Posted on 07/08/2011 5:13:39 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. I have been planting 2 zucchini plants every year I have had a garden and this year is the first year they have produced more than my wife and I can use. I think their production is due to the four-foot spacing between plants I gave them. I may be able to participate in the annual “leave a zucchini on your neighbor’s porch day” this year. It is on August 8th.
I should be getting some ripe tomatoes soon; a few are developing a slight blush. Some netting will have to put up to protect them from the birds; I can’t afford to lose any this year. The jalapeno, pimento and bell pepper plants are doing great. There are some nice large pimentos and I am just waiting for them to turn red.
I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
Guess you were right! Thanks!
Good looking harvest! I may only get about that many from all my still surviving plants - sad. I have seed started for a second planting later this season.
Of course, an 8 X 8 X 6 cistern would hold about 2,750 usable gallons (plus pump 'cushion') of rain water from the roof gutters. Disguise it by putting a picknick table & grill on top of it...
Does anyone know anything about tha Lunar Hiscibus? Specifically if it can be rooted or not.
Our entire roof drains into 2 lines that drain over the hill, one to the east but the main one drains west where I could set a big tank and pump it back uphill to the garden. It just is not cost efficient at this time due to the cross plumbing involved and as you know we do not get summer rain here so the lawn would soon use up our reserve. The tank would be out of view except to the trespassers.
I’m suprised you don’t have a well.
I’m suprised you don’t have a well. Judging by the pictures you have on your site I thought you live out in the country.
Makes my mouth water RD. We have to buy ours at the Farmers Market when they come into season here.
We are very blessed and thankful. Trying to garden in the swamp that I lived in before was a constant battle against fungi, bugs, and critters. We did eat some small fried green tomatos from time to time, though.
I should have taken a picture. The wind from Hell fired up about ten this morning...first my Dr. Carolyn Pink loses a branch...then my 'Mystery' tomato...then my Nyagous. Winds gusting over 40 MPH just eating leaves alive. No mention of this from the weatherman, of course. (Overpaid blow-dried jackass.) Re-staking plants like a madman trying to fight the wind. First a scorching sun to scald my plants in May, then a week-long mist to dissolve new leaves in June (exactly what is there in rain to dissolve leaves like that, anyhow?); now this damn wind.
I need to find a part of the country where you can build a nice 48-foot high tunnel to protect the plants from all this BS...no wonder people are leaving Sodom and Gomorrah (New England) in record numbers...please don't suggest Texas. :-)
Any ideas on re-planting (cloning?) broken branches? I have them in vases of water with some 'noms'...
I have never cloned a tomato cutting but there are a few FReepers on the thread that say all you need to do is stick them into some soil and they should root.
I also thought that I had read on this thread of somebody cutting tomato plants back and mulching them over the winter till spring.
Hey see post 172.
You might be right but I thought that was how some people do young fig trees.
I have never seen Beans with yellow flowers. What variety are they and do you pick them green or dried and how do you harvest them?
I have parsley right next to the dill but haven’t seen any on it. I read they like carrots too. So now I’m always looking for their eggs when I’m in the garden.
How do you harvest all those peas? Do you bring in a picking service? When I lived in Washington State Birdseye came right into the fields with their equipment, picked them mechanically, and put them into deepfreeze right in the field. It was amazing. I think they do that hear too, but it’s been 20 years since I had a pea field next door.
15 needlessly-marked-up houses there now.
hear=here
Duh!
Gorgeous. I’ve just been out checking my garden. I have nothing to harvest yet, except herbs and green onions. >>pout<< I have about a half dozen zucchini — the largest the size of my forefinger.
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