How does your garden grow?

[DFB]

Need some pics of all this wonderful planting

But its all so tiny right now

 

[ssandersjr]

But its all so tiny right now

Lol, mine is tiny this year. Elbow injury confined me to a 25'x30' plot this year. It's normally 40'x75'

 

[MossRoad]

I finally got my tomatoes and peppers in yesterday and set out the drip irrigation. Late start for us. Beans and peas are coming up.

 

[lakngulf]

Unreal weather for us with rain showers almost every day. Not complaining but things can get TOO wet. Forecast says hay cutting weather so i know what that means. Dont have recent picture but at my moms house we have many many cherokee purple tomatoes that are producing in bunches like big grapes. Beautiful sight!

 

[robbyr]

Okay flower marketing work took precedent for the last 3 days. Set up on Fri, and sales all day Saturday and Sunday. But finally got to do a whole lot of transplanting today!

Planted 75 tomatoes, 3 dz. Celebrity, 2 dz. La Roma, some heirlooms, Brandywine and Pineapple along with a couple of Sweet 100 cherry and a Grape tomato. Plus 3 of the great new TomatoBerry...so cool to look at with it strawberry shape and tastes great too!.

About 100 peppers altogether 3 dz. green bell peppers in 3 varieties Better Bell, Lady Belle, and Red Beauty. Plus 2 dz. of the sweet Italian Cubanelle pepper. Had Anahiem chili peppers this year a dozen of them. Always used to always grow them years ago when we started all our own but hard to get the plants otherwise at least it is for me. My usual Jalapeno, Hungarian Wax and Italian Hot Cherry peppers for canning but only planted 9 of each type as I most often end up with more than I can handle. Plus 3 of the Hot Portugal's for drying...again a very productive pepper.

Went with 18 brussel sprouts for this year a few more than last year I ran out of them way too soon at the end of last season only lasted until Thanksgiving or so

And also put in all the summer squash and zucchini plants, four of the ribbed Italian Costata Romaesco, three each of yellow zuke and two types of green zuke, three Cousa and three of the Mexican Grey.

Still need to pop in 48 Swiss Chard transplants too, but that wont take long at all. Should had done it earlier but hey I'm only one guy

They had said 100% chance of rain both today and tomorrow but the was only a shower overnight and I was able to get in most everything I needed to between 9am and 2 pm today. Ha raining some now.


Either Wednesday or Thursday after the rain passes and depending how wet things are I will put in the seeds for bush string beans, I chose Provider from Harris this year, had Tendergreen from Burpee last year and they were good but Harris has the best prices.

Sunflower transplants will go in too. Infared, Sunrise Orange, Sunrise Yellow, Ring of Fire and Soraya all came up good from seed in the greenhouse but the Frilly sunflower seed that Harris sent with them in the pkg bundle had problems




After that I can set up my pole bean poles for the Romano and Rattle Snake beans and then the cukes I started can go in too. The picklers look great Sumters I think they were, but the Straight 8 most are all yellowing and some are rotting away at the stem even in the greenhouse with the lack of sun and heat. Just too wet I guess. Oh well I can get some Raiders from work they are much better cucumber anyways and wicked productive.

Then if there's is any room left we can see what else. Maybe get some lettuce transplants from work and plant some of the sugar pumpkins I started from seeds I had saved last year.

But that'll be about it!

Still cool only 60's and rain most all week but the forecast is for high 80's next week.

Just in time for motorcycle week!

That looks like A 24/7 job with all of that. The small amount of tomatoes, peppers, squash, okra, and purple hills I have keeps me busy late into the night several times thru the season.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Just about finished up gathering my plums. One 6 year old tree has produce more plums than me and 3 of my neighbors could use and many gallons of them rotted on the tree. I have never seen so many plums on a tree. They were in a round ball all the way around the limbs more like grapes than plums. I picked a 5 gallon bucket off one limb.

Wife just came in from our small garden with a sack full of cucumbers from our 4 vines, several ripe tomatoes. One tomato plant is over 5 feet tall and still growing. Our 5 tomato plants, 4 cucumber and 4 squash (2 yellow and 2 zucchini ) will supple us and our neighbors. My 20 or so okra plants got a late start and are only about 6" tall but they will really start to grow with the summer heat. My beets are growing like a weed also.

Sorry to hear about the late frost up north. I was glad to see the cooler weather here. It was a bit cool this morning but is up to 85F now.

 

[Thomas]

Garden struggling do to gloom and damp weather last couple of weeks.

 

[Sysop]

One of the nickel sized blueberries:

 

[DFB]

Shoot it been raining heavy for a solid 24 hrs. We must have at least an inch of rain I would think by now. Them little plants I put in yesterday are swimming in mud and water right now for sure.

Speaking of cold temps It was 38 Friday night and about the same on Saturday night. I had to cover all my market plants with polyester spun row fabric both nights as they are out there all weekend without any other protection. Man was I nervous. First weekend the 20th and 21st we had cold damages on a lot of plants, probably a good $500 worth of retail sales.

Seems like its going to be a good year for tree crops and other fruit. The orchard had great pollination set. Last year we had no peaches, no plums, very few pears and the apples were sparse. Everything looks really good now. Even my own blueberry bushes are full of flowers. I can hardly believe some of you have ripe blueberries and other fruit already. Earliest around here would be mid July to late July for first plums and blueberries and most are much later than that.

The way its going I'll be fortunate to get 100 good growing days this year. It's already a week into June and first frost can sometime be by 3rd week of September.

 

[ssandersjr]

One of the nickel sized blueberries:

Lol, these make me embarrassed to show mine, first ones ripened today.