Relaxed Lester's Garden Photos

[Lester Freeman]

Methuselah hissed for some fresh hibis!
Where would this fella hibernate les? Back under the patch?
Man he is an awesome creature. A buddy of mine had theirs for the longest time, it was his dads who had it for 40+, no telling how long my buddy had it man.. Some prehistoric bada***s life. I would like to think backback in time there was a Methuselah the size of a house, and bud plants the comparable to the Eiffel towers

Up north I have decided to wait another week or so and wait out the supposed freeze we should be having once more. Anticipating some fresh veggies being pumped out the garden!

Yeah, we had to build his own den for when he was a child, and another when he was a teen, but he soon outgrew that one and said, to hell with it, "I'm diggin my own den", so he dug one that suites his size needs down below probably 7-10 feet deep, posted a pic of the entrance a couple or few pages back. Haha thanks for cruisin' thru, hopefully these veggies sprout for me, got a good little head start if so. Cheers and happy Munchday day brother!

Beautiful Garden bro, in and out.

Thank you kindly!

There's the big feller! Mr M the Tortoise is awesome. I've never seen carrots like that. Very cool. Do they taste much different than long carrots? I've got shallow sandy soil where I'm at, with shell-rock about 1-2 feet down, so a small carrot may be suitable for here as well. Is it difficult to keep your mint under control? I tried growing a little bit about 5 years ago in a pot, but my whole trailer park is still trying to get rid of it.

They don't taste much different, I had some yesterday, they were pretty good! Yeah, I would look into this kind of carrot, I'll get the name/brand for you later, it is good for shallow soil because they don't go very deep. About the mint, I echo your exact feelings, we had to cut and trim back a lot of our mint last year because it was just taking over everything outright, like a weed. Now we have mint growing up through the ground, up through the bricks and whatnot. Methuselah doesn't quite like the taste of mint, he tried it a couple times on accident, and didn't take any more bites. He would absolutely love to get into the lettuce area though, so we had to put up a little metal fence to surround the whole thing. This makes it harder for the coons and skunks to dig up the soil with the seedlings in it. If it gets bad we have this automated motion sensor sprinkler that sprays high pressure water at anything moving. The coons and skunks like to come by when I put out the organic ferts, and/or bat guanos into the ground.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

The first time I saw Methusula in a picture I thought it was one of those stone garden decors....LOL
You treat him well Lester.
What a majestic looking sight. How does the cat do with him?

 

[Lester Freeman]

The first time I saw Methusula in a picture I thought it was one of those stone garden decors....LOL
You treat him well Lester.
What a majestic looking sight. How does the cat do with him?

Thanks! Actually they have got along quite well, they each snooze in their chosen areas, only sometimes in the morning when M. is out and wants to get sun underneath a bush, Fang sometimes likes that spot in the morning. Sometimes I worry because Fang is sometimes asleep and oblivious to anything, M. goes around the yard chomping at everything, but typically she is super aware of her surroundings and turns her head to the sound of a leaf dropping....

 

[Ketama]

bro seeing your garden i wanna ask you have you checked out permaculture, i have been doing some research on the subject and had to present it during my studies, it is the way to go, check it out, very sustainable stuff and results are amazing.
Keep em green bro amazing job you are doing, i am so in love with permaculture that i will start a project soon next year.

 

[Lester Freeman]

bro seeing your garden i wanna ask you have you checked out permaculture, i have been doing some research on the subject and had to present it during my studies, it is the way to go, check it out, very sustainable stuff and results are amazing.
Keep em green bro amazing job you are doing, i am so in love with permaculture that i will start a project soon next year.

I hadn't much studied it, and since you brought it to my attention, I looked it up on wiki and found that the basic principles of permaculture basically already exist in my garden, that is quite amazing how they broke it down into Zones 0-5, and it's quite funny how much it relates to me. Having Zone 1 be closest to the house to deal with things that need most attention, like lettuce for salads, and strawberries to pick,etc., and you know having a separate zone for cannabis, separate zone for ground vegetables, the semi-wilderness area with the herbs (rosemary, sage, thyme ...), and then the actual wilderness area where the fruit tree's are (tangerine, juice orange, food orange, and grapefuit..), Zones for the main bulk of the peppers and tomatos...not to mention the zone with grafted roses... so much to tend to, it gets hectic but it is certainly the way to enjoy life, out in the garden with the plants in the breeze and sun, all the different types of plants, and animals, the tortoise and the cat, it is one big happy family.

