How does your garden grow?

   / How does your garden grow? #501  
The summer squash has squash growing as well as more blooms popping out every day. Not sure what we are going to do with all that squash. The garden peas and sugar snaps are also producing little pods with lots of little blooms. Corn is about 2 foot tall. Turnips, beets, okra, carrots, patty pans, and acre peas are growing but don't see eating any for a couple of weeks yet.

You might try to find a small local soup kitchen or food pantry to take some. We donate extra eggs from our chickens and veggies, it makes us feel good to know we are feeding hungry children while their parents get their lives together.
 
   / How does your garden grow? #502  
Anne andI planted blue lake bush and Lima beans with some radish,sweet corn, Indian corn and okra Friday ahead of rains on Saturday and Sunday. I will get some pics this week to post but they won't show much more than dirt. Going to make a run to see if the Duncan's (respectfully German Baptist farmers) have sweet potato slips yet although it may still be a bit early in the season here.
 
   / How does your garden grow?
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#503  
We did a little harvesting... peas on the left, sugar snap on the right. Only got 1 pepper because my SIL stole the other 5 yesterday.

Looking good. I'll pick green beans in the morning. But I have to get some stakes drove and sting up my tomatoes. These heavy bands of thunderstorms have some of them laying over already. Not enough time.
 
   / How does your garden grow? #504  
I read in a FL gardening book to plant your green beans with your corn... BAD mistake, they are choking the life out of my corn, or maybe plant the corn 3 weeks earlier. I tried to put up a chicken wire trellis for them but they seem to like the corn better. I have a ton of flowers on the beans, but still a couple of weeks I think before harvest. The "Greens" on my turnips are about 2' tall and bushy, but I pulled one tonight and the actual turnip is about the size of my thumb nail, same with the carrots and beets, of course after I planted the beets I found out they should be a fall crop. Hey, my first garden. LOL
 
   / How does your garden grow?
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#505  
I read in a FL gardening book to plant your green beans with your corn... BAD mistake, they are choking the life out of my corn, or maybe plant the corn 3 weeks earlier. I tried to put up a chicken wire trellis for them but they seem to like the corn better. I have a ton of flowers on the beans, but still a couple of weeks I think before harvest. The "Greens" on my turnips are about 2' tall and bushy, but I pulled one tonight and the actual turnip is about the size of my thumb nail, same with the carrots and beets, of course after I planted the beets I found out they should be a fall crop. Hey, my first garden. LOL

Last year I planted some pole beans with my sweet corn and found out the hard way that they can be tough on the young corn. This year I put in a little field corn for the beans to vine on. If it hurts the field corn, the seed was not $16 a pound, so I can deal with it.
 
   / How does your garden grow? #506  
Our garden does not grow.:thumbdown: Except for weeds.:smiley_aafz: I got it plowed about a month ago and got about 40% of it tilled last week, but otherwise its been too wet to get anything done.:banghead: I'm debating trying to do something tomorrow before it rains again on Tuesday.
 
   / How does your garden grow?
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#507  
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I picked my green beans, but there were only about a quart. I may buy a few to go with them. Saw the first blooms on the tomatoes this morning. Got may stakes and first strand of string up. And while not garden, I did dig and plant up a few blueberry bushes from over at the old house this morning.
 
   / How does your garden grow? #508  
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So here are some picks of my gardens, today I planted a few zukes and crook necks. Went into town to get a spray for the apple trees, every year just after blossom the leaves get a problem and fall off so we don't get apples and this year I'm going to try something different. Tomorrow I will be back in the garden planting some additional varieties of lettuce. The first pic is the squash planted today, the fourth pic is of our potato garden where we planted 100 lbs of harvest gold and kennebec 50 lbs each.
 
   / How does your garden grow? #509  
So here are some picks of my gardens, today I planted a few zukes and crook necks. Went into town to get a spray for the apple trees, every year just after blossom the leaves get a problem and fall off so we don't get apples and this year I'm going to try something different. Tomorrow I will be back in the garden planting some additional varieties of lettuce. The first pic is the squash planted today, the fourth pic is of our potato garden where we planted 100 lbs of harvest gold and kennebec 50 lbs each.

You must not have deer. Lucky dog.
 
   / How does your garden grow? #510  
No, I have deer but they don't come close to the house. The potato garden is in the school yard out back but deer don't like them so they are safe. Most of what I grow is next to house in 1/4 acre plot. I think the sent of my dog repels them but I do see tracks in the lower part of the garden.
 

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