How does your garden grow?

[General Lee]

Question for you guys: I have a couple sweet bell pepper plants, one red pepper and one yellow. The sweet red pepper plant has a nice pepper coming along but its green. Will it eventually turn red or did I get a mis marked plant?

 

[Larro Darro]

Question for you guys: I have a couple sweet bell pepper plants, one red pepper and one yellow. The sweet red pepper plant has a nice pepper coming along but its green. Will it eventually turn red or did I get a mis marked plant?

You have to leave it on the plant until it turns red. Most all peppers will turn red when left on the plant long enough. The yellow ones are the ones with more genetic engineering.

Larro

 

[lakngulf]

The hot, humid weather has been rough on my tomatoes at the lake, but they are loaded with fruit. Had to clip lots of leaves due to early blight. I just hope there are enough new leaves developing to keep the fruit shaded a bit.





Here is my version of the Topsy Turvy. You can see the dead leaves on this vine



This is what the fish see when they look up

 

[Larro Darro]

The hot, humid weather has been rough on my tomatoes at the lake, but they are loaded with fruit. Had to clip lots of leaves due to early blight. I just hope there are enough new leaves developing to keep the fruit shaded a bit.

I've had some wilt as well as early blight. But I have enough planted I'm not going to worry too much. And I might even put in another row. I have the plants in cups to do it.

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

We picked our first vine ripe cherry tomatoes this morning. {last week we had picked a few off the plants with wilt, and they ripened in the house} We could have picked a couple of cucumbers, but Margie will be out of pocket all day because of the funeral, so she will pick them late this afternoon. I picked about a third of the ears off the stunted corn. Some of the ears were not fulled developed, but most of them looked good. {the test ear I picked from the tall corn needs a few more days} The peas and green beans could have used a picking, but my morning customer called me and ask to come in an hour early. That cut my garden time short by an hour. {if she had let me know earlier, I would have got out there earlier}

And it looks like I had mislabeled my peppers. What I had planted as green bells are New Mexico Chili's and vice versa. So the green bells are planted between the Jalapeno and Cayenne, and the yellow bells are planted beside the NM Chili's. Oh well, they should be flavorful

Larro

 

[sixdogs]

Ha Ha. We're actually just dug into the side of a small rising area of land. No ledge but lots of boulders came out of that digging. When our well was drilled they hit ledge at 15'. It's down there for sure. :laughing:

The basement of our old house in Wells sat on ledge in one corner. We got really lucky on that one. The house sat between two granite ridges that came out of the ground. Everything, the foundation drain to daylight, septic & leach field, fit in there with no blasting. It was all yellow-red sand between the ledge too.

Dave--I once looked at a house for sale in Winterport. Summer people that got scared out after the first winter. Anyway, there was a rock in the basement that was so big they simply poured the basement walls around it. It was a tall basement and seemed taller in the area where the rock was but the rock was the size of maybe two small Volkswagens.

Maybe they thought it was a conversation piece or maybe they couldn't afford to dig a second hole but it was not a wise move. We loved the land and liked the house but the rock was a deal breaker.

 

[dave1949]

Dave--I once looked at a house for sale in Winterport. Summer people that got scared out after the first winter. Anyway, there was a rock in the basement that was so big they simply poured the basement walls around it. It was a tall basement and seemed taller in the area where the rock was but the rock was the size of maybe two small Volkswagens.

Maybe they thought it was a conversation piece or maybe they couldn't afford to dig a second hole but it was not a wise move. We loved the land and liked the house but the rock was a deal breaker.

I've seen that in basements here. I don't think it is all that rare in Maine to have a rock sticking up in older house basements. I dunno, you could do some drilling and cutting and make shelves, or decorate it with modern day petroglyphs. :laughing:

If I really liked everything else about a property, I would have to think hard whether a basement rock was a deal breaker or not.

 

[lakngulf]

I have been battling the raccoons for the sweet corn. I put up an electric fence on one side of the garden, their most used access spot. So far it has done a good job. Already planning a redo of the garden fence to incorporate three or four strands of electric outside the regular fence.

