How does your garden grow?

TomSeller · Aug 2, 2015

Larro Darro said:
I took lots of garden pictures this afternoon, but photo loader is not working right. I'm having to post on FB, then copy and paste image url. So just a couple for tonight. Little peas on 2nd planting of purple hulls. First acorn squash on 2nd planting.

I'm seeing them, so it must be working. Healthy looking.

Larro Darro · Aug 3, 2015

TomSeller said:
I'm seeing them, so it must be working. Healthy looking.

It wouldn't let me post thumbnails. I had to use a photo hosting site, Face Book in this case, in order to get them loaded.

DFB · Aug 3, 2015

Picked blueberries, cherry tomatoes, eggplant, green bell peppers, more cousa and gladiolus from my garden today, and bought new white potatoes from another vendor at my sales market yesterday.

Down at the orchard we have picked squash, cukes, apricots, plums, peaches, strawberries, raspberries, and the earliest apples too. Harvest is in full swing around here now

Larro Darro · Aug 4, 2015

Yesterday I plowed 3rd planting of purple hulls, then made it rain. {we got also got a hard rain later in the day}

Blooms on 2nd planting of Crimson Sweets.

Oaktree · Aug 4, 2015

farmer2009 said:
Picked most of a 5 gallon bucket of Blue Lake Green Beans yesterday. Figured I'd better get the corn out. Thursday evening watched 3 masked bandits run out of my corn patch.

I planted them a couple years ago, to say the least they were prolific (though beans usually are!). This year they didn't even sprout. Ended up re-re-planting (different variety) last week of June...won't be ready for another couple weeks.

I usually fence off my corn with plastic snowdrift fencing, it's floppy enough that nobody wants to climb it.

Larro Darro · Aug 4, 2015

There were a few small melons on the Sugar Babies today. Just a matter of time now until. . . . .

Larro Darro · Aug 4, 2015

Saw this on Sister's Face Book timeline. Too funny not to share.

Larro Darro · Aug 4, 2015

I worked on getting rid of the tomatoes this evening. I got all hoses and soaker hoses moved, the haystring cut and balled up, the T-posts and wooden stakes up, and pulled some of the posts out of the ground before it got too dark to see. Tomorrow I will get the rest of the pots up, then recycle some of the potting soil when I transplant the few bell peppers that are still hanging on. With them moved, I can disc up a long section of garden. Now I just have to decide what to plant back in that spot.

Speaking of tomatoes, have any of you guys ever grown hydroponically, or with lights. I'm going to give it a try. First outside with the sun, and if that works alright, I will see about getting lights and growing some through the winter. I saw this video on You Tube, and it got me ready to get going.

This is on the older Armenian cucumbers I transplanted a few weeks back. {one of the few of that planting that didn't get toasted by too much sun and too much 13-13-13} Three or four more days and it will be ready. And lots more little ones coming along.

farmer2009 · Aug 4, 2015

We use to start Tobacco hydroponically. Not hard just need the right trays. We had 220 cell trays. Made our own bed. Plastic liner over 2x6's with a 1x2 cap to hold liner. 3/4 inch PVC to make bows and clamped onto 2x6. Then used a plant bed canvas over bows. It was a white non woven material. Water and light could permeate. Even had a PVC pipe that we could roll up the canvas. About half way up bows. Just use water soluble fertilizer.

Larro Darro · Aug 5, 2015

farmer2009 said:
We use to start Tobacco hydroponically. Not hard just need the right trays. We had 220 cell trays. Made our own bed. Plastic liner over 2x6's with a 1x2 cap to hold liner. 3/4 inch PVC to make bows and clamped onto 2x6. Then used a plant bed canvas over bows. It was a white non woven material. Water and light could permeate. Even had a PVC pipe that we could roll up the canvas. About half way up bows. Just use water soluble fertilizer.

Thanks. I'm going to try to do it on the cheap. I have lots of pots, so I'll look for some the same size with a good lip, then drill lots of holes in them. I saw where a survivalist on You Tube was growing in gallon milk jugs with tube socks, so me buying tubs and an air pump will be posh operation compared to some.