How does your garden grow?

[Duwop]

The summer squash has squash growing as well as more blooms popping out every day. Not sure what we are going to do with all that squash. The garden peas and sugar snaps are also producing little pods with lots of little blooms. Corn is about 2 foot tall. Turnips, beets, okra, carrots, patty pans, and acre peas are growing but don't see eating any for a couple of weeks yet.

You might try to find a small local soup kitchen or food pantry to take some. We donate extra eggs from our chickens and veggies, it makes us feel good to know we are feeding hungry children while their parents get their lives together.

 

[Duwop]

Anne andI planted blue lake bush and Lima beans with some radish,sweet corn, Indian corn and okra Friday ahead of rains on Saturday and Sunday. I will get some pics this week to post but they won't show much more than dirt. Going to make a run to see if the Duncan's (respectfully German Baptist farmers) have sweet potato slips yet although it may still be a bit early in the season here.

 

[Larro Darro]

We did a little harvesting... peas on the left, sugar snap on the right. Only got 1 pepper because my SIL stole the other 5 yesterday.

Looking good. I'll pick green beans in the morning. But I have to get some stakes drove and sting up my tomatoes. These heavy bands of thunderstorms have some of them laying over already. Not enough time.

 

[KevT]

I read in a FL gardening book to plant your green beans with your corn... BAD mistake, they are choking the life out of my corn, or maybe plant the corn 3 weeks earlier. I tried to put up a chicken wire trellis for them but they seem to like the corn better. I have a ton of flowers on the beans, but still a couple of weeks I think before harvest. The "Greens" on my turnips are about 2' tall and bushy, but I pulled one tonight and the actual turnip is about the size of my thumb nail, same with the carrots and beets, of course after I planted the beets I found out they should be a fall crop. Hey, my first garden. LOL

 

[Larro Darro]

I read in a FL gardening book to plant your green beans with your corn... BAD mistake, they are choking the life out of my corn, or maybe plant the corn 3 weeks earlier. I tried to put up a chicken wire trellis for them but they seem to like the corn better. I have a ton of flowers on the beans, but still a couple of weeks I think before harvest. The "Greens" on my turnips are about 2' tall and bushy, but I pulled one tonight and the actual turnip is about the size of my thumb nail, same with the carrots and beets, of course after I planted the beets I found out they should be a fall crop. Hey, my first garden. LOL

Last year I planted some pole beans with my sweet corn and found out the hard way that they can be tough on the young corn. This year I put in a little field corn for the beans to vine on. If it hurts the field corn, the seed was not $16 a pound, so I can deal with it.

 

[Daver1963]

Our garden does not grow.:thumbdown: Except for weeds.:smiley_aafz: I got it plowed about a month ago and got about 40% of it tilled last week, but otherwise its been too wet to get anything done.:banghead: I'm debating trying to do something tomorrow before it rains again on Tuesday.

 

[Larro Darro]

I picked my green beans, but there were only about a quart. I may buy a few to go with them. Saw the first blooms on the tomatoes this morning. Got may stakes and first strand of string up. And while not garden, I did dig and plant up a few blueberry bushes from over at the old house this morning.

 

[Duwop]

So here are some picks of my gardens, today I planted a few zukes and crook necks. Went into town to get a spray for the apple trees, every year just after blossom the leaves get a problem and fall off so we don't get apples and this year I'm going to try something different. Tomorrow I will be back in the garden planting some additional varieties of lettuce. The first pic is the squash planted today, the fourth pic is of our potato garden where we planted 100 lbs of harvest gold and kennebec 50 lbs each.

 

[TomSeller]

So here are some picks of my gardens, today I planted a few zukes and crook necks. Went into town to get a spray for the apple trees, every year just after blossom the leaves get a problem and fall off so we don't get apples and this year I'm going to try something different. Tomorrow I will be back in the garden planting some additional varieties of lettuce. The first pic is the squash planted today, the fourth pic is of our potato garden where we planted 100 lbs of harvest gold and kennebec 50 lbs each.

You must not have deer. Lucky dog.

 

[Duwop]

No, I have deer but they don't come close to the house. The potato garden is in the school yard out back but deer don't like them so they are safe. Most of what I grow is next to house in 1/4 acre plot. I think the sent of my dog repels them but I do see tracks in the lower part of the garden.

 

[Larro Darro]

First harvest of the year. {the green beans} As seen on What's for Supper?????



I bought a couple of grapevines and a blueberry bush today at Lowe's. Got them planted, but have about decided to move the grapevines to a different row. I would have to run three runs of cable instead of two. The young plants I'm going to put in the third {& possibly fourth} row will be so small I can worry about them next year.

 

[Larro Darro]

I got home from work in time to transplant a row each of Cherry, Rutger and Roma tomatoes.



Saw blooms on Jalapeno peppers and Sugar snap peas.



The melons, gourds and the pole beans are starting to vine.

 

[KevT]

Wow, your corn is much bigger than mine, and my beans are much longer than yours. That is why my beans choked my corn. Did you plant at the same time?

 

[lakngulf]

Best way to get your garden to grow = Just be gone for more than a week

If I am home I tend to piddle in my garden daily, "helping" it along. Well, I was gone for a few days and I think it does better with me gone. Here are comparison shots, comparing April 20 and April 29





Got my first blooms on some tomatoes, bean blooms showing and little squash about the size of my pinkie.

 

[Larro Darro]

Wow, your corn is much bigger than mine, and my beans are much longer than yours. That is why my beans choked my corn. Did you plant at the same time?

I looked back to check the date, and I planted the pole beans and field corn together on 3-26-15. The beans have just started to vine in the last couple of days, so I'm guessing they will outgrow the corn now. And the field corn is a little taller than the sweet corn.

 

[Larro Darro]

Best way to get your garden to grow = Just be gone for more than a week

If I am home I tend to piddle in my garden daily, "helping" it along. Well, I was gone for a few days and I think it does better with me gone. Here are comparison shots, comparing April 20 and April 29

Got my first blooms on some tomatoes, bean blooms showing and little squash about the size of my pinkie.

All your stuff is looking good. I have the same effect with my gourds. I don't get out that way very often, so the growth always surprises me.

 

[TomSeller]

If I am home I tend to piddle in my garden daily, "helping" it along. .

Pee is chock full of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. It should really help the garden grow.... But I don't know about peeing in my garden.

But if you have a neighbor you don't like you could piddle on some veggies all spring and take them a pee-ce offering.

 

[lakngulf]

My use of the word piddle =

to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often followed by around):

 

[TomSeller]

My use of the word piddle =

to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often followed by around):

Thank you for clarifying

 

[Depmandog]

My use of the word piddle = to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often followed by around):

I too use the word piddle on a regular basis. I best make sure whomever doesn't apply Tom's meaning!! That could be a bad situation!! i.e. "I am going to hang out with the grandkids and just piddle". I might get family services called on me.