After 16 or 17 years of “lurking” I decided to join FR to post on these garden thread.
Wow! What a year here in Atlanta.
I have already canned 75 quarts of tomatoes. Pretty confident I’ve pulled close to 100 flats (you know, those cardboard flats Costco sells peaches etc in) all from 30 Krims (they’ve succumbed from the wilt now) and the remaining 30 Better Boys (that are still producing fruit I pull twice per day).
Canned some 20 pints of sauce and about the same of iced, sweet, green tomatoes. Planted about 15 additional hybrids and 7 more Krims several weeks ago. They’re doing fine - producing fruit, flowering!
Green beans were non-stoppable. My single, 30 foot row of Roma green beans must have produced a dozen plastic grocery bags of beans. The regular green beans would get tough before I could give them away.
The Korean white (I planted 8 plants) cucumbers, well, let’s just say the neighbors were saying “no more”. First time I’ve planted this variety.. They are an excellent quality and excellent producer that produce fruit about every 4 inches of vine knot.
Okra is going to town, too. I’m pulling pods twice a day. I have one plant that’s 8 feet tall. Really!
My peppers (banana, bell, California Wonder) don’t start *really* producing until this time of the year. They’re right on schedule.
The squashes and zucchinis I pulled up before they were finished. I got tired of them. Just too much and wanted the real estate.
Fordhooks are going about the same - kinda slow as usual.
Several weeks ago I planted something for the first time - Alabama Blackeye Butter (a pole bean) Beans. They’re already
6 feet tall (but no fruit yet). Bloggers in this area say they’ll prolifically produce fruit through Thanksgiving.
I’m excited about the fall crops that I’ve already started.
Can you tell?
BTW - Have yet to find the first horn worm on my maters. The stink bugs are a different matter..!
Welcome to FR, and the garden thread. If you want on the ping list, just let me know.
You have certainly got a huge garden and produce amount compared to us. We keep adding garden plots, and experimenting, but we don’t go at it like we probably should.
Our green beans this year were outstanding producers. We have enough canned for 18 months to a year. Hubby got tired of picking them, and decided to just let them turn to dry beans. We had a mess of those the other day.
The tasted really good - almost like a pinto bean, only more subtle. He can’t remember what he planted. He just went to the local feed store and asked for some green bean seeds that could also be used for dried beans.
Welcome Home OL… Sounds like you have this gardening thing figured out.
Very few hornworms (6 or so) so far this year, but the wasps found them before my wife.