I was lucky to get 1 in 10. I also tried starting the seed and transplanting, like my uncle swore by. By the second day mine looked like steamed beet greens. LOL I'll try them in my raised bed where I just pulled the last of the radishes as they bolted. The only thing left there is turnips and Daver's carrots, and the turnips look ready to bolt. Still getting green onions and have had 1 pepper.
Vegetable 2013, Mid-At and Friends
hi guys,
Sally, didn't realize you grew so many veggies! I regret not planting okra w/all the rain we've had. I wonder if I could still plant some? I did just put in 3 of Critter's tomatoes in our asparagus bed. Also, just planted a bunch more of basil seedlings that were waiting patiently to finally get in our garden
I think you could get okra in. It has bloomed out before the end of summer for me in the past.
I think I'll try another hill of squash if I have seeds.
I still can't believe that none of the dozens of beans I planted 2 weeks ago came up. None, from two packages. ???
picking small crop of royal burgundy beans and couple kirby type cukes.
Sally---
Some critter had your beans for a snack!
I kept losing Cucumber seeds--and I know it was not from the weather....
G.
ok, maybe I will then.
Today I left one of the garden gates open and a critter got in and dug the ground like a tiller would and knocked over a tomato plant w/tomatoes on it =( We did see a pair of groundhogs trot by last week maybe it was a ground hog. Strange though that the tomato plant wasn't chewed or the tomatoes eaten??
our bronze fennel grew last year next to chia and the chia was not inhibited at all lol. this year one of our fennel plants looks like it got wilt or something though; a sad sight. I never saw fennel wilt before. All our fennel is blooming now and got pretty tall and a bit floppy. This year we have peppers planted next to the fennel and the pepper plants are growing well and producing peppers.
Squash,okra, and cukes growing madly since its been hot. I picked my first yellow squash. Horn of Plenty from Pinetree has done very well for me.
I've seen a small groundhog slowly moving about in the last 3-4 weeks, probably has a family under one of our decrepit outbuildings. I haven't seen any garden damage, but the garden is mostly waist-high weeds this year, esp. around the fruiting shrubs.
My bulbing fennel volunteers have gone to seed (who needs THAT MUCH fennel seed?), and the globe artichoke flowered while I was away getting SC peaches. So much for eating a home-grown artichoke!
Most of you are too far away (as I am also) but Edible Landscaping (www.ediblelandscaping.com/) just outside Charlottesville, VA is having a sale July 18-22, pick-up only. 50% off selected edible fruit/nut plants (some are 3-5 gallon size), and 20% off everything else. I've been there a couple of times and have some nice fruit trees and fruiting vines started in my garden.
Unfortunately last week, my temp. yard man (while I'm recuperating) took the weed whacker to the grape vines I planted last year, along with my recently-planted summer and winter squash plants.
My aging neighbor down the street just gave me some beets, green onions, and yellow squash. He got his garden in early and already has small tomatoes on the vines. My tomato seedlings are still in seedling trays, started late. I do have 2 heirloom tomato plants I bought at the farmer's market several weeks ago that are already tied up and starting to fruit.
gosh, Darius, you've got your share of frustration this year in the veg garden.
I once gave my sister an Xmas present of construction flags on wire, for her to stick all around what she wanted to save from the yard guy.
We spotted a groundhog near the tomatoes yesterday. It seems he's the one who pulled down a stem of Jerusalem Artichoke and ate all the leaves off. That's ok, if it keeps him happy! He hasn't yet bothered anything of value. It's possible that he may have eaten every bean seedling just the day they emerged, if I had a couple days of not checking on them.
A seriously health conscious GH would eat bean sprouts! Very nutritious.
(I seem to recall Rambi saying something about 'Health Bulletins' being sent out to all GH due to an epidemic of 'obesity' connected with fat layers put on for Winter hibernation.)
as I kind of expected, I picked five pretty yellow squash, and now the borers have killed the plants.
Good cucumbers tho.
Sally, I just bought online a 45 yard bolt of tulle, 54" wide, to cover my squash plants that went into the garden very late. Hope I'm not too late! I think with shipping it was about $22, but it's reuseable.
I plan to cover my few tomato plants also, as the last 3 years the brown marmorated strink bugs have wiped out any edible tomatoes.
I don't grow tomatoes (not enough sun), but my step son does -- and his squirrels eat them all. Have you been successful in deterring squirrels?
My neighbor's son loved squirrel stew so he kept the population down with his shotgun. The boy is now dead, but our dog and cat seem to keep the squirrels at bay.
Ouch. Jeremy lives in a dense urban situation where pets can't safely roam free.
Good luck Darius. I've had years when I got tired of squash. I planted a new hill last week.
Geeze some of my tomatoes are swarming with whiteflies! Never had that before.
There is a current shortage of tomatoes in Argentina. The Govt is requesting that citizens restrict their use of tomatoes and find alternatives to use in cooking traditional Argentinian fare. My Sungolds are okay and I may get some potatoes but nary enough for a meal of anything else.
Very dry soil out there.
Good score on the cloth Darius
Judy, did anyone say WHY there is a tomato shortage in Argentina? Cristina, who posts on the Gardening by the Moon forum lives there and hasn't mentioned it.
