Garden Happenings 8/24/07

Yesterday evening I harvested 15 pounds of White Onions! This weekend it will be Emeril's recipe of Crispy Onion Rings, so delicious.
I have a couple of small racoons that found the garden, so I didn't put out the Mouse Cubes to catch the mice who like to eat the ripening red peppers. The racoons like to take the mice out of the mouse cubes and eat them.
Indy: Your garden sounds fun with all your crops

This thread is for talking about gardening happenings today. Well its daybreak; I'm off to the garden.

I'm home now, and time for a swim in the river! I pre-picked a red pepper, then I got mad at myself, because it had too much green. Friday is harvest day, and I had a colorful bucket of deep golden "Gold Rush" Squash, "Lilac Blush" eggplant, and burnished red peppers. 3lbs of super organic food, so I guess I averaged about 10 cents an hour this week!

I'm picking the green beans again today. I've been watching the corn verrry carefully, it's not quite ready. It was planted 5-26, followed by 2 more plantings at about 2 week intervals. My onion tops bent over about 4 weeks ago, but I leave them in the ground until fall, I think they store better there as long as the weather stays dry and it's easy enough to havest them as I need them. (No rain expected here until about October, if then). These are yellow onions grown from sets I bought last spring, but I have started Copra onions from seed in a pot so I will not forget to water them, and then set them out early in the spring when they are about 4 inches tall. Onion seed takes a long time to germinate.

I waded through the ditch to see that a new pumpkin female was flowering, and grabbed some male flowers to make sure it was pollinated, tho there was a bee hard at work. I hope this one takes, because the first isn't growing and the season is closing down.

Green and wax beans needed picking, too. They don't care how muddy it is, and just one more day will get them all big and stringy.

Mary - Hi, What kind of corn do you have? I have a few stalks of Kandy King, which didn't turn out that well. (long story) I have some Indian Corn, which is 3' tall and looking healthy.

LTilton - Hi, This morning I saw that the midwest was getting too much rain; and i thought about how you were in the mud yesterday, and now I see you are wading!

Swimming comes next.

My corn is called Incredible, and it is!! It's an early corn, something like 65 days they say, (maybe so in Iowa) but since we have cool nights it takes longer here. I add about 1/3 beyond what the package says. Most of our nights recently have been in the 50's.

Mary...check that maturity date again. My Incredible is 83 days...welll about 73 here in Indiana.

I cut a Rojo Grande watermelon today...so sweet.

I also picked Seascape strawberries...very nice....and one Caroline raspberry.

I t has rained about 4 inches this week..........all soaked right in as it was very dry.

The birds are daily feasting on the oil seed sunflowers...a Cardinal this morning out there.