How does your garden grow?

[Tororider]

Tomatoes.

 

[Larro Darro]

A big hot pepper harvest tonight. Hungarian Wax, Hot Portugal. Hot Italian Cherry and Jalapeño. No chilies though got planted though and too bad because they are favorite of mine too...grill roasted and stuffed with cheese!


Everything else is still yielding heavy right now too! Eggplant, gladiolus, sweet peppers and lots of tomatoes for me. Blueberries are still holding up well too.

We have a good solid week to 10 days of late summer heat and no rain coming on here per the current forecast. Not looking forward to THAT :confused2:


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Nice peppers. Mine are still producing, but not as much. I'm still setting out young plants though. {Set out a few this morning} Not sure if they will make it before frost, but all it is costing me is time and money. I have some chili's I'm going to try to roast. It will be my first time doing it.

 

[Larro Darro]

I side dressed the young peas with triple 13 this morning, then covered it up with the push plow.

 

[Larro Darro]

Today's cucumber ratio, regular to Armenian, was 2 to 19. For some reason the regular cucumbers have been really slow getting going this planting. And the peas are fading fast. Only about half a bucket every three days. The next planting should have a few ready in about a week.



Yesterday I made a light hood using a heating and cooling duct, pig-tail sockets and an old extension cord. I have the "Y' socket splitters so it will hold 12 CFL bulbs, but I only have 6 in it now. I put the freshly sprouted green onions, cilantro, Jalapeno and Anaheim peppers under it. Both kinds of cucumbers are blooming now, and a couple are starting to vine. They are real light hogs, so I will most likely have to move the two Pruden's Purple tomato plants in the lower right.

 

[Larro Darro]

I've been meaning to look back at my last planting of peas and figure out if there is reason to put more seeds in the dirt. Here are the numbers:

Planted 7-22
First bloom 8-23
First peas 8-30
First picking {forecast} 9-5
Average first frost for Tallahassee Florida 10-28

That doesn't leave much wiggle room, but I think I'll go ahead and plant in the morning. It's not a great above ground day, but the next good day would be 13-15th. By then I think it would be too late. Our late peas have done so much better than the early ones, I hate to see the season end.

 

[dragoneggs]

I've been meaning to look back at my last planting of peas and figure out if there is reason to put more seeds in the dirt. Here are the numbers:

Planted 7-22
First bloom 8-23
First peas 8-30
First picking {forecast} 9-5
Average first frost for Tallahassee Florida 10-28

That doesn't leave much wiggle room, but I think I'll go ahead and plant in the morning. It's not a great above ground day, but the next good day would be 13-15th. By then I think it would be too late. Our late peas have done so much better than the early ones, I hate to see the season end.

Go for it... if you didn't you will be kicking yourself. If you do, worse case is you will huff a bit.

 

[Larro Darro]

I took all the pool plants out of their cups and put them in the soil this morning. I really like keeping them in cups for a week or so in the spot they are going to go because your hole holds together for easier transplanting.



I pulled up a stretch of pepper plants that were not doing too well, made a trench, filled it with my soil mix, soaked it good and transplanted in little cilantro plants. Then I covered up as much of the soil mix as I could with my sandy soil. I figured it would reflect the sun better. Also put the soaker hose back down and left it on low all day. That and the cloudy, rainy afternoon may get them to live.

I did a lighting run to Walmart and bought six more of the pools. They are mostly for next year, but I couldn't stand to not buy them at the end of summer price. Also picked up some 9" fans for $10. Fans are a must for growing indoors.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

took the deer fence down yesterday. mowed the corn stalks today. Still have some tomatoes, yellow peppers are turning finally. have to dig the potatoes yet.

 

[Larro Darro]

I got out early and planted 8 rows of peas. {And had a nice rain this afternoon} This was the 5th planting. I picked the first few peas off the 3rd planting. We had a big storm blow through yesterday that knocked many of the peas over. My swimming pool tomatoes are doing good. I got more {homemade} bags filled with soil and into water, but ran out of time before I got any plants in them. A few ears of my 2nd planting of corn is ready. They are very sweet, but there isn't much to them. And the 3rd planting of corn is tasseling now.

 

[Larro Darro]

I got the rest of the homemade bags filled with soil and put Grand Bell Pepper Mix in them. There are supposed to ripen to red, yellow, orange, white, purple and chocolate. Will have to wait and see if I got one of each.

