How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry said:

That first garden fresh salad of the year is great. Today we had our first 100% out of the garden salad {no onion} and the first mess of peas out of the 2nd patch. I'm way behind this year too. I'm on my third pea patch by this time most years.

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The cuke got sliced up and munched on. The Black Krim tomato went onto delicious BLTs.

socaljoe said:

The cuke got sliced up and munched on. The Black Krim tomato went onto delicious BLTs.

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Sounds good. Our salad was cherry and brandywine tomatoes, bell and jalapeno peppers, Armenian and picklebush cukes. Also had the Indian broad beans cooked with potatoes, okra and a pot of peas. {all of that but the potato was out of the garden} The wife has been cooking the okra in the nuker. Just put a littler olive oil in a glass bowl. Add salt, pepper, garlic, parm or whatever, cover with stretch wrap leaving a gap at the ends. Then cook on high for 3-5 minutes, according to how much you have. Pretty damn good.

I have been eating salad, stir-fry, broad beans and okra everyday for lunch for a couple of weeks now.

The kiddie pools of tomatoes are doing a self lollipop. Makes it easier to see the fruit hanging on the inside.



The Yellow Pear are splitting real bad. I eased off on the soaker hose just a hair. {it's raining now, so I might have to turn them off for a while}

got some rain first in over a month!greened it right up

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You guys are killing me! Please stop posting pictures showing all the space you have for your garden! I'm just a city boy with no more room in my backyard and I'm getting extremely jealous!

Nice garden you have there. What's in those pots in the back middle top of photo?

I'm noticing some blossom end rot in my tomatoes, what would be the best way to treat that and if with calcium I only have the basic GH Cal Mag, should I foliar feed with that?

What is the powdered calcium about, and how would I use it? (Is this the right type?)


Roger I know you mentioned calcium to me probably a good month ago in this thread but I couldn't find it, any recommendations would be appreciated ..thanks

Beachwalker said:

I'm noticing some blossom end rot in my tomatoes, what would be the best way to treat that and if with calcium I only have the basic GH Cal Mag, should I foliar feed with that?

What is the powdered calcium about, and how would I use it? (Is this the right type?)
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Roger I know you mentioned calcium to me probably a good month ago in this thread but I couldn't find it, any recommendations would be appreciated ..thanks

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Calcium carbonate works. https://www.amazon.com/Calcium-Carbonate-Additive-ORGANIC-content/dp/B00PKLH5D4?th=1

You can crush up some Tums antacid tablets and mix that in around the plants and water it in. It dissolves fast and plants can use it almost immediately. Calcium nitrate is fast acting as well but you may not need the nitrogen.

In the future you can use eggshells powdered up and put into the hole when you plant your tomatoes. Since I've been doing that I haven't had any issues with blossom end rot.

The cucumbers have taken over the trellis netting, doing just what I'd hoped, albeit a bit quicker than I'd planned for.



Finally seeing some fruit set on the Straight Eights. I've had a lot of aborts up to now.



And the Armenians are plugging away. Pretty happy with these.




What blows my mind is that these cucumber plants are still less than 2 months old. I started the seeds at the end of May, like 28/29th.

my garden is dead af.. temps around 107 this week...

Sour Wreck said:

my garden is dead af.. temps around 107 this week...

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I know what you mean, just relocated to Southern California was trying to wait a little bit to get my garden started but the temps are right at if not above 100 everyday.

Sour Wreck said:

my garden is dead af.. temps around 107 this week...

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Yeah my garden is starting to burn up now no matter how much water I give it. I think the tomatoes are done. Going to chop them and get the ground ready for the fall crop.

too larry said:

That first garden fresh salad of the year is great. Today we had our first 100% out of the garden salad {no onion} and the first mess of peas out of the 2nd patch. I'm way behind this year too. I'm on my third pea patch by this time most years.

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yeah, it seems like everything is about a month and a half behind where it would usually be, i just got my first cucumber the other day, by now i should be sick of them, giving them away

Sour Wreck said:

my garden is dead af.. temps around 107 this week...

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well its not completely dead, my peanuts are still kicking...

It's 100 degrees here today, 108 with the heat index. I'm watering my peer brussel sprouts three times a day to keep them from shriviling up in the heat. They just starting to make little sprouts down the stalk.

I was struggling to keep up with the watering during the recent heat wave we had here in Portland. My dripper system couldn't keep up so I had to soak everything by hand a couple times. I made it through okay. Things are really kicking out. So much that we can't eat it all and my girl has been taking produce to work to give away.

I'm turning green from all the beans I've been eating. I have to stand on the bucket to pick the ones at the top of my bean machine.



They grow so fast and I still have a big bag I already picked. I better go get a bowl



I find the gourds to be pretty cool looking. I told my girl I have dibs on this one to make a bong out of



Some are double bubbles



Cucumbers have done well. Gave a bunch of those away.




I thought it was game over with my green and red peppers but they are making a comeback. I even have gotten a few jalapenos and more are ready. My Ancho, Poblano, Serrano, and Carolina Reaper are all coming back, flowering and setting fruit. They have also doubled in size the last couple weeks. So it looks like it will be late but I'll still get my peppers.




Sungold



These Stupice (Pronounced "stoo-PEECH-ka") A native of Czechoslovakia) are interesting. They're not that big but they're meaty and tasty. Kind of like a tiny beefsteak tomato. They grow in clusters like cherry tomatoes. The plants are loaded with them.



The pumpkins keep getting bigger.

I started a bunch more seeds in cups earlier this week. 15 cups/ 3 seeds per cup of Armenian cucumbers, Acorn squash, Spaghetti squash and {43 seeds of} SMR 58 cukes.



Today I planted a pack of Cilantro seeds in a tray of soil.

After a week of half a day of sunlight, I moved the orange trees and mini sweet peppers into full sun. I grouped them around the peppers so I can hit everything with the sprinkler.

dude, you are the busiest person i know

and you're killing it !!!!!!!!!!!

Sour Wreck said:

dude, you are the busiest person i know

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Sour Wreck said:

and you're killing it !!!!!!!!!!!

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Most years I hit the wall in August, and just walk away from the garden.

I'm hoping to get the new stuff set up where it's easier to deal with. The plan is to put the cukes out in the broad bean patch using netting tied to the fence. I already have two sprinklers setup and mulch around the beans. I just need to amend the soil along each side and bring in a little more mulch.

The reason I am having to plant more squash is mine isn't doing shit. What has came up isn't really growing like it should. {the seeds are new, and not coming up very good. In the cups I will be able to tell if it's the seeds or poor soil or too hot temps}

I am making a few cukes, but not like I should be. The Picklebush was a flash in the pan. Two to three weeks of good fruit, then they all died. The last round {Tendergreen} are just now maturing. We had one at lunch today.