How does your garden grow?

lakngulf · Mar 18, 2016

I have been away for a few days at the beach, came home and found my greenhouse looking like this:

Several items that need to find some soil in the garden soon = rattlesnake beans, yellow and zuchinni squash, silver queen corn, and lots of tomatoes. Some tomatoes are so large that they may have to be discarded in favor of the newer group coming along. I like the color of healthy green!

The 10 day forecast calls for some cold nights for Sunday and Monday, so I will nurse everything along and transplant after that. Here are the tomatoes I put in the ground before the trip. They really enjoyed the warm temps and living on the small pier. Will have to cover them during the cold nights.

And WHAT???? A bloom???

aarolar · Mar 18, 2016

Yep not looking foward to these cool temps upcoming, I have beans breaking the dirt and it could potentially stunt them badly depending on how cold it does get.

Larro Darro · Mar 19, 2016

lakngulf said:
I have been away for a few days at the beach, came home and found my greenhouse looking like this:

Several items that need to find some soil in the garden soon = rattlesnake beans, yellow and zuchinni squash, silver queen corn, and lots of tomatoes. Some tomatoes are so large that they may have to be discarded in favor of the newer group coming along. I like the color of healthy green!

The 10 day forecast calls for some cold nights for Sunday and Monday, so I will nurse everything along and transplant after that. Here are the tomatoes I put in the ground before the trip. They really enjoyed the warm temps and living on the small pier. Will have to cover them during the cold nights.

And WHAT???? A bloom???

They have done some growing. I have too much outside to fit it in my underground green house. I'm just hoping there is enough wind Sunday night so there won't be a heavy frost Monday morning.

Larro Darro · Mar 19, 2016

I saw cucumber sprouts up yesterday morning. With the 2 inches of rain we had, more should be on the way.

Larro Darro · Mar 20, 2016

Today there are sprouts of everything but the Charleston Gray melons and Acorn squash of the planted in the ground stuff. But just barely for the banana cantaloupe and Armenian cucumbers. They is only one sprout of each. I put the pepper and tomato plants still in cups, plus the trays of squash and Armenian cucumbers sprouts in the underground greenhouse. It is so windy I don't think we will have a frost, but why take chances.

Larro Darro · Mar 22, 2016

Pretty heavy frost this morning. I got out at 0600 and ran the sprinklers for about an hour. Fingers crossed.

lakngulf · Mar 22, 2016

Larro Darro said:
Pretty heavy frost this morning. I got out at 0600 and ran the sprinklers for about an hour. Fingers crossed.

Was cold around too. I covered my tomatoes in the garden, and ran my propane heater in the greenhouse. Hope that was enough to keep everything on the "grow" track.

Larro Darro · Mar 22, 2016

lakngulf said:
Was cold around too. I covered my tomatoes in the garden, and ran my propane heater in the greenhouse. Hope that was enough to keep everything on the "grow" track.

The only place I saw that was touched up pretty bad was the kiddie pool with the acorn squash and peppers. I had turned on the sprinkler for them, but I guess the broccoli {right beside the sprinkler} was so tall they didn't get washed off as good. Two or three pepper plants look like they might die, and the acorn squash will be slowed down at the very least. But most all the stuff planted in the ground looks good. A couple of green beans got burned, that was about it.

aarolar · Mar 23, 2016

So far I haven't seen any damage on anything of mine. Went ahead and put cucumbers and squash in ground yesterday afternoon.

Larro Darro · Mar 24, 2016

This is what the young pepper plants in the kiddie pool look{ed} liked.

I replaced the burnt ones, and squeezed in as many more as I could. Starting to the north and going clockwise, there are 4 Grand Bell Mix, a California Wonder Bell, Serrano Chili, Cayenne and Jalapeno Early.