How does your garden grow?

[Larro Darro]

Looking good DFB. Do you worry about the heirloom beans crossing with the other beans? I try to keep some time and distance between my Filipino Pole beans and any other blooming beans. I've lost my banana cantaloupes to unwanted crosses, and only 1 of my 3 sets of Armenian cucumbers is the good ones. Problem is I'm not sure which one is which. Next planting I will keep better records.

 

[DFB]

Looking good DFB. Do you worry about the heirloom beans crossing with the other beans? I try to keep some time and distance between my Filipino Pole beans and any other blooming beans. I've lost my banana cantaloupes to unwanted crosses, and only 1 of my 3 sets of Armenian cucumbers is the good ones. Problem is I'm not sure which one is which. Next planting I will keep better records.

I planned for those same factors of both time and distance you mention. My first planting set is all done flowering and the roma's are much farther away from the poles...probably 50 ft. And being that beans are self pollinating 20 ft is a common distance recommendation on the seed sites. My eggplants, peppers and tomatoes are all in between too

I'm actually a little surprised that some of the pole beans are setting flowers already but most aren't and wont be for while and I will probably eat the first ones anyways . so I'm not too overly concerned about any potential cross pollination problems and I really don't expect to harvest that crop minimum not until the very end of August at least and into early September. I figure Romas should be all done before the end of the month.

Darro lately I've gotten involved in several market farming boards on the FB. Lot of excellent shared knowledge, lots of activity too.

 

[DFB]

These are some cool little tomatoes I grew...yellow pear is what they are called.

 

[CalG]

cukes out the ears and only two plants. What a year!

Some smallish tomatoes turned ripe yesterday. Not sure what that is about.
First green beans are done, Second planting just started picking. The Beets are sweet and crisp. Love them shredded in salad.
The rain came just at the right time. The sweet corn is all pushing flower heads (if you can call 'em that)

We pulled out some of the early greens(arugula) to make room for the fresh seed.
I sprayed the pears with copper this afternoon. They are looking mighty blotchy. Dang!

The Japanese beetles are congregating on the roses. Makes for easy collection into the drowning can. They need a predator.

 

[Rustyiron]

First (garden) tomato sammy for breakfast this AM. yum!

 

[Larro Darro]

First (garden) tomato sammy for breakfast this AM. yum!

Did you eat it over the sink so when the juice ran down your arms and dripped off your elbows, your wife didn't yell at you?

 

[Larro Darro]

These are some cool little tomatoes I grew...yellow pear is what they are called.

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This was my first year growing the Yellow Pear. I am so tired of picking them. They took over the trench, choking out the other tomatoes. I've said for two or three weeks now, that I'm going to kill them and start over with Pruden's Purple. I do have a tray full of PP sprouts, so it might get done soon.

 

[Larro Darro]

cukes out the ears and only two plants. What a year!

First green beans are done, Second planting just started picking. The Beets are sweet and crisp. Love them shredded in salad.
The rain came just at the right time. The sweet corn is all pushing flower heads (if you can call 'em that)

My Armenian cukes are already starting to fade, and my 2nd planting of Munchers and Straight 8's are yet to get ready. My 2nd planting of green beans didn't outlast the hot weather. And my pole beans are just about done. The 2nd planting of sweet corn is done. I ate a couple of messes off it, but the ears were small. We are getting rain everyday now, but it came too late for a lot of the stuff.

 

[Rustyiron]

Did you eat it over the sink so when the juice ran down your arms and dripped off your elbows, your wife didn't yell at you?

:laughing: Yeah, it's either over the sink or outside! Mayo & tomato seeds on the floor…. hard to get away with that one!

 

[lakngulf]

Why does it have to be August? As in Indiana Jones "why does it always have to be snakes? I hate snakes"

Man, in my area August is a tough time for gardening. Most plants have run their course and show the signs of hot, humid and dry weather. And the weeds, why so many weeds. Growing in containers and boxes helps boundary the weeds but they seem to explode in August. Got to appreciate things like okra, peppers, lantana and crape myrtles as they seem to thrive in August.

And I have one Princess Feather that is hanging on. I want it to reseed to continue more plants next year.

