Hot peppers are doing well for me and I have 2 of my tomato plants that are topping 6 feet tall!! No idea why and am struggling to keep them upright as they are in pots! Gardening is sure a new experience every day!
In Alabama, my butternut squash is taking over the world and its starting to frighten the children!! But my mandevilla plant is not giving me any more flowers. Any suggestions?
I’ll be here after having breakfast with old FRiends...
Hi all. I need some advice. The soil in my vegetable garden in Maine has extremely low calcium (had it tested at UMAINE). As a result, my squash has blossom end rot. Anyone know a cure?
Killed me not having a garden this year because it's been a mild, wet spring and summer. I wouldn't even have had to water. We bought a hunk of forest and don't have a well yet. There's a spring fed creek down the road that I fill up a trailer mounted tank from. Still a lot of work to water. A well would cost us as much as paying off the property would so we're going to pay it off before getting the well.
The fence is for meat goats and maybe some little kunekune pigs.
Gonna be a little hard to process these things but I'll manage. Tiny chops and ham will be strange and same for the goats as they get harvested or go to the sale barn at 50-70 lbs.
Definitely doing a garden next year and I've got some curved steel pipe to do a high tunnel. They came from a hay shelter and are a little thicker than the ones that you can buy that are specific to high tunnels. High tunnels are supposed to add up to 2 months to each end of the growing season and in fact, cold weather crops can be grown right through winter.
Here in the Ozarks, gardening isn't easy with this rocky clayey soil and hilly terrain. Took us two years to find this property. It's hard to find small acres here at all, much less one that isn't junk. Plenty of North and West facing elevations and/or pieces of land that have no flatish spot. This one's triangle shaped with the wide end of the flattest area facing S/SE. Top soil in that area is almost rock free and is anywhere from 1-2 foot deep. Classified as loamy silt but ti does have some clay characteristics and drainage is slightly less than ideal as there's a hard pan between the top soil and red clay subsoil.
I did get three peaches this year. Bought the tree from walmart 5 years ago but have lost the flowers to frost every year until this one but lost most flowers this year on a really windy day. I didn't even think I'd get any peaches this year. I don't think walmart cares if they sell you something not meant for your zone. This peach tree belongs a couple of zones South in my opinion.(half thinking about building the high tunnel over it) Eating one now and it's yummy. Wife say - not really a peach eater - give her a little chunk - I want more - LOL. Nothing like home grown and minutes from harvest. Found it on the ground actually so it self harvested last night I guess. I'll have to go pull the other two.
Another surprise this year is that a neighbor gave me a bunch of bulbs and told me not to tell his wife because they were something special from her mom. Planted them and orange Day Lillies came up and they've been spreading like mad for a few years. Those things grow everywhere around here. Well this year something different came up. Pink flowers and so I wrapped some surveyors tape around the stem to mark them so I can separate them for next year. That's when I noticed they had no leaves. They're Naked Lillies aka Naked Ladies and a few other aka names. That must be what was special about them.
Have you started or are you putting in a fall garden?
Last year’s crops were spotty at best. This year I can’t pick them fast enough - pickles, cucumbers, string beans, tomatoes. Already put up 21 quarts of pickles and still have 9 quarts from last year(all refrigerated). I guess I over rationed.
Might skip the 2nd string bean planting and work on radishes, carrots and leeks.
Next year planning & how many to plant - don’t know yet.
My hothouse cucumbers are barely holding on. Powdery mildew is a son of a gun. I have two small fans that run on solar power but I placed them so they push air on tomato side of greenhouse....no issues on that side so I need to order 2 more.
Adding more plastic barrels to set the outdoor planting crates up for gravity drip irrigation. It requires tapping holes in the barrels, putting 1/2 inch spigots in the holes and sealing it with some caulk. Then an electronic timer, then the drip lines.
I am claiming a victory for the Weekly Gardening thread. It was the tidbit someone posted about peppers and tomatoes not liking to set fruit above 85 degrees.
My pepper plants that I had suspended up high in the hothouse were not setting fruit. I moved them down lower and they are not setting fruit well. Up high in the hot house, even with the auto vent opening at 90 degrees and me opening the doors all day, up near the roof on a sunny day stays fairly hot.
I have a huge Douglass fir tree about 40 feet from my greenhouse that is weeping sap like crazy, starting aboutb16 feet off the ground.
I have to have a tree guy come check it out before the windy season starts.
All Poke Berry plants ripped out. So there goes the garden - apparently 90+ % of it.
TWO tomato plants remain. Plus some really tall “I don’t know what it is”. I have no idea what it is. But I’ll let it keep growing.
Harvest:
O.K. got ONE (1) tomato from the plant that had 3. One was going soft so it got tossed for whomever may find it. One was missing, so a squirrel, rabbit or perhaps one of the dogs found it and harvested it already. Completely gone.
So this year’s harvest has been ONE (1) tomato so far. My seedlings are still trying to get going on the deck. They’re now about 3 months old and there’s still an easy 10-11 weeks of growth. I may get some peppers and some small tomatoes.
Anyways, if you want some of the ONE (1) tomato, come on by. It’s bigger than a cherry tomato but way smaller than a Roma tomato. It’s probably a large cherry.
We can split it.
I have a weed that is very prevalent around my house.
It is green leafed with clusters of green berries about pea sized
It is vine like, as it will grow up onto a tree for 30 feet or more.
At several points it puts out thin feelers that are curved at the extreme ends.
I don't know if it is classified as a vine or a bush, but it is also a tenacious grower and looking to spread our.
It will grow in the middle of other weeds and overwhelm them.
What is this weed? - Tom
Cucumbers, bell peppers, and tomatoes are producing well now. I got some of the garlic out, but most of it remains. I have too many projects going on right now and the garlic is suffering for it.
He correctly identified as BITTERSWEET - Celastrus scandens.
It says the vine stems get 30 feet long but I got one that is at least that long, and still trying to climb up higher on an 80 foot tree in my backyard.
To kill them they need to be totally uprooted, and possibly treat the area with Roundup, as they are very persistent growers.
I actually like the plush green vegetation they provide, but have to cut the ones back that are swarming my back porch. -Tom
I harvested a SECOND tomato! That brings my total garden production to TWO! (2).
Not as big as a golf ball but bigger than the first.
Both already served and eaten.
Whatever else is growing is about 7 feet tall. It makes new leaves like crazy.
Will I see peppers within the next 75-80 days? Stay tuned!
If we can get some Global Warming maybe I can grow 2 weeks into November!
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