I'd be happy to take it!
What's going on with your Vegie Garden Today, part 2
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Well, like you, we're expecting rain, so the soil won't stay dry for long! LOL
Did you post to Dixondale on FB? If you're on Facebook, look them up. They're pretty quick to answer.
Yes, FB.
Honeybee, the bottom 4 leaves are already dried up on most of the stalks. We've had temps in the low-mid 90s a few days this week and I think that's why they look so yellow.
I just had a long steady rain for 2 days. All the five gallon buckets had 2 inches of water in them. We were getting pretty dry. And I had just added peat moss and promix to the garden beds and it was a chore wetting it down but then came the rain and helped me out.
One of my tomatillo plants has a pollinated bloom on it. They are about 12 inches tall and loaded with blooms. Happy with that.
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Honeybee, the bottom 4 leaves are already dried up on most of the stalks. We've had temps in the low-mid 90s a few days this week and I think that's why they look so yellow.
Mine have the same dried up leaves at the base, and, we too, have had 90's weather recently. Perhaps our garlics are suffering the same way.
I took a photo so you could see how my garlic looks:
1) Overview from the back door of how our garden looks today
2) "Monica" tomatoes - just beginning to set buds
3) "Royal Burgundy" bush beans - sprouted May 5th and sweet peppers
4) "Sugar Sprint" snap peas - ready for first picking
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Your garden is beautiful Honeybee. Thank you for sharing your lovely photos with us. Nothing prettier than a well tended garden. I don't see a single weed. Wish I could say the same for mine.
Honeybee, I agree with the other bee, everything looks just great. Green, green, green.
I'm surprised you planted bush beans already. I thought they needed hot temps? Do you soak the seeds overnight first? Do beans need a fertile soil or will they grow in iffy soil? I just pulled all my garlic and could plant the beans in those beds. I have Dragon Tongue and a few others to try.
beebonnet - thanks for the nice comments. You are correct, there are very few weeds in the raised beds. I walk through the garden every morning and pull any weeds that dared to show up overnight. LOL
Mary -
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We've been having temperatures in the 90's recently, although it has dipped to a more bearable 70's this week.I'm surprised you planted bush beans already. I thought they needed hot temps?
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The package I purchased (Royal Burgundy) specifically said NOT to soak them. Actually, I've never soaked been seeds. I used an inoculant once, but didn't find any differnce between those inoculated and others that were not, so I don't use it anymore.Do you soak the seeds overnight first?
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I don't know if they will grow in "iffy" soil as I have always amended my soil everywhere I've lived before planting. I use the same fertilizer for beans as all the other vegetables.
Do beans need a fertile soil or will they grow in iffy soil?
Picked onions (photo on Hornstrider's onion thread) and squash, need to pick beans, peas, and pull the beets. Some of the beets have really jumped up in size since last week. They may be too big to be useful. Several are bigger than softballs! Sweet potatoes plants have more than tripled in size since planting. The first batch of corn is tasseling--I need to treat the silks with mineral oil before the ears get wormy. Tomatoes are looking good, but still nothing nearly ripe (photos posted on Tomato forum-Growing Tomatoes, 2012).
Rain is forecast for this week, so I need to get things weeded. If it rains before I catch up, there will be weeds overtaking several areas of the garden. At the moment, the weeds are the 2-3 inch, easy-to-pull variety. Unfortunately, there are a few areas where they are "carpeting" the areas around the plants where I can't use my wheel-hoe or the scuffle hoe. Lots of hand-pulling needed.
David
Honey, thanks for the reply. I need to pull out all the beets, the beans can then go in there. Pulled all my garlic this morning, very disappointing, small, small heads. I'll probably not do garlic again. Had the same result both times and it takes a lot of garden space and a long growing season. These are the beds I had thought of for the beans but the soil is probably too dense. Got to work those beds before I replant them.
David, I'd not heard that about mineral ooil to keep the worms away. That's interesting.
Beautiful, HoneybeeNC!
What a pretty garden, honeybee!!
Two new Black Krim candidates inducted into the container garden. Along with a 15" Rooster Container for Mother's Day, just a bit early... Of course, it was on sale...
Notice the water mark on the bamboo stake. This was one of the pots that had been over-watered and still had the stake sitting in the bucket. Finally figured out the mix was holding water and I was adding too much too often...A couple of the tomatoes were saved but lost one and lost a couple of bean plants.. Oh well, it's all a learning curve...
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Love the rooster container.
This thread is getting pretty long, so I added a part 3 thread. You can go to it here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1257023/
Moving to part #3 of thread...
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