 

[Larro Darro]

My garden is a mess of dead plants. All I'm picking right now is okra and peppers. But then I did decide to take the month off. That said, I did up-pot five Tommy Toe and five Pruden's Purple tomato plants yesterday.

 

[CADplans]

In May, and June, my garden looks like this,,,

Late August? with the excess rain we had this year? the weeds are crazy thick/tall.

No tiller could control those weeds,,, but, the mower flattened them!!

I had to mow in third gear, low range with my JD 650,,,

The tractor has plenty of power to mow faster, it just took LOTS of time for all the vegetation to exit the mower,,,

I felt like I was running a silage chopper!! :laughing: It was fun!!

 

[Svendus]

Wow nice it was a long time since i was here

We also have a garden on our small Planet :thumbsup:

 

[Larro Darro]

In May, and June, my garden looks like this,,,

Late August? with the excess rain we had this year? the weeds are crazy thick/tall.

No tiller could control those weeds,,, but, the mower flattened them!!

I had to mow in third gear, low range with my JD 650,,,

The tractor has plenty of power to mow faster, it just took LOTS of time for all the vegetation to exit the mower,,,

I felt like I was running a silage chopper!! :laughing: It was fun!!

I have corn and peas that need bush hogging. I need to get up the soakers first though.

 

[Larro Darro]

Wow nice it was a long time since i was here

We also have a garden on our small Planet :thumbsup:

Neat video. Thanks for posting.

 

[DFB]

Well I harvested off the bulk of my Celebrity (18 plants) and La Roma (12 plants) for sauce and it totaled around 100lbs and so yesterday processed them all into the freezer. Cukes are pretty much done. Made up another round of pickles this morning and jarred another round of mixed hot peppers jalapeno wax and cherry.

Still have some beans and the seed pole beans for the seed saver club are getting mature now.

Had a super heavy harvest on the Cubanelle peppers (12 plants) and 18 green bell's (there was 3 varieties 6 plants of each on those) all over the last 10-14 days things and really took off after the rain finally came including my lawn but they have been producing decent right along. Same with the eggplant. A second big set on those 18 Harris Classic eggplants are all ready too pick once again too. Still have a few in fridge too. Took the last of the Cousa squash and some green zukes this week.

The Old German, Brandywines plus 2 Juliets are still out there growing too along 2 sweet100's and a Sungold (those last 3 I gave up picking long ago :confused2: ) .

I have had enough of it all this season

Weather is supposed to cool down some this coming weekend...cant wait!

 

[lakngulf]

My garden is a mess of dead plants. All I'm picking right now is okra and peppers. But then I did decide to take the month off. That said, I did up-pot five Tommy Toe and five Pruden's Purple tomato plants yesterday.

I tested my 2016 saved seed for germination and ended up with some plants that looked ready for the soil. Seeds for tomatoes on left were planted August 3rd. The little ones on the right were planted August 15.

So, to give them a little help in this HOT August sun, I have installed a "shade" over my little pier. In the next picture you can see the green tarp over the pier garden.

 

[Millwood]

3 blocks @ 4 rows each block of Ambrosia Bi-color Sweet Corn. I grow organic with no chemicals of any kind, just cow poo and straw tilled in and Lady Bugs and Praying Mantis for pest control. Was told to expect one ear per stalk, but I had two and sometime three. Great harvest on first two blocks and will selective pick third block for local Farmers Market, beginning tomorrow. Made great profits and filled our freezer!

 

[mapper]

Done canning and freezing green beans, household use and sharing now, have to find a new spot next year for beans, seem to have some sort of virus similar to pea wilt starting. We have been harvesting corn for about 2.5 weeks now, three varieties all super sweet. Put up about two gallons of frozen kernels yesterday, will do more tomorrow. Picked about 225 lbs of pears last week. Had to borrow refrigerator space from friends for part of the types that need 30 days of chilling before they will ripen. Canned the first round of Bartlett pears today, first of the fifty lbs or so of them.
My wife had knee surgery in the middle of July, so something had to give, I will put my weed crop up against anybody's at this time:laughing:. It will be rototiller and brush hog time soon

 

[Larro Darro]

It is great you guys are still getting a harvest. I'm going to be doing some fall planting soon. As proud as I was of my buried soakers, now I'm dreading trying to pull them loose from all the roots that have grown around them. It's got to be done before I can disc.