How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry · Aug 3, 2018

I threw away about a gallon of split tomatoes. {the wife is making some headway in her effort to talk me into spending the money for a greenhouse. I did talk to a contractor buddy about used windows, so we might do this this fall}

I'm getting corn everyday right now. The patch looks like it has a couple more weeks in it.

too larry · Aug 3, 2018

The broad beans are the only thing that is really loving the rain.

It is easy to miss one, and a day or two is all it takes to get too big.

socaljoe · Aug 4, 2018

I'm thrilled at how fast seedlings grow. Just yesterday they'd all popped up, and now they've gotten noticeably bigger. I'm growing in coco coir again, so they got their first diluted feeding today.

I want to try and document this a bit better to keep track of how things go.

thumper60 · Aug 4, 2018

too larry · Aug 4, 2018

I've got to step up my flower game. I had some wildflowers that I grew in the garden one summer. I've been hoeing some of those "flowers" ever since then.

The corn is rocking the green.

socaljoe · Aug 4, 2018

Looking killer, thumper. I bet you have plenty of pollinators hanging around your garden.

too larry · Aug 6, 2018

I transplanted 15 cups of cukes and 14 cups of Armenian cukes this morning. They were starting to lag a little, and it had to be done. Hot as hell in the garden today. I worked straight through from 0900 to 1330 so I could finish the transplanting before work.

thumper60 · Aug 7, 2018

socaljoe said:
Looking killer, thumper. I bet you have plenty of pollinators hanging around your garden.

ya lots of humming birds,butterflys sit on the deck in the evening an burn fatties watch everything :bigjoint:

socaljoe · Aug 8, 2018

Cukes are coming right along. They were getting too much shade (which I didn't think was possible outside during summer) and stretching out a bit...I'm assuming that's the cause. All have started sprouting their true leaves.

xtsho · Aug 9, 2018

The zucchini got away from me. I'll peel and grate it to use in sauce.

Moflow · Aug 10, 2018

thumper60 said:
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Nice Rudbekias!
I like flowers........, lots of them lol with just a slight suggestion of tomatoes, apples n spuds.

Unfortunately it's raining or I'd a took better pics :cool:

Moflow · Aug 10, 2018

Bit of sunshine appeared so here's a few more
Please wear sunglasses
There's a Hoverfly,

a bumble bee and a wasp in there too.

Roger A. Shrubber · Aug 10, 2018

i like flowers, but usable ground is at a premium, if you can't eat it, i don't grow it. except one little patch right out front that's too rocky. i've got some lilies and poppies planted in there, took a whole damn day to clear out enough rocks to do that

Moflow · Aug 10, 2018

A tub of Rooster spuds a tub of Maris Piper spuds
Apple tree, braemar and red Apple graft.
Dwarf Apple tree, 3 varieties, Elstar, a red Apple graft and a cooker, can't remember it's name off hand, they're ready now. Grenadier that's it! That's them fallers on ground with a Sensi Star.

4 tomato plants in small greenhouse.
2 supersweet 100s cherry tomatoes, 1 Moneymaker and an Alicante.
Only starting to ripen.
I've stopped them and defoliated a bit.

Dwarf Apple tree to right of Sensi Star

thumper60 · Aug 10, 2018

Moflow said:
A tub of Rooster spuds a tub of Maris Piper spuds
Apple tree, braemar and red Apple graft.
Dwarf Apple tree, 3 varieties, Elstar, a red Apple graft and a cooker, can't remember it's name off hand, they're ready now. Grenadier that's it! That's them fallers on ground with a Sensi Star. View attachment 4178823 View attachment 4178826 View attachment 4178828 View attachment 4178829 View attachment 4178831 View attachment 4178832
4 tomato plants in small greenhouse.
2 supersweet 100s cherry tomatoes, 1 Moneymaker and an Alicante.
Only starting to ripen.
I've stopped them and defoliated a bit.

Dwarf Apple tree to right of Sensi Star
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very nice!! I gotta get into the fruit more I got the veggies an flowers down

too larry · Aug 10, 2018

thumper60 said:
very nice!! I gotta get into the fruit more I got the veggies an flowers downView attachment 4178971

I think I ended up with 4 bells, but they already peaked and have started to decline. Now if I could just find a use for gallons of Hatch peppers.

too larry · Aug 10, 2018

The wife did get started on poppers this week while I was on the trail. I had promised her I would help as soon as I got home. Thankfully she knew that meant after I had had a good nap. It never fails, when I get off the trail after a couple three days, I can't keep my eyes open. Now I'm at work, and she is making poppers by herself.

socaljoe · Aug 10, 2018

too larry said:
I think I ended up with 4 bells, but they already peaked and have started to decline. Now if I could just find a use for gallons of Hatch peppers.

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-roast-and-freeze-green-chiles-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-193168

too larry · Aug 10, 2018

About two months ago I had started calling the mushroom farm about buying compost. Each time I got voice mail. Every two weeks or so I would call. On Tuesday as I'm shaking down my pack, they call and ask can they deliver after lunch. Two months of not returning calls, then bang, the damn shit gets delivered. $475 for a big dump-truck load. Forgot to ask how many yards it was.

too larry · Aug 10, 2018

socaljoe said:
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-roast-and-freeze-green-chiles-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-193168

We did practice on a few of the others while waiting on the Hatch to get ready. Making sure the peppers are dry before roasting is key. If it looks like you are burning them, you are doing it right.

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