2011 Veggies

4tatude said:

these are rattlesnake pole beans, the earliest n most productive bean in my garden. strrong beany taste, also multipurpse as they make great dried beans.

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thats rattlesnake in the background, the young beans running on the cane is kentuckey wonder nt a great tasting bean but productive, the old lady makes dilly beans with them
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christmas limas great taste but only really one crop kinda beans, takes so long to ripen such big beans
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peppers n more kentuckey wonder. ill pull these after the flush then the ones above will be kickin in
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these are scarlet runners n will produce till frost. a large broad bean from across the pond
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im also running a couple others just dont have pics.as you can tell i like beans lol

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Wonderful update! you really got things going on
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"the more you eat them the more you toot!"

lol right whodat, was thinking of you yesterday. i had some red beans n rice with real andouille sausage. made the real way like back home

beautiful flowers on these, I was surprised at how delicate and pretty the potato flowers are as well. Is nature just not sooo pretty!!!

4tatude said:

these are rattlesnake pole beans, the earliest n most productive bean in my garden. strrong beany taste, also multipurpse as they make great dried beans.

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thats rattlesnake in the background, the young beans running on the cane is kentuckey wonder nt a great tasting bean but productive, the old lady makes dilly beans with them
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christmas limas great taste but only really one crop kinda beans, takes so long to ripen such big beans
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peppers n more kentuckey wonder. ill pull these after the flush then the ones above will be kickin in
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these are scarlet runners n will produce till frost. a large broad bean from across the pond
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im also running a couple others just dont have pics.as you can tell i like beans lol

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4tatude said:

these are rattlesnake pole beans, the earliest n most productive bean in my garden. strrong beany taste, also multipurpse as they make great dried beans.

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thats rattlesnake in the background, the young beans running on the cane is kentuckey wonder nt a great tasting bean but productive, the old lady makes dilly beans with them
View attachment 1691129
christmas limas great taste but only really one crop kinda beans, takes so long to ripen such big beans
View attachment 1691128
peppers n more kentuckey wonder. ill pull these after the flush then the ones above will be kickin in
View attachment 1691127
these are scarlet runners n will produce till frost. a large broad bean from across the pond
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im also running a couple others just dont have pics.as you can tell i like beans lol

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looking very good, when you say flush do you mean it as the same thing as it means with pot? i never thought about trying to flush veggies, but then again, i dont see a need if doing all organic.

also you got a nice variety of beans man, i had pole beans started but i put them out late and they are shaded to much by the sunflowers so i dont think ill get much off mine this year.
i didnt know theri were so many types of beans. yesterday on the farm we harvested about a 100 pounds of a mix of purple, yellow and green beans, we mix them all together and they sell great and look very nice before then i only knew of green beans, i love the purple ones to know

mcpurple said:

looking very good, when you say flush do you mean it as the same thing as it means with pot? i never thought about trying to flush veggies, but then again, i dont see a need if doing all organic.

also you got a nice variety of beans man, i had pole beans started but i put them out late and they are shaded to much by the sunflowers so i dont think ill get much off mine this year.
i didnt know theri were so many types of beans. yesterday on the farm we harvested about a 100 pounds of a mix of purple, yellow and green beans, we mix them all together and they sell great and look very nice before then i only knew of green beans, i love the purple ones to know

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thanks mcpurple for the compliments
by flush i ment fruit all coming ripe in a short period. the green beans are short cropped as in i let them flower/set n ripen for a short period. its refered to as a flush. where as the rattlesnake are long cropped, they will produce regularly till frost, as will the scarlet runners. the green beans will still produce but not as prolifically, thats why i plant another set 3 weekls appart. ill pull the 1st plants n probably set broccoli in its place. if you havent started your broccoli from seed now is the time. in cells of course not in the ground.
im growing 2 beans for seed only as im down to 0 reserve. ive a speckled butterbean from my moms garden n lost it for 10 yrs or so. found 25 beans in a package i had stored n went yipee when i found them. n another black butter bean that i only had 2 come up. the speckled one has a good stand so i think im good there. the black... we shall see...

