How Does Your Garden Grow??????

Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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The bees were busy working the Armenian cucumbers this morning. We had almost an inch and a half of rain yesterday, and everything was looking good.

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Except for the peas, which had gotten a bad case of the fuzzy mold. One day late in the week I had left the soakers on longer than usual, then we had rain for three days. But I'll make that trade off anytime. The freezer is still full from last year's peas.

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Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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Dang Woot, you are rocking it.. My 2nd planting of peas are about played out, and I haven't planted the next ones yet. I haven't even been on the river this summer, and I decided I needed a break from the garden. I still have lots of young stuff coming on, and the Armenian cucumbers are getting ready now.
 
Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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I cut a rotten ended Tender Sweet melon this morning. It was too over ripe to eat, but I cut another one that was starting to get sunburned. They were sold as orange meated, but it looked like a regular yellow meated melon to me. Plenty good though. I'll be eating one a day until they are gone. And I have a 3rd planting of melons coming along.
 
9leaves

9leaves

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Larry {the} Gardener said:
This thread is a little early, as I don't have anything in the ground yet. But I am getting prep work done. I look forward to seeing everyone's gardens, so please post your pictures here.

So here is a little of what I have been up to.

I got 5 Jalapeno and 5 Mini Sweet Peppers out of cups and into pots yesterday. The roots were just right for transplanting. Just barely enough to hold the soil together.

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I have sweet corn, acorn squash, tomatoes and about 6 kinds of peppers still inside under the lights. There is no more room there, so I dug this subterranean greenhouse to hold the overflow until the threat of frost is past.

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Some of my pepper sprouts.

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And this sweet corn is going to have to so somewhere fast. It is growing like crazy. I will plant some in the ground later, but these will most likely go in grow bags in my improvised rain gutter grow system. {trench lined with black plastic}

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That hole in the ground idea is to cool. Love it!
 
Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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Indacouch said:
Larry what's your favorite plant to grow if you had to pick??
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That is a tough one. Back in my truck farming days I made most of my money with peas and melons. I still like to keep a patch of each going all summer.

I really like to watch corn grow. We used to grow field corn for cow and hog feed, picked with an old one row picker {on the cob} and ground up in a feed mill. Also had a strain we called 8 row night corn that we had ground into meal and grits. It was a long, thin, hard white corn. Those seeds, along with many others got lost in the flood after Daddy died. Other than food plots for the deer, sweet corn is all I grow these days.

And I am a unreformed chili head, so peppers are up there near the top.

But as far as pure pleasure of growing, my fruit trees would have to be ahead of the veggies. I like the thought of the reward being spread out over so many years. I'm lucky if a pea patch lasts three weeks.

I worked 8-10 years with locally grown {seedling} orange and grapefruit strains trying to breed one that was cold tolerant. Then a friend gave me a couple of the Chinese Orange seedlings. They have thrived, where all my old citrus trees were killed by cold.
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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the cantaloupe i started from seed and just sowed directly into the garden as i had an extra row and no more starts to plant, so i said wtf, and had a packet of seeds, so figured i'd try them out.. never would have expected the results i'm getting from the things.. holy crap, they're running like a mo'fo, which i was expecting, but man, they are really doing well, and are covered in buds, and even have a bunch of super small fruits starting as well.. i'm pretty excited, first time trying them, and more so for starting them from seed like i did..
 
Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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racerboy71 said:
the cantaloupe i started from seed and just sowed directly into the garden as i had an extra row and no more starts to plant, so i said wtf, and had a packet of seeds, so figured i'd try them out.. never would have expected the results i'm getting from the things.. holy crap, they're running like a mo'fo, which i was expecting, but man, they are really doing well, and are covered in buds, and even have a bunch of super small fruits starting as well.. i'm pretty excited, first time trying them, and more so for starting them from seed like i did..
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I only got four or five cantaloupes off my 1st planting. The 2nd planting is just about ready now. There is a few more than that, but not too many more.

My banana cantaloupe seeds produced genetic mutants, and they need to be destroyed.
 
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