After several days in the 90s & low 100s, the peas are done; long live the peas! They paid for all of our seed & fertilizer this year, as well as put a dent in the cost of new perennials & trees. Also learned a few lessons to apply next year.
Started picking green beans this week, and the dry beans are coming along nicely as well. Carrots are finally getting some size to them, and the second planting has now emerged for fall picking. Squash & cukes are flowering well, and setting some fruit; even got our first zuke this week. Corn is growing, with the Painted Hill tasseling already; the others got in late & was just to get rid of old seed, so we’ll just have to wait & see if that does anything.
Should be harvesting wheat & barley next week. Also, the sweet cherries should be ready in the net few days, too.
I’m almost afraid the German Butterball potato plants have a nitrogen overdose, because they are so huge; and now, NEW shoots are emerging from the bottom to middle sides of the hilling, even though they are in full flower. They got some compost & a light scattering of 10-10-10 tilled in deeply; then the furrow was dug, and triple-superphosphate (0-45-0) placed in the bottom of the trench, covered with an inch or so of soil before planting. OTOH, the Goldrush, planted in the adjacent row, got the same pre-planting treatment, and look a lot more like I’m used to seeing, so it may just be a varietal difference. From seed piece level to the tops of the plants is about 4 feet.
Also this week, I “harvested” 3 meals worth of smallmouth bass & bluegill.
Later, I’ll post a picture of the peppers.
You have a pond where you are growing fish? Your garden sounds great.
Red Bell on left; Giant Marconi on right. Same age; same supplier; same soil mix, fertilizing, watering, etc. This what I mean when I say I can not, and never have been able to anywhere, grow a bell pepper. Long, skinny types, no problem; and the hotter (ugh! I HATE hot peppers!) the better & more prolific they grow.
What kind of potato are German Butterball potatoes?