 

[Larro Darro]

The picture is from Thursday, or there about. My helper didn't like the heat in the garden, but she hung in there until we had the squash picked and turned on all the soaker hoses. This morning me and Margie picked 5 gallons of purple hulls, 2 gallons of black eyes, a few tomatoes and cucumbers. Sister and BIL picked about 3 gallons of green beans late this afternoon.

Larro

 

[Western]

Wish I had a helper like that Tim, everyone here is busy or to broke down to do much good, the grass is slowly winning the battle:mur:

 

[Larro Darro]

Wish I had a helper like that Tim, everyone here is busy or to broke down to do much good, the grass is slowly winning the battle:mur:

She is my sister's grand daughter, here for three weeks from Denver. The heat and humidity make her want to stay in the river all the time. But the heat and humidity make me want to stay in the river all the time too, and I have lived here my whole life:laughing: I've had no trouble talking Sister into picking the green beans. As long as she can have what she picks. Now finding help with the hoeing, a little bit harder.

Larro

 

[Western]

I lived in Colorado and I know exactly how they feel :laughing: Finding help hoeing, is harder than making someone sit in the corner.... in a round room.

 

[Larro Darro]

I lived in Colorado and I know exactly how they feel :laughing: Finding help hoeing, is harder than making someone sit in the corner.... in a round room.

Sister lived out there about 30 years, most of that time at the Springs. She came back home 12 years ago when Daddy died. Her daughter lives in a Denver suburb. I haven't been out there since 1980, and back then Sister lived in Boulder. I know it's nothing like it used to be. Even back then there was a lot of folks from California and Texas moving to the mountains. There was never a problem telling the two groups apart

Larro

 

[Western]

Oh yeah, its grown. We only lived there for about 4 years, but I have been hunting there since early 80's every year. I would say the west coasters won though:ashamed:

 

[Larro Darro]

I picked the first few pole beans this morning, also the first ears off the tall corn. {other than the few I had ate in the garden} I got about a hamper of purple hulls, a few black eyes and bush beans. I've been getting too much rain for the squash and tomatoes. The squash are rotting and I'm having to pick the tomatoes before they are good ripe to keep them from splitting. Not to mention the fact that every time I spray, the rain washes it off.

I transplanted the last of the New Mexico Chili's. The cups were labeled Bell, but some of them had little peppers, that's how I knew they were mislabeled. I guess I got the seed packets mixed up when I started the seeds. I got the late cucumbers side dressed as well as the pinto beans.

We put 5 pints and 2 quarts of purple hulls in the freezer after supper tonight. Mamma shelled a few of the ones I picked today, but most of them were from the last picking. We have enough black eyes shelled for a mess, and I told Margie she could give the rest of this picking away. I like the growing, and I don't mind the picking, but I'm not too crazy about the shelling part.

Larro

 

[TomSeller]

Looks good. I see what you mean by the squash getting ruined, that is too bad. But there is still a lot of good eatiin' there.

 

[Western]

Shelling is why I only plant snap beans now.

 

[Larro Darro]

Shelling is why I only plant snap beans now.

Why didn't I think of that? All the unshelled purple hulls went to town with Margie. She has coffee with several retired ladies every morning who will always take anything out of the garden. The two people in her office have been getting squash all along too.

The corn sure was good last night. I'm supposed to join Margie in town for supper, so I'll make sure I have some more of it for lunch today. We were going to cook the blackeyed peas for supper, so I need to do it for lunch, or it will be Friday before I can get around to it. I have a big political thing at work tomorrow night. They always have pretty good eats.

We have already had a passing shower this morning. Just enough to keep me from mowing. I guess I can transplant one more row of Bell Peppers. I am fast running out of room to do much more than that. There is only three rows of the short corn, so I won't gain that much when I pull it up.

Larro

 

[oosik]

Ha, ha, ha - Larro, its finally warm enough here(and it doesn't freeze at night now) to plant a garden. I only plant two planters of squash. My squash leaves are 4-6 inches across now and for the last month I put a plastic garbage bag over them in the planter at night. I quit doing that two days ago but we can still get freezing conditions on until mid July. I'm hoping that by starting the squash early this year they will all ripen before fall frosts.

 

[Spindifferent]

1.7lb Persimmon and a 1.3lb Cherokee Purple along with assorted varieties. The orange and yellow tomatoes weighed 10lbs. All organic.