Garden Time, JINMAN ??????

[jinman]

Well we caught a little 'coon in a live trap that we suspect was the booger that was tearin' up the garden. I'm back in good graces.

Way to go there, Hud. I just bet that where there is one coon, there are gonna be more of those little boogers hiding in the woods. We had several destroying our corn and then our melons last year when it was so hot and dry here. This year, we have not had any problems nor even seen any coon tracks in our garden...yet. Our old dogs did take care of a cottontail rabbit that got caught in our fence. My wife laughed at them and said they were too old and too slow to have caught the rabbit any other way. Normally they only catch skunks.

Hope you get some rain soon. I counted half a dozen little tomatoes on my plants last night, so it won't be long before we are dining on our own goodies. I may have to give that cayenne pepper-tomato sandwich a try.


JC-jetro: Wow! Your small beds are really productive. I have a friend at work who does the same thing with wooden fence to let cucumbers and melons grow in his back yard. I'll have to show him your pictures of your cattle panels. That's a great idea for using limited space. You just have to be careful that one thing doesn't shade another. I'm putting up some old fencing for trellises today, so I'll try to take some pictures. I guarantee you mine won't look anywhere nearly as neat as yours.

 

[jinman]

New potatoes by Cinco de Mayo.

 

[Bird]

Just looking at those potatoes makes me hungry.

 

[randy41]

nice taters jim. good cleaning job too!
you guys are way ahead in weather from here. there might be some frost tonight here.

 

[jinman]

Just looking at those potatoes makes me hungry.

Bird and Randy41, those new potatoes sure tasted good last night. We had to use canned beans, but I had my new potatoes and everything was delicious. We also had turnips and greens and squash casserole, all from our garden. YUM!

We spent more time in the garden than "the law allows" this weekend. Whew! Tomato cages for over 50 plants and a couple of trellises for pinto beans. We still have lots more to do like getting trellises for the English peas and more beans, but at least this is a start. As promised, we also gathered a half-dozen fresh yellow-neck and scalloped squash yesterday. The wind is blowing the squash plants around pretty badly, so I may have to back them up with some type of support. I did manage to spray everything with insecticide too. We are starting to see a lot of cabbage worms and squash bugs.

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[MarkV]

Gosh Jim your garden sure is growing faster than mine this year. Last year I figured you were 2 or 3 weeks ahead of us but it looks like more this year. That late freeze slowed things down here and we are only getting lettuce and spinach at the moment. It makes me jealous. Guess in a couple of months when you are getting that 100+ weather and things are burning up I’ll get over the jealousy. Garden looks great.

MarkV

 

[Bird]

That sure is a fine looking garden, and I can see what you mean about spending so much time in it this past weekend. I never did any "construction projects" in mine except for the tomato cages. My Dad used to plant pinto beans for green beans, but I never planted anything but the Blue Lake beans. And I never planted any English peas. I eat'em, but am not nearly as fond of them as Margaret is, and we only buy the LeSueur early peas. I wouldn't even know what to do with a rutabaga; don't recall ever growing or eating any. But I sure know what to do with the tomatoes, potatoes, turnips, and squash.

 

[RedRocker]

Note to self: Stop by Jinman's on the way to Bowie.

 

[jinman]

Note to self: Stop by Jinman's on the way to Bowie.

C'mon...if we aren't at the house, you'll know where to find us.

 

[RedRocker]

I'm wanting to get up there next weekend real bad, my grapple will be here but we have family coming in for Mother's day. Whadda ya gonna do?