Darius, it will take more than the first 20 hits on google to get the real story, but there isn't enough of the last crop left to supply all takers until the new crops are planted and harvested in about two months. This follows on the heels of wheat/flour shotages and 25% inflation. I'm sure Cristina would know more.
http://www.pulsamerica.co.uk/2013/07/15/argentina-u-s-justice-department-may-side-up-in-the-battlle-against-vulture-funds/
Hope you are well my friend. Seems there are food shortage reports from most areas of our globe....
Judy
Unfortunately I think food shortages in general (world-wide) will increase. I assume the Argentina tomato shortage doesn't affect those with a garden, just the city-dwellers. Aren't they in late winter there? If so, no home-grown tomatoes.
I'll have a food shortage myself this year. My sis hired a yard man since I've been to ill to mow and trim, and he keeps cutting down my veggie plants!
At the farmer's market yesterday, I paid $2 for just ONE organic heirloom tomato. Mine in the ground will need a few more weeks to produce, but that kind of pricing makes my 3 plants (and the as yet un-planted but late-bearing heirloom seedlings) worth a bunch!
Darius: I'm so sorry to hear about the hurdles your plants are facing! Can you assign the yard man to put up a simple fence (stakes and a string to connect them) so he can see what needs protection? I'd be fuming.
happy_macomb, I bought some flagging tape to mark what NOT to mow the next time.
Darius, grape vines are pretty hardy - they may grow back for you
we had a serious downpour w/heavy winds yesterday and it knocked over some tomatoes and cannas. Broken tree limbs around too. I'm going to wander into the garden now to check it out...
Oh Wind, I'm sorry to hear that -- the weather was threatening here yesterday, but no storms.
Garden is doing well, I got about a pint of strawberries today, some of the broccoli bolted and may as well be removed. A few tocches of blight, but after all those wet days, not bad.
Tomatoes suddenly getting ripe- too many at once so I hope the neighbors like them. I don't think these taste as good as Cherokee Purple.
I have picked piles of Sun Golds--and 2 ripe Mortgage Lifters...
Some of the others I have--I don't know their names...One Jill gave me
at the swap--some kind of a "rambo--rhumba" name...Sounded Spanish...
It was a leggy fledgeling in a 2' pot...
It has grown reasonably tall--but still looks thin-stemmed...
One, I think, is an heirloom "Red Beefsteak"...which started out as
a broken off piece at the Bonnie racks. Stuck it in a bottle of water
and it rooted....Will see how these "Beefsteaks" come out.
Another one was a broken off top to some other tomato....
Picked my 1st pickling cuke today. Will just slice it in a salad...
Have a few green peppers coming---and lots and lots of Flat-
Leaf Parsley.
Just cut this out of the Paper yesterday--how to keep all kinds of
produce fresh. Good to know.....G.
Hope it shows in its entirety...seems cut off in the prevue...
Pickling cukes are doing great here this year. We eat them all fresh. I like them much better than regular cukes.
YES! They are always better---less seeds and tastier.
Hoping I get a good crop--I have 3 plants growing....
OH!!! I just thought of something----I should start another crop so I have
cukes well into fall. Maybe where my garlic was?
I plan to dig up and give away all my strawberries. I only have a small batch-
and, maybe, ate 6-8 last year. Not worth the "real estate they are taking up.
All of an area about 3' x 3'...but I need every inch for things I can enjoy...
like pickling cukes...
You ALL love my pickled--YES?
Just LMK---Gita
These Aunt Jewels German noid tomatoes are incredibly solid, few seeds, but seem sort of soft and bland.
I have other tomatos coming along but late. And one sucker rooted from the noid for a later crop.
I take my pickling cukes fresh. Give everybody else the pickles. I never saw a jar of pickles in my mothers refrigerator in 50 years.
Maybe I need to talk to my 'maters more, mine are sloooowwww.
Just ventured to the garden for some easy weeding, so wet, and to collect a few things. I got about a quart of strawberries, a few glads (deadheaded over a hundred), a number of Holey Mole peppers, and a handful of green beans for Holly's salads. I'm hoping to put off picking my beans till next Monday or early Tuesday, then can them for ham, green beans, and taters (I have some early ones ready). In part my weeding and removal of old plants was to try and get a little more air circulation and hopefully reduce fungi.
A quart of strawberries! That sounds fabulous! Each year I mean to put up netting to keep the birds and other critters off of the plants, and each year I don't.
I've given my Tristar Everbearing strawberries three years now, and they still refuse to give berries any bigger than a large raspberry.
Happy---
Welcome to the "shouldda--wouldda--couldda--but didn't feel like it" club..
Gita
Oh boy Ric, those green beans sound Yummariffic!! (Happy and I will just drool over your growin's from afar) < =)
Here is a pic of some of the yummyness.
Sorry I forgot the pic I took!
nice harvest Ric and H
I like holy moly peppers. didn't plant those this year though
we have several jalapenos green now. I like to let them go red before picking. and we have sweet banana's getting ripe now too. Tomatoes are just starting to come along.
Harry started putting down new mulch that was delivered today around the raised beds to help w/ the weeds that mom has been diligently trying to control!!
harvested a bunch of parsley and oregano a few nights ago to make Chimichurri Sauce
Interesting Diane, sounds like something from Mary Poppins. LOL
Holly, a most EXCELLENT photo!! (can't forget the cup of coffee as the centerpiece, heeheeheee!) That really is "painting on a wall"-worthy! =)
Oooh man Wind, what a GORGEOUS tomato, and your herbs look ... Mmmmmm, I can smell them from here!!