We have a little garden area at our place that we practically live in during the summer. There are about 15 raised beds with a mix of herbs, veggies, and flowers. Certainly not sustenance farming, in fact most of the veggies never make it out of the garden before being eaten. This year we're doing tomatoes, peppers, japanese eggplant, potatoes, peas, squash, pumpkins, lettuce, and lots of flowers, most of which I can't name. Here are some photos.




So Fenderheads, any other gardeners/farmers out there? Love to see pictures of your gardens. Here's to a bountiful harvest!

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That is straight up AWESOME. I bet that you derive a lot of joy from that garden. I, however, have a black thumb I'm afraid.

I love raised beds too. Yours look great Strato. Mike

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Hello Strato,

Absolutely idylic,
great looking garden you've got there.
I love fresh picked veggies.

No garden here this year too much work
in our so called recession.

Cheers.

Hi strato: that looks a very well kept and productive garden. Nice!


I spend half my time in the rural outback, where we have an acre and a half of fairly wild garden. Most of it is either orchard or other trees. I've taken to farming guitars: here's a Strat next to a 90-ish year old ash tree. Give it a few more decades and we'll be getting plenty of one-piece guitar bodies out of that one...:


Cheers - C

good thread guys gardening helps you appriciate gods gifts and how fragile they are. most take for granted that food will allways be readily available,
I dont grow much but at the tea room we use to harvest ,lemons ,oranges grapefruit ,limequats,figs, dates,prickley pear ,squashes and wild leeks

Hello Ceri,

Is that the steaming tropical rainforest of Peckham?
Possibly over by the RR tracks & Hornshay St.?

Good looking shirt.

Cheers.

Hi Mr Bill: ha - we do seem to have a mighty varied geography in my little corner of London, don't we? (Though I blush to think of the uninspiring pictures of what my neighborhood really looks like that you must have sorted through to find that one of the Eel & Pie shop...)

I didn't know Hornshay St so I just looked it up. It's about a mile from where I live.

However, the garden pictured is not in town: it's at the other end of my regular travels, down in the South West of the country. Much prettier!

Now. I'm going to take me a little photo tour of Bucks County PA. ...Oooo - that looks NICE!

Cheers - C

I have some Tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, beans & peas this year. I think that is about it.

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Hi Ceri,

I've lived in this cookie-cutter neighborhood
since the 50's. No tourists come to my "suburbs"

Most of my neighbors have little gardens.

I'm down there.

Cheers.

Mr Bill, that is just TOO COOL!

I've never played with Google Earth before, but now I want to. Quick, download it - OK!

Here, for the first time in public, the sun-drenched beaches, the snow-capped mountains, the tropical rain-forests... of Peckham (South London):


That's the view I get from the plane when flying home from somewhere far. When I look down and see the roof of my house... I know it's another two hours before I'll be home.

Anyway. I'm down there!

Cheers - C

Hi Ceri,

Pretty neat stuff eh brother.

I've {virtually} walked many of the streets of Peckham{and the world}
been to The Greyhound, Cafe Como, & Fab Foods for desert.
Quite reminicint of the Orwell novel 1984.

That little yellow man icon thing that puts you at street view
is beyond,beyond.

Endless hours of entertainment.

Cheers