How does your garden grow?

[Larro Darro]

It looks like two of my banana cantaloupes got together and had a baby I am amazed at the amount of genetic diversity among them this year. I guess it is from the saved seeds. I'm getting four or five of them a day now. More than we can eat.

Larro

 

[Fragger]

We recently bought this place so I was a little late on starting my garden , 1 row purple hull, mustard greens spinach and cilantro

 

[bcjmmac]

4th year garden. Clay soil is coming around & this looks to be a good year.
A little bit (understatement) behind some of you "Southerners" - we're still on peas, etc. Don't expect ripe tomatoes before August! LOL

 

[Larro Darro]

I got the rest of the string up for the pinto beans just in time. They were already out growing what I had put up last week. I saw the first beans on the vines. Picked the first picking of the brown crowders. Mowed the old corn and peas today.

 

[lakngulf]

I got the rest of the string up for the pinto beans just in time. They were already out growing what I had put up last week. I saw the first beans on the vines. Picked the first picking of the brown crowders. Mowed the old corn and peas today.

Those beans and peas look some kind of healthy. Enjoy!
My parents used to have a huge garden, with most of the space taken by sweet corn and purple hull peas. We did lots of corn freezing and shelling peas. My Mom had some peas for our lunch last time I was there. She was lamenting because she just cannot find store bought peas that are even close to what she used to put up. If I can work it out I am going to buy her some already shelled peas at a farmers market and let her freeze them. Will not be minimum "field to freezer" time like she sought but should be better than current store bought.

Sams and other stores have some very good frozen lima beans, but no one seems to have decent peas for sell.

 

[Larro Darro]

Those beans and peas look some kind of healthy. Enjoy!
My parents used to have a huge garden, with most of the space taken by sweet corn and purple hull peas. We did lots of corn freezing and shelling peas. My Mom had some peas for our lunch last time I was there. She was lamenting because she just cannot find store bought peas that are even close to what she used to put up. If I can work it out I am going to buy her some already shelled peas at a farmers market and let her freeze them. Will not be minimum "field to freezer" time like she sought but should be better than current store bought.

Sams and other stores have some very good frozen lima beans, but no one seems to have decent peas for sell.

I have bought frozen field peas at Walmart. They were alright, but nothing to write home about. Our local Piggly Wiggly has fresh and frozen peas that are better, but they cost more.

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

I got out after supper and watered the peppers, picked cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers. Also clipped a few melons and banana cantaloupe. Then I worked my young squash plants with my stirrup hoe, and plowed the young peas, corn and green beans. I worked until it was too dark to see. I need to spray the peas, but I ran out of time. Maybe tomorrow.

Larro

 

[lakngulf]

I got out after supper and watered the peppers, picked cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers. Also clipped a few melons and banana cantaloupe. Then I worked my young squash plants with my stirrup hoe, and plowed the young peas, corn and green beans. I worked until it was too dark to see. I need to spray the peas, but I ran out of time. Maybe tomorrow.

Larro

No matter how much you do in the garden, there is always "something else" that could/should be done. So glad you get some production from your work.

 

[Larro Darro]

I thought you guys might like to see what a couple three hundred dollars looks like rolled up and laid on the ground

I did start putting some of them back out today, but the rain ran me off before I could get all the new plants soaker-ed up.

Larro

 

[lakngulf]

I did NOT get any of this corn. The animals beat me to it and had corn stalks scattered for 150 yards. They must have enjoyed

 

[Larro Darro]

I got out early and tilled up four spots in the garden before breakfast this morning. Where the purple hulls, melons, cantaloupes and corn had been. After work I planted a few rows of melons and cantaloupes. In the morning I'm going to run up to Walmart and look for some tomato plants. Most of mine have started going south. Will get some more green bean seed if they have them. And whatever else catches my eye.

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

The choices in tomato plants were kind of thin at Walmart this morning. I went with Cherokee Purple and San Marzano. Both are heirloom, so I will save a few tomatoes in the freezer for seeds. I also planted 7 rows of Brown Crowder peas, 2 rows of green beans and a row of table queen, a dark acorn squash.

And I'll add a picture just to show you guys that I do have a little color to my dirt. {if you dig deep enough}

Larro

 

[lakngulf]

The choices in tomato plants were kind of thin at Walmart this morning. I went with Cherokee Purple and San Marzano. Both are heirloom, so I will save a few tomatoes in the freezer for seeds. I also planted 7 rows of Brown Crowder peas, 2 rows of green beans and a row of table queen, a dark acorn squash. And I'll add a picture just to show you guys that I do have a little color to my dirt. {if you dig deep enough} Larro

Wish I could send you some plants. What I have in the greenhouse are not that large, but about size to put in the ground. I decided this year to start new seed on the first and fifteen of each month, starting June 1, for late tomatoes. Worked out pretty good because we had grand kids visiting throughout the summer and it worked for them to help me plant.

I now have some June 1 and June 15 plants in the ground, with a few of the June 15 plants not in the ground (hope to do that today). My July 1 plants need to be put outside in the sun, and the July 21 (I missed the 15th) seed are just now coming up.

 

[Larro Darro]

Wish I could send you some plants. What I have in the greenhouse are not that large, but about size to put in the ground. I decided this year to start new seed on the first and fifteen of each month, starting June 1, for late tomatoes. Worked out pretty good because we had grand kids visiting throughout the summer and it worked for them to help me plant.

I now have some June 1 and June 15 plants in the ground, with a few of the June 15 plants not in the ground (hope to do that today). My July 1 plants need to be put outside in the sun, and the July 21 (I missed the 15th) seed are just now coming up.

That is a great idea. I had too many up front, and not very many later. Next year I will try to space them out better.

Larro

 

[tcreeley]

My pastime lately has been getting the potato bugs. The plants are reaching my hips- red norlunds, pontiacs and kennebec russets. Pontiacs are my favorite. I haven't had to use any poison -organic or synthetic. I squish the pesky bugs between my fingers, and look for the egg masses under the leaves. -Every couple of days.
Garden is growing great- celery, zuchinis, bell peppers, detroit beets, broccoli (just picked), lettuce, tomatoes, cukes, etc.)
Tonight I am trying my hand at dehydrating some zucchini. We always get more than we can store and looking at alternatives this year.

 

[Duwop]

Today's harvest was 1 1/2 bushel corn, cukes , maters, banana peppers, and 5 eggs from the chickens. Put up half of corn into freezer and will put up rest tomorrow.

 

[Larro Darro]

Today's harvest was 1 1/2 bushel corn, cukes , maters, banana peppers, and 5 eggs from the chickens. Put up half of corn into freezer and will put up rest tomorrow.

A good looking harvest. Next year I'm going to space out my corn better. I didn't plant my 2nd crop until the 1st one was winding down. Now I have to suffer through the corn-free period

Larro

 

[Duwop]

I didn't do a second planting of corn. We have 3 bushel from this years crop which is more than enough for us. The kids are all grown and just needed to get some put up for winter for the DW and I. My grandson may beg his moma to get some from the freezer though.

 

[tcreeley]

Been raining hard the past day and a 1/2. With some bright sun, things will shoot along again. I have soaker hoses (don't need it so much this summer) under the bio plastic. The bio plastic is the only way to keep up with the weeds. -You can see some almost adult potato bugs on the lower right corner. I know what I am doing now!-----got them, gross job with their guts splattering out, and when I come in- my fingers are slippery, orange red until I use some steel wool! - But I had a hummingbird flying 1/2 circles near bye!
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My tomatoes were doing great until the horn worms defoliated some of the plants after recent rain washed off the sevin dust...