Weekly Gardening Thread
Weekly Gardening Thread
I hope all of you will stop by.
This is typically a low volume ping list. Once a week for the thread and every once in a while for other FR threads posted that might be of interest.
If you would like to be added to or removed from the list please let me know by FreepMail or by posting to me.
Yea, it’s finally summer! I’m starting to get a lot of flowers on my tomatoes and the yellow squash is growing beautifully!
I should have the first tomatoes this weekend. Lots of them.
The first eggplant is forming and the cucumber and squash are in full swing. Peppers too, although I found out that I was picking the thai peppers too soon.
Peas. Tomatoes.
I don’t want to give anyone a bad time, but this is a big country, and when someone talks about their garden production, a lot depends on where you are in the country. It is difficult at best when you don’t even have the state flag under your screen name home page, and the interested party doesn’t know you.
harvesting the fruit of our labor
What harvesting? My 5 inch tomato plants have just bloomed, one bloom each, having slightly recovered from their having been placed in pots outside a couple of weeks ago. The two pepper plants are just now putting out new leaves after having dropped most of the other ones due to the same issue.
We’ve harvested snow peas, pod peas, onions and strawberries. Next thing we should get is leaf lettuce. Tomatoes are just getting blossoms. I guess we’ll have to wait for much else.
>>What wonderful veggies have y’all harvested so far and what veggies are you anticipating the most?
Aha-ha, harvest? I got my first flower on one tomato plant yesterday. CT has seen April-today with maybe 10 sunny days. No wonder it’s called New England.
I think my veggies are all going to rot this year if it doesn’t get sunny soon.
I am looking forward to green beans and onions most, partly because it is the first time I have planted them (novice gardener here). But for enjoyment, I am looking forward to the salsa cruda I’m gonna make from the tomatoes and chiles. Sometime in August or Sept the way things are going (sigh).
This time last year I had cherry tomatoes to have every night with dinner.
Oh and somehow I am not on the pinglist. Could you add me? Thx!
Because of torrential rainfall in the spring, after I tilled, I planted about a month late. My anticipation will have to continue a little longer.
I may take more pictures soon of my squash and tomato beds. The plants are getting out of control! This is such a fun time of year, even better once the harvest kicks into full gear.Has anyone ever planted Black Krim tomatoes?
I picked them up by mistake and have no idea what I am getting.
First Wife and I went to the Redwood Acres Fair here in Eureka yesterday which is geared toward the 4H and FFA kids and their livestock. The larger Humboldt County Fair is later n Ferndale. There will be judging of flowers and vegetables there along with horse racing...
I have gathered enough green beans to serve for dinner. They no longer cost us $100 each.
8-)
I have 2 small plum tomatoes started, and lots of blooms on other plants. Blooms on squash and cukes, but no fruit yet. Blooms on peppers. Kidney and Limas have a good start. My potatoes are the most impressive part of the garden. Big full plants. The carrots and chard replanting sprouted then shriveled. Beets have a shot.
I talked with our garden guru, and he said the guy we bought our compost from had so much business this year that we probably got compost that wasn’t fully aged. That explains why we are needing to fertilize, and why it isn’t holding moisture like it should.
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.
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
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!
The only produce we’ve harvested so far was some Pathetic Broccoli. It is a specific cultivar that only grows in my crummy clay soil. LOL.
Okay, here’s my deal. I am planting late. Zone 5 (northern MO), I have some Romas planted, and that is pretty much IT. I have some bell pepper seedlings that I will be planting today. We eat a LOT of these. I’m just wondering if it is even worth it to plant much of anything else. Green beans and melons will go in, but...
We’ve been getting incredible amounts of rain. I have some composted chicken manure that we added, but it wasn’t enough. I’m hoping for the best, though.
We have chives, and green onions which we have been eating for several weeks.
We have several green tomatoes, small green peppers, cucumbers, watermellons that we are anxiously watching and anticipating ripening.
The squirrels dug up our lavendar plants, and they died.
The strawberries, grapes, and blueberries are not supposed to have fruit this year.
If the potatoes underground are as good as the bushes on top, we should have good crop of potatoes.
We had an excess of rain this spring, and are hoping the summer is not too dry this summer.
We live in the show-me-state.