How Does Your Garden Grow??????

Larry {the} Gardener

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This thread is a little early, as I don't have anything in the ground yet. But I am getting prep work done. I look forward to seeing everyone's gardens, so please post your pictures here.

So here is a little of what I have been up to.

I got 5 Jalapeno and 5 Mini Sweet Peppers out of cups and into pots yesterday. The roots were just right for transplanting. Just barely enough to hold the soil together.

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I have sweet corn, acorn squash, tomatoes and about 6 kinds of peppers still inside under the lights. There is no more room there, so I dug this subterranean greenhouse to hold the overflow until the threat of frost is past.

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Some of my pepper sprouts.

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And this sweet corn is going to have to so somewhere fast. It is growing like crazy. I will plant some in the ground later, but these will most likely go in grow bags in my improvised rain gutter grow system. {trench lined with black plastic}

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Larry {the} Gardener

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iam surprised u can grow pea's in august.this pic is last junewe plant in april cant seem to get second crop in these are called early frosty.bush type.View attachment 3618188

In the southern US, what we call peas are really cow peas {or field peas}. We call early peas snow peas. I plant a fresh pea patch every 21 days. I had them last year right up to killing frost. I've grown all kinds, but Pink-eyed Purple Hulls are my favorite.

I grow Blue Lake green {bush} beans. I've had trouble getting that 2nd crop in. It is just too hot here for them to make. I'll try some really early, then another patch about the normal time. Nothing better than green beans and early potatoes.

I also have a pole bean I got from an old Filipino lady that is really good. I grow field corn just so they have something to vine on. {I'm lazy as hell when it comes to building trellises}
 

Jimmyjonestoo

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This thread is a little early, as I don't have anything in the ground yet. But I am getting prep work done. I look forward to seeing everyone's gardens, so please post your pictures here.

So here is a little of what I have been up to.

I got 5 Jalapeno and 5 Mini Sweet Peppers out of cups and into pots yesterday. The roots were just right for transplanting. Just barely enough to hold the soil together.

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I have sweet corn, acorn squash, tomatoes and about 6 kinds of peppers still inside under the lights. There is no more room there, so I dug this subterranean greenhouse to hold the overflow until the threat of frost is past.

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Some of my pepper sprouts.

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And this sweet corn is going to have to so somewhere fast. It is growing like crazy. I will plant some in the ground later, but these will most likely go in grow bags in my improvised rain gutter grow system. {trench lined with black plastic}

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Does corntransplant well? I've never started corn inside. Always direct sow after frost.
 

Larry {the} Gardener

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Does corntransplant well? I've never started corn inside. Always direct sow after frost.
This was my first time trying it. I'm just going crazy waiting for spring. If I do it again it will be in separate containers. The roots were a bitch to get untangled. But I put them outside in my redneck rain gutter grow system yesterday. About 6-9 per grow bag. We will see what they do.

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Larry {the} Gardener

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I planted a few onion sets today, transplanted 7 Yellow Hungarian Wax into cups and 2 Beef Steak tomatoes into grow bags of soil mix and into the trench. Also laid off rows for corn and peas. Will plant them in the morning. I'll do a few more Pruden's Purple seeds inside, as well as Armenian cucumbers. And whatever else I have time for.
 

Larry {the} Gardener

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I put seeds in the ground today. Here they are, in order of appearance. {from east to west, northern side of garden} Blue Lake Bush Beans, Golden Queen Sweet Corn, Soy Beans, Pink-eyed Purple Hull Peas and Field Corn.

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The field corn is for my Philippine Pole Beans to vine on. I have learned to give the corn a couple weeks head start on the beans, or they will outgrow it.

I also transplanted all the Beef Steak Tomatoes {and one of the Yellow Pear Tomatoes because I was in a hurry and not paying attention} into grow bags or pots. And I moved just about everything out of the underground green house into the RNRGGS {red neck rain gutter grow system}.

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I'm going to plant a few more things in cups and trays tonight. There is no room under the lights, but I'll set them outside in the sun. I'm getting hopeful we have had our last frost.
 
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