How does your garden grow?

[Sysop]

Thanks, they are still very sweet and juicy, but the flavor isn't quite as strong as some of the smaller varieties but do have a better flavor than many of the larger varieties. I have BlueJay, Patriot, and those are Jubilees.

 

[Larro Darro]

Hey Larro, My wife made your "Buckle" last night with blueberries and it was GOOD!!!! Thanks for the recipe.

Glad you like it. Was it the last one I posted, the Blue Boy? It has a little less sugar and calories than the other.

Larro's Blue Boy
Ingredients
1 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 CUP SUGAR
1 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 CUP butter
1/4 cup milk
1 eggs
1 1/2 cups blueberries, fresh or frozen
1 TABLESPOON SUGAR
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Directions
Preheat oven 350 degrees and spray a 8-inch baking pan with non stick cooking spray.
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the butter, milk and egg. Mix for 3 minutes.
Pour batter into the prepared pan, evenly sprinkle the blueberries on top.
In a small bowl, combine the 1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar and cinnamon, then sprinkle over blueberries. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

 

[Larro Darro]

Thanks, they are still very sweet and juicy, but the flavor isn't quite as strong as some of the smaller varieties but do have a better flavor than many of the larger varieties. I have BlueJay, Patriot, and those are Jubilees.

Thanks for that info. I'm still in the market for a few more bushes. My store bought plants are Powder Blue, or something like that. Sister potted three kinds for us from her plants. One of those was from store bought bushes, the other two taken from the big berry patch at the old house. Of those, the smaller berries are the sweetest, but I sure like how fast the bucket fills up with the big ones.

 

[KevT]

Glad you like it. Was it the last one I posted, the Blue Boy? It has a little less sugar and calories than the other.

What's the fun in eating if it is healthier??? :laughing:

 

[Larro Darro]

What's the fun in eating if it is healthier??? :laughing:

Three slices instead of two?

 

[TomSeller]

I planted about 10 blueberry bushes one year. The cows got out that same year and munched them down and they never came back. I do like blueberries, so I need to find a better location.

 

[Sysop]

I've accidently knocked some of my baby bushes out cutting grass before. Generally as long as there is some established roots and they get cut off smooth they'll go ahead and heal and take off again the following year.

My biggest fight for the berries is with the birds. This year hasn't been bad as there seems to be enough for everyone...

 

[Larro Darro]

Twenty odd years ago my Daddy planted a few blueberry bushes in front of their house in the edge of Cousin Dee's pines. They have spread over a pretty large area with some really big bushes. Our whole family picks on them, but we try to time it where there is plenty there when Dee comes up from Tampa. The drawback about them {and all the other fruit trees there at the old house} is that out of sight, out of mind. We often don't think to go pick.

 

[Larro Darro]

I guess this is what a blank canvas looks like to the artist. I planted the skips in the Iraqi cucumbers with saved seeds, then did one row of them in the new ground. And a quick Google search of Iraqi cucumbers revealed that what I have is really Armenian cucumbers that just happened to be grown in Iraq. Now I know. The Master Plan was for 6 rows of Pink Eyed Purple Hulls, 12 rows of sweet corn and 3 rows of straight neck squash. The plan worked pretty well, up to a point. And that point was when I mistook the sign stand at the beginning of the peas for the sign stand at the end of the peas. I have my planter set at 18" to lay off rows, then come back and plant every other row so they will be 36" apart. Luckily I decided 4 1/2 feet between the peas and corn was enough, because when I started planting corn, the first 3 rows was between rows of peas. It will be a little tight when they all start coming up. But the good news is I now have 15 rows of corn instead of 12.:confused3:

 

[jix]

I planted a new lawn on June 15th in newly spread topsoil over a scrub lawn, and it rained gently overnight, hooray, I love it when the weather cooperates that way. Now some sunshine, please Our summer here has been very late this year and too cold for good gardening. I will have to continue with veggies from the store, grown way far south, or in a greenhouse that adds minerals to the medium to develop good taste, especially in tomatoes. Store bought tomatoes disappoint me every time. My clever wife will not refrigerate tomatoes from the store. She says that is what makes them so lacking in flavour. I think she has something there, too. Tomatoes are hard to grow here, slugs, caterpillars, cut worms, deer all take a big share, but they don't kill weeds unfortunately.

 

[Larro Darro]

I planted a new lawn on June 15th in newly spread topsoil over a scrub lawn, and it rained gently overnight, hooray, I love it when the weather cooperates that way. Now some sunshine, please Our summer here has been very late this year and too cold for good gardening. I will have to continue with veggies from the store, grown way far south, or in a greenhouse that adds minerals to the medium to develop good taste, especially in tomatoes. Store bought tomatoes disappoint me every time. My clever wife will not refrigerate tomatoes from the store. She says that is what makes them so lacking in flavour. I think she has something there, too. Tomatoes are hard to grow here, slugs, caterpillars, cut worms, deer all take a big share, but they don't kill weeds unfortunately.

Guy Clark says it better than I ever could. So I'll just let him. . . . .

 

[farmer2009]

Planted 3 rows of corn and a row of green beans yesterday along with 11 yellow tomatoes. After .9" of rain in about 20 minutes I may have to replant. Haven't gone and looked yet

 

[Larro Darro]

The Co-Op didn't have any Crimson Sweet seeds, so I got Sugar Baby and Charleston Grey's. I got them planted yesterday, as well as the two packages of bought Jalapeno plants. We are making lots of pepper, but not as big as I would like for making poppers. Maybe un-stuffed poppers? Un-popped stuffers?

We are eating all the sweet corn we can everyday. It is just about played out, but the field corn is just getting ready.



We cut the first melon tonight. It was a little sun burnt thing, and had a touch of white heart. I didn't think I used too much fertilizer, but I did give them lots of blue juice early on. Maybe too much. It was still good. And anytime I make melons before the 4th, I'm happy.

 

[Larro Darro]

First day of ripe cherry tomatoes:licking: Last day of sweet corn

Where the sprinkler on the Armenian cucumbers has reached out into the new pea patch, they have come up nicely. But nothing else is up there, so I laid soaker hoses on the rows as far as they would go. I was planning on leaving them on 24 hours, then moving them down. Mamma just called me at work to say it is storming at the house right now. I guess it will be safe to turn off the soakers when I get in from work. I just wish I had got the next strand of string up on the tomatoes. Some of them will be on the ground.

 

[KevT]

The only thing I still have coming in are "Acre Peas", "Okra", and Carrots. The Lima Beans have all new blooms on them.

 

[Larro Darro]

Big storm came through yesterday afternoon. Leaned some of the field corn over, and broke a limb off a cherry tomato. I picked a few ears of the field corn. It was alright, but after that sweet corn it tasted like hog feed



You've heard of cat and mouse. What about Orange and Butterfly? This young tom waits in the corn and weeds out the weak and slow from the butterfly population.

 

[Daver1963]

My squash plants are working. Yesterday's pickings.

 

[General Lee]

Does anyone know why my cukes are coming in like round balls (golf balls) and then the growth is stumped?

 

[Larro Darro]

Does anyone know why my cukes are coming in like round balls (golf balls) and then the growth is stumped?

Not sure why, but I've had some of that on mine the last couple of weeks. My vines are playing out, so I replanted. Hope the new ones last longer than the first planting.

 

[Larro Darro]

Nice looking squash Dave.