Posted on 06/26/2009 5:06:01 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. It is time for some of us to start harvesting the fruit of our labor. Tomatoes, Bell Peppers, Eggplants, Zukes, Cukes and Hot Peppers! What wonderful veggies have y’all harvested so far and what veggies are you anticipating the most?
The past week's humidity was far better for the garden than it was for me. ;-)
So far this looks like a slow growing year.
Right now I wish we could trade weather patterns. Y’all need to warm up and dry out a bit and down here we need to cool off a little and get a rain shower or two added in.
Unlike many gardeners, I like dry-ish soil, sort of. Pulling weeds is much easier. If we have wet soil all I get are clumps, but with the dryer soil I get just the roots.
good day to you gardeners! we have had wicked heat and humidity here in southern part of indiana. my veggie gardens are doing well. the cabbage is forming heads, i have picked 2 cucumbers, a handfull of jalapenos and the tomato plants are loaded but not ripe yet. the radishes were fab but done now, and the lettuce went nuts but bolted on me so we cleared that last weekend and now have a large empty space in the garden. i planted more onions left the biggest ones hoping they will get to slicing size and still have smaller green onions for salads. happy gardening everyone!!
Parsnips !!!
Thin sliced like small carrot sticks an cast iron pan cooked with a litte butter an salt till carmelized.
A batch of that an a big glass of sun tea an I’ll eat myself to death faster than a horse left in the oat bin.
Oh! Yum!
Hello Red Devil, would you please add me to the Weekly Gardening Thread. I appreciate your time and effort in maintaining this very important thread . . . Sincerely Hope.
My Swiss chard is going gangbusters, my snap peas are actually beginning to produce again, my maters are still green, my lettuce is beginning to bolt, my strawbs are not ripening at all, except for a few stragglers, and my oregano is beginning to bloom and not taste very good.
Ed
My maters did much, much better when I put down a red mulch film, I use it every year now...
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My own garden is small, but it will provide me and neighbors w/some good eating.So far, I have gathered sweet green peppers, cucumbers, and squash. I'll have green beans to pick by next week, when I will be "robbing" a few potato plants for some little potatoes to go w/them....yum. My okra plants are now about 12 inches high....planted later than usual...so it will be awhile before I can cut some. I am really looking forward to that!
After I pull all the potato plants, will it be too late to plant field peas in that space...for food and soil enrichment?
Looking great!
Mine have done the same thing, not sure whats up with that, they are june bearing, and this is my first attempt at strawberries. I have them in a raised bed, and mulched with straw.
It is nice to read about and see the pictures of FReepers gardens. I know that next year I will be planting potatoes and okra. I may try green beens. Last year I tried sugar snaps and had absolutely no luck - heat did them in.
If the yellowing moves up the plant, especially if they aren’t over-watered, and if you usually have to balance the PH with lime, it is likely a potassium deficiency. Mine did that earlier. I took a dowel rod and poked a hole in the ground near its roots and popped in 1 of my potassium pills. If you do that just be sure it is potassium and not mixed with something else, esp. magnesium. That would kill the plant. I “treated” 5 tomato plants in this manner amd they stopped yellowing and took off. If you dose up peppers only use 1/2 a pill.
Hey y’all! Greetings from the hot and humid coast of NC!
Sounds like most everyone’s garden is doing great. I’ve been busy canning green beans—got about 30 qts off the first picking—hubby says no more. We’ll see how my time goes. :) Got a few maters coming off. All my roma’s died, but the lemon boys are fantastic, and maybe oxhearts. Gbaby moved all the tags. :) Grape maters are so-so.
We got the cool season stuff out and replanted with butter beans, shelly beans (they all died), field peas and peanuts. They’re (the survivors) all up about 8 inches. Cukes are about done for, and squash and zukes all have powdery mildew. Might try some late ones, haven’t decided.
A note about fertilizer for everyone from last week’s thread—sorry I didn’t get to reply last week.
About fertilizer—it’s measured in hundredweights, which means that from a bag of 10-10-10, in order to get that amount of nitrogen or phosphorus or potash, you have to put out a hundred pounds. So for you crowd using Miracle gro, don’t worry about the numbers. Yes, they’re high, and everything you read will tell you not to use such a high first number. Well, yeah, but you’d have to put a HUNDRED POUNDS of MG on your plants to get that much npk. The demo plants in 7 gallon pots we have at the garden center get nothing but mg and epsom salt, one tablespoon of each to a gallon of water, 2-3 times a week. Those plants are lush—@ 6 feet tall, and absolutely loaded with maters. Same with our demo pepper plants. They’re easily 4 feet tall and are bearing peppers like you usually only see in high dollar grocery stores. Huge, blocky bells like I never get in my garden.
Just my 2 cents worth. :)
Have fun, y’all. I love hearing about everyone’s successes—and otherwise!
hey red devil, please put me on your ping list!
We’re in USDA Region 6B Southern Appalachia. I’ve been eating cut-and-come-again type greens for 2 months, but me swiss chard went ornery on me, got s pindly and bolted. i’ve always known chard to be a good biennial, growing large leaves n lots of em the first year, and then bolting to seed in the second year. never saw them bolt the f irst year like this— scratches head -—
made one batch of mmm mmmm basil pesto, much more to come
tomatoes are jungly with foliage but barely pregnant.
now that i’m disabled, i’ve gotta get ounger so to do all the work ;op
that’s younger SON
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