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.

 

[Sonny580]

hot/dry here for 2 months nonstop. garden bout had it for this year. onions only got to 2 pounds each this year,---wanted 3 pounds since this is probably my last garden year.
Potatoes struggling, looks like a lot of small ones out there. Early reds are about ready to dig and size varies a LOT on what I been test digging. Sweet potatoes growing, they act like heat dont bother them,
Tomatoes are also growing.
a couple farm pix of the Bergamot and Black eye susans in the bluestem grasses

 

[Engineer42]

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.

Good luck with your pickles. Nothing better than eating what you've grown.

My wife used to do bread and butter, and dill spears. The bread and butter pickles I could eat straight out of the jar.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

The green beans are doing well, and I sold my first bunch.
Did a foliar feeding on the 250 pumpkin vines again this morning. Sweet corn is tasseling. We should have about 400 ears per week all through August. They are between v5 and v7 so I'll side dress again this week.
The August green beans are coming in strong.
Lots of pickles maturing too. Can't wait to make pickles soon.

 

[MossRoad]

Good luck with your pickles. Nothing better than eating what you've grown.

My wife used to do bread and butter, and dill spears. The bread and butter pickles I could eat straight out of the jar.

Wife and I used to can Hungarian hot pepper rings in bread and butter pickle mix. Pretty tasty being sweet and hot.

 

[MossRoad]

This reminds me that every year we grow cucumbers, no matter how hard we try, we always miss one that grows to the size of blimp!

 

[sixdogs]

Wife and I used to can Hungarian hot pepper rings in bread and butter pickle mix. Pretty tasty being sweet and hot.

Kudos for being able to eat them. My Hungarian BIL used to eat those peppers one after another. He would break a sweat eating them but kept at it. One bite for me was enough and I felt I needed a lip graft.

 

[Oaktree]

This reminds me that every year we grow cucumbers, no matter how hard we try, we always miss one that grows to the size of blimp!

Only one? I'll usually get 4 or 5. Don't know how I miss them when they're normal size, but I do.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Picked another 6 pounds of green beans, that's 17 so far.

Canned 12 jars of pickles today.

I'll be harvesting buckwheat in a week or two.

Seet corn is looking good!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Here's my late tomato planting and potatoes as of a week ago,

This is some earlier tomatoes, also celery and sweet potatoes I grow in big pots,

Some Elephant garlic I dug a few days ago,

That's just a few of the garden plants that's growing here this summer.

SR

 

[DJ54]

I had a heat related problem here I don't ever remember having before. I had 6" inches of rain here over a 4 day period along with hot sun afterwards. I looked the garden over yesterday morning and noticed some cabbage, lettuce and pepper plants wilted. Checked again yesterday evening and finally saw the difference. Apparently, the hot afternoon sun came out after an episode of a nearly 2" rain day before yesterday. What cabbage and plants a couple rows over were shaded by the Broom Corn and sweet corn are fine. What plants were in the direct sun literally got cooked. Didn't seem to affect the tomatoes. Now to see if they come out of it.