How does your garden grow?

[Western]

Actually picked to very small melons today, had one sugar baby that wasn't to darn bad:thumbsup:

 

[farmer2009]

Started picking zucchini and yellow crook neck today. First planting of corn is tasseling. And tomatoes are trying to ripen. Potatoes are making also. Beans look bad crabgrass out grew them over our vacation.

 

[Larro Darro]

There were a couple of the squash vines that were almost 6 feet. The fence they are hanging on is 4 feet. I only found four little squash on them when I pulled them up. I guess it was the heat, but the squash and green beans just stopped producing. Today and tomorrow is supposed to be good planting days, so I'm going to try to get something in the ground before I have to go to work.

Larro

 

[lakngulf]

Lucky neighbors, you are very generous. Produce looks absolutely great.

Thanks.

I have some crazy lake neighbors, with too much time on their hands. One thanked me for the produce by posting this picture on facebook, with the caption "Got a visit from the Mater Man"

 

[sixdogs]

Not as fortunate as some of you guys but our first batch of sweet corn is maybe 18 days away.

 

[Larro Darro]

Not as fortunate as some of you guys but our first batch of sweet corn is maybe 18 days away.

That is a good looking corn patch. The bad thing about your garden getting ready early, is it gives out early too. You can still eat my corn, but it is getting harder everyday. You better have pretty good teeth to try it on the cob

I have pulled up my squash, green beans, black eyed peas, and the stunted corn. This morning I tilled those spots and replanted squash, green beans, purple hulls and sweet corn. We had a passing shower, but it didn't hang around. I did run the sprinkler for a while, but rain would be nice.

Larro

 

[sixdogs]

Larro--We run corn in three batches and staggered maturities. See photo.
Also, some of our tomatoes are in rugged cages and some get staked with metal posts. No weeds because we spray roundup before we plant and then use Preen to keep weeds down. After a few years of doing this we don't get much in the way of weeds.








Finally, our gourds for the year climbing the wire panels. Some are the snake gourds from last year and some are "dipper" gourds that ought to be pretty neat if they work out.

 

[Larro Darro]

Finally, our gourds for the year climbing the wire panels. Some are the snake gourds from last year and some are "dipper" gourds that ought to be pretty neat if they work out.

I should have used panels for my gourds. Or at least fence with bigger openings. The dipper gourds won't be too much of a problem, but there is at least one snake gourd that will have to be cut to get it out of the wire.

Larro

 

[TomSeller]

. No weeds because we spray roundup before we plant and then use Preen to keep weeds down. After a few years of doing this we don't get much in the way of weeds.
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Yum. No offense, but I don't put chemicals In the garden.

 

[Larro Darro]

Yum. No offense, but I don't put chemicals In the garden.

Now, I'm no chemist, but the steel in your hoe has lots of iron in it, and iron {Fe} is still on the periodic table :2cents:

I don't like to use chemicals either. I do use a little insecticide on the peas and tomatoes, but I use just as little as possible. I try to spray really early so the butterflies and bees are not at work yet. Last year when I used old hay for mulch, I had a lot more bug troubles. This year the river was flooded {and the hayfield was underwater} when I was needing to get a roll of hay. By the time the river had gone down and the field had dried out enough for me to drive across it without bogging down, I had decided not to use mulch. With the two push plows, and the stirrup hoe, I have been able to keep the weeds in check.

Larro

 

[tcreeley]

We have been eating steamed beet greens with vinegar and pepper. My wife throws on some parmesan or feta to round it out. Got some little beets from the thinning process as well. The first cucumber was ready for picking. Otherwise we spent time planting the last row with turnip and chard. I spent time killing egg masses on the zucchinis, earlier, looking for potato bugs. I find if we are careful to start with, we don't have to go to bug killer so quickly, or as much.

 

[Larro Darro]

My Crowder peas are blooming. The bees were out in force this morning. I'm hoping the purple hulls will hang on until they start bearing. But we still have lots of last year's peas in the freezer that need to be used. I'll try to cook as many of them as I can if there is a break between the two plantings.

H*ll B@tch was helping me look for ripe cucumbers. I step on her at least once a day. It doesn't seem to bother her, as she is still always underfoot.

One of the Jalapeno pepper plants. Today was the first day I gathered four kinds of peppers. Cayenne, Jalapeno, New Mexico Chili and Bells. The Trinidad Scorpion pepper is the only one I have not harvested yet. And if they are as hot as I have been led to believe, I'm in no hurry to be picking them.

Larro

 

[sixdogs]

Larro...so are your snake gourds climbing a fence or just on the ground?

 

[Larro Darro]

Larro...so are your snake gourds climbing a fence or just on the ground?

I have a fence for each kind, the dipper and the snake gourds, to climb on. But some of them ran the wrong way, or they are just too close to the ground. I used some old hog fence, with dog wire over it. The weight of the vines is really too much for the dog wire, but it was what I had when they started vining. Sister sold all her cows, so there are a few livestock panels in the old loading pens I can use next year.

Larro

 

[Tollster]

Good, got tomatoes in 45 days even though the plant label said 72 days... already picking here in NEPA, not bad considering they didn't go in the ground until late may..

 

[sixdogs]

I have a fence for each kind, the dipper and the snake gourds, to climb on. But some of them ran the wrong way, or they are just too close to the ground. I used some old hog fence, with dog wire over it. The weight of the vines is really too much for the dog wire, but it was what I had when they started vining. Sister sold all her cows, so there are a few livestock panels in the old loading pens I can use next year.

Larro

You don't have to let all the vines grow. We just snip off whatever is in the way. Less, but better quality and faster maturing fruit.


Left alone you will have a shocking volume of vines.

 

[Larro Darro]

This was yesterday morning. I had meant to post them at work, but I forgot to take may camera. Banana cantaloupes, even in single serving size. My melon patch. I'm having to pick several a day, and it is still hard to keep up with them. They will both be gone soon, so I need to plant a 2nd patch of each.

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

All four of the things I planted last Tuesday are sprouting. Purple hulls, squash, corn and green beans. There is also little peas on the Crowders. Just in time, too. Last night we ate an entire picking of peas in one meal. It's time to take up the soaker hoses and till that spot up. I've picked all the corn, so that can be cut and tilled too. That means I have to decide what to plant in those places.

Larro

 

[lakngulf]

Had a great harvest of tomatoes today. I had been gone for four days, and could not believe how many had ripened. These are Celebrity, Fantastic, and some Heirloom.



I had planted a late crop of sweet corn last week. Looks like the germination was great, but the birds found the seeds. So whole short row wiped out.

 

[Larro Darro]

The last planting of corn, purple hulls, green beans and squash are growing nicely. I picked the first few crowder peas today. There was not enough for a mess, but they had to be picked. There was only about a week between the old purple hulls playing out and the crowders coming in.

I'm neck deep in pepper, cucumbers, melons and banana cantaloupe right now. My second planting of cucumbers just started to vine, so there shouldn't be a break there. {I forgot to take a picture of them} I guess I will plant more melons and cantaloupe where the old corn and purple hulls were. I haven't tilled those spots up yet. Yesterday and today were good days for planting, but I missed out on that. I did plant some cantaloupe in Mamma's garden today. The 25th and 26th are the next good days. Surely I will have the ground ready by then.

Larro