my marjoram I was growing and the peppermint too. They've dug around the tomato plants some but not too badly. I am now equipped with my squirrel screamer. I'll try that out this week. I'll stop using the pepper powder for awhile and see if this squirrel screamer works.
Blossoms! We'll be showing you tomatoes in a month or so!
Radishes,cukes, eightball zucchini and a pepper plant!
Sunburst Squash!
We have flowers, herbs, spinach, onion carrot, celery, sugar peas and parsley growing but they are too small to show! We'll show them in our next garden update!
Our prize tomato plants planted from seed on Jan. 29th are reaching for the sky! Remember, when container gardening, be sure to use good drainage in your containers. A whisper in your ear from one gardener to another, "The real secret is in the soil!"
Bruce and Jubie have grown organic vegetable gardens in the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest and near the Pantanal of the Amazon River.
Radishes,cukes, eightball zucchini and a pepper plant!
Sunburst Squash!
We have flowers, herbs, spinach, onion carrot, celery, sugar peas and parsley growing but they are too small to show! We'll show them in our next garden update!
Our prize tomato plants planted from seed on Jan. 29th are reaching for the sky! Remember, when container gardening, be sure to use good drainage in your containers. A whisper in your ear from one gardener to another, "The real secret is in the soil!"
Bruce and Jubie have grown organic vegetable gardens in the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest and near the Pantanal of the Amazon River.
Hi, I like gardening...I have been doing it when I got to this place but now that I got kids I did not do it anymore. I'm excited to see your tomatoes get bigger. Have a nice evening!
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Hi Juvy! How old are the kids? Why not get them involved in gardening? If they are old enough, teach them about growing plants and taking responsibility to water and weed them! They will love to see their plants grow! You can even get them to eat the veggies they grow too!
I taught a third grade class to grow a garden. It was a big garden and they worked hard in it! They all had their own veggies assigned to them and they took home buckets full to enjoy! Got the kids eating vegetables and the parents just loved that!
I'll keep you posted on the tomatoes! Thanks for the comments and stopping by!
Good thoughts to you and the kids!
Jubie
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Hi I have a green thumb and I like all kinds of vegestables. I am from American Samoa, but as of today I am living in California working for the DOD CONTRACTOR, supporting and training soliders who are deployed to Irag and other parts of the world. Continue with you mission and may God bless.
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Talofa Asora!
Thanks for the comment on the post. I'll continue my mission to help influence everyone to grow their own food. It promotes peace and prosperity! I hope to see you on the blog soon! Please feel free to stop by when you can and watch out for your soldiers!
The best thoughts for peace around the world go out to you and to your soldiers!
Jubie
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Jubie, is there any issues with planting onions around the edges of the tomato plants? I bought two bundles of onions and ran out of places to plant them.
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Hi Charles,
I just launched my website food2gro, while it is still in BETA, and being constructed it is out there for the world to see. The site has tons of great info. from my past experience and research on topics I felt were important to vegetable gardening.
There is a link called companions and character , also small space gardening that you might like to read.
http://www.food2gro.com
If you decide to plant the onions with the tomatoes, it should keep most critters out. They don't like onions or chives. Additionally, tomatoes love chives and onions they go together like peas in a pod! LOL!
Good to hear from you! I hope the garden is growing well!
Good gardening!
Jubie
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Wow! I am so glad I found this blog. I have been looking for something like this for months and months and months!!! I would love to collaborate with you as I am not a gardener but big on the whole foods organic gardening at home movement. If you want to just keep me hip on what foods are in season, what we should be planting and harvesting, I will tell my readers I learned it here. Or I will just follow your blogs and write about the nutritional properties of the things you are describing how to grow. I really want to provide people the full package, as gardening most of this stuff is not that tough!
Great blog
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Thanks again Doc! Check out the newly launched site www.food2gro.com it is still in BETA and we are adding photos etc. as we go along, we will add more pages and the like but there I have spent years of practice and research on a lot of the content.
Where are you located? Perhaps you can take the up and coming biointensive course for gardening with me in early Nov.
Thanks again!
Happy, healthy and hearty wishes!
Jubie
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