2025 gardens

[CloverKnollFarms]

Sprayed the pumpkin patch for squash bugs.

Found one little bugger and decided to set him aside to see how long my mix would take to induce a permanent sleep.

25 minutes. Not bad!

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Some banana peppers.

 

[sixdogs]

A tip not everyone knows is to use an electric toothbrush to aid in pollination of tomatoes. Tomatoes are self pollenated by the wind.

The early blossoms don’t have many leaves to block the wind so they do fine but the higher tiers have more leaves and pollination is more difficult and you wind up with fewer tomatoes. By holding a vibrating toothbrush near the blossom or touching the stem by the blossom, you get more fruit.

I’ve written about this before on TBN and maybe everyone knows it but it works for me. FYI

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Side dressed more corn today. No sign of squash bugs today.

 

[Oaktree]

Side dressed more corn today. No sign of squash bugs today.

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Wow, that's quite the garden!! Way more than I have time or ambition for! What do you do to keep it so well-weeded? I have enough trouble staying ahead of my ~15 x 50'.

 

[Oaktree]

Been a good year in the garden! Got behind and things got backed up so I pickled. 3 qts cucumber pickles (2 chips, 1 spear) 1 qt carrots and jalapeños, 2 qts zucchini and squash and 1 qt green beans. Used a prepackaged mix from the store. Hate when fresh stuff from the garden goes bad and I love pickles so this is a win win!

What do you do to keep the slices from getting rubbery in storage? Whole cukes hold up OK, but if I do sliced ones they don't stay crisp. The cukes that I don't see until they're oversized get made into relish.
I'll can beans, but not pickle them. Tried it once, didn't like the result.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Wow, that's quite the garden!! Way more than I have time or ambition for! What do you do to keep it so well-weeded? I have enough trouble staying ahead of my ~15 x 50'.

I spend about 5 hours per week with a hoe/tiller. It's 10,000 square feet

 

[DJ54]

Got what I'm going to mulch done yesterday morning. Worked on it the day before too, just too darn hot to do much. I have a good many leaves left so I'm ahead of the game for next year.

Heavy rains to the north and south of me, here I keep getting 3-4/10ths each time. Perfect rains must be living right.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Got what I'm going to mulch done yesterday morning. Worked on it the day before too, just too darn hot to do much. I have a good many leaves left so I'm ahead of the game for next year.

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That’s a beautiful plot

 

[walhondingMF]

Everything is doing well. Lots of cucumbers and getting ready to make pickles, which I have never done before. Pumpkin patch is really taking off and happy that my gourds have started growing. Excited to see the first flower on the gourds.