How does your garden grow?

[dragoneggs]

Giant sunflowers and my wife isn't all that short

 

[Larro Darro]

Giant sunflowers and my wife isn't all that short

My goodness. You could use those stalks for fence posts.

 

[Larro Darro]

Saw the first blooms on the 3rd planting of peas. I did a little math, and decided the ones I planted a couple of days ago might be the last ones for this year. I'll see how these come off and decide for sure in three weeks.

We picked peas this morning, and tonight Margie shelled 99% of them. But I did help with that last 1%

 

[Tororider]

Getting some tomatoes.

 

[Larro Darro]

Getting some tomatoes.

That is quite the haul. I'm transplanting some tomato and pepper plants from under the lights out to the garden this morning. I sprouted more than I have room for inside, so I'm just hoping they make before frost.

 

[Larro Darro]

This was yesterday's picking. Since I eat the squash raw, I pick them really little. And I have found the seeds in the Armenian cucumbers get big when they reach about a foot, so I've been picking them little too. The Sugar Baby melons are starting to split. It has been kind of dry, and I did run the sprinkler, so maybe I caused it.



I mixed up some of my no-till soil. In round numbers it is 4 five gallons buckets of peat moss, 3 buckets of mushroom mulch, 2 of lava rocks, 2 of Black Magic {Big Lot's brand} potting soil, 1 of Scott's potting soil, 1 bucket of cow manure, 1 cup of bone meal, 1 cup of blood meal, 1 cup of lime, 2 cups of worm castings and 2 cups of coffee grounds. You are supposed to let it sit at least 21 days, but I used some of it to transplant cucumber plants under the lights. The were starting to vine and had to go into bigger pots.

Last week I was able to buy 10 bags of potting soil {20 cubic feet} at Big Lot's for $40. They had them marked down to $5.00 each, and I ask if I bought all they had could I get a break. The man told me if I paid for 8 he would let me have the 2 that had been taped up. I loaded them up. Then on Sunday we went to Walmart for kiddie pools. They were marked down to something like $4.88. I bought 6 of them. Also bought a few of their shopping bags. I'm going turn them into smart pots and use some of the pools for a water reservoir.



The last planting of peas has come up. Looks like a good stand.

No picture, but we put another batch of peas in the freezer today.

 

[Larro Darro]

They offered life in sacrifice
So others could go on

I pulled up a bunch of under performing peppers, added some of my new soil mix {Darro Dirt?} and transplanted new plants in.

We clipped and cut the first Sugar Baby melon. It was a little bigger than a softball, and about 90% ripe. They are splitting big time, so we figured we had better eat one at least.

 

[Larro Darro]

I put a few tomato and pepper plants in shopping bags of soil, in a cheap kiddie pool yesterday morning. It was misting rain when I did it, and cloudy the rest of the day. They still looked good this morning, which I can't say about all the tomato plants from the other day. Going from weak florescent lights to bright sunshine was too much for some of them.

 

[Larro Darro]

The 3rd planting of peas are starting to vine and put on little peas. It's a good thing since the 2nd planting is starting to fade. Now I'm getting less than a bucket every picking. But we have put them all in the freezer until tonight, when we saved out a mess for supper.

 

[DFB]

A big hot pepper harvest tonight. Hungarian Wax, Hot Portugal. Hot Italian Cherry and Jalapeño. No chilies though got planted though and too bad because they are favorite of mine too...grill roasted and stuffed with cheese!


Everything else is still yielding heavy right now too! Eggplant, gladiolus, sweet peppers and lots of tomatoes for me. Blueberries are still holding up well too.

We have a good solid week to 10 days of late summer heat and no rain coming on here per the current forecast. Not looking forward to THAT :confused2: