How does your garden grow?

[Larro Darro]

Where I come from we call it getting the crop "laid by".
I planted a small garden for my Mother and planted an extra bunch of tomatoes. Earlier in the week I ran the tiller where I could and "hilled" up dirt around plants, creating a good trench alongside the plants to hold water. Today I talked to my Mom by phone. She told me what else she (at 91) had done in the garden and said "I think we can call it laid by"

Folks call it laid by here too. I may be using side dressed in the wrong place. It was a term Daddy used when laying by the corn. The distributor bolted on to the cultivator and you got a neat little line of fertilizer right beside the row of corn.

After I had put out about half of my 13-13-13/15-0-15/mushroom mulch/potting soil mix I realized that if I didn't go around the plant, but just put it down beside the row, I could cover most of it with the push plow.

 

[Larro Darro]

I planted corn, peas and melons in a food plot this morning. Later I did a 2nd planting of peas, green beans and sweet corn in the garden. I transplanted 12 pepper plants into the ground {for 30 in all}. Put a few Lemon Pear tomatoes and 3 six packs of pepper sprouts into pots. Have about 10-15 six packs left. There is several tomato plants in gallon pots that have to be up-potted soon.

A few of my peach trees had two trees per pot, so I re-potted them. More planned for tomorrow.

 

[Larro Darro]

I picked green beans yesterday and Margie used them in two different dishes. Both with red potatoes, but one of them with a chicken breast. Turned out very good.

Today I picked the squash and cucumbers. These cukes must be from the $.25 packs I bought at Dollar Tree. They are not the same as what I have been growing for the last couple of years.

 

[Larro Darro]

Here are the pepper plants I put in the ground yesterday, and the sprouts I potted today.

 

[Larro Darro]

The Yellow Pear tomato is really packing on the fruit.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Tilled and planted my garden last night. Corn,green beans, cabbage, peppers, tomatos, cucumber, and cantalope. Need to get some seed potatos yet.

 

[MossRoad]

Got most of our garden in this week.
Several varieties of tomatoes, peppers, celery, beans, peas and cucumbers. Dug out the June bearing strawberries for good! Our everbearing strawberries are doing great. Fall Gold raspberries are doing well, too. Concord grapes seemed to survive the frost two days ago. And our first year for rhubarb, the plants look great. Cantaloupe are in, too. Carrots and spinach will go in soon.

And we planted 450 Canna lillies Monday, and gave 350 away.

 

[MossRoad]

The Yellow Pear tomato is really packing on the fruit.

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That's my favorite tomato! :licking: Just planted 4 plants today. :thumbsup:

 

[Larro Darro]

Got most of our garden in this week.
Concord grapes seemed to survive the frost two days ago.

Is that much later than normal? We have had a cool spring, slowing the garden.

 

[Larro Darro]

That's my favorite tomato! :licking: Just planted 4 plants today. :thumbsup:

This is my first time growing them. So far, I'm liking them.

 

[MossRoad]

Is that much later than normal? We have had a cool spring, slowing the garden.

Its exactly normal. But we've had very mild springs the last few years. Last freeze here is traditionally April 15th with last frost being May 15th. Only twice in the last 12-15 years have I NOT had my grapes harmed by frost. They always seem to come on about a week before the last frost and get burnt. Its only three vines, but when I do have them, I get enough for grape juice for the entire year, grape freezer jam and a couple dozen bottles of wine. :licking:

 

[MossRoad]

This is my first time growing them. So far, I'm liking them.

My grandmother had them when I was a little kid back in the 60s and I liked going to her garden and eating them right off the vine. I found them again about 15 years ago and plant them every year since. I like them better than cherry tomatoes. And they make a salad look interesting.

 

[Larro Darro]

The silks on the sweet corn is starting to turn. My corn was looking kind of yellow, but I've been giving it a little liquid plant food. It has greened up nicely the last couple of weeks.



Pink Eyed Purple Hull peas just about ready.



The Philippine pole beans are starting to climb up the field corn.



There are some little Acorn squash on the vines planted from seed.



And little melons on the Crimson Sweet vines.

 

[dragoneggs]

The silks on the sweet corn is starting to turn. My corn was looking kind of yellow, but I've been giving it a little liquid plant food. It has greened up nicely the last couple of weeks. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=469171"/> Pink Eyed Purple Hull peas just about ready. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=469172"/><img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=469173"/> The Philippine pole beans are starting to climb up the field corn. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=469174"/> There are some little Acorn squash on the vines planted from seed. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=469175"/> And little melons on the Crimson Sweet vines. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=469176"/><img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=469177"/>

I just can't get over how much earlier your season is vs the great PNW. Looking good Larro!

 

[Larro Darro]

I just can't get over how much earlier your season is vs the great PNW. Looking good Larro!

I was pushing the early start more this year, using lights and starting things inside. Some of the late cold did kill a few peppers and stunt the growth of several other plants, but over all, I'm ahead of last year's pace. We did hit 90F today, so I guess it is summertime here already.

 

[flyerdan]

I got kind of a late start this year, waiting for things to dry enough to till. Got some peas, radish and carrots in last Friday. Corn plants started in egg cartons in on Wed. I had tomato and pepper and cantaloupe started earlier this spring, but used dirt instead of potting soil and kept them in egg cartons too long so they became rootbound. Transplanted them into 4" pots with potting soil and they are taking off nicely, will be able to put them out pretty soon.

 

[MossRoad]

Very nice!

I continued putting out our drip irrigation in the flowers and garden today. Didn't wear my glasses. Put 16 drippers on backwards. Turned on the water and heard POP POP POP! Turns out I'd put the barbed end out and the smooth end into the tubing and several shot off until the pressure dropped! :laughing:

 

[/pine]

...There are some little Acorn squash on the vines planted from seed.

The last several years I have been planting 'Table Queen' variety of acorn squash...This year I am trying something new (to me)...'Table King' bush type...
Is this something new is it a GMO ?...will we be seeing "bush" type melon etc. varieties now?

I swore off "bush" type beans because they are hard to pick but I'm interested to see how the acorn squash does...
Wondering how much difference there is in the flavor and texture ?...

 

[Larro Darro]

I got kind of a late start this year, waiting for things to dry enough to till. Got some peas, radish and carrots in last Friday. Corn plants started in egg cartons in on Wed. I had tomato and pepper and cantaloupe started earlier this spring, but used dirt instead of potting soil and kept them in egg cartons too long so they became rootbound. Transplanted them into 4" pots with potting soil and they are taking off nicely, will be able to put them out pretty soon.
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Your plants are looking good now. I like those little square pots. I wrecked the roots on a few plants trying to get them out of the 6 packs. I did some seeds in trays of 36. It was a chore to turn them upside down to get the sprouts out, without dumping a few of them.

 

[Larro Darro]

Very nice!

I continued putting out our drip irrigation in the flowers and garden today. Didn't wear my glasses. Put 16 drippers on backwards. Turned on the water and heard POP POP POP! Turns out I'd put the barbed end out and the smooth end into the tubing and several shot off until the pressure dropped! :laughing:

I have to take my glasses off for closeup work, so I wouldn't have an excuse in a case like that. I did pick up a cheap pair of farm and woods glasses with bifocals, so I can read my compass without taking my glasses off. {I was getting poked in the eye with brush when I didn't wear my glasses in the woods} I need to look into a drip system. Watering takes up lots of my garden time.