How does your garden grow?

Larro Darro · Jun 27, 2016

DFB said:
I planted the flat Italian Roma beans 5 short rows today (5 packs altogether maybe 250 seed)

Always one of my favorites!

Cukes are really looking good now and expect rain tonight after almost 10 days of brutal 80-90 degree sun and heat. At least the nights have been decently cool but I have had to water every day and sometimes twice a day its so dry. Plus my soil is very sandy.

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I'm right there with you with the hot, dry weather and sandy soil. I have been running sprinklers every morning and evening, and the soakers all night. The new stuff on the soaker hoses look so much better than everything else.

farmer2009 · Jun 27, 2016

Finally managed to finish planting my garden. 6 rows of peaches and cream sweat corn. 2 rows of slinderette green beans. 2 rows of KY wonder bush green beans. 9 hills of pickling cucumber. 4 hill each of yellow crookneck squash, and zucchini. 5 better boy tomatoes and 2 grape tomatoes.
Already harvested 3 grape tomatoes. Boy didn't even let them get washed. We've had so much rain the weeds are taking over. Corn is almost waist high. But very weedy. Beans are sticking their necks out but so are weeds. Vines haven't emerged yet.

adimice · Jun 29, 2016

Our 2016 Garden

lakngulf · Jun 29, 2016

Yeah, Corn is in the Barn

Always an anxious time when sweet corn is about ready to harvest. The raccoons get there a couple of days before. But a good electric fence helps.

The corn at my Mom's garden was in perfect shape to work Monday morning

So, I am up at five o'clock and begin the process.

Shucked, silked and ready to cut by 6am

Mother takes care of the cooking process. Funny, though, she asks me if I think it has cooked enough, when she has been doing this for 75 years.

ColoradoBound · Jun 29, 2016

Man that looks good

lakngulf · Jun 29, 2016

adimice said:
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Wow, beautiful garden and lovely spot.

Larro Darro · Jun 29, 2016

Farmer, glad you got everything planted. I'm still planting here, but it's my 2nd time around.

Lakngulf, yea that you have outsmarted the coons. We didn't put up any of our corn. {this being an election year, Margie's free time is very limited} But this next planting is bigger, and doing a lot better than the 1st one.

Adimice, great looking garden. What all are you growing this year?

Larro Darro · Jun 30, 2016

About a week ago I cut a melon and it was just a hair away from being ripe. Two or three days ago I cut some of the small sunburned ones, and they were already too ripe. We had a week of hot dry weather, and even with the sprinklers going, the vines took a beating. So now I'm eating a melon or two everyday, just trying to keep up.

DFB · Jun 30, 2016

Larro Darro said:
About a week ago I cut a melon and it was just a hair away from being ripe. Two or three days ago I cut some of the small sunburned ones, and they were already too ripe. We had a week of hot dry weather, and even with the sprinklers going, the vines took a beating. So now I'm eating a melon or two everyday, just trying to keep up.

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Oh man wish I had watermelon

I put in some sugar baby melon transplants last week we will have to see what happens...really I'm not getting my hopes up those types of melons are tough to grow around here. Cantaloupes do ok though :confused2:

Well my battle with bunnies and my gladiolus continues have had a trap set but no takers and for a week a had row cover over the bed of 300 bulbs but that's not working out well. The glads want to shoot up straight and tall and the row cover is curling them over too much. Heavy dew is adding weight I guess.

So I just made makeshift baler twine and flash tape fence several rows close to ground maybe it will be enough of a hindrance...see what happens I guess. Didn't help that I mowed all the grass today either. Honestly if I continue to lose plants there will be no more bunnies. I seriously dislike my neighbor right now for releasing these rabbits.

Larro Darro · Jun 30, 2016

DFB said:
Oh man wish I had watermelon

I put in some sugar baby melon transplants last week we will have to see what happens...really I'm not getting my hopes up those types of melons are tough to grow around here. Cantaloupes do ok though :confused2:

Well my battle with bunnies and my gladiolus continues have had a trap set but no takers and for a week a had row cover over the bed of 300 bulbs but that's not working out well. The glads want to shoot up straight and tall and the row cover is curling them over too much. Heavy dew is adding weight I guess.

So I just made makeshift baler twine and flash tape fence several rows close to ground maybe it will be enough of a hindrance...see what happens I guess. Didn't help that I mowed all the grass today either. Honestly if I continue to lose plants there will be no more bunnies. I seriously dislike my neighbor right now for releasing these rabbits.

You are right. It isn't cool to release tame rabbits. Is your trap baited?

I tried growing Sugar Baby's last year. It was a flop. Most of them turned out the size of your fists. My cantaloupes got overrun by the pumpkins from one side and the Tendersweet melons from the other. I did see one that was just about ripe. With this rain, you have to get them as soon as possible.