Posted on 05/25/2012 8:00:24 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
Huge thanks to Red Devil_232 for posting the thread last week!!! It is absolutely crazy around the farm, with everybody going in different directions at the same time and trying to stay coordinated with one another.
The wheat harvest is well underway, and the yields have been above our wildest dreams. The field corn has tasseled and is pollinating nicely. Several hundred acres of cotton have been planted and it is now being fertilized, sprayed for weeds, sprayed for bugs, etc. Still have about 900 acres of cotton left to plant behind the wheat.
My sweet corn patches are looking good, but have not tassled yet. Night before last we had the first sweet corn of the year from a neighbor's patch. Yum!!!
To everyone that posted photos on last week's thread, NautiNurse comes to mind, they were gorgeous! Such talented gardeners in this group. I'm looking forward to coming in this evening and reading your comments and looking at your photos.
Take care all of my FRiends and fellow gardeners ...
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I just put them in the ground, next to my potatoes and beans.
Oh Stop it Stop it Stop it or I will send you a box full of Late Blight....
Tomatoes next to potatoes are a no-no; precisely for the reason you experienced.
You asked for the name of my purple tomatoes, as soon as I can, I’ll look for the seed envelope and send the name. So far, the plants are just growing, no flowers, just standing there getting taller and thicker.
Add me to the list please.
You have been added.
I’ve been using ferrous sulphate to drop the soil pH. I may have to try the chelated products again.
Great real world links while we pontificate. Thanks tubie
Think foliar
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It is very hard to change the PH. Below is a chelated iron that can work via the roots and via the leaves as a foliar spray. Do you know what chelated vitamins for people are? This is similar
http://www.alisorganics.com/Ferriplus-Chelated-Iron-Ferriplus.htm
I am late to the party this week. Better late than never I guess. Hope everyone had a great weekend. We are still planting stuff as we do staggered planting.
Winter lettuce stalk has bolted, and has flowers, so will soon harvest for seeds to plant this fall. 2 patches of corn are in with two more to go (we stagger these).
I have some green tomatoes from transplants in the tomato patch. Some of the direct sown have not even sprouted yet. Plan to start several patio pots this weekend or next.
Perennial Herbs are transplanted and annual herbs have been sown. Hubby has beans about 8” tall. I plant my beans with the corn after it sprouts.
Have a great week. God Bless.
Yikes!LOL. We have no tassels and no ripe tomatoes. Yes, we have no bananas either.LOL. We have finished transplanting everything, and are now direct sowing the remaining spaces.
One patch of corn is sprouting, and the others are not in yet. We start transplanting May 15, and continue direct sowing into June.
Have a great day.
I wish I was planting corn again this year. I tried it just for fun a couple of years ago - did a very small patch - and really enjoyed watching it grow. The kernels didn’t all fill, but I think it was the sweetest corn ever. Heirloom, bantum - or something like that I think.
This year hubby and I are planting just the things was use a lot of. Since our garden is not big at all, I won’t put corn in this year.
Our tomatoes are yet to be transplanted - upstate NY don’t ya know :). I started them from seed about three weeks late, but they are coming along OK if a bit slowly. All heirloom, which I am going to guess is partly why they come on slowly from seed. This is our first year of planting only from seed for tomatoes also. One variety took nearly four weeks just to sprout! I had given up on those, LOL, and then one day - there they were.
My peach tree is popping - which surprises due to the weird changes in weather. I’m netting individual peaches so that I can be sure to get enough to do a batch of jam. Last year the critters got every single peach.
He was growing tomatoes, and potatoes are cheap, so that left corn on the cob as the missing part of the trio. My daughter had purchased a book on square foot gardening, which I borrowed and read.
I started with a 3 ft. x 8 ft bed next to the patio. Filled with non-soil based on Mel's mix instructions. Planted half of the raised bed with dwarf(sort of) corn, with 4 seeds per square foot. Interspersed beans and watermelon in the rest, and a little lettuce, carrots, and onions.
Hubby was totally skeptical of the whole thing: Soil mix will never work. Plants are too close together etc. etc. Corn did sooo well he decided he could plant some the next year.
He also converted his first garden patch into 3 x 30 ft. raised beds, with a little space to walk in between the beds. He doesn't use Mel's recipe though.LOL.
Weather in Missouri can be kinda problematic too. The new zone map has us in zone 6 now, where we used to be zone 5. Did your zone change too?
Good luck with your gardening efforts this year.
He was growing tomatoes, and potatoes are cheap, so that left corn on the cob as the missing part of the trio. My daughter had purchased a book on square foot gardening, which I borrowed and read.
I started with a 3 ft. x 8 ft bed next to the patio. Filled with non-soil based on Mel's mix instructions. Planted half of the raised bed with dwarf(sort of) corn, with 4 seeds per square foot. Interspersed beans and watermelon in the rest, and a little lettuce, carrots, and onions.
Hubby was totally skeptical of the whole thing: Soil mix will never work. Plants are too close together etc. etc. Corn did sooo well he decided he could plant some the next year.
He also coverted his first garden patch into 3 x 30 ft. raised beds, with a little space to walk in between the beds. He doesn't use Mel's recipe though.LOL.
Weather in Missouri can be kinda problematic too. The new zone map has us in zone 6 now, where we used to be zone 5. Did your zone change too?
Good luck with your gardening efforts this year. Tubebender, how are you doing? I haven't had an direct exchange with you for a coon's age seems like. I am sooo glad that Missouri weather allow me to do a lot of direct planting, and still have a long enough season to obtain a good harvest.
Our weather is very problematic and we can’t grow tomatoes here so we grow potato varieties that are not available in our markets but our big producers are various berries. Lady Bender picked 2 gallons of strawberries this afternoon and most of them will be served at Fellowship after Services tomorrow morning.
Wow, our strawberries are just about done for the season, I guess. The squirrels got the 2cnd batch, because the netting was not on very good.
Hubby will only water them enough during the dry season for survival, so we are done for the season, unless we get good rains in June.
I am so grateful we can grow so many things including tomatoes here in Missouri. Have a good week.
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