How Does Your Garden Grow??????

I finally got around to getting the okra thinned. Kind of anyway. I may have to work on it more later.

^^^^^ Here is the before picture.

Note to self: use other plate next time.

Saw the first sprouts on my Asian pole beans yesterday. I fear I started them too soon. I bet this corn never stands up straight.

lol, your corn looks better than mine. i may have to plant more

Sour Wreck said:

lol, your corn looks better than mine. i may have to plant more

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That is the field corn. It's about 4-6" tall right now. I only planted it so the pole beans would have something to run on. My {first planting of} sweet corn is 12-18" tall.

too larry said:

That is the field corn. It's about 4-6" tall right now. I only planted it so the pole beans would have something to run on. My {first planting of} sweet corn is 12-18" tall.

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well then my sweet corn looks like absolute shit !!!!

too larry said:

That is the field corn. It's about 4-6" tall right now. I only planted it so the pole beans would have something to run on. My {first planting of} sweet corn is 12-18" tall.

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Sounds like how the native Americans grew theirs.. I believe they would grow beans on the corn and squash or pumpkins on the ground around the beans.. the plants would benefit off of each other that way from how I understand it..

Sour Wreck said:

well then my sweet corn looks like absolute shit !!!!

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My peas got hurt pretty bad by the frost. The corn was just cracking the dirt then, and it didn't seem to suffer as bad. My sweet corn replants are smaller than the field corn still. I thought they would catch up, but so far they are not growing much at all.

Sour Wreck said:

well then my sweet corn looks like absolute shit !!!!

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Your corns doing better then mine...lol.. I haven't got any going yet..

farmerfischer said:

Sounds like how the native Americans grew theirs.. I believe they would grow beans on the corn and squash or pumpkins on the ground around the beans.. the plants would benefit off of each other that way from how I understand it..

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Yes. The Three Sisters. Corn, beans and squash were the corner-stone of Indian farms.

too larry said:

Yes. The Three Sisters. Corn, beans and squash were the corner-stone of Indian farms.

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I was really thinking about trying this method and see how it goes..

The Three Sisters were grown together. The vines from the squash would shade the ground, keeping weeds down and retaining water. The beans would climb the corn stalks. They planted in clumps, 4-5 corn stalks to a clump.

awesome, would love to see somebody grow the three sisters. might have to try that next year.

farmerfischer said:

Your corns doing better then mine...lol.. I haven't got any going yet..

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guess i should look at the bright side. but when you corn is done, mine will be literally fried if not harvested by late spring/early summer.

Sour Wreck said:

guess i should look at the bright side. but when you corn is done, mine will be literally fried if not harvested by late spring/early summer.

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I always try for a 2nd crop of green beans. And every year it gets too hot for them to bloom.

Here is my Nina bean patch. 14 plants.

Compost and mulch to come when they get a little bigger.

Let's see if I can get this in before the site goes down again...lol..

Got some Cherokee yellow wax beans and string less and garden beans planted today.. next up is country gentleman corn and some sweet corn and deer corn..

Suppose to be in the 60°f's for the next 7 days.. so hopefully this was it for the snow the rest of the year..

This has been a pain in the ass. Luckily lots of talk on IG so I didn't go completely off the wall today.

Up the wall. Off the rails. Mixing my metaphors.