2020 gardens

[oldballs]

Thanks for the pix guys..........things looking good after all.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[jjp8182]

Processed turnips for freezing this last Saturday, ended up just shy of 7 gallons to put in the freezer from this batch. Given this was less than a fifth of the crop, I'm most likely going to need to figure out what to do with the rest at some point as I'm pretty sure they won't all fit in my freezer at this rate.

Though I'm not going to complain as a surplus is always a good problem to have. :thumbsup:

 

[herm0016]

turns out we mislabeled some of our squash. . . we now have 4 fairytail pumpkin plants and they are doing great! we are going to have to sell some, you can make 6 to 8 pies with each one. we have a few mellons coming in and we harvested carrots, peppers, beets, and some hybrid squashs so far.

 

[Sonny580]

2" downpour in 10 mins. just now! --kinda knocked things over again! ---most of the rain just ran off again so ground still dry down a few inches.

 

[Sonny580]

just finished the onion harvest. --- most were small to medium sized---had a few 5 to 6 inchers. Now to freeze dry some.


freeze dryer running now in yellow summer squash

 

[cqaigy2]

Never seen a freeze dryer before.

 

[RalphVa]

Anyone have any ideas what I should do about this POS plot that I created and then skinnied up. Still doing awful. Only ever grew volunteer cherry toms well, and an Italian butternut squash filled it in entirely once.

I've put photos of another new are using same new soil I put in the skinnied up plot.

Here's some more text. Have written an article for our next newsletter.

This could be entitled: how to create a new climate zone area, because I think I did this. No, it痴 about 2 garden sites with identical new Panorama Paydirt soil. One site has a long history. I created it in May of 2006 when I moved asparagus out of the rhubarb patch.
Here痴 the new asparagus patch where I had failures of 3 different asparagus that I tried in it. It would grow volunteer cherry tomatoes like gang busters. It also had an Italian butternut squash fill it completely. So, it was good for these, but NEVER succeeded in producing ANY asparagus and was limited in producing much of anything else. (My best asparagus is one I missed in the current rhubarb patch, and asparagus is growing nicely in 5 of my 6 raised beds.)

You can see the new green asparagus heads, one of 3 batches that disappeared later.
One problem with this patch, I determined, is its width. I had to step into it to get to all of it. So, last year I made it less wide. I then removed 3 or 4 inches of soil from it and refilled with Panorama Paydirt.
I stacked the excess concrete blocks behind the skinnier patch. That may have been a mistake. Those blocks may be overheating the plot. I知 still not sure what to do about the blocks or the plot. It bore a bit of snow peas growing up the fence at the back in front of the concrete blocks, but it was not a winner among 3 other sites where I had snow peas. That greenery up the fence in back is wild Burr Cucumber that insects love; the back fence should be loaded with 2 kinds of pole beans, incl. asparagus beans, that I planted at its base: not happening. Okra seeds planted in it just never germinated. It is getting plenty of water from a multi-looped soaker hose that appears wet all the time as I switch from one set of rain tanks/barrels to others. I知 getting almost no production from it.
By comparison, an old Knockout rose site near my outside shower was converted to veggies with new Panorama Paydirt is doing GREAT.

Even the bush beans on both sides of the stepping stones are bearing in the July heat. Whereas, bush beans everywhere else, just stopped in the heat. There are even 3 or more okra plants growing taller than I致e ever gotten okra to grow since stopping my big garden in Ivy Creek overflow area. I致e hopes of maybe getting more than a few pods of okra this year. The okra on the other side of the stepping stones has come up as well. I致e hopes that it値l also grow big enough before the high summer sun goes away with lower fall sun. This site is easy to water from the users of the outside shower. There痴 also a drain from the shower that dumps water in the upper part of it (near those okra plants). The 3 summer squash here are my healthiest and biggest but no female blossoms yet.


Ralph

 

[Sonny580]

started freeze-drying some onions---first batch made 5 quart bags.---- have many more to go.

 

[Sonny580]

squash plants

 

[DJ54]

The Marvel Melting snow peas made quite a recovery after the dry spell we had. I kept them watered every other evening to keep them sustained, and hopefully grow out roots for any future rain we may have gotten. It worked..!! A few substantial rains got them going, and they are still hanging on, and producing well. A 60' row is producing approx. 6 qts daily. Got 24, 2 cup, vacuum sealed bags in the freezer for this winter.

Nothing like fresh out of the garden though. Whipped up some Teriyaki Chicken & Snow Peas for supper last night. Hit the spot after a long day.