How Does Your Garden Grow??????

The field corn and pole beans are starting to grow faster. Wouldn't be surprised if they don't catch up to the sweet corn any day now. {field corn and beans in the foreground, sweet corn in the background}

Sour Wreck said:

bread and butter pickles are delish !!!!

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When we go out to the local fish place, they know to bring me a bowl of B&B pickles and a stack of crackers. I eat so many I have to get a to-go for some of the catfish.

too larry said:

When we go out to the local fish place, they know to bring me a bowl of B&B pickles and a stack of crackers. I eat so many I have to get a to-go for some of the catfish.

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you're making me hungry, lol..

Green beans starting to grow some too. A few days in the 90's and nights in the 60's and this shit will explode.

Sour Wreck said:

you're making me hungry, lol..

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I got a fried porkchop for lunch from the grocery deli. Might have to settle for prom food tonight. Chips and candy bars.

I was just talking to the wife on the phone. She called to tell me that her facebook page had popped up a memory photo. We had picked our first mess of green beans on this date 3 years ago. I knew it felt cool this spring, but that just proves it.

yeah, i aint pickin a damn thing for a while

i harvested 1 banana pepper today

I have tomatoes all over my plants, and true to being heirlooms they odd as hell shaped.

was supposed to frost last night. don't think it did. after i went out and covered everything up....oh well, better safe than sorry

We are finally going to have a consistently warm week with lows in the 60s

Garden should really take off

I got in a little garden time today. Watered all the transplants from last week. Transplanted 9 more peppers into the pepper trench {for a total of 10} To the best of my knowledge, I did 3 Cayenne on the west end, 2 Cali Wonder Bells on the east end, and I'm not real sure about what went in between.

{my camera is in the car. Will add pictures after while}

Also got a few orange tree seedlings potted. I had brought some of the good dirt from the river field. I used it as a base, and made a soil mix with all the usual stuff.

too larry said:

Also got a few orange tree seedlings potted. I had brought some of the good dirt from the river field. I used it as a base, and made a soil mix with all the usual stuff.

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Don't it take about 7 years for seedlings to produce fruit unless they have been grafted?

blake9999 said:

Don't it take about 7 years for seedlings to produce fruit unless they have been grafted?

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That might be right. My two producing trees are several years old. Can't remember exactly how old they are. But I'm a young 57, lol. They will have plenty of time before I move down to the graveyard.

You can always try your hand at grafting by using pieces off of your producing trees.

grafting isn't hard, my grandpa taught me how when i was 12 or 13, so he didn't have to do it with his arthritis

blake9999 said:

You can always try your hand at grafting by using pieces off of your producing trees.

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

grafting isn't hard, my grandpa taught me how when i was 12 or 13, so he didn't have to do it with his arthritis

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I've done a bit of grafting. My dad and I grafted apple persimmons on common persimmon trees. But the main attraction of this variety of orange tree {other than the cold resistance} is that it is a seedling orange. The seeds will produce the same fruit as it came from.

Around here about the only variety of orange tree that can withstand the cold is Satsumas. They are grafted to root stock. If they do get killed back by the cold, they will sprout back from the roots, so it's not Satsumas, it's the root stock.

The orange tree seedlings.

The pepper trench. The one closest got put in a week ago. You can see that it is looking better than the new transplants. {I think I forgot to put my tools up. The cleaning lady came today, so I went inside to get her started, and never made it back outside}