How does your garden grow?

[General Lee]

Question for you guys: I have a couple sweet bell pepper plants, one red pepper and one yellow. The sweet red pepper plant has a nice pepper coming along but its green. Will it eventually turn red or did I get a mis marked plant?

 

[Larro Darro]

Question for you guys: I have a couple sweet bell pepper plants, one red pepper and one yellow. The sweet red pepper plant has a nice pepper coming along but its green. Will it eventually turn red or did I get a mis marked plant?

You have to leave it on the plant until it turns red. Most all peppers will turn red when left on the plant long enough. The yellow ones are the ones with more genetic engineering.

Larro

 

[lakngulf]

The hot, humid weather has been rough on my tomatoes at the lake, but they are loaded with fruit. Had to clip lots of leaves due to early blight. I just hope there are enough new leaves developing to keep the fruit shaded a bit.





Here is my version of the Topsy Turvy. You can see the dead leaves on this vine



This is what the fish see when they look up

 

[Larro Darro]

The hot, humid weather has been rough on my tomatoes at the lake, but they are loaded with fruit. Had to clip lots of leaves due to early blight. I just hope there are enough new leaves developing to keep the fruit shaded a bit.

I've had some wilt as well as early blight. But I have enough planted I'm not going to worry too much. And I might even put in another row. I have the plants in cups to do it.

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

We picked our first vine ripe cherry tomatoes this morning. {last week we had picked a few off the plants with wilt, and they ripened in the house} We could have picked a couple of cucumbers, but Margie will be out of pocket all day because of the funeral, so she will pick them late this afternoon. I picked about a third of the ears off the stunted corn. Some of the ears were not fulled developed, but most of them looked good. {the test ear I picked from the tall corn needs a few more days} The peas and green beans could have used a picking, but my morning customer called me and ask to come in an hour early. That cut my garden time short by an hour. {if she had let me know earlier, I would have got out there earlier}

And it looks like I had mislabeled my peppers. What I had planted as green bells are New Mexico Chili's and vice versa. So the green bells are planted between the Jalapeno and Cayenne, and the yellow bells are planted beside the NM Chili's. Oh well, they should be flavorful

Larro

 

[sixdogs]

Ha Ha. We're actually just dug into the side of a small rising area of land. No ledge but lots of boulders came out of that digging. When our well was drilled they hit ledge at 15'. It's down there for sure. :laughing:

The basement of our old house in Wells sat on ledge in one corner. We got really lucky on that one. The house sat between two granite ridges that came out of the ground. Everything, the foundation drain to daylight, septic & leach field, fit in there with no blasting. It was all yellow-red sand between the ledge too.

Dave--I once looked at a house for sale in Winterport. Summer people that got scared out after the first winter. Anyway, there was a rock in the basement that was so big they simply poured the basement walls around it. It was a tall basement and seemed taller in the area where the rock was but the rock was the size of maybe two small Volkswagens.

Maybe they thought it was a conversation piece or maybe they couldn't afford to dig a second hole but it was not a wise move. We loved the land and liked the house but the rock was a deal breaker.

 

[dave1949]

Dave--I once looked at a house for sale in Winterport. Summer people that got scared out after the first winter. Anyway, there was a rock in the basement that was so big they simply poured the basement walls around it. It was a tall basement and seemed taller in the area where the rock was but the rock was the size of maybe two small Volkswagens.

Maybe they thought it was a conversation piece or maybe they couldn't afford to dig a second hole but it was not a wise move. We loved the land and liked the house but the rock was a deal breaker.

I've seen that in basements here. I don't think it is all that rare in Maine to have a rock sticking up in older house basements. I dunno, you could do some drilling and cutting and make shelves, or decorate it with modern day petroglyphs. :laughing:

If I really liked everything else about a property, I would have to think hard whether a basement rock was a deal breaker or not.

 

[lakngulf]

I have been battling the raccoons for the sweet corn. I put up an electric fence on one side of the garden, their most used access spot. So far it has done a good job. Already planning a redo of the garden fence to incorporate three or four strands of electric outside the regular fence.

 

[Larro Darro]

The picture is from Thursday, or there about. My helper didn't like the heat in the garden, but she hung in there until we had the squash picked and turned on all the soaker hoses. This morning me and Margie picked 5 gallons of purple hulls, 2 gallons of black eyes, a few tomatoes and cucumbers. Sister and BIL picked about 3 gallons of green beans late this afternoon.

Larro

 

[Western]

Wish I had a helper like that Tim, everyone here is busy or to broke down to do much good, the grass is slowly winning the battle:mur: