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Some garden updates...its 3 weeks in, I finally have drip irrigation set up, and we have our first tiny tomato on the vine. Going to put the tomatoes in cages here in the next few days.

Tomato bed:


Peppers and Squash:


First tiny tomato:


Size comparison using my lens cover:


The squash are struggling a bit (after some research, I was over watering them apparently) and a few of the tomato plants had a disease issue thats been cleared up. I'm still hopeful for a good crop.

WildBill wrote: Very nice - I am jealous. It looks like your yard is big enough for a small farm.
Thanks for the pictures. Post some more when it gets to be pickin' time.

Thanks Wildbill! Yeah, its a nice long yard, but a bit narrow. It was one of the big selling points on this house over some others we looked at. More yard than we know what to do with!

Got our garden in this week!

Decided to go raised beds due to massive amounts of black clay here in central texas.

Bought 8 foot long 1x6 inch boards for our borders (some day it'd be nice to pretty it up with some decorative rocks or something, but its functional.)



spread some sand to mix in with the clay underneath, then turned the soil to a depth of about 8 inches.




Simple L brackets held it all together, and it was filled with a veggie garden specific compost from a local soil company.


We planted 8 plants of 6 different tomato varieties this year (Celebrity, Grape, German queen, Better Bush, Better Boy, Super Fantastic).
4 bell peppers, yellow red and green, 2 squash plants, 1 serrano pepper, 1 Anaheim pepper and 2 jaelopeno pepper plants.
The Tomatoes

The peppers and squash


Close ups:

Anyone here have a vegetable garden? My parents had tomatoes growing when I was a kid, and my grandparents lived on enough land to have homegrown cucumbers, squash, sweet corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, etc.

Now that I finally have a house, I'm planning on planting my first garden here in a few weeks.

So far planning on tomatoes (both large and cherry sizes), cucumbers, squash, bell peppers, serrano peppers, and habanero peppers.

I'd love to see some set ups for some produce you got out of your own backyard.

I can't wait to eat homegrown tomatoes again.