DST said:

beautiful flowers on these, I was surprised at how delicate and pretty the potato flowers are as well. Is nature just not sooo pretty!!!

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dst my ol lady laughs at me cause im always oohing n aahing over the little things most people overlook cause its so small. for weeks after i got my scope i was in mini land just totally lost in the intricacy of it all. dot even know if thats a word lol but it fits
yes mother nature is wonderfull...

some of the volinteers i kept where they sprouted. my garden is ever changing n evolving. i garden 12 months out of the year, so your subject to see a wide variety of plants throughout the year. some come up a year or two from when they grew. the 1st pic is a black plumb tomato from last yrs grow that staked it claim. who am i to argue lol.
the second is a red kale that does real well here but i usually grow as a winter crop
last bet not least is a tomatillo, i should have grown a row for salsas but to be honest im not a big fan. dont get me wrong i like them in salsa to an extent just feel its just as good without it.
i dont have pics but there is also malabar spinach that does good in summer but again i can do without it.
there is more but you get the pic its a hodge podge of plants, some i love some so so

I got shit ripening finally. Tore out the squash as it wasnt producing what I wanted. Cantaloupes are doing real well. Gonna have like 20-30 melons at harvest time

Celebrity Tomato



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and I'm just waiting for these ones to turn red

billcollector99 said:

I got shit ripening finally. Tore out the squash as it wasnt producing what I wanted. Cantaloupes are doing real well. Gonna have like 20-30 melons at harvest time

Celebrity Tomato

Cantaloupe

and I'm just waiting for these ones to turn red

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nice toms BC, mine are getting big to now, i have to keep re staking them up cuz they are so heavy. all my peppers are just now starting to flower. every thing else is soing good though, i too might pull the rest of my squash plants as they are producing slow now, and it seems some of the new fruits that do come on turn yellow and die, im gonna give them a week to show me they can stay.

4tatude said:

thanks mcpurple for the compliments
by flush i ment fruit all coming ripe in a short period. the green beans are short cropped as in i let them flower/set n ripen for a short period. its refered to as a flush. where as the rattlesnake are long cropped, they will produce regularly till frost, as will the scarlet runners. the green beans will still produce but not as prolifically, thats why i plant another set 3 weekls appart. ill pull the 1st plants n probably set broccoli in its place. if you havent started your broccoli from seed now is the time. in cells of course not in the ground.
im growing 2 beans for seed only as im down to 0 reserve. ive a speckled butterbean from my moms garden n lost it for 10 yrs or so. found 25 beans in a package i had stored n went yipee when i found them. n another black butter bean that i only had 2 come up. the speckled one has a good stand so i think im good there. the black... we shall see...

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we have about 2000 each of broccoli and cauli flower starts at the farm, we will have a few hundred extra so i will take some home and plant them here in the next few weeks and see if i get any thing, i have never grown them before so if they dont do good, then it just meens i need to learn more. thanks for the info on them though.
i wish i could grow in my garden year round, it gets cold in winter up here, i was gonna to fall onion sets to harvest in spring, but i think we might be moving here soon once the kid is born.

what are good cold weather crops 4tat? i would liek something to grow in the winter, maybe i might do some potted plants in the GH this year for fun

mcpurple any root crop or type of greens are winter readyn either make late fall or early spring crops, some i harvest all winter. i plant onion sets in last of october or so n let them go till the following may or so. fava beans if you like them will grow too, i plant mine in november n harvest in may. broccoli, cayliflower, n brussel sprouts winter well but the sprouts are an aphid magnet n i dont grow.
peas like it cold hut its the one vegie i will not eat... little green balls of death lmao.
i have over wintered potatoes in raised beds, if they arent raised they may rot from too much water. plant in fall n in early spring they will pop out n do great...
there is a ton of stuff to grow in winter, i love the winter for growing, no bugs, n i dont have to water lol. plus i love many different greens n root crops n bracuses also.
in my climate i can over winter peppers just by pulling them under the eve of the house. they go dormant just like a decidious tree would.
im going to try a hoop house in my garden area this yr i think,trying to set up the planting scheduel so it works out as all space is full now but will open up as they finish.

