How does your garden grow?

[lakngulf]

Can You Believe It

These late tomatoes did not care for our 43 degrees this morning, but will do great if we can get some warm fall days before the first frost.

 

[Larro Darro]

That is amazing. My late season tomatoes all fell by the wayside. I have a couple of plants still green, but the tomatoes haven't grown on them.

 

[/pine]

Anyone else have an issue with "flat" green beans ? This year the same brand seeds for full/half runners that I have previously had good luck with produced about 75%-80% flat beans...this is after the first picking...
Anyone know what causes this??

 

[Larro Darro]

Anyone else have an issue with "flat" green beans ? This year the same brand seeds for full/half runners that I have previously had good luck with produced about 75%-80% flat beans...this is after the first picking...
Anyone know what causes this??

My only issue with green beans was I couldn't get my late crop to grow. The heat killed three plantings. But my first planting of the pole beans and the bush beans produced the same throughout.

Larro

 

[tcreeley]

Tonight it is 33F. Tomorrow night some snow perhaps and Sun night high 20's. We got the last of the potatoes out- small and just sitting, two cabbages and turnips- let them go- so they are big. They are good in stew, cabbage or beef. I still have to clean the garden up- seems like I am always a few miles behind in my work! Here are some trunips. Critters left their mark. Oh and I found a cucumber full size lost in the weeds. It survived two frosts!
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[Larro Darro]

Margie just told me she wanted turnips planted. I know it's late, but I got out and pulled up posts and stakes from the tomatoes, and rolled up all the soaker hoses this afternoon. I'm working tomorrow, but I'll try to get it tilled up on Sunday and planted on Monday or Tuesday. Our coldest weather of the season is coming this weekend. Our low for Saturday and Sunday night is forecast at 36F. All we have left producing is peppers. I took some pictures a couple days ago, but they are on another computer.

Larro

 

[tcreeley]

Margie just told me she wanted turnips planted. I know it's late, but I got out and pulled up posts and stakes from the tomatoes, and rolled up all the soaker hoses this afternoon. I'm working tomorrow, but I'll try to get it tilled up on Sunday and planted on Monday or Tuesday. Our coldest weather of the season is coming this weekend. Our low for Saturday and Sunday night is forecast at 36F. All we have left producing is peppers. I took some pictures a couple days ago, but they are on another computer.

Larro

Turnips are tough and like cool weather- good luck!

 

[sixdogs]

LarroDarro

Here are my snake gourds that I let grow on a trellis to stretch most of them straight. I nipped off most of the flowers so I had fewer but better looking gourds. I found it's best to leave them on the vine until spring so they can dry out. Some are already mostly dry.

Also in the photo are some dipper gourds. Same growing and drying drill as above.

I don't know why one photo is sideways...it's straight in my computer.

What do you think?

 

[Duwop]

Six dogs, those are some good looking gourds, I too like to grow them. I will post some pics of mine tomorrow I don't have any pics tonight. I leave them on the vine well into winter to let them get dry. I also get them off the ground if any are touching to keep bugs from ruining them. I grow bird house and dipper gourds, I don't know why I just like to. I use dippers for dipping and I do make some bird houses too. I have tried to make instruments with them because one of my daughters is a music teacher that plays the flute so I thought it would be cool to make a true wood wind instrument.

 

[sixdogs]

Duwop--good deal. I used to pick mine and put them under cover but the ones laying outside did better than the ones I took care of. Even ones laying on the ground came out looking great. Some have been outside for nearly two years and still look to be in perfect condition. About ten years ago we went to a gourd festival and everything was made of gourds, including the instruments. The gourd band was excellent and I think I still have their CD if I can find it.

Here's a clip off of YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8-4yHQ4PxM

 

[Larro Darro]

LarroDarro

Here are my snake gourds that I let grow on a trellis to stretch most of them straight. I nipped off most of the flowers so I had fewer but better looking gourds. I found it's best to leave them on the vine until spring so they can dry out. Some are already mostly dry.

Also in the photo are some dipper gourds. Same growing and drying drill as above.

I don't know why one photo is sideways...it's straight in my computer.

What do you think?

Those look great. Mine grew on a fence, but some of them ran the wrong way and grew on the ground. I was so busy with the regular garden I didn't spend enough time on the gourds. I'm not sure if I have posted these pictures before or not. They were made a few weeks back. I got mine off the vines so I could take the fence down. I always use that spot for a brushpile. I'll burn the brush in the spring, then till and plant next year's gourds in the same spot.

Larro

 

[tcreeley]

Never seen any like this before! You guys are good at what you do!
Today, it is snowing- inch on the ground and windy. My wife grabbed our celery last night as it was getting dark.

