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Well I'm happy to announce that we've gotten some actual in-the-dirt planting done. Some of you here actually helped out with our two year attempt at growing veggies and fish in an aquaponics system. Well it failed. Good news is that the two 12x4x10 grow beds and double stacked 12x4x12 deep...

We're about to revamp our entire garden idea. After two years of running an aquaponics system and getting next to nothing out of it it's time to put it back on the ground. Our primary pump died last night and poured 500 gallons of water out of the DWC onto the ground. Our choice now is wait...

Did you use PVC for the hoops?

Ah that reminds me that I need to get our beds cleaned out and planted with the cool weather crops a well as get the hoops built and installed.

Our green bean plants just up and died over the course of a couple of days. Last week Friday they were looking fine, we even got a few dozen beans from them. Yesterday evening all the leaves and stalks are brown and dead and there are 5 or 6 new little leaves near the base of the dead parts. If...

Drooooool...........

Found a few dozen little green and yellow caterpillars on our broccoli plants.... and not one leaf. We are fortunate that all they ate were the broccoli. I just pulled them all off the plants and tossed them to the tilapia, no waste at our place! Zucchini is finally starting to get tall and...

We'll be attempting some canning also! I hear you on the strawberries. We have 5 plants and so far the wild birds have gotten every single berry out there along with all of our blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. We are berry poor at the moment.

So jealous of you all that are already getting goodies out of your gardens. We planted seedlings on 26 April and so far all we've gotten are two jalapenos and about 2lbs of green beans. I sooooo want tomatoes and okra and things.

I found out today that the squirrels, who I thought were friends of mine since I feed them corn, have decided to begin raiding the garden. Any tomato that is beginning to ripen gets pulled off and partially eaten. When I checked the plants yesterday afternoon and they'd broken 4 of our plants...

So you just sweep it up and haul it off? What do you do with it?

I wish I was retired so I could spend my mornings in the garden instead of on the gardening thread while at work.

Our neighbors have a huge garden that was being overrun with grasshoppers. They asked what I did to keep the little monsters from eating our garden down and I calmly replied. "I have chickens.". They now have a dozen little peeps patrolling their garden.

Even with all the rain we recently got down here in Texas I sure could use about 2 inches this afternoon to top off my pond and wet the property so I can burn some brush tomorrow morning.

What did I do in the garden today? I installed two modified Afnan Siphons!!!! My plants are now on a tidal timer for flood and drain, plenty of water and fish-made nutrients with a nice dose of gravity forced oxygen on a four hour cycle!

That never occurred to me even though I'm a huge fan of fishing. In fact I'm going out to the lake house tomorrow for three days of cold beverages and fishing.

I've enjoyed squirrel several different ways. My darling wife however isn't country enough to eat them. *laugh*. I'd hate to shoot them and not to do anything with the meat but they have got to leave my garden alone. I could probably drop them in the BSF bin as added protein for the grubs.

I went out to the patch this morning to check on the berries only to scare a bunch of squirrels out of there. They've eaten every blueberry, blackberry and raspberry that was on the plants as well as a bunch of the little peppers and cucumbers that had just started. They even did some damage to...

We've had rain here almost every day for weeks. Our neighbors next door have almost completely lost their garden due to some kind of mold or fungus and all the water just drowning the plants.

This got me to thinking. Since our place is about 99.9% sand I'm wondering how long a bed like this would last. If we could build one and be able to plant in it for 2-3 years it'd be worth it. I need some place to put our root type veggies and the gravel in the AP system just is not the place to...