buckeyefarmer
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Had my first produce today from the garden. Stuffed peppers. I ate 2, gonna regret this later, but they were good.
How does your garden grow?
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Been wondering when all the garden pics were coming here 
Been a wicked month here in the Northeast wind and rain...lots of rain and cool weather too with little sun most of the time. Most of my tomatoes look good though big and green and no sign of blights (Alternaria solani or Septoria leaf spot) there really has been no humidity or stagnant air.
Still haven't found time to stake some of them up yet though but maybe tomorrow
My peppers on the other hand look terrible. I had remove a lot of leaves all spotted and yellowed and the wind seems have some bent right over. I cleaned them up some, weeded and fertilized so they will probably come along still.
Eggplants seems to be holding their own and the gladiolus are loving all the moisture too though pest pressure has been high on them. Still don't really no know what eats the leaves its like they are sawed right off thrips maybe? I sprayed them with an insecticide seems to help.
Deer found their way and topped off a few things mostly sunflowers and some peppers too but not enough damage to worry about.
Cukes are staring to vine and flower now and so is the summer squash
Beans on the other hand have been freaking disaster! Have planted all 3 types twice now. The rain did in the first round of planting and crows and maybe those free ranging rabbits my neighbor let loose did in a second crop as the came up. The crows yanked the plants looking for seed and something ate all the tender young leaves like overnight it seems.
Screw it have lots of brussel sprouts coming strong as is the chard and harvested lettuce and cherry tomatoes from container plantings. Herbs are mainly all ok though basil is taking a hit but I have more maybe 3 dz plants to transplant so that'll help
Down at work its been awful wet too but put down over 3000ft of plastic mulch had purchased two 2000ft rolls with the unit and only about a third of one roll is left but boy was it an effort in all the wet soil. Overall the new Earthtools mulch layer worked good but bent a plow opener on a big rock though. Didn't stop us much really and kept going after I pounded it straight somewhat
Our commercial garlic is looking great maybe harvest by the end of the month and we started picking raspberries and blueberries
Plums will be next if the beavers don't get them all seems a family of beavers started homesteading in the farm's pond and they took down over dozen plum trees right along the edge of the water.
My garden at home...
Been a wicked month here in the Northeast wind and rain...lots of rain and cool weather too with little sun most of the time. Most of my tomatoes look good though big and green and no sign of blights (Alternaria solani or Septoria leaf spot) there really has been no humidity or stagnant air.
Still haven't found time to stake some of them up yet though but maybe tomorrow
My peppers on the other hand look terrible. I had remove a lot of leaves all spotted and yellowed and the wind seems have some bent right over. I cleaned them up some, weeded and fertilized so they will probably come along still.
Eggplants seems to be holding their own and the gladiolus are loving all the moisture too though pest pressure has been high on them. Still don't really no know what eats the leaves its like they are sawed right off thrips maybe? I sprayed them with an insecticide seems to help.
Deer found their way and topped off a few things mostly sunflowers and some peppers too but not enough damage to worry about.
Cukes are staring to vine and flower now and so is the summer squash
Beans on the other hand have been freaking disaster! Have planted all 3 types twice now. The rain did in the first round of planting and crows and maybe those free ranging rabbits my neighbor let loose did in a second crop as the came up. The crows yanked the plants looking for seed and something ate all the tender young leaves like overnight it seems.
Screw it have lots of brussel sprouts coming strong as is the chard and harvested lettuce and cherry tomatoes from container plantings. Herbs are mainly all ok though basil is taking a hit but I have more maybe 3 dz plants to transplant so that'll help
Down at work its been awful wet too but put down over 3000ft of plastic mulch had purchased two 2000ft rolls with the unit and only about a third of one roll is left but boy was it an effort in all the wet soil. Overall the new Earthtools mulch layer worked good but bent a plow opener on a big rock though. Didn't stop us much really and kept going after I pounded it straight somewhat
Our commercial garlic is looking great maybe harvest by the end of the month and we started picking raspberries and blueberries
Plums will be next if the beavers don't get them all seems a family of beavers started homesteading in the farm's pond and they took down over dozen plum trees right along the edge of the water.
My garden at home...
lakngulf
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It has been a crazy year. Lots of rain. Early spring brought early produce in abundance but now rains and stout humidity taking toll . I failed at peppers and yellow squash. Packages said yellow but butternut grew
CajunRider
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Stop growing vegetables and the rabbits will eat the grass..... at least, that's how its going at our place right now... bumper crop of rabbits.
Same here. No vegetables and a lot of rabbits. They will be stew this winter.
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Ha that's when they started in on my garden after I finally mowed all the lawn
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So I have spent the better part of last week and this week giving some TLC to my plants...the rains have slowed down immensely the sun has been out more and the temps have skyrocketed. A little hand pruning of yellowed and diseased leaves on tomatoes and peppers, plus some hand weeding around each plant still get a few in planting holes though the black plastic does great job otherwise. A couple of doses of water soluble fertilizer after things dried out some. And run the pony tiller thru the rows to cleanup weed growth there.
Did have to hand weed the 500 gladiolus cuz its a tight planting nd that took some time (and much easier after a rain shower( but do they look great. Stood afew back upright thatwere growing slanted, that rain wrecked havoc. Original bean plantings are gone but replanted string beans one last time today. As it is will be late harvest.
So have picked a few cukes, cherry tomatoes, and enough zukes to make a big pot of tomatoes, green pepper onion garlic and squash all seasoned with my fresh herbs and celery. My blueberries look great and been picking some too. Chard is coming strong, eggplant is flowering. Roma plum tomatoes are heavy with fruit and the Celebrity tomatoes are looking good as are the Sunflowers. Brussel sprout are getting big too. Still waiting on all the peppers to set flowers but not too soon as I want them to gain some size they were wicked stunted with all the poor weather...but getting nice and green now.
Down at work the garlic is just about ready to harvest
Did have to hand weed the 500 gladiolus cuz its a tight planting nd that took some time (and much easier after a rain shower( but do they look great. Stood afew back upright thatwere growing slanted, that rain wrecked havoc. Original bean plantings are gone but replanted string beans one last time today. As it is will be late harvest.
So have picked a few cukes, cherry tomatoes, and enough zukes to make a big pot of tomatoes, green pepper onion garlic and squash all seasoned with my fresh herbs and celery. My blueberries look great and been picking some too. Chard is coming strong, eggplant is flowering. Roma plum tomatoes are heavy with fruit and the Celebrity tomatoes are looking good as are the Sunflowers. Brussel sprout are getting big too. Still waiting on all the peppers to set flowers but not too soon as I want them to gain some size they were wicked stunted with all the poor weather...but getting nice and green now.
Down at work the garlic is just about ready to harvest
Otto Syracuse
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I don't have a garden per se, but have a plot of garlic that I just harvested tonight. I do a few tomatoes and peppers in pots, as well as several herbs.
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Sigarms
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Watering this morning. We've been very pleased with the differnence the raised beds have made vs our past endevors with the North Carolina clay LOL World of difference from this year compared to last couple of years.
We have more dirt, and will probably double the beds next year.
We have more dirt, and will probably double the beds next year.
