Posted on 08/28/2015 1:33:15 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Getting ready to pare down some tomato plants and bring them indoors to grow. The only good tasting ones this year came from my indoor cherry tomato plant. Lemons are still green - feels like it's longer than usual.
Basil plant is ready to harvest. Second batch of corn is about 18" tall. Not much produce this year. Just corn, green beans, and dry beans. I really enjoyed my one cantaloupe - a volunteer. Not sure what brand - maybe a cross.
The bed has had Iroquois Melon and Minnesota Midget in the past, but none planted for 3 years, so I'm not sure what it is. Doesn't look much like the Iroquois, but too large for the midget. Anyway, I saved the seeds. Hoping it has the ability to withstand whatever usually kills my melons and cukes, and because it had a delicious flavor.
I am going to try to hit the farmer's market tomorrow, or Wednesday and get some zukes and cukes to can.
Prayers up for Johnny and Arrowhead. I haven't heard anything recently to update their status. Hope you are all doing well. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
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This has been a tough year. Our tomato plants have flowers, or jalapeno plant is pumping out peppers, and our regular pepper plants have yet to do anything except grow leaves. Next year will be better.
I shouldn’t complain after the banner year we had last year. However, it definitely makes me want to get that greenhouse that is made to go over the area where sliding doors are.
Climate control - whatever the weather, should be able to keep it pretty steady.
but next year I will do things differently....
pulling out the very underproducing raspberries....do hope to plant a grape vine or two this fall...
more peppers...peppers did great this year and they are so easy to dehydrate or freeze...
more romas....
hops are not producing flowers but they are growing so next year should be good....
I have had a really good garden this year. Second crop of beans getting ready, still getting lots of tomatoes, chard, 2nd growth broccoli, spaghetti squash. Carrots yet to come. Giving up on beets they just don’t get big enough and I can get nice ones at the farmers market. Those Chinese yard long green beans are past flowering, just starting. Have not grown or had any in many years. Used to really like them prepared with Chinese noodles and a soy sauce/sesame oil sauce. My poblano peppers are late but I will have a lot. Still picking shisito and banana peppers. Really like the shishito peppers, my first year with them. I really put a lot of time in the garden this year. When I was sharing that with my vet he said there is an old Chinese saying that the best thing you can put on your garden is your shadow.
Last year was perhaps not our best year, but because we started early, we were able to sustain everything through harvest. This winter, I couldn’t find the will to sow seeds in February and March, as I had done the year before. If that makes any sense.
That is not going to happen next year. I’m going to bring in our aging jalapeno plant and some tomato plants. I’m going to start seeds in January or March.
That sounds so wonderful!
Life happens. :)
I like that saying. Gonna try to remember it. LOL Congrats on a good gardening year for you.
Son and his wife are visiting us his week from Seattle.
We traveled up to the Burnt Mill Conservation area near Climax Springs and walked around a bit.
This is owned by the Missouri Department of Conservation and has thousands of hickory nut trees and other interesting plants.
I picked up a half dozen paw paws and will dry these and try starting the seeds.
Another interesting critter I found was the elusive “green dragon” plant that features little red berries on a cone shaped head. The green dragon is from the jack in the pulpit family and grows along creeks and moist areas.
Burnt Mill has a cave somewhere on the hillside but we couldn’t locate it.
The property has a creek that occasionally feeds into the Little Niangua River that eventually flows into the Lake of the Ozarks.
Nothing personal, but I hate you. /sarc!!!
-- fwdude, Texas
Unfortunately I am saying the same thing! Planted garden with my grand kids on Memorial Day weekend, and everything was going/growing great! But then I broke my leg and I couldn't get out to water, feed, or care for anything. And when I could, I found a giant woodchuck hole coming up from under the shed and as you would guess, what did grow on its own, has been destroyed and/or fully consumed. Cukes and butternut squash are practically the only things left... I told the kids when they came to visit that “next year will be better!”
Thanks. I really like it too. Although I did tell him most of the time I spent in the garden was early morning before the sun hit it. I just can’t work in the heat anymore.
It makes total sense to me. I suffer from that every year. This year, I tried a strategy that more or less worked.
Pick a day - I picked Saturday. Decide that you can start at least 4 5oz Dixie cups with a seed or two of whatever. Keep doing this until the first batch is ready to transplant to 12 or 16 oz styro or other cups. Then repot each week till the first batch is ready to transplant out doors. Take them out doors and transplant the same way. Just few doesn’t take long.
I did it first thing in the AM while the coffee was brewing. Just a few minutes per week. Sometimes after you get started, you plant more than 4. Getting started is the hard part, but by making the task so small - I had no excuse.
Hi Greeneyes,
Good afternoon to you! It’s sunny and about 85 degrees in Southwest Connecticut. It’s been dry and my Moonflower vine really needed some water this morning.
No buds have appeared on my Clematis Paniculata, but I haven’t given up hope. Yet.
I love your strategy, and I’m going to use it this winter. Thanks, greeneyes. :)
That’s great. I’m going to have to visit that area to get a paw paw! Hubby said we have one around here somewhere, but he can’t remember where he saw it.
We got a flyer from the St. Louis area center, and they have some great beginning gun classes this September and other fun stuff for kids, so we are thinking about going into the city for those.
We’ll have to check out the location first to make sure what neighborhood they are in.
Aw - don’t hate the person - hate the weather pattern. LOL
Never give up! There’s always next year. And you know the old saying. Being defeated is a temporary condition, giving up is what makes it permanent!
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