Cocoa, that might be cut worms or pill bugs that are geting your seedlings.
What's going on with your Vegie Garden Today, part 2
Little beans are starting to form. These are blue lake pole beans.
Peas, peas, and more peas
Blackberries!
Oops, that second picture is not peas! Those are lemon cucumbers.
Here are the peas.
steph, everything looks great. I should have planted my pole beans already!
gg: it's just 2x4's nailed together. DH did it.
The attached handle threw me off...
Uh, don't use that Bic fireplace lighter on your squash/stinkbugs if you're in the middle of a drought, and the grass below is bone dry....ask me how I know this...
"She screamed, as the little poofs of charred bugs drifted slowly downward toward the parched pile of kindling that used to be her green lawn, for at that moment, she realized how brush fires started..."
I fill my table top gardens with different mixtures. I like 1/2 peat and promix mixed and 1/2 compost. I love to add some vermiculite to that when I can afford it.
Yall are so funny with the squash bugs.
I like to use duct tape on squash bugs and their eggs.
If you tear off a strip of duct tape and fold it backwards into a circle so the sticky side is outward, touch the cluster of eggs with the tape and they come off without damaging the leaves. I also collect the squash bugs the same way. Then I trash them. Try to do this on the day you know the trash will be hauled off........I just like knowing they are leaving right away.
With all the coffee I've had today, I can just see me laying down tonight with stinkbugs crawling all over me....
I really dont mind the bugs. I have found a Varigated Cutworm, Snail and a Scorpin. The only problem is they were in the house. The scorpin actually turned around and came after me. Dont need for that to happen again. lol
I like spiders. :)
I had to take a break from the garden and cool off.
My little mantis cultivator needs to be fixed and i couldnt use it in the garden. I had to pull out the big tiller. (rear tines)
I had to spread out all my compost, peat, promix, lime , gypsum, bone meal into a long 4 foot wide row and till it all in with the big tiller.
Now I have to go out there and shovel it up into 4x10 piles for my beds.
I also made a 10x10 bed for my big watermelon plant. Not growing a giant. Just a bunch of little big ones on one plant. I know the plant will spread further than the 10x10 but all the nutrients and watering will be in the 10x10. The plant can go where ever it wants to.
I am going to grow some Crimson Sweet in 2 of the 4x10 and let the vines go where ever they want to also. I was thinking 4 plants per box.
If those EBs can handle 3 and 4 melon vines in 15 gallons of soil, Im thinking the 4x10 , 8 inch deep soil can handle 4 plants too.
I'm cooled off now. Back to work.
Yall must be busy in the gardens.
Tilled it all in.
Made mounds for the 4x10 beds and made two of the 4x10 frames
Then made the 10x10 frame for the Carolina Cross watermelon
After that, I planted 8 crimson sweet watermelon plants in those 2 4x10s
The end of the day=====not. I gotta go water greenhouse
I like your soil Cricket!
Yeah - what Dean said. Looking good cricket. I *know* that's a lotta work.
This was just a few odds & ends of what Momma & I harvested last night and this morning. The two biggest Momma didn't even see, I found, almost tripped over them, this morning... Can't wait for the cukes to start forming, lots of blooms and seeing some little starters.
That's pretty nice kevcarr59. You must have really got an early start.
Good going on the squash and zucchini kevcarr59. I had zucchini tonight, sliced, seasoned and sautéed in olive oil mixed with about a tsp of dill seeds and a sprig of oregano.
oh oh oh.......I didn't like Zucchini years ago. I decided to grow one this year to see if my taste buds changed. They didn't. It was actually ok.....but I don't want to grow anymore. I think I liked the young raw zucchini better. It had a mild nutty flavor.
Nice looking harvest Kev.
It's what's for dinner....
#1...Pork brisket ribs...
#2...Grilled zucchini with olive oil and garlic & herb seasoning... Nice to pick and eat within a couple hours after harvest...
Also green beans with bacon & onions, sorry cans were involved at this time, and a mixed salad, no pics, they didn't last long enough... LOL...
Not a big fan of zucchini, but can tolerate it. Betty goes crazy about zukes & okra, so I guess I'll try to start eating that...
Dean...Pretty sure the zukes & squash were started first week of April by direct sowing...
