How does your garden grow?

[TomSeller]

I've been playing with the idea of cooking some of the Filipino pole beans whole, and tonight I did it. They look impressive on the plate.

Wow! I have not grown that variety before. I often stay away from any jumbo variety as it seems the taste is sacrificed for size. How do they taste?

 

[Larro Darro]

Wow! I have not grown that variety before. I often stay away from any jumbo variety as it seems the taste is sacrificed for size. How do they taste?

They taste good. I got the seed from a little old Filipino lady at one of my thrift stores. She said the name, but since I don't speak Filipino. . . .

She did say it wasn't the Yardlong bean though. I take it is an old strain, as she said they grew them in the corn when she was a child. It is just about too hot for green beans now, so I'm hoping the pole beans last a while.

 

[Larro Darro]

My gardens are doing great, all the plants are up and really starting to grow now. NOW, it's time for weed control, so I got started "mulching" in the gardens! Here's the front garden,

All the mulch will get tilled down in the fall, to "feed" next years plants...

I don't use any chemical ferts or sprays of any kind, so the mulch really works great for weed control and also my gardens need MUCH less watering!

Did I mention, little to NO WEEDS??

SR

I used to use old hay for mulch, but we had a bad roach problem. They would eat the cantaloupe before they got ripe. The last two years I have gone away from it. Maybe with fresh hay like you have it wouldn't be as bad. But since we planted our last hayfield in longleaf pines this year. . .

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Thank God! We don't have roaches here where I live!

I've been using heavy mulch for MANY years now, it works perfectly year after year...

SR

 

[Duwop]

The garden is going well, snap peas harvested and put up in the freezer and spot cleaned up for other plants. We've had a dryer spring but are now catching up on rain. Planted snake gourd for the first time and the rabbits ate the growth so that's not looking promising. Added nitro to the golden queen today as I doubled the corn planting this year as we ran out of stock in very easily spring. All in all the garden is going well. Best to all of you and your gardens.

 

[Sysop]

They're not in the garden, but they're doing really well and the first thing to eat (besides ramps) so far this year.

 

[Larro Darro]

Duwop, nice looking garden.

Sysop, those are some big blueberries. Are they still sweet? I have found that the bigger the berry, the less sweet they are. We bought a few bushes this year with a couple of berries on each bush, so we had a harvest too. Although not a very big one.

I shucked a bucket of sweet corn before coming in to work this morning, and Margie put it in the freezer. This morning when I was picking over the garden, I noticed a few ears of the field corn were ready. I was too rushed to pick them, but I'll get them in the morning. There is a trail mix I buy with parched corn in it, and I want to try parching some myself. I figured I could practice on the field corn.

 

[Duwop]

Thanks Larro when I saw Sysop's blueberries I went to see how big mine are getting his dime size trump mine.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Ran the tiller thru my garden today. My corn is less than a ft high. potatoes did not grow well at all. beans are doing ok.
gonna have to put up a rabbit fence. They hardly run from me anymore. Also had deer prints in the garden.

 

[KevT]

Hey Larro, My wife made your "Buckle" last night with blueberries and it was GOOD!!!! Thanks for the recipe.