How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry said:

My face was hurting all weekend from smiling. Got to love the occasional subtropical storm. All my old seeds that had been in the ground 2-3 weeks came up.

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it rained, but not too hard, i think it was saturday evening after i finished with every thing, but then it rained pretty hard saturday night and a bit more on sunday when i was trying to cut the grass.. was so happy for the rain like you were, lol.. i haven't had to water anything yet, but i'm going out in a few minutes and i'm sure i'll need to water now..

I picked my first real mess of green beans yesterday. Had them for lunch today. Even without the early potatoes, very good.

beans do better in the colder weather, no?

Since then ^^^^^^, I have hoed most of that grass.

racerboy71 said:

beans do better in the colder weather, no?

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Yes. They will grow in hotter weather, but won't set fruit. I planted a few more rows this past week, so I hope they make before the real hot weather gets here.

too larry said:

I picked my first real mess of green beans yesterday. Had them for lunch today. Even without the early potatoes, very good.

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my green beans are small still.. it's normally around the end of June when I start seeing beans..
Anyway,, got some weeds pulled before I got chased off by flies,, them big blow flies. The d.n.r. (department of natural resources) let a shit load of them go to control the tent worms that are decimating the Apple and choke cherry trees.. only problem is they bite like deer and horse flies taking chunks out of ya.. they'll be gone in a week or so.. took a couple shots of the wild orchids (lady slipper's)that are growing in the woods on my property

I cleaned up the saved seed okra and planted the skips with sweet corn. Got 2 3/5th rows of Golden Cross Bantam.

Then two rows of Peaches and Cream.


I'm glad I didn't pay full price for these little seeds packs. This pack of G90 had 23 good seeds and 2 cracked ones.

My laptop popped up a picture from this date a year ago. More evidence I'm way behind this year. {I gave up on finding my saved spaghetti squash seeds and ran by the Co-Op and bought some today. 2 weeks before the moon is right for planting, another week for sprouts to come up, then. . . . .}

I remember my beautiful spaghetti squash plants from last year...I also remember how gutted I was to find them disappeared one day and then how thrilled I was when I caught the bastard gopher that ate them all, and how excited my dog was when she killed said bastard gopher.

socaljoe said:

I remember my beautiful spaghetti squash plants from last year...I also remember how gutted I was to find them disappeared one day and then how thrilled I was when I caught the bastard gopher that ate them all, and how excited my dog was when she killed said bastard gopher.

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Your little dog is hell on subterranean rodents.

Last year I grew a big long green squash. I saved seeds, but can't find the sons of bitches. It looks like a zuke, but larger.

too larry said:

Your little dog is hell on subterranean rodents.

Last year I grew a big long green squash. I saved seeds, but can't find the sons of bitches. It looks like a zuke, but larger.

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We make a good team, I trap them and she kills 'em dead.

Half the time when I save seeds, they grow legs and walk away. Must be a Big Ag conspiracy. Those $1.29 seed packs add up.

socaljoe said:

I remember my beautiful spaghetti squash plants from last year...I also remember how gutted I was to find them disappeared one day and then how thrilled I was when I caught the bastard gopher that ate them all, and how excited my dog was when she killed said bastard gopher.

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lol,

i've had a couple of gardens over the years. about 5 years ago we had a major grasshopper infestation. i can remember seeing my cabbage and lettuce heads disappearing overnight. little bastards can eat a lot.

i can't remember what we sprayed on them now, but i took pleasure in it. you could almost hear them scream when they were sprayed and they knew it was coming, they were running away as i approached. i got revenge on a bunch of those bastards, but they ate a lot of my veggies

The mortgage lifters are about 9 feet tall and still have plenty of growing to do. Loaded down with plenty of tomatoes and even more flowers.

damn !!!! ^^^^^

getting the manzies planted today got 20 that's for canning got ten others for slicing happy growing!!

Sour Wreck said:

lol,

i've had a couple of gardens over the years. about 5 years ago we had a major grasshopper infestation. i can remember seeing my cabbage and lettuce heads disappearing overnight. little bastards can eat a lot.

i can't remember what we sprayed on them now, but i took pleasure in it. you could almost hear them scream when they were sprayed and they knew it was coming, they were running away as i approached. i got revenge on a bunch of those bastards, but they ate a lot of my veggies

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That reminds me of a few years ago when I had a really bad tomato horn worm infestation. One day I noticed my tomato plants were decimated, so I mixed up a batch of bt in my pump sprayer and soaked them down good. The next day I checked on them, the worms were a sickly yellowish-brown color and hanging limp, only the strongest ones were still alive, but that didn't last.

Almost all the seeds I planted last week are up.

Pickle bush cucumbers.



Muncher cucumber replants. {I have blooms on my older vines now. Should have cukes real soon}

Zuke replants. I've ate one zucchini so far. Not a lot of plants, so I hope the replants do well.



Yellow crook neck squash replants. We have ate squash 3-4 times this week. Not getting a lot everyday, but enough to stir-fry a few with onions.



No sprouts yet on the Acorn squash or Armenian cucumber replants.

Corn and peas look like they have been up a day or two. I didn't notice them yesterday.

The Cherokee Wax are sprouting, but they just started. Most are still just cracking the dirt. {I need to hoe. But I need at least one day with no rain}