 

[Larro Darro]

The last planting of peas are up. I clipped a few Charleston Grey melons that had end rot. We cut the bad end off and they were pretty good. Also picked about a dozen ears of corn. Sadly that was about half the harvest. But I do have a few more rows of corn just a week or so behind this patch.

 

[/pine]

Here in N.E. GA...(my garden anyway)...the tomatoes are shot and just finding the last of the acorn squash...Have cabbage, kale and collards looking good...

 

[Larro Darro]

Here in N.E. GA...(my garden anyway)...the tomatoes are shot and just finding the last of the acorn squash...Have cabbage, kale and collards looking good...

I've got young tomatoes coming on. I really doubt they will make much before frost. But I can always bring them back inside. My late acorn squash is looking good. Should be ready real soon.

 

[/pine]

@L.D....How do you fix acorn squash?...

My go to way is just half them and fill the seed pockets with butter and brown sugar...then grill, bake or microwave them...

The most famous restaurant around (Dillard House) has a recipe for an acorn squash casserole that is unreal good...!

 

[dragoneggs]

squash, tomatoes, going strong... second planting of beets, beans, peas, and carrots for early winter harvest. Corn, onions, fruits and berries all finished.

 

[Larro Darro]

@L.D....How do you fix acorn squash?...

My go to way is just half them and fill the seed pockets with butter and brown sugar...then grill, bake or microwave them...

The most famous restaurant around (Dillard House) has a recipe for an acorn squash casserole that is unreal good...!

The butter and brown sugar is the best way I have found so far. I cook them for 25 minutes upside down in a half inch of water before adding the butter and brown sugar to make sure they are good and soft. We have tried honey, but like the brown sugar better. I serve them at the end of the meal like a dessert.

 

[DFB]

Finally had a decent rain shower last night after what has s been a good couple of weeks of brutal 80-90 degree weather. Had to toss a whole set of green bell peppers they just shriveled up on the plants due to lack of water and the direct hot sun. Some tomatoes got sunburned but overall were ok along with most all the eggplant. Even the gladiolus didn't want to flower much and the ones that did bloomed and went by in just a few days.

Supposed to be cooler weather now have a lot of stems to mature still. Cooked up another huge batch of tomatoes to freeze for sauce my second round of them, and there is at least one more round to go. 6 Roma plants gave an abundant yield of plum tomatoes along with my 12 Celebrity's. Big eggplant harvest coming up maybe this weekend it looks like from 18 plants must have 3 dozen or more sized up ready to pick. Most of the plants have 4 or five fruit each. I have 5 huge ones in the refrigerator to make more parm with already.



My hot peppers and the Cubanelle's seemed to do the best during that heat wave. picked these few while finding some time to care for my garden yesterday morning before work.





Been no time to pick blueberries these past 5 days

 

[Larro Darro]

Finally had a decent rain shower last night after what has s been a good couple of weeks of brutal 80-90 degree weather. Had to toss a whole set of green bell peppers they just shriveled up on the plants due to lack of water and the direct hot sun. Some tomatoes got sunburned but overall were ok along with most all the eggplant. Even the gladiolus didn't want to flower much and the ones that did bloomed and went by in just a few days.

Supposed to be cooler weather now have a lot of stems to mature still. Cooked up another huge batch of tomatoes to freeze for sauce my second round of them, and there is at least one more round to go. 6 Roma plants gave an abundant yield of plum tomatoes along with my 12 Celebrity's. Big eggplant harvest coming up maybe this weekend it looks like from 18 plants must have 3 dozen or more sized up ready to pick. Most of the plants have 4 or five fruit each. I have 5 huge ones in the refrigerator to make more parm with already.



My hot peppers and the Cubanelle's seemed to do the best during that heat wave. picked these few while finding some time to care for my garden yesterday morning before work.


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Been no time to pick blueberries these past 5 days

Cubanelle's are one of my favorite peppers. Mine didn't make this year, most likely due to the saved seeds not being good.

I have a few acorn squash ready to pick.

Here is the best of my late corn crop. Not too big, but very sweet. There were a few worms in it. I had sprayed a while back, but not often enough apparently.

 

[dragoneggs]

Greenhouse peppers doing great and some starting to turn. Poblano and Red Bells.

 

[Larro Darro]

Greenhouse peppers doing great and some starting to turn. Poblano and Red Bells.

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Nice peppers and nice greenhouse. Margie and I have been talking about a greenhouse. Our problem is not much sun in the backyard, and not wanting anything else to block the view in the front yard.