My garden in 2014

Andrey_BY · May 10, 2014

Finally have transplanted all tomatoes and peppers between May 1 and May 9 at our dacha garden.

2 greenhouses (6m x3 m)
1 coldframe (6m x 3m)
all filled with a cow manure.

1 old greenhouse is now a storage place for firewoods and garden tools.

Totally:
70 tomato plants
35 sweet peppers
5 hot peppers (more than enough for me

)
About 10 early tomato plants are to be transplanted in open soil in a week or so after last risks of spring frost.

Total quantity of plants are Less than in 2000s, but I have got much less time for gardening this year and several years before.

One greenhouse are still full of seedlings of cabbages and flowers. Gonna transplant them till the end of May.
Early radish and spinach have been already eaten in April and early May salads

Cucumbers and squashes will be the next step in a week or so.

Margarita (my younger daughter) help us sometimes and really like to pose on photoes

Photoes were made on quite cheap HTC phone so the quality of pictures are Chinese

**coronabarb** · May 10, 2014

Sounds great Andrey! Looking forward to the photos.

Andrey_BY · May 10, 2014

Another set of pictures "what goes around in the garden".
This bird-house is already full of hungry sterling babies - a very noisy family

ddsack · May 10, 2014

Nice set up! How wonderful to have so much greenhouse growing space. And your daughter is adorable!

Speaking of cucumbers, I've meant to tell you that those Nevesta white cucumber seeds you sent me as a bonus some years ago, were extremely good! I would have saved seeds if they had not been a hybrid according to the packet. So far I have not found anything similar in seed catalogs here in the U.S.

Andrey_BY · May 10, 2014

Dee, I really like Nevesta (="Bride" in English) cuke as well, but it is a hybrid. Very nice appearance (a white long Chinese type) and quite crunchy. Probably you should give it a try for several years and make an excellent OP variety from it.

clara · May 10, 2014

Wow! So much space to grow all kind of veggies! And everything looking so neat! Congrats to your little helper - she's a cutie!

**mdvpc** · May 10, 2014

Andrey-Thanks for posting the photos! Your daughter is so cute! Pls continue the photos!

Redbaron · May 10, 2014

Beautiful. Now THAT"S good use of a yard!

patty_b · May 10, 2014

Beautiful....I felt like I had stopped by for an afternoon visit! Your daughter is a cutie. Love to see how everyone gardens!

kath · May 10, 2014

What a wonderful setup, Andrey- and helpers don't get any cuter than yours! Thanks for sharing your garden with us-

kath

Worth1 · May 10, 2014

What is that yellow Christmas tree shaped plant your wonderful daughter is standing next to?

The whole place looks lovely.

Worth

Dewayne mater · May 10, 2014

Love your assistant! Great set up. I hope you'll allow us the pleasure of following your garden through the summer!

Dewayne Mater

Andrey_BY · May 11, 2014

Thanks for positive comments to all. Margo is local star at our dacha indeed

Worth, this is a nice Alberta Spruce (Picea glauca) dwarf variety called "Daisy White".

It looks very ornamenthal in May-June when its new foliage becomes lime green to milky-white. Needles turn to green in summer. Grows about 5 cm a year.

I've got several other Canadian Conica conifers (as we called them here) with normal green foliage and of different shapes + yeses, thujas and one big Larch. You can see them all on pictures.

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Originally Posted by Worth1

What is that yellow Christmas tree shaped plant your wonderful daughter is standing next to?

The whole place looks lovely.

Worth

amideutch · May 11, 2014

Andrey, nice to see where you make it happen. Your going to have a lot of visitors when Margo gets into her teens.

But you can always put them to work in your dacha when they visit!

Ami

nancyruhl · May 11, 2014

I just love seeing the gardens of folks around the world. Yours of beautiful.

Being in zone 4a, it surprises me that some of your perennials are flowering before my 6a garden. I'll be in the lookout for Daisy White. She belongs in my garden, too.

May 10, 2014	#2
coronabarb Tomatoville® Recipe Keeper Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Roseburg, Oregon - zone 7 Posts: 2,822	Sounds great Andrey! Looking forward to the photos. __________________ Corona~Barb Now an Oregon gal

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ddsack Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Northern Minnesota - zone 3 Posts: 3,231	Nice set up! How wonderful to have so much greenhouse growing space. And your daughter is adorable! Speaking of cucumbers, I've meant to tell you that those Nevesta white cucumber seeds you sent me as a bonus some years ago, were extremely good! I would have saved seeds if they had not been a hybrid according to the packet. So far I have not found anything similar in seed catalogs here in the U.S. __________________ Dee **************

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Andrey_BY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a) Posts: 2,278	Dee, I really like Nevesta (="Bride" in English) cuke as well, but it is a hybrid. Very nice appearance (a white long Chinese type) and quite crunchy. Probably you should give it a try for several years and make an excellent OP variety from it. __________________ 1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F Andrey a.k.a. TOMATODOR Last edited by Andrey_BY; May 10, 2014 at 03:38 PM.

May 10, 2014	#7
mdvpc Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 4,386	Andrey-Thanks for posting the photos! Your daughter is so cute! Pls continue the photos! __________________ Michael

May 10, 2014	#8
Redbaron Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 4,488	Beautiful. Now THAT"S good use of a yard! __________________ Scott AKA The Redbaron "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison co-founder of permaculture

May 10, 2014	#6
clara Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 1,351	Wow! So much space to grow all kind of veggies! And everything looking so neat! Congrats to your little helper - she's a cutie!

May 10, 2014	#9
patty_b Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 487	Beautiful....I felt like I had stopped by for an afternoon visit! Your daughter is a cutie. Love to see how everyone gardens!

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kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	What a wonderful setup, Andrey- and helpers don't get any cuter than yours! Thanks for sharing your garden with us- kath

May 10, 2014	#11
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	What is that yellow Christmas tree shaped plant your wonderful daughter is standing next to? The whole place looks lovely. Worth

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Dewayne mater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2008 Location: DFW, Texas Posts: 1,212	Love your assistant! Great set up. I hope you'll allow us the pleasure of following your garden through the summer! Dewayne Mater

May 11, 2014	#14
amideutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E Posts: 5,041	Andrey, nice to see where you make it happen. Your going to have a lot of visitors when Margo gets into her teens. But you can always put them to work in your dacha when they visit! Ami __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘...Holy Crap .....What a ride!'

May 11, 2014	#15
nancyruhl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan Posts: 1,051	I just love seeing the gardens of folks around the world. Yours of beautiful. Being in zone 4a, it surprises me that some of your perennials are flowering before my 6a garden. I'll be in the lookout for Daisy White. She belongs in my garden, too.