How does your garden grow?

Larro Darro · Jun 23, 2014

Western said:
Wish I had a helper like that Tim, everyone here is busy or to broke down to do much good, the grass is slowly winning the battle:mur:

She is my sister's grand daughter, here for three weeks from Denver. The heat and humidity make her want to stay in the river all the time. But the heat and humidity make me want to stay in the river all the time too, and I have lived here my whole life:laughing: I've had no trouble talking Sister into picking the green beans. As long as she can have what she picks. Now finding help with the hoeing, a little bit harder.

Larro

Western · Jun 23, 2014

I lived in Colorado and I know exactly how they feel :laughing: Finding help hoeing, is harder than making someone sit in the corner.... in a round room.

Larro Darro · Jun 23, 2014

Western said:
I lived in Colorado and I know exactly how they feel :laughing: Finding help hoeing, is harder than making someone sit in the corner.... in a round room.

Sister lived out there about 30 years, most of that time at the Springs. She came back home 12 years ago when Daddy died. Her daughter lives in a Denver suburb. I haven't been out there since 1980, and back then Sister lived in Boulder. I know it's nothing like it used to be. Even back then there was a lot of folks from California and Texas moving to the mountains. There was never a problem telling the two groups apart

Larro

Western · Jun 23, 2014

Oh yeah, its grown. We only lived there for about 4 years, but I have been hunting there since early 80's every year. I would say the west coasters won though:ashamed:

Larro Darro · Jun 24, 2014

I picked the first few pole beans this morning, also the first ears off the tall corn. {other than the few I had ate in the garden} I got about a hamper of purple hulls, a few black eyes and bush beans. I've been getting too much rain for the squash and tomatoes. The squash are rotting and I'm having to pick the tomatoes before they are good ripe to keep them from splitting. Not to mention the fact that every time I spray, the rain washes it off.

I transplanted the last of the New Mexico Chili's. The cups were labeled Bell, but some of them had little peppers, that's how I knew they were mislabeled. I guess I got the seed packets mixed up when I started the seeds. I got the late cucumbers side dressed as well as the pinto beans.

We put 5 pints and 2 quarts of purple hulls in the freezer after supper tonight. Mamma shelled a few of the ones I picked today, but most of them were from the last picking. We have enough black eyes shelled for a mess, and I told Margie she could give the rest of this picking away. I like the growing, and I don't mind the picking, but I'm not too crazy about the shelling part.

Larro

TomSeller · Jun 25, 2014

Looks good. I see what you mean by the squash getting ruined, that is too bad. But there is still a lot of good eatiin' there.

Western · Jun 25, 2014

Shelling is why I only plant snap beans now.

Larro Darro · Jun 25, 2014

Western said:
Shelling is why I only plant snap beans now.

Why didn't I think of that? All the unshelled purple hulls went to town with Margie. She has coffee with several retired ladies every morning who will always take anything out of the garden. The two people in her office have been getting squash all along too.

The corn sure was good last night. I'm supposed to join Margie in town for supper, so I'll make sure I have some more of it for lunch today. We were going to cook the blackeyed peas for supper, so I need to do it for lunch, or it will be Friday before I can get around to it. I have a big political thing at work tomorrow night. They always have pretty good eats.

We have already had a passing shower this morning. Just enough to keep me from mowing. I guess I can transplant one more row of Bell Peppers. I am fast running out of room to do much more than that. There is only three rows of the short corn, so I won't gain that much when I pull it up.

Larro

oosik · Jun 25, 2014

Ha, ha, ha - Larro, its finally warm enough here(and it doesn't freeze at night now) to plant a garden. I only plant two planters of squash. My squash leaves are 4-6 inches across now and for the last month I put a plastic garbage bag over them in the planter at night. I quit doing that two days ago but we can still get freezing conditions on until mid July. I'm hoping that by starting the squash early this year they will all ripen before fall frosts.