 

[tcreeley]

Kaci Hickox assures police chief she's not planning to go into town
....At 9 a.m. Saturday, a white sport utility vehicle driven by Fort Kent Police Chief Tom Pelletier rolled into the driveway of the home where Hickox is staying with her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur. Pelletier and an unidentified Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention employee stepped out and walked around to the back porch to speak with Hickox and Wilbur.

Hickox is working in good faith with the professional health care workers, Pelletier told the media as he and the CDC staffer returned to the SUV a few minutes later.

Pelletier said he has kept communication open with the couple, who, in spite of the court decision, said they do not plan on going into town to shop or eat.

They understand the sentiment in the community, and they do not want to be disruptive, Pelletier said.

I believe them, he added. The governor has made some statements that have not helped us keep civility in the town.

Gov. Paul LePage expressed disappointment with the judge's decision Friday, saying the state would nonetheless abide by law.

"She violated every promise she's made so far, so I can't trust her", he said Friday, answering reporters questions after a news conference celebrating a business opening in Yarmouth. I don't trust her.

Pelletier declined to say what Hickox told the CDC employee, but the police chief said when he asked how Hickox was doing, she responded, Great.

The area around the home was significantly quieter Saturday than it has been for the majority of the week. National news network crews started checking out of their hotels Friday night, after a district court judge decided the state's attempts to restrict Hickox's movements were excessive and not justifiable because she has shown no symptoms of the disease and thus cannot transmit it to others.
Kaci Hickox assures police chief she

Gov. LePage comments: https://bangordailynews.com/2014/10...lic-places-on-ebola-fears/?ref=relatedSidebar

Fort Kent resident reactions: https://bangordailynews.com/2014/10...feelings-over-kaci-hickox/?ref=relatedSidebar

 

[Larro Darro]

We had a nice white frost this morning. I had to come into work, but I told Margie she needed to pick any of the peppers that she wanted. I guess this is the end of the summer garden season for us. I still can't find the pictures I took of the peppers last week.

Larro

 

[Duwop]

We had a nice white frost this morning. I had to come into work, but I told Margie she needed to pick any of the peppers that she wanted. I guess this is the end of the summer garden season for us. I still can't find the pictures I took of the peppers last week.

Larro

That sure is something Larro, we have not had our first frost and I'm about 700 mile due north of you. I'm sure that your winter days will be warmer and frost free also. As for now still getting banana peppers, turnips, spring onions and mustard greens. I hope to plant garlic in the coming week if I can get my tiller filled with oil and greased ( just picked up 6 ft PTO Tiller) I ve got to work on potato and pumpkin beds this winter for next season.

 

[Duwop]

Dang forgot to say, nice snake gourds too, never seen them as I remember. I will have to look around for some seeds, thought I have never seen them for sale here in 14 years, guess I will have to look online. Anyway Good Day

 

[Duwop]

Duwop--good deal. I used to pick mine and put them under cover but the ones laying outside did better than the ones I took care of. Even ones laying on the ground came out looking great. Some have been outside for nearly two years and still look to be in perfect condition. About ten years ago we went to a gourd festival and everything was made of gourds, including the instruments. The gourd band was excellent and I think I still have their CD if I can find it.



Here's a clip off of YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8-4yHQ4PxM

Ha!Ha! Pretty funny I will have to remember to show to my daughter. Yes I leave them out doors too I don't care how ugly they get as a bird just don't care when it's seeking shelter.

 

[Larro Darro]

That sure is something Larro, we have not had our first frost and I'm about 700 mile due north of you. I'm sure that your winter days will be warmer and frost free also. As for now still getting banana peppers, turnips, spring onions and mustard greens. I hope to plant garlic in the coming week if I can get my tiller filled with oil and greased ( just picked up 6 ft PTO Tiller) I ve got to work on potato and pumpkin beds this winter for next season.

It caught me by surprise too. The forecast low was 35F but it was 31F when I got up about daylight. Plus it was really windy early last night. I guess the wind laid enough during the night for it to frost. But our weather can do crazy things. The forecast lows for the next four days are in the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's.

Larro

 

[farmer2009]

This years potato crop. Had a rough start only about 2/3 of the 15 pound row came up. Only got hilled once. So my guess is about 50 pounds of potatoes. I will weigh them once I get the dirt dried and rubbed off. Stacked them in barn on top of the hay to let dry.

 

[Larro Darro]

Hey guys, it's getting close to planting time for me. I'm needing to buy pepper and tomato seeds. What companies have you had good luck with?

Larro