How does your garden grow?

[Larro Darro]

Hey guys. I haven't posted here in a while, so here is an update on my garden.

I picked the first cucumbers on the new vines this morning. Just in time too, as the old vines are cashing out fast.



Of the next to last planting, the purple hulls and squash are doing the best. The hot dry weather killed all the green beans and slowed up the corn.



The newest planting of purple hulls have a pretty good stand. Although there are more banana cantaloupe volunteers than anything else. The green beans, melons and cantaloupes I planted the same day haven't done as good. I should have watered them better, but it has been very hectic here the last couple of weeks.



The peppers are still chugging along. The plants never got very big, but they are bearing good.



The pinto beans are also doing good. This is my first time growing them, so I don't have anything to compare this crop with.



I know we talked about me planting the flowers in the garden. Not sure if I had posted any pictures though. So here is one.



Larro

 

[lakngulf]

As per normal, okra is loving this hot, humid weather:





I like the color of peppers this time of the year:


And some new growth squash is looking good. Hope it can make it thru August and provide some great fall produce

 

[lakngulf]

Hey guys. I haven't posted here in a while, so here is an update on my garden.
Larro

I really like the way you get maximum use out of your garden area. Have Soil, Plant Seed. Dead Plant, Till Soil, More Seed.

 

[Larro Darro]

Your garden is looking good lakngulf. I guess you will always have plenty of water close by The hot dry weather is playing havoc with my garden right now.

I ran the cultivator between the rows of peas, getting rid of most of the volunteer cantaloupe. Then I made it rain.



I only had one crimson sweet sprout where I had planted the last planting, yet there were hundreds coming up where I had tilled. That got me to thinking.... Maybe the juice in the watermelons was why they were coming up so good. I went and checked for the next good planting day. What do you know, it was today and tomorrow. Since I'll be working all day tomorrow, I went and got one of the over ripe melons my BIL was going to feed to his hogs but hadn't got around to yet. I opened it up and put a handful of melon and seeds in each hill. We will have to wait and see what happens.



Mamma had picked up some yellow eye beans and has been after me to plant some. Since today was a good planting day, I went ahead. You always want to soak dry beans before planting, but that was not an option. So I soaked them after planting. There was an old Chief on my ship during my Navy days who had a saying for situations like this. He would say Proper Preparation Prevents P!ss Poor Performance. Since I had no preparation at all, you know what I had. But I got them planted, then put the soaker hose right in the drill. I'll turn it off about Sunday. The seeds should be good and soaked by then.



I saw a few of the last planting of green beans are sprouting. But if it stays as hot as it has been, I don't give them much chance of living. I will try to get the water to them sooner than I did the others.

Larro

 

[tcreeley]

We had some fried french fries from out red pontiacs last week. We've been getting soaked with rain every few days. The potato bugs got ahead of me and plants are getting scraggly on top. But I think what's in the ground will be plenty. We picked and froze my 4 green cabbage and ate a fifth- stuffed cabbage and egg rolls. We've been cooking and freezing beets and eating the greens, and dried a bunch of cucumbers and zucchinis. We sealed and froze some cherry tomatoes too. We'll see what the freezer does to everything- never used it much for this before.

 

[sixdogs]

Larro--did you ever plant your snake gourds? Mine are going gangbusters.

 

[Larro Darro]

Larro--did you ever plant your snake gourds? Mine are going gangbusters.

I clipped most of them yesterday. The vines are dying back, and I gathered all the ones with brown stems. We are getting afternoon thunderstorms everyday, and I figured it was best to get the mature ones out of the weather.

Larro

 

[sixdogs]

I clipped most of them yesterday. The vines are dying back, and I gathered all the ones with brown stems. We are getting afternoon thunderstorms everyday, and I figured it was best to get the mature ones out of the weather.

Larro

The ones I left outside over last winter looked better than the ones I kept under cover so this year they will all stay outside and in the vine until Spring. I'm cautiously optimistic.

 

[Larro Darro]

The ones I left outside over last winter looked better than the ones I kept under cover so this year they will all stay outside and in the vine until Spring. I'm cautiously optimistic.

I may leave the rest of them on the vine. The ones that are touching the ground anyway.

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

My newly planted melon seeds came up, as well as all the ones already in the ground. Now I need a break in the rain so I can work them.



I cooked the 1st mess of squash from my 2nd planting tonight.



The thunderstorms beat one of my new tomato plants down, but the other two are doing good. I saw the first blooms on them a couple of days ago.



The purple hulls are blooming and there are a few small peas on the vines. Won't be long now.



I'll stop for now.

Larro