How does your garden grow?

[Larro Darro]

My sweet pumpkins are turning orange.

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Melons on the Tendersweets {orange meated}.

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[Larro Darro]

Lots more going on, but no time right now.

 

[DFB]

I want to grow some Cherokee Purple.

I love the flavor of Cherokee Purple I didn't get to plant any this year just Brandywine, Old German and Pineapple.

Got some tomatillos going in this week

 

[LA Confederate]

Yesterday I picked out the rest of the sweet corn. The Merit and G-90 did very well. All total I had 4 rows about 50' each and I'm guessing I got at least 200 ears out of it that were pick able and edible. So after I picked the corn I gave the Mahindra a workout. Tilled up the rest of the garden except a small patch of blackeye peas, heirloom okra that's finally producing, and snap beans. Thinking of doing a second planting of corn and a large bunch of cow peas.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Tomatoes here in Bismarck and most of Arkansas are suffering from a mold that quickly kills the whole plant in just a day or so. Mine all got it and all but one vine (one grape tomato)died. Also most of the fruit trees have a fungus that rots the fruit when it starts to ripen. Plums did great and had a bumper crop with no worm damage, but nectarines and peaches aren't doing so well with the fruit rot. One of my pear trees is going to die from a fire blight that seems to be uncontrollable, sprayed it a half dozen times and it just keeps dying from the top down. I lost one last year from the same thing plus one cherry tree. Looks like two more cherry trees will bite the dust this year. I wont be replacing them anymore since it seems a waste of money to keep putting in new trees for them to die from the same disease and no cure for it.
Okra didn't come up this year due to a heavy rain right after planting so I just tilled in the few remaining plants but squash is doing fine. Looks like that is all I will have this year. I don't plant a lot anyway, mostly I like the fresh tomatoes which I wont get this year either.

 

[Larro Darro]

Yesterday I picked out the rest of the sweet corn. The Merit and G-90 did very well. All total I had 4 rows about 50' each and I'm guessing I got at least 200 ears out of it that were pick able and edible. So after I picked the corn I gave the Mahindra a workout. Tilled up the rest of the garden except a small patch of blackeye peas, heirloom okra that's finally producing, and snap beans. Thinking of doing a second planting of corn and a large bunch of cow peas.

I picked the last few nubs of my sweet corn last week. I still have about a gallon in the fridge. Not pretty to look at, but it's still sweet corn.

My 2nd plantings of corn, peas and green beans are outdoing the 1st ones. The melons and Armenian cucumbers too.

 

[Larro Darro]

Tomatoes here in Bismarck and most of Arkansas are suffering from a mold that quickly kills the whole plant in just a day or so. Mine all got it and all but one vine (one grape tomato)died. Also most of the fruit trees have a fungus that rots the fruit when it starts to ripen. Plums did great and had a bumper crop with no worm damage, but nectarines and peaches aren't doing so well with the fruit rot. One of my pear trees is going to die from a fire blight that seems to be uncontrollable, sprayed it a half dozen times and it just keeps dying from the top down. I lost one last year from the same thing plus one cherry tree. Looks like two more cherry trees will bite the dust this year. I wont be replacing them anymore since it seems a waste of money to keep putting in new trees for them to die from the same disease and no cure for it.
Okra didn't come up this year due to a heavy rain right after planting so I just tilled in the few remaining plants but squash is doing fine. Looks like that is all I will have this year. I don't plant a lot anyway, mostly I like the fresh tomatoes which I wont get this year either.

That's a shame about your fruit trees. We are just now getting back to planting fruit trees. We had planted a bunch 12 years ago when we first moved into the house, but they all died. Last summer we started back with grapes, blueberry, olive, apple persimmon and fig. This year we have added orange, tangerine and lemon, as well as some peach trees I started from seed.

Sub-irrigation has worked well for my tomatoes. You should Google Rain Gutter Grow System and see if it's something you would want to try. I do a simple trench lined with black plastic. But then I have to get down on my knees to pick tomatoes.

 

[Larro Darro]

I planted the skips in my squash and winter squash yesterday. Just got through and got the sprinklers turned on when this little cloud came up. I got almost 4 inches, 3 1/2 of it coming in 30 minutes. After the storm I had to unearth all my young viney things. This morning I cleaned as much dirt off them as possible, then sprinkled them this afternoon to wash off more dirt.



Also planted 2 rows of regular pumpkins yesterday.

 

[Larro Darro]

It blew over a few of my tomatoes too. Not to mention that the covers were not on my kiddie pools of soil mix, which was soup when I found it. Or the cover to my coffee ground bin was off. Or that I had left a bucket with about a gallon of my 13-13-13, 10-10-10, 6-6-6 & 5-10-15 mix out of the pump house where I keep it. Needless to say, I spent most of today trying to repair storm damage.

It also got our modem. I've got wifi here at work, but we haven't heard from the phone company yet about a repair time. I know they have a bunch to do after the lightning we had.

 

[DFB]

I planted the flat Italian Roma beans 5 short rows today (5 packs altogether maybe 250 seed)

Always one of my favorites!

Cukes are really looking good now and expect rain tonight after almost 10 days of brutal 80-90 degree sun and heat. At least the nights have been decently cool but I have had to water every day and sometimes twice a day its so dry. Plus my soil is very sandy.