Garden time...Oh boy!

[jinman]

Okra, peas, and corn...

 

[jinman]

Corn rows...
We planted about 4 varieties of corn and all the plants are growing at different rates. The two rows on the left are non-hybrid yellow dent corn. The others are all various hybrid varieties.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Let's see, you're supplying DFW airport their veggies right?

That's a lot of garden, a lot of garden.

Looks good.

 

[PineRidge]

Looking really good Jim! Keep the pictures coming.

 

[Bird]

That really is a fine looking garden, and you should have more than you can give away. Incidentally, I wonder whether zucchini is the fastest growing plant in existence. Once they start to produce, you have to pick it at least every other day or they grow to huge sizes.

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( That really is a fine looking garden, and you should have more than you can give away. Incidentally, I wonder whether zucchini is the fastest growing plant in existence. Once they start to produce, you have to pick it at least every other day or they grow to huge sizes. )</font>

As usual, I may have overdone it a bit. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif My brother asked me how many zucchini plants I had. When I told him four, he said that was about three too many. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Considering that we have lots of yellow squash and spaghetti squash, I see a big freezer in my future. If the corn does well, I'll have ears coming out my ears too. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I pulled my first radish last night. It was about the size of my thumb and delicious. Yum! Four weeks from seed... pretty fast.

Thanks for all the compliments. I'll post pictures every week or two so I can show the progress: good, bad, or ugly. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

Jim, I wondered how many plants are needed to properly pollinate and produce, and I don't know. I usually had about 4 "hills" of zucchini myself; 2 or 3 plants per hill; figured I'd rather have too much than too little. Then I'd plant about twice that many yellow squash. We like them mixed and steamed with butter, salt, & pepper, and like the yellow ones battered and fried. And we always had more than we could use and/or give away. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[BB_TX]

<font color="blue"> he said that was about three too many </font>
He ain't far off. I had 4 squash plants last year. Great for about 3 weeks. Then I couldn't give it away fast enough. I was picking them every day. My wife would just groan when I brought them in. And if I had also had zuchinni, /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
My squash plants already have a lot of small fruit on all plants. Odd thing is that they started getting lots of female blooms and fruit about 2 wks ago, but did not start getting male blooms to pollinate them until a day or two ago. The early fruit just rotted away. Hopefully they will start to produce now.

 

[billbill1]

I get squash bugs every year that kill the plants after about a month of growth. They swarm the plant and will kill overnight. Sevin dust will keep them under control if you get it on in time. The wife scoops the middle out of the zuccinni and mixes cream cheese, sausage, cheddar cheese, and onion and fills the cavity and bakes in the oven, really good. She calls them pizza boats. We try not to let them get over 7-8" long before we pick them.

 

[BB_TX]

<font color="blue"> I get squash bugs every year that kill the plants </font>
For years I did also to the point I quit them. Then last year I decided to try again. I had always planted crook neck from packaged seed from a box store. Last year I went to the farm store and got straight neck. Also I had read that certain plants help repel bugs naturally. So I planted the straight neck. Nearby I planted some marigolds. I saw only a few squash bugs and those never seemed to have harmed the plants at all. Also never saw any tomato hornworms on the tomatoes. Don't know whether it the different variety or if the marigolds really worked. This year I planted more marigolds along with various herbs such as mint, basil, parsley, etc that are also supposed to repel bugs.