How does your garden grow?

Larro Darro · Sep 25, 2015

I saw this Pruden's Purple tomato was getting pretty big, and I figured I had better move it if I was going to. So I put it in a shopping bag {the black Office Max bag} and put it in the swimming pool. I just dug out the hole the tomato was in big enough to hold the pepper plant {that had been in the pool}, bag and all. So they just changed places.

Larro Darro · Sep 26, 2015

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The first turnips and the first bloom on the 4th planting of peas. The 5th planting of peas are growing so slow there is no way they will make it by frost, but it was worth a shot.

DFB · Sep 26, 2015

Actually got home early enough today to get out in my garden and yard before it got dark. Surprised myself with a haul of eggplant, zukes, green peppers. and a 1/2 bu. box full of my own organic apples!

Pretty awesome it is almost October and here in Vermont ( for that matter most anywhere in New England) we have not had a frost yet or even one night anywhere close to it yet!

TomSeller · Sep 26, 2015

DFB said:
Actually got home early enough today to get out in my garden and yard before it got dark. Surprised myself with a haul of eggplant, zukes, green peppers. and a 1/2 bu. box full of my own organic apples!

Pretty awesome it is almost October and here in Vermont ( for that matter most anywhere in New England) we have not had a frost yet or even one night anywhere close to it yet!

Nice, what variety of apple?

DFB · Sep 27, 2015

TomSeller said:
Nice, what variety of apple?

Those are red McIntosh apples. I have two of them and one red delicious for a pollinator tree. My pear tree is so laden with fruit this year some of the branches are breaking off.

Wish I had time to can the pears, mostly they just go to the deer. The apples I will probably use for applesauce.

Larro Darro · Sep 27, 2015

DFB said:
Those are red McIntosh apples. I have two of them and one red delicious for a pollinator tree. My pear tree is so laden with fruit this year some of the branches are breaking off.

Wish I had time to can the pears, mostly they just go to the deer. The apples I will probably use for applesauce.

Our Tampa cousins are as bad as the deer to wait around under the pear trees waiting for one to get ripe. And since the fruit trees are a mile away at the old house, we don't always remember to check them. We didn't have a great year for pears or apple persimmons. But the blueberries over there lasted almost two months. Mostly that is due to having enough, but not too much rain.

Larro Darro · Sep 27, 2015

DFB said:
Those are red McIntosh apples. I have two of them and one red delicious for a pollinator tree. My pear tree is so laden with fruit this year some of the branches are breaking off.

Wish I had time to can the pears, mostly they just go to the deer. The apples I will probably use for applesauce.

Our Tampa cousins are as bad as the deer to wait around under the pear trees waiting for one to get ripe. And since the fruit trees are a mile away at the old house, we don't always remember to check them. We didn't have a great year for pears or apple persimmons. But the blueberries over there lasted almost two months. Mostly that is due to having enough, but not too much rain.

Larro Darro · Sep 30, 2015

I picked most of the corn today. It was two ears more than I could hold in my hands. I dropped and picked up those two ears {not the same two everytime} about five times before I decided to get a pan and just shuck it in the garden.

I also tilled up a spot and planted another turnip patch. After doing some research I found out the sun will be as low as 36 degrees during December, while the trees to the south of the garden were about 45 degrees from where I had planned the greenhouse. So it has to be moved North and West to take advantage of a gap in the backyard oaks, thus taking in more of the turnips. We will be eating the turnips we have though. Most will be gone by the time we get started building.

Larro Darro · Oct 3, 2015

There are small peas on my vines now. Also little tomatoes on the Pruden' Purple. We picked the last of the corn this morning. There were a lot of nubbins. The Armenian cucumbers are about played out too. I have to get to work, so Margie is going back out to pick the rest of the peppers. The ones in the picture are Mini Sweets, but the Anaheim, Serrano, Jalapeno and Cayenne are still producing like crazy.

Larro Darro · Oct 6, 2015

Turnips are coming up in the new patch. One of the last few melons. It was really red, this is a bad picture. I've been eating two or three a day. There is maybe about a week's worth left. I started a new pool garden, so I moved some of the bell peppers. Note how the sides of the bag is wrapped up in roots. It should have air pruned, but they were crammed in so tight, there must not have been enough air getting to it. I smudged the garden. Really I just burned a bunch of dead limbs, then later I trimmed a couple of cedar trees. I tried to burn the limbs, but the coals were about out.

These are all yesterday's pictures.