Garden pics! My parent's slice of happiness. Lots of pictures (1 Viewer)

[thangbom4321]

My parents live out in Waller and love garden work. They live on a 2 acre plot. They use about 1/8 acre for there horticulture and a big fowl pen/hutch that's 18'x100'. My siblings and I help out at the beginning and end of each season with the digging, tilling, moving/laying out the carpet, and transporting the bigger potted plants.

Trying to post the earlier pictures of the garden first.

 

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I'm gonna update this post later in the growing season.

 

[steveb]

nice... I miss my grandma & grandpa's farm and garden.

 

[thangbom4321]

I can relate. If i don't go visit for a month or two, I start wondering how thing are going even though I don't really do any maintenance on the garden. My parents love it. I guess that's why they spend 2+ hours a day watering the plant and 45+ min harvesting the melons, egg and whatnot. It's a lot of work and dedication especially when it's on this large of a scale. It's really relaxing to just go out and see the green.

 

[SunnyHouTX]

This is magical what they're doing. Beautiful, simply beautiful.

BTW, white balance is not properly set on the camera

 

[thangbom4321]

Yeah, my mom was farmer girl when she was a kid. She has the biggest green thumb ever! I bring her my dead plants and she revives them. I think the love garden work because it reminds them of the gold old time in Nam, hard work and rewards. I can't do what they do. close to 70 and still working the shovel.

 

[soymilk]

awesome. My parents are doing the same thing, not the same scale. Lots of herbs I see. How are you parents watering it?

But for the camera, seems like its on tungsten mode or something. Looks like the LG optimus allows you to change white balance

 

[thangbom4321]

ohh yeah, my optimus camera phone pics sucks. I just pointed and clicked. I couldn't see what was on my screen due to glare. Sorry.

as for watering, the melon patch is the only thing automated on an irrigation system. It has a long main tube with a bunch of smaller tube with a spike branching off of it. At the water source is a simple plug in timer we bought from HD (it can control 2 or 4 channels it think). Everything else is water via a hose that my parents drag around. They have a 250' hose in the back and a 200' hose in the front. We have well water so the only bill is the electric bill.

They were watering the melon field by hand until last year. That's why you see those thin stick poking up everywhere in the melon field. They mark where the main root is so that they just have to spray at the stick to water the plant instead of just randomly spraying the leaves.

I hope i answered your question. If not, LMK and I will try to fill you in.

 

[thangbom4321]

Looking at my picture, you can see the black irrigation lines in the picture with the long string beans. My dad took a bunch of them and hammered them to some post so that the bean vine had somewhere to grow.