Posted on 06/11/2010 5:02:26 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. It looks like from all the pictures and comments that most of your gardens are coming along great. My garden is about three weeks behind where it was last year at this time but all is well and it is coming along fine.
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Those two have been aweseom performers for me. It is the perfect spot for Clematis; south-facing, and the roots stay cool because there are so many WEEDS in front of them, LOL! (That whole bed next to the pole barn is my ‘project’ for this summer...Grrrrr!)
I added a ‘Sweet Autumn’ clematis (paniculata) last season; that’s clambering up the greenhouse with the perennial sweet peas. That one is very fragrant and blooms late summer into fall with zillions of tiny white blooms. You can cut it (Sweet Autumn) down to the ground in the spring and it comes back as huge as ever each season. Love it!
I always enjoy your pics!
Thanks, just did a quick read on cucumber harvesting. I better get out there a pick a few of them.
Anyone have any good pickling recipes?
LOLOLOLOL! No wonder mine looks different! LOL! :)
Thanks, I think we’re just right on peppers. I got about 8 bell pepper plants & 2 chili pepper plants which seem to meet our need just right.
The only issue with them is we are only getting green bells from my red bell & yellow bell.
My cherry tomato plants are loaded with fruit and buds. I can hardly wait for them to ripen. Some of the cherrys are starting to turn red and I’ll probably get too many all at once. The surplus will be given away much to the delight of my neighbors! They will go well with my Jericho lettuce and chives. Cucumbers seem to be sulking. The plants are very puny, even with fertilizer and there are no buds at all. Wonder if I’ll get any cukes at all.
That is the weirdest ‘Tumbling Tom’ I have ever seen...although mine is in a similar hanging self-watering pot; mine is much bushier and is loaded with ‘maters...leaves look different, as well.
Can I be added to your list please? :)
Very amateur gardener here. We put in a raised bed since we live on a corner city lot and don’t have a huge yard. I’m glad we did, because we’re getting good well-draining soil.
We planted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers, and onions. Our cherry tomato plant (planted 4, only one survived the dogs running through the garden, LOL) is almost taller than me—lots of little green tomatoes on it. The regular tomato plants are also tall and producing well. We have about 20 jalapenos in various stages of development over 4 plants. The cucumber plant is trying to take over everything, but I harvested the first two cucumbers yesterday morning and they are delicious. There are several more developing. The onions are almost ready (I think). The tops are starting to flop over, which I understand to mean that it’s almost time to dig them up.
We’re hoping to make some salsa, can some tomatoes and make sauce, and if we are blessed with more than we can handle, some is going to the local food pantry. We planted in mid-March, and despite a freak snowstorm a couple of weeks later, everything has done well. We’ve had some hot, humid weather, which is standard for the Arkansas river valley, but it’s been 10+ degrees above normal for this time of year.
Oh, and we planted 4 blue wave petunias out front of our oldest daughter’s window. They are enormous! The aphids tried their best to kill them off a couple of weeks ago, but I managed to do them in first, and the plants are looking as good as they did before.
We bought all our plants and seeds from a local nursery, since our daughter’s basketball coach owns 2 of them, plus a landscaping business. We haven’t been disappointed with the plants or the advice given on our first gardening venture.
Everyone ‘complaining’ about potatoes on steroids this year...we are going to try to use ‘polypipe’ to extend my buckets higher to contain them...we’ll see how it works...
It can take an extra 30 to 60 days for them to turn red or yellow from green...
My stupice and sungold tomatoes will be ready to eat within a day or two...yum!
okay....I appreciate the info. This is the first time I’ve tried growing red & yellow bells.
Our soil is full of Volkswagen-size rocks here in New England...I grow ALL of my tomatoes in containers...less aggravating than fighting the soil. I did the same in Tennessee rather than battle that clay you are referencing...
I am a non gardener. : )
I do not like gardening period.
However I love reading about others and their gardens.
I also love to visit local farms and by goods by the boxes.
Tomato season and lemon cucumbers are my mainstay in July.
My diet and health thrive on fresh veggies.
Reading about all ya’lls gardening exp. makes me salavitate. : )
But the feel of dirt on my hands is as uncomfortable as restless leg syndrome.
Thanks to living in a coastal rain forrest area my property thrives in green on its own and the blackberries are free.
Thanks goes to the local company who keeps the property groomed so we can enjoy the park like setting...seriously our land sits in an area where folks come from all over to camp.
We enjoy the smell of campfires from down the road/campers but do not have to hassle (son has asthema so really can’t) with a bonfire on the property.
Life is good. Be perfect when the summer crops come up.
Drove me nuts first time around...my wife and I like colored bells. I had planted red, yellow, orange, chocolate, purple, and so forth...I had loads of green ones that just sat there. WTH? Then someone told me to be patient...it paid off. :-)
Okay here is a question for all you freepers growing strawberries. I have a 4x8 strawberry bed, with around 12 plants, my strawberries were really putting out some nice berries the whole month of may ( enough to snack on, and get 1 pint of perserves, so sad.) Anyway they have completly quit producing, is this normal, or am I doing something wrong? They are june bearing plants, mulched well with straw, and this is their second year.
Oh one other thing would be nice if posters added there zone/state when posting about their gardens.
Red will you please add me to the ping list.
Thanks to tube bender for telling me about this thread way back.
I have a serious addiction to fresh tomatoes.
In the winter I drink tomato juice.
Safeway canned tomato juice I have found to be the closest to real.
Other brands are just paste with water added.
$1.65 for a 48oz can and I add my own spices..
Sure beats the price of V-8.
Is okra a staple to you southern birds?
Like cornbread?
Howdy tubebender!
There is a rumour going around that the Sun is going to show up here on the Oregon Coast.
It has been a long 2 weeks of rain.
Lil spoiled from the very mild nice winter we had.
Plus we did not escpate the community virus’ that we normally avoid.
Some real in the Loo living stomach flus and a horrid sinus virus reaked havoc.
I promised myself that if the sun shows up I am taking the lounge chair out on the deck and napping in it. Need some natural V-D for the old joints/skin ect...
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