How Does Your Garden Grow??????

We got a good steady rain last night. There was some thunder about 2130, so I covered the plants in the underground bunker. Also under glass, the two 6 packs of pepper plants Sister dropped off yesterday. One is a Spanish name that I don't have in front of me at the moment, and the other is Anaheim Chili. Will put them in pots the next good transplanting day. Used a clear plastic tub to cover as many of the tomato and pepper sprouts as possible. This morning I uncovered everything.

Tomatoes are ready to go in the ground. Will have to wait till next week as we have a few heavy rain events in the forthcomming days.

blake9999 said:

Tomatoes are ready to go in the ground. Will have to wait till next week as we have a few heavy rain events in the forthcomming days.

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Those look good. My bought plants are almost ready to up-pot to their final pot, but all the sprouts are still in the 6 pack things.

grew mine from seed. They are 'Delicious' tomatoes and a hair over 3 weeks old. They go in a container lit with two 23 Watt CFL's at night. I only have room for the strongest seven and the rest are going to friends. Should be in the ground next week once the weather clears up some.

blake9999 said:

grew mine from seed. They are 'Delicious' tomatoes and a hair over 3 weeks old. They go in a container lit with two 23 Watt CFL's at night. I only have room for the strongest seven and the rest are going to friends. Should be in the ground next week once the weather clears up some.

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I bought two Cherokee Purple in the bigger cups, then a 6 pack of the Heirloom Homestead. I got 11 plants out of the 6 pack. My seedlings are Pruden's Purple, Yellow Pear and Brandywine. Also have some Jalapeno Early and Mini Sweet Pepper sprouts. Will be giving quite a few of them away.

I've been lax posting onhere. Sorry. Too many days on the trail, not enough in the garden.

This morning I replanted my Crimson Sweet melons. The first round came up good, but the dry weather toasted their ass. {I was on the trail, and didn't water} Soon I will side dress the few that are alive.

The Spaghetti squash are looking good. I side dress them last week. I mixed a cup each of 13-13-13. 10-10-10, 15-0-15 heavy iron, and 5-10-15 with 4 cups of my adult tomato soil mix, and put a cat food can full around each plant, then added a 12 oz coffee cup of the soil mix on top of that. Worked it around with the hoe, then covered it up. Ran the sprinklers, then it rained.

I plowed and hoed the okra. Could stand to replant some of the skips, but over all, it's looking pretty good.

Peas. You can see where the soil is darker. I spread a few loads of mushroom compost here last year.

Sweet corn. Needs food and water. But then don't we all?

Blue Lake green beans.

Wow that's a lot of work. I know you will have a great harvest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thewanderer718 said:

Wow that's a lot of work. I know you will have a great harvest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's been really dry. I had to run the sprinklers just to get everything to come up. Then some of the young plants died. I have some pinestraw and leaves raked up, just not close to the garden. Need to clean out my trailer so I can pick them up and put in the garden. Will help with water retention.

I'm hoping to get in from work tomorrow with time to do some more re-planting. I used 4 different sets of Armenian Cucumber seeds, and only a few of them came up. I have one more bunch of seeds that I froze with the pulp. I've thawed out half of them, and will replant that patch.

Saw the first squash blooms yesterday. Shouldn't be too long now.

I got the melons side dressed, but not before a few of them had started to vine.





The replants are coming up pretty good.

Mini Sweet {and a few Jalapeno early} peppers about ready to be potted.

Pruden's Purple {on right} and Yellow Pear tomatoes ready to go into five gallon buckets.



Brandywine tomatoes and a few stray pepper plants.

I will have to look back and see what these peppers are. But they are coming up.

sandhill larry said:

I will have to look back and see what these peppers are. But they are coming up.

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all my stuff tucked into gh for at least couple more weeks

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They are looking good. That short growing season must be a bitch. Last year I started some sweet corn inside under lights, and all my southern e-gardening friends thought I was crazy. But there were a couple of folks from up your way, and they said they had to start corn inside or it wouldn't make it in time to market.