Garden thread ping
Thanks for pinging the others.
Yes, we have had enough rain in central Texas to keep everything green, but nothing to fill the lakes.
I have several volunteer tomato plants that are about three feet tall that I had to stake this week. Lots of blooms on them.
Lettuce and turnip seeds have sprouted and onions are well over three inches tall. Garlic seeds have not come up yet.
Other veggie seedlings are doing very well so far.
Thanks for the pings, FRiends!
I don’t have the exhaustive ping list, Applegate Ranch. I’m glad Johnny does!
I guess the big event for me this week was I learned from a local gardening friend that the front scheduled to move in this week was prompting her to harvest her sweet potatoes. Since I didn’t have a clue about local conditions for when to harvest them, I was grateful for the heads up. So yesterday Darlin and I harvested the pot with the SWEET POTATOES in them. Most of the tubers are fairly small, but two of them are about the length of my hand and big enough around the middle that my fingers cant reach! I weighed the sack with them all in it a few moments ago, and it came out to right at 2 pounds.
Darlin was very impressed that our one little slip produced all of that! So now I have another thing on the list that I feel confident we can grow, by God’s grace. It truly is a miracle to see food come out of the ground like that.
I’ve learned that the SNOW PEAS are willing to grow here and produce despite having predators (right now, mites - despite frequent neem treatments) to deal with. The GREAT NORTHERN BEAN plant has also been producing. Mites are on it as well, but not quite as unhappy as the snow peas.
I’m thinking that I’m just a loser for SQUASH - right now, I’ve got acorn and white scallop. I have some plants that are hanging in there but clearly are not happy. I’ve been neeming them as well.
The TOMATO plants have a lot of white moths flying out of them every time I water despite neeming. The tomatoes are reddening. So my self - assessment of being a tomato farmer is that I’m very marginal! LOL!
The remaining sunflowers continue to ripen.
The cold front just came in last night with a lot of rain, and so it is quite cool and cloudy today.
Wishing everyone here on the thread the best!