Thanks for bringing "permaculture" to my attention, it reinforces how I should live my life, as I have been. One with nature and the plants and animals As well as the birds that sing to my plants, and brighten their day with tunes...

This was all well thought out before I even started gardening (here), with the brick work, planter beds, ground cover choices to prevent erosions,etc. I am simply carrying the torch forward

 

[Ascended Master Kief]

Yeah, we had to build his own den for when he was a child, and another when he was a teen, but he soon outgrew that one and said, to hell with it, "I'm diggin my own den", so he dug one that suites his size needs down below probably 7-10 feet deep, posted a pic of the entrance a couple or few pages back. Haha thanks for cruisin' thru, hopefully these veggies sprout for me, got a good little head start if so. Cheers and happy Munchday day brother!


Thank you kindly!



They don't taste much different, I had some yesterday, they were pretty good! Yeah, I would look into this kind of carrot, I'll get the name/brand for you later, it is good for shallow soil because they don't go very deep. About the mint, I echo your exact feelings, we had to cut and trim back a lot of our mint last year because it was just taking over everything outright, like a weed. Now we have mint growing up through the ground, up through the bricks and whatnot. Methuselah doesn't quite like the taste of mint, he tried it a couple times on accident, and didn't take any more bites. He would absolutely love to get into the lettuce area though, so we had to put up a little metal fence to surround the whole thing. This makes it harder for the coons and skunks to dig up the soil with the seedlings in it. If it gets bad we have this automated motion sensor sprinkler that sprays high pressure water at anything moving. The coons and skunks like to come by when I put out the organic ferts, and/or bat guanos into the ground.

Amazed he digs down so deep!
Too bad Methuselah doesn't eat the mint, eh? lol. Got lots and lots of coons, and possums here, and they love to steal and vandalize veggies here. Squirrels, too, but they get suicidal around my yard for some reason. My buddies got a motion sprinkler, was watching it work, is awesome. Right on, mate. I may be putting up some fencework, to keep critters out, soon. Gotta keep it aesthetically appealing, though, despite my redneckishness, because of the trailer park I'm in. Good news is that a fence will help when I get some low-ridin' plants going outside.

 

[Ketama]

I hadn't much studied it, and since you brought it to my attention, I looked it up on wiki and found that the basic principles of permaculture basically already exist in my garden, that is quite amazing how they broke it down into Zones 0-5, and it's quite funny how much it relates to me. Having Zone 1 be closest to the house to deal with things that need most attention, like lettuce for salads, and strawberries to pick,etc., and you know having a separate zone for cannabis, separate zone for ground vegetables, the semi-wilderness area with the herbs (rosemary, sage, thyme ...), and then the actual wilderness area where the fruit tree's are (tangerine, juice orange, food orange, and grapefuit..), Zones for the main bulk of the peppers and tomatos...not to mention the zone with grafted roses... so much to tend to, it gets hectic but it is certainly the way to enjoy life, out in the garden with the plants in the breeze and sun, all the different types of plants, and animals, the tortoise and the cat, it is one big happy family.

Thanks for bringing "permaculture" to my attention, it reinforces how I should live my life, as I have been. One with nature and the plants and animals As well as the birds that sing to my plants, and brighten their day with tunes...

This was all well thought out before I even started gardening (here), with the brick work, planter beds, ground cover choices to prevent erosions,etc. I am simply carrying the torch forward

yup i saw the animals and plants all look happy that is why i brought it up, it is an amazing subject, and the ideas can be developed modified and adjusted to needs. i am working towards a piece of land in a warm climate and will start within the next year .

 

[Lester Freeman]

The lettuce, it's not the type that forms "heads" this is ment for plants that have nice lettuce leaves to pick for salads

Some more brocolli flowers

 

[Lester Freeman]

Various garden pictures from today, first batch radishes have sprouted up. I'll put a caption on each one.

Habiscus

Some avacado flowers

Here are the red onions

See if you can spot out the radish sprouts

This white lily plant grows so fast, already blooming!

