How Does Your Garden Grow??????

A busy week in the garden for me. Lots of new sprouts coming up in the trays, and a few still coming up in the garden. Baby tomatoes on the Beef Steak, blooms on the Yellow Pear, Pruden's Purple and Cherubs. Small peppers of several kinds. Little acorn, crookneck, straight neck and zucchini squash. Will be eating squash within the week.


Acorn Squash


Yellow Pear tomato. Hard to see because of the Kale in the background, but this little tomato has grown to the top of it's cage in a couple of weeks. Will need to go higher soon. The peppers got stunted by the frost, and are blooming at 9" tall.



Sweet {sugar baby} pumpkin ready to transplant.



My best looking Pruden's Purple, a week ago when I up-potted it. It lives in the RNRGGS in the background. I have to start tying up the tomatoes soon. A couple in gallon pots are already leaning over. The trench if full already, so any I up-pot, at least some of them will have to go somewhere else.

My sweet corn in the trench is starting to tassel.



First Armenian cucumber. Can't wait until I'm eating them right off the vine.



Sweet corn.



Peppers. Lots and lots of peppers. {with a couple of trays full of sprouts nearby} I think the one sticking up in the foreground is the Hungarian Yellow Wax. It may be the first of the young ones to get picked. I have ate a few small squash, but haven't had a real harvest of anything other than Cilantro.



Lots of other stuff, but not great pictures.

My Mamma went by the Co-Op for a dollar pack of squash seeds. She brought all this to me to put in my freezer. Free because the seeds are out of date. I planted a little of most of them yesterday. We should be good for collard seeds for the next 10-20 years.

Sweet corn {in the ground} is starting to tassel, even though it is barely waist high. I'm going to be putting in another crop of corn, peas and green beans the next good planting day.

Larry {the} Gardener said:

Sweet corn {in the ground} is starting to tassel, even though it is barely waist high. I'm going to be putting in another crop of corn, peas and green beans the next good planting day.

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just bought some fresh fla corn here in maine,its not as sweet as maine corn but u guys seem to be figuring it out pretty good,i don't no if its the soil ,but the corn grown up here isvery sweet

thumper60 said:

just bought some fresh fla corn here in maine,its not as sweet as maine corn but u guys seem to be figuring it out pretty good,i don't no if its the soil ,but the corn grown up here isvery sweet

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The sweetness might be from the strain of corn. South Florida beats everybody to market. When I used to truck farm, I would see trucks of melons rolling north about two weeks before mine were ready. The prices go to hell if you are not early. But then we sold at the Farmer's Market in Panama City, and had a pretty loyal customer base. Peas was what paid my light bills back then. We would put in a half acre every 21 days. That is a damn lot of peas.

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First Armenian cucumber. Can't wait until I'm eating them right off the vine.
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I had forgotten that cucumbers have flowers like squash. Have you ever eaten them, and if so, how do you prepare them?

PoodleBud said:

I had forgotten that cucumbers have flowers like squash. Have you ever eaten them, and if so, how do you prepare them?

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I've never eaten them, but my BIL was saying his grandfather always cooked the first squash blooms of the year. He just sauteed them in a tbs of oil. He said it helped the young plants to get the first blooms off them, plus he just liked how they tasted.

Larry {the} Gardener said:

I've never eaten them, but my BIL was saying his grandfather always cooked the first squash blooms of the year. He just sauteed them in a tbs of oil. He said it helped the young plants to get the first blooms off them, plus he just liked how they tasted.

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Thanks! I was actually asking about the cucumber flowers...the squash flowers are delicious. My Italian grandmother used to stuff, batter and fry them; they were great. Kind of like a flower relleno.

@Larry {the} Gardener is that a row of Pak Choi in one of your pics next to the containers? Anyways if it is, I have a question, mine keeps bolting way too soon, we've had a few warm days but it has generally been cool spring weather. Why is my pak choi bolting early man? It's not even growing out into a plant like yours, it's just putting up a single stalk with a few leaves on it and flowering.... Do I have shitty seeds? Thanks man.

Larry {the} Gardener said:

I've never eaten them, but my BIL was saying his grandfather always cooked the first squash blooms of the year. He just sauteed them in a tbs of oil. He said it helped the young plants to get the first blooms off them, plus he just liked how they tasted.

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I have stir fried squash blossom,adds like a nutie flavor very mild.

Dave's Not Here said:

@Larry {the} Gardener is that a row of Pak Choi in one of your pics next to the containers? Anyways if it is, I have a question, mine keeps bolting way too soon, we've had a few warm days but it has generally been cool spring weather. Why is my pak choi bolting early man? It's not even growing out into a plant like yours, it's just putting up a single stalk with a few leaves on it and flowering.... Do I have shitty seeds? Thanks man.

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No, that is Kale. I have only cooked any a couple of times. It was very good, I just need to remember it is there.

I have never grown the Pak Choi, but it does look very similar. Have you tried to veg it inside a couple of weeks before you put it out? That might help. The cool spring weather slowed everything in my garden down.

PoodleBud said:

Thanks! I was actually asking about the cucumber flowers...the squash flowers are delicious. My Italian grandmother used to stuff, batter and fry them; they were great. Kind of like a flower relleno.

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If the squash are good, I bet the cucumber blooms are too. It's worth trying.

Larry {the} Gardener said:

No, that is Kale. I have only cooked any a couple of times. It was very good, I just need to remember it is there.

I have never grown the Pak Choi, but it does look very similar. Have you tried to veg it inside a couple of weeks before you put it out? That might help. The cool spring weather slowed everything in my garden down.

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I've never tried vegging it inside before, I'm thinking I might have planted some pak choi seeds I had saved myself though this year and that could be the problem. I'm getting constant rain and now cold weather and it's screwing everything up.

Dave's Not Here said:

I've never tried vegging it inside before, I'm thinking I might have planted some pak choi seeds I had saved myself though this year and that could be the problem. I'm getting constant rain and now cold weather and it's screwing everything up.

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I think I did the kale, spinach and Swiss chard inside for a couple three weeks. But then if I didn't post pictures on my threads, I can never remember just what I did.

I let a few of my broccoli go to seed. I'll be cutting them any day now. But seeds are so cheap, not sure if it's worth the risk of wasted growing time.

And I haven't seen more than a sprinkle in a couple of weeks. I'm spending a lot of my garden time watering. I hand watered everything his morning. Takes longer, but I wanted to feed. I mixed in a 1/2 cup of 11-1-2 liquid fertilizer per 5 gallon bucket. Really greens things up in a hurry.

Little peas and Acorn squash.

The cucumbers {from transplants} are getting ready. I have ate one in the house and three in the garden. {I side dressed, plowed and hoed everything yesterday}

I've picked the green beans twice so far. They will need picking again today if I get off work in time.