Hey everyone. I went to the store a few days ago and bought a Dragon Fruit. I saw it on the cooking channel and thought I'd try it. For those of you who don't know what it looks like I took some pics for you guys to look at.

thats awesome^^^

CarbonX said:

Hey everyone. I went to the store a few days ago and bought a Dragon Fruit. I saw it on the cooking channel and thought I'd try it. For those of you who don't know what it looks like I took some pics for you guys to look at.

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Hey Mc I gots a question for you. Since the power draw of a grow light (wattage and Amps) would be pushing the barker box to its limits and upgrading isn't an option. Do you think it would be possible to hook up a solar system and If there's enough power left in the system to run a 250w light would you recommend it? This is only if the solar system can handle running a 250w or less grow light.
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nice fruit. howed it taste?
it reminds me of a kiwi on the inside. send me ne of them seeds. J/k. i had a bannan plant started once but it died.
and i would think you could run a 250 off a solar panel plus whatever you can squeeze from the breaker box. im not to into the electrition thing yet cuz ive never had a prob with it.
theri is a guy in my city who makes grow sheds for patients they are about10 ft by 15 ft, it runs complete off of solar energy in the summer, intake, outtake,A/C,heater if needed, oscilating fans and a 600 watt light, if this can be done i think you have it in the bag, just got to find a good solar pannel that is worth the money,

nice!... though i usually find it more impressive to look at than to eat. used to use the skin for garnishes on the frou-frou tropical drinks in my bartending days.

mcpurp is on the money, sort of like watery kiwi but not as acidic. (i'd be curious to see if you could grow one, they're very tropical from what i understand...)

I found a cool link re: pitaya aka dragonfruit

http://wchow.home.znet.com/container.htm

idk if you guys get 'sunrype' juices in the states but they have a 'd-fruit & melon' flavour that's really good.... i use it in my jarred fruit and people rave about the 'exotic twist" my jarred peaches have

mcpurple said:

nice fruit. howed it taste?
it reminds me of a kiwi on the inside. send me ne of them seeds. J/k. i had a bannan plant started once but it died.
and i would think you could run a 250 off a solar panel plus whatever you can squeeze from the breaker box. im not to into the electrition thing yet cuz ive never had a prob with it.
theri is a guy in my city who makes grow sheds for patients they are about10 ft by 15 ft, it runs complete off of solar energy in the summer, intake, outtake,A/C,heater if needed, oscilating fans and a 600 watt light, if this can be done i think you have it in the bag, just got to find a good solar pannel that is worth the money,

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Its almost a cross between a Kiwi and pare. The plants they come off of almost look like a cactus.

Thanks I was thinking about getting a MH and set it up on a solar system to run off of it maybe 1 to 4 hours a day depending on what wattage I can get.

wow that dragonfruit plant looks like a cacti, my mom has a house plant that looks exactly like those dragonfruit plants, im gonna have to go take a closer look at it one day and if so im taking a cut

i got 3 cauli flower plants today 1 graffiti, 1 green, and the other is unknown but is for sure different.i looked up the graffiti and i am looking forward to mine now, heres a pic of it

that looks awesome mcpurple.. i don't know about the dragon fruit though, looks kinda odd to me, lol.. i've never grown any couliflower or brocoli before, but it looks like it would be cool to grow...
i really liked the pix of fddeds strawberries too.. i've never grown them before, and for some odd reason had always imagined them to grow on a big ass bush like blackberries or something along those lines, not some tiny lil plant, lol... i'm not a big fan of strawberries myself, but my roomie loves them.. good for her, lol...