How does your garden grow?

[Larro Darro]

Those Garden Beans in the Heat
If this summer heat continues every year or is just a blimp like the 1930s era was, we gardeners need to take heed in our quest to grow something to eat. Garden beans were the biggest let down this year. I found when living in Singapore that normal pole beans do not even flower if the temperature never drops below 70 F. It never does in Singapore. My pole bean plant I tried there vined all over the balcony but not a blossom ever in sight.
This year, my bush beans quit, and the pole beans bore only a little bit. Those 2 or 3 days in August when it did go below 70 at night produced some pole beans and a tad of bush beans. They may start producing in September.
Yet my pole asparagus beans kept chugging along. Note: quit planting bush bean seeds past June. Then start planting them again about mid August. I知 guessing on these dates. Seem about right. Seed will literally pop from the soil in August in like 2 or 3 days, if watered. They climb strings, and their seeds produce in kind.
You never know when frost will occur. One year in NJ, we didn稚 get a frost until near Christmas. So, planting a little strip of bush beans up through about early October might work.
Both Burpee and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange have asparagus beans.
Ralph

The heat KO'ed my 2nd planting of bush beans. My 1st planting did alright, but the Filipino Pole beans didn't really do great this year. I did make sure I had seeds for next season though. I made three or four messes before they started to fade.

I guess I'm going to try a late planting of bush beans, but last year they didn't do much. I'm yet to cool down below 70. I've seen some 60's in the 10 day forecast, but they seem to be four or five days away and never get any closer.

 

[Duwop]

Potato harvest is complete for us this season. We planted 100 lbs of Kennebec spuds in the spring (March) and my neighbor and I harvested Tues. morning. We filled 13 each 100 lb gunny pokes (sacks)full, 100 lbs more than last year. I feel we missed more during the harvest as there were many brought to the top when the spot was tilled. We have prepped the area and planted our salad patch of Mustard greens, Kale, and turnip greens ( purple tops).

I'd like to thank all who contributed to this thread as it is my favorite. I haven't posted much this season but to let you know I do follow the what's and how's of all of your gardens so Thank you

The pic is my 6 1/2 ft X 12 ft trailer potatoes are piled a good 8 inches deep. Left to harden in the air for a few days before being bagged for storage.

 

[Larro Darro]

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Potato harvest is complete for us this season. We planted 100 lbs of Kennebec spuds in the spring (March) and my neighbor and I harvested Tues. morning. We filled 13 each 100 lb gunny pokes (sacks)full, 100 lbs more than last year. I feel we missed more during the harvest as there were many brought to the top when the spot was tilled. We have prepped the area and planted our salad patch of Mustard greens, Kale, and turnip greens ( purple tops).

I'd like to thank all who contributed to this thread as it is my favorite. I haven't posted much this season but to let you know I do follow the what's and how's of all of your gardens so Thank you

The pic is my 6 1/2 ft X 12 ft trailer potatoes are piled a good 8 inches deep. Left to harden in the air for a few days before being bagged for storage.

Nice looking potato harvest. Glad you are liking the thread. I've been pretty lax about posting lately.

 

[Larro Darro]

Just like late in the year last year, the deer got into the garden last week. I knew they liked okra, but found out they prefer mild peppers to hot ones.

I'm going to mow all the old stuff in the garden, then I will work on getting up the buried soaker hoses. I need to get my fall greens planted soon.

 

[Larro Darro]

I have camp tomato pictures, but they are on my work laptop. I'll try to remember to post them this afternoon.

 

[Duwop]

Raccoons got most of my corn this year. The weeds have taken over my second planting of pinto beans but my first plant of only two rows produce about 10 lbs, I think I'll mow down the other 5 rows as I think it will be to much to fight all those weeds anyways I have enough to get through winter and spring.

 

[Duwop]

The frame for the green house I put together in the shop last year is still in the shop. The kids were suppose to help the wife get it out and installed ( I can't work with heavy things) but no help as of yet. What a shame because we could have been starting seedlings already so it looks like I'll be buying plants and slips for this years planting seeds


So we finally got the frame for green house set up out of the shop. ^^^^ I quoted one of my earlier posts above. We still need to get the cover on and some potting benches before spring but we are getting there. The frame is 12x30 feet which will be more than large enough with plans to plant during season in the outer frame areas. I would like to put weed cloth around the outer edge and mulch it in to control weeds and have a cleaner look before adding plants maybe tomatoes, peppers and the like.

 

[Larro Darro]

The frame for the green house I put together in the shop last year is still in the shop. The kids were suppose to help the wife get it out and installed ( I can't work with heavy things) but no help as of yet. What a shame because we could have been starting seedlings already so it looks like I'll be buying plants and slips for this years planting seeds
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So we finally got the frame for green house set up out of the shop. ^^^^ I quoted one of my earlier posts above. We still need to get the cover on and some potting benches before spring but we are getting there. The frame is 12x30 feet which will be more than large enough with plans to plant during season in the outer frame areas. I would like to put weed cloth around the outer edge and mulch it in to control weeds and have a cleaner look before adding plants maybe tomatoes, peppers and the like.

Nice looking hoop house. I threw up a half a$$ed greenhouse last year with posts, 2X4's and plastic sheeting. We have talked about having a real one built this fall. But we have also talked about closing in part of the porch and moving the dining room out there to have more kitchen room, so. . . . . . .

 

[Larro Darro]

Here are my camp tomatoes. Planted about ten foot from the edge of the pond. All will be good. Unless the water rises.

 

[Larro Darro]

I got most of the soakers up, and mowed two of the three corn patches. Will see how the cardboard cuts in.

Deer had been tearing up the field corn. I only planted it for the pole beans to run on, and hadn't pulled any of it.