Edibles '11

Apples ^_^

you are ahead of me! we just got flowers on our squash and cukes

I'll think of you tonight Bill when im eating the cukes. :)

Marcia, No help with our garden, except we do hire guys to mow the lawn and put down mulch in the spring. We grow the tomatoes in cages, up single poles, on trellis and in grow bags up garden twine from a bamboo strung over them like they do in hot houses. About any way we can however those tepees are for the pole beans.

Had a big harvest of kale last night along with more haricot vert than we needed for dinner. Still have just green tomatoes, but coming. Ate the last of the spinach yesterday, but lettuce is still producing. Finding the rabbit hole in the fence and plugging it will hopefully let my fall kale crop recover from his nibbling now that he his gone. Sugar snaps are 6 feet high. Crazy.

Interested to read about Medlar Tree fruit. Thanks, Patti

I got 3 cukes today and 1 squash is ready to be picked. The peppers are flowering or have already. Here it is the middle of July and cukes just coming along? It seems long waiting dont it?

This is a very strange year . . . My corn is showing silk!

Wow. So is my bunion. ^_^

Beehives always has a purpose - Rip

It's scaring me how few bees are in my garden.....son's hives seem to be doing OK, but they'll find out come spring....

Tons here. Not sure if there are many honey ones, though.

I never know which is which.. bees all over the yard though

Sadly it looks like we will have no beach plums this year. All that cold and rain must have done them in this year. I could cry. Patti

Oh, bad news! I know you like to make the jelly.

so sorry Patti

Awe, thats terrible patti! So sorry:(

The honey bees are more orange and you'll usually find them on the clover in your lawn

while watering the veggy garden last night i almost stepped on a giant water snake that has been hanging around the last few weeks - not the one i took a pic of this one is twice the size - it was under the seaweed hay so i never saw it until it made its escape

good thing you didn't step on it. I got a little garden snake with the weed whacker. I felt so bad!

My tomats are going wild. I know cherry t-plants will get tall but good grief the others are getting tall. How tall? umm umm guessing

5 feet - eyes bugging outta of my head.

I will get a pic

Attack of the killer tomatoes?

Glad you didn't step on your friend, Bill....water snakes can give you a nasty bite....then you need to get a tetnus shot as well....Glad your tomatoes are growing, Sherrie...some of mine are still pretty small....

OK - I lied. T-plants are not 5 feet. Well maybe 4. Here is Jims son Jamie and his daughter Jenna They are around 5 feet tall. These plants are on 7 weeks with the Sawdust Gardening. also you can see weeds.

Jamie looks like he might not like tomatoes.

The camera looks like his wife and he shutters

Ugh!

Tomatoes look great!

Too big. I spend a ton of time just to tie them up. Oh my gosh.

I've used that as a pickup line.

You know some odd folks, Victor!

You ARE and odd folk, Victor.

Hello new friends,

My poles beans have rust. It started on one plant and is working it's way up the trellis and across the bottom to other plants. The plants have at this point overgrown the 8' high trellis and are snaking out into the airspace around it - no flowers yet but close. Nearby bush beans and pumpkin are unaffected. Advice?

I've also got two 7' tall tomato plants (German Johnson and Mr Stripey - the husband planted these so I don't know which is which yet) - one with maybe 2 blooms and the other with no flowers at all. My other toms are all carrying green fruit. Any thoughts on these?

Thanks for any input you all can offer.

Ingrid

ortho has a fungus product that takes care of rust and blight - i swear by it

It sounds like the heritage toms were not pollinated....not enough bees around....

The garlic is being strange this year. The leaves really haven't died back yet and usually I am done harvesting garlic long before 4th of July. I pulled a couple of heads and they look full - maybe I should just pull them all - - -

My friend Cathy, who lives up in Goshen, just harvested hers, Memory....she said the whole house reeks of garlic....

no vampires!

LOL

Thanks wha -- don't suppose that ortho stuff is organic, eh? I'll go chemical if I must...

Robindog -- that makes sense. Is there a fix or am I growing fruitless tomato trees?

I had the BEST cucumber today from our local farmer's market

not organic sorry - might be too late for this year unless you get it on the stuff that is not infected soon - it spreads fast