This message was edited May 3, 2012 1:27 AM
hey kev -- "#1...Pork brisket ribs..." -- is there a thread where you could post a tutorial for this? trying to learn more about grilling...
In the Recipes forum, we have an on-going "What's for Dinner?" thread. You could also start a grilling thread. I'd be interested!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1254716/
Nice looking harvest kev.
There's a recipe forum! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/recipes/all/
Me, too! I wanna know all about grilling! Start a new "Garden Grillin'" Thread, please.
Picked the first batch of green beans today. They are 'Contender', a bush bean that does well in Texas. This is a crock-pot full of beans, with some potato & onion. The onion is also from my patch. These will be cooked "Southern Style," slowly, with salt, pepper, and a little bit (2 TBS) of bacon grease. By supper, they will be tender and delicious. My mother, her mother, and even her mother's mother always cooked green beans this way. I've never been able to enjoy those green beans that are barely cooked, crispy, and usually cold by the time they hit the plate. It's what one knows, I'd guess, that makes it what you like.
Also picked a half-dozen yellow squash. They will be sliced, soaked in some salt water, then floured and deep fried. Served with the green beans for supper. May have a pork chop, too.
David
wow. green beans already! My pole beans are barely out of the ground.(2")
;) you forgot to throw in a few slices of bacon.
And a pinch of cayenne pepper. Can never have enough cayenne pepper...
Second new thread to be started: "Recipes: From the Veggie Garden to the Table"
My beans aren't even "declaring" - I sowed one row of "Royal Burgundy" bush beans on April 30th. Will sow another row once they are up.
I will be growing Royal Burgundy again this year from saved seeds from last year. It is so stormy, rainy and wet today that it will be quite some time before I plant them. I had never grown them until last year. I really liked them best after canning. They hold up really well during canning and are very flavorful. And, they are so beautiful while growing.
David,
Is it too late to start more string beans here? I have KY Wonder Pole Beans growing in eBuckets, but they're under the patio cover, and too tangled to try to move into the sunshine. Plus, they've got spotty, rusty leaves toward the bottom, so I'd just as soon start them over, if there's time.
We only have FOUR more months of Texas Heat ahead of us....!!
Linda
You can plant beans all summer. I planted more a few days ago
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check out these table top gardens and raised beds on a roof.
http://www.cityfarmer.info/2008/12/28/restaurant-opens-2500-square-foot-organic-rooftop-farm-first-to-be-certified-organic-in-the-usa/
beebonnet - I chose the Royal Burgundy bush beans this year for their color. So often when I pick beans, I miss a few because they are so hard to see the green beans against the green foliage.
It's nice to know they taste good. I didn't know they were "open pollinated" - I'll be sure to save some seeds for next year.
The garlic is almost ready to harvest!
We planted tomatoes today. A little late, but that's okay.
Liftoff in the okra patch! This is Hill Country Red.
More blackberries today. :)
Thanks, D!
Since there are several posts here about bush & pole beans, I hope this is OK to ask. I always grow Pole Beans- Kwintus is my choice. EVERY year I am bombarded with spider mites. This year as soon as the leaves broke through the soil the mites jumped on- thankfully I was on guard and began spraying- Organocide, Pyrethrins, and homemede spray. Today I bought some Neem oil and began using it at a ratio of 4Tbs @ gallon of water, which is what the container says. Hopefully I can get a crop of beans, but does anyone else fight mites like I do? It is really discouraging!
Jo,
I use neem oil for spider mites on my tomatoes. It works pretty well.
David, do you use the stronger ratio(4Tbs=1gallon water) that it says for mites? For other pests it is just 2Tbs=1 gallon, and since it is pricey, I hate to use any more than necessary.
Jo, I mix it to the label strength.
Jo I have lost a all my bean plants to mites before I knew what they were. They seem to like green beans, cukes, and tomato plants the most. Neem does a decent job. Since they are related to spiders regular insecticide won't work. If your not set on "organic" there are other products available. The extension agent gave me the name of one but I can't remember it ATM. Also every state is different as far as regulations.
It amazing how fast Spider Mites can take out a plant, literally overnight.
Dean, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's behind. Lol. At least everything else thrives in the heat. I'm just praying it's not like last year. I had so many plans but it's May, already.