How Does Your Garden Grow??????

Mid July and the peppers are just now hitting their stride.

I picked some dried peas off of Larry's Granddaddy's Speckled Peas. After thinking for the last 40 years this strain was lost, it's so cool to have it back. I ate a few raw, and not crazy about the flavor, or the size. So they might just go in the freezer for now.

too larry said:

I picked some dried peas off of Larry's Granddaddy's Speckled Peas. After thinking for the last 40 years this strain was lost, it's so cool to have it back. I ate a few raw, and not crazy about the flavor, or the size. So they might just go in the freezer for now.

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Do you eat them green? Or are they for shelling?

xtsho said:

Do you eat them green? Or are they for shelling?

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Yes, you would eat them green. I'm letting most of them dry on the vine and saving for seed. This is the pea my mamma was raised on. They ate them green all summer long, and let the last round dry and they ate them through the winter. My granddaddy brought them with him when he came down from Georgia.

She also told me they planted the peas in with the corn. It's a vining pea for sure. They have climbed the fence most of the way around the patch.

And yes, they are shelled. These are cow peas, so they have to be shelled.

First real picking on lots of the peppers. Got cayenne, mini sweet, hatch, bell, mammoth jalapeno and saved seed mammoth jalapeno. {sorry for the crappy picture}

too larry said:

Duct tape and/or wire.

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Yea, use tape made it well now .

I got some good bananas growing now, they should fatten up by end of summer.

Such big banana

Today's picking.

too larry said:

Today's picking.

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Doin DWC Armenians on the porch. It's been 105+ here. Tuff Mellon's!

Jypsy Dog said:

Doin DWC Armenians on the porch. It's been 105+ here. Tuff Mellon's!

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I bet you are making some vines. I tried some hydro cukes indoors using a 25 gallon tote. The damn vines were climbing the walls. Had to abort a few weeks in.

too larry said:

I bet you are making some vines. I tried some hydro cukes indoors using a 25 gallon tote. The damn vines were climbing the walls. Had to abort a few weeks in.

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I get to the edge of trellis and take the growth tips off. My tank is at 90 degrees and two vines drink 5+ gal/day. Neighbors stopped answering the door and i'm sick of eating them. Bout ready to swap them for Cantaloupe!

Jypsy Dog said:

I get to the edge of trellis and take the growth tips off. My tank is at 90 degrees and two vines drink 5+ gal/day. Neighbors stopped answering the door and i'm sick of eating them. Bout ready to swap them for Cantaloupe!

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The Armenians do produce. Right now I just have one hill going with 2-3 plants. They are just getting going, but I'm making 3-4 nice cukes per day. I have 15 more hills planted with 2 plants per hill. Once they all start making, I'll be in the same boat.

My okra had taken off July for vacation. I hoed them a couple of three weeks ago, but never got around to side dressing them. Last week I noticed a couple of blooms, but didn't really slow down and look at the patch until this afternoon. Should have cut it 2-3 days ago. Had to toss about 1/3 of it.

Pepper Abuse Hotline. What are you reporting today? I got the rest of them cleaned out, but ran out of time here. Too much water and not enough mulch.

I also wanted to have a small garden, looking at everyone's gardens, making me very excited. But my house is quite small so I don't have enough electricity to grow

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The LG Speckled peas are viners. I remember now that Mamma said they grew them in the corn when she was a kid. I may do that next year. Maybe as food plots.

I only had 5 sprouts between the two kinds of squash. Got them, and three old ones transplanted Friday morning.


Did the melons a day or two before that. I decided they would be less invasive to the peppers than the Spaghetti squash was, so they got the soaker.