Here is a type of iris plant that flowered after only growing ~3 inches off the ground, waiting for a nice one to open up before I get a pic of the actual flower inside

I like the contrast between the stems on this succulent with the flowers

 

[Ketama]

Beautiful garden bro,
speaking of permaculture, i see no mulch on those pictures bro your soil should all be covered with mulch decomposing, and keeping the water so you don t have to water so much and building your soil, so if you find a source of organic material, clay, leaves, little shit underneath wouldn t hurt, but mulching goes a long way bro bacteria happier, warms happier, fungi happier, result plants and you happier.
sorry dropping all this on you like that, bu what better can one bother another about?
Grow on bro, love your garden.

 

[Lester Freeman]

Yeah, we'll probably pick up a bit of mulch for the spring/summer when it starts to get hot. Definitely not a bad idea to mulch some of the plants once they are established.

Thanks for the kind words and stoppin' by Ketama

 

[josh223]

Those pics are fantastic!

 

[Lester Freeman]

Those pics are fantastic!

Thanks buddy!

 

[Lester Freeman]

Romanaesco brocolli

random mint

radish sprouts

rose bloom

happy cat

 

[Ascended Master Kief]

I lol'd over the "random" mint, hehe. Try giving a really aggressively-growing mint to someone who needs some sort of retribution from ya, as a "gift." Beautiful rose there, and Fang looks so cozy.

 

[Lester Freeman]

Tried to clone a little branch off the green belle pepper plant, used Clonex

My Maggie Recipe with a Norcal Twist.

1.5-2 oz Don Julio blanco tequila (high grade)
1 oz Gran Marnier (high grade orange liquer)
1.25 oz fresh squeezed lime juice from garden [must be used no more than 5-10 minutes after picking! ]
Sugar to Balance the Acids
Shaken on the Rocks and strained into Rocks glass (std.), garnished with lime wheel, salt (optional)
3 cubic ice cubes
Topped off to brim with perrier or pelligrino carbonated water for balance and bite.

 

[Ascended Master Kief]

Sounds like a pleasantly mean drink! Hope that pepper catches on easily.

 

[Lester Freeman]

Sounds like a pleasantly mean drink! Hope that pepper catches on easily.

Indeed, so far so good! Not really drooping or anything, it has been foliar fed with a dilute solution of SNS-604A

News for today, I planted more California Wonder Peppers (Sweet Belle), Black Pearl Cherry tomatos, Tasti-Lee tomatos, and Honey Bun cantaloupe, they are inside incubating at about 70 F until they sprout, and then I will hit them with CFL's

 

[Ascended Master Kief]

Wow, incredible selection of goodies. I really can't wait to see little purple cherry tomatoes, I bet they'll be super sweet. Nothing sweeter than cantaloupe, during the heat of summer. I have some cantalouple seeds lying around somewhere, not sure what kind they are, but I plan to plant them soon. Hope everything sprouts for ya!

 

[Lester Freeman]

Wow, incredible selection of goodies. I really can't wait to see little purple cherry tomatoes, I bet they'll be super sweet. Nothing sweeter than cantaloupe, during the heat of summer. I have some cantalouple seeds lying around somewhere, not sure what kind they are, but I plan to plant them soon. Hope everything sprouts for ya!

Actually I grew them last year and they did not turn as purple as I had wanted, but they still tasted absolutely amazing, yielded very strong and was very hardy. There are a couple of other strains that I'd love to try in the future, namely Black Truffle, and Sunchocola featured by Burpee seeds. Being so close to the ocean, we sometimes don't get the amount of heat that tomatos actually like, so instead this year I'm growing all my tomatos in containers so I have much more control over them. I will be putting the shallower rooted jalapenos and seranno peppers into the ground where I had the tomatos last year, and I will also be growing the cantaloupe in containers so I can give them the most possible sunshine, being insulated by the ocean is a good thing, but for certain crops it just does not get hot enough, Had a big problem with my tomatos developing botrytis mold last year, hopefully that doens't happen again. Also, 4 rows of carrots have successfully sprouted up and I planted some more lettuce today and fertilized all the vegging plants with some 10-3-1 Dr Earth bat guano, they love the stuff.