How Does Your Garden Grow??????

I've been doing a bit of transplanting this weekend. Got my pumpkins into their final home and the cucumbers are set up in their final pots and I set a trellis net facing east for that full morning sun. I'm hoping for a wall of cucumbers.

Also remember these:
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Well here they are today. Taking a page out of Larry's book and putting several in one big container.
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Beans climbing like crazy

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My first English cucumber

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Corn is growing well

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I've harvested a few yellow squash. My Zucchini is about a week away before I can start harvesting. I only planted one this year because one is all me and my girl need. Last year I couldn't give them away I had so many.

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I'm having fresh peas for dinner tonight to go with the squash.

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A roasted beet salad sounds good.

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All my tomatoes are setting fruit. Some are showing signs of bug activity on the leaves. I'm going to have to get on top of that.

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The giant pumpkins are starting to grow almost a foot a day. Well it seems like it. I'm not actually measuring.

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I love this time of year. Watching things grow and being able to walk in my backyard and pick dinner. I wish I had the room some of you do. I always try and grow too much and everything gets crammed together and I end up with an unmanageable jungle having to contort my body into positions it doesn't like just to keep from stepping on things when I go out to harvest what's ready. I've identified a couple more areas where I'm going to rip up the grass for more gardening real estate. I'm going to have just a patch of grass about ten feet wider than the patio going to the back of the yard where the grass ends under a few fir trees and I have a little wooded area with ferns. Has anyone ever used a sod cutter? Will the work when you have large rocks under the grass? My backyard is like a riverbed with rocks some the size of basketballs just under the grass. I can rent one for the day for under $100 so it would be money well spent unless the rocks would cause too much of a hassle.
 
socaljoe said:
I've been doing a bit of transplanting this weekend. Got my pumpkins into their final home and the cucumbers are set up in their final pots and I set a trellis net facing east for that full morning sun. I'm hoping for a wall of cucumbers.

Also remember these:
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Well here they are today. Taking a page out of Larry's book and putting several in one big container.
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You did such a good job reviving those maybe you want some more? I still have some starts in the greenhouse. I feel terrible for the plants but I have no place to put them and nobody to take them. I gave away dozens of plants but I still had too many. I'll probably cram them into a big pot and put them on the corner of the patio. I feel like a bad parent.

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
my first handful of Thai "prik kee noo suan"....."mouse dropping chilis"....they say for their small size, we'll see as soon as i find a guinea pig to try some. supposed to be about halfway between a jalapeno and a habanero heat wise, with a tart flavor. sounds like good salsa chilisView attachment 4152779
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Get a green papaya and make some Som Tum or make some Nam Pla Prik. It's good on a lot of foods. All of a sudden I'm hungry for Thai food. I wish I had a plate of Pad Kaprow Gai (Thai Basil Chicken) in front of me right now.
 
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