How does your garden grow?

dragoneggs · Aug 17, 2015

I know... I should have pics, but we have had a record summer and we starting eating corn before August. Unheard of here. Something went wrong with our Walla Walla sweet onions though. All the squashes, cucs, peppers, peas, beans, berries, etc. are doing well. Tomatoes not sure what is going on... we will get plenty due to too many plants, but not a banner year. Vegetable gardening is still a mystery after all these years for us.

DFB · Aug 17, 2015

Not doing too bad for abut 70 days since the last good frost here

Picked a good amount of tomato's today along with green bell peppers, Hungarian wax peppers, gladiolas and blueberries. I'm letting the next round of eggplant stay on the plants for a couple more days. This is way more than I use right now

Larro Darro · Aug 17, 2015

DFB said:
Not doing too bad for abut 70 days since the last good frost here

Picked a good amount of tomato's today along with green bell peppers, Hungarian wax peppers, gladiolas and blueberries. I'm letting the next round of eggplant stay on the plants for a couple more days. This is way more than I use right now

It all looks good. We are still making a lot of peppers, but they are small this year.

Larro Darro · Aug 17, 2015

dragoneggs said:
Tomatoes not sure what is going on... we will get plenty due to too many plants, but not a banner year. Vegetable gardening is still a mystery after all these years for us.

We had a rough year for tomatoes. I'm starting some {Pruden's Purple and Better Boy} to grow in the house over the winter. Maybe they will do better.

Larro Darro · Aug 18, 2015

I'm running to Lowe's this morning. I need more supplies for my inside garden. I decided hydro was more work than it's worth. I'll still use it for clones, but I'm going to try no till soil for my plants. Do any of you guys have experience with this method? I'm trying to learn about it on You Tube. What you do is build up your soil with natural mulches and what not, add worms, then you just feed the worms, not the plants. The main food is sprouted corn and alfalfa. Once you get your soil built up, you might spend $10-15 a year on upkeep from then on.

So far I have sprouts from the Pruden's Purple and Better Boy tomatoes, red bells, yellow bells and mini sweet peppers.

DFB · Aug 18, 2015

We just grow tomatoes right in the soil bag

I was down in the greenhouse late last night. I will get a picture today...the tomatoes look awesome!

Larro Darro · Aug 19, 2015

{These were from yesterday} There was one dead squash plant, so I transplanted in a young one to replace it. I picked the first two squash from the new plants. The turnips are coming up nicely. {So maybe leaving them under the sprinkler all day is a good thing?} My haul from yesterday, including the first tomato in a while.

Larro Darro · Aug 19, 2015

I got out just before dark and picked the first two Armenian cucumbers off the new vines. I've been getting a few all along off the old vines, and it's a good thing because the regular cucumbers that were doing so good a couple of reeks ago have about stopped producing. There are tons of young vines, so once they kick in, I'll be neck deep in cucumbers again.

DFB · Aug 20, 2015

DFB said:
We just grow tomatoes right in the soil bag

I was down in the greenhouse late last night. I will get a picture today...the tomatoes look awesome